Hikigaya Hachiman is Kuuga?

The corners of Saki Kawasaki's mouth twitched wildly, and she whispered to Yuigahama Yui, who had a complicated expression on her face.

"It must be normal, maybe?"

"Hey, hey, hey~ You're not sure either."

"There's nothing I can do about it. After all, Xiao Cai sometimes seems so charming that I'm a little moved."

"…Okay, you're right."

Although Saki Kawasaki wanted to deny it, the image of Ayaka Totsuka with her back to the beautiful scenery, the sunlight reflecting like wings, and a gentle smile towards the camera, like an angel descending to the earth, flashed through her mind. She really couldn't tell a lie against her will.

"…Hehehe~ Hikigaya x Totsuka? It's a great combination indeed…"

Hina Ebina, who was standing by, was stunned for a while by the scene that for some reason did not cause her to feel blasphemous, but her true nature was finally exposed. With a nosebleed flowing, she spoke words that made Tobe Sho, who wanted to talk to her, unable to respond.

"Yes, yes, yes~ Don't get too excited, wipe your nosebleed quickly, be good!"

Like an old mother, Yumiko Miura took out a tissue and wiped the blood from her excited friend's nose.

"Well, the atmosphere looks good anyway, isn't that enough?"

"Yeah, that's right!"

Hayato Hayama's summary words made everyone present, except Tobe Sho, smile gently.

[Eh? What's going on? Is it like I'm the only one who's not good enough?]

Tobe Sho began to doubt his life.

"But, I just said taking a photo with Hachiman."

"Eh? Come with me?"

There was a hint of sadness in Totsuka Ayaka's eyes. She looked at the boy in front of her with an expression of disbelief and pointed her index finger at herself with a slightly trembling tone. She smiled gently like an angel, which could warm people's hearts.

"Yes, it's with Hachiman."

"...Well, let's take the photo. Thank you."

"Really? It's just a photo. It's too polite to say thank you."

"Ah."

Thanks to the smile that was as warm as the sun but gentle in front of him, Hikigaya Hachiman's tense expression melted away, revealing a hearty smile, and took a photo that he no longer thought was ruined.

"Too cunning, Xiaocai and Xiaoqi. We want to take pictures too."

Yuigahama Yui, who was good at observing the direction of the atmosphere, discovered that she could now intervene between the two of them, and she exuded a natural aura and blended in seamlessly.

"That's right. It's rare for us to be together, so why don't we take a photo together? How about that, Hikigaya-kun?"

Following closely was Hayama Hayato, who had a gentle aura. Thanks to this, Miura Yumiko and others also integrated well. Except for Hikigaya Hachiman feeling a little unnatural, no "malice" was sensed.

"No, no problem."

Next, they took turns taking a few photos. Because Hayato Hayama had reminded them in advance, the classmates around them did not come over to interfere with their photo shoot because of the aura of Yuigahama Yui that weakened their presence.

Otherwise, the Hayato Hayama effect will appear, thus destroying the good atmosphere at the moment.

Seeing this scene, Shizuka Hiratsuka, who was leading the team not far behind, smiled with relief.

"Well, it's not a bad thing to have Hayama join in. At least with him around, the atmosphere won't be too seriously disrupted. With Yuigahama who knows how to act according to the atmosphere, it can make Hikigaya feel more relaxed."

After that, she said in a slightly dejected voice: "But when will you face up to your own excellence, Hikigaya?"

Chapter 179: The boy with low self-esteem slowly began to face himself

"I~I asked Komachi about your taste, and she said these are what you like to eat, but I don't know...if they are really to your taste...so~"

Hikigaya Hachiman blinked, staring blankly at Saki Kawasaki, who was standing in front of him with a shy look on her face, holding out a lunch box with both hands, and pointing at herself in confusion.

"Is this really for me?"

Although he had seen through his inhuman vision that the lunch box did contain a combination of ingredients that were normal for humans to eat, and was not the "fake" things used to tease him in the past, his years of experience still warned him not to believe what was happening before his eyes.

After all, sometimes one might mistake the person for the wrong person and end up sending the wrong lunch box. He had also experienced being thrown away by someone who misjudged him out of nervousness. So in order to avoid rolling around on the bed like a maggot the next time he returned, he asked again very seriously.

As for the conversation that took place on the train earlier, he had already dealt with it subconsciously. Unless he restored it when necessary, he would never let the social death incident that had happened before happen again.

He, Hikigaya Hachiman, will never make the same mistake twice!

[As expected, just as Yuigahama and the others said, he really is…]

If this was said to the boy before she knew him, Saki Kawasaki felt that she would definitely get angry. After all, a young girl mustered up the courage to cook for you, and she told you twice in a row not to mistakenly recognize the wrong person, and it would be unreasonable for you, as a boy, to be so unromantic.

However, now she can clearly see the fear in the boy's eyes, which is a pain engraved on his soul that cannot be easily erased.

It is precisely because of these pains that they accumulate into the thick psychological wall that prevents others from entering the boy's heart, and reveals the deep inferiority.

Therefore, the shyness in the girl's heart was completely drowned in the rolling sadness.

But she didn't show it.

Because she knew very well that it would only cause harm to the boy.

So, Saki Kawasaki suppressed her inner sadness and gave a sincere smile to the self-abased boy.

"I made this especially for you, Hikigaya Hachiman-kun!"

"..."

[Hmm? Who is Hikigaya Hachiman? Who is so lucky to have a beautiful girl to make his lunch box?]

[Eh? It seems like I am Hikigaya Hachiman, isn't it just the same name? Or is it me from a parallel universe?]

"So, do you want to try it, Hikigaya Hachiman?"

"..."

[She seemed to be looking at me? And her eyes didn’t shift at all, so it was really for me? Was this a dream?]

Regardless of whether it was a dream or not, it was obviously very impolite to let a girl hold the lunch box all the time, so after wiping his hands on his pants, Hikigaya Hachiman raised them up and solemnly took the lunch box from the girl's eyes. For some reason, he could easily lift a tourist bus, but he felt that the lunch box in his hands was very heavy, and it almost crushed his hands when the other party let go.

"Thanks."

"Remember to tell me what you think after you finish eating. I, I'm leaving first."

After Hikigaya Hachiman took the lunch box, all the emotions that had been accumulating in Saki Kawasaki's heart were released, and the sensibility that had just wrapped around her rationality also completely disappeared. Her recovered IQ made her understand very clearly what she had just said. As a girl who looked bad on the outside but was actually very shy on the inside, she immediately wanted to ignore the angels and directly use her superpowers to drill into the ground and never come out no matter how hard she tried.

Fortunately, her remaining rationality was overwhelmed by her emotion that returned again, so she did not put it into action. Instead, she ran away from the boy's sight with a blushing face.

"This~this is really..."

This scene, which had only appeared in his imagination and was even a luxury in his dreams, was now actually happening in front of Hikigaya Hachiman. He felt very complicated and was unable to concentrate on paying attention to the unusual situation around him.

The boy simply took the lunch box in his hand, quietly found an empty corner, and slowly swallowed the cold rice balls one by one with a smile to warm his stomach. Although the delicious rice balls in his mouth suddenly became a little salty as he ate, it did not ruin their deliciousness.

He could responsibly say that this was the most delicious rice ball he had ever eaten in his life, a delicacy that could be compared to the cooking of his sister Hikigaya Komachi.

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"Huh~ I don't know if it will suit his taste. Now I only have taste and smell. I don't know if it will have any effect."

On the other side, Saki Kawasaki hid in a corner, holding down her wildly beating heart with her right hand. At the same time, she was worried whether her cooking could impress the boy whose only senses of taste and smell were left.

"I hope it suits your taste. After all, there's not much I can do, but I can still make you an edible bento."

The girl's mood calmed down after she thought about the boy's situation.

"The bento made by your family can make you feel the warmth of family love, so the food made by the people you have helped can also make you understand that your efforts are not in vain, but that you can actually feel the warmth, right?"

“Even if you don’t know what it means.”

Saki Kawasaki's original intention of making the bento was to repay Hachiman Hikigaya for saving her life. The reason why she took so long to take action after learning his true identity was because she was still digesting the sudden amount of information and thinking about what she could do.

Now she doesn't have the fighting power like Yukinoshita Yukino and Yuigahama Yui, who can stand by his side and share the pressure. She also doesn't have the free time like Miura Yumiko, Ebina Hina, and Hayama Hayato, who can help him fight against those who slander him on the forum. She also doesn't have the smart talent like Shikuma Rika, who can design a bunch of black technologies that can help him.

She is just a girl from an ordinary family, with several younger brothers and sisters to take care of. Even if she has a scholarship to pay for college, she still needs to work to help her parents relieve the family pressure.

So, she always wanted to repay him but couldn't find a way.

Although she would go to the forum to fight when she had free time, that was not enough to calm her heart. After all, after knowing what the young man was carrying, who could restrain themselves from sharing even a little bit of the burden on his shoulders?

Not to mention, the slight affection she had developed during the incident commissioned by her brother was magnified by the phone call during the cultural festival.

It is naturally difficult for her to accept that she will continue to be "useless" like this.

But if you say that you just awaken into Agito regardless of the consequences, then there will be no benefit except adding burden and pushing your family into hell. Facing the God of Creation, having one or two more cannon fodders is really useless.

After being troubled for a long time, she finally found the direction of her efforts when her younger sister Kawasaki Jinghua fed her a piece of hamburger meat with a fork and said in a soft and cute voice and a healing smile: "Sister, don't frown. You should smile happily after eating the hamburger meat made by your sister. Jinghua likes your sister's cooking the most, so cheer up."

"I really hope I can help you!"

The girl straightened up and walked towards the door. After all, she still had to move forward with the other members of the team, and it would not be good to keep others waiting too long.

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“Yui, is this really okay? You’re aiding the enemy~”

Ebina Hime said to the girl next to her who had just finished using her super powers with a somewhat worried look on her face.

"It doesn't matter, as long as Xiaoqi is happy. And I won't give up easily. If the cooking doesn't work, I can try other methods."

"Yoshi~ Yui, that's right. Love is indeed important, but you can't make the person you like troubled. This is the right way to love. It's evil to hurt the person you like for your own selfish reasons."

Ebina Hina blinked her eyes, staring blankly at Miura Yumiko who suddenly became excited, and Yuigahama Yui who also became inexplicably excited after hearing her words.

"Girls in love are really scary~"

After sighing softly, she smiled and walked forward, pushing the two men's backs with both hands, "Okay, okay, we should get going, otherwise it will be bad if Hayato-kun and the others wait too long."

"I know, Hime, don't retreat. It's dangerous to walk like this."

"That is to say, we can just go on our own."

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Shinichi Kawada was in a space that could not be sensed. He looked at everything that had just happened with satisfaction. "Yoshi~ That's the rhythm. Hurry up and let this brat understand that you really care about him. He is no longer a forgotten, dispensable existence that has become a joke."

"It's an existence that is needed by others."

Chapter 180: The Quiet Beginning of the Test

"How does it taste?"

Saki Kawasaki took the lunch box that was no longer weightless and looked at the gentle-faced boy in front of her with a nervous expression.

"These are the best rice balls I've ever eaten. Thank you, Kawasaki."

If it were the Hikigaya Hachiman of the past, even if he knew that the other person treated him sincerely, he would choose to ignore the kindness of others due to his awkward personality and the pain that remained in his heart, and would say ambiguous words to get by. Later, through slow contact, he would gradually let others know that he was hopeless and completely give up on him.

In the final analysis, it is because of his miserable life that

Chapter 181: Hayato Hayama is working hard

"So you are here."

Hayato Hayama, who was staring at the lake in a daze, turned around when he heard the voice and found that it was Hikigaya Hachiman. He asked in surprise, "Are you looking for me?"

"Well, I have something to ask you."

"Okay, I'll tell you everything I know."

"Why do I feel like your attitude has changed a lot?"

"Isn't that how I always am?"

[Faced with someone like you, who would have any ill will towards you unless they are a psychopath or a mentally ill bastard?]

Hayato Hayama's expression was still that bright smile that gave people a feeling of being bathed in spring breeze, so Hikigaya Hachiman didn't pay too much attention to it. The complex emotions that the other party secreted at this moment had nothing to do with the battle anyway.

"Don't you want the Ministry of Revenue to confess your feelings to you?"

"Hina talked to you?"

[Are you angry when you chat with me?]

Hikigaya Hachiman could clearly see the anger coming out of Hayama Hayato when he said this, and although he knew about it, he had no intention of delving into it further.

"No, I asked her."

[After calming down, I feel guilty again. What is going on?]