Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

Hikigaya calmly expressed his spirit of perseverance and courage to give up.

His words obviously made Horikita very helpless, so much so that the other end of the phone fell into silence for a long time.

"Okay, it's a stupid question to ask you." Horikita sighed, "Then let me put it another way. If you met a turtle like that, what would you do?"

"..."

After hearing this, no matter how stupid Hikigaya was, he had already realized what the girl meant.

"Are you saying you are the turtle? What kind of trouble are you in?"

"I wish you wouldn't be so sensitive at times like this..."

Horikita's voice was helpless, but it also revealed the reality that she was indeed in some trouble.

But the tone of the other party on the phone was very calm, and you couldn't tell that she was anxious.

This shouldn't be an urgent situation.

"So...what are you worried about?" Hikigaya couldn't help but ask the other party out of curiosity.

However, when it was time to talk, Horikita suddenly changed her tone and said coldly: "Sorry, I'm not worried about anything."

"Are you suddenly becoming arrogant at a time like this?"

"Although I don't understand the word tsundere, I really don't need your help." Horikita's tone became firm, "I just talked about the topic of the turtle falling over, which has nothing to do with me."

"...If that's the case, why did you call me in the middle of the night? Are you crazy again?"

"Just think of it as a spur of the moment thing."

"Okay, okay, I won't bother you anymore."

Knowing that Horikita Suzune had this kind of personality, Hikigaya had no interest in trying to please someone so he hung up the phone calmly.

However, just when Hikigaya gave up trying to find out about Horikita, Horikita Suzune herself suddenly said, "Well, there's no need to rush to end this."

"???" Not understanding what the other party wanted from him, Hikigaya said helplessly, "If you don't explain things clearly, I'm not interested in telling crosstalk with you here."

"Mmmm..."

Hikigaya's sharp words seemed to have hit Horikita's sore spot.

The girl was silent for a long time, and finally sighed as if she had made up her mind: "I understand, but don't tell anyone. The coroner comes to my room now."

"Go to your room?"

This seemed to be the first time that Horikita invited him to her room, or rather, this seemed to be the first time in his life that a girl invited him to her room.

Even more precisely, apart from the room, this seemed to be the first time in my life that I was invited to someone else's room.

Hikigaya never expected that the incident that suddenly happened in the middle of the night would develop in such an outrageous direction.

"Is it really okay?"

"I've already said it's okay, are you coming or not?"

"You're the one begging me, why are you being so arrogant?"

"Do you want to hear me say 'please'?"

"Shouldn't it be normal to develop like this?"

Hikigaya explained to Horikita in a didactic manner.

Horikita hesitated for a moment, and after a while, she finally said, "I understand... Please, Hikigaya, come to my room."

"It sounds like this is going to be a strange development."

"If you don't come, something strange will happen!"

"You're actually starting to threaten me..."

If it was with an ordinary girl, Hikigaya obviously would not have said weird things so unscrupulously and gone to the other person's room in the middle of the night.

But when he thought that the person opposite him was Horikita Suzune, he felt less fearful.

He was even looking forward to it. What had happened to Horikita that would make her ask him to go to her room in the middle of the night?

Could it be that there are rats or cockroaches in the room?

But shouldn't Horikita's style be to just step on the cockroach to death?

The other party shouldn't have any commandments against killing...

No matter how hard I thought, I couldn't figure out the situation. It seemed that the only way out now was to go to the other person's room.

However, going upstairs to the girls’ floor so late at night always felt like it could easily lead to strange misunderstandings.

……

After leaving the room, Hikigaya hid himself as much as possible and chose a time when no one was around before sneaking into the elevator to go to a higher floor.

During the process, he was very worried that the elevator would stop midway, or that a girl, known or unknown, would appear in front of him when the elevator door opened.

He estimated that if that happened, he would be socially dead on the spot and suffer severe mental damage.

Fortunately, the elevator continued to rise until it reached the 13th floor where Horikita lived, and Hikigaya did not encounter anyone using the elevator.

He came to the door of the room designated by Horikita, and while wondering if the other party was playing a prank on him and gave him a wrong room number so that he would be mistaken for a pervert, he carefully pressed the doorbell.

Unexpectedly, no one in the room responded. Confused, he opened the door and found that it had never been closed from the beginning.

"Horikita?"

The structure of Horikita's room was the same as his own, with only a bedroom and a kitchen, but because there was a door between them, he couldn't see the bedroom.

"You're alone, right? You can come in."

Horikita's voice came from the dormitory, making it difficult to understand the other person's situation.

"Don't you think it's questionable to let a boy into your room at night?"

"No problem. If a suspicious person comes in, the destructive power of my right hand alone is enough to deal with him." Horikita's tone was still calm. "Besides, if it's you, I don't think there will be any problem."

Because you think I'm a piece of trash with a combat power of only 5?

Hikigaya was angry about being looked down upon, but he also realized that he was indeed a loser. Even if Horikita let him use one hand, he might not be able to defeat the other party.

After entering the room, he found Horikita sitting on the table. On the surface, she looked very normal, and in fact, she was very normal, except for her right hand which was placed on the table but was fused with a small kettle used by a woman.

"Oh my god, you activated the Fusion Magic Card and fused your right hand with the kettle?"

"You are talking about something incomprehensible!"

Although Horikita didn't understand the jokes in Yu-Gi-Oh, she obviously realized that Hikigaya was teasing her, so she looked away in embarrassment.

Upon seeing this, Hikigaya realized that the other party was not joking with him, but was really in trouble with the kettle.

"You're stuck with this kettle?"

"Strictly speaking, I was washing cups when I accidentally got stuck in the kettle, and it lasted for 23 hours and 15 minutes."

"23 hours? Wait, so your phone call last night..."

"It's a shame. At the time I thought I might be able to handle it on my own, but after so much time has passed, I finally realized that human power has its limits."

Hikigaya simply didn't know how to describe his feelings.

After this guy's hand was stuck in a kettle, he didn't ask for help for 23 hours and tried to solve the problem by himself.

Should we say that this is an overly distorted self-esteem, or a willpower that can be described as abnormal?

But no matter what, this is indeed a feat that only a guy with the character of Horikita Suzune can accomplish. It is quite similar to the style of the Japanese nation, which never intended to admit defeat before facing the atomic bomb, and only admitted surrender after the little boy and the fat man got their faces swollen.

Of course, back to the question itself, Horikita actually got her hand stuck in the kettle just because she was washing a cup. Such an outrageous behavior makes people wonder if she was possessed by some funny character.

If I didn't come to help, would this child just hold on with his hand stuck in the kettle until the end of summer vacation?

Oh, this kind of thing won't really happen?!

Chapter 412: Horikita is not going to take a bath in Hikigaya-kun's room! ?

"Have you seen enough over there?" Horikita seemed unable to bear Hikigaya's prying eyes. "I didn't ask you to come to my room just to let you laugh at me."

"Oh, oh, what should I do then?"

Hikigaya quickly came back to his senses after hearing Horikita's complaint.

Although he was quite subtle about Horikita's hand being stuck in the kettle, he knew that he should help in some way.

"Can you help me pull it out?"

Horikita slowly raised the hand holding the kettle and motioned the other party to pick up the kettle.

Hikigaya did as he was told. He pulled the front handle of the kettle, trying to pull it out, but he didn't expect that Horikita would be pulled over as well.

"Why do I feel like pulling out a carrot?"

"Are you still here making sarcastic remarks at this time?"

Horikita sighed deeply, trying not to get too excited. "If you can't pull it out, it means the kettle is stuck very tightly. Let me change my position."

Horikita said some words that made people think a lot.

But in fact, she just changed herself from a sitting position to lying on the table, and asked Hikigaya to pull the kettle in his hand from the side.

"Then I'll start."

Hikigaya once again grasped the handle of the kettle and pulled it out with a little more force.

Although Horikita tried to keep steady and endure the pain, the kettle seemed to be stuck really firmly, with no sign of coming off her arm.

"It seems that it is impossible to pull it out directly."

"I see, there's really nothing I can do..."

Horikita seemed to have realized that the kettle couldn't be unplugged, so she didn't look particularly disappointed.

"How about some lube?"

"Who would keep such a weird thing at home?"

"Then shower gel or something like that should be fine too..."

"Shower gel must be soaked in water to become slippery, but did you forget that the water supply is cut off today?"

It seems so.

Hikigaya then remembered that the water supply to the dormitory had been cut off for a whole day, and there was still no news of it being restored, but there should be other ways to get water.

"Why don't you go get a pitcher of water from the cafeteria?"

"Would you like to help me get some water?"

"How can it be!"

As a staunch waste advocate, Hikigaya had no intention of carrying a kettle to the cafeteria, getting some water, and then taking the trouble to bring it back to the dormitory.

He would rather drink mineral water that he paid for.

And when Horikita saw his appearance, she took a deep breath and said, "I understand. I'll go to the cafeteria to get some water."

"You want to go? How?"

"Of course I'll walk."

With a fearless spirit, Horikita lifted her hand, which had become one with the kettle, and left the room without hesitation.

Seeing her like this, Hikigaya couldn't help but feel a little respect for her.

After all, if he were to go out for a walk with his hand stuck in the kettle, he would definitely be so socially dead that he wouldn't dare to go out for the next month, and would become a useless neet with no ability to live a social life!

To be honest, he was a little moved by the fact that Horikita had such courage and awareness to face the cruel social death life.

However, Horikita herself seemed to have imagined in just a few seconds what might happen if she went out like this.

Her attitude suddenly dropped from being ready to die, and she turned around hesitantly.

"If I give you points, will you help me get some water?"

"Ugh……"

Although he knew this would be the outcome, seeing Horikita fall into such a situation but still unwilling to bow her head and ask for help from him, Hikigaya was honestly a little impressed.