Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

At the same time, Hikigaya is currently concerned about one thing, which is the selection rules for the favored ones.

Both Mr. Majima at the briefing and the text message from the beneficiary just now emphasized one word, that is, 'adjustment and regularity'.

If you think about these meanings carefully, you will instinctively come to a conclusion that there is a certain regularity behind the selection of the preferential recipients. As long as you master the rules of the preferential recipients, you can easily find all the preferential recipients.

However, finding out this pattern is not an easy task.

Because in order to find the pattern, we not only need to know the identities of many preferential treatment recipients, but also to find the common pattern behind the preferential treatment recipients.

To do this kind of thing, not only does one need extremely strong abilities and skills, but one also needs extremely strong risk control capabilities.

Simply put, the only people who can do this are lunatics and gamblers.

A class leader with extraordinary skills, but also a madman and gambler who does not consider the consequences, does such a person really exist?

Well, it seems that there really is...

If it were Ryuen Sho, the leader of Class C, he might really be able to do something like cutting off the source of the problem.

If that happens, Class C's performance in this exam will probably exceed everyone's imagination.

Of course, all of the above are just Hikigaya’s personal imagination. Whether it can happen depends on the influence of many comprehensive factors.

At least, if one does not have enough information about the beneficiaries, even someone as crazy as Ryuen Sho would not dare to easily guess the identity of the beneficiaries based on the rules.

"Anyway, let's go back now and meet up in the Dragon Group's room at one o'clock in the afternoon."

Horikita Suzune has always been a resolute and swift person. Now that she has discovered that her people have been granted the status of favored persons, she immediately went back to prepare a series of battle plans.

She then quickly left the scene, leaving only Hikigaya and Kushida there.

"Then I'll leave first too?"

Hikigaya stood up silently and was about to leave the coffee shop at eight in the morning, worried that he would meet unnecessary acquaintances when more people came.

However, before he left, Kushida Kikyo grabbed his sleeve, and the smile gradually disappeared from her face, revealing her true attitude only in private.

"Hey, Hikigaya-san..." Facing the somewhat bewildered Hikigaya, Kushida Kikyo said with a complicated and gloomy expression, "You said you would help me defeat Horikita-san, right?"

"Well, that's right."

"Will you still stand by me now?"

Kushida Kikyo looked at Hikigaya with a complicated and nervous expression, "If a conflict breaks out between Horikita and I, will you choose me or Horikita Suzune?"

Chapter 353: Hikigaya, I want Horikita Suzune to drop out of school!

"..."

A familiar question suddenly came out of Kushida Kikyo's mouth.

Choose her, or choose Horikita... I feel like I've been hearing similar questions from Kushida since school started.

By the way, why does Kushida keep asking me this?

Is there any special significance to your answer?

Speaking of which, this kind of question always seems to be similar to the classic question circulated on the Internet: if your girlfriend asks you, "If she and your mother fall into the water, who will you save?"

However, Kushida was not asking his own mother, but Horikita Suzune.

Besides, Kushida is not his girlfriend at all.

With Hikigaya's intelligence, he could easily analyze that the questions on the Internet were essentially a reflection of the girlfriends' own lack of security.

Because I am not sure whether I can get my boyfriend's love, I have to ask questions from various angles again and again to alleviate my inner anxiety.

Then, when Kikyo Kushida came to ask herself "Should I choose Horikita or her", was it essentially a reflection of Kushida's inner anxiety?

But why should the other party be uneasy?

In other words, even if Kushida was uneasy, why did he come to find me?

Recalling everything that Kushida Kikyo had just done, as well as the way she stayed at the scene and questioned him, Hikigaya hesitated for a moment and then slowly spoke:

"Kushida, don't you want to help Horikita achieve result four?"

"..."

Hikigaya's words caused the scene to suddenly fall into a dead silence.

Kushida seemed to have not expected him to say such words, and his expression became a little stiff for a moment, but then he gradually showed a relieved attitude.

"I can't hide it from you, Hikigaya-san." Kushida showed a helpless expression and waved his hand, "Yeah, I don't want Horikita to get his wish so easily."

It seems that Kushida still cannot easily reach an open cooperation with Horikita Suzune.

The grudge between the two was so deep that even with Hikigaya as a bridge, they couldn't easily achieve a friendly relationship.

However, Hikigaya still didn't think this was the answer to the question. Kushida used the excuse that he "didn't want Horikita Suzune to get her wish", and he always felt that there was some kind of incongruity in this sentence.

Of course, Hikigaya did not explore Kikyo Kushida's thoughts. He has always been a lone ranger who knows how to grasp distance and scale.

Neither let others explore themselves too much, nor explore others too much.

So for now, he just followed Kushida's words and said:

"You don't want to help Horikita achieve result four? Then what do you want to do? Achieve result two? You can easily do that even without my help."

The difference between Result 4 and Result 2 is simply whether or not they can mislead people in other classes into misidentifying the one who is being favored.

And with Horikita's ability, it would not be easy for her to come up with a reasonable way to deceive other classes.

In a sense, even if Kikyo Kushida did nothing, the final result would naturally develop in the direction of result 2.

If that were all, Hikigaya felt that there was no need for him to help Kushida, because the agreement he had made with Kushida to help him was based on helping him face off against Horikita.

"I know what you mean, Hikigaya." After hearing what Hikigaya said, Kushida hesitated for a moment and then spoke, "Hikigaya, you want me to face Horikita head-on and defeat her, but this is too difficult. After experiencing the uninhabited island exam, I have deeply understood this. I don't have the talent that Horikita has, nor do I have the ambition to be a class leader..."

As Kushida Kikyo spoke, a noticeable look of depression appeared on her face.

This kind of depression had appeared on the other person's face a few days ago. At that time, Hikigaya thought that he could solve the problem by helping Kushida solve the class crisis.

But it seems that asking him to ask Horikita for help to establish order for Class D has made him even more depressed.

At the time, Hikigaya couldn't understand why, but now he has more or less grasped the reason.

That is, after witnessing the strong performance of Horikita Suzune, Kushida instinctively felt inferior in her heart, and began to doubt the idea that Hikigaya had once mentioned about helping her defeat Horikita head-on.

She began to deny the possibility of defeating Horikita head-on.

For Hikigaya, this was undoubtedly a bad thing. He led Kikyo Kushida onto this path in order to make her maintain stability and not cause trouble.

If Kushida denied the path of direct combat, who knows what kind of mess would happen, and he might even get into trouble.

However, Hikigaya couldn't think of any words to encourage Kushida right now.

In other words, in the current situation, no matter what he said to Kushida, it would be easily regarded by the other party as empty and meaningless words.

So he could only hesitate and say: "So that's why you asked me, choose you or Horikita?"

"That's right." Kushida Kikyo clenched her teeth, her expression serious, "I have given up the choice of defeating Horikita head-on. That woman is simply not someone I can defeat head-on with my ability! In this case, the only way to deal with her is to force her to drop out of school! As long as I make sufficient plans and force her into a desperate situation..."

It is obvious that Kikyo Kushida has gone insane.

Her disgust and rejection of Horikita had never been vented, and as Horikita increasingly showed her excellent qualities, she could no longer tolerate coexisting peacefully with Horikita Suzune.

To this end, she even decided to take some dishonorable means to force Horikita Suzune to drop out of school.

This is undoubtedly the development that Hikigaya least wants to see, as it will only bring him all kinds of uncontrolled chaos...

"Is this really the only way to go?"

Hikigaya spoke hesitantly, wanting to test Kushida's bottom line and see if he could persuade the other party to give up such extreme thinking.

However, Kushida Kikyo's extreme behavior was beyond his imagination. The brown-haired girl said bluntly: "There is only one way! Between me and Horikita Suzune, only one person can stay in this school! So, Hikigaya-san, choose me and help me get that bitch Horikita expelled from school! In this way, maybe I can be with you..."

Kushida didn't finish her words, but her desire and expectation were already revealed on her face, and she even moved closer to Hikigaya.

Faced with this kind of situation that is like throwing oneself into the arms of a woman, a normal man would probably be unable to control his desire and would hug the other person in his arms.

But Hikigaya was obviously not an ordinary person. He forced himself to restrain his impulse and remain rational.

His attitude made Kushida Kikyo look disappointed. The girl looked at him sadly and murmured in a low voice: "Is that so? You chose Horikita after all, Hikigaya-san..."

"NO, I have not……"

"So, from now on, we are enemies!"

Kushida Kikyo did not give Hikigaya a chance to explain. Her eyes seemed dead for a moment, with an unprecedented emptiness.

For Kushida, Hikigaya's decision not to choose her was equivalent to choosing Horikita Suzune.

This is undoubtedly the result that Kushida cannot accept and does not want to face the most.

For this reason, she did not stay at the scene for even a moment, but simply lowered her head and turned away.

"Finally it collapsed..."

Hikigaya had actually guessed that this day would come for Kushida.

But he has been trying his best to make up for the other party's fragile heart, trying to help him recover from the extreme opposition attitude that made it impossible for him to coexist harmoniously with Horikita.

However, although he had made a lot of efforts, Kikyo Kushida's own fragility and inferiority complex eventually pushed her into a desperate situation.

As it turns out, just as Hikigaya had guessed before, the fact that Kikyo Kushida kept asking that question was a reflection of her lack of security.

If Hikigaya had hugged Kushida and agreed to his request, Kushida might have been conquered directly and recovered from his insecure state.

But that style of action doesn't really suit a dead-eyed lone ranger like me. It feels more like something a handsome anime guy like Yosuke Hirata would do.

So in the end, Hikigaya did nothing and just watched Kushida Kikyo leave.

However, Hikigaya also knew that he still had to do something.

Although there is no reason, if Kushida and Horikita really go to war, one of them will definitely be expelled from school, and he will definitely regret why he didn't do more.

Alas, I am just a lone ranger who doesn’t want to cause trouble.

Why do troubles always keep coming?

But maybe this is what human beings are like. If we are not solving problems, we are on the way to new problems. Life is just a meaningless ascetic journey...

And, inexplicably, Hikigaya recalled the tears that flowed down Kushida Kikyo's face when he proposed to "take all the responsibilities on himself".

Although he still couldn't understand why Kushida was crying.

However, for some reason, the girl's tears kept falling like ripples disturbing the surface of a lake, constantly echoing in his heart.

Perhaps I have always been wrong about this girl, Kushida...

Hikigaya thought so from the bottom of his heart, and inexplicably felt a little regretful about his past attitude towards Kushida.

The true nature of Kushida Kikyo may not be as fragile and twisted as it appears.

To describe it in more specific words, whether it is the gentle and lovely beautiful girl in everyone's eyes, or the gloomy and resentful terrible woman in private, it may not be the true nature of Kikyo Kushida.

Because she has been wearing the personality mask for too long, Kikyo Kushida herself may have almost forgotten whether the person wearing the mask is herself or the person under the mask is herself.

Chapter 354: Damn it, Katsuragi, you framed me!

After learning about the preferential treatment, Hikigaya returned to his room and prepared to try to rest himself before the meeting at one o'clock in the afternoon.

As soon as he walked in, he met Yosuke Hirata who was sorting his things.

"Hikigaya-san, you're back?" Hirata Yosuke seemed to be about to go out, with a smile on his face, "I just received a text message, Hikigaya-san, are you a favored person?"

"Well, you asked me so bluntly, aren't you afraid that I'm lying?"

Hikigaya seemed a little surprised at what Hirata Yosuke said, and didn't understand why the other party would ask him so directly.

Hirata himself calmly said, "It's okay, even if it's a lie. After all, if it's a lie, it means that you want to hide your identity as a favored person, Hikigaya-san, which is also good for the class."

Most people will only lie and say they are not the ones who are favored, and are unlikely to intentionally say they are the ones who are favored.

It is for this reason that Hirata does not care about his classmates' lies.

"Really? I'm sorry, but I'm not the one who gets preferential treatment."

"Well, I believe you."