Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

If it was only Hikigaya who could guess that Kushida Kikyo was the traitor, he would not be surprised, but the other party's look as if she had seen everything happen was really unexpected for him. He even suspected that Kushida had told the other party everything.

However, Ryuuen was certain that Kushida would not leak the secret, and he knew that Kushida's betrayal this time was completely hysterical and a fight to the death, so it was absolutely impossible for him to have any contact with the people in Class D again.

This made him doubt Hikigaya's ability even more. It was hard to imagine that the other party might have had the ability to see through everything.

At the same time, Hikigaya saw Ryuen Sho fall silent and realized that his guess was completely correct, so he said silently: "Being able to obtain the list of contestants from Class D can certainly allow Class B to target Class D and greatly increase Class B's winning rate, but it can only target Class D. It will still be very difficult for Class B to fight against Class A."

To win this exam, the enemy to be dealt with is not only Class D, but all the first-year classes, especially the two opposing classes in the red and white groups.

Class B therefore has a big enemy, Class A.

Unlike Class D, Class A is a class that is almost unbelievably united. Finding the traitor in this class and getting the list of participants is simply as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Moreover, even if you get the list of participants, it does not mean that you will definitely win. The final outcome of the sports festival will still depend on the hard power between the classes.

This means that Ryuen's dirty tricks will be ineffective in this exam.

"Humph, of course I know these things." Ryuen Sho said with disdain, "Class A is indeed a tough nut to crack, but I don't necessarily have to defeat them in this exam. It will be enough for this exam to completely defeat Class D so that they can't get up again."

"You look very confident that you can beat Class D."

"I'm just stating the facts."

Ryuuen's confident attitude did not waver at all. He clearly did not believe that Class D would be able to resist Class B.

In fact, in all the exams so far, except for the earliest fight with Sudo, in which Class B suffered a crushing defeat due to Hikigaya's participation, Class B won complete victory in every subsequent exam.

This undoubtedly made Ryuen Sho feel very confident, even conceited, and he did not regard Class D as an opponent at all.

The result was that even when Hikigaya had secretly leaked the existence of Ayanokouji, the mastermind behind the scenes, to the other party, Ryuen Sho didn't care at all.

The other party just paid some attention to the students in Class D, and then did not take any action.

If Ryuuen continues to underestimate Class D, he will surely suffer a great loss at the hands of Ayanokouji.

Hikigaya seemed to have seen such a future.

Under normal circumstances, he would naturally not care about Long Yuanxiang's life or death, and even hoped that the other party would suffer a loss as soon as possible so that he would not come in front of him so often to disgust him.

However, this time, the situation has changed a lot, causing Hikigaya to try to help Ryuen.

The first one is undoubtedly the threat from Ayanokouji.

After two exams in the summer vacation, Hikigaya fully realized the dangerousness of Ayanokouji and no longer dared to allow Ayanokouji to take action and threaten the innocent people in Class D.

If the other party's unscrupulous and all-exploiting means are not restricted, I am afraid that more and more victims will appear.

Although Hikigaya is not a saint who wants to save others, he also does not want something like this to happen in front of him, as it would make him very uncomfortable and he would not be able to live a peaceful life.

For his own self-satisfaction, Hikigaya decided to treat Ayanokouji as an enemy.

The second is the current situation of Horikita Suzune.

Horikita Suzune's overly stubborn personality and lack of social skills were fully demonstrated in this exam.

Even if Hikigaya tried to correct the other party's wrong thinking, he was powerless.

Therefore, Hikigaya decided to let Horikita Suzune experience a real defeat, so that she can learn from the lessons of failure and recognize herself. For this, the victory of Class B is a necessary link.

At this moment, looking at Ryuen Sho who was completely unaware of the threat and didn't even know that his plan had already been full of loopholes, Hikigaya sighed silently: "You seem to think that with the help of Kushida, you can easily defeat Class D. However, Ryuen, have you ever thought that since Class B can plant spies in Class D, isn't it possible for Class D to plant spies in Class B as well?"

"Do you think anyone in Class D can do something like this?"

Ryuen Sho looked unconvinced.

He was extremely contemptuous of Class D. Except for Hikigaya, he looked down on everyone in Class D and didn't believe that anyone would be able to plant spies in Class B.

Seeing that Ryuuen was so unconvinced, Hikigaya did not give any further explanation. After all, he did not have any evidence that Ayanokouji had planted a spy in Class B. He just thought that there was such a possibility.

Of course, before he came, he had already made a rough guess about the direction of this conversation, and he knew that someone as cautious as Long Yuanxiang would not easily believe his words.

His main purpose in coming here was to confirm that Kushida was the spy who betrayed Class D.

At this moment, Ryuen Sho suddenly spoke up: "Dead Fish Eyes, I heard that your relationship with that woman Horikita has been strained recently."

"You have obtained a wealth of information."

"Humph, if you don't do this, how can you be promoted to Class A?"

Ryuen Sho didn't care about Hikigaya's sarcasm at all, and spoke slowly in a calm tone: "I don't know what the situation is between you and that woman, but since your relationship with her has deteriorated, it means that no matter how I deal with her next, it doesn't matter, right?"

"Are you planning to target Horikita Suzune?" Hikigaya was quite surprised to hear Ryuen's words. "If we want to defeat Class D, targeting Sudo or Hirata would be a more effective approach."

In fact, Hikigaya originally envisioned that after Ryuen Sho obtained the information about Class D, he should mainly deploy tactics against Hirata and Sudo.

If they could prevent Ken Sudo from participating in the competition, then Class D would be no different from losing.

"Humph, that was indeed the original plan, but our lovely investor specifically made a request." Ryuuen gave Hikigaya a mocking look, "The condition she proposed for cooperation was to have that woman named Horikita Suzune drop out of school. She made this request in exchange for cooperation with Class B."

"Kushida made such a request?"

Hikigaya blinked in surprise.

Although he had known about Kushida's betrayal for a long time, Hikigaya had not yet made an accurate assessment of the reason for Kushida's betrayal.

Now it seems that the relationship between Kushida and Horikita is probably more complicated than he imagined.

Perhaps something particularly important happened between those two people in junior high school that I don't know about.

It was precisely because of that unknown past that Kushida would do anything, even betray Class D, to get Horikita Suzune expelled from school.

While Hikigaya was lost in thought, Ryuen Sho spoke on his own:

"But you, with your dead eyes, are easily liked by troublesome women, whether it's the one called Horikita or Shiina from our class, and now there's also Kushida. Tsk tsk, I don't know whether you are lucky or unlucky..."

"what are you saying?"

Hikigaya didn't understand what Ryuen Sho said.

What does it mean to please women? And is there something wrong with the example the other party gave?

On the other hand, Ryuen Sho seemed to be unaware of Hikigaya's confusion. He spoke calmly and naturally, "Isn't it true? The reason why that woman Kushida wanted Horikita Suzune to drop out of school was because Horikita Suzune was close to you, which made her jealous, right?"

"There's no such thing!"

Upon hearing Ryuuen's "misunderstanding", Hikigaya couldn't hold back and was almost pissed off to death by the other party's messy guesses!

Chapter 446 Shiina: Which girls does Hikigaya-san have a good relationship with?

"You think too much!"

Hikigaya did not agree with Ryuen Sho's irresponsible guess at all.

After all, he didn't think that Kushida Kikyo wanted Horikita Suzune to drop out of school because she was jealous.

Not to mention that Kushida had already shown strong hostility towards Horikita Suzune long before they became close, and even took the initiative to use herself to try to get Horikita Suzune to drop out of school. There was no reason for Kushida Kikyo to be inexplicably jealous of Horikita and herself.

After all, Kushida Kikyo is well aware of the relationship between herself and Horikita Suzune, and it is obvious that the other party will not have any special feelings for her.

Besides, even if Kikyo Kushida really fell in love with me, it would be too crazy to want to make someone drop out of school just because of jealousy.

Unless one is a yandere, it is hard to imagine that a person can do this.

Therefore, Hikigaya denied it without hesitation: "This matter has absolutely nothing to do with jealousy or anything like that. Ryuuen, please don't frame others at will!"

"Eh? Do you think this is a false accusation?"

When Ryuuen saw Hikigaya's appearance, he looked thoughtful.

Seeing the other person's appearance, Hikigaya instinctively felt a little nervous. Although he didn't think that Ryuuen's intelligence could do anything beyond his expectations, so he didn't take the other person seriously, but now he inexplicably wanted to stop the other person from saying next.

Although it was just a feeling without any reason, Hikigaya always felt that Ryuuen might say something that he really didn't want to hear.

However, Long Yuan was a man who always said what he thought. He spoke without hesitation: "Although you, Dead Fish Eyes, can't understand the situation, but as an outsider, I can see it more clearly than you. Dead Fish Eyes, you and those women..."

"Those women?"

Suddenly, a crisp voice came from behind.

Ryuen Sho and Hikigaya looked over in surprise and found that the people coming were actually Shiina Hiyori and Ibuki Mio from Class B. For some reason, these two people were acting together.

The person who just spoke was undoubtedly Shiina. She was smiling and looking at Ryuen Sho and Hikigaya in front of her with curiosity. She spoke slowly, as if she were a friendly listener: "What are Ryuen-kun and Hikigaya-san talking about? Let us listen too."

"..."

Hearing Shiina's suggestive words, Ryuuen and Hikigaya's expressions froze.

It seems that because of Shiina's actions in Class B during this period and her gradually improving class status, Ryuuen has not dared to treat her casually recently.

Therefore, Ryuen finally snorted in dissatisfaction and said, "You're back, which means those guys' training is over. So I'll take this opportunity to train."

"You're exercising now?"

Hikigaya looked at Ryuuen in confusion.

Shiina explained, "After all, when Ryuuen-kun was here, no one was able to let go, and no one dared to do many group projects with Ryuuen-kun, so I suggested that everyone train separately from Ryuuen, as long as we can unite during the exams."

"I see."

I didn't expect that Ryuuen's tyrannical rule would have such a negative impact on the sports festival. Hikigaya was really worried about Ryuuen.

After all, although Ryuuen's actions were extreme, they were ultimately for the original C class to be promoted to A class.

However, judging from the current situation, the former students of Class C will not be grateful to Ryuen, and are even less likely to be willing to have a good relationship with the overbearing Ryuen Sho.

This is a complicated situation in a sense.

Just like the Three-Body novel that Hikigaya read when he first started school, humans are destined not to thank the savior.

After all, to become a powerful leader, one often has to give up many things, so that ordinary people will not be able to empathize with him, and a sad ending is doomed.

Of course, it is clear that Ryuen Sho himself does not care about the opinions of other members of the former Class C. In essence, he has never been helping this class, but only for himself.

"Humph, if Shiina hadn't suggested this, I would have trained with those guys even if I had to endure it." Ryuen Sho said with a disdainful attitude like a 'tsundere', and then he looked at Hikigaya, "Let me make it clear in advance that I will destroy Horikita Suzune from your class in this exam, and there will be no change to this!"

“It’s the best you can do.”

Hikigaya certainly also hopes that Ryuen can defeat Horikita and dampen that guy's enthusiasm.

But unfortunately, he also knew very well that if Ayanokouji intervened in this matter, it would be impossible for Ryuen to defeat Ayanokouji with his ability alone.

Thinking of this, he looked at Ibuki Mio and Shiina Hiyori in front of him, wanting to make some backup plans in advance.

Unexpectedly, before he could speak, Shiina spoke first: "Can you tell me again what Ryuen-kun said just now? What do you mean by 'those women'?"

"puff!"

Hikigaya didn't expect Shiina to say something like this, and he couldn't hold it in any longer.

The other party's remarks also disrupted all the plans in his mind, so that he didn't even know what kind of response to make.

Seeing Hikigaya's embarrassed look, Shiina Hiyori suddenly chuckled and said casually: "I was just joking just now, Hikigaya-san, you are too serious. And even if I am serious, Hikigaya-san, you don't have to care about me at all, right?"

“That’s… true.”

Although Hikigaya didn't think Shiina was joking at all, he also realized that the other party didn't seem to be bothered by the matter.

Although the other party seems to be keeping a low profile, his methods are no less than those of Ichinose, Ryuen Sho and others.

The reason why Shiina never showed any extraordinary talents in this school in the past was simply because she had no intention of participating in the internal struggles of the school, and was even unwilling to participate in class affairs.

This resulted in Shiina not being able to gain an advantage at the beginning of the school year and obtain a more superior status in the class, so that he was one step behind, and everything else was behind.

However, at this point, Shiina has clearly returned to the power level of the original Class C, and even has the vague power of being the number one person under Ryuuen.

This is enough to show that Shiina Hiyori's own ability is enough to become a class leader, and he may even be more suitable to be the original C class leader than Ryuuen.

At this moment, facing Shiina staring at him, Hikigaya knew that the other party was curious about why he came to Class C.

In this regard, he did not want to reveal his purpose, so he deliberately changed the subject and said, "Shiina, it's rare for you to stay with Ibuki."

"Really?" Shiina realized that Hikigaya was trying to change the subject, but she didn't care and nodded. "Come to think of it, I don't have any friends in the class, so normally I wouldn't be with Ibuki-san."

"Huh? Aren't you two friends?"

Hikigaya showed obvious surprise at Shiina's overly straightforward words.

Before Shiina could respond, Ibuki Mio spoke up first: "I'm just working for this guy. I'm not really a friend."

"Working?"

Seeing Hikigaya's confusion, Shiina Hiyori smiled and said, "After the cruise ship exam, Class C was upgraded to Class B. Many people saw the hope of being promoted to Class A, so they recognized Ryuuen. Many people who were originally forced to participate in class affairs are now beginning to sincerely participate in the construction of the class. In this situation, most of the boys have been suppressed by Ryuuen and dare not have second thoughts, but the situation on the girls' side is more complicated. Most of the girls have different ideas and demands, and they need someone to help integrate them so that this class can make further progress."

"I see. So Shiina, you want to be the female leader of Class B?"