Sakayanagi: "To Be Honest, School Life Is Boring. I Want Something Shocking!" / Someone Actually Craves That? I'll Give You What You Want!

Hachiman rejected her proposal on the spot.

Because.

What she wanted was for him to become Class D's spy.

A spy, a spy.

That was not something a frail young girl should be saying.

Sakayanagi: To be honest, campus life was boring. I wanted a shock!

Sakayanagi Arisu was a girl from Class A, First Year.

She possessed sharp insight, decisiveness, and the ability to act.

The clearest example was how, on the first day of school, she had provoked upperclassmen to obtain points and information about the school.

She had also gathered classmates who supported her around her.

In other words, she had become something like the class's leading representative.

Then wasn't it perfectly normal for her to keep a spy in another class in order to preserve her own class's advantage?

And the school tacitly approved of that.

Otherwise, anonymous point cards that cost only 100 points each would not have appeared in the Shopping Street.

They were probably meant to make it easier for students to do things that could not be openly disclosed.

Was the school simulating society in advance?

The school brochure had also said that its educational philosophy was to produce talented people for the Student Council.

It really was a very social environment.

From those perspectives, every aspect of Sakayanagi Arisu fit the image of an outstanding Class A student.

However.

There was something about this that struck Hachiman as odd.

Namely.

If she was a Class A student who already knew some of the school rules, why had she come looking for someone from the weakest class?

If she wanted to raise a spy, she should have gone to Class B.

Besides, weren't there classmates around her constantly flattering her?

Couldn't she have sent them to handle something like this?

Her body was frail, yet she had gone out of her way to personally meet a Class D candidate for espionage. Wasn't that making a mountain out of a molehill?

And.

Although she claimed she had entrusted Kamuro with the task, Kamuro had looked resistant while already seeming more or less like her obedient little dog.

So she was also quite skilled at taming people.

It was understandable for talented people to have interests ordinary people could not comprehend.

However.

The Sakayanagi Arisu before him felt... insufficiently pure.

More like... malicious amusement.

Come on, Sakayanagi Arisu. You weren't uninterested in your class's stability—you were simply playing around, weren't you?

Hachiman had already reached a conclusion.

"So," Hachiman said probingingly. "Why did you choose me to be Class D's spy?"

"The reason is very simple."

Sakayanagi Arisu said, "You remember what happened on the School Forum the day before yesterday, don't you? I made a post provoking the upperclassmen."

"Most of the replies at the time came from upperclassmen."

"But one student from our year replied. His reply was: [Did you also receive 100,000 points?]"

"Whether it was noticing the School Forum's existence or suspecting the amount of points I possessed, it left an impression on me."

"And when I opened his information, it showed Hachiman Hikigaya of First-year Class D," Sakayanagi said.

So she had noticed Hachiman's reply and judged his insight to be sharp?

Indeed.

If she had such a perceptive subordinate, it would certainly make things easier for a superior.

So she was now willing to spend 100,000 points a month to keep an informant because she thought he was worth the price... my ass.

Hachiman increasingly felt that Sakayanagi Arisu was feeding him nonsense.

Because.

Since Classmate Sakayanagi had acquired some information about the school, she should also have known that Class D was the worst.

In the school's history, not once had a Class D risen up and defeated Class A.

So there was absolutely no need for the strongest class to place an informant in Class D out of caution.

"Just to ask, have you also planted spies in Class B and Class C?" Hachiman asked.

"Not yet," Sakayanagi said. "Not just anyone is worthy of being kept by me."

Oh.

I see.

Then it was fake.

You really did just want to play.

Because as Class A's outstanding representative, the first thing she should have considered was planting someone in Class B, the class she actually needed to watch.

Not coming to find a student from Class D.

"Could you wait a moment?" Hachiman asked.

"Hmm?" Sakayanagi blinked lightly.

"I know absolutely nothing about you," Hachiman said. "I'd like to ask someone else."

As he spoke, Hachiman pulled out his phone and opened the class group chat...

Yeah.

He opened Kikyo Kushida's profile.

He did not have her number, but he could find her through the class group.

Kushida used her own photo as her profile picture. Sakayanagi glanced at it, then maintained her cute expression.

"Oh." She remained composed.

But that meant it looked like she knew Kikyo Kushida.

Say, Kushida, you were really something. Had you even gotten involved with Class A students?

Or had Kushida been selling information about him?

Otherwise, how could Sakayanagi have arranged for Kamuro to trick him into coming here?

An ordinary forum reply was not valuable enough to warrant all this.

Hachiman could not be sure.

"Could I take a photo so someone can confirm your identity?" Hachiman asked after messaging Kushida.

"I don't mind." Sakayanagi Arisu maintained her cute demeanor. "Do you need me to pose for you?"

"No," Hachiman said. "They only need to confirm that it's you."

"Is that so?" Sakayanagi kept her polite smile, but there was a hint of contempt in her eyes.

Don't make it so obvious.

Before long.

A message arrived on Hachiman's phone.

It was encyclopedia information on Sakayanagi Arisu that Kushida had sent him.

Class A, First Year: Sakayanagi Arisu.

Height: 150 cm

Zodiac sign: Pisces

She had fair skin, a cute face, and striking silver hair with an exceptional sheen.

Her written exam scores upon enrollment had reportedly been quite high, and she was especially good at mathematics, which many students found difficult.

However, it was said that her legs were not very mobile and that her body was rather weak, so the school had prohibited her from participating in all athletic activities.

She had attended school for only a few days in the past, but had been forced to withdraw and study from home because of her health, though she still received the appropriate instruction.

According to her, she had finally gotten the chance to experience campus life and hoped for a different kind of experience.

There were actually people with desires like that? Fine, I'd satisfy you!

Judging from the information Kushida had compiled, she had gathered quite a lot.

Although Hachiman felt that Kushida was not particularly clever, she was still very capable when it came to socializing and gathering information.

However.

Sakayanagi Arisu was smart. She would not reveal information about herself for no reason.

In other words...

It could be interpreted like this: Kushida had probably also been coaxed into revealing some information.

But Kushida had become irritable over the past two days and probably did not want to disclose her own information.

Then... selling someone else's information became possible.

And among the people who had interacted with Kushida over the past few days... wasn't he one of them?

Coupled with Sakayanagi deliberately inviting him here, that meant it really was as he had suspected.

Kushida had sold his information.

Still, Kushida had now obtained Sakayanagi's information as well, so it was not too much of a loss.

However.

[According to her, she had finally gotten the chance to experience campus life and hoped for a different kind of experience.]

And on the day of enrollment, Hachiman had seen Sakayanagi Arisu at Zelkova Shopping Center, surrounded by classmates who treated her like the center of the universe and showered her with flattery.

Because she had been unable to attend school before, Sakayanagi Arisu treasured this opportunity to enroll and hoped to experience the campus life she had missed.

However.

On her very first day, she had already become the center of attention in her class.

In other words, she had reached the peak of her life from the start.

So she really had... found it boring. Was she looking for something interesting?

Come on.

What kind of high-level game was this?

"I don't think I can accept your proposal," Hachiman said after considering it. "I'm a member of Class D, after all. I don't think I can do something like being a spy."

"And that is my bottom line. I hope you understand," Hachiman said.