Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

Ichinose Hoba smiled and glanced at everyone present. After confirming that no one spoke first, she took the initiative to speak: "Okay, pay attention - although I already know everyone's name, the school has also given instructions, so I think it would be better to introduce yourself. Besides, there may be people who are meeting each other for the first time."

Ichinose's speech is like that of a radio or TV host. Not only is her voice clear and pleasant, but her speech is also very concise and clear, allowing people to accept her views naturally.

Except for Class B, the members of other classes were surprised by Ichinose's performance. They didn't expect that she would dare to lead the topic under such circumstances.

Seeing this, a student from Class A named Shinji Chang retorted, "Is it necessary to introduce yourself at this point? Besides, I don't think the school is serious about this. Isn't it better to just let those who want to introduce themselves do it?"

"If you want to do this, Deba-san, I can't force you, but there might be a microphone somewhere in this room. Those who don't introduce themselves will be at a disadvantage, and it might even become the responsibility of the entire group."

Ichinose seemed to have considered the possibility that some people might not cooperate, and naturally put forward his point of view to refute it.

After hearing this, Class A's Deba Shinji had no choice but to give in.

After all, no one dares to take the risk of the class being punished due to non-cooperation.

So, starting with Ichinose's self-introduction, everyone started to go around in a circle and introduce themselves. Even Ryuen Sho, who seemed the most uncooperative, did not cause trouble at this time.

It is worth mentioning that Hikigaya originally thought that no one would care about the self-introduction of a marginal figure like himself, but when he opened his mouth, most of the eyes at the scene were focused on him, making him think that he had said something wrong and almost bit his tongue.

Can't you guys be a little more lenient with the Mavericks?

Are you trying to disgust me on purpose?!

"If you introduce yourself this way, it feels like we're in the same class now, Hikigaya-san."

Ichinose turned her head and spoke to Hikigaya with a smile. Her gentle words, which could be regarded as consolation and comfort, effectively eased Hikigaya's embarrassment.

But I don’t know why, I always felt that the atmosphere at the scene became even heavier because of this sentence.

Kōhei Katsuragi from Class A had a serious look on his face, his eyes constantly flickering between Hikigaya and Ichinose, as if he was having some kind of suspicion.

Although Ryuen Sho, the leader of Class C, did not say anything, Hiyori Shiina, who was sitting next to Hikigaya, had an inexplicable seriousness in her eyes, one could even say she was wary.

Not to mention Horikita Suzune and Kushida Kikyo from Class D. Although they were sitting far away, Hikigaya could still clearly feel the sight from afar.

Did they think I was a traitor in the class?

I'm not that kind of person... Uh, I think I'm really a traitor...

Hikigaya had numb thoughts in his mind.

After everyone had briefly introduced themselves, Ichinose spoke again: "Well, that completes the school's briefing, right? The next question is how to proceed... By the way, if anyone doesn't like me being the host, could you please tell me? I'm always ready to replace the host!"

Under normal circumstances, after Ichinose said this, it would be basically impossible for anyone to refute it, and things would continue to develop normally.

After all, most humans have a herd mentality and are afraid to stand out and take on unnecessary responsibilities.

If Ichinose has volunteered to take on the role of host, if anyone wants to object later, they must perform better than Ichinose, otherwise it is bound to cause dissatisfaction among others.

Ichinose must have relied on this pure and powerful ability to easily gain the right to speak in the entire class in Class B.

However, Ichinose's ability might work within the class, and no one might cause trouble in an ordinary group, but in this Dragon Group, which is almost a gathering of evildoers, it is destined that she cannot directly use her imagination.

"I'm sorry, Ichinose, but we in Class A have no intention of continuing to play with you."

Kōhei Katsuragi crossed his arms across his chest to express his disapproval.

Under his leadership, all the Class A members present also expressed indifference and silence with a stern attitude, and kept their mouths shut.

"Katsuragi-san, don't you want to have this discussion?"

Ichinose gave a wry smile that was a bit annoying at the unexpected rejection.

"The school shouldn't require us to have an effective discussion within this hour, right?" Katsuragi Yasushi said calmly, "After the self-introduction, the examination process will be controlled by the students themselves. Isn't this clearly stated in the rules?"

Kōhei Katsuragi showed an uncooperative attitude from the first moment.

This attitude caused different reactions among those present.

Ichinose was in distress, and Ryuen Sho sneered...

Horikita Suzune maintained her previous tit-for-tat attitude and immediately said, "Does Class A want to give up this exam? I think discussion is the only way to resolve this exam. If you don't cooperate, the exam will become impossible to proceed, and there will be no results, right?"

Horikita Suzune obviously still maintained her correct tone and was very dissatisfied with Katsuragi Kōhei's unconventional approach.

After all, if one remains silent from beginning to end, no one will be able to identify the favored party.

Although this is a good thing for Class D, which has preferential treatment, Horikita is obviously not stupid enough to expose this actively, and chooses to play it.

With Horikita's cooperation, Ichinose spoke boldly, "If Class A wants to do this, although it is not my intention, we will make the final decision by majority vote depending on the situation. Everyone will doubt those who are unwilling to answer questions, and may even use random guesses to name the preferential treatment. Can you accept this?"

Ichinose tried to use simple but effective threats to force Class A to join the battlefield.

But unfortunately, her tricks might be useful to others, but they are ineffective in this examination room.

"You can do it if you want." Katsuragi Kohei's expression remained silent. "I don't think you can unite everyone in this examination room just by yourself."

Katsuragi is probably so confident because he is certain that Ichinose's ability is not enough to win over everyone in the Dragon Group.

In fact, it is true that the members of the Dragon Group are too mixed. The hardcore ruthless people from all classes are all gathered here, and no one can guarantee that they can win over all of them.

but……

"Haha, if it's to deal with Class A, I might be able to get involved." Ryuen Sho suddenly spoke up and sneered, "Although I have no intention of getting along well with Class B, if it's to deal with Class A, I don't think anyone will have any objections."

"Long Yuan you..."

Katsuragi frowned at Ryuuen's words.

He obviously did not expect that the unruly Ryuen Sho would be willing to cooperate with Ichinose Honami, but this was understandable. Ichinose's personal appeal might not be able to win over everyone present, but the hatred value of Class A was enough to force people from all other classes present to take action.

As the price of being ahead of all other classes now, Class A will naturally be besieged by all other classes.

Faced with such a dilemma, Katsuragi Kohei had to become serious and said with a serious expression: "Do you really think that this exam can be resolved through discussion? Do you think the favored person will easily admit his identity during the discussion? Or, as long as you bow your head and beg from beginning to end, the favored person will be willing to tell everyone?"

"This……"

Katsuragi Kōhei's calm and composed words made everyone fall into silence. After all, it was too difficult to find out who was being treated preferentially through discussion.

"So, do you have any other ideas?"

Ichinose asked instinctively. The reason why she took the initiative to discuss this proposal was because she thought it was the only way to pass the exam.

However, Katsuragi Kohei expressed a different opinion: "Of course there is, and it is a reliable and simple method that can benefit everyone and pass the exam."

"real or fake?"

No one in the Dragon Group expected Katsuragi to say such a thing, and they showed surprised and suspicious expressions.

Katsuragi Kōhei also calmly said: "There is only one exam strategy recommended by Class A... that is to not discuss from beginning to end, and give up all discussion in this exam!"

Chapter 359: Even if we do nothing, Class A will definitely win!

"No discussion from beginning to end?"

The opinions raised by Kōhei Katsuragi were so shocking that even though he did not make a loud noise, the people present were instinctively shocked.

Even Ryuen Sho and Shiina Hiyori, who were originally not interested in Katsuragi's words, couldn't help but turn their eyes over.

"This is a unique idea... You said you don't want to discuss it, but how are we going to crack this exam? Are you going to allow the unknown privileged person to win like this?"

In response to Class A's sudden declaration to deny all discussions, Horikita Suzune interrupted before Ichinose could speak.

"Yes." Katsuragi Yasuhei calmly acknowledged what Horikita Suzune said, "Ending the exam without unnecessary discussion is the shortcut to victory."

"It's hard to believe for a moment." Horikita Suzune didn't expect Katsuragi to admit it so easily, and a look of doubt appeared on her face. "Wait, did you share the information of the favored person at this stage, and knew that the favored person of the Dragon Group is in your Class A, so you plan to protect his identity?"

Horikita Suzune knew that the one favored by the Dragon Team was Kushida Kikyo, but she still spoke like this, making it clear that she wanted to confuse other classes during the discussion and implement the battle plan she had formulated before.

Her words were indeed effective. Katsuragi Kōhei's suspicion of Class D was significantly reduced, and he silently said, "It doesn't matter whether the favored student is in Class A or not. In other words, it doesn't matter which class the favored student is in, because according to the rules of this exam, as long as there is no discussion, we will definitely win."

"Huh, so that's what you were planning."

"Katsuragi-san, you are thinking this way..."

After Katsuragi finished speaking, Ryuen Sho and Ichinose immediately understood what Katsuragi was planning.

Although Horikita's speed was a little slower than those two, after hesitating for a moment, she finally figured out Class A's purpose.

"You mean to ask all classes to give up guessing who will be favored and reach all the results one and two?"

Horikita Suzune seemed to be asking for the answer, but in fact, she already had the answer in her heart.

"That's right." Katsuragi Yasuhei also naturally finished the conversation, "The only thing that no class can accept in this exam is result three and result four, because that means one class will definitely be the loser, but result one and result two are different. As long as we follow the rules, all classes will only win and not lose."

"Whether it is result one or result two, the gap in class points will not be shortened or widened. In addition, the favored students will also gain a large number of personal points. In other words, this is a result in which only the school will bear the cost and everyone will win."

"..."

Katsuragi Kōhei's strategic words caused most of the students present to waver.

When ordinary students first hear Katsuragi's words, they will definitely be instinctively attracted to them and approve of this conservative strategy that will definitely not lose.

After all, humans generally prefer safety and are risk-averse.

However, this is the Dragon Group after all, and in an environment where evildoers gather, it is impossible for everyone to choose to agree with Katsuragi's theory.

"Katsuragi, what you said may be correct, but are you sure about one thing?" It was Horikita Suzune who first refuted Katsuragi's words, "What if the distribution of the preferential treatment is extremely concentrated and fixed to a certain class? Millions of points will flow into that class. Can everyone win?"

Although personal points do not affect class rankings, they are used in various ways in this school.

Not only can it be used as daily pocket money, it can also be used to purchase test scores, and depending on the situation, it even has the universal power to move students to different classes.

Since the distribution of favored people is unclear, it is impossible to practice this kind of operation.

"Your argument is not valid, because if you think about it a little, you will know that the school cannot make unfair distributions." However, Katsuragi had obviously already dealt with this argument, and said calmly, "Before the exam began, the school kept emphasizing fairness, even to the point of being annoying. If preferential treatment is allowed to be concentrated in a specific class, then there will be great unfairness at the start of the exam. Is this possible? The school also maintained fairness during the last uninhabited island exam, right? Class A and Class D both have equal starting points, there is no doubt about that."

What Katsuragi advocated was that since the favored people were distributed equally, there was no need to search for them.

That's why we asked everyone to stop discussing and let all classes finish the exam with the same points.

Horikita was in a stalemate.

"Indeed...it is true that the school emphasizes fairness. As long as you believe in this, I think this idea is indeed correct, but even so, it is still unreliable."

Although he felt dissatisfied, Horikita was unable to put his opinion into words.

For a long time, Horikita Suzune only used academic ability as the only indicator, and never exercised her social and verbal skills. The shortcomings of this test, which was an extreme test of conversation, were clearly exposed.

There was no way she could reasonably deny Katsuragi's words.

Seeing this, Katsuragi further described his own point of view:

"The attitude of this school has always been very bad. It uses various rules to induce and influence us, making us attack each other and destroy each other. In the end, not only the group relationship, but also the interpersonal relationship has become a mess."

"Think about it, everyone. The reward for letting the traitor win alone is indeed huge. However, we will also bear huge risks. In this opaque exam, do we really need to follow the school's ideas?"

"This is my personal opinion - as students, we are not domesticated animals of the school. We need to stand up and resist at the critical moment!"

Yes, you are absolutely right!

Hikigaya had never agreed so much with Katsuragi Kōhei's words, and now he wanted to clap his hands on the spot.

There was no way. Whether it was Katsuragi's attitude towards this school or the other party's plan of "collective tanking", they all hit his sweet spot completely.

It made him really want to shout out loud - I love you so much, Katsuragi-kun.

Well, actually Hikigaya definitely wouldn’t shout, after all, he’s not Nantong.

But no matter what, Hikigaya wholeheartedly approves of Katsuragi's approach and feels that this plan to tank against the school is very feasible.

Although Sakayanagi had said that she hoped he would go one step further to defeat the Katsuragi faction, after realizing that Sakayanagi was just torturing him for fun, he no longer had any intention of helping Sakayanagi.

Of course, Hikigaya also knew that Katsuragi's plan could not be implemented so easily - to use Horikita Manabu's evaluation of Katsuragi Kōhei, his attitude was good, but his skills and abilities were insufficient.

Although Katsuragi, like Hikigaya, holds a negative attitude towards the school's supremacy of strength, his opponent's abilities are indeed worrying in all aspects, and he will definitely be easily killed by the various monsters in the school.

The same is true for this exam.

If the people gathered here were just ordinary people, they might be deceived by Katsuragi's words, but in this Dragon Group where evildoers are everywhere, it is impossible for everyone present to be easily convinced by him.

As expected, the moment Katsuragi finished speaking and Horikita was unable to refute him, Ichinose took over the battle:

"Katsuragi-san, have you forgotten that the rules of this exam stipulate that the identities of the favored students will be kept secret? If a favored student keeps his or her identity secret from the beginning to the end in order to keep all the points to himself or herself, and does not share the points with the class, wouldn't it be the end result that only the favored student wins? If the class also falls into conflict and becomes suspicious of each other because of this..."

Hikigaya agreed with Ichinose's words. After all, some students in his class had become hidden wealthy people, and most people must have complicated feelings.

Not to mention other classes, Class D will definitely be in chaos by then.

"We have established a complete trust relationship in Class A, so we are not worried at all." Katsuragi didn't care about this at all. "Internal problems can be solved internally. If we can't even do this, I don't think such a class has the qualifications to participate in class competition."

This guy really didn't hesitate to belittle Class D.