Chapter 97
Soon, students began spilling out from the school gates and noticed the barbecue stands across the street. As expected, the sign offering a fire water bottle with a small purchase caught their attention. Many students figured they might as well take advantage of the deal, nedering skewers and enjoying the free water. A few students bought a bottle for 100 cents, but most ordered several skewers, eating and socializing in front of the stands After buishing their water they’d toss the empty bottles in a neat trash can Lily had set up expressly for the game
Once a hin filled. Lily would drag it to the school gate, where Eliana and her group eagerly waited. In less than half an hour, they had collected thirty water bottles, which had piled up quickly
However, their efficient bottle–gathering strategy didn’t go imnoticed for long. Sonn, the dance club caught on and swarmed the school rate. They stared in shock at Eliana and her team, who already had a bag billed to the brim with bordes. Meanwhile, the dance club members had scoured the entire campus and gathered only twenty–seven boules
Yulila gritted her teeth. This has to be cheating
Willow said. “They’re just standing here, waiting for boules. It’s completely unfair!“:
Storming forward, the dance club members pointed accusing fingers.
“Shameless You’re not playing by the rules!
Just hanging out here waiting for bottles? That’s unfair
“Who plays a game like this, sneaky and underhanded? Let’s report thein! They should be disqualified!”
Yes exactly
One was already on the phone, reporting the “violation” Seeing how many dance club members had shown up. Elsie on Eliana’s team started to
panic.
Ell what
are we going to do?” she whispered.
Eliana stood confidently before the dance club members, her voice steady. “Don’t worry. Let them report us?
Before the game started, Eliana had carefully studied the rules. Their strategy wasn’t against any laws, so there was no need to worry.
Within minutes, a student council member arrived at the school gate, and the dance club members immediately crowded around him.
“Look at what they’re doing! Isn’t this cheating“” one of them demanded
“We’ve been running all over campus to collect bottles, but Eliana’s team is just waiting here. It’s utterly unfair to the rest of us!”
Exactly! Why would we bother collecting on campus if they can wait here?”
“Disqualify them already?”
The council member glanced at Eliana’s group and then at the dance club members. Eliana crossed her arms and asked calmly. “How exactly did we break the rules“”
Yulila snapped, “How did you not break them?”
“The rule says to stay within the campus boundaries. Have we left campus?” Eliana replied smoothly
The student council member checked their position. Sure enough, they hadn’t crossed the school gates; they were standing at the entrance.
“No, they haven’t left the campus. They’re within the designated area.
“What?” Yulila’s jaw dropped
Wendy tried another angle. The rules specify collecting bottles. They’re just standing around. They’re not collecting!”
“Who says we aren’t collecting?” Eliana responded, just as Lily arrived with a fresh trash can full of bottles. Instead of handing it to Eliana, Lily tipped the boules out at the gair, Eluma’s team bent down and picked up the scattered bottles on the ground.
The entire dance club members stood there, dumbfounded.
Eliana raised ali
in eyebrow. “Unless you think these bottles are magically flying into our bags!
Wendy narrowed her eyes, grudgingly impressed by Eliana’s cleverness.
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The council member nodded. “They’re collecting boules as per the rules, so there’s no violation here”
Willow protested. “But it’s unfair to us! Isn’t this game supposed to be about fairness? If this keeps up, we don’t stand a chancer
hot how
w the game was played. Ultimately, only the number of bottles mattered, not how they were collected.
But the council member didn’t care about
by rules. The game continues as planned–whoever collects the most bottles wins. With that, he turned and walked.
“Eliana’s team hasn’t broken any Away without another word.
The dance club members were left seething. Despite their larger team, they still couldn’t keep up with Eliana and her small group of four. To them,
was downright unfair.
Yulila muttered angrily, “They’re just cheating and manipulating the rules. What a dirty trick.
Stella said. “The unfair play here is coming from you guys. You’ve all put your bottles under one name–that’s what’s skewing the game!”
The dance club had been using their numbers to bully the competition from the start, yet now they wanted to discuss faimess. It was laughable.
Willow glanced across the street at the barbecue stands, where more and more students were gathering after class. In no time, yet another trash can was a total of empty bottles. If this kept up, the dance club was going to lose.
Suddenly, Willow had a spark of inspiration. “If they’re not breaking any rules, why don’t we just wait here for bottles too?”
“Right! If the bottles are just getting dumped out, we can grab them just as easily!” Yulla smirked. “Whoever picks up a bottle first gets it–it’s fair game!”
Willow’s logic was shameless, but with so many people on the dance club’s side, Eliana’s group couldn’t possibly compete if it came down to speed.
“Yeah, let’s just wait here. Once they dump out the bottles, we’ll get them before Eliana’s group can“
Hearing this, Stella was furious. “Are you all just a bunch of thieves?”
Yulila shrugged. “Call it what you want, but it’s not like those bottles have anyone’s name on there?”
e on them. Why shouldn’t we
e pick them
up
if they’re lying
The barbecue stands were Eliana’s idea, yet now the dance club was trying to hijack her plan
Elsie whispered, “Eliana, what are we going to do? The bottles we’ve collected so far aren’t enough. If they will grab bottles too, there’s no way we can outpace them.”
Stella muttered, “This is just shameless. Only Willow could come up with something so underhanded”
Eliana glanced at her watch and smiled. “Don’t worry. We’ve still got plenty of time before the game ends.”
Moments later, Lily arrived with another trash can brimming with bottles. As she tipped them onto the ground, Stella and the others reached down to grab them–only to be shoved aside by the dance club members, who swooped in and snatched up every last bottle within seconds,
Stella and the other two didn’t stand a chance against the overwhelming number of dance club members. Outnumbered more than two–to–one, they couldn’t compete
The dance club had already collected over twenty bottles, and with this recent batch, their total shot up to more than fifty, matching Eliana.group bottle for bottle.
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