Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

Hirata Yosuke's kindness is genuine.

Can ordinary people be consistent and kind to this extent?

Wanting to be liked, wanting to be noticed - isn't it natural to have such desires?

However, I could not sense such a feeling from Hirata at all. I could only strongly sense his desire to get along well with everyone.

As expected, Hirata Yosuke is also a weird character that is unique to this school.

"Okay, there's about half left, let's get this done."

Hirata and Hikigaya then began to work hard to finish the tent.

"Hirata-san, you're here!"

Suddenly, the voices of Karuizawa Megumi and her group sounded from a distance, as if they had something to discuss specifically with Hirata Yosuke.

And when Karuizawa saw Hikigaya, her expression suddenly became a little confused. It was not so much a surprise as it was guilt and panic caused by some reason.

"Mr. Hirata, please come over here." As she said this, she didn't dare to look at Hikigaya and directly grabbed Hirata Yosuke's arm.

"Ah, I have some work left to do."

"That's true."

After hearing Hirata Yosuke's reason, Karuizawa Megumi nodded with a little hesitation.

However, Mori Ningning from the girl group nearby couldn't help but say, "Why don't we just leave that matter to Hikigaya-san? It's okay to ask Hirata-san to go away for a while, right?"

"This……"

Hearing what Mori Ningning said, Karuizawa Kei's expression suddenly became a little stiff.

But she couldn't deny Mori's words and nodded silently.

After witnessing the whole process, Hikigaya said to Hirata Yosuke beside him: "I will finish the work here, you can go over."

"Well, it would be hard to do it alone."

Hirata seemed to be very worried about Hikigaya, and would rather leave his 'girlfriend' behind and stay with him.

"Don't worry about it. This little bit of work is nothing to me."

Although Hikigaya never intended to be a corporate slave, he was born with a strong sense of corporate strength. Many jobs that would give normal people a headache, he was able to complete them without any negative emotions.

"Thank you. I'll be right back."

Hirata Yosuke nodded and followed the girls to leave.

Hikigaya silently watched Hirata Yosuke leave, and Karuizawa, who was pretending to be a couple with Hirata as usual, completely confirmed a certain guess in his mind.

It seems that the girls in this class are doing something in private that they cannot tell anyone...

……

It's evening.

Night falls.

After the girls and boys separated, neither side could guarantee their basic quality of life. They couldn't even light a bonfire at night and could only rely on moonlight for lighting.

"Bi, Bi Penguin, right? Didn't we tell you to move the tent properly?"

"I should have moved it as you said."

"Move a little to the left, you're too close to the boys."

"……All right."

Hikigaya had many complaints about being treated as a laborer for no apparent reason, but he had no way to vent them now.

At least after meeting Kushida Kikyo...

After Hikigaya endured the unreasonable oppression of the girls, the person he was waiting for, Kushida, finally came back from the outskirts of the camp.

"Hey, Hikigaya-san, why are you here?"

As always, Kikyo Kushida behaved very gently towards others. She walked towards them from a distance with a smile on her face, and seemed to be very happy and relaxed about the current situation.

Hikigaya guessed that the other party must be very excited about Horikita's defeat, and also gained a huge benefit from the division between boys and girls.

After all, she is the only one in Class D besides Hirata Yosuke who is popular among both boys and girls.

I think Kushida used this opportunity to win over a large number of people's hearts.

"I'm waiting for you." Hikigaya didn't waste time and got straight to the point, "Kushida, what do you think of the current situation of Class D?"

"What do you think? Are you going to talk about Shinohara-san?"

Kushida Kikyo is clearly a very smart person.

She saw at a glance what the biggest problem of Class D was at the moment, and she also knew that the source of the problem was the individual Shinohara Satsuki.

However, Kikyo Kushida also has her limitations, which is that apart from seeing through the situation, she cannot have any influence on the situation.

Because in everyone's eyes, she has a "gentle and amiable" image, which means she is destined to not do anything outside of her image.

"Shinohara has been so obsessed with dividing the boys and girls in Class D. If this continues, neither the boys nor the girls will be able to complete the exam normally, and Class D will lose completely."

"This……"

Kushida Kikyo could hear the truth in Hikigaya's words, but she couldn't understand why Hikigaya told her these things.

You know, Hikigaya has never directly shown any concern for class matters in the past, let alone caring whether Class D will fail the exam.

"Hikigaya, could it be that you are..."

"Don't think too much." Hikigaya directly stopped Kushida Kikyo's imagination and said silently, "I just feel that if this goes on, my own life will become miserable. You know, I was even arranged to work for a whole day today. In the morning, I did chores for the boys, and in the afternoon, I set up tents for the girls' camp. I was almost exhausted and fainted."

"Eh? Do you need me to arrange a rest for you?" Kushida suddenly showed a sly smile, "I can use my legs as a knee pillow for you!"

"Eh? Really? No way!"

Hikigaya was almost led astray by Kushida Kikyo, and quickly corrected his thoughts from the 'soft knee pillow'.

He looked at the girl in front of him seriously again and spoke slowly: "Anyway, the current situation of Class D is very bad. I plan to do something to pull the situation back from the edge of the cliff."

"Who is this for?"

Kushida Kikyo did not doubt Hikigaya's ability, but still asked the question.

Facing such a Kushida, Hikigaya concealed his feelings and said, "It's not for anyone in particular. If you really want an answer, then this is also for you. After all, if Class D loses this exam and completely splits up, the status you have worked so hard to obtain will become meaningless, right?"

"That's it."

After hearing what Hikigaya said, Kushida didn't show anything on the surface, but Hikigaya inexplicably felt that the smile on the girl's face became more real than before.

He did not think further about the meaning behind this matter, and immediately took the initiative to speak: "Kushida, for my purpose, I want you to answer me a question."

"Sure, I can do anything as long as it's Hikigaya's request."

Kushida Kikyo spoke with a bright smile.

If a boy heard such words, he would probably lose his mind and turn into a beast...

But Hikigaya was not fooled by the false appearance of this bad woman, and said calmly: "Kushida, there should be some things in the girls' tent that were purchased with points privately. You secretly used the points without telling the boys, right?"

"This……"

After hearing what Hikigaya said, Kushida Kikyo's face showed obvious confusion.

She never thought that Hikigaya could guess the truth of such a secret matter.

Chapter 288 As expected, I can’t hide it from your eyes, Hikigaya!

"How do you know?" Kushida Kikyo was obviously panicked when Hikigaya directly told her about the girls' private use of points. "Did Horikita Suzune tell you?"

"No."

Hikigaya shook his head.

Facing Kushida Kikyo's nervous attitude, he said silently: "Kushida, you don't need to be surprised about this. The girls concealed this matter very well, and even Horikita did not show any flaws from beginning to end, so I really didn't guess that there was such a possibility at the beginning."

"Then why..."

"The problem is Hirata."

Hikigaya stared at Kushida's somewhat blurry face in the dim night, and spoke slowly: "Hirata Yosuke is a noble man. He has done a lot for this class and has not even felt any dissatisfaction with the overly heavy responsibilities. However, this attitude itself shows that he is not a normal person. If he has to do something unfair in private for the sake of class unity, I believe Hirata will make up his mind to do it casually."

As he spoke, Hikigaya recalled the time when Hirata Yosuke hid the underwear that Ayanokouji Kiyotaka had secretly hidden.

At that time, Hirata didn't put on any unnecessary disguise and blatantly ignored the possibility that Ayanokouji was hiding Karuizawa's underwear in his arms.

When seeing that scene, Hikigaya's impression of Hirata Yosuke had changed significantly, and he realized that the other party might not be as upright and bright as he had imagined.

After all, if Hirata can so easily ignore Kiyotaka Ayanokouji's questions and conceal the mistakes made by Ayanokouji for the sake of class unity, then if a girl asks him to do something bad, will Hirata Yosuke be able to refuse?

The answer must be no.

"Regarding this uninhabited island exam, the more normal Hirata behaves, the more it proves that he is hiding something in private. Otherwise, he would not have compromised so easily in the chaos between boys and girls, and would not have given special treatment to the boys alone."

Hikigaya looked at Kushida silently, "So, I considered the possibility that the girls used their points privately. After all, two days before the deserted island, the girls had been complaining about the living environment on the island, but in just two short days, all these complaints disappeared. Such a rapid change should not have happened naturally."

"Besides that, when I came to the girls' camp to help, Shinohara repeatedly told me not to open the tent. Although she said she was trying to prevent the boys from peeping into my privacy, the sharp feeling was obviously too strange. Coupled with the strange attitude of some people, I confirmed my guess."

The strange attitude of some people that Hikigaya mentioned was referring to Karuizawa Kei, who suddenly showed some hesitation towards him in the middle of the uninhabited island exam.

If Karuizawa was normal at the beginning of the exam and would even come to me to discuss the situation, then at some point in the middle of the exam, he seemed to have suddenly lost contact with me, or was afraid to talk to me.

When Hikigaya came to the girls' camp just now, his confusion was even more obvious, as if he was a child who was afraid to face his parents because he had done something wrong.

At that time, Hikigaya was certain that the girls must have secretly used the class points without telling the boys, and Karuizawa was 100% aware of this matter, which was why she showed such a strange attitude towards him.

"Alas, I can't hide it from your eyes after all."

Apparently because she had spoken out loud, Kushida Kikyo's expression changed in an instant, and she looked at Hikigaya helplessly, "It is indeed as you said, the girls secretly used the points in the class, and threatened Hirata Yosuke not to tell anyone about it."

"It's that Hirata style."

Hikigaya shook his head.

Although he guessed that Hirata's personality was worse than he thought, Hirata Yosuke's character was even worse than he thought, as he did things that actively destroyed the unity of the class for the sake of it.

It's enough to be called a weirdo.

"How many points did the girl use?"

"…Alas, it's hard to explain. Come with me."

Kushida Kikuchi said as he brought Hikigaya to the edge of the girls' tent.

She was very alert and skillful in assessing the surroundings. After confirming that no girls had returned to rest at this time, she opened the tent cloth at the door and let Hikigaya look inside the tent.

Unlike the boys' tent which was very empty and used only for sleeping, the girls' tent presented a completely different scene.

The tent was filled with not only a number of sneakily hidden snack bags, but also several inflatable pillows and even a battery-powered cordless fan.

"The tent on the other side has exactly the same things on it, and all together they make twelve." Kushida Kikyo silently explained to Hikigaya.

"Who did it?" Hikigaya had already imagined this scene, so he was not surprised by the current situation, but went straight to find the culprit.

He imagined that the person who did all this should be Shinohara Satsuki, and the other girls and Hirata Yosuke were most likely just accomplices.

But to his surprise, Kikyo Kushida gave him an answer that he could not imagine.

"Karuizawa and the others applied for it."

"Karuizawa?"

"What's wrong?" Seeing Hikigaya's strange look, Kushida Kikyo asked in confusion, "That Karuizawa is the leader of the girls' group. She is not only willful but also very selfish. It shouldn't be surprising that she did these things."

“That’s… true.”

Hikigaya nodded.

Although he knew that this was just a disguise by Karuizawa, he still could not reveal the truth to others.

But I didn't expect that even Kushida didn't notice it. It seems that Karuizawa's personality is no longer just a disguise, but has become a part of his real personality.

This happens occasionally in real life. When a person pretends to be another personality for too long, he or she may gradually become the person he or she is pretending to be, and be unable to break away from it.

Then why is it so easy for Kikyo Kushida to switch personalities?