Hikigaya Hachiman is Kuuga?

"Hehehe~ Yui, so you don't understand. After you punched him with the Friendship Fist, didn't you vent your dissatisfaction with Hikigaya Hachiman's behavior by punching him?"

Yuigahama Yui's eyes lit up when she heard this.

"You must have let out a lot of emotion, so you can definitely communicate with Hikigaya Hachiman, right?"

She looked at her friend's encouraging smile and nodded, "Well, I know what to do. Thank you, Hime."

"You're welcome. We're good friends, aren't we?"

Ebina Hina scratched her cheek a little embarrassedly. "Besides, after all, I am more or less responsible for this matter, so you can also say that this is my remedy."

"No, even if today's incident hadn't happened, with Xiaoqi's personality, it would have happened sooner or later, so you don't have to take it to heart, Hime."

“Okay, okay, my heart is not that fragile yet. You should go find Hikigaya-kun as soon as possible. Remember to ask Yukinoshita-san to come with you. Otherwise, it won’t work if you rely on yourself alone. This matter must be done by both of you. You know that, right, Yui?”

"You underestimate me, Hime. I know about this kind of thing."

Yuigahama Yui nodded solemnly, took out her cell phone and called Yukinoshita Yukino, and the call was connected the moment she dialed.

"So fast."

She sighed and said, "Xiaoxue, let's go find Xiaoqi now. I know how to convince him."

"Yuigahama-san, let's go find Hikigaya-kun now. I have a way to make him realize his mistakes."

The two of them said the same thing almost at the same time. After being stunned for a moment, they smiled in tacit understanding.

"Then we'll meet then, and talk about each other's methods, Xiaoxue."

"No problem. We definitely can't be a burden this time."

Chapter 186: The boy recognizes himself (Part 2)

Time goes back to the ten minutes before Yuigahama Yui made the call, and the view switches to Yukinoshita Yukino.

The girl felt distressed for Hikigaya Hachiman's behavior because he lied twice, but she was also inevitably a little angry. The reason was basically the same as Yuigahama Yui's.

She did not choose to go back to the hotel. There were too many people there and it would not be nice to be seen by others. So she walked to a park and sat down on a chair.

"What on earth have you been through, Hikigaya-kun?"

Yukinoshita Yukino looked up at the crescent moon whose brilliance was blocked by the thick clouds, and asked, "What makes you so reluctant to accept other people's kindness?"

"Now that I think about it, I don't even know much about your past. We were just training the whole time. Or maybe it's because we never understood Hikigaya Hachiman and only chose to listen to Kuuga's opinions, so you don't want to open your heart to us at all."

Feeling that she had found some reasons, she took out her cell phone from her pocket and prepared to contact Hikigaya Komachi to ask her about Hikigaya Hachiman. She believed that the girl who was always committed to helping her brother find a sister-in-law and who always wanted more information would definitely tell her everything that would not offend Hikigaya Hachiman. It was even possible that the other party had a resume of his.

"Hmm? Looks like things aren't going very well for you, Yukinoshita."

The girl had just taken out her cell phone and had not yet written any text to send when she heard an unfriendly voice in front of her.

As for why not friendly?

Of course, there was a deep resentment in his words, which made her shudder.

Yukinoshita Yukino looked up and when she found out it was Miura Yumiko, she understood why she was so resentful. After all, it would be a lie to say that she didn't care when she was scolded to tears by a peer.

But she is not the type to talk to you nicely if you don't treat me nicely. The girl who lives by the motto of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" immediately put down her phone, folded her hands in front of her chest, and looked at her calmly: "Oh~ I thought it was some kid who was so rude, it turned out to be Miura-san."

This statement, which was obviously taking advantage of her, made Miura Yumiko's eyebrows twitch wildly, but because there were still some things in her mind that she hadn't clarified, and considering what the other party was doing now, there was no need to argue with him.

Of course, she would not admit that she would still quarrel when she couldn't help it. Otherwise, wouldn't that be treating the other person as a non-human being? That was something that Yumiko Miura would never do.

"I don't want to argue with you now. Seeing how frustrated you are, something must have gone wrong with Hime, and then something went wrong with Hikigaya-kun's finishing touches, right?"

This matter-of-fact tone made Yukinoshita Yukino very unhappy, as if she was useless, but she couldn't refute it because the fact was that she was really messed up.

"From the look of you, I think I'm right."

Yumiko Miura showed a joyful smile. For the first time, she had made the "arrogant" Yukinoshita Yukino speechless. If she was not worried about the situation on her friend's side, she guaranteed that she would definitely laugh out loud "Oh hehe" to put a damper on her arrogance and let her know that she was not easy to bully.

She walked over to the chair next to the girl and sat down, not caring about her unhappy look. "Can you tell me what happened?"

"Don't try to deny it, and don't think about not telling me. You are hiding here by yourself. Yui must not be able to communicate with you, or you are not seen by Yui in your current state. From what I know about you, you don't know many people. In addition, Hikigaya-kun's matter is so special, so now you can't find anyone else except me, right?"

Yukino Yukinoshita originally wanted to refuse, but she found that what Miura Yumiko said made sense and she couldn't find any reason to refute it.

So, she sighed, "Hikigaya-kun didn't discuss anything with us, and confessed to Ebina-san before Tobe-san confessed his love."

Hearing this, Miura Yumiko did not interrupt. If it was just this extent, Yukinoshita Yukino would not have looked so shocked, so she waited quietly for what was to come.

"This lie obviously goes against the principles he has always followed. Although he has always claimed to be a despicable person, he does not like hypocritical relationships and takes emotional issues very seriously."

"So, this lie became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and he went berserk."

The information revealed by these few simple sentences made Yumiko Miura terrified. She had never actually witnessed what the scene would be like when someone went berserk.

Even though Yuigahama Yui's Eye of the End went berserk and wiped out everything that stood in her way, when she looked over afterwards, she found that everything had completely returned to its original state, and it was said that everything was done by Hikigaya Hachiman.

In addition, there was the back mountain that I had seen through the shared memory of Yukinoshita Yukino, which looked like it had been bombarded by countless shells, and the bad weather that I had witnessed with my own eyes.

All of these gave her a very intuitive understanding of Hikigaya Hachiman's destructive power. After all, destruction is sometimes much simpler than creation, isn't it?

So, when she heard about Hikigaya Hachiman's rampage, to be honest, even though she found it hard to imagine that the quiet and lonely boy in school would do something to hurt others, she still couldn't help but feel an emotion called fear.

"But he still suppressed it, right?"

However, the moment the image of a skeleton standing in the snowstorm and waving its fist emerged from my mind, all the fear disappeared, and what remained was only heartache.

[What price did you pay this time, Hikigaya-kun?]

"You're not afraid at all, Miura-san."

"What's there to be afraid of? If even a guy who is so gentle that he doesn't seem like a human being can be affected and go berserk, to be honest, I think this world may not be saved."

This is what Yumiko Miura really thinks.

As I spend more and more time on the Kamen Rider Kuuga forum, I have more and more respect for Hikigaya Hachiman.

After all, as she is not the protagonist, when faced with keyboard warriors who wantonly use malicious speculation to slander others on the Internet, she often wants to call Yuigahama Yui and ask her to tell Hikigaya Hachiman to ignore these scum and let them fend for themselves. She feels that these bastards are really not worth his sacrifice to protect.

But he still held on without any complaints. He is obviously a hero, but in his daily life he is a lonely man who doesn't care about being slandered and cursed for helping others.

You have to know that he can completely choose to ignore the safety of those people. No one stipulates that once he takes over the belt, he must become a hero who saves others.

Moreover, no one stipulated that he had to endure the malice inflicted on him and could not retaliate against those people.

But Hikigaya Hachiman still silently shouldered everything. Except for things related to combat, he was exactly the same as before Miura Yumiko knew him.

It was at that time that the girl understood a truth.

Hikigaya Hachiman is a human first, and then Kamen Rider Kuuga.

So, the moment she learned that the other party had gone berserk, she was subconsciously frightened when she thought of the terrible destructive power, but she soon calmed down.

She firmly believed that the boy named Hikigaya Hachiman would not hurt anyone.

"I more or less understand why you and Yui are angry."

"Ok?"

Yukinoshita Yukino frowned and looked at the girl next to her who, for some reason, gave her a much more refreshing vibe.

"You are angry that Hikigaya-kun never consulted you about anything, always chose to shoulder everything by himself, and refused to accept your joining. This is somewhat a betrayal of your efforts and trust, right?"

"Well, I won't deny that."

Yukinoshita Yukino did not deny the established facts.

"Actually, I've always hated you guys a little bit. Not just you, but also Yui, Hiratsuka-sensei and the others."

Miura Yumiko's remarks were somewhat off-topic, which made Yukinoshita Yukino very confused.

"Let me ask you, what do you hate about us?"

"Of course I need to explain it. It's just about cooperating with Hikigaya-kun in acting."

"Eh?"

The girl's tone of strong dissatisfaction and the words she spoke deepened her doubts.

"why?"

She really couldn't understand it. They had clearly unanimously decided to do this so that the boy who was trying hard to maintain his "self" would feel better and to prevent situations like today from happening.

It is hard to understand why this kind of behavior, which is meant to make the teenager feel better, would be disliked. If it were to be exposed, it would be the heaviest and most fatal blow to the teenager's good intentions, right?

"Ah~ So you guys all missed the point, right?"

Yumiko Miura sighed deeply, turned her head and glanced angrily at the girl who was confused and even slightly angry.

"You all take his identity as Kuuga too seriously, but forget that before he became Kamen Rider Kuuga, he was a lonely man named Hikigaya Hachiman, right?"

"If you see that your friend has a personality problem, shouldn't you just point it out and make it clear to him? Covering up and pretending, that's not what friends should do, right?"

"But……"

"Don't tell me that exposing Hikigaya-kun's lies will have serious consequences. This is obviously an excuse."

[But that's not an excuse, it's what really happens!]

Miura Yumiko looked at Yukinoshita Yukino in front of her, and saw that her expression was the same as Yuigahama Yui, who always observed other people's faces when speaking and had no opinions of her own. She knew that the other party did not agree with what she said.

In an instant, she became very irritable, but with the experience of arguing with the other party last time, she also understood that it was a good thing to do for the sake of her friend, but she also had to restrain her tone of being unhappy about the friendship being tarnished. Otherwise, something that was obviously leading to a happy ending would become a bad thing that might lead to the complete breakdown of the friendship.

So, Miura Yumiko took a deep breath, as if this could let out all the unhappiness that had accumulated in her heart.

"Then let me ask you a question first. Is Hikigaya-kun's rampage something that is likely to happen sooner or later in the future?"

"Yes."

Although she still couldn't understand why Miura Yumiko went off topic, her brain was now confused by complex emotions and she seemed to have guessed something, so Yukinoshita Yukino gave a positive answer.

"If he goes berserk, will you, Yui, and that mysterious senior stop him? Even at the cost of your own lives, that's fine."

"Of course."

"So, is there a difference?"

"Eh?"

When Yukinoshita Yukino heard this, she finally understood what Miura Yumiko meant, and even understood why she was unhappy.

[Yes, sooner or later, Hikigaya-kun will go berserk, and we will stop him no matter what. It's just a matter of sooner or later. There is no fundamental difference.]

[Telling him directly that we already know that he has lost some of his human senses is indeed likely to cause him to go berserk, but it also shows that we have been watching him and care about him, Hikigaya Hachiman.]

[It also proves to him that we are aware of ourselves. Isn't this the best way to tell him that he is not alone? Why didn't I think of this before?]

"From the look of you, you must have thought it through. I was originally planning to wait for you to notice it and tell him. After all, I told him that you were just a classmate I didn't know well, or someone he was protecting?"

Yumiko Miura was a little confused about her own definition, but this harmless thing was quickly thrown aside.

"Anything is fine. I think only those of you who have the most contact with him and can actually stand by his side can realize the problem yourself and tell him in person under the influence of emotions at the time. Only then can you break his heart."

"So, I never told you."

Having said this, she withdrew her gaze from the girl, raised her head and looked up at the bright full moon that had already broken free from the cover of the heavy clouds and was pouring silver-white light onto the earth.

"But Himena's incident caused you to become like this. No matter what, I can't stay out of it anymore. Otherwise, my conscience will be even more tormented."

"I always think that it's better for friends to talk about everything clearly. Those who are always afraid of this and that are not friends at all. But sometimes it is necessary to be tolerant in order to protect the relationship. So I didn't stop you from helping Hu Bu, nor did I stop Hime from rejecting his confession. Not helping either side is the best respect for this friendship."

"I'm also prepared to lose this relationship, but at least we both know the reason and each other's true thoughts. Even if we regret it in the future, we can still take comfort in it, right?"

For some reason, Miura Yumiko's slightly self-deprecating smile looked so dazzling to Yukinoshita Yukino. Even the silver-white veil draped over her body could not cover up this pure light.

"But at least we had a reason then, but you are so confused now and feel very uncomfortable, aren't you?"

"So, instead of regretting your decision in the future, wouldn't it be better to make everything clear and then bravely face the unknown answer?"

The girl's smile gradually became brighter and more dazzling.

"Besides, there's no rule that if you get a cruel answer, you can't use your power again to change the outcome, right?"

"Even if it's just to find another reason to comfort yourself, isn't it nice to work hard again for a relationship that you think is worth it?"

Seeing this, Yukinoshita Yukino smiled and nodded, "Yes, you are right, Miura-san."

The girl stood up and bowed sincerely under the other person's horrified gaze. "Thank you for your teachings today. It made me understand a lot of things."

Yukinoshita Yukino ignored the other person's gaze, straightened up and chuckled, saying: "Although I haven't properly expressed my gratitude, I have more important things to do, so please excuse me."

"Well, let's go."

"Goodbye."