Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

After Kushida's heartfelt words fell, Hikigaya fell into silence.

He didn't expect the other party's obsession to be so deep, even to the point where it was difficult to suppress.

It can be said that he strongly suspected that once he nodded, the other party would immediately start taking off her clothes and give him the girl's first time.

For such a good thing that could only happen in a virgin's dream, Hikigaya remained calm and rational enough, constantly thinking about every word that Kushida had just said.

What is worth mentioning is that Kushida actually went to see the student council president, Nanyun Miyabi.

It seems that the other party is really determined to get Horikita to drop out of school, not only Ryuen Sho, but even dangerous people like Nanyun are contacted.

After realizing this, he would not easily accept Kushida, nor would he easily believe the so-called bright future proposed by the other party.

Although if Horikita Suzune drops out of school, Kushida will not cause any more trouble, but at that time, Class D will probably fall further into the control of Nanyun Masa.

That was undoubtedly what Hikigaya didn't want to see.

"..."

While Hikigaya was lost in thought, Kushida stared into his eyes with his hands on his shoulders: "I understand you are hesitating, and I know that not everything I said just now will come true, but I will try my best to do it, and I am willing to entrust everything to you."

"And then?" Hikigaya finally spoke, "Then let Class D become puppets of Ryuuen and Nanyun, and you will continue to be entangled in those annoying and tangled relationships?"

Hikigaya's words caused Kushida to fall silent suddenly.

She stepped back slightly, but still pressed on top of Hikigaya.

"I won't let that happen. I can get hold of something that's wrong with them."

"Won't that mean we'll be in the same trouble as Horikita Suzune? There will even be more enemies than before!"

Hikigaya spoke as calmly as possible.

But his calm attitude itself was irritating the other party, causing Kushida to even lose control of his emotions and say, "What else? If I don't get rid of Horikita Suzune, I will never be able to get the life I want!"

"If you take care of Horikita, you'll get what you want?"

"At least I can get one step closer to that goal."

Kushida lowered her head, but only for a moment, her eyes flashed with brilliance: "Besides, as long as you are willing to help me, Hikigaya, I can also find a way to cut off the relationship with those guys. Every time I meet with them, I leave a recording, which can be used as a threat."

"Do you really think that those old bastards won't be able to figure out your little trick?"

"This……"

"And most importantly, in order to cover up the past, you took the initiative to become a traitor to Class D. Aren't you returning to your old self?"

Hearing Hikigaya's words, at that moment, Kushida looked helpless, shocked, and extremely sad.

"I don't know, Hikigaya." She muttered to herself, and then her expression became serious again. "Damn it, how could I not know that I was repeating the same mistakes? But what can I do? I just want to be the best version of myself. I don't want to see everything fall apart because of my problems! So I tried hard to pretend and act, but - in the end, Horikita Suzune, that bitch was able to easily destroy everything I had!"

"But this is your own choice, you can't escape it."

"I can't escape, so I choose to face her! I must defeat her completely! So tell me your answer, are you willing to help me?"

"..."

Seeing how desperate Kushida was, yet at the same time hiding some expectation, Hikigaya sighed, "If you force me to choose, I will choose to refuse."

"I guessed you would choose this." Kushida fell into a brief silence, "However, I have an offer you can't refuse, and it can also bring very terrible consequences. Think about it carefully."

"I've thought about it carefully, and I'm serious about it."

Kushida was silent for a while, fiddling with the tie that was almost falling off her well-proportioned neck, the curve of her chest clearly visible through the opening of her coat.

"Hikigaya, does Horikita want you to help her solve the problem of Class D?"

"Yeah, otherwise this class will become very troublesome."

"Sure enough, you are that kind of person. You say you don't want to cause trouble, but you always get involved in more troublesome things."

"You make me sound like a nice guy."

"Aren't you?"

"I'm not that kind of person."

A long time ago, Kushida mistakenly believed that Hikigaya was a selfless goody-goody because of what happened on the bus, but Hikigaya had long denied this, saying that he was not that kind of person, let alone a good person, and everything he did was just for his own satisfaction.

But Kushida obviously still didn't believe Hikigaya's denial, with a mischievous smile on his face: "You said you are not a good person, fine, let's take it as that. But what I want to say is that if you are not willing to help me, Class D will fall into hell completely. Not only Horikita Suzune, but everyone will collapse."

"What do you want to clarify?"

"I just want to say that you can't escape the choice. Everyone hides a darkness that others can't believe. Once it is revealed, it will erupt into a desperate situation that will completely collapse all order." Kushida smiled, "I'm not saying this to engage in philosophical speculation or to explore universal truths. I just want to tell you that if you are unwilling to help me, the entire D class will be buried with Horikita Suzune."

"You can't do it." Hikigaya sighed, "I know you want to threaten me, but I still want to say that you won't do that because you are not that kind of person, and I won't allow you to do that. For me, I still hope that you can give up on dealing with Horikita Suzune. Just do nothing, and the good things you hope for will happen."

"You want me to give up revenge? Haha, you are the one who can't do it, Hikigaya." Kushida showed an almost cruel smile, "You don't know what I did in junior high school. I destroyed a class for revenge, and I don't regret it at all. When I destroyed them, I felt great, even as happy as when I was loved by everyone."

“Is that really happiness?”

"Why else would I waste my time burying Horikita Suzune?"

Kushida Kikyo's eyes sparkled in the light, and she smiled and said, "So, don't let me regard you as an enemy, because to me, everyone except a friend is an enemy."

Chapter 498: We could have had a wonderful night

Kushida Kikyo expressed her will in a cold voice. She would not make any concessions on making Horikita Suzune drop out of school.

Hikigaya then silently accepted this and sighed helplessly:

"Kushida, no matter what your motive is, you will never be able to live the life you want with joy and happiness. There will always be troubles that will continue to emerge and further devour you. If you can still keep your sanity now and are willing to give up these meaningless hatreds, everything will still be able to turn around, as long as you give up continuing to deal with Horikita Suzune..."

"..."

Hikigayadon's sincere words failed to impress Kushida.

After confirming his attitude, the girl slowly buttoned up her clothes, and her short brown hair took on a bright color under the light.

"I sympathize with you, Hikigaya-kun." Kushida stared into Hikigaya's pupils, "You always say that you are not a good person, and that everything you do is not sympathy for others, but no matter what you think, you will eventually face an unavoidable choice."

"You will face the things you least want to face again and again, alone and without company, and you will not have the opportunity to confirm yourself, even if you are really right... All you get in return is the desertion of your friends and the cold words from others."

"..."

Hikigaya didn't take Kushida Kikyo's prophetic words too seriously.

Because he knew better than anyone that what the other person said was right.

But he still didn't care, just like he never cared about other people's attitudes. He was only willing to do what he wanted to do, even if he knew it was the wrong path.

"What about you?" Hikigaya silently asked back, "Do you really think that what you are doing can be successful and that you can get the life you want?"

"At least I won't sit there and wait for death like you." Kushida stood up angrily. She looked at Hikigaya with cold eyes for the last time, as if she was seeing him for the last time. "Next time we meet, we will be enemies. Not only Horikita, but I will also make you drop out of school."

"If you can do that."

"Haha, I really like your confidence."

Kushida threw the empty coffee can into the trash can with a sarcastic expression on his face, "What a shame, we could have had a wonderful evening."

After saying that, she closed the door and left without hesitation.

“I don’t think there’s anything wonderful about that.”

When Hikigaya saw the other person leave, his tense muscles finally relaxed, but the girl's body fragrance lingering in the room still made him uneasy, and it was difficult for him to fall asleep.

……

The next day, after the school bell rang.

"I've already made an appointment to meet up with Karuizawa Megumi, you can come with me."

Horikita Suzune grabbed Hikigaya at the first moment, causing Hikigaya, who originally wanted to go home quickly to watch the new anime of the season, to be stunned.

"Do I really have to go?" Hikigaya's face showed obvious reluctance. He found it hard to accept that he had an extra job for no reason.

And Horikita seemed to have anticipated his reaction, and took a deep breath and said: "Didn't you ask me about Kushida's past before? I can tell you on the way."

"That's...ok."

Hikigaya nodded helplessly, not expecting that Horikita would use this matter to threaten him.

Regarding Kushida's past, when Kushida came to his room last night, he did not tell him, but asked Horikita Suzune to tell him.

In desperation, he came to ask Horikita, but unexpectedly he was dragged into even more troublesome matters.

"Karuizawa also called her boyfriend Hirata and asked us to meet at the cafe."

“Everyone really likes coffee shops.”

"Maybe it's because it's quieter." Horikita Suzune said silently, "The problem of Class D this time originally originated from Hirata. I think it's reasonable to call him up. By the way, we can also explore Hirata Yosuke's current thoughts."

"Then you can also call Sudo Ken and let them have a big fight in the cafe."

"..."

Horikita Suzune frowned slightly at the obvious sarcasm in Hikigaya's words and stopped walking. "What's going on? Are you in a bad mood? You didn't have such a sharp tongue before. I should have been the one saying such things."

"This……"

After hearing what Horikita said, Hikigaya realized that his reaction was a little strange.

Maybe he was affected by what happened to Kushida, or maybe he was emotionally unstable to begin with, so he began to exude a world-weary and lonely mood without realizing it.

"Ah, things have been really messy lately, and I've been somewhat affected." Horikita Suzune sighed, "Luckily, you helped me during the sports festival and made me face reality, otherwise I would definitely not be able to cheer up and continue to act for this class... So, how should I put it, thank you, Hikigaya."

"???"

Hikigaya was a little confused by Horikita's overly frank words. For a moment, he even doubted whether the girl in front of him was really Horikita Suzune, or someone else pretending to be her.

The other party's attitude is too frank. The sharp-tongued and arrogant look of the past is nowhere to be seen.

Horikita seemed to have guessed Hikigaya's reaction, and turned her head away with a slight blush: "I'm not the kind of arrogant person who won't listen to advice. Well, I may have been that kind of person before, but now I have changed. Well, I can be considered to have been changed by you, so now I am willing to accept your ideas and seek your help. Although our goals are not the same, at least I am the only one in this class who can have a say."

"It gives me goosebumps to hear such words from your mouth."

"Really? That means I have indeed changed." Horikita Suzune smiled. Her words were indeed true. If it were the past, she would have already started to speak harshly. "I am serious about this exam. I will never lose no matter what. So, Kushida Kikyo... I'm sorry, I will completely defeat her and make her drop out of school if necessary!"

"Are you ready?"

"Otherwise, I won't be able to fight properly." Horikita Suzune took a deep breath. "I was too naive and overconfident before, so I made many mistakes. Now I may still not be able to do my best, but I have to make some changes. Even if they are not necessarily correct, I have to move forward."

"Moving forward..."

Looking at the determination on Horikita Suzune's face, Hikigaya inexplicably recalled what happened to Kushida Kikyo last night.

A conflict broke out between the two people, and they wanted to expel each other from school.

Now that things have come to this, I'm afraid there is no way to stop this from happening.

Chapter 499: This Horikita is really arrogant and coquettish!

On the way to the coffee shop, Horikita Suzune began to describe the things related to Kushida Kikyo to Hikigaya.

"Honestly, I don't want to publicize her past, but since she asked me to tell you about it, I'll tell you everything because I think it will be beneficial to me in the end."

"And the result was good for you?"

"Because this matter has almost nothing to do with me, I am just describing it purely." Horikita Suzune pretended to be reminiscing, "This matter is almost just a problem of Kushida herself, so even if I tell you about it, it will not affect your evaluation of me."

"Tsk, I didn't expect you to still care about my evaluation of you."

“Is this the point that needs attention?!”

A cold attitude suddenly emerged on Horikita's face, and Hikigaya suddenly missed the long-lost tsundere attitude, but then he felt that he was too masochistic.

But he also quickly made a judgment: "Anyway, what you mean is that the reason why Kushida hates you so much is not because of what happened in your junior high school, but simply because you know Kushida's past, right?"

"That's right." Horikita glanced at him sideways and said with a hint of sympathy, "So once you know her past, you will probably be targeted by Kushida like me."

"It sounds really scary."

"Yeah, so it's not too late to give up now. There's no need for you to get involved in what's going on between me and her."

"It's too late for you to say that."

Hikigaya sighed. He certainly didn't want to get involved in something that looked troublesome, but there were some things that could not be changed by human will.

In the end, Hikigaya had to get involved in all this trouble.