Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

"This……"

In response to Horikita's question, the students in Class D were speechless.

Especially Sudo, who originally supported Horikita extremely. Although he approved of Horikita Suzune's strategy very much, he did not want to oppose Hikigaya's opinion.

After all, he still remembered Hikigaya's help and was unwilling to deny Hikigaya at this time.

Without Sudo as their general, the other students in Class D naturally had no chance of taking the lead in charging for the movement at this time, and they all kept silent.

This sudden reversal of the situation caused Horikita to fall into extreme depression and completely collapse.

Chapter 432: What on earth is Ayanokouji doing?

Although Horikita Suzune's strategy was questioned by the students of Class D due to Hikigaya's ridicule, most people still knew that Horikita's proposal was the most likely way to lead the class to victory.

Therefore, the scene was immediately divided into two camps and fell into a debate over whether to adopt Horikita Suzune's plan.

"I don't approve of this practice!"

"I can't accept that either. If I have to compete with someone stronger just because I'm not good at sports, I will definitely not win."

"What if I rank in the bottom 10 in my grade and lose 10 points on the midterm exam? I don't want to fail!"

All of a sudden, some students stood up against Horikita.

However, since Horikita's proposal was beneficial to the entire class, many students in the class expressed support for her proposal.

"I can't help it. This is all for the class."

"If the class can win, there will be relatively huge rewards. Don't complain at this time!"

"As long as you study hard, it is impossible for you to fail. Even if you lose 10 points, you won't fail!"

The overly sharp attitudes of both sides quickly caused internal strife in the class.

Those who supported Horikita and those who did not supported Horikita almost instantly split into two camps in a short period of time and started a fierce fight.

Such a chaotic scene was a development that Horikita himself had not anticipated.

But if Hikigaya hadn't stepped in to add fuel to the fire, things wouldn't have turned out this way...

Of course, Hikigaya was able to step forward and stir up the students' emotions because he did point out the loophole in Horikita's plan.

Although Horikita's advice of only seeking efficiency has won the favor of students with excellent athletic nerves, such as Sudo, or students who want to climb into Class A and students who are not good at sports, it is also equivalent to abandoning another part of students who are not good at sports and treating them as victims.

Her hasty proposal failed to take everyone's needs into account, not even to provide compensation for students who were not good at sports.

Even if the problem is temporarily covered up by someone's leadership ability, once the truth comes out, Horikita Suzune, who caused all this, must step forward and take all the responsibility.

"Ah - can I say something?" Just as the argument was getting more and more intense, Karuizawa suddenly stood up and interrupted the topic, "I also oppose Horikita's proposal. Just like Shinohara and Hikigaya said, why should other students suffer misfortune? In this way, can the class fight together?"

Karuizawa's sudden entrance surprised many students and made Horikita's already ugly expression even darker.

As a female leader, Karuizawa Megumi's influence is enormous. If she expresses her attitude, many students will be shaken.

When Hikigaya saw this scene, he did not feel happy that Karuizawa supported him. Instead, he felt a clear sense of disharmony.

Because the timing of Karuizawa's entry was such a coincidence.

The other party did not take action earlier or later, but chose to express his attitude when the situation was most tense, as if he had calculated the timing perfectly.

Based on what Hikigaya knew about Karuizawa, he didn't have that level of intelligence.

Instinctively, Hikigaya looked towards Ayanokouji at the back of the classroom.

He couldn't help but suspect that the current developments were being secretly manipulated by Ayanokouji.

In short, after Karuizawa's sudden appearance, the direction of the class shifted again, and more students began to deny Horikita Suzune's plan.

Seeing such a disadvantageous situation, Horikita Suzune could no longer sit idly by and spoke angrily:

"We are fighting for the entire class now! How can we ignore the interests of the class for our own personal gain?"

"That's what you said, but do you think you can infringe on students' personal interests for the sake of the class's interests?"

Karuizawa is very powerful, and even when facing Horikita, he is not at all inferior.

Although Horikita Suzune didn't want the class to be divided because of this, she had to stick to her own opinion and spoke decisively:

"Even if it means sacrificing personal interests, I still hope that everyone can unite as one for the benefit of the class as a whole! Don't you understand this principle?!"

"I don't understand at all. I'm not sure." Facing Horikita's argument, Karuizawa Megumi easily avoided it in her frivolous way and changed the subject very abruptly, "By the way, Kushida-san, what do you think? Do you think what Horikita-san said is right or wrong?"

"This……"

Not expecting the topic to suddenly be brought to her, Kushida Kikyo showed a little surprise on her face.

But she immediately pondered and made her own response: "This is a really difficult question. After all, I can understand the feelings of both sides. Like Horikita, I hope that the class will win, but like Shinohara said, I also hope to find a possibility that no one will suffer any loss if they stay."

"It would be ideal if we could take both opinions into consideration." Kushida acted as he did in the past, using a gentle appearance to cover up his true thoughts. "It would be great if there was a plan that both the first place winner and the last place winner could agree to."

As soon as Kushida finished speaking, many voices of agreement were heard in the class.

Although most people who say such things at this time would be considered as reasonable people and peacemakers, when Kushida makes such remarks, everyone will only appreciate her gentleness more.

This once again proves a fact.

Whether a sentence makes sense or not does not depend on the sentence itself, but on who is saying it.

However, Horikita Suzune obviously could not accept this kind of muddy attitude, and immediately launched a counterattack:

"If there is a good solution, someone should have proposed it long ago! The fact is that it is impossible to come up with a solution that everyone can be satisfied with, so everyone is arguing here!"

"Yes, but don't you think this is a proposal that must be decided?" Karuizawa did not back down and launched an attack. "Many students lost points for no apparent reason. At least these students who have worked so hard for the class should be compensated!"

"This……"

Horikita was speechless after being shocked by Karuizawa's powerful words.

She had obviously realized the loophole in her hasty thinking.

"I understand." Taking a deep breath, Horikita Suzune regained her rational thinking. "In this case, we can just use the individual points gained by the students who get the upper rankings and don't need the test scores to offset the points lost by the last student, and then share the increase and decrease of points among the whole class. You should have nothing to say about this, right?"

"Well, that'll be fine."

Kushida smiled and nodded, approving Horikita Suzune's idea.

Most of the students in the class no longer showed too much resistance to Horikita's proposal.

However, just when everyone thought that this incident was about to end, Karuizawa Megumi's voice suddenly rang out again.

"But that's just points, right? The bottom ten students in the grade will have their midterm exam scores deducted! Moreover, many students may lose the chance to win the prize because of this!" Karuizawa seemed determined to fight Horikita Suzune to the end, and raised his opinion again, and then asked the students around him, "What do you think?"

"…If Karuizawa-san objects, then I will object too."

The girls who followed Karuizawa as a group began to raise the banner of rebellion one after another.

"Are you idiots? Because she objects, you also object?" Horikita was stunned by this scene. "This is not logical at all. This is an exam. It is natural to formulate a strategy that can effectively win. There will definitely be no idiots like you in other classes!"

"You can't win the argument so you start making personal attacks?!" Karuizawa smiled confidently and caught Horikita's weakness. "In the final analysis, you have not considered the impact of your strategy on everyone in the class. Not only am I unwilling to accept this strategy, but many students are also unwilling to accept it! If it can't be decided fairly, I will not agree!"

Karuizawa is usually quite popular among girls, and her victory in the last cruise ship exam has further increased her reputation.

Now the other party was speaking from the perspective of the disadvantaged group in the class, and even Horikita Suzune seemed unable to compete.

"..."

Faced with this completely unexpected development, Horikita Suzune immediately frowned, and her pretty face was shrouded in a haze of anger. If she hadn't been in public, she would probably have wanted to battle with Karuizawa Megumi on the spot.

At the same time, after witnessing everything with his own eyes, Hikigaya felt an increasingly strong sense of discomfiture in his heart.

After all, Karuizawa's relentless pursuit of Horikita Suzune is totally inconsistent with her behavior pattern. The previous Karuizawa Megumi would never have fought Horikita Suzune to this extent.

He was almost certain that Ayanokouji was behind this.

But he couldn't understand Ayanokouji's purpose.

After all, Horikita Suzune's plan is more in line with the conditions for the class to win. If action is to be taken for the victory of this class, Ayanokouji should support Horikita's plan.

The opponent could easily use Horikita as a sacrifice and force Class D to go through this flawed plan, allowing Class D to gain a certain advantage in the sports festival.

But Ayanokouji did not do so. Instead, he cooperated with him to stop Horikita Suzune, so that the other party would not fall into the abyss and be defeated.

This behavior was not in line with Ayanokouji's style, and Hikigaya found it hard to imagine why the other party did this.

It's impossible for this guy to suddenly change his style and return to the right path, right?

Moreover, Karuizawa's sudden move of pulling Kushida Kikyo into the battle was also very strange.

At that time, it would have been better to ask Hirata's opinion than to ask Kushida.

Wait, could it be that the purpose of letting Karuizawa join the game is not to stop Horikita, but to test whether Kushida Kikyo is a spy?

Wouldn't that guy have discovered Kushida's problem?

In an instant, some kind of indelible haze arose in Hikigaya's heart, and he realized that he must find a way to figure out Ayanokouji's true purpose.

Otherwise, I am afraid that something chaotic will happen that I cannot control.

Chapter 433: The Lone Ranger will always be hated by everyone!

"Everyone calm down and stop arguing!"

When Class D was in chaos due to the two factions' opinions, Hirata Yosuke finally stood up as the leader and said, "If opinions cannot be unified, we can only adopt a majority vote. I think this should be resolved by a fair vote."

"If Yosuke says so, I agree—"

As Hirata Yosuke's girlfriend, Karuizawa will not refute her boyfriend's position.

Although Horikita Suzune was furious inside, she knew that she couldn't act too impulsive at this time, as this would only further reduce other people's support for her.

"From my perspective, I don't think that continuing the argument will do any good... But I still think that my idea is not wrong, and I hope you can make the right judgment."

After saying that, Horikita Suzune took a deep breath and sat down with a look of dissatisfaction on her face. Her obvious dissatisfaction even caused the chair under her to shake noticeably.

Hikigaya also felt a clear murderous intent gathering behind him.

If the class meeting wasn't going on, he always felt that the other party would knock him out on the spot.

For this reason, he made up his mind to avoid Horikita Suzune as much as possible, at least to prevent her from venting her anger on him.

He has no interest in being a masochist.

"Well, regarding Horikita-san's proposal for an absolute ability-based system, and other students' proposal to take care of disadvantaged students, let the entire class make a decision by raising hands... If anyone is undecided about either side, they can choose to give up the vote, but they cannot question the final result."

Horikita Suzune's plan is to focus on the victory of the class, and to this end she will give up all the students who are not good at sports and let them bear the cost of failure, in order to preserve more chances of winning and scoring.

Hikigaya opposed Horikita Suzune's proposal.

At the same time, Karuizawa went to the other extreme and expressed his disapproval of Horikita's idea, hoping that the next exams should give more consideration to disadvantaged students.

Because of all this, all the students in Class D had to participate in the decision-making of the plan and could no longer blindly follow someone's opinion and fish in troubled waters.

The biggest benefit of this approach is that if things fail, students will have no one to hold accountable.

After all, this is a proposal made by everyone together, and every student should take part of the responsibility.

Even if Horikita Suzune's almost cruel proposal is passed, Horikita herself will not be held accountable by others afterwards...

That's why Hikigaya is so against her.

"Then, the voting officially begins." As Hirata Yosuke's voice sounded, Class D began to vote on the proposal. "First, those who support Horikita's proposal, please raise your hands."

As Hirata Yosuke's voice fell, nearly half of the students in the class raised their hands.

Among them, the most eye-catching one is Ken Sudo. Although he did not help Horikita fight against Hikigaya on the surface, he also supported the ability-based system proposed by Horikita.

After all, for him, Horikita's proposal can allow guys with good athletic nerves to play more games and win more games, which will undoubtedly be of great benefit to him.

In addition, individuals like Yukimura and Sakura who have no athletic ability at all also chose to agree with Horikita's proposal.

After all, they were already at the bottom of the list, and no matter whether they carried out Horikita's plan or not, they would most likely be at the bottom of the list, so it would be better to let the class gain more advantages.

"Then, here's another option. It's better to win when you deserve to win and be happy when you deserve to be happy. I hope you raise your hands."

As Hirata Yosuke finished his words, the middle-level students represented by Shinohara Satsuki, those students who were not particularly outstanding but still had some athletic ability, chose to raise their hands.

For them, if they carried out Horikita's plan, they would have no hope of winning the game, so it was impossible for them to support Horikita's proposal.

Karuizawa and her group also raised their hands sporadically during this process, and although the number was only a few votes, many girls followed her lead.