Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

They choose the easy way only in order to indulge in their lazy daily lives.

If he heard that the couple broke up in less than two months after entering high school, he would not only laugh out loud, but would roll on the ground laughing, and even suspect that he had peritonitis.

On the contrary, a lone ranger like Hikigaya is unwilling to be influenced by the environment, so whenever other people gather together to play, he will study hard and at least do the best he can.

So, as he continued to work hard and entered higher-level classes, the classroom became quieter and quieter, and the course content and student quality became better and better.

The environment will screen people, and at the same time, people will constantly screen the environment.

Hikigaya's only mistake so far was choosing the abnormal school Tokyo Metropolitan High School, and was even assigned to the lowest level D class.

It can be said that whenever he thought of all this, he wanted to find a time machine to go back to the past and beat himself to death for filling out the application form randomly at that time.

"Haha, Hikigaya-san is still as interesting as ever."

As if he had seen through Hikigaya's complicated thoughts, Sakayanagi Arisu smiled and said, "Come to think of it, Hikigaya, why are you studying so hard? To get into Class A?"

"Do you think I would work hard for something so superficial?"

Hikigaya decisively denied Sakayanagi Arisu's guess and showed a very firm attitude.

"Oh? So what's your goal?"

"Of course it's to get a rich woman's support!"

Facing Sakayanagi Arisu's words, Hikigaya spoke without any bottom line, "Don't they say these days that academic ability is the stepping stone to everything? If you meet a reliable rich woman in the future, you must start preparing for a rainy day from now on in order to win her favor."

Hikigaya spoke bluntly.

Facing the little devil Sakayanagi Arisu, he didn't think there was any point in acting serious. He might as well say something that would disgust the other person and himself, so that the other person would completely lose interest in him.

However, it was obvious that Sakayanagi was not someone who could be easily fooled. She just smiled and said, "It seems that you are really interesting, Hikigaya-san."

"No, is this interesting?"

Hikigaya was numb. He was completely confused about the criteria that this little devil was interested in.

At the same time, Sakayanagi Arisu continued, "Speaking of which, the scope of the midterm exam has been changed. Do you know about this?"

"..."

Hikigaya didn't answer, he was just confused as to why Sakayanagi asked such a question.

The teacher of Class A should not have deliberately concealed the change in the exam scope.

While he was thinking, Sakayanagi Arisu spoke up, "It seems like you knew it in advance. As expected, Hikigaya-kun."

"I just found out by chance."

Hikigaya turned his head away. He inexplicably felt that Sakayanagi's eyes looked at him more passionately, and even the way he addressed her changed unconsciously.

What’s going on with this white-haired loli?

Even though I acted so cold, she became even more enthusiastic?

Could it be that deep down he is a masochist?

When Hikigaya was deeply suspicious of Sakayanagi's true nature, the girl spoke to herself, "In that case, Hikigaya-san has already guessed the true rules of this exam."

"..."

Facing Sakayanagi's words that seemed to test him, Hikigaya did not respond immediately.

In fact, during these days, he has roughly guessed the real content of the midterm exam.

However, he never confirmed it, or he didn't want to confirm it.

After all, if the students in Class D knew that there was a way to pass the exam without reviewing, they would definitely give up completely and would not have any motivation to study.

Hikigaya was already very annoyed with this group of people and didn't want them to succeed too much, so he naturally couldn't take the initiative to boost the morale of the people in Class D at this time, and would rather continue to delay.

Seeing Hikigaya's reaction, Arisu Sakayanagi immediately guessed the answer.

"It seems that I did not choose the wrong person."

"What did you say……"

Hikigaya didn't hear Sakayanagi Arisu's soft whisper.

Before he could continue to ask, the girl had already refocused her attention on the book in front of her, "Sorry, I'm a good student, please don't disturb me while I'm studying."

This look completely confused Hikigaya.

It's obviously you who always disturbs others!

An afternoon passed quickly. Hikigaya and Sakayanagi reviewed seriously for the whole day. The atmosphere was so normal that even Hikigaya found it weird.

Moreover, he felt that after such a day of intensive study, he could even score above 90 points in most subjects of the midterm exam.

This is not only because Sakayanagi taught well enough, but also because Hikigaya himself has a solid foundation and enough academic ability to understand what Sakayanagi said.

"I'm so happy today." After leaving the library, Sakayanagi Arisu walked slowly on the road with a cane, and said to Hikigaya, "It would be great if we could have days like this more often in the future."

"Do you want to kill me?"

Hikigaya sighed deeply. He couldn't stand the daily contact with this little devil. If he did that, he would definitely age prematurely or even die suddenly.

Chapter 108: When God closes a door for you, he will definitely seal your window as well!

Hikigaya and Sakayanagi walked towards the dormitory.

Because the latter was in poor health and had to use a cane, Hikigaya deliberately slowed down his pace so that the two of them could maintain a constant distance.

"Come to think of it, Hikigaya-kun is obviously very smart, but he hasn't been able to make full use of his cleverness in his studies." Arisu Sakayanagi suddenly spoke.

"You said it was a clever trick, didn't you?"

Hikigaya replied nonchalantly, "Studying is something that requires perseverance to succeed. Being clever is useless."

"That's a good point indeed." Sakayanagi Arisu nodded in approval, "So-called cleverness may allow you to live better than others, but it's the only thing that can't be done except studying, because if you can't study, you can't do it."

"You sound like you are mocking me..."

Hikigaya is dissatisfied with what Arisu Sakayanagi said.

Although he admitted that he was just a little smart and not a truly capable and outstanding person, he did not think it was because he did not work hard enough, but simply because he lacked talent.

After all, the meaning of hard work is often not to gain success, but simply to deceive yourself.

When failure strikes, you can numb yourself to the cruel reality by saying, "I've tried my best."

Hikigaya is an expert among experts when it comes to deceiving himself and has already reached the level of perfection.

"But you, Sakayanagi, you don't look like someone who would study hard, so how come you can get such good grades?"

Hikigaya suddenly felt curious.

After all, this guy Sakayanagi looked like he was even smarter than himself, and there was no sign that he could seriously study something.

"Haha, some things can't be judged by appearances." Sakayanagi Arisu said with a smile, "But, it's true, I have never been troubled by studying. Even if it's a question I've never seen before, I can easily get the answer by just studying it a little. This may be the so-called 'When God closes a door for you, he will definitely open a window for you'."

"That's so unfair of God. I live such a lonely life, why doesn't God compensate me?"

Hikigaya has hardly encountered any good things so far, and even this school is full of messy troubles.

When God closes a door for you, he will definitely close your window!

Do you always feel like your life is a complete tragedy?

Haha, I really can’t laugh.

Hikigaya didn't want to send Sakayanagi all the way back to the dormitory, but the way Sakayanagi limped was really worrying.

Therefore, even though he was extremely wary of this little devil, he still did not give up on him easily, but tried his best to stay with him until the end.

"You really are a very incompatible person for this school, Hikigaya-kun."

Before entering the elevator, Arisu Sakayanagi suddenly spoke.

"What else? I don't think there's anything worth being happy about coming to this school." Hikigaya said without hesitation.

"Then I think it's quite lucky to meet Hikigaya-kun here."

"?"

Facing Sakayanagi's words, Hikigaya was completely unable to guess the other party's true intention.

While she was hesitating, the girl had already walked into the elevator, and the elevator closed completely.

……

The weekend should have been a pleasant time, but Hikigaya was not in a happy mood at all.

After being tortured by Sakayanagi Arisu for a whole day, he received a call from Horikita Manabu the next day and was forced to gather at the gym again.

Because the midterm exam was approaching, Horikita Manabu did not force him to practice for an entire afternoon this time. He just trained for two hours and then called it a day.

Even so, Hikigaya's thin body still suffered a huge impact, and it felt like all his bones were completely shattered.

"By the way, Hikigaya, is Suzune…?"

Horikita Manabu suddenly spoke, but stopped halfway through his words, as if he felt that he shouldn't ask Hikigaya about his sister.

Hikigaya wisely didn't ask any further questions.

After all, there is a difference between close relatives and distant relatives, and he still can't interfere in the affairs between the brother and sister...

Finally, they parted ways in silence.

That night, before Hikigaya went to bed, he suddenly received a call from Kushida Kikyo.

My god, why do these guys on my phone always keep harassing me? Don’t they know that the phone charges are charged by the minute?

Oh, so cell phones are distributed for free in this school. That’s fine then.

Hikigaya answered the phone and heard the familiar voice of Kushida Kikyo.

"Hikigaya-san, do you know what happened to the study session?"

"Well, I probably know a little bit..."

Hikigaya watched the entire study session on the second floor at the time, and he almost knew exactly how outrageous things had happened yesterday.

Horikita Suzune's social skills can be said to be "obvious at a glance".

"In that case, I'll make it short." Kushida Kikyo didn't wonder why Hikigaya knew about the study session, and went straight to the point. "At that time, Horikita did something very excessive, which completely angered Sudo and the others. Now Sudo and the others are criticizing Horikita in the D class chat group. Many people have been incited and are planning to completely isolate and even bully Horikita."

"This……"

When Hikigaya heard what Kushida said, his first reaction was not about Horikita's situation, but whether Class D actually had a chat group?

Why have I never heard of it?

No one wants to invite me?

It turns out that I have been overthinking it all along. I am actually socially disabled like Horikita?

Hikigaya suddenly felt disappointed, and Kushida Kikyo continued, "If this continues, Horikita-san will be completely isolated and even bullied by others."

Bullying? Who bullies whom?

Anyway, Hikigaya couldn't imagine Horikita Suzune being bullied.

The opponent's strength is visible to the naked eye. He is probably the kind of person who, if bullied by others, can slap the bully away with a single slap.

However, Hikigaya did not completely believe that Horikita could handle it, because cold violence in school was the most difficult problem to deal with and almost impossible to alleviate.

Hikigaya had a similar experience before. When everyone in the class saw him and mentioned him, they would make some strange laughs and say some witty remarks like "He seems to be looking here (laugh)", "What are you doing (laugh)", "It feels so uncomfortable (laugh)".

He even thought it looked a bit like a panda in the exhibition area - no, using a panda as a metaphor was too self-flattering, it would be more accurate to say it was an axolotl or a baby sea monkey.

If he didn't comfort himself like this, his heart would really be hurt.

The trouble that Horikita Suzune encountered is no less than that of Hikigaya. Although Horikita Suzune looks strong enough on the surface, no one knows where her limit is.

Therefore, it seems that certain measures must be taken later.

Chapter 109: Horikita Suzune, you and Sudo and the others are birds of a feather!