Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

"alright."

Seeing how persistent Horikita Suzune was, Hikigaya no longer insisted and shook his head silently.

Chapter 459: Now you finally know what kind of waste you are, from Class C!

Since the school required the sports festival to be completed within one day, the students did not even have time to rest and were forced to rush to the next game.

After the pole-turning competition, the next event was the tug-of-war between men and women.

Boys and girls had to be separated again and go to different venues to participate in the competition.

Having won the previous pole-reversing competition, Class D and the former Class B are now full of energy and are excited to get another victory.

In contrast, the momentum of the former Class A and Class C has become weaker.

Especially in the former Class A, due to the existing factional disputes within the class, the division within the class has become obvious before the new round of competition has even begun.

This was also what Hikigaya had expected.

As early as when he communicated with Sakayanagi Arisu before, he had already realized that Sakayanagi would take action against the Katsuragi faction.

According to Sakayanagi's usual style, the opponent's way of dealing with Katsuragi must be to hinder Katsuragi Kōhei's actions from within.

Since the Sakayanagi faction and the Katsuragi faction were students in the same class after all, a little fanning of the flames would be enough to destroy the peace that had been built up with great difficulty.

"Katsuragi-san, I really hope you won't give orders so self-righteously all the time—"

When Kōhei Katsuragi tried to get all the former Class A students to unite and participate in the tug-of-war competition, Hashimoto Masayoshi in the crowd suddenly spoke in a strange tone, obstructing Katsuragi's actions.

"…What do you mean, Hashimoto?"

Katsuragi Kōhei frowned and stared at the man in front of him.

At the moment, Hashimoto Masayoshi is still wearing his long golden hair tied at the back of his head as before. His expression seems very gentle, but his eyes reveal a look of contempt for the other person.

As Hashimoto spoke, he took a step forward and said, "It's literally what it means, Katsuragi. It's all because of you that our class's momentum is rapidly declining, right? Can you really say that the operation you came up with can win?"

As a former student of Class A, Hashimoto Masayoshi directly questioned Katsuragi, the leader.

The meaning and impact of this behavior are undoubtedly enormous.

As soon as Hashimoto said this, the atmosphere of unity that Class A had barely been able to maintain before began to completely collapse. Many students in Class A began to question Katsuragi Kōhei's ability and doubted whether he could lead Class A to victory.

It can be said that the timing chosen by Hashimoto was too perfect, and it even felt like it was not his own operation.

Hikigaya watched this scene and instinctively looked towards the lounge area of ​​the former Class A. As expected, he saw Sakayanagi Arisu there.

Although the other party did not participate in the competition, they still came to the scene and silently observed the situation of the former Class A.

It can be said that Hashimoto's moves were 100% instructed by Sakayanagi.

This guy is still unscrupulous as always...

Hikigaya was sighing when he suddenly noticed the silver-haired girl's gaze turning towards him with a happy smile on her face, as if she was showing him something.

How should I put it? The opponent's methods were different from Ryuen's strategy, but they were even worse than that, making him even feel creepy.

"How's it going, Katsuragi-san? Can we really win this operation?"

"Can you really lead us to victory?"

"You can't win if you keep pretending like this!"

"..."

Under the instigation of Hashimoto Masayoshi and the Sakayanagi faction, the former Class A fell into chaos. The students blamed each other and were unwilling to compete under the leadership of Katsuragi.

Although Kōhei Katsuragi himself tried hard to control the situation and at least avoid causing infighting within the class before the game began, it was not easy to stop the waves that had already been stirred up.

If it was the former Katsuragi, his words might still have an impact on the former Class A students.

But now, Katsuragi's status in the eyes of the former A-class students has declined infinitely, and he can no longer make any impact.

"No matter what, listen to Katsuragi-san now! Hurry up! Stop acting so unbecoming!"

When Totsuka Yahiko saw that the former students of Class A were questioning Katsuragi, he finally couldn't help but speak.

As a die-hard supporter of the Katsuragi faction, he could not bear to see no one listening to Katsuragi's words, so he stood up immediately and wanted to force the former students of Class A to obey.

But even Katsuragi's own influence has almost disappeared, and no one cares about what Totsuka Yahiko, Katsuragi's lackey, says now.

"Huh." Katsuragi himself witnessed all of this and sighed deeply. He turned to look at Hashimoto Masayoshi, the instigator of all this, "I'm not going to deny that you doubt my command. In fact, I have indeed caused too many failures so far, and I am no longer qualified to be the leader of the class. However, we are still in the exam process. If the conflict between you and me leads to the failure of this exam, the Sakayanagi faction will also bear the responsibility for the failure. Is that okay?

"You can't see anything, Katsuragi-san."

Hashimoto chuckled, and that obvious sarcasm aroused the anger of Totsuka Yahiko.

For a moment, the Katsuragi faction and the Sakayanagi faction, which had been barely able to maintain their relationship, had clearly emerged into a state of opposition, and the conflict in the class completely broke out at this moment.

The person who was most distressed when seeing this scene was undoubtedly Kōhei Katsuragi.

Although he knew that all this was actually caused by Sakayanagi Arisu's strategy, no matter what Sakayanagi was thinking, Katsuragi himself did not want the former Class A to fall into internal strife at this moment, which would give other classes an opportunity to take advantage.

Seeing that the former Class A was in chaos and was even on the verge of internal division, Hikigaya realized that he had to step forward.

Since he had clearly told Sakayanagi that he would help the Katsuragi faction win, he would naturally make some efforts to achieve this.

Of course, the method he adopted was destined not to be a normal solution. For him, there was always only one way to solve the problem.

"Hey, it looks like it's quite lively here."

Hikigaya suddenly walked into the former Class A camp.

His arrival instantly aroused the vigilance of many former Class A students.

After all, Hikigaya has betrayed the original Class A too many times so far. Whether it was the uninhabited island exam or the cruise ship exam, it was because of Hikigaya's methods that led to the failure of the original Class A.

In the pole-falling competition that just happened, Hikigaya turned the game around by himself.

All this undoubtedly made the former Class A regard him as the most terrifying opponent and there was no way they could underestimate him.

"Hikigaya, what are you doing here?"

Katsuragi's face was full of confusion. He obviously couldn't understand the purpose of Hikigaya's sudden appearance and couldn't figure out what exactly he wanted to do.

Hikigaya was instinctively amused by Katsuragi's expression, and laughed mercilessly, slowly saying, "A class got into a fight before the competition even started, so of course I came here to watch the fun. 幬"

"..."

Hikigaya's unrestrained attitude instantly aroused the hostility of the entire former Class A.

For the former Class A, although Katsuragi was the main person responsible for the plight of the former Class A, Hikigaya was the main culprit behind it all.

When you have teammates who are dragging you down and enemies who are mocking you, which side will people hate more?

Most of the time, both sides are possible, and everything depends on the attitude of the parties involved.

When the attitude of one side is worse than the other, people will regard that side as an enemy that must be eliminated.

This is the coexistence of the two principles of "pacifying the country before fighting against foreign aggression" and "pacifying the country to avoid danger and fighting against foreign aggression".

According to Hikigaya's experience, when the badness of the attitude exceeds a certain level and the person in front of him wants to skin him alive, even the two people who dislike each other will instinctively unite and work together to eliminate the bigger enemy.

It is also in this process that people can achieve true mutual understanding.

Because people are destined to be unable to empathize with others.

It is impossible for most people to understand how other people think.

If two people can understand each other, the only possibility is to put both parties in the same situation, so that they can experience the same feelings under the pressure of the environment.

This is why wars can often quickly ease conflicts within a country, because only when there is a common enemy can people put aside their grudges against each other and work towards the same goal.

This is also the reason why Hikigaya deliberately came out to mock.

Since conflicts had arisen between factions within the original Class A, they disliked each other and even reached the point of internal division.

Generally speaking, no matter how Katsuragi Kohei handled the situation as a leader, even if he begged everyone from the bottom of his heart not to fight, it was doomed to have no effect.

The only feasible way is to create a common enemy to quickly mobilize the emotions of the students in the original Class A and make them angry and unwilling.

However, when Katsuragi and the former students of Class A saw him appear, although they were a little shaken at first, most of them did not get angry.

This is because these students already know how powerful they are.

Since the students in the former Class A are generally top students, they do not blame their opponents for being too strong, but only blame themselves, and therefore turn to attack Katsuragi, who led the former Class A.

If you want to make them hate you, you have to work harder.

Moreover, you must hit the target directly with one sentence.

So, Hikigaya looked at the many figures, twisted his mouth and slowly grinned, sneering: "You guys are really a bunch of losers, Class C."

As soon as Hikigaya's words came out of his mouth, many gazes came at him like knives.

Hikigaya became even happier seeing this.

That's right, that's it.

This is exactly the reaction I want to see.

So he continued to provoke in front of the former Class A students: "Remember how arrogant you were back then? No way, no way, you don't really think of yourselves as superior to the people in Class A? It's so funny, now you finally know who you are, right?"

Chapter 460 You bunch of losers are not even qualified to be in Class C, why don’t you just be in Class D!

Hikigaya's merciless ridicule instantly angered the students of the former Class A.

However, since what Hikigaya said was basically the truth, even if these people were unhappy, they could not make any rebuttal on the surface and could only swallow their anger.

Seeing them like this, Hikigaya simply took advantage of the situation and pursued them:

"Why, you seem very unconvinced? Do you think the previous failures were not your own fault and want to shift the blame to others?"

Hikigaya knew very well what these former Class A students were thinking.

Since the beginning of the school year, they have considered themselves to be different and the best in this school where strength is everything. In fact, their academic ability is indeed among the best in the grade. In the first semester, they surpassed all other classes based on exams alone and were far ahead in class points.

For this reason, they completely look down on other first-grade classes, regard them as trash who are completely inferior to themselves, and have an extremely high sense of superiority.

In this regard, both the Katsuragi school and the Sakayanagi school are essentially the same.

When they went to the uninhabited island for the exam during the summer vacation, the students of the former Class A on the cruise ship ridiculed other classes countless times, causing public outrage.

However, the former students of Class A did not expect that although this school advocates strength above all else, academic ability alone is not the only factor that determines everything.

Although learning ability is also an important reference indicator, the school also provides many programs other than learning to narrow the gap between different classes.

Because of this, ever since the uninhabited island exam began, the former Class A has been losing continuously, and the situation has even degenerated into Class C.

For the students of the original Class A, all of this was undoubtedly incomprehensible and unacceptable.

The pride in their hearts never disappeared, but the reality was that they had fallen to a level second only to Class D.

With such a huge gap, the students in the original Class A can either swallow their anger, acknowledge the reality, and accept that they are not excellent, or they can only blame others.

No matter how you think about it, the possibility that the former Class A would make the second choice is greater.

Because in most cases it is difficult for people to admit their mistakes. Instead of admitting their own mistakes, they would rather blame the mistakes on others.

This is the choice most people would make.

Hikigaya didn't want to use this to mock the former Class A members. He knew very well that this kind of thinking was a normal human reaction and he couldn't complain too much about it.

However, since the purpose now is to create a common enemy for the former Class A, he is naturally willing to use this kind of emotion that anyone would have to attack these former Class A students.

"Hikigaya, shut up!"

When Katsuragi Kohei heard what Hikigaya said, although he didn't know why the other party acted in such a bad manner, he couldn't allow him to continue talking so recklessly.

As a bald man, he is quite tall, so when he gets angry, his aura is more terrifying than that of ordinary people.

It almost made Hikigaya take a step back.

However, Hikigaya quickly steadied his pace and continued to speak unscrupulously: "You want me to shut up, and I will shut up obediently? I'm not as good as you think."

Hikigaya raised a sly smile and made a clear mockery in front of many former Class A students.

"I don't think you're a good person." Katsuragi Kōhei frowned, as if he didn't want to be hostile to Hikigaya. "I just want you to take back what you just said. Even if Class A has now fallen to Class C, you can't allow people from other classes to ridicule you at will."

"..."