Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

"This... let's not do it."

After fooling the other party, he still wanted to stay and get free food and drinks. No matter how thick-skinned Hikigaya was, he couldn't do such a shameless thing.

Just as he was trying to reject the enthusiastic Ichinose and stop her from trying to keep him, a voice suddenly sounded from a distance.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you guys while you're talking." The person who spoke was a boy with a bowl cut. "Um, Ichinose-san, do you know where Nakanishi-san is?"

"Nakanishi-san should be heading to the beach by now, huh? What's wrong?"

Ichinose took the initiative to look at the boy.

"I want to help him. Is this unnecessary?"

"No, that's not the case. I'm very happy about Kaneda-san's kindness. Then, can you go over there and assist Chihiro and the others? Just say it was my instruction."

"I understand, thank you."

After saying this, the boy turned around and left.

"Is that person named Kaneda from Class C?"

Hikigaya suddenly spoke up upon seeing this.

"Hey, Hikigaya, do you know him?" Ichinose and Kanzaki both looked confused.

"I don't know him, but he seems out of place in this class." Hikigaya looked at Kaneda's back and could clearly see a weird sense of incongruity.

Thinking back to another member of Class C in his class, Ibuki Mio, he almost immediately determined that this Kaneda was another spy sent by Ryuuen.

By the way, why did Ryuen only place spies in Class B and Class D? Didn't he want to deal with Class A?

While Hikigaya was thinking, Ichinose spoke in surprise: "Hikigaya-san, you have a keen sense of observation. You are right. The student is called Kaneda Satoru. He seems to have had a dispute with Class C. Although he said he wanted to live on his own, we couldn't just leave him alone, so we took him in."

"I see. Actually, our class also took in an extra student from Class C yesterday."

Hikigaya told Ibuki Mio about her situation in his class, trying to warn Ichinose through hints.

"Has Class C already split up? Ryuuen Sho-kun is really going too far!"

However, after hearing everything, Ichinose couldn't help but make such a guess, and it seemed that he was even more determined to protect Kaneda Satoru to the end.

This really left Hikigaya speechless.

Although he didn't care that much about Class B's results in this exam, he had just fooled this naive child and should now give him some compensation.

"Ichinose, where is Kaneda's backpack?"

"Eh? All our class's bags are placed here..." Ichinose suddenly realized something halfway through her sentence. She looked at Hikigaya in surprise, "Hikigaya-san, what do you want to do?"

"Nothing, just a little curious."

"Curious? You want to go through Kaneda-san's backpack, right?"

"Tsk..."

Seeing that the truth had been revealed, Hikigaya turned to look at Kanzaki Ryuji and said silently: "Can you take me to find Kaneda Satoru's backpack?"

"it is good."

Kanzaki's character was obviously not as naive as Ichinose. After a brief thought, he nodded in agreement and turned to lead Hikigaya.

"!!!"

Seeing this scene, Ichinose's face showed obvious anxiety, and her pretty face became distorted due to excessive confusion.

Chapter 274: Stop it, Hikigaya-san! There are police everywhere outside!

Convinced that Kaneda Satoru is a spy sent by Class C, Hikigaya ignores Ichinose's dissuasion and forces Kanzaki Ryuji to take him to check Kaneda Satoru's package.

Ichinose showed obvious resistance to this matter.

She hurriedly followed and said in a panic, "Hikigaya-san, it's not good to do this, right? Just because you are suspicious, you go through other people's packages..."

"Yeah, that's certainly not a good thing."

Hikigaya nodded, but his steps showed no sign of stopping.

This scene made Ichinose show obvious panic.

Ichinose Honami is an upright person, and she is able to unite the entire Class B by her sincere attitude towards everyone.

Therefore, after she took in Kaneda Satoru, she never considered searching Kaneda's package, and even forbade her subordinates to do such a thing.

Because for Ichinose, trusting others comes naturally.

If she took the initiative to do something bad to others just because of the slightest suspicion, it would be tantamount to violating her law of survival.

If that happens, not only will Ichinose begin to have serious self-doubt, but even the other students in Class B who originally trusted her will no longer be able to maintain the fanatical faith and unity they had in the past.

In a sense, the current situation of Class B is even close to a religion.

Ichinose's thoughts are the teachings of the church of Class B.

Religious doctrines are absolute norms, and everyone must abide by the constraints of the doctrines in order to gain a place in the religious group.

At the same time, Ichinose did show the ability to accommodate everyone's thoughts.

As they continued to complement each other, the atmosphere of faith became stronger and stronger, eventually creating the incredible unity of Class B today.

Therefore, the people in Class B are destined to be unable to take the initiative to attack Kinda Satoru.

Even someone as vigilant as Kanzaki Ryuji would not go against Ichinose Honami's wishes and search for Kaneda Satoru's package.

After all, investigating Kaneda Satoru would be equivalent to openly opposing the teachings of the Ichinose Church, and even if he succeeded, he would lose his place in Class B.

However, Hikigaya is not bound by Class B's dogma.

Because he is not from this class, and at the same time, he is never affected by the group atmosphere.

Therefore, when he took the initiative to propose to investigate Kaneda Satoru, Ichinose acted so flustered.

Hikigaya is using external forces to destroy the unity of Class B, and his actions are essentially fighting against the beliefs of the entire Class B.

Even if he succeeds in proving that Kinda Satoru is a spy, he will leave a bad impression on the people of Class B instead of becoming the savior of this class.

Fortunately, Hikigaya is the person who cares least about what others think of him.

Even if Class B disliked him because of this, it would be a good thing for him as he could get rid of some unnecessary attention.

Hikigaya then quickly, under the leadership of Ryuji Kanzaki, came to the place where Class B placed the packages.

Like Class D, Class B's packages were all placed in the same location in the camp, and most of the packages were piled together, with only one package of a different color placed farther away. (PS: Packages from different classes have different colors)

"This is Kaneda's package, right?"

Hikigaya walked straight towards the package on the edge, but before he started to open the package, Ichinose Honami stood in front of him.

"Stop it, Hikigaya-san!"

Ok?

You make it sound like I'm committing a crime, and there's no police outside...

Hikigaya looked at Ichinose Honami who seemed to hope that he would come to the right path and turn back, and couldn't help but show obvious helplessness on his face.

He slowly said, "Ichinose, I know you are worried that my actions will destroy the unity of Class B, but don't worry, I won't tell anyone about what happened here. Even if someone in your class asks about it later, they can say that it was my own decision, so it won't have any impact on your class."

Hikigaya thought he had considered everything very carefully.

Even if some students in Class B had unnecessary suspicions, they would not confront someone like me from Class D.

However, his words did not seem to resolve Ichinose's concerns.

The leader of Class B looked at Hikigaya with a confused look on his face, and said helplessly: "Why do you say that? I have never been worried about the class, but I am worried about you, Hikigaya."

"Me? Why are you worried about me?"

Hikigaya instinctively asked back.

He obviously couldn't understand what Ichinose said.

In his opinion, it was reasonable for him to open Kaneda Satoru's package, and there would be no risk afterwards. Even if Kaneda himself knew about it, he would not be able to retaliate against him. After all, all the members of Class C were now his debt collectors.

What does Ichinose have to worry about?

"This……"

Hikigaya's question left Ichinose speechless.

The pink-haired girl was obviously encountering such a question for the first time and had no idea how to answer it.

But she still insisted and said: "Anyway, I won't let you do this again. Last time, Hikigaya-san confessed to me in front of Shiranami-san. I can't agree with that kind of thing! So, don't continue to search for Kaneda-san's package. Let's stop here, okay?"

"..."

I didn't expect Ichinose to be so persistent in such an incomprehensible situation.

By the way, what does this incident have to do with Bai Bo’s incident?

Why are you talking so loudly!?

Look, Kanzaki next to him has misunderstood!

Hikigaya stared at the girl's face silently and sighed helplessly.

He originally searched for Kaneda's backpack simply to compensate Class B for being fooled by him, but if the leader of Class B expressed such resistance, then there was really no need for him to insist on anything.

"Ichinose, if that's what you think..."

"Hikigaya-san?!"

Ichinose spoke with a look of joy on his face.

But what confused her was that Hikigaya stepped over her the moment she relaxed, touched Kaneda Satoru's package and opened it directly.

"!!"

Seeing this scene, Ichinose and Kanzaki both showed obvious confusion.

Only Hikigaya himself looked calm.

Although Ichinose seems to think that there is no need to investigate Kaneda, Hikigaya will not give up just because the other party gives up.

Because Hikigaya wanted to verify some of his own guesses on this spy from Class C.

Yes, Hikigaya is now increasingly suspicious that Class C has other plans, otherwise Ryuuen would not have specially sent out two spies.

He now even suspected that Class C might be connected to Class A... Otherwise, there would be no reason for Ryuuen to only plant spies in Class D and Class B, but not in Class A as well.

As long as the matter is related to Class A, he can no longer take it lightly.

It doesn't matter even if Ichinose and Class B don't understand.

All this is just his self-satisfaction.

"Wow."

As the package was opened, everyone saw what was inside - towels, spare clothes, underwear and other items. Basically, there were the same things as everyone else.

There was nothing unusual.

"Phew! That's great."

When Ichinose Honami saw this scene, she breathed a sigh of relief, but then she looked at Hikigaya nervously, as if she wanted to comfort him but didn't know how to start.

"It seems you guessed wrong."

Kanzaki Ryuji looked at Hikigaya silently.

Although he didn't say anything from beginning to end, he was actually on Hikigaya's side.

Because he was also very confused about Class C's actions, at least he couldn't accept it as easily as Ichinose... However, due to his status as a Class B student, he couldn't openly deny Ichinose.

However, the current reality proved that he and Hikigaya were too cautious, and Class C did not have as bad a plan as they imagined.

This is a victory for Ichikase.

"No, I can't come to a conclusion yet."

Hikigaya shook his head.