"Hirata, Hirata, what are you talking about! You actually believe what Hikigaya says instead of me? Now I'm the one being bullied by Manabe and the others from Class C. Am I going to be bullied by Hikigaya too?! Is it okay for me to be bullied by others?!"
Karuizawa's voice was already a little hysterical.
"Hikigaya-san is someone you can trust. I'm sure of that."
Hirata said truthfully.
To be honest, not only Karuizawa was shocked, but even Hikigaya was surprised as to why Hirata trusted him so much. The two of them didn't have much interaction or even much understanding of each other.
"Sorry to interrupt, Hirata, but I like women."
Hikigaya looked strange.
Hirata nodded: "Isn't this a normal thing?"
Karuizawa: "..."
"Anyway, Karuizawa-san, I will confirm with her about what happened to Manabe-san from Class C. If you want to express your apology, I can also convey it for you."
"I, I don't want it!"
Hirata couldn't help but look disappointed when he heard this, then he sighed. "Since you don't want to, then there's nothing I can do. But there's another thing. Hikigaya-san should have been helping you out last night, but you twisted the facts afterwards. For this matter, I hope you can apologize to Hikigaya-san in person now."
"me……"
Karuizawa wanted to refuse directly, but he couldn't help but stop when the words came to his lips, and asked: "What if I refuse?"
Hirata said calmly, "Then our relationship ends here. Karuizawa-san, you no longer need my help."
"In that case, let's end it!"
Karuizawa gritted his teeth and stared fiercely at Hirata and Hikigaya: "Hirata, you don't want to help me at all. These are just your excuses!"
After saying that, Karuizawa angrily threw the drink in his hand to the ground and prepared to leave. It seemed that Hirata had no intention of trying to keep him.
"stop!"
Hikigaya's voice only caused Karuizawa to pause slightly, but he showed no intention of stopping.
"Qing! Jing! Ze!"
The cold voice seemed to make the temperature of the surroundings drop unconsciously. Karuizawa was anxious to escape, but his body stopped uncontrollably.
"Hirata, leave this to me. I'd like to talk to Karuizawa for a moment, is that okay?"
Hikigaya turned to look at Hirata, only to see him nod slightly. He then ignored Karuizawa's 'help' gaze and turned away.
Suddenly, Karuizawa felt his left shoulder suddenly sink, and a hand was placed on his shoulder. An unquestionable and indifferent voice sounded in his ears.
"follow me!"
After saying that, Hikigaya started walking forward. Karuizawa wanted to take this opportunity to run away, but her body followed him unconsciously. Even she herself didn't understand why she did that.
Hikigaya came to the fourth floor of the cruise ship. There were basically no people here, and because it was late at night, the surroundings were so quiet that it was scary.
Seeing that Karuizawa really followed him 'obediently', Hikigaya couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but his face still had an indifferent expression.
"Do you know why I brought you here?"
"I, I... don't know."
Karuizawa couldn't help but hug his body tightly with his arms, his voice trembling.
"do not know?"
Hikigaya's expression was icy: "Then why don't you run away?"
This question unexpectedly made Karuizawa silent.
"Because you've been abandoned by Hirata, you're afraid. You're afraid that after losing Hirata's protection, you'll be bullied by others. So, Karuizawa... you want to find a new host, even if it means suffering."
"you you……"
Karuizawa's eyes widened, shocked at how Hikigaya could know her thoughts so clearly. Indeed... she was thinking "if you can't escape, then take advantage of it". Instead of being bullied by a group of people, it's better to be bullied by one person, and even sacrifice her own body!
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Chapter 216 The first confrontation between the two.
Although Karuizawa was very scared, he had already prepared himself mentally. He just waited for a long time but Hikigaya on the opposite side still did not move and just stood there silently.
Just as Karuizawa was puzzled, Hikigaya suddenly said, "Have you seen enough?"
"what?"
Karuizawa didn't understand what Hikigaya meant, but Hikigaya ignored Karuizawa's meaning and looked towards the corner not far away.
"You've been following me from the hall to here, and you're still hiding now?"
Hikigaya said coldly.
Only then did Karuizawa realize that Hikigaya was not talking to him. He also looked in the direction Hikigaya was looking, but there was no human figure.
At this time, Hikigaya took out his cell phone and shook it: "I just asked Hirata to go back to the room to check who is missing. Now he has sent the name, so how long do you want to hide there?"
"Ayanokouji?"
Karuizawa looked at Ayanokouji in shock as he walked out from the shadows. The other person had no expression on his face.
Hikigaya had a look of indifference on his face. He had vaguely sensed the gazes in the dark just now in the hall, but he had never said anything in order to confirm it more carefully!
"I just couldn't sleep at night, so I happened to be wandering around on the boat, and I didn't expect to get lost and end up here."
Ling Xiaolu explained expressionlessly.
"Do you think I will believe it?"
"But that's what it is."
Hikigaya naturally understood what Ayanokouji meant and couldn't help but sneer. "So your habit of not being able to sleep is that you like to stalk others? From the moment we were in the hall just now, you were hiding behind the southeast pillar, right?"
Ayanokouji's pupils shrank slightly, but his face remained calm: "I don't know what you are talking about."
Hikigaya didn't get angry when Ayanokouji denied it. Instead, he said, "I think you must be very disappointed now, right? Because the scene here didn't happen as you imagined. Maybe you can turn off the video and audio functions on your phone."
Ayanokouji's expression remained normal, but Karuizawa, standing beside him, turned pale with fear after hearing what Hikigaya said.
"Did you bring me here on purpose just to lure out Ayanokouji?"
Even the slow-witted Karuizawa finally reacted. At the same time, he felt a sense of relief, but also an inexplicable sense of loss.
"you can go now."
Hikigaya said directly to Karuizawa that Karuizawa should have been very happy to hear that Hikigaya let him go, but...
"Ayanokouji, did you also hear our conversation in the hall just now?!"
Karuizawa's tone suddenly became sharp, as if she had returned to her previous dominant blonde hottie mode.
"I just overheard a little."
Ayanokouji finally spoke up: "It's only about you and Hirata pretending to be boyfriend and girlfriend."
"Asshole! Do you take me for a fool?!"
Karuizawa was furious.
Karuizawa felt furious. This was clearly a secret that he didn't want anyone to know, but first there was the scary guy Hikigaya, and now there was the expressionless man Ayanokouji. How could Karuizawa not feel crazy!
"Karuizawa, we'll talk about your matter tomorrow. I have something I want to discuss with Ayanokouji right now."
Hikigaya began to drive people away without any courtesy.
Karuizawa bit her lip. She wanted to retort, but when the words came to her lips, she saw Hikigaya's cold eyes and could only swallow them back into her stomach. Then she glared at Ayanokouji angrily and left.
"There are only two of us here now."
Hikigaya looked across at Ayanokouji. This was probably the first time the two of them had a private conversation.
"I hold no ill will towards you, Hikigaya."
Ayanokouji suddenly spoke.
"People with ulterior motives usually call themselves 'good people'. Are you one of those people?"
"I am a good person."
Ayanokouji said without hesitation.
Hikigaya was stunned at first, then couldn't help laughing: "Do you really not understand, or are you pretending not to understand? You and Hirata were in the same room, and you were in the same group as Karuizawa, so you targeted Karuizawa?"
"I do not know what you're talking about."
"Is it necessary to continue pretending?"
Hikigaya directly exposed the issue: "During the recent uninhabited island exam, you were looking through Ibuki's backpack the next morning."
"Sure enough... you still saw it."
Hikigaya carefully observed the changes in expression on Ayanokouji's face, but unfortunately, he was as motionless as a piece of wood, as if he had already expected it.
"I don't know why you acted in secret, but on the sixth day, Horikita's body showed abnormal problems. Do you know what happened?"
Hikigaya narrowed his eyes.
Ayanokouji also looked directly at Hikigaya, and after a moment's silence, he said, "If you feel that I have done anything bad to Horikita, I would like to apologize to you first."
Hikigaya was a little surprised that Ayanokouji actually "admitted" that he was the one who did it?
According to Ayanokouji's previous habits, Hikigaya thought that he could just brush off these things that would have a negative impact on him by saying "I don't know."
"I also have a question. Why did you choose to help Class D during the last deserted island exam? Hirata and Ichinose's class were able to guess the identity of Katsuragi's class leader. It must have been you who was behind the scenes."
Ayanokouji asked.
Ayanokouji has also analyzed the problems from the final result points, especially the zero-score tragedy of Katsuragi's class. Although he knows that Hikigaya may be involved, the specific operation is not clear, and a lot of information was discovered belatedly.
This is also an important problem that Ayanokouji is facing now. His intelligence capabilities relying solely on himself are too limited!
Compared with Hikigaya, there is a world of difference. Whether it was the Sudo incident at the end of June or the uninhabited island exam, Ayanokouji had already discovered the gap between the two, which was the gap in intelligence gathering.
He urgently needs a pair of 'white gloves'!
Step by step, step by step!
"Yes."
Hikigaya directly admitted: "As for why I help Class D, do you think I am helping Class D?"
Ayanokouji nodded, then shook his head. "I'm just curious about what you're thinking, Hikigaya. My goal is the same as yours, to help the class. I promised Horikita to help her bring Class D to Class A's position, that's all."
Hikigaya sneered: "Don't you realize you have a problem? Every time you encounter your own problems, you always use others as shields. It was the same last time, and it's the same this time."
"So, Ayanokouji, you don't have any ideas of your own?"
"My own... thoughts?"
Ayanokouji murmured, "I guess I'll just spend these three years peacefully."
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Chapter 217: Ayanokouji's misjudgment.
"Three years of peace and tranquility?"
Hikigaya was a bit surprised by Ayanokouji's answer, which was somewhat similar to his own, but then he laughed and said, "Things don't go as planned. You must have heard that many things don't develop as you expected, and they slowly start to deviate from their original trajectory."
Hikigaya felt the same way. At the beginning of the school year, he had the same idea as Ayanokouji. If this was an ordinary school, there would be no problem.
But the word "stability" does not exist in this school.
"The environment changes people, and people can only adapt to it. Even if you don't want to, the surrounding environment and atmosphere will force you to 'compromise', and eventually slowly deviate from your original direction."
Hikigaya said calmly.
Hikigaya deeply felt the difficulty of a person trying to fight against the environment and atmosphere and make it adapt to himself, and even said that he was once such a lone hero.
Later I realized what a ridiculous fantasy this was, just like a little kid clamoring to change the world. Without sufficient strength, everything is just wishful thinking.
Ayanokouji was slightly stunned when he heard this, and subconsciously recalled everything he had encountered after entering this school, and then recalled the threatening words that Chabashira teacher had said to him before. He unexpectedly agreed with what Hikigaya said.
"That seems to be the case."
"But, Ayanokouji, I don't object to your actions to get promoted, but there are some things that require a clear bottom line. You should understand what I mean."
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