Contagious?
Honestly, unless there were special circumstances—like Mashiro's—very few people who could enroll in prestigious schools in this country were idiots. And both Toyogasaki and Sobu High School were elite schools!
What, wasn't Yui Yuigahama an idiot? What kind of joke was that? She was someone exceptionally skilled at reading the room. Hachiman Hikigaya and Yukinoshita might have seemed disdainful of that, but in truth, they might have been jealous as hell. Setting everything else aside, just her ability to quickly find a topic and build rapport with people...
After all, even Yukinoshita hadn't been able to refuse becoming friends with her!
And people wanted to call someone like that an idiot? Who were they looking down on?
Even the "idiot" Yui Yuigahama was like that, let alone everyone else. That was why everyone instantly understood what was meant by contagion...
Of course, in everyone else's view, calling it "contagion" was too exaggerated. It would be more accurate to say they had been persuaded by her, or had chosen to follow her—just like Tobe and the others followed Hayato Hayama. At most, that little girl Rumi had simply made her personality larger through hard work.
As for Teacher Takahashi's claim, Hachiman and the others saw it as nothing more than alarmist talk. Could an elementary school student really "infect" a high school student?
Until...
"Great Bodhisattva Hachiman, everyone..." Zaimokuza, who had returned, looked at Hachiman Hikigaya and the others with an excited expression. "I've attained enlightenment!"
"Huh?" Everyone had still been wondering why Teacher Takahashi had said something so alarmist, but Zaimokuza's display left them stunned. Hachiman Hikigaya, in particular, couldn't help blurting out a question.
Come to think of it, why did everyone else get called normally while he alone was some kind of bodhisattva?
"That's right..." Before anyone