Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

"Hmph, you'll know if you try."

Ryuen snatched Manabe's phone directly and called the virtual number in the address book. Although the call didn't go through, the fact that the other party didn't respond spoke volumes.

Then, Ryuuen looked at Horikita Suzune again, looking fierce.

Horikita Suzune had just watched a good show and was a little slow to react until Ryuuen looked at her with a gloomy gaze. Then she realized that the other party was here to deal with her.

All I can say is that everything took unexpected turns, completely beyond her expectations.

But at this point, she no longer had any further considerations. She nodded silently and prepared to kneel down and apologize.

However, just before Horikita made a move, Shiina Hiyori suddenly smiled and said, "I think it's unnecessary to kneel down and apologize. This is purely Ryuen-san's bad taste. Horikita-san, you can just use one million points to exchange for the mistake you made this time."

"Shiina..."

Horikita looked at the silver-haired girl in front of him with surprise.

She then glanced at Ryuuen silently and found that although he looked unhappy, he did not show any obvious resistance, which meant that he agreed with Shiina's words.

At this point, everyone realizes that Shiina Hiyori has indeed earned her own place under Ryuen Sho's almost exaggerated dictatorship.

Chapter 478: With you, Hikigaya-kun, here, how could I be afraid? !

"One million points..." Faced with this punishment that was finally coming to her, Horikita Suzune hesitated for a moment, and finally accepted the reality silently, "I understand, I will prepare this amount of points."

"That's good. If this happens, Ryuuen-kun and Kushida-san will be satisfied too."

Shiina smiled and nodded, then deliberately glanced at Ryuen Sho and Kushida Kikyo beside him.

Although Long Yuan was deeply dissatisfied with this, he could not express it at the moment, so he could only nod silently: "Hmph, that's it. I will try my best to find out the identity of the person behind the scenes."

After saying that, Ryuuen left coldly with an angry look on his face.

"..."

Witnessing everything, Kushida realized that she couldn't stay here any longer. She took a deep look at Shiina and Horikita at the scene, with resentment and unwillingness in her eyes, but she eventually followed Ryuen away.

When everything returned to calm, Horikita Suzune stood there silently.

She didn't know what to say for a moment and looked at Hikigaya and Shiina with complicated expressions.

"You're really lucky. At least you don't have to kneel down and apologize."

Hikigaya concluded in a calm tone.

Horikita looked at Shiina with a difficult tone and said, "Shiina-san, do you know who sent the message to Ryuen?"

"I don't know." Shiina shook his head decisively. "The other party used a virtual account to communicate with Manabe-san, so I can't find out his real identity."

"..."

Horikita Suzune seemed to be very conflicted by this answer. After all, the situation this time was so unexpected that her brain was at a standstill and she couldn't keep up with her thoughts for a while.

But she soon stopped being confused and realized that instead of trying to figure out those secret battles, it would be better for her to do what she could first, such as finding a way to get one million points.

Thinking of this, she turned around silently and left the scene.

"Haha, thank you so much, Hikigaya-san." After everyone left, Shiina looked at Hikigaya with a smile, "If you hadn't reminded me several times to investigate things related to Manabe-san, I'm afraid I wouldn't have discovered that she was the traitor."

"Nothing, we just benefit each other. After all, I also want to find out what happened between Karuizawa and Manabe."

Hikigaya shook his head silently.

Probably the day before the sports festival started, Shiina Hiyori, at the suggestion of Hikigaya, discovered that Manabe Shiho had secretly recorded Ryuen Sho's conversation with an audio recorder.

She then decisively used this incident to threaten Manabe, and not only took down the leader of the girls' group who had been against her in the class, but also learned from her about Karuizawa and the person behind Class D.

It turns out that when Shiho Manabe was taking the cruise ship exam, she inexplicably received an email from a strange person in Class D. The other party talked to her using a virtual number, claiming to be an innocent student who was disgusted by Karuizawa's bad actions and was interested in cooperating with her to deal with Karuizawa.

Manabe didn't believe it at first, but after carefully understanding the situation and cooperating a few times, he gradually fell into the trap and accepted the other party's help to deal with Karuizawa.

So one day, the person behind Class D said that he could call Karuizawa to the bottom of the cabin, which was very hidden and no matter what they did, they would not be discovered.

Manabe then went there happily with a few girls, and as expected, they saw Karuizawa Megumi who came alone. They then tortured and bullied her severely, and went back happily.

But when they returned to the dormitory, a video was sent to Manabe and others' mobile phones, which showed the scene of them torturing Karuizawa Megumi before.

Manabe and the others then realized that they had been deceived by the person behind Class D, who had deliberately set up everything just to find something to hold against them.

In the end, in order to prevent the other party from giving evidence to the school, Manabe and others had to obey the other party's words unconditionally, and even became spies planted by Class D in the former Class C.

While these things were happening, Manabe and others didn't even know the specific identity of the person behind the scenes and did not find any clues.

Shiina and Hikigaya were secretly surprised when they learned about this perverted fishing method.

Especially Hikigaya, he basically believed that the person who caused the trouble must be Ayanokouji, so he felt completely creepy towards this unscrupulous White House experimental subject.

It was not only because the opponent's methods were too perverted and he easily played Manabe and the others in his hands, but also because the opponent did not hesitate to treat Karuizawa as a victim and allowed him to be tortured by Manabe and the others.

To be fair, Hikigaya himself would not be able to do such a thing.

This also made him fully aware of the difference between Ayanokouji and normal people.

When Hikigaya was recalling the past, Shiina Hiyori suddenly spoke in a complicated tone: "Ryuen-kun's methods are indeed getting worse and worse. I had expected this. People like him will always break the bottom line little by little and even do things that are out of control. It's just that I deliberately turned a blind eye to all this, causing him to make mistakes without restraint..."

What Shiina said was undoubtedly that Ryuen stepped on Kinoshita's foot with his own hands, allowing the other party to prove that he had wrongly accused Horikita Suzune.

Although this method turned out to be very effective, the price he paid was that Kinoshita, as a former student in Class C, might not be able to get out of bed for the next few weeks.

Even Shiina Hiyori couldn't sit idly by and watch Ryuuen resort to such despicable means to pursue victory, so he stood up just now and threatened Ryuuen with the recording.

Although she didn't want to completely control Long Yuan's actions, she at least wanted to impose certain restrictions on his behavior so that Long Yuan could not do whatever he wanted.

"Are you really okay?" However, Hikigaya was worried about Shiina's attitude, "Ryuuen is capable of anything. If you weren't careful just now, he might have really attacked you."

"Haha, aren't you here, Hikigaya-kun?" Shiina smiled, "How can I be scared when you're here, Hikigaya-kun?!"

Hikigaya was at a loss for words at the girl's words.

After all, when Shiina was threatening Ryuuen just now but was grabbed by the other party, to be honest, Hikigaya felt a little cold sweat when he saw it.

After all, no one can guarantee that someone with Long Yuan's personality will not take action.

At that distance, even if Hikigaya was prepared to call the police, he might not be able to make it in time.

But Shiina still had such great trust in him that for a moment he was overwhelmed with emotions and speechless.

Chapter 479: As expected, I still have to take action!

Hikigaya was at a loss for words at Shiina's trust, but he still managed to stay calm and brought the topic back on track: "At this point, the fact that Manabe is a spy will surely alert Ryuen. I think he will do his best to find out who is behind Class D."

"To be honest, I am also very interested in the existence behind Class D."

Shiina Hiyori posed as if she was standing on the edge of a cliff, trying to peer into the abyss.

Hikigaya was shocked by this reaction.

But Shiina quickly showed a mischievous smile on his face and shook his head, "Haha, I was just joking, Hikigaya-kun. After all, I know very well what I can and cannot do, and I will abide by the bottom line."

"No matter what, I don't recommend that you, Shiina, get in touch with the person behind Class D. This is what I think from the bottom of my heart."

After fully realizing the danger of Ayanokouji, Hikigaya naturally didn't want the people around him to have anything to do with that dangerous guy.

It's fine that people like Horikita and Kushida from Class D can't get away anyway, but as a former member of Class C, Shiina really doesn't want him to be targeted by Ayanokouji.

"Thank you for your concern, Hikigaya-kun." After hearing Hikigaya's words, Shiina's face showed an expression of surprise and honor, "Don't worry, I won't do anything to make you worry."

"This...hasn't come to that point yet."

Hikigaya felt that what Shiina said was a little strange, and his cheeks inexplicably felt hot.

Shiina seemed to have just realized something, her face flushed slightly, but she soon smiled and spoke:

"The sports festival just ended. Hikigaya-kun, you must be tired too. Do you want to go get a drink together?"

"This……"

Hikigaya was stunned for a moment as he didn't expect Shiina to make such an invitation.

And for some reason, when he faced Shiina's invitation now, he no longer felt any aversion to Shiina approaching him.

This surprised him particularly.

After all, he remembered that for a long time after school started, he was resistant to Shiina's arrival. Every time the other party appeared, he felt uncomfortable and had to deliberately push the other party away.

But now the communication between the two has become so natural.

What magical thing happened in the meantime?

Hikigaya was instinctively confused for a moment.

But looking at Shiina's brilliant smile, it was clear that the other party would not tell him on his own initiative. Hikigaya could only smile helplessly and said, "Okay."

"Ah."

Hearing his answer, Shiina's face suddenly showed a bright smile.

……

On the first day after the sports festival, all the students in Tokyo Metropolitan High School showed a kind of decadence that was almost like exhaustion.

The month-long training and competitions really put a lot of pressure on these students. After the sports festival, no one had the strength to resist and was obviously relaxed.

However, the first-year class D still had no time to rest at this time because the exams were over.

After all, the extremely poor performance of all members in the sports festival has plunged this class into an unprecedented low state. No matter whether it is the students who performed well in the sports festival or the students who did not perform well, now they all have a dead-like attitude and lie on their seats in despair.

Ken Sudo never returned to school even after the sports festival, which shows how bad the situation was.

It is worth mentioning that Ayanokouji's situation has also changed. Since he showed some talent in the sports festival, Yamauchi and Ike, who used to hang out with him, showed a certain rejection of him.

After all, people always naturally reject outstanding individuals, and the word "circle" itself refers to the gap between people of different levels.

For example, would Yamauchi and Hirata have a common language?

It was for this reason that Ayanokouji, whose strength was exposed, unfortunately lost the acceptance of the lower-level circle, and other circles also clearly would not accept new members at will, causing him to become a lone ranger for a while.

For a moment, one could clearly feel that Ayanokouji's gloomy temperament had deepened.

Hikigaya naturally chose to gloat over this.

Just then, a familiar figure walked in from outside the classroom.

"what……"

As Kushida Kikyo walked to her seat, her eyes accidentally made contact with Hikigaya's. She was so scared that she looked away as if she didn't know how to react.

Hikigaya himself, however, maintained his gaze towards her and greeted her in the usual way.

"morning."

"..."

Kushida completely ignored Hikigaya.

Obviously after what happened yesterday, there was a clear rift between the two of them.

Most people may not know how to deal with this situation.

But as a lone ranger among lone rangers, Hikigaya certainly would not have any complaints. He was so happy that someone was willing to take the initiative to distance themselves from him.

This way, his heart would be at peace again, and Kushida wouldn't be forced to come into contact with someone like him, and everything would be so beautiful.

Unfortunately, the only problem is the conflict between Kushida and Horikita Suzune.

Judging from yesterday's situation, it is obviously impossible for Kushida to give up his hostility towards Horikita, and who knows how many conflicts will arise between the two.

As if it was just what she thought of, Horikita Suzune just happened to walk in from outside the classroom.

Her attitude was much more sincere than Kushida's, but the other party's eyes seemed to be deliberately avoiding Kushida Kikyo's presence.

"Are you free?"

After sitting down, Horikita Suzune suddenly spoke.

Hikigaya was stunned for a moment before realizing that the other party was talking to him.

"Is something wrong?"

"I want to collect funds from the class for the million I owed yesterday."