Hikigaya Challenges Kakegurui

Just these few pieces of information that were insignificant to the overall situation were enough to get rid of his identity as a stray cat.

In the past, she would have only laughed at Hikigaya Hachiman's weakness. But now, Aiura felt only a heavy tenderness in her heart.

"My former self was really too much... Besides Hikigaya-san, there was also Saotome..."

She subconsciously looked towards Saotome's seat, and inexplicably her eyes met Saotome's.

Aiura asked in a mysterious way, "Hikigaya-san, how is your relationship with Saotome-san?"

"Not bad." Hikigaya said ambiguously.

"Can I ask you a favor?"

"what?"

"Can you help me arrange a meal with Saotome-san later? I want to apologize to her in person, after all, I wanted to do something so extreme to her before."

Hikigaya crossed his arms and fell silent.

Inexplicably, I could smell the scent of oranges in the air. "I can help you with this matter. As for whether she is willing or not, that is her business."

"Yeah, thank you, Hikigaya-san."

"Don't worry about thanking me. This is an extra price. Since you are now the monitor of the first-year Chinese team, I need you to help me."

"Collect the family information of the remaining 26 people in the class. Who are they and what is their family background? To be more realistic, what official positions do their parents hold and what large companies they are presidents of. Try to collect as much of this information as possible for me."

"After that, it will be extended to other classes and grades..."

"After the matter is done, I will give you what you want. No problem, Ai Pu Xin."

On a sunny afternoon, Ai Puxin felt a chill all over her body. What was this man planning? She didn't dare to think further.

She suddenly remembered that the purpose of the Zensaki Society was to gather the power of livestock and break the livestock system established under the high-pressure rule of the Student Union.

And what about Hikigaya?

This man wants to turn humans into livestock and then use them as his own power!

Aiura's heartbeat began to speed up, and her face was flushed uncontrollably. After the matter was done, Hikigaya would give her what she wanted. And what she wanted... was to step on the faces of these upper-class nobles! In order to enter the upper class, in order not to be looked down upon by these guys, Aiura had done everything before to achieve this goal!

This ambition buried deep in his heart, an ambition that could not be exposed even by joining the Zensaki-kai, was aroused by Hikigaya Hachiman with just a few words.

"Okay!" she said in a trembling voice, and her two plump legs unconsciously clamped together.

He picked up the water cup on the table and quickly poured himself a sip to avoid losing water too quickly and fainting due to dehydration.

Although Hikigaya was somewhat surprised by her reaction, he did not say anything more, and turned around and walked towards his seat. On the way, he passed by Saotome and gave her an affirmative look.

This request was the result of his careful consideration.

He was not qualified to view the personal files of Hyakkaou students, and perhaps even no one except Momobami could see them, but that didn't mean there was no way.

There are many sources of information, and in Hikigaya's opinion, infiltration through classmates is the most direct and effective method.

False friendship, the vanity of comparison... With so many things, you can always get the family background of others. With Aiura Xin's social skills, as long as he spends time, he will surely be able to get the information he wants from these people's word of mouth.

Hikigaya Hachiman firmly believed this.

And after obtaining the intelligence...you can start targeted resource plundering.

The bell for class rang, and Hikigaya calmed down a little.

Put aside your distractions and immerse yourself in the ocean of knowledge.

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"Hikigaya-kun, aren't you going home straight after school today?"

The sun sets and it's time to go home from school.

Jabami Yumeko looked at Hikigaya with some curiosity. In the past, Hikigaya would have been the first to leave the class and go home. But today, she stood by the window, contrary to her usual behavior, as if waiting for something.

"Well, I have some things to do today. If you want to go back and take care of Miss Hibiki, then you can go first. You don't have to wait for me."

"I'd better go back with Hikigaya-kun."

Hikigaya placed his finger on his chin, observing the playground of Hyakkaou Academy.

Come to think of it, this was her first time observing the playground.

I thought I had said goodbye to the playground since junior high school, but I never expected to meet it again in this way.

He had learned that the baseball club would have a club activity after school this afternoon. The Onotaru sisters, as the head and deputy head of the club, would definitely participate, and Hikigaya would be able to observe them closely.

Hikigaya has always believed that people are like people and their behavior is different. This can be seen from the details of daily life.

At first, Saotome liked to emphasize "new classmates" when she spoke, which shows that she likes to cheat by force. She used the slight advantage in probability to cheat...

The later Emperor Yi Yue was full of desire to perform, and his body language and gestures were exaggerated, which showed that he was not very sophisticated and liked to use props to cheat.

From Ai Puxin's description, the sisters of Yuzhitou sounded like super-fashionable people. If there were no outsiders present in their gambling games, they probably wouldn't cheat by using props, which was a way of lowering their status.

Hikigaya had an immature guess that their cheating method might have come from their trust and confidence in each other.

"Twin sisters? Some kind of cheating method like tacit understanding?"

"No, it's too early to draw conclusions. We need more information."

Hikigaya's eyes flickered as he looked at the people from various sports clubs who were beginning to emerge on the playground in the distance.

"Let's go Snake, we're going to the playground now."

74 An unexpected old friend from Soubu

"Eh? Hikigaya-kun likes such energetic athletic girls?"

In front of him was a group of athletic girls wearing shorts and shorts. Judging from their bouncing movements, they all had very elastic young bodies. Especially the ones with wheat-colored skin, even in Hikigaya's eyes, they were impeccably healthy.

But that’s not the point!

"You misunderstood, Jabaka." Hikigaya pointed seriously at the baseball club not far away: "Do you see that?"

"That's... the baseball club?"

"Well, when I went to Aiura Kokoro to exchange information this afternoon, she told me that the two most outstanding girls were executives of the Zensaki Society."

"That's it."

Jakuba nodded in understanding and looked at the crone-head sisters who were blocking the pitcher and catcher.

"Hmm...I don't know much about the rules of baseball, but it seems like they have a pretty good understanding of each other."

"Yes, the key lies in tacit understanding."

Hikigaya frowned, this was the last situation he wanted to encounter.

If it is a prop-based cheat, he can plan like "three consecutive dice" and "triple neurasthenia" to find the flaws and use the opponent's props to defeat the enemy in one blow.

But if the cheating method is to take advantage of the tacit understanding between each other, then there will be too many variations.

Of course, there are ways to counter it. The most direct and effective way is to find someone with the same tacit understanding as you to participate in the gambling. In this way, the gambling changes from a simple competition of game understanding and gambling skills to a contest of tacit understanding.

Thinking of this, Hikigaya subconsciously glanced at Jabaka.

"If it was Jabami, this bet would be easy to win."

But the point is, if he is planning to deal with the Zensaki-kai, will Mibu Aoi not make any move? Or, in other words, how much do the Zensaki-kai cadres know about his intelligence?

It was impossible to hide the fact that he had participated in a gambling game with Jakob. If the Onoha sisters had been more cautious, they might have refused the gambling game.

"I need to find another assistant to join us," Hikigaya Hachiman thought to himself.

"Is there anything troubling you, Hikigaya-kun?" It was Jabami who could sense Hikigaya's predicament.

Hikigaya had no intention of hiding anything and revealed all his thoughts.

"This is indeed a very tricky situation." Jabaka thought about it and suddenly became a little angry and said, "But Hikigaya-kun and I really don't get along."

"Even though you're facing such a challenging opponent, Hikigaya-kun doesn't want to enjoy the thrill of gambling?"

"Disgusting~"

Indeed, the two men's gambling philosophies are completely opposite. One pursues stable victory, while the other pursues the thrill of life and death.

Hikigaya shook his head with a smile. In this regard, if the two of them participated in this gambling game together, their mutual understanding might have the opposite effect. And he was unwilling to correct Jabana's somewhat morbid obsession with gambling.

Only by maintaining a sense of distance can the friendship last long.

This is the truth that Hachiman Hikigaya learned from his sixteen years of life.

After Yumeko acted coquettishly for a while, she suggested seriously, "Why don't we let Saotome-san give it a try? Or Aiura-san."

"Well, Saotome and I have already agreed. As for Aiura, I will ask her what she thinks."

This time, Hikigaya didn't have any entanglements in his heart. After the student union check incident, Hikigaya was willing to trust others a little more.

Saotome and I share the same goal of revenge. Aiura Kokoro has the same ambition as me. We can be considered as a community of interests.

Although Ai Puxin's strength is a little worse, if the competition is about tacit understanding, the requirements for gambling skills are not that high. In addition, bringing Ai Puxin with him is also an extra layer of insurance.

The foot-in-the-door effect tells us that before we meet our own conditions, it is best to leave the other party with alternative options.

After being rejected once, it would be difficult to reject it a second time. In Hikigaya's imagination, the Onoshira sisters might also reject Saotome's participation.

'Then let's use the triple threshold effect.'

"Bring Jabami, Saotome, and Aiura Shin along. There will always be someone who will join me in the bet."

Hikigaya Hachiman had a plan in mind, and he immediately told Jabami Yumeko about this idea.

I heard the other person's confused expression.

After a while, he said, "Hikigaya-kun, you really are... so cunning."

"There is no word cunning in the dictionary of adults." Hikigaya shamelessly denied Jabaka's statement. He himself did not even realize that when he was with Jabaka, the depression in his heart seemed to have eased a lot.

"She's not even an adult yet...but she's so ○." Jabami Yumeko glanced at a certain part of Hikigaya and muttered softly.

"?"

Hikigaya almost couldn't catch his breath, but out of the corner of his eye he saw a familiar figure in the corner of the playground.

"Miura? Why is she here?"

Hikigaya thought he had seen it wrong, but after recalling his memory, he found that the person was at least 90% similar to Miura Yumiko.

And her expression seemed to show some resistance? Or fear?

Miura Yumiko is Hikigaya's junior high school classmate. In Yukinoshita Yukino's house-playing game, the two had some interactions, but they lost contact after graduation. Hikigaya doesn't know where Miura Yumiko, the Queen of Fire, went.

Now I actually saw her at Hyakkaou Academy.

"Speaking of which, her family should be well off."

"Hikigaya-kun, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just might have seen my junior high school classmate."

"Eh? Hikigaya-kun's junior high school classmate? Don't you want to go meet him?"

"She and I...have nothing in common."

"Hikigaya-kun, you should be more cheerful once in a while."

Jabami Yumeko noticed that Hikigaya Hachiman was absent-minded, so she took Hikigaya's hand without saying anything and walked towards the place where he had just been looking.

...

In a sparsely populated grove, Hikigaya was unwillingly led here by Jabami Yumeko.

Speaking of the reason for my reluctance, I seem to have accidentally seen Miura's pink panties before, which caused a big misunderstanding. It would be very awkward if we meet again...

"Hey, Jabaka, it's not nice to be so presumptuous to meet someone you don't know." Hikigaya Hachiman felt a headache, but somehow he didn't object to Jabaka's behavior.

I followed her half-heartedly.

Maybe deep down in his heart, he still misses his junior high school life.

As they walked deeper into the grove, Hikigaya's somewhat awkward expression suddenly became solemn.

He heard Miura's cry for help.

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