Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

Hikigaya was not willing to have such optimistic thoughts.

Because he is used to seeing human nature, he knows very well that human growth is a false proposition. The changes that occur in most people are not growth, but just to make themselves look like they have grown.

Rather than growth, it is more like an instinctive choice to escape reality and avoid danger under the shadow of failure and pain.

To outsiders, this seems to be growth, but in essence, it is far from growth.

Because true growth is not about changing yourself.

Why do people want to change themselves?

Why can't you admit your own stupidity, admit your own immaturity, and based on accepting all of this, become a better person than before?

Simply escaping from reality, avoiding excitement, and forcing oneself to pretend to be mature is just a stupid imitation.

Insisting on being yourself is the embodiment of justice!

However, escaping from reality is also a necessary step for growth.

At least now, Shinohara Satsuki is on the road to growth. As long as she truly realizes the limitations of her thinking and recognizes her own immaturity, she will be able to truly grow.

In comparison, Horikita Suzune has not changed at all. She hasn't even developed the instinct to escape reality and avoid danger, and is still stubbornly unwilling to change herself.

This only means one thing, the failures and lessons Horikita Suzune herself suffered were not great enough, and the pain she endured was not enough to destroy her will.

Human beings are creatures that will only change after learning a lesson.

This time at the sports festival, perhaps Horikita Suzune will have to experience a truly tragic defeat before she can possibly change in the slightest.

Chapter 444: Ryuen, it was definitely Kushida who sold the information to you!

The change in Shinohara Satsuki was unexpected. Hikigaya did not expect that her personality would change so much, and she would even become unlike before.

But unfortunately, once some things happen, they cannot be easily erased.

The relationship between Hikigaya and Shinohara is destined to be two parallel lines that will never intersect, and no special relationship will be created.

So, after briefly chatting with Shinohara Satsuki, Hikigaya said goodbye to her.

Looking at Shinohara's departing back, Hikigaya felt inexplicably complicated... How should I put it, the fact that the other party was willing to talk to him, with whom he once had a bad relationship, was already a huge improvement.

Next, the two can maintain a normal relationship as classmates and avoid any awkward situations when they meet each other.

I really don't know when Horikita Suzune will wake up like Shinohara.

Considering Horikita's stubbornness, I'm afraid that guy will never change.

While thinking about things related to Horikita, Hikigaya suddenly found that she had walked in from the back of the classroom.

I don’t know if the other party knew about the conversation between me and Shinohara just now.

If this guy saw that I was getting closer to Shinohara, he might misunderstand something.

After all, Horikita's relationship with the girl group, especially the leader of the girl group, Shinohara, is extremely bad. Hikigaya might even be suspected as an enemy by the other party.

But Hikigaya acted like he didn't care.

Even if he was considered an enemy by Horikita Suzune or their relationship became further deteriorated, as a lone ranger, he never cared about the changes in his relationship with the people around him.

The only thing he cared about was whether Horikita Suzune herself could grow in this exam.

If this kid continues to be so slow, he won't be able to report to Horikita Manabu.

It seemed that what she feared would come true. Horikita Suzune seemed to have really seen the conversation between Hikigaya and Shinohara, and her temper became even worse than before.

"Humph."

She walked past Hikigaya indifferently without even looking at him, walked to her seat with an extremely sharp expression, and picked up her schoolbag.

Seeing Horikita like this, Hikigaya didn't say anything and also returned to his seat to pack his things.

"..."

Silence continued to shroud the classroom, covering where the two of them were.

After an unknown amount of time, Horikita Suzune suddenly stopped packing her things and spoke slowly: "Hikigaya, you just..."

Her words got stuck in her throat and she couldn't utter them for a long time.

Hikigaya didn't know whether he should respond or not, and was a little stiff.

Just when the atmosphere between the two was strange, Ayanokouji's figure suddenly appeared from a distance. He deliberately walked in front of Horikita Suzune and said, "Do you have time, Horikita-san? I have something to tell you."

"Ayanokouji...?"

Ever since Hikigaya caused trouble at the beginning of the school year, the relationship between Horikita Suzune and Ayanokouji has not been very good, and she has almost never paid attention to Ayanokouji in public.

Under normal circumstances, she would most likely refuse the invitation from Ayanokouji without hesitation.

But today, after she glanced at Hikigaya, she looked at Ayanokouji silently: "Is there anything important? If it has nothing to do with the sports festival, I'm not interested in wasting my time."

Although Horikita Suzune's attitude remained tough, she actually allowed Ayanokouji to talk to her, which was rare.

Faced with this scene, Ayanokouji himself was also surprised. He was more certain of something and said decisively: "Of course, I came to you for something related to the sports festival."

"Really?" Hearing Ayanokouji say this, Horikita couldn't refuse anymore, "If you have anything to say, tell me now."

"No need to be so anxious, let's talk while we walk."

Ayanokouji clearly wanted to avoid Hikigaya on purpose and didn't want to communicate here. His attitude was so bad that Hikigaya himself was furious.

Because Hikigaya was very sure that Ayanokouji's target was not Horikita Suzune, but himself.

After all, if Ayanokouji really wanted to plan something with Horikita, he could just contact the other party privately when no one was around, completely away from his ears and eyes.

However, Ayanokouji deliberately came up with these things when he and Horikita were present at the same time, and it was obvious that his attitude was to test him.

As for what Hikigaya and Horikita wanted to talk about, Hikigaya could more or less guess the general idea.

It's most likely something to do with Kushida.

One is that Ayanokouji has been in contact with Kushida Kikyo intentionally or unintentionally these days, and he even went to Kushida Kikyo openly to talk about some trivial things.

Second, Ayanokouji has recently been very concerned about the class list for the sports festival, and has even had a private conversation with the homeroom teacher, Chabashi Sae.

If Hikigaya guessed correctly, Ayanokouji should have guessed that Kikyo Kushida was a traitor, and hoped to catch Kushida's handle in this exam.

The other party probably suspected that he was an accomplice of Kushida, so he deliberately called Horikita away in front of him to try to see his reaction.

But Hikigaya would naturally not let the other party get his wish. He showed almost no abnormality, but just packed up his bag and left silently with the same calm attitude as usual.

After leaving the classroom, Hikigaya did not go directly back to the dormitory, but went to Class B, which was formerly Class C.

As soon as I arrived here, I discovered the bad atmosphere in Class B. Under the pressure of Ryuen Sho, everyone in this class trained very hard, wanting to use all their skills.

Even after school, there was no sign of stopping.

With no other options, Hikigaya had to wait in the classroom, and soon saw the king of Class B, Ryuen Sho, striding across the playground.

"Dead fish eyes?"

Seeing Hikigaya crouching at the door of his classroom, Ryuuen's expression changed visibly.

But he quickly controlled his emotions, and with the same arrogant expression as before, he said, "Hey, are you here to investigate our Class B like those mice?"

Recently, the other three classes have sent people to investigate the situation of Class B, trying to find out which members Class B will send to participate in the sports festival.

Ryuen Sho knew that Hikigaya would definitely not do such a boring thing, but he still spoke like this, obviously intending to provoke Hikigaya and disgust him.

"I'm not that boring, and to be honest, no matter how hard you try, Ryuuen, you won't be able to win this exam."

"Oh?"

Hearing Hikigaya's words, which were obviously meant to provoke him, Ryuen's eyebrows slightly raised, "Are you trying to provoke me? I didn't expect you to use such a low-level method."

"Are you admitting that your methods are low-level?"

"When have I never admitted it?"

Ryuen Sho spoke nonchalantly and looked at Hikigaya seriously, as if he wanted him to explain the meaning of his previous words.

Seeing this, Hikigaya did not delay and spoke calmly:

"The highlight of this exam is the red-white competition. Classes AD are the red group, and classes BC are the white group. When your class B is assigned to the white group, there is no way you can win. This has been determined."

"After all, the Red-White Contest is for all students from grades one to three to participate. No matter how hard the first-year BC classes try, they can only affect one grade. And the second and third grades of this school are all far ahead of Class A. One class can compete against the entire grade."

"Even if the first-year white team wins, they are doomed to lose to the powerful second- and third-year red teams, and lose 100 points."

"Humph."

Ryuen Sho snorted in dissatisfaction.

Of course he had thought about what Hikigaya said. Although he was not as sure as Hikigaya that the second and third grade Class A was too strong to be defeated, he also knew that the first grade class alone could not affect the overall situation of the Red and White confrontation.

Now that Hikigaya has pointed out his current situation so clearly, he naturally feels unhappy and a little powerless.

Of course, he did not show his guilty conscience, and still spoke forcefully: "Even if the Red and White confrontation will lose, Class B will still win. As long as we take first place and destroy Class A, the other classes will at most have the same score as Class B."

In the sports festival exam, the loser of the red and white confrontation will be deducted 100 points, the winner will get no points, the first in the grade will get 50 points, the second will get no points, the third will be deducted 50 points, and the fourth will be deducted 100 points.

As long as Class B can get first place in the grade, even if they lose the red-white confrontation, the most they will lose is 50 points.

The other classes would have no chance of surpassing Class B without losing points unless they won the Red-White Contest and came in second.

"You don't seem to be worried at all about Class D winning."

From Ryuuen's words, Hikigaya confirmed that the other party did not take Class D seriously at all.

Even though Class D is the red group, it is possible for them to surpass Class B.

"Is there any possibility of winning a class full of garbage like this?" Long Yuanxiang said with disdain, his attitude as arrogant as usual.

Most people might really think that this is because Ryuen Sho looks down on Class D from the bottom of his heart, which is why he behaved this way.

But Hikigaya knew Ryuuen's vigilance, which was like a venomous snake.

If they were not sure, the other party would never look down on Class D so much.

That is to say...

"As expected, there was a traitor in Class D who sold you the contestant's information."

Hikigaya said this in a calm tone, which made Ryuen Sho's eyebrows twitch wildly.

The latter's heart tightened, and he stared at Hikigaya intently, and said nonchalantly: "What nonsense are you talking about? Do you still need me to get any intelligence for Class D?"

"Really? Then how about letting me guess who sold the information?" Hikigaya's guess was pretty close, so he said calmly, "Although we can narrow down the scope by asking our homeroom teacher if anyone has seen the list of contestants recently, I don't think it's necessary. If I'm not mistaken, the person who sold the information to you is 100% Kushida."

Chapter 445: Kushida wants Horikita to drop out of school because he’s jealous!

Hikigaya directly guessed that Ryuen Sho had obtained information from Kushida Kikyo.

This is not a groundless guess, but a high-probability conclusion based on many things that have happened in Class D recently.

While other classes came to investigate Class D's sports festival training in order to get information about them, Class B, led by Ryuen Sho, remained indifferent and did not send anyone to investigate.

This could be explained by the fact that Ryuuen himself was arrogant and didn't bother to pay attention to Class D, or it could be explained by the fact that this kind of overt investigation was useless, because no matter how well you knew about other people's motor skills, the key to victory or defeat was still the opponent group in the competition, and ordinary information was almost worthless.

But anyone who truly understands Ryuen Sho's character knows that the possibility of him doing nothing and simply letting Class D train is close to zero, so he is bound to obtain the list of contestants for Class D.

The only people who can obtain the list of contestants of Class D are those from Class D, and they must have a certain status in the class and be in the core circle of the class.

At the same time, this person must be willing to cooperate with Ryuen Sho.

With so many conditions added together, it can be almost confirmed on the spot that the only person who would do such a thing is Kikyo Kushida.

After all, Kikyo Kushida had secretly cooperated with Ryuen Sho during the cruise ship exam, and was willing to sell out the interests of Class D to pursue her own interests.

At the same time, Kikyo Kushida's position also allows her to easily obtain information within the class. Even such important news as the list of contestants, she can be involved.

Although she was reluctant to think so, for Kushida, as long as there was a reason, she would have almost no psychological burden in betraying Class D.

Combined with Ayanokouji's recent targeting of Kushida, this conclusion is almost impossible to be correct, let alone with a high probability.

"..."

After hearing what Hikigaya said, Ryuen Sho fell silent.

He was obviously a little overwhelmed by Hikigaya's overly confident attitude.