Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

Ichinose looked at Hikigaya and Katsuragi in front of him with complicated eyes, as if he felt for the first time how terrifying a sister-con is.

But when she thought of her sister, she couldn't help but join the battle: "Humph, my sister won't lose either! My sister is definitely the cutest!"

"..."

Unity among sister-con lovers comes quickly, but division also comes quickly.

No one expected that in just a few minutes, the united front of sister-con that had just been formed had begun to fall apart.

……

Before evening, Hikigaya and others arrived at the Student Council office.

Senior sister Tachibana Akane seemed to have been waiting for them here for a long time. She stood at the door and smiled, "The president is inside. You can just go in."

"Thank you, senior sister."

Ichinose spoke enthusiastically, her sunny and cheerful temperament always extended to everyone without distinction.

Akane Tachibana was also a little surprised by Ichinose's arrival: "I didn't expect that even Ichinose-san was called here. Hikigaya-san, you are such a big deal."

"What's the point of this? This is my sister's power!"

The shameful words came out of Hikigaya's mouth without hesitation.

Ichinose and Katsuragi couldn't help but put on a helpless expression of "I don't know this pervert", but they followed each other into the student council office.

In the empty student union office, the student union president, Horikita Manabu, sat quietly in his seat.

His eyes fell on the three people who had arrived, and he spoke without wavering, "Just find a seat and sit down."

"Good, good."

Unexpectedly, the student council president asked them to take a seat as soon as he arrived. Katsuragi couldn't help but glance at Hikigaya and Ichinose beside him, and realized that the treatment this time was different from before, obviously because of one of these two people.

This gave him a little more hope for this conversation, and he sat down cautiously at the table in the Student Union office.

Hikigaya and Ichinose also took their seats and looked in the direction of the student council president with a little nervousness.

Obviously, it is difficult for anyone to remain relaxed when facing Horikita Manabu, the apparently strongest student council president in this school where strength is everything.

"So, are you guys here at the student union because you have something to discuss with me? Hikigaya didn't explain things very clearly on the phone before."

Horikita Manabu asked the question even though he knew the answer.

There was no doubt that he had already prepared for this conversation, but he still threw the questions to the people present.

Katsuragi organized his words and spoke first: "Mr. President, we came to you this time because of the matter I raised earlier."

"We should have finished discussing that matter." Horikita Manabu's expression showed no emotion. "I don't think there is any possibility that students will break school rules for your request."

"Yes."

Katsuragi had obviously expected Horikita Manabu's response, so he let out a breath and spoke slowly: "But the situation now is different from before, because I'm not the only one who wants to give the gift to my family. Hikigaya-san and Ichinose-san who are here also have the same goal as me."

Katsuragi took the lead in increasing his own chips.

Since it is impossible for the president to violate school rules and send gifts just for him, if the number of people trying to accomplish this increased, and if a heavyweight like Ichinose was among them, things might unfold differently.

In fact, after hearing Katsuragi's words, Horikita Manabu did not refuse decisively as before, but looked at the three people present seriously and began to think.

He first looked at Hikigaya and said silently: "Hikigaya, your presence here means that you are on Katsuragi's side now, right?"

"That's right." Hikigaya nodded without hesitation, "I am a companion of any sister-con who loves sisters."

"..."

Ignoring Hikigaya's antics, Horikita Manabu looked at the three people in front of him seriously and spoke slowly, "You should know how dangerous it is to have contact with people outside the school in this school, right? It is not allowed by the school rules, and any mistakes will directly lead to expulsion."

"indeed so."

Katsuragi and Ichinose nodded.

"Knowing this, do you still want to contact people outside the school?"

"That's why we came to see you, President." Facing Horikita Manabu, Katsuragi spoke firmly, "President, you said that contacting people outside the school is against school rules, but as long as we are willing to take the risk of violating school rules, we can accomplish this."

"It looks like there will be a different conversation this time."

Horikita Manabu acknowledged Katsuragi's courage with words of slight approval.

After all, unlike before when he came to the student council room with a half-hearted resolution, Katsuragi Kōhei now clearly holds a firm determination and an unshakable resolution.

"Unfortunately, determination and awareness alone cannot influence my judgment." Horikita Manabu shook his head again, "The Student Council is the department that enforces school rules. Normally, it is impossible to make the Student Council deny the existence of school rules."

"We are not denying the school rules." After hearing what Horikita Manabu said, Hikigaya said silently, "We don't want you to deny the school rules, we are just turning a blind eye to this matter."

"What do you mean?"

Horikita Manabu cast an aggressive look at him.

If Hikigaya hadn't been accustomed to the other party's style of doing things, he would have been so scared that he would have knelt down and apologized.

However, precisely because he was already very familiar with Horikita Manabu, Hikigaya knew that this was just the other party's habitual bluffing.

So he spoke silently: "President, do you still remember what happened that day when you were talking to your sister and I bumped into you?"

"of course."

Horikita Manabu did not hide the fact that he had a younger sister and nodded calmly.

His reaction undoubtedly surprised Ichinose and Katsuragi, as they were not familiar with the sibling relationship between Horikita Manabu and Horikita Suzune.

"You threatened Horikita Suzune with violence to expel her from school, and even beat me up, right? This kind of thing is not allowed in the school rules." Hikigaya said to Horikita Manabu in a half-joking but serious tone, "You know, the reason why the original C class was able to target our D class was because they spread rumors that Sudo Ken beat up a student in C class, and used this to attack the D class. It is impossible for the school to approve of the student council president beating someone up in private."

The school rules prohibit violent conflicts, but Horikita Manabu was able to violently beat Horikita Suzune and Hikigaya in private without any consequences because it was not discovered by anyone.

What this means is simple: it is completely possible to break the rules as long as you can get away with it.

For example, even if a person violates traffic rules and is questioned by the police, as long as he or she offers bribes and successfully gets the other party to be flexible, that person will be allowed to violate the rules and will not be punished.

"If this matter is handled privately by the student union without going through the school's procedures, even if it is usually difficult to handle mail, it should be easy to do, right?"

"You really can see clearly, Hikigaya."

Horikita Manabu approves of Hikigaya's behavior of cheating the rules openly.

This reaction really surprised Ichinose and Katsuragi.

Especially Kōhei Katsuragi, he originally tried to get permission from the school in a proper manner, but was not recognized. However, he never thought that he could avoid negotiating with the school about this matter, and even deceive the school.

This is an idea that the serious Katsuragi would never think of.

Ichinose, on the other hand, didn't expect Hikigaya to say such a thing, and said with a hint of surprise: "You actually openly said that you wanted to deceive the school. Hikigaya-san is really..."

"But why should our student union do such a risky thing?" Horikita still refused to give in. "I don't think I need to do such a risky and improper thing for a few ordinary students."

"I've completely given up pretending..."

Hikigaya really didn't expect Horikita to learn to say such things so directly.

Because if you translate what the other party said, it means they are asking for a bribe - Horikita Manabu needs them to come up with bargaining chips before he is willing to do something that violates school rules for them.

This guy is a natural politician, asking for bribes so openly. He can go straight into politics after graduation.

Chapter 418: Hikigaya, you will become a legend of this school in the future!

"Trading requires bargaining chips, otherwise it's just one-sided charity." In the student council room, Horikita Manabu responded coldly, "I don't think you are the kind of people who need my charity, and I'm not interested in doing any charity work in this school where strength is everything."

“It’s really merciless.”

Ya Katsuragi felt helpless about the student council president's remarks. After all, he himself couldn't think of any bargaining chips he could use for the transaction.

Although they all have a certain influence within their respective classes in the first grade, and Ichinose is even the leader who led Class B to be promoted to Class A, if they look at the entire school, they are indeed very ordinary.

Not to mention that the person standing in front of them is the current student council president of the school. Given his status and vision, he probably won't care about anything given by them, the first-year students.

Seeing Katsuragi stop thinking, Ichinose had to intervene: "I don't think President Horikita needs to ask us to do this. No first-year student except Hikigaya was elected to the student council. Is this in itself a prejudice against us first-year students?"

Ichinose chose to attack Horikita Manabu's own positioning, trying to make the other party choose to give in.

The question raised by the other party was indeed the most un-student council president-style behavior that Horikita Manabu had shown so far.

"Whether I am biased against first-year students is not a question that needs to be considered right now." Horikita Manabu shook his head. "The student council president of this school has the power to do many things. Even if they seem unreasonable to you, they are still part of the student council president's power. If you have any objections, your only way is to protest to the school and see if the school will accept your dissatisfaction."

As expected, Horikita Manabu was not affected by Ichinose's frivolous words.

From the fact that the student council president did not waver at all when Hikigaya just threatened him with the violent incident between the other party and Horikita Suzune in private, it can be seen that the president has a very clear understanding of the student council president's ability range and knows that these things will not have any impact on him.

Therefore, he would not be easily threatened by the words of the first-year students, nor would he be shaken by them.

"This……"

Ichinose could not deny what Horikita Manabu said. She herself was also very clear that the status of the student council president was completely different from that of ordinary students, and they had no ability to shake Horikita Manabu.

While Ichinose and Katsuragi fell silent, Hikigaya remained silent from beginning to end.

He just closed his eyes silently, searching his memory, recalling everything about the man named Horikita Manabu.

In fact, Horikita Manabu must have an indifferent attitude towards the matter of sending items.

This can be seen from the fact that when Katsuragi came to find him for the first time, the other party did not show any emotional fluctuations at all and looked completely indifferent.

Regardless of whether it violated school rules or not, his attitude was that he didn't care.

However, the second time Hikigaya came here with Katsuragi and Ichinose, Horikita Manabu's expression was completely different from the first time.

Hikigaya did not think that this change was caused by his reputation as a leader, and he did not think that he had the power to influence Horikita Manabu's judgment.

In this case, there must be some special reason for the change in Horikita Manabu's emotions between the first and second meetings.

Before coming, Hikigaya had already guessed that Horikita Manabu was still very concerned about the new president, Minami Miyabi, who was about to take office.

This can be seen from the other party's willingness to trade with oneself privately.

However, Hikigaya had no way of confirming to what extent Horikita Manabu cared about Minami Miyabi's existence.

If the other party only cares generally and does not take it seriously, then casually bringing up related topics may very likely have a negative effect and may even affect your image in the president's mind.

Although Hikigaya doesn't care about his image in other people's minds, since this matter concerns the rise and fall of the sister-con camp, he still has to be somewhat cautious.

It can be said that Horikita Manabu is currently both the problem solver and the problem itself.

The student union has ways to help them send things outside the school, but since this matter itself violates the school regulations, the student union will normally not compromise easily.

However, to put it the other way around, as long as Horikita Manabu can be made to compromise, this matter will not encounter any obstacles.

Because the biggest problem disappeared at that moment.

The student union is fully capable of hiding it from everyone and committing violations of school rules without being discovered.

In this case, this is the only way to win the competition.

Even though the result of failure could be disastrous, this was the only chance for a group of first-year ants like them to shake the towering tree of the Student Council President.

After all, they only have this one card in their hand, and the outcome must be decided at this moment.

"President Horikita, you must be very concerned about the second-year Nanyun-senpai."

"..."

Hikigaya's sudden remarks broke the silence.

Horikita Manabu himself fell into a brief period of dullness, as if he was surprised by his words. That obvious dullness was very similar to that of his sister Horikita Suzune, which made Hikigaya almost unable to hold back his laughter.

The brother and sister really had similar reactions when they heard something unexpected.

"The three of us here today represent the first-year class A, C, and D. If the president is still wary of Nanyun-senpai, we may be able to obtain a lot of useful chess pieces at once."

At this point, with all the cards in hand used up, no amount of cover-up would be of any use.

Hikigaya could only gamble that this last card would be enough to kill the president.

After all, as a student council president, Horikita Manabu is almost at the top of the school, and it is difficult for any interests to affect him.

At least Hikigaya has not found any desire for Horikita Manabu himself since he joined the student council. The only emotion he has is towards his sister Horikita Suzune...

However, as the saying goes, people have seven emotions and six desires, and no matter how high a person is at the top, he or she will have his or her own troubles.

Hikigaya observed that Horikita Manabu's biggest worry was just one person, and that was Nangumo Masaru, the next student council president.

Horikita Manabu is very worried that after he graduates, Nanyun Masa will have an immeasurable impact on this school.

In this case, targeting Nanyun Masaru on this point might be the only way to win and make the student council president make concessions.