Hikigaya Hachiman is Kuuga?

"It seems that what Rixon said is quite right. As long as you can withstand the super senses of the Pegasus form, no enemy can withstand a Pegasus crossbow. If there is any, just add a few more."

Hikigaya Hachiman gently stroked the barrel of the Pegasus crossbow as if it were a rare treasure.

"Then practice hard, and try to get it done with one shot from a distance in the future."

After establishing the next target for his future battle plan, Hikigaya Hachiman got on the Hunter and when he passed by Sato Jin, who was still some distance away from his destination, he gave him a thumbs up with a puzzled look on his face and then walked away.

"Has it been resolved? It seems that No. 4 has become stronger, or is his anti-aircraft ability stronger than the others?"

Due to the lack of battlefield intelligence, Sato Jin was unable to make a reasonable judgment, but he was not overly worried.

Even though he had only met Hikigaya Hachiman a few times, he still trusted him to a certain extent.

Anyone who is not blind or stupid, and has seen the scene of his battle with Gurongi, would not think that the man who silently endured the enemy's attacks, tried to take the enemy to a deserted place, and even had to waste some means when killing the enemy in the end, throwing it into the sky so that the explosion caused by the enemy's death could not hurt other people, or cause secondary damage to the surrounding environment, is the same as the Gurongi who killed humans.

Even though they were afraid of the violent aesthetic exterior, they were not so ignorant that they did not know who was protecting them.

"We humans can't fall behind, otherwise it would be too embarrassing."

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Hikigaya Hachiman parked the car not far from Chiba Village. After letting the hunter observe that there was no one around, he got out of the car and said to the hunter: "Okay, you go back first. I have to go back to work too."

"Okay, bye, Hachiman!"

The hunter activated the optical camouflage function and disappeared from Hikigaya Hachiman's sight, then returned to the warehouse where it usually stayed.

"By the way, since the hunter's intelligence is not low now, I don't have to keep it in the warehouse every day. I can just let it follow me. In this way, I don't have to waste time coming here when encountering emergencies."

"Well, let's talk to it when we get back."

Having found a way to get to the scene faster, Hikigaya Hachiman felt a little happy. With a faint smile on his face, he walked back to Chiba Village to start his unfinished work.

At this time, only twenty minutes had passed since he "went to the toilet", which did not prevent him from facing the "questioning" next.

Chapter 34: Tsurumi Rumi realizes something, Hikigaya Hachiman insists on his own opinion

"Huh? They're all gone?"

When Hikigaya Hachiman returned to the stream, he found that no one was there. He sighed in disappointment, "Ah~ I really hope I can be healed by the smiles of Komachi and Totsuka!"

"What cure?"

A rather cold and childish voice came out of nowhere, which made Hikigaya Hachiman shudder. He turned around and looked at Tsurumi Rumi who was hiding behind a tree, and said with a strange expression.

"You haven't left yet?"

"There's nowhere to go anyway, and it's cooler here, so I don't want to move."

Tsurumi Rumi turned her head away and didn't look at his face. Because she was in the shadows, it was difficult to see her expression.

"Really……"

As Hikigaya Hachiman spoke, he walked over to sit next to her and casually asked, "Do you want to take some photos?"

“…Who are you shooting?”

Tsurumi Rumi tightly grasped the digital camera hanging around her neck.

"There are no living things here except you and me, right? Or can you see dead things? That camera can take pictures of them?"

The inappropriate words lowered Tsurumi Rumi's inner defenses, and she turned around to look at the boy next to her.

He doesn't have the infectious friendliness of his fellow blond handsome guy. Most of the time, his eyes give people a rotten feeling like a corpse, which reduces his good looks by several points. To be honest, the whole person gives people a pretty disgusting feeling.

But she didn't know why, from the first moment she saw him, she felt that he was more attractive than the handsome blond guy. It was not until she got to know him that she realized that she and he were the same type of person.

They are all lonely people.

The difference is that he enjoys loneliness, while she is afraid of loneliness.

So, she had more respect for him.

She admired the boy's calm attitude towards loneliness and even his enjoyment of it, which diluted the bitterness and pain she felt at the moment of isolation.

"But if I take pictures of Hachiman, my mother will be scared. She might think I met some bad guy."

"Tsk~ You are such an unlovable kid. I am so generous so rarely. Others don't even have the chance to take photos of me!"

"Isn't that because you don't have any friends, Hachiman?"

"Shut up~ Do you want to take pictures?"

Tsurumi Rumi picked up the camera and turned her head away from the boy who was quite dazzling to her. Two cute blushes appeared on her cute face and she said softly: "Since Hachiman has said this, I will take a few photos reluctantly!"

"Let me make it clear first, I took this photo because you are so pitiful."

"Yes, yes, thank you very much, Miss Tsurumi."

[Really, the tsundere kid isn’t cute at all!]

Complaining inwardly, Hikigaya Hachiman stood up and brushed off the dirt on his clothes.

"Stay in the United States..."

"what?"

Because the voice was too soft and he didn't listen carefully, Hikigaya Hachiman felt like he might have heard it wrong.

"Just call me Liumei."

As if she was too shy, Tsurumi Rumiko's ears turned red and she turned her head away to avoid looking at Hikigaya Hachiman.

[Oh my god, why do I suddenly feel that this child has become cute? Can it be true that girls become more cute when they become tsundere? Doesn’t this only exist in the second dimension?]

The girl's sudden cuteness made him blush slightly.

"Okay, let's go over there and take some photos!"

He smiled and extended his hand to Tsurumi Rumi, who hesitated for a moment before turning her head and placing her hand in his palm.

The two of them took steps and walked slowly in the mountains and forests, occasionally taking photos together when they saw a happy scene. The pleasant atmosphere of getting along together made the gloom on Tsurumi Rumi's face dissipate a lot.

"That's all for today. I hope you have fun at the Test of Courage."

"Hey~ Hachiman, you don't have to do anything."

"..."

Hikigaya Hachiman, who wanted to leave at this point, stopped walking, a flash of surprise flashed across his face, and the moment he turned around, he became his usual decadent look again, "Ha~ What should I do?"

"Although I don't know, I think this is good. Meeting Hachiman is the greatest significance of my event this time."

It seemed that these words were too embarrassing, and in some sense even easy to be misunderstood. This time, not only did the girl's ears turn red, but her neck was also red.

"So, Hachiman, you and Yukinoshita-san don't need to do anything. I think the current state is fine."

Hearing this, Hikigaya Hachiman was stunned for a moment, then smiled softly, "Okay, I won't do anything, but I don't know about those nice guys."

After saying this, without waiting for Tsurumi Rumi to reply, he turned around, waved his hand, and disappeared from her sight.

"It turns out that lonely people are smarter, and the proof is me."

The scene just now appeared in his mind, and Hikigaya Hachiman smiled, "But..."

A hint of bitterness tinted the smile, changing its meaning.

"Something needs to be done. Being isolated is more than just what you are going through now. There are many things that are more terrible than violence."

"Mental violence is more terrifying than physical violence."

He raised his head and looked at the gradually darkening sky. "So, you must destroy the current atmosphere, otherwise the consequences will be very serious."

“Innocence and purity are sometimes a wonderful thing, but sometimes they are also a terrible thing.”

"Because it represents both beauty and disaster!"

"My loneliness is caused by ignorance and my own choices, while your loneliness is forced by external circumstances. It would be very dangerous if one of them is not good."

Hikigaya Hachiman's eyes gradually became sharper. "So, even if you will hate me, I must destroy that atmosphere completely. Otherwise, we won't be able to solve the danger caused by humans right in front of us, let alone stop the brutal Gurongi clan."

The road is not long!

He quickly walked to the cabin where the volunteers were. He opened the door and the first people who came into view were the gloomy-faced Yukino Yukinoshita and the guilty-looking Hayato Hayama who was standing opposite her.

The moment he opened the door, everyone turned their eyes to him. He ignored the gazes from people around him. Unlike his usual rotten eyes, his pupils, which revealed a firm will, fell on Yukinoshita Yukino.

"Where did the discussion go?"

Perhaps it was because she was stared at by those pupils filled with strong will that Yukinoshita Yukino felt surprised, but she quickly recovered and replied: "There is still no way, but..."

With a faint smile on his face, he said, "It looks like you've thought of something, right?"

"Well~ a solution that is not a solution. The only difficulty is that it makes all of you become villains."

"Bad guys? Why do you want us to be bad guys? Xiaoqi, what's your solution?"

Perhaps the word "evil guy" was too weird and didn't fit the good things that she and others were going to do next, which made Yuigahama Yui feel a little uneasy.

"That is to say, what is your plan, Hikidori-kun? Why do you want us to be the villains?"

Tobe Sho said dissatisfiedly.

"That's right. I haven't heard that you have to be a villain to help others. And why should we listen to you?"

Miura Yumiko folded her arms across her chest, narrowed her eyes and stared at him unhappily.

"Also, you didn't tell us what your method was, right?"

"Hayato, can you say something too?"

"Can you tell me your solution?"

"Eh?"

Miura Yumiko, who thought that Hayato Hayama would raise objections, heard these words that seemed to be in agreement, and she opened her eyes wide in disbelief and stared at him blankly.

"Falcon~ you..."

She wanted to say something, but she found that Hayato Hayama had become different. The cheerfulness that made people feel like spring breeze in the past was gone. In her eyes, Hayato Hayama was very unwilling. Even though he suppressed it very well, Miura Yumiko, who had always kept an eye on him, still noticed it.

He showed his unwillingness towards Hikigaya Hachiman who had come up with an unknown solution at this moment. That was the unwillingness of a loser towards the winner!

So, she stopped talking and focused her attention on the figure that she had never noticed before, wanting to see how the other person could make Hayato Hayama feel such emotions.

The atmosphere at the scene became heavy after Hayato Hayama's question. Totsuka Ayaka, who was about to say something to support Hikigaya Hachiman, and Hikigaya Komachi, who wanted to make a joke to ease the atmosphere, both shut their mouths and turned their attention to the boy standing at the door with his hands in his pockets, waiting to hear what he would say about the method of turning them into villains.

Facing the gazes with different emotions lingering on him, Hikigaya Hachiman remained calm, with a cruel arc at the corner of his mouth, "It's very simple. Since we can't solve the problem, we just need to solve the source of the problem."

"The source of the problem? Could it be..."

Yukinoshita Yukino quickly understood the meaning of his words.

"That's right..."

Facing the complicated gazes coming at him, Hikigaya Hachiman said softly: "As long as we completely destroy her current circle of relationships, everyone will become lonely, and there will be no lonely people anymore, only people of the same kind."

"And a relationship that can be destroyed, no matter how hard you try to repair it, the cracks will still exist, which means the chances of them reconciling are infinitely reduced."

"In this way, she won't be the only one who is alone. Wouldn't all the problems be solved?"

"Since they are all loners, they are each other's companions. It doesn't matter if they don't talk to each other normally. When someone bullies her, they will more or less help her."

At this point, he revealed a vicious smile. "As former abusers, they know very well that if they don't do anything, they will be the next one. With my plan, they will feel even more powerless. They don't want to face the fear of being powerless again. They have no choice but to help."

"In this case, whether she can become friends with them or continue this kind of relationship, isn't it a good thing?"

The boy spread his hands and spoke a lot of nonsense, but for high school students who did not have much social experience at the moment, it was indeed a way to solve the current situation.

So, in silence, everyone began to listen to the boy's continued twisted logic.

Chapter 35: Initial Heart-to-Heart Communication

Night falls quietly.

Hikigaya Hachiman silently looked up at the stars that lit up the night sky.

"Your approach still carries great risks."

Even though he didn't look back, he knew very well who was behind him.

"But you have no other solution, and my solution is the best one we can think of right now, isn't it?"

"Ah~"