Chapter 262

Even after several failures, his leadership position remained unshaken—perhaps partly because the students in Class D were easier to fool.

However, his leadership abilities are beyond question.

"..." Horikita.

"..." Hachiman.

The two exchanged a glance, both knowing that they had endured hardship and now it was time to reap the rewards.

However, Ryuen is currently in high spirits, while Hachiman is thinking about getting an agreement from Ryuen that would be worth 300 points between him and Class A.

So, in a good mood, I decided to go to Ryuen for a visit.

"Enough, Ryuen!"

Hachiman's chest heaved, his voice low as if suppressing anger, "You've already won, what's the point of saying this now?"

"Now I finally understand why Shiina led me away back then."

"What do you mean by 'lured away'? I don't know anything about that," Ryuen said. "Besides, Hachiman Hikigaya, don't try to deny it. You say you won? That's hardly a win."

Ryuen sneered, "I didn't expect your Class B to resort to such despicable tactics, preferring mutual destruction to letting Class D advance? Is it because you know you can't beat us, so you can only keep resorting to such despicable methods?"

"You are the least qualified to say such a thing."

"Hachiman retorted without holding back."

"I'm here to see Kinoshita."

Horikita took a deep breath and said coldly, "I want her to give me an explanation."

"Explain?"

Ryuen frowned, but didn't continue blocking the door. He said calmly, "Then you can go in, but only by yourself. Otherwise, I'm not sure if you'll do anything to Kinoshita."

Ryuen's victim-like attitude disgusted Horikita, but she knew now was not the time to argue.

He could only ask Hachiman to release her, and then he limped into the infirmary.

"Ryuen, you're really useless."

Hachiman watched Horikita enter the infirmary and said coldly, "I can tolerate Sudō, but to use this method against a girl like Horikita is unacceptable!"

"What? Trying to trick me into telling me?"

Ryuen raised his head and chuckled twice. "How about you take out the voice recorder from your pocket before you speak?"

"..."

Hachiman's expression changed, and he seemed to fall silent for a moment, but eventually he took out the voice recorder from his pocket.

"So it really is a voice recorder. Hachiman Hikigaya, all you know how to do is this. Give it to me," Ryuen teased.

Seeing the voice recorder in Sudō's pocket today, Ryuen knew that Hachiman Hikigaya must have another one.

Hachiman remained silent and tossed the recording pen to Ryuen.

"Tsk."

Ryuen turned off the recorder, picked it up and played with it in his hand, clicking his tongue and saying, "You really are dirty, Hachiman."

"You've already given one of your voice recorders to Sudō, haven't you? Now you're taking it out again, you must really want to record something."

"..."

Hachiman's face hardened, and he said coldly, "You don't even dare to admit what you did, yet you call me dirty?"

"No, that won't work."

Ryuen smiled, as if he had regained his previous composed demeanor. "Take out the other recording pen you've been hiding in your sleeve, and then we can have a proper talk, shall we?"

"...!"

Hachiman's expression shifted slightly, but he quickly regained his composure and sighed, "Looks like you've learned your lesson."

"Of course, after all, you've tricked me so many times."

Ryuen nodded, expressing his feelings without any pretense.

Voice recorders are hard to come by, but there are so many of those guys Hachiman Hikigaya.

Hachiman then tossed over the recording pen hidden in his sleeve and said coldly, "Why are you still targeting Horikita?"

"Feeling sorry for him?"

Ryuen smiled and turned off the recorder again. "But don't get me wrong, it was your girlfriend who deliberately injured him because she couldn't outrun the students in our class. I admit that the methods you used to deal with Sudō before were dishonorable. But this time, it's your fault."

"Hehe."

Hachiman has stopped making pointless denials about Horikita being mistakenly thought to be dating him.

But.

Hachiman chuckled twice. "You did it, so you're not even afraid to admit it?"

"Saying such things, Hachiman, you are even more shameless than I imagined."

Ryuen shook his head and sighed, "Don't put up a fight. Kinoshita has been seriously injured by you, and he will definitely take your Class B to the Student Council. Arbitration is inevitable, so stop struggling."

"At last."

Longyan raised an eyebrow as he spoke, "You've placed recording pens on yourself and on Sudō, so Horikita must have made preparations as well."

"..."

Hachiman remained expressionless, but his pupils dilated slightly.

"Really."

Ryuen's lips curled up into a smug smile.

Actually, I feel fortunate.

Kushida had just come to inform on Suzune Horikita that she had a recording pen hidden on her person. If that recording pen were exposed, then he would be directly exposed for framing someone.

But it's a pity.

Horikita still trusted Kushida, so Kushida was able to take the recording pen from Horikita. However, the recording pen had already been destroyed by Ryuen before Hachiman Hikigaya and the others arrived.

Even so.

However, Ryuen still admitted it.

This Hachiman Hikigaya is truly exceptionally shrewd.

However, he ultimately prevailed.

Isn't that right?

"What I just said is enough."

With a blank expression, Hachiman pulled out a recording pen from behind him and said calmly, "While it's not enough to serve as evidence, it's enough to delay the arbitration process."

"Oh? Is that so?"

Ryuen grinned. "I don't recall mentioning any crucial evidence. Don't treat me Hachiman Hikigaya, I know these methods better than you do. Here, take the recording pen."

Although those words cannot be taken as evidence, they were undoubtedly somewhat bad for him.

Given Hachiman's intelligence, he might very well find some loopholes to exploit against himself.

He wouldn't let the recording pen remain in Hachiman's hands.

Why should I give it to you?

Hachiman said coldly, "While it's not enough to prove you committed perjury, delaying the arbitration is still possible. During this time, I can look for opportunities to overturn..."

"Overthrow what?"

Ryuen chuckled. "Don't be naive, Hachiman Hikigaya. We didn't commit perjury. Horikita deliberately hurt Kinoshita. There was CCTV footage of it. Before the match started, Horikita kept glancing at Kinoshita from our class. From that moment on, she was trying to find ways to harm Kinoshita. Tsk, what a ruthless woman."

"Maybe."

Hachiman Hikigaya was speaking, a girl with long, straight black hair and a limp suddenly walked out of the infirmary.

It's Horikita.

"Hey, Horikita, how did the talks go?"

Horikita's face turned pale, and her delicate little fists clenched tightly, clearly angered by the person inside.

"Ryuen!"

Horikita stared coldly at Ryuen, his expression unfriendly.

"Don't look at me like that, it scares me."

Ryuen clicked his tongue, raised his hands in a gesture of reverence, but his eyes revealed undisguised smugness and arrogance.

He finally managed to turn the tables on these two people.

Did she say anything?

"I asked, Hachiman."

"Um."

Horikita pursed her lips. "This was all part of their plan, but I have no evidence..."

"Ha."

Ryuen grinned silently; he loved seeing this.

"Oh."

Hachiman understood, then looked at Ryuen, "Ryuen, do you know about it?"

"What?"

Ryuen's expression changed slightly, and he suddenly had an ominous premonition.

"I'm a meticulous person," Hachiman said. Then he slipped his hand inside the girl's shirt, the cool touch making her gasp in surprise.

The next second, Hachiman pulled another recording pen out of her pocket.

The indicator light on the voice recorder was flashing, clearly indicating that...

It is in the on state.

"You..."

Ryuen's expression changed instantly; he pointed at Hachiman, his face extremely grim.

"I'm sorry, although you've already figured out that I put a recording pen on Horikita."

Hachiman picked up the two voice recorders together, weighed them lightly, and then said, "However, the more voice recorders you have, the better. So I didn't put one on her, but two."

"Click!"

Ryuen gripped the recorder tightly, making a crisp cracking sound.

But.

"Do you think you can defeat me with such tricks?"

Ryuen shouted angrily, "You think you have evidence just because you have a random recording pen? Don't be ridiculous! Go ahead and play it if you dare!"

"Oh, would you like to hear it?"

Hachiman raised an eyebrow and directly pressed the play button on the voice recorder.

Then I heard a buzzing sound.

This is the state when no recording is being made.

"Hehehe, I knew I was right!" Ryuen's mood instantly improved. "This voice recorder was the one you were holding just now, you pretended to take it from Horikita."

"Hachiman Hikigaya ..." Suzune Horikita also showed an ugly expression at this moment. "The recording pen you put on me before the match is gone."

"That's already known," Hachiman said. "It's probably..."

"There's a spy in our class." He said, looking at Ryuen. "Horikita doesn't have many friends, and his only friend..."

"Ryuen, you're quite something." With that, Hachiman read out the traitor's name, "You even managed to poach Kushida."

"And Kushida, you're actually in the infirmary right now, aren't you?" Hachiman said.

"How did you know?" Horikita asked, looking surprised.