Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

The problem is he isn't.

Therefore, there is undoubtedly only one option left.

"I understand. I won't be able to provide you with any help."

"Ah."

Hearing Hikigaya's answer of accepting reality, Horikita Suzune nodded silently.

She stared coldly at the surface of the river, her cold face revealing a hazy and beautiful outline in the gradually darkening sky.

Hikigaya stood very close to Horikita Suzune. He felt that they were very close, just a few steps away, but inexplicably they felt very far away, so far that he couldn't even see the other person's face clearly.

Horikita Suzune might actually have a way to get things done.

Hikigaya couldn't help but force himself to think positively, and then turned around silently.

Just as he was about to leave, Horikita Suzune suddenly asked, "Hikigaya-san, can you help convince Ike Kanji-san?"

"What?"

Hikigaya didn't expect Horikita to suddenly make such a request. He couldn't help but look confused. "Didn't you just say that you don't want me to have any assistance?"

"I told you not to interfere with me." Horikita Suzune frowned beautifully, "Since I have become Hirata-san's assistant, I have the obligation to do my best in this exam. In this case, I will naturally make good use of every usable individual in the class as a chess piece in my action."

"Although you have a bad personality, your ability to persuade others is beyond imagination. You are the best person to deal with this matter."

"This……"

Hikigaya didn't expect Horikita Suzune to come up with such a point of view, but after thinking about it carefully, it was indeed reasonable.

I could be exploited by this guy again.

So happy... No way!

Hikigaya didn't think there was anything to be happy about being ordered around by Horikita, and he thought so from the bottom of his heart.

However, when I learned that Horikita didn't want me to interfere, I did feel a little weird.

What exactly is that?

"Humph, do you think I'll let you do nothing and slack off until the exam is over?" Horikita Suzune didn't know what Hikigaya was thinking, so she said coldly, "You can tell this is impossible just by thinking with your toes."

"..."

Hikigaya sighed and said, "I understand. All we need to do is convince Ike Kanji and let him use his own strength to contribute to the class again."

"That's right." Horikita nodded. "There's a possibility that his knowledge could be useful. In other words, he might be a necessary part of Class D. In addition to his knowledge of the wild, he also knows how to walk in the forest. Since we can't use Kouenji's knowledge, we need to find a way to let him lead the class."

"I see."

"Well, I'll leave it to you. I have no confidence in my ability to persuade others, so I have to leave all matters in this regard to you."

"Ugh……"

Hikigaya sighed deeply.

Horikita Suzune's attitude is still as arrogant as ever.

Although he came to ask for a favor, he acted in a majestic and arrogant tone, with his arms folded across his chest, giving orders to me.

What, you said she's not a tsundere? Is that really the case?

Please, don't tell me the truth even if it's true.

Otherwise I will totally collapse...

Just when Hikigaya was getting more and more tired and had no idea what he was doing, Horikita Suzune suddenly paused and spoke slowly:

"Well, although it's not necessary, I still have to say one more thing - thank you for your hard work this time."

"What are you referring to?"

"Of course, that's what you're going to do next." Horikita Suzune said awkwardly, "It's not easy to say this publicly. There are not many people I can ask for help privately, so I can only ask you."

"Very few... I'm probably the only person you can ask for help."

"I'm probably the only one who will rely on you."

In response to Hikigaya's reaction, Horikita Suzune responded coldly.

But there was a rare warmth in those words.

This kind of temperature is something Horikita never revealed when talking to other people...

Eh, could it be that the other person is really a tsundere?

"Ok?"

While Hikigaya was stunned, Horikita Suzune frowned slightly, "What are you thinking about? Is there anyone in this world other than me who would make a request to a guy like you?"

"No, of course not."

Hikigaya spoke up guiltily.

He didn't know why he felt guilty, but many figures flashed through his mind: Sakayanagi, Ichinose, Kushida, Karuizawa, Sakura...

Have I unknowingly come across so many people who have relationships with me?

Why are they all girls?

"That's good." Horikita didn't know what Hikigaya was thinking, so she said, "I'll leave this to you. I believe you can do it."

"You really trust me."

"Well, I believe you."

"Eh?"

So direct?

It really makes people feel flattered.

"Because no one would be wary of talking to a lowly guy like you."

"Hey!"

This guy is still as sharp-tongued as ever.

Seeing Hikigaya's helpless face, a smile inexplicably emerged on Horikita's face, but she controlled her expression well, said nothing extra, and left silently.

Hikigaya, who stayed where he was, was thinking about everything that had just happened.

Horikita Suzune is still as proud as ever, which can be seen from the fact that she directly refuses her help.

But the other party still chose to rely on his own strength.

This means that the other party is gradually no longer rejecting you.

Could it be that the favorability is gradually increasing?

Well, it must be just my illusion.

Chapter 253: If I hadn’t asked you to do that, would you still come to help me, Hikigaya?

Hikigaya received the task of persuading Ike Kanji from Horikita Suzune.

This was a rare occasion when the other party was willing to actively ask him for help, so for Hikigaya, it made him inexplicably a little happy.

Well, being happy is probably impossible.

I'm not a masochist.

However, he was indeed happy about Horikita's growth.

Horikita Suzune was originally a social autist who completely gave up on socializing and was even more exaggerated than herself. She always believed that only those who could solve all problems alone were truly strong.

However, since the start of the school year, the policy adopted by the other party has caused it to suffer a lot of setbacks.

By the time of this uninhabited island exam, the other party must have completely begun to hate the difficulties of being alone.

If this was a situation where she only pursued her own grades, she would not have relied on anyone and would have quietly kept working her way up to the next level.

However, this school does not regard academic ability as everything.

In order to make students adapt to society in advance, Gao Yu forces them into a cruel environment that is similar to the workplace.

Unlike the ivory tower-like school environment, the workplace environment is not just about pure learning, but also involves many other things that have nothing to do with academic ability.

This exam is a good example. Everything on the uninhabited island is beyond the ability of Horikita Suzune to handle.

Even if she was recognized by Yosuke Hirata, it didn't mean that she could really control the entire class with the right methods as Hirata expected.

Perhaps it was the first time in her life that Horikita Suzune deeply realized her own powerlessness, which is why she refused her own help while relying on her own strength.

If it weren't for this, with the other party's proud character, he would never have come to ask for help from me.

If you don't have friends, no one will come close to you and you won't be able to find anyone to talk to.

If we can't communicate, we can't cooperate with each other and be trusted.

In other words, Horikita, who seemed to be a perfect talent, would perform lower than ordinary students under the conditions of an uninhabited island.

This is the limit of the girl named Horikita Suzune, and it also shows that she is not that outstanding.

The school classification system has once again proven itself to be correct.

"Then I'll leave first?" Hikigaya looked at Horikita Suzune, thinking about leaving quickly.

"Ah."

Horikita nodded and was about to allow the other party to leave.

At this moment, she suddenly remembered something and couldn't help but say:

"Hikigaya, I have a question for you."

"question?"

Hikigaya was bewildered. He was not only confused by Horikita Suzune's words, but also by her awkward attitude.

In his impression, Horikita Suzune should have been a more cold, arrogant, and straightforward guy.

"I have a question for you" is something that clearly indicates hesitation and should not be said by the other person.

After a brief hesitation, Horikita Suzune took a deep breath and spoke slowly: "Hikigaya, if my brother hadn't given you the commission, would you still choose to help me?"

"This……"

I didn't expect Horikita to give me such a big problem.

Hikigaya fell silent for a moment.

He himself didn't know the answer to this question, and in fact, the answer to this question could not be expressed in words.

Because the reason why he helped Horikita was actually because of the agreement he made with Chabashira Sae in order to gain class points so that he could go home and reunite with his sister.

But by now, Hikigaya has found ways to earn points from other classes, and has even earned a huge amount of points that might be enough to go home and visit his sister.

Whether it was Horikita Suzune or Class D, their value to him was already very low.

Therefore, Hikigaya has undoubtedly lost the reason to help Horikita Suzune.

The reason why he is still helping the other party now is purely because of the request of the student council president, Horikita Manabu.

And Horikita Suzune gave the premise of "if there is no commission from the president"...

So the answer is undoubtedly no.

If the student council president hadn't asked me to do that, I probably wouldn't have helped Horikita Suzune anymore.

However, even though the answer was so obvious, Hikigaya somehow found it difficult to say it easily.

It felt like there was something stuck in my throat, and I couldn't come to a conclusion easily.

"Horikita, I..."