Hikigaya Challenges Kakegurui

Hikigaya Hachiman gently patted Jabami Yumeko's back, signaling her not to meddle in other people's business. He took her to the corner of the classroom, past the crowd of onlookers, and took out his books to study.

Hikigaya gave the greatest respect to Saotome Meiari, a girl who was still alive.

The sky was still gloomy, but the heavy rain had stopped.

The dawn is about to break through the clouds.

13 Hikigaya Hachiman is looking forward to

"What happened to Saotome-san is not your fault."

Suzui Ryota held a cup full of cold water and sat in front of Hikigaya Hachiman and Jabami Yumeko. In order to repay Yumeko's kindness, he decided to treat the two to a meal and kindly gave them a brief introduction to the current situation of Hyakkaou Academy.

Although he was the person who was ordered around the most by Saotome, he rarely took this opportunity to take revenge on Saotome.

"Although such a person has no use value and no room for advancement, luck will always be with him." Hikigaya Hachiman scooped a spoonful of curry beef into his mouth and gave a fair evaluation.

First of all, even someone as ambitious as him couldn't have any different opinions about Ryota Suzui.

'A thoroughgoing good-natured person.'

Yumeko's plate was filled with golden and crispy tempura. She picked up one and put it into her mouth. After tasting its rich and delicious taste, she put her hand under it, picked it up with chopsticks and handed it to Hachiman.

It's obvious what I want to express.

"Well, Jabami-san, I'm not used to eating other people's food." Hikigaya Hachiman silently recited prime numbers and rejected her coldly.

Really, has the relationship between these two gotten this good?! This is a feeding play! Suzui Ryota burst into tears.

"Um, are you listening to me?"

"Yeah, there are some, Suzui-san, please continue." Jabami Yumeko replied nonchalantly as she stuffed the tempura back into her mouth, covering her somewhat rude chewing movements with her hand.

"This is the rule of this academy."

"Rules?" Hikigaya put down his chopsticks. He needed just this kind of information to systematically integrate everything he had learned in the past two days.

Suzui Ryota looked serious, with uncontrollable fear in his eyes, "Yes, the rules. There are many children of the powerful in the political and financial circles in this academy. What they need to lead others in the future is skill and mind reading, as well as the victory of the strong and the defeat of the weak at this time. This is the consideration of the academy."

"So people with strong gambling skills here can gain high reputation, and special students like Saotome can also live well."

After saying this, he suddenly realized that Hikigaya Hachiman in front of him was also a special student, and hurriedly explained: "No, no, I don't mean to look down on special students."

"It's okay, I don't care, go on."

Hikigaya Hachiman waved his hand.

Suzui Ryota breathed a sigh of relief: "On the contrary, people with weak gambling skills will be bullied by everyone. Specifically, there is a class system in the academy. The student union centrally manages the money handed in by the students of the academy, and this amount determines the class of the students."

"The highest level is the student council members. They are extremely skilled in gambling and no one in the school dares to go against their will."

"The next are the managers of the various casinos in the academy. They rule the place through gambling techniques and are not to be trifled with."

Casino? Hikigaya Hachiman suddenly thought of the closed activity rooms and the people with dog tags he saw yesterday.

"Then there are the amazing ones like Saotome-san, then the average students, and finally the bottom-level livestock."

"The ranking of students will be announced from time to time. If you are in the bottom 3000 of the students in the academy, you will become a non-cooperative student, commonly known as a 'livestock'."

This is really a small society with clear class divisions. Hikigaya's eyes flickered. The upper and lower classes are clearly divided. The person who created this system is really interesting.

"Oh, that's too much..." Jabami Yumeko said it was too much, but she couldn't help but squeeze her thighs together. Hikigaya Hachiman was silent for a while.

This woman is really hopeless!

As Suzui was talking, he saw a group of boys not far away casually throwing plates in front of the boy with the "livestock" tag on his chest, showing the privileges of the superiors to the fullest. Even if the livestock boy was unwilling, he could only pick it up silently, because he was not good at gambling.

If you don’t have good gambling skills, that is, you don’t have good tactics or mind-reading skills, you are destined to live a relatively failed life.

Looking at this scene, Suzui sighed: "It wasn't so serious before, but since the current student council president took office a year ago, everything has gotten worse."

"The current student council president? Who is that?"

"Momobami Kirari."

"The student council of this academy is the strongest gambling group. She who won the student council presidency is naturally the strongest among them."

Hearing this name, Jabami Yumeko's hand paused slightly, but Hachiman still caught it well.

Momobaku? Their last names both contain the character "喰", so are they distant relatives of Jabaku Yumeko?

"She joined our academy when she was in high school, but she suddenly became the student council president. She made a bet with the then president for the position of president, and she won the bet. After that, she established the current student council. Since then, the class consciousness of students has become what it is now."

"Oh, I'm sorry. I scared you guys."

Ryota Suzui wanted to see the emotion called fear in the eyes of the two transfer students, so that his efforts in persuading them to quit gambling would not be in vain.

However, things went against his wishes and the reactions of the two people in front of him surprised him.

Jabami Yumeko clenched her legs nervously, her plump legs making rubbing sounds under the black wrap. She leaned her head on Hikigaya Hachiman's shoulder, put her thumb slightly into her mouth, and bit her thumb in the middle with two rows of neat, white teeth covered with saliva.

She said in a sweaty and panting voice, "Hahaha, really. This is an academy that is more unimaginable the more you hear about it. It's great that I can transfer here. Don't you think so, Hachiman-san?"

"Ahem." Hikigaya Hachiman took off his coat expressionlessly and covered Jabami Yumeko's thighs with it to prevent her hand from being seen by others as she involuntarily reached inside her skirt.

A rare fire of excitement burned in his eyes, which was of course not directed at Jabami Yumeko, but at this fascinating, absolutely fair and downward-exploitative system.

The capable ones go up, the mediocre ones go down.

This is the life that Hikigaya Hachiman pursues, he wants to win, he wants to win all the time!

"It's really exciting." Hikigaya Hachiman expressionlessly picked up the black tea and took a sip, "Use their spear to attack their shield, hehe~"

this...

Suzui Ryota couldn't help but sweat. What the hell was this tacit understanding? What were these two guys talking about?

Didn't they feel scared at all?! It was okay for Jabaka-san, he had hoped that Hikigaya-san would listen and persuade Jabaka-san not to get too deeply involved.

As a result, Hikigaya-san also looks like he's possessed?!

This world is crazy...

The three of them fell into some strange emotions until -

A clear female voice came from the restaurant on the second floor, pulling them out of their emotions:

"I won this round!"

14 Hikigaya smells the stink of evil

Suzui Ryota looked in the direction of the voice, and after seeing the man clearly, he swallowed subconsciously:

"That's Huang Yiyue, the only one among the first-year students who was selected by the student council early on."

"Her family is one of the top toy manufacturers in Japan."

"Don't mess with her. It's very dangerous to gamble with her. It is said that she has never lost a poker game!"

Jabami Yumeko was not afraid but delighted. She clapped her hands together in excitement. "Really? Undefeated?! And she's also a member of the student council. Does that mean she's better than Saotome-san?"

This guy...

Suzui Ryota gave up struggling and said weakly: "Well, it is said that she entered the student council by handing over a huge amount of wealth. After all, her family is super rich. But it's just a rumor. Many people looked down on her and challenged her because of this, and finally lost everything."

"I really want to fight her once."

While Jabami Yumeko was indulging in her gambling fantasies, the dirty Hachiman Hikigaya had already begun his plot.

Emperor Yiyue...

Hikigaya Hachiman's eyes flickered. He had heard of this surname and had investigated her family's consortium.

No, the order might be wrong. He must have investigated the Huang Group before he knew about Huang Yiyue.

As for why Hikigaya Hachiman wanted to investigate the Royal Group, it was because the group had resources that Hikigaya Hachiman valued. Not only were they one of the best toy manufacturers, they also had stores in large supermarket chains across the country, selling a wide variety of things, of which toys were just one, and also books, which Hikigaya Hachiman valued the most.

If I could get her family's resources, it would be of great benefit to my career as a novelist~ Hikigaya narrowed his eyes.

Huang Yiyue, a stepping stone that can bring him fame and fortune, is more valuable than defeating Saotome Meiari from any perspective.

If it were outside, it would be impossible for me to get the resources of the Huang Yiyue family with my identity as a best-selling author. However, in this school...

Hikigaya Hachiman's mouth curled up——

As long as she wins, it'll be fine.

Many chains of interests were connected one by one in Hikigaya Hachiman's mind, which made him curious about Momobami Kirari. He investigated Hyakkaou Academy, but could not find any useful information through formal channels, nor could he get any information about the student union.

Well, the student council president’s family, which could make a super rich second-generation like Huang Yiyue submit to the rules she set, must be even more amazing than imagined.

Of course, whether it would be feasible to plunder the resources of students' families through gambling required him to test it himself.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

After finishing the gambling battle in the private room on the second floor, Sumeragi Itsuki walked out of the box, holding the handrail, and walked down the stairs towards Hikigaya Hachiman and Jabami Yumeko.

"Jabaka-san, Hikigaya-san, nice to meet you. I'm Sumeragi Itsuki. Please give me your guidance."

Suzui Ryota, who was sitting opposite the two of them, was naturally ignored.

However, he did not realize that he was being ignored and became the mouthpiece for the Snake duo: "How, how... so sudden." He stood up and walked around behind the Snake duo as if he was facing a formidable enemy.

"You two have become the focus of our first-year group~"

"I was surprised that he beat Saotome-san so badly on his first day at school~"

Huang Yiyue’s petite body is as flat as a plain mountain, with a simple headband on her head. She doesn’t look like a super rich second-generation with the aura of an undefeated playing card player at all.

However, Hikigaya Hachiman still sensed the malice in the other party. He frowned, subconsciously feeling a little disgust and resistance towards Huang Itsuki.

When he realized that he had such emotions, he couldn't help but pay more attention to Huang Yiyue. Years of observing humans had given Hikigaya Hachiman a keen intuition.

Anyone who makes him feel disgusted at first sight must be hiding some secret.

Either he was a smiling tiger pretending to be a pig but eating the tiger. Or he was twisted and dirty inside, and the stench of pure evil was so disgusting that even a sophisticated egoist like him felt disgusted.

So will Huang Yiyue be the former or the latter?

"We need more information." Hikigaya Hachiman stopped treating Sumeru Itsuki like a prey and faced this woman with full concentration.

Mengzi also seemed to sense some characteristics in Huang Yiyue.

The blush on her face quickly faded, and she faced her in the manner of a lady from a noble family but not an approachable one.

"Actually, I am a little confident in gambling."

"It would be interesting to compete with you two~"

"Please definitely compete with me!" Her words hit the F()H spot in Mengzi's heart. The alienation on Mengzi's face immediately disappeared, and she looked friendly as if she treated Huang Yiyue as her best friend.

"That's how it has to be."

Ah--

Huang Yiyue gave an intriguing smile, which made Hikigaya realize that something was increasingly wrong.

It can be seen that the other party is definitely not gambling for the sake of gambling like Mengzi, but like him, she regards gambling as a tool to plunder others.

But so far, Hikigaya has not figured out what the other party wants to plunder from Yumeko and himself.

Sumeru Itsuki turned to look at Hikigaya Hachiman: "Then...where's Hikigaya-san?"

"can."

Hikigaya Hachiman said calmly, ready to take risks. His dead fish eyes became serious, and from then on, all the other party's actions could not escape his observation.

"great."

Huang Yiyue clapped her hands excitedly, "Then let's go to the second floor. There is my private room there. It's very comfortable."

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A classroom for the first year Chinese class.

As usual, during break time, students would gather in groups of three or four to play cards and dice.

Only Saotome was left, as if she had been torn away from the world, sitting alone in the middle of the classroom. Her eyes had completely lost their brilliance, and only a mechanical murmur could be heard from her mouth:

"Why, why, why..."