Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

"What are you talking about?"

"You are still trying to hide your condition now?" Hikigaya stared at Horikita Suzune's face silently. "For the sake of a little self-esteem, for the so-called pride, you forcibly concealed your illness and didn't let others know, which eventually caused irreparable damage. Don't you think your behavior is the same as Hirata Yosuke's? Are the two of you simply the dragon and phoenix of Class D?! Is your behavior even worse than Hirata's?"

"I...I am doing this for..."

"For the class? Are you going to use the same excuse Hirata used again?"

Hikigaya smiled, "Humanity always repeats the mistakes it has made. The only lesson learned from history is that humans never learn."

"Horikita, these words are really not appropriate for you now."

Chapter 308: Don’t you understand how stupid you are, Horikita Suzune!

Hikigaya's words directly belittled Horikita Suzune.

He regarded the other party's behavior as the same as Hirata Yosuke's previous behavior of hiding things from the class, which eventually led to the class split.

Naturally, Horikita felt unconvinced by his words.

The girl tried to hold on to her sick body and shouted, "Why do you confuse me with Hirata? I'm not as brainless as him."

"..."

This guy is really a stubborn and venomous person.

By the way, do you usually look at Hirata like this?

"Really?" Hikigaya was not affected by Horikita's words and said calmly, "Then tell me, what is the difference between what you did and what Hirata did?"

"I won't tear this class apart like he did." Horikita Suzune's mouth was harder than expected. "He concealed the mistakes made by others and even helped them to commit crimes. Everything I did was for the good of this class. If the theft of the key card is exposed now, Class D will definitely fall into chaos."

"Yeah, you may have a point, but Horikita, have you ever thought about this? If you fail to find the key card and it is taken by someone from another class, Class D may lose 150 points in the worst case scenario, and all the hard work of everyone these days will be in vain."

Hikigaya tells Horikita Suzune about the future with cruel words.

"I will get it back."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because I have basically locked down the criminal."

Horikita gritted her teeth and stared at Hikigaya. "Most of the girls were queuing at the bathroom door just now. They had no motive to commit a crime. If the boys approached the girls' tent, they would be very conspicuous and easily exposed. So it is likely that the person who stole the key card was Ibuki Mio. She is a spy sent by Class C to our class!"

"Ah."

Hikigaya nodded in approval of Horikita's conclusion that Ibuki was a spy.

Although he and Ibuki cooperated, the cooperation was limited to the fact that he would not tell others that the other party was a spy.

At the moment, Horikita had just guessed the information himself, so it had nothing to do with him.

"But even if you know Ibuki is a spy, how are you going to catch her?" Hikigaya said coldly, "If you use force, you might alert her and scare her away."

"Yeah, so I plan to set a trap and catch her as soon as possible."

Horikita Suzune let out a breath, and under Hikigaya's guidance, her thoughts gradually returned to normal, and she also recovered from her extremely panicked state just now.

Although she didn't know whether Hikigaya did this on purpose, as long as she could keep a cool head, she at least knew what she had to do now.

"No matter how you think about it, Ibuki is definitely the culprit. This morning when we were outside, Ayanokouji's mistaken action may have made her guess that the key card was on me." Horikita Suzune silently analyzed, "But I can't understand why she stole the key card from me. You know, the key card has the leader's name engraved on it, so it should be enough to just see it, but she deliberately took the key card away... If this is discovered, the entire Class C will be punished with 0 points."

Horikita Suzune said a lot of things that she couldn't understand, and at the same time, she looked at Hikigaya anxiously as if asking for help, trying to get an answer.

Hikigaya did not respond to this, and said calmly: "I don't know why Ibuki took such an action, and I don't know why Ayanokouji accidentally did that and let Ibuki see it. I just want to tell you, don't follow in Hirata Yosuke's footsteps. No one can withstand that kind of huge pressure."

"This……"

Hearing Hikigaya's words that sounded like advice to her, Horikita Suzune was slightly stunned.

But she finally didn't accept Hikigaya's advice, and gritted her teeth and said, "I won't be like that guy Hirata. As long as we can catch Ibuki and take the key card back, we can ensure that the worst thing will not happen!"

"Really? Then you should work hard."

"Aren't you going to help me?"

"I'm not going to help a guy who still hasn't realized how stupid he is."

"you……"

Faced with Hikigaya's straightforward, mocking attitude towards herself, Horikita Suzune widened her eyes, and at the same time, she showed obvious depression and loss.

Obviously, what she wanted most was Hikigaya's recognition and support.

Just like she hopes to gain recognition and support from her brother Horikita Manabu.

However, both Hikigaya and Horikita Manabu had the same attitude towards her in the end, denying her abilities and ideas.

Even the mocking and cold tone just now, in Horikita's eyes, Hikigaya is exactly the same as his brother Horikita Manabu.

why?

Why do you and your brother...

Without time to recover from her loss, Horikita Suzune quickly realized that she needed to find Ibuki Mio.

However, she suddenly noticed strange changes in the D class camp. Thick gray smoke emerged from the ground and rushed into the sky.

"What's that smoke? What happened?"

Although it looked like campfire smoke, it was too early to have a campfire at this time, and the location did not seem to be in an open space.

"That is……"

Like Horikita, Hikigaya did not expect the fire to happen.

But compared to the confused Horikita Suzune, Hikigaya had more or less guessed the true identity of the arsonist and his purpose.

The two quickly returned to the camp and found Ike Kanji running towards them from a distance.

"It's terrible! It's a fire! Fire! Something is burning behind the toilet!"

"What!?"

Horikita Suzune didn't expect a fire to happen. Her eyes widened and she found that all the girls who were queuing in front of the shower room had disappeared.

They probably moved because they heard the commotion of the fire.

In other words, Class D is now in chaos because order has been lost due to the fire.

"Not good!" Thinking of this, Horikita Suzune exclaimed, "I still haven't seen Ibuki-san. She might have been the one who caused the fire. Where is she?"

"She went that way after she discovered the fire."

"I see!"

Horikita Suzune nodded and immediately went to the back of the temporary toilet, where she saw Hirata and the others, but after looking around, she did not find Ibuki.

"Did she escape during the chaos?"

Horikita's face was in confusion. Looking at the camp in front of her that was on fire, she fell into chaos from the bottom of her heart.

Hikigaya calmly peeked at the fire.

There was a pile of burnt paper left there, and since a part of it was still there, Hikigaya immediately determined that it was the guidebook for Class D.

"Did the guidebook get burned?"

Thinking that the guidebook was usually kept by Hirata Yosuke, which meant it was placed in the boys' area, Hikigaya was completely certain that the arsonist was Ayanokouji.

The other party was probably worried that Ibuki would be caught, and wanted to force Ibuki Mio to escape from Class D and return to Class C to report, so they did this.

That guy's personality is really terrible.

While Hikigaya was lost in emotion, Horikita Suzune had not yet thought of this. She still believed that Ibuki had set the fire on purpose in order to escape.

"One thing after another..."

Horikita murmured, lowering her eyes in regret.

What should I do?

How can I save myself from my mistakes?

A multitude of thoughts raced through her mind, but no obvious answer emerged.

"You should face the facts now, Horikita." Hikigaya walked over, his expression calm and indifferent, "Your actions are no different from Hirata's. Nothing can be saved."

"I..." With the reality before her, Horikita Suzune could no longer refute Hikigaya's words, but questions followed, "Then what do you think I should do? What is the right thing to do? What exactly should I do?!"

"..."

Horikita's sudden collapse attracted a lot of attention.

Due to the fire, a large number of Class D students gathered in front of the tent, looking at the scene here with an expression of incomprehension.

Especially Ayanokouji, who seemed to be very concerned about Horikita Suzune's condition, so he stood quietly not far away and observed the situation.

"As expected, you are just like Hirata, you don't realize what your real mistake is." Hikigaya sighed, "You knew you were sick, but you still concealed everything and held on until now... This itself is the biggest mistake you have made!"

"Varied……"

Hikigaya's words made Horikita's eyes widen.

"Have you not realized yet? He was clearly ill, but he concealed the fact, which led to the loss of the key card. How is this behavior different from Hirata hiding the fact that the girls used their points privately, hiding the fact that their underwear was stolen, and finally causing the split of Class D?"

"I, I didn't..."

"And you still don't realize what your motivation is for doing all this?" Hikigaya looked at Horikita coldly, "It's your self-esteem. You're afraid that if other people know that you're sick, you'll be considered a burden. And because of your own face, you gave up asking for help from anyone. No, even if someone like you asks for help, it's highly likely that no one will agree to help except me."

"..."

“You can’t survive on your own in this world. If you don’t realize that, you’ll just make the same mistakes over and over again.”

"I cannot agree with you. No matter how hard it is, I will do it on my own..."

Seeing how Horikita Suzune remained stubborn and insisted on her own ideas, Hikigaya finally lost his patience.

"Really? I'm sorry, but I don't have any more time to waste on you."

"what are you up to?"

Horikita Suzune looked at Hikigaya in bewilderment, only to find that the latter reached out and pressed the bracelet on her wrist, and snapped it the next second!

As the information in the bracelet was sent to the cruise ship, Horikita Suzune was forced to leave!

Chapter 309: I have a way to resolve the chaos in the class, would you like to hear it?

Horikita Suzune had been ill before she arrived on the island, and she deliberately concealed the fact that she was ill, and had not received proper care and treatment.

This lasted for nearly a week, and the opponent had undoubtedly reached a certain limit both mentally and physically.

Therefore, even if Hikigaya forcibly grabbed the other person's wrist and pressed the bracelet issued by the school to every student, the other person would not have time to react and did not even realize what all this meant.

"Hikigaya, why are you…"

"It's time to wake up from your fantasy, Horikita." Hikigaya stared into Horikita Suzune's eyes with a cold gaze, "You don't need to continue to bear responsibilities that you can't bear. Having the courage to admit your own weakness and incompetence is also a manifestation of strength."

"Are you asking me to give up?!" Horikita Suzune's expression suddenly became excited, "I, I don't want to give up. How can I give up...give up the dream of being promoted to Class A, give up the dream of being recognized by my brother."

"I never said anything like that, and there's no need for you to give up."

Hikigaya hugged Horikita, who was unable to stand due to excitement, and said silently, "If you can't do something now, you can do it later. If you can't complete a goal now, you can complete it after you grow up and become stronger. Humans are creatures that can grow. As long as you admit your weakness and learn from your mistakes, one day you will transform from a butterfly into a real bird."

"Is this...is this really possible?"

Because of the severe high fever, Horikita Suzune's voice began to become unclear, and her consciousness also began to become muddy.

Facing the girl's words that sounded like she was talking in a dream, Hikigaya said silently: "Who knows, but at least I believe that you have such potential."

Yes, otherwise how could I choose you to be the leader of Class D?

Although Hikigaya no longer cares about the life and death of this class, his evaluation of Horikita Suzune has never changed.

He believed that the other party was the one who could best adapt to this school where strength was the most important thing, and was the one who could truly stand at the top of this campus.

"I...can I really..."

Horikita Suzune fainted in a daze. The busyness and fatigue during this period brought her to the limit.

The fact that Hikigaya pressed the bracelet made her originally taut nerves break completely, so that she could not hold on and lost consciousness on the spot.