Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

To some extent, he is actually quite sensitive when it comes to matters between men and women, even to the point of overreacting.

Among boys around the world, up to 80% of them, when faced with this kind of situation, are thinking: "Does she like me?"

Because of this, no matter when or where, Hikigaya would never do such reckless and stupid things. He had to stay calm and clear-headed, and tell himself with a cold gaze, "This is impossible."

He dared not trust others, let alone himself. The Lone Ranger would never have even the slightest hope of luck in the face of the cruel reality.

"Then I'll order the most ordinary omelette rice."

Hikigaya silently obeyed Kushida and responded in a way that would not affect the atmosphere.

"Ah."

Hearing his answer, Kushida's face immediately broke into a bright smile. Even in the noisy cafeteria, Hikigaya could hear the other party's brisk footsteps.

The two quickly ordered their food and chose a seat to sit down.

Hikigaya got the omelette rice as he wished, while Kushida ordered a smaller set meal.

"Wait, don't eat yet, let me take a picture first!"

"Uh……"

Hikigaya didn't expect the other party to behave in a way that was so consistent with the temperament of a high school girl. Although she felt a little weird, she nodded silently.

Will the other person share the photo on Line later? I hope my face is not in the photo...

"It's really a new experience to be able to eat with Hikigaya-kun like this." After taking the photo, Kushida smiled and expressed his feelings.

"We're just having a meal together, what's the big deal?"

Hikigaya didn't want to feel weird about eating together.

After all, he had just had dinner with Ichinose yesterday. If he thought they had a good relationship just because they had dinner together, it would be too arrogant.

"Come to think of it, Hikigaya-kun, yesterday you..."

Kushida suddenly brought up a topic that made Hikigaya's heart stop.

Just when he was worried that the other party would tell others that he had dinner with Ichinose, and instinctively wanted to find an excuse to explain, a voice suddenly sounded from a distance.

"Ah, isn't this Kushida!"

"Shinohara-san? Matsushita-san?"

A group of girls were walking towards them from a distance. They were undoubtedly the top of the D-class girls group and were usually members of Karuizawa Megumi's small group.

Among them, the ones that Hikigaya remembers most are Shinohara Satsuki and Matsushita Chiaki, two good friends of Karuizawa. In addition, behind them are girls named Mori Nene and Sato Maya.

Huh? So Karuizawa Megumi isn't among them?

While Hikigaya was surprised that Karuizawa Megumi, the leader of the D-class girl group, was not present, Kushida had already started a conversation with several girls.

It is worth mentioning that although Kikyo Kushida is quite popular in Class D, her main camp is actually among those who are not very active and more introverted.

Among them, introverted boys have the highest liking for Kushida, because only Kushida is willing to interact and get along with boys who are not good at speaking.

In contrast, the most powerful female camp in the class actually has a relatively neutral attitude towards Kushida, and they are not very interested in him.

After all, although Kushida's attitude is very gentle, it can also be said to be too artificial from another perspective. Strong girls often don't like this kind of attitude that displays gentleness so arbitrarily.

Of course, Kushida's own abilities have always allowed her to deal with anyone with ease, so even if she doesn't have a good relationship with the strong girls in the class, she can still achieve normal communication.

That's right, the so-called strong girl group refers to the small group represented by Karuizawa. They obviously have an average relationship with Kushida. They came up to talk to him at this time, probably based on the little tacit understanding between girls.

Normally, this conversation would end with a perfectly fitting compliment.

Unfortunately, the current situation is a bit problematic, because Kushida is not here alone, she is accompanied by me, a burden.

"Kushida, who is this person next to you..."

Hikigaya's presence in Class D is quite weak. Even though he had confronted many people in the past and even became an object of exclusion, his presence continued to fade as time went by.

Among the girls in front of him, except Shinohara who still had a vague impression of him, the other girls had clearly forgotten his existence.

"Oh, did you forget? This is Hikigaya-san who is in the same class with us."

"Oh, it's him."

In fact, these girls didn't remember it at all, but they pretended to remember it just for Kushida's sake. It can only be said that girls are born liars.

Mom is right, the prettier the girl, the more likely she is to lie!

Shinohara seemed to still remember what happened on the uninhabited island and had a trace of resentment towards Hikigaya.

So she deliberately added fuel to the fire and said, "I didn't expect you, Kushida, to come with Hikigaya-san. Going out shopping and eating together during the summer vacation is really youthful... We are not like us, who can only go shopping as a group of girls."

"Ahaha, no, we just met by chance."

Kushida didn't expect to be attacked, and for a moment he didn't know how to respond, so he could only choose to retreat as much as possible.

"Kushida is such a nice guy."

"Well, it's Kushida after all..."

"Then we won't disturb you."

The other girls were not as aggressive as Shinohara. They just smiled and agreed with a few words before leaving quietly.

All I can say is that it was fortunate that the person being attacked was Kushida.

The other person's personality is too smooth, and he often interacts with boys in class, so even if he appears with someone like me, he will not be suspected of having any special relationship.

However, Shinohara's behavior still served as a wake-up call to Hikigaya, and his brain, which had almost been boiled by warm water, cooled down again and regained its rationality.

I almost made the wrong choice again.

Yes, although Kushida successfully resolved the situation today, this was only due to Kushida's personal ability and good luck.

What would happen if another girl was caught having dinner with me?

There was no doubt that the school class he belonged to would completely drag down the other party, even if the person who showed up was not Shinohara who was hostile to him.

Before we get to know a person, we will first roughly locate the organization, place, rank, and title to which he belongs.

In schools and companies, these criteria are often used to judge a person. Although we rarely hear about this recently, when looking for a job, it is often said that "companies use academic qualifications to screen job applicants", which is the most typical example.

In the campus pyramid, I have always been at the bottom of the campus class. Any girl who has too much contact with me will be dragged down by my status.

For example, in any social occasion, the male companion symbolizes a girl's status, just like measuring a person's value by the brand of his or her handbag or clothes.

If it was Hirata instead of himself who appeared next to Kushida today, the reactions of the people around him would definitely be very different. Kushida's position might even be able to directly shake Karuizawa.

But if I were the male companion, I would be thrown into a military meeting and tried in absentia.

I don't think it's just a matter of the world we live in.

If we were really in different worlds, I don't know how happy I would be. It is because we are in the same world that things are so difficult.

It doesn’t matter how much you are laughed at, but if you are the one causing people around you to be judged unfairly, then forget it.

"Where are you going to go this afternoon?"

Not noticing Hikigaya's strange expression, Kushida continued to speak with a smile on his face.

"I feel a little unwell, so I'll go back after dinner."

Hikigaya spoke coldly, not giving Kushida any chance to respond.

After finishing his meal, he did not make any unnecessary explanations, cut off the connection between himself and Kushida in an almost forceful manner, and quickly left the scene.

"call……"

Back in the dormitory, Hikigaya took a deep breath.

That's fine.

If you are too attached to happiness that does not belong to you, it will only cause unnecessary harm to others. The Lone Ranger should stay in his own space and not cause trouble to anyone.

Touching his still-unfull stomach, Hikigaya thought for a moment and decided to take out some frozen ingredients from the refrigerator and cook a meal himself.

During the process, his cell phone suddenly rang, and there was a text message from Kushida with the word "sorry" written on it.

What? It’s obviously me who should apologize.

Hikigaya didn't know how to respond, so he could only reply, "It's okay, my stomach just hurts a little."

Although I have always hated lies, I have to admit that if there were no lies, there would be too much pain in this world.

Lies are like anesthetics in surgery. At least they can prevent the brain from feeling any pain when pain comes.

But even so, Hikigaya still hated lies, and hated himself even more for being full of lies.

Chapter 411: Horikita, did you activate the fusion magic card?

During the summer vacation, the atmosphere of this Tokyo Metropolitan High School remained unchanged.

Since students are basically not eligible to go out, most of them either hang out with friends every day or stay in the dormitory all day, doing various private things.

As a lone ranger among lone rangers, Hikigaya naturally has no companions to play with, so his only option is undoubtedly to stay in the dormitory and read all kinds of miscellaneous books.

Recently he has become obsessed with an interesting occult magazine called MU.

It is a journal that has been circulated in Japan until today and is still being published. Its main contents include UFOs, aliens, super powers, and unconfirmed creatures.

Although Hikigaya does not believe that there are really unknown creatures in the world, it is still quite interesting to see the author use bizarre writing methods to describe this type of strange events.

By the way, the water outage in the dormitory has not been resolved yet, forcing Hikigaya to go to the convenience store to buy a box of mineral water to ensure the safety of his drinking water.

With sufficient water supply and a box of instant noodles he had prepared, he vaguely felt that even if a disaster broke out now, he would be able to survive, and even become the protagonist and save the world.

However, just when Hikigaya thought that his peaceful daily life would continue like this and he would live a decadent yet comfortable life, a message suddenly came from his mobile phone at around nine o'clock in the evening.

【Are you awake? 】

After seeing the content of the message, Hikigaya, who was watching the July new anime on the bed, rubbed his eyes. He didn't expect that someone would send him a message so late.

And when he saw the identity of the sender, he immediately jumped out of bed.

"Horikita Suzune? Why did she send me a message?"

Faced with this situation that could be described as a supernatural event, Hikigaya hesitated and responded.

[Hikigaya: I haven’t slept yet]

[Horikita: I want to talk to you. Are you free now? ]

[Hikigaya: Are you having a seizure? ]

Obviously, Hikigaya had never expected that Horikita would send him a message in the middle of the night and said that she wanted to talk to him. This situation was indeed somewhat unexpected.

The most important thing is that Hikigaya has no idea what the other party's purpose is, and he can't figure out whether this guy is telling the truth or joking with him.

However, thinking about Horikita's personality and the other party's attitude towards him, Hikigaya still felt that the other party must really have something to talk to him about.

[Horikita: I'll call you in three minutes]

At the same time, Horikita clearly didn't care about Hikigaya's reaction. She just silently gave a time limit and then said nothing.

About a minute or two later, Hikigaya's phone rang as expected.

"what happened?"

Seeing that the other party seemed to be silent, Hikigaya had to take the initiative to start a conversation.

"I have something to ask you..." Horikita's voice on the phone was quite slow, as if he was in a state of stiffness and helplessness.

"Are you a relative?"

"If only it were that simple." Horikita said, as emotionless as her style, "Let's just say there was a turtle."

"what?"

The other party suddenly said something nonsensical, leaving Hikigaya a little confused.

"He's a very clever and excellent tortoise, but don't you think it would be bad if he were to fall over by accident? He would be unable to get up on his own."

"Is that so?"

Hikigaya didn't know much about biology, so he didn't know what Horikita was trying to say by giving this example.

"I'm glad you understand." Horikita seemed relieved when she heard his words. "If you were a turtle that couldn't turn over, what would you do?"

"What to do... just lie down and wait to die?"