Hikigaya Challenges Kakegurui

"This... let's forget it." Hikigaya shook his head and checked the time on his phone. "It's getting late. I have an appointment to discuss something today. I'll go see your sister Jabami another day if I'm free."

Jabami Yumeko carried her small leather bag and watched Hikigaya's back as he walked away.

The delicate red eyes regained their clarity, and the gambling urge that flowed in his blood gradually disappeared as Hikigaya told the story.

Yumeko Jabami doesn't know when she will fall into the abyss, but as long as she is with Hikigaya, she believes that she can always maintain her clarity.

"After all, Hachiman's wings can carry me and fly me out of the abyss..."

Arriving at the ward, Mengzi threw herself into the arms of Jabami Shoko and said, "Sister, today I..."

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After returning home, Hikigaya Hachiman quickly took out his computer and finished the few remaining documents.

Breathe a long sigh of relief.

He quickly took out his cell phone and opened LINE. He looked at the electronic contract sent by Yukinoshita Haruno and the series of question marks and urgings, and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

So many things happened today that Hachiman Hikigaya actually forgot the time he had agreed with Yukinoshita Haruno.

Quickly dial the phone.

Seconds.

"Hey, Ms. Yang No, I'm sorry, I was delayed by something before."

"Do you still want to do this?" Yang Noi threatened fiercely on the other end of the phone: "Do you know that the publication date is coming soon, where is your manuscript?! I'm very busy, and it's not easy to be your personal editor part-time."

"Sorry, sorry. I'll send you the file right away."

Hikigaya Hachiman, wearing headphones, moved his hands quickly and sent the answer to "The Mystery of Japanese Astrology" via the Internet cable.

There was a busy sound of typing on the computer, but Hikigaya Hachiman didn't interrupt or hang up the phone. He just sat on the bed and stared blankly, emptying his mind for a rare moment.

Finally, after a long while.

"Hikigaya-kun, how are you doing at the Private Hyakkaou Academy?" Yukinoshita Haruno teased.

Hikigaya Hachiman was very confused: "I can't quite tell, Miss Haruno, are you helping me or hurting me?"

"Hehe, the people in that academy should be very much to Hikigaya-kun's liking. Look, in such a short time you've gained the friendship of the royal family and have all their shopping mall bookstores sell your books."

"That's not friendship. It was taken from them through gambling." Hikigaya Hachiman was a little speechless. After so many years, he was still a little uncomfortable with Yukinoshita Haruno's unreliable way of speaking. He paused and asked, "Ms. Haruno, how much do you know about Momobami Kirari and her family?"

"What? Are you attracted to her? You should know that Yukino is still waiting for you to come back in Chiba. She is frowning every day, just to solve the mystery you left in the book so that she can stand shoulder to shoulder with you." Yukinoshita Haruno said sinisterly.

"Let's get down to business."

"You should have come into contact with Momobaku, that woman is very dangerous and amazing." With a light cough, Yukinoshita Haruno's tone became serious: "For their class, even the Yukinoshita family is not up to par."

"It is said, note that it is said, I have not received any definite information. That woman inherited the position of the head of the Momobaku family when she was in the first year of junior high school and became the actual controller of the Momobaku family. At that time, she contacted me and commissioned the construction company of the Yukinoshita family to build the current private Hyakkaou Academy. That's how you got your admission."

Hikigaya looked thoughtful, and then asked, "Momokuro, is it just one family? Are there other families with Kuro in their surnames?"

"Hyaku."

"Ok?"

"This is all I know. I guess it's a secret of the upper class." When Yukinoshita Haruno mentioned this title, her tone sounded a little helpless.

There is always someone better than you. The Bai Ku family is the heaven beyond the heaven, and the people in it are the people beyond the people.

"The Hyakuma family, or the Hyakuma Group, is at the top of almost every industry in Japan."

"Education, finance, real estate, media, entertainment... Tokyo's Yakuza are involved in all the legal and illegal industries you can think of."

Although Hikigaya was mentally prepared, he still couldn't help but gasp. According to what Yukinoshita Haruno said, the whole of Japan was under the control of the Hyakuka family.

He suddenly thought of the Garden of Eden that Momobami Kirari mentioned, and his eyes flickered. Perhaps the other party really had this ability.

"Let's just talk about the education industry. In addition to the Hyakkaou Academy where you are, there is also the High School Attached to the High School of Ikusei University, which is equally famous, and the Hyakku Family."

"The reason why I say they are a Hundred Kushi families is because I only know that their main family is Momobami, and I don't know what other Kushi families there are. That's all I was told by Momobami Kirari at the time."

"It seems that they are not united." Hikigaya Hachiman said abruptly.

"Huh? What did you say?"

According to Yukinoshita Haruno, if the Hyakuku family was involved in real estate, there would be no need to entrust a large construction company in Chiba to build a school in Tokyo.

There is only one explanation for this, and that is that there is conflict within the Momobaku family.

Hikigaya Hachiman quickly started to imagine. According to the plots in traditional novels and combined with the development trajectory of history, it was probably the case that the head of the Momobami family died suddenly, and the young Momobami Kirari did not have enough ability to control the situation.

But due to the tradition that has been continued in the Hyakuku family for who knows how long, they still respect Momokaku as the leader.

Momobami Kirari showed amazing skills and foresight since she was a child, and she had already established the Garden of Eden in her heart - the Private Hyakkaou Academy at that time.

"What a remarkable person."

Hikigaya Hachiman admires me from the bottom of his heart. If he had a daughter, he would want her to be like Kirari!

Although it has only been a few days since Hikigaya Hachiman transferred to the private Hyakkaou Academy, he has a detailed understanding of the structure of this academy. It gathers the children of the bigwigs in Japan's political and business circles, which becomes the handle for Momobami Kirari to indirectly control those bigwigs.

High, this wave is really high.

Hikigaya Hachiman loves literary history books, and he immediately thought of Cao Cao's use of the emperor to control the princes during the Three Kingdoms period in neighboring China.

The treacherous situation, the calculations that determine the outcome thousands of miles away, the bizarre gambles... the tide of the times is rolling in, and Hikigaya can't help but feel his silent heart beating and his cold blood boiling.

He also wants to participate in the Game of Thrones hosted by Momobami Kirari.

"Ms. Yang Nai, please transfer all the money I deposited with you to me. How much do you have now?"

"Hmm... let me think, maybe a billion? I invested in healthcare a while ago and it went up a lot."

One billion...Hikigaya narrowed his eyes and calculated in his mind.

'That's enough.'

"Then please transfer the money to me as soon as possible tomorrow, Miss Yang Nai."

"And one more thing."

"what?"

"That kid Yukino really misses you, won't you come back to see her this weekend?"

Hikigaya was silent for a while: "Wait until the holiday."

36 Jabami Yumeko's Life Plan

In the early morning, Hikigaya Hachiman and Jabami Yumeko met at the station again. Jabami Yumeko smiled brightly, shaking her youthful and delicate body, and headed towards Hikigaya.

The eye-catching cat card was stuck between the two peaks and could not move.

If a normal person wore such a humiliating identity card, he would be happy if he was not depressed, but Jabami didn't have the slightest sense of being a stray cat...

"Momoko's Law of Eden can't restrain this crazy gambler at all."

Hikigaya Hachiman smiled and shook his head, then walked over to them openly, walking with Jabami Yumeko as always. Hikigaya Hachiman gladly accepted the contemptuous looks from the Hundred Flower King students on both sides of the road.

"This time, you finally didn't praise Jabami's looks and ignore me... Is this considered a pleasant surprise?"

Hikigaya's thoughts began to wander.

This is an unwritten rule in the Hyakkaou Academy. Strange cats and stupid dogs will be bullied, and those who are close to strange cats and stupid dogs will be regarded as their kind. In addition to not enjoying actual insults, mental contempt is inevitable.

Of course, Hikigaya Hachiman didn't care.

The deeper they went, the redder Jabami Yumeko's face became.

"Hikigaya-kun, after becoming a cat, the school scenery that I'm used to seeing has started to look distorted. This feeling is really unstoppable."

"Even Hikigaya-kun, who is clearly a gentleman, has become a man who may tear off his hypocritical mask and rip off my clothes at any time under my psychological influence."

Hikigaya thought she was just having a tantrum and ignored her.

By the time she reached the classroom door, Jabami Yumeko was already sweating profusely and drooling.

open the door.

Hikigaya Hachiman saw at a glance that Jabami Yumeko's desk was covered with insulting words. The little figure that looked like Yumeko was slashed with a knife. The life plan was stabbed hard on the desk with a knife.

"Hikigaya-kun, come and look at my life plan!" Mengzi trotted to her seat and took out the life plan.

After a quick glance, he placed his hands on the opposite corners of the plan, blushed, and openly showed the humiliating plan to Hikigaya Hachiman: "Your whole life will be managed and even your marriage partner is ready. In other words, your entire life will be taken away as a livestock."

【Age 22: Became the wife of Councillor Orita】

[23 years old: Give birth to the first child for Councillor Orita (preferably a boy, reward of million yen)]

[24 years old: Give birth to a second child for Councillor Orita (preferably a girl, reward of million yen)]

【Orita-san elected as Minister of Culture】

【…】

【Orita Councillor's first child is enrolled in Hyakkaou Academy.】

【Orita Councillor's second child is enrolled in Koukou Ikusei Junior High School. 】

【Thirty years old...】

【Forty years old...】

"Orita Councillor..." Hikigaya quickly searched for relevant information in his mind and threatened, "That guy seems to be an out-and-out perverted lolita control. He was recently exposed to be involved in a sex scandal. I didn't expect that President Momobami would want to reach out to such a guy."

"It would seem like it would be a good idea to become a congressman's wife, but unfortunately that guy is not my type, so this life plan doesn't count." Jabami Yumeko smiled, held the plan in her arms, and quickly walked to the classroom trash can and threw it in.

Her little face was flushed, and her red eyes, which were always full of madness, were now evasive when she looked at Hikigaya.

"It would be nice if Hikigaya-kun became a councillor."

"what?"

Hikigaya Hachiman thought he had heard it wrong, and when he looked at Jabaka again, the other party had returned to normal.

At this time, several people dressed as hot girls gradually gathered towards Jabami Yumeko. They stared at the cat tag hanging on Yumeko's chest with malicious eyes.

Hikigaya Hachiman recognized them. Although he only observed them casually at the time, Hikigaya Hachiman remembered their faces.

I still remember the rock-paper-scissors game hosted by Saotome Hachiman when I entered school. There were about seven people in the first year group who were not under Saotome's control, and the few people in front of me happened to be within the range of those seven.

"Bullying? You're too impatient."

Hikigaya had no intention of stopping it, she believed that Jabba could handle this childish bullying on his own.

Unexpectedly, the other party was coming for him.

The girl in the lead, who had pink hair and a bun-like hairstyle, walked up to him.

He reached out and gently pressed on Hikigaya Hachiman's desk.

"Is there something?" Hikigaya Hachiman was packing his schoolbag without raising his head.

"Hikigaya-san, my name is Aiura Shin, and I want to make a deal with you."

"Trade?" Hikigaya became interested when he heard this familiar yet unfamiliar word. He raised his head and looked at the other person with lazy eyes. "What do you want to trade?"

"Saotome, that girl, has gotten rid of her identity as a stray cat... You were helping her, right? You even helped her win a small casino. She went to her own casino early in the morning and is not even in class now." Aiura Xin crossed her arms and uttered cold words, "I have a grudge against that guy."

"So? Are you trying to retaliate against me for this?"

"What a cliché villain plot..."

"No, no, no, how could that be? How could I think of revenge against a gambling master like Hikigaya?" Aiura Shin waved her hands repeatedly: "But since you can help Saotome, you can help me. I can see that Hikigaya is driven by profit. What benefits did she give you? Money? Or her body? That girl is pretty."

"I can't tell you what you gave me. But, um, you're really good at judging people." Hikigaya nodded, "What benefits can you bring to me?"

Aiura Xin slowly raised a finger and said, "One million, help me isolate the bully Saotome. No, maybe it can't be called help, as long as you, Hikigaya, agree not to help Saotome in the next exam battle bet."

"I want that girl to be isolated by the entire Yi Nian Hua group, and make her kneel in front of me and become my exclusive livestock!" Ai Pu Xin's expression gradually twisted, becoming hideous and exaggerated.

"what?"

Hikigaya Hachiman fell silent. This was unexpectedly childish. After thinking about it, he was about to agree. After all, one million is still money. It would be a waste if he didn't make some.