Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

Ichinose looked at Hikigaya with eyes full of trust, his eyes were pure and without any distractions, as if he had never thought about the possibility that the other party would betray him.

This should be the help Hikigaya gave to Class D during the Uninhabited Island Exam, which made Ichinose trust him and even want to repay the favor from the Uninhabited Island Exam.

If I nodded here, Ichinose might really tell me the information about the favored students in Class B.

"If you want to cooperate with Class D, you should go to Horikita." However, Hikigaya decisively rejected Ichinose's words, "I have no ability and no intention to find out the identity of the preferential treatment of Class D. You shouldn't have come to me for this matter from the beginning."

"That's it."

Hearing Hikigaya's words, Ichinose nodded silently.

Normally, she should have asked Ichinose about his attitude, but surprisingly, the leader of Class B did not do so.

"I want to cooperate with you, Hikigaya-san, not with Class D. So if you, Hikigaya-san, refuse, I will give up on this idea."

Ichinose spoke very calmly, not caring about Horikita Suzune's presence at all.

This undoubtedly made Horikita's expression very ugly, showing obvious loss and unwillingness...

Chapter 363: Hikigaya Hachiman is always a handsome lone ranger!

Ichinose didn't want to cooperate with Class D, he simply wanted to cooperate with Hikigaya.

Therefore, when Hikigaya refused to cooperate and asked Ichinose to find Horikita Suzune, Ichinose naturally rejected the proposal of cooperation.

"It seems that cooperation among the three classes except Class A is impossible. With Ryuen's temper, I don't think anyone from other classes would be willing to cooperate with him." Ichinose analyzed silently, "It seems that the only problem now is Class A's silent operation. If Katsuragi continues to lead Class A in silence, we won't be able to fight back and can only watch Class A win."

"It can't be helped. This is the rule of this exam. Katsuragi is just taking advantage of the rule."

Hikigaya spoke calmly. He didn't care about the exam process at all, nor did he care whether the ranking of each class would change because of this exam.

At this point, he still had no interest in participating in class struggles, and he didn't want to be involved in the spiral of contradictions of strength supremacy.

"Well, I'll go back to my room first."

Ichinose spoke, then left silently.

As the leader of Class B, she obviously had a lot of things to discuss with her classmates, so she couldn't stay here for long.

Horikita Suzune saw Ichinose leaving and silently turned to look at Hikigaya.

Her eyes were filled with complicated expressions, as if there were thousands of words gathered in her heart that she wanted to tell to the dead-eyed guy beside her.

But in the end, she still didn't say anything, and sighed tiredly, "I'll go back first."

"Don't you have anything to ask me?"

Hikigaya was surprised by Horikita's reaction. He thought that the other party would have many questions to ask him.

Whether it was the uninhabited island exam or the special attitude of other class members towards him just now...

Horikita just silently said: "Who am I to ask you? No matter what you did, it was your own ability and your freedom. I have no right to interfere."

"This……"

Although it was a good thing for Hikigaya that Horikita did not interfere with him, Hikigaya still found it inexplicably difficult to accept the other party's self-destructive attitude.

However, as Horikita said, he is free to do whatever he wants, and there is no need to report to the other party or inform each other.

It wasn't a deep relationship between them.

So, Hikigaya silently watched Horikita Suzune's departing back, planning to sneak away when no one was paying attention after she left.

"Hikigaya..."

Before leaving the room, Horikita suddenly spoke with her back turned to him.

"..."

Not understanding what the other party was going to say, Hikigaya did not respond.

It took Horikita Suzune a few seconds to organize her words and slowly said, "You've never thought about helping Class D get promoted, right?"

"Yeah, I never thought of that."

Hikigaya responded calmly.

From the time he entered school until now, he had not had the slightest thought of helping Class D to advance, and he did not want to waste his precious time on such meaningless class confrontations.

Moreover, he hated the so-called supremacy of strength and would never subjectively do something boring that would trample on other classes.

Compared to the so-called privileges of Class A, he would rather stay in Class D forever. It is actually a happy and relaxing experience for him.

"I understand."

Horikita Suzune heard Hikigaya's answer and nodded slowly.

Because she didn't turn around, Hikigaya couldn't see the expression on her face.

This made him curious - what would Horikita Suzune think when faced with his unwillingness to help Class D?

Is she angry, disappointed, or furious?

Or are you simply indifferent and have no expectations of yourself?

Before Hikigaya tried to confirm the answer, the black-haired girl had left the Dragon Group's examination room and disappeared from his sight.

"..."

Hikigaya hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not chase after him.

That's not something his style allows.

However, Hikigaya would occasionally have some inexplicable thoughts.

If you are not yourself and do things that are not in line with your style, will there be some different changes in your own life and the lives of others?

Can Hikigaya Hachiman transform himself into something different from his current disgusting, miserable and pitiful appearance?

Of course, he had no intention of doing that.

Because he likes himself very much.

So far, Hikigaya Hachiman has never hated himself.

Be it his excellent brain performance, his above-average appearance, or even his pessimistic yet realistic thoughts, he himself doesn't dislike them at all.

Hikigaya Hachiman would be a handsome yet miserable lone ranger.

This fact will never change.

……

Hikigaya left the Dragon Team's examination room and headed for the Rabbit Team's examination room.

Since he was still thinking about Karuizawa Megumi who was assigned to the same group as Ayanokouji, he planned to go to the Rabbit Group where those two were to investigate the situation.

He had already learned the general situation of the Rabbit Group from Hirata.

Like the other groups, it contains a mixture of members from four classes, A to D.

Class A: Shigeru Takemoto, Koji Machida, Takuro Morishige

Class B: Ryuji Kanzaki, Tetsuya Hamaguchi, Ryota Beppu

Class C: Mio Ibuki, Shiho Manabe, Nami Yabuna, Saki Yamashita

Class D: Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, Karuizawa Megumi, Sotomura Hideo, Yukimura Teruhiko

In addition to Ayanokouji, other notable people in this group include Ryuji Kanzaki from Class B and Mio Ibuki from Class C.

There is also a student in Class A named Machida Koji, who seems to be a famous figure in Class A and an extreme supporter of the Katsuragi faction.

If such a group of people were mixed in with the rabbit group, chaos would occur which could be seen with the naked eye.

Not to mention other people, just the existence of Ayanokouji is enough to declare this group a death group.

If it weren't for the existence of Karuizawa Kei, he wouldn't even want to observe this group, and didn't want to get into trouble at all.

But it was precisely because Karuizawa Megumi was unlucky enough to be assigned to this group that Hikigaya had to come over to take care of the other party's situation.

After all, although the main reason why Karuizawa ended up in Class D was because of his own initiative and the big mistake he made in the uninhabited island exam, to a certain extent, it was also related to his own actions.

Hikigaya still couldn't abandon the other person.

So, Hikigaya went straight to the rabbit group to observe.

Due to his lack of presence, he quickly found a hiding place and found the members of the Rabbit Group.

The students of the Rabbit Group are now preparing to return to their respective dormitories after finishing their exams.

Hikigaya took a quick glance and found Karuizawa Megumi who was alone.

The other party seemed to be not particularly familiar with the people in the group, so he took the initiative to distance himself from the others and squatted in the corner to look at his mobile phone.

"Are you Karuizawa-san? I have something to ask you."

Just then, a girl from Class C suddenly came to the door.

Although Hikigaya didn't know the other person, he vaguely remembered that the person's name seemed to be Manabe Shiho.

Because when he was chatting with Shiina before, he had heard her mention some troublesome guys in Class C, and Shiina told him not to provoke them, one of whom was the girl named Manabe.

At this moment, seeing the other party's arrogant attitude comparable to that of Shinohara Satsuki, Hikigaya was sure that what Shiina said was correct.

At the same time, Karuizawa seemed to have not expected that he would be in trouble with Manabe, and looked away from his phone at a loss.

Hikigaya originally thought that the other party would show a strong attitude like he did in class, but when facing Manabe, Karuizawa did not act as assertive as he did in class. Instead, he seemed a little lacking in energy.

"Is there anything?"

"If I'm not misunderstanding...did you have a dispute with Lihua before the summer vacation?"

"What? What? Who is Lihua?"

"She was a girl in our class who wore glasses and had her hair tied in a bun. Don't you remember her?"

"I don't know him, you got the wrong person."

Karuizawa looked like he didn't want to get entangled with Manabe and continued to look at his phone.

But Manabe Shiho obviously wasn't going to give up and continued, "Don't say you forgot. We did hear it. Rika said she was bullied by a girl named Karuizawa from Class D. She said she was queuing in the coffee shop and you suddenly cut in line and knocked her away."

"…What does it have to do with me?" Karuizawa's eyes flashed with panic. "I already said I didn't know. Are you deliberately looking for trouble?"

"Nothing, I'm just confirming. If this is true, I want you to apologize." Manabe Shiho said with great momentum, "Rika is the kind of person who will bear everything by herself. We must do something for her."

As she spoke, Manabe Shiho took out her cell phone, turned on the camera, and faced Karuizawa, "Can I check with Rika? Is that okay? If it's not you, then it's okay, right?"

"Wait, don't take pictures of me without permission."

Manabe's behavior frightened Karuizawa, and the girl suddenly raised her face and threw the phone that Manabe was holding away with her hand.

The force was stronger than expected. Manabe's phone was knocked away and fell to the ground, rolling several times.

"what are you doing?!"

"That's what I want to say. I've already told you that you got the wrong person!"

“What if my phone breaks?”

"What can I do? Just tell the school and get another one."

"There are very important photos in it..."

Manabe Shiho was completely enraged by Karuizawa, and she surrounded him directly with two other girls from Class C.

Hikigaya had no intention of taking any action regarding all this, because after he briefly confirmed the matter, he discovered that the person who did something wrong was indeed Karuizawa.

The Rika that Manabe mentioned who was bullied by Karuizawa should also be a real person.

From this point of view, Karuizawa has too many problems. The mistakes made in the uninhabited island exam may not be accidental, but inevitable due to the other party's distorted personality.

Although Hikigaya is a lone ranger, he also has a simple sense of justice, so when Karuizawa Megumi did something wrong, it was impossible for him to ignore the facts and protect her.

It is only natural that if you do something wrong you have to bear the consequences.

Chapter 364: A true Lone Ranger will never get drunk!