Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

Of course, there were people who did not raise their hands at all, such as Koenji and Ayanokouji.

They have made it clear that they have no interest in, and will not participate in, such a collective vote.

Hikigaya himself did not raise his hand at all, because he did not really want to oppose Horikita, he just wanted to reduce Horikita Suzune's responsibility in this incident.

Unfortunately, Horikita Suzune's red-hot head clearly did not understand his behavior.

The murderous look in the other party's eyes never relaxed from beginning to end.

"Well, let me announce the final result." Hirata Yosuke collected everyone's opinions, "The result of the majority vote... Horikita-san's proposal received sixteen votes, the other proposal received thirteen votes, and the remaining students all abstained from voting. Is this result okay?"

No one objected to Hirata Yosuke's words.

In fact, the students in Class D also knew very well that Horikita's opinion was the correct one. The votes against Horikita's proposal were not so much a vote cast by the students in Class D based on the content, but rather they were caused by Karuizawa's instigation. Everyone knew that Horikita's plan was practical and efficient.

Therefore, the final policy of Class D was to act for the victory of the class, not for individuals.

"..."

Faced with such a result, Karuizawa did not feel any dissatisfaction.

Her overly casual attitude made Hikigaya more certain that the other party was not acting out of her own will, but was being manipulated by someone else to lead everything.

"call……"

At the same time, Horikita herself did not see the confrontation under the water. She just breathed a sigh of relief that her proposal was passed, and slowly said: "Since it has been passed, you all have no objections, right? Hirata-san, the explanation from now on will be left to you."

"Well, first of all, the recommended number of appearances in the competition—"

"I will participate in all competitions, and if anyone objects, I am ready to accept a direct confrontation at any time."

Sudo interrupted Hirata's narration with extremely domineering words, and his attitude could be said to be directly aimed at all students who might be dissatisfied.

However, up to now, no one is dissatisfied with this proposal, and most of the students in Class D trust Sudo's abilities, so they are willing to let him take on the most responsibility.

“I will also try to participate in more competitions.”

Horikita Suzune followed closely behind. She was also quite confident in her physical fitness and was willing to represent the girls' group in more competitions to get a place.

However, many girls thought Horikita's words were quite subtle.

After all, this exam includes a lot of team competitions, and only a very small number of individual events that do not require cooperation with others.

Horikita Suzune is usually unable to get along well with anyone. Even if she is willing to participate in more projects, it would be quite difficult to know whether the people who work with her would accept it.

Of course, it was impossible for anyone to reject Horikita openly at this time.

Horikita Suzuno was thus able to enter her name into many registration items.

Next, students who were good at sports volunteered to start filling in their names, but even so, about one-third of the space was still left blank.

"Hey, Kouenji, aren't you going to help?"

Sudo suddenly turned around and glared at Kouenji Rokusuke standing beside him. The reason why he was targeting him like this was probably because he recognized his strength and believed that he had the same or greater potential than himself.

If Kouenji participated seriously, he would at least be guaranteed a top ranking in the individual competition.

"I'm not interested. You can proceed as you please."

"Don't be kidding."

"I'm not kidding. There's no reason for me to be forced by you. But even if you have the power to force me, I'm not going to listen to you."

Koenji was as usual, not paying any attention to Sudou's words.

This undoubtedly caused dissatisfaction in Sudo Ken.

But before the two of them could clash, Hirata Yosuke stepped in and said, "I don't think we need to decide everything here, Sudo-san. I think even Kouenji-san has his strengths and weaknesses... It may not be the right thing to do to force an invitation."

"Haha, provoking me doesn't work either."

Koenji's arrogant attitude has not changed at all from the past, and is even worse.

However, the students in Class D were already accustomed to his style and did not say anything.

"Well, let's just leave it at that for now." Hirata Yosuke nodded with a smile. "Next, we need to test and confirm the official participants as much as possible, and then select the best ones. I hope everyone can gather at the stadium after school."

Most people had no objection to what Hirata Yosuke said, and the class meeting ended like this.

After the class meeting, students stood up from their seats in twos and threes.

Horikita Suzune left the classroom without even looking at her.

Well, this is a development that I had expected...

It is too arrogant to hope that the other party will understand your good intentions. Sometimes people always have to endure some misunderstandings and troubles.

It is worth mentioning that when other people in Class D looked at him, their eyes were not as cold as Horikita's.

Hikigaya originally thought that since he had brought up a topic that was not conducive to the class's promotion, there was a high probability that the people in Class D would dislike him, and this was what he had originally prepared for.

But in fact, the desire of the students in Class D for class promotion was even weaker than he thought.

Therefore, Hikigaya's approach had almost no negative impact, and instead earned him some favor among those students whose interests might have otherwise been harmed.

Especially among them was Shinohara Satsuki, who received direct help from Hikigaya.

However, he had never gotten along well with this guy in the first place, and even if his favorability towards him slightly increased, it would only be a change from an [enemy] to a [classmate with whom he had a grudge].

At the end of the day, there are some things in life that never change.

The fact that the Mavericks are hated by everyone will never change.

Chapter 434: Ayanokouji wouldn’t think that we have a good relationship, right?

After being disliked and ignored by Horikita Suzune, Hikigaya finally realized what it meant to be alone.

After all, at this point he has been completely cut off from Class D's original communication circle.

Whether it was Kushida Kikyo, Karuizawa Megumi, and now Horikita Suzune, they had all lost communication with him for various reasons.

The only one who would talk to him was probably Sakura Airi, but that child's social anxiety was even worse than his, and it was impossible for her to say a word to him in the classroom.

To sum up, there is no one in the entire D class who is willing to communicate with me openly.

I am finally living the lone ranger life I always dreamed of, which is cause for celebration!

However, Hikigaya soon discovered that the absolute solitude he had hoped for was not achieved.

When leaving the classroom, he accidentally bumped into Kikyo Kushida who was about to go out.

He was prepared to be ignored by the other party, so he stood there silently.

Unexpectedly, Kushida himself used an extremely complicated attitude, as if there were thousands of words gathered in his chest, but he couldn't express them.

Hikigaya realized in an instant that some kind of rift had arisen between the two of them.

This wasn't referring to the gap between him and most people in this school.

Different from the isolation caused by the lack of intersection, what Kushida and he faced was a pure emotional gap, or a gap caused by various troublesome things.

This kind of estrangement is the most troublesome.

If you meet a stranger you don't know or someone you hate, most people will simply ignore them.

If it is pure isolation without intersection, the two sides can maintain a certain distance and maintain parallelism.

And if you hate someone so much that you don't want to have anything to do with him or her, you can even completely ignore him or her.

It's like meeting your seatmate on the train. Most people can ignore him as naturally as breathing. This is the ideal form of ignoring others.

However, the situation is different when one's stance changes due to feelings. Even if one wants to keep a distance, one day the two parties will still bump into each other somewhere.

Hikigaya gained insights from Kushida and realized that he, Kushida, Horikita, and even Karuizawa are now in this kind of isolated relationship caused by emotional misunderstanding.

Even if you want to sever this connection unilaterally, the fact that the connection still exists will sooner or later cause you trouble.

Oh, I really hope I can have a favorability system so that I can see the changes in favorability between myself and other people.

In this way, there will be no misunderstandings and no illusions.

As long as I see the negative favorability scores of the people around me, I probably won’t have to hold on to any expectations anymore and will live a lonely life.

……

After school.

For the purpose of selecting participants for the sports festival, all the students in Class D came to the stadium to take physical tests.

In addition, students also need to make preparations for the sports festival to go smoothly, such as class formation entering the field and group movement practice from entering to exiting the field.

Of course, these tasks can also be trained in subsequent physical education classes and extracurricular activities, so there is no need to rush at the moment.

"I borrowed it."

In the stadium, Hirata asked the school for a grip strength measuring device.

According to the plan proposed by Horikita, the entire D class will prioritize ability and try to gather as many students with outstanding athletic talents as possible to participate in the competition.

Although the method is simple, it is still quite troublesome to test the ability of each student and select outstanding individuals.

Especially for events like horse riding combat, it is obviously not the type that can be judged by a single indicator. It requires a comprehensive evaluation of each student's motor nerves and reflex nerves.

"Let's follow the order and use this grip strength measuring machine to measure." Hirata Yosuke took the initiative to take the lead. "As long as you tell me the results verbally, I will record them... I borrowed two machines, one for boys and one for girls. Please measure efficiently and don't waste time."

After saying this, Hirata Yosuke handed the things to the boy and girl.

Seeing that the class measurement was about to begin, Hikigaya was prepared to reduce his presence as much as possible, at least to avoid being selected for too many competitions.

But just as he was squatting silently, Ayanokouji suddenly came over from the side without anyone noticing.

When Hikigaya was instinctively alert, the other party slowly spoke with his classic poker face: "In the previous class meeting, you and Horikita had a quarrel."

"That wasn't really a quarrel."

Hikigaya responded verbally, but his body expressed his discomfort in various details, including but not limited to silently distance himself, leaning his body in another direction, and deliberately looking in the opposite direction...

If it were an ordinary person, facing his obvious rejection, he would definitely understand his resistance and would instinctively give up the idea of ​​conversation.

However, Ayanokouji didn't seem to notice his rejection.

No, was it intentionally ignored?

Could it be that this guy thinks that he and I have established a good relationship just because we went to a fortune-telling session together during the summer vacation?

Could it be that this guy is the kind of person who, if given a little sweetness, will feel that the relationship between you and him has improved and he will lack a sense of distance?

"Why? That counts as a quarrel anyway, right?"

As if confirming Hikigaya's suspicions, Ayanokouji seemed to truly feel that their relationship was close enough for a friendly conversation, and he asked further questions.

Faced with this situation, Hikigaya tried his best to suppress the disgust in his heart and silently replied: "You have to understand that quarreling happens between two people who have a good relationship. It is an act that only occurs when the relationship is completely broken. The relationship between Horikita and I is not good enough to quarrel."

"Eh? Your relationship isn't good?"

"Do I have a good relationship with her?"

Hikigaya refuted Ayanokouji's words with a rhetorical question.

Ayanokouji also sensed Hikigaya's determination, so he nodded slowly as he spoke: "In that case, what happened between you and her?"

"Confrontation? Struggle? Well, it should be considered a conflict..."

"It's really inexplicably rigorous."

Ayanokouji silently complained.

Hikigaya couldn't figure out why this guy came here. Was he just trying to get close to her? You don't think your poker face will make people like you, do you?

I even suspected that I was talking to a robot!

When Hikigaya was secretly complaining about Ayanokouji, a handgrip dynamometer was handed to him by a student in the distance.

Because of the conversation they had just had, they did not pay attention to the tests of other students, only to find that they, the two boys, were the only ones who had not taken the test.

"Here, Ayanokouji-san."

The student named Hondou handed the dynamometer to Ayanokouji, who took it but suddenly fell silent.

"what happened?"

Hikigaya noticed Ayanokouji's strange attitude and couldn't help but ask.

After being stiff for a moment, Ayanokouji suddenly asked, "Hey, Hikigaya, do you know what the grip strength of high school boys is usually like?"