Nagumo Miyabi: Damn! 7k

This was something Hashimoto hadn't paid attention to. "But even if he had, it wouldn't have mattered, because all the phones had been handed over, so there was no way he could have recorded our interactions or conversations. Therefore, even if he claimed that I betrayed Class C, no one would believe him."

"Is that so?" Ryuen looked at him coldly. "I was scammed out of several million yen by Hachiman Hikigaya's recording. And even if the phone was handed over, wouldn't he have prepared a recording pen? I found five recording pens on that guy."

"..."

"..." Hashimoto.

Hashimoto looked directly into Ryuen's eyes. He finally felt something was wrong. He had felt empty inside ever since he came out today. Could it be this feeling of unease?

"Yes, that's it." Hachiman finally stopped hiding and emerged from the shadows, holding a red recording pen in his hand. "Hashimoto, this recording pen is worth 1 million yen, right? I think you'll be happy to give it to me. After all, your role as a spy on the Uninhabited Island Exam, and now that your surrender to Ryuen has been exposed, will be quite troublesome."

Damn it.

Hashimoto's previously Hashimoto demeanor, which he had maintained in order to obtain information, instantly crumbled.

Hachiman, however, ignored Hashimoto and went inside the shoe room because he heard someone sobbing.

Keep in mind that it's 12:15 AM now, and the people still staying by the shoe cabinet at this time are either trying to be alone or they've been bullied and are hiding here crying alone, not wanting anyone else to know or see.

Hachiman initially found Hashimoto's actions strange, but after making some extra money, he walked towards the direction from which the sobbing sound came from, and then crouched down to hide.

As an observer of humanity, he tries his best to eliminate his own traces and presence.

Then.

They immediately discovered that there was indeed a student curled up in a corner, crying.

The other person didn't notice him, but Hachiman could see her sobbing silently, and for a moment he wondered what to do.

However, even though this place is hard to spot, it's still unknown when other students will appear.

Like Hashimoto, though Hashimoto is probably furious and doesn't want to come along at all, but Ryuen might be a different story.

Therefore, Hachiman felt that this situation needed to be dealt with as soon as possible.

Chapter 007 Miyabi Nagumo: Damn! 7k

Hachiman walked towards the source of the sound. He saw a girl curled up, crying. And he actually knew this person.

So.

"If you have any troubles, you should talk to Horikita's brother... um... talk to the Student Council President, right?"

Hachiman decided to step forward.

"Huh?"

The curled-up girl raised her face to let people see her features.

She is Akane Tachibana from Class 3-A. She is the classmate who usually stays with Manabu Horikita, as well as his secretary.

She seemed flustered by the thought of being seen as useless, so she immediately wiped away her tears.

"What... what do you mean?"

She seemed to want to hide what had just happened.

"Just like you were just now. If you're having trouble, go talk to the Student Council President. You're his classmate, or the student secretary, he won't ignore you." As he said this, Hachiman reached into his pocket and pressed something.

"I'm not bothered at all."

"If you're crying even though you have no worries, then I also feel very worried," Hachiman said.

"I'm not crying!" Akane Tachibana denied, then looked away. She didn't move her body, probably knowing that if she moved even slightly away from the darkest spot where she was, her red eyes would be very obvious, and her lie would be exposed.

"There are times when I want to be alone."

She tried to lie in a simple way.

"Indeed." Hachiman nodded. "We really don't have much private space."

Then head towards Akane Tachibana.

"What are you doing here?" But this gesture seemed to excite her. "Don't come any closer!"

Or was she just worried that he would see her crying?

Actually, he had seen it a long time ago. Hachiman watched her cry for several minutes before he started talking to her.

"I've always been on Horikita's side," Hachiman said. "And I also have a good relationship with his sister."

That's true.

Because Akane Tachibana has seen Hachiman Hikigaya and Suzune Horikita together more than once.

Before coming to take this exam, you can see Hachiman Hikigaya bringing a lot of expensive ice cream for Horikita in the cafeteria.

Hachiman originally thought that although he would help Horikita, he was also short of money, so he had to take advantage of Horikita's classmates.

But this isn't something you can just casually ask for, so he kept waiting for an opportunity.

And now, the opportunity has unexpectedly appeared on its own.

So he said.

"Akane Tachibana- senpai, are you worried about anything regarding this exam?"

"Nothing's wrong. Although I'm not in charge, my relationship with the team is definitely not bad. In fact, we get along very well," Akane Tachibana said quickly.

Oh.

Hachiman begins translating.

That means that although she was not in charge, she had a bad relationship with the members of the group and was bullied.

"Then why are you crying in a place like this?" Hachiman asked.

"I... I'll say I'm not crying anymore!" But Akane Tachibana- senpai's attitude was very assertive.

Hachiman then pointed to the area around his eyes, Akane Tachibana quickly checked with her fingertips to see if it was wet.

However, it was dry there.

She immediately realized that Hachiman was bluffing her. So she glared at him angrily.

"What I'm worried about... what makes me uneasy is about Horikita," said Secretary Akane Tachibana after a moment of anger. "Even though we're in the same class, both I and my classmates rely on him far too much."

After a semester, you probably understand that our class's evaluation score has been rapidly caught up by Class B, and now we're only 400 points behind.

Yes, Hachiman confirmed their scores when they enrolled. At that time, Class A had more than 2,500 points, but now they are barely maintaining 2,254 points. Meanwhile, Third-year Class B has climbed from 1,400 points to 1,830 points, and the gap is constantly narrowing.

A difference of 400 points can very likely be overcome in just one or two exams.

If you are surpassed, three years of hard work will be in vain.

Therefore, the students in Class A all felt panicked.

"Horikita ... Horikita has always fought alone. It's safe to say that if Horikita is defeated, we won't be able to graduate from Class A," Akane Tachibana said.

Is that so?

This is very likely.

Hachiman noticed this during the Sports Festival. Makita, who was chosen by Manabu Horikita to lead the team, seemed to be only so-so. In other words, his Class A might not be that outstanding. However, the fact that they have maintained their advantage since the first year is likely because he is leading the others.

In other words, Manabu Horikita is already experiencing a situation where one god leads everyone astray.

One drags 39.

This would explain why his class evaluation score was declining.

Because there are too many weak people around him, he keeps compromising. Even though he has the opportunity to get a high score, he has to consider that the weak need to be protected, so he can only make the decision to protect himself.

But can such words be believed?

The strength of the four classes (A, B, C, and D) in the school is phased.

So, their Class A is actually better than Class B, so are there still many weak students in Class A?

Or is it that Third-year Class B is actually very strong?

Or perhaps this is normal class competition, only Hachiman's class is very different.

"Because our Class A students are always dragging us down... we've lost a lot of class points that we could have avoided losing, and even individual points—he's always been sacrificing himself to protect his teammates," Akane Tachibana added.

If this is true, then Horikita's brother is actually under more pressure than we imagine.

At least.

Hachiman didn't want to fly with his class; he was already prepared to be bought by other classes because he knew how unbearable it would be to have to deal with a bunch of people he couldn't stand.

"You probably don't understand the hardship of fighting against everyone around you all by yourself," Akane Tachibana concluded.

Um.

She trusts Manabu Horikita a lot, so she's crying here because she's worried that Manabu Horikita is under a lot of pressure. She doesn't want to cause trouble for him even if she's being bullied herself.

But.

There's one thing Hachiman thinks Akane Tachibana said wrong.

You probably don't understand the hardship of facing everyone around you alone.

Actually, he was really bold this time.

Because they wanted to take away the points from the students in Third-year Class A.

Certainly.

The points for Third-year Class A are almost all gone; they're mostly going to be used for class exams.

So, when I see students in Third-year Class A eating, they usually order simple set meals.

But.

Don't forget, they also have class evaluation scores.

So Hachiman Hikigaya's target is there.

It's November now, and everyone has received their money.

However, there are still December, January, February, and March. That's a total of four months. The class evaluation score for Third-year Class A is 2254 points. If the score doesn't drop this time, then that class will generate 8 million points, which adds up to more than 32 million.

So this is his goal.

From this perspective, he is the enemy of Third-year Class A.

Who would want to strip a graduating Class A bare and force them to eat a terrible mountain vegetable meal?

"Anyway, you're worried about Third-year Class A right now, that's why you're so down, right?" Hachiman gave Akane Tachibana face and didn't mention her crying.

"Hmm." Akane Tachibana accepted the stairs he offered and went downstairs directly. "That's how it is. Even I have heard about the situation with the boys. Horikita was provoked into a match by Nagumo, and he was unable to move because of it, and we couldn't help him at all."

"In the end, the overall score needs to be calculated based on the group, so only the efforts of most students are useful, and you can't motivate others if you don't work hard yourself," Hachiman pointed out to her.

"I know about that kind of thing." Secretary Akane Tachibana wiped her eyes with the back of her hand as she said this, then stood up. "Anyway, please don't take today's events to heart, and don't say anything strange to Horikita."

Before Hachiman could respond, she started walking towards the restroom, probably intending to rest there, let her swollen eyes go down, and then return to her dormitory.

However, this choice is wrong.

One reason she cried could be attributed to the difficult situation Horikita's brother was in, but the main reason was probably that she was being bullied.

Hachiman obtained the list of members of their respective groups from Karuizawa, Horikita, Kushida, and Kamuro. None of them were in the same group as Secretary Akane Tachibana, but it was actually easy to judge Akane Tachibana Akane's situation.

Manabu Horikita's guidance to them was also in a 14+6 person model, so if she wasn't in the 14 people, then it was a 6-person model, meaning she was in a group with five other girls from her class. If she was bullied even with the help of five classmates, then it's easy to guess the composition of her group: it must be mostly girls from Third-year Class B.

They were bullied by their rival Class B.

In this way.

I don't want to burden Manabu Horikita with this, but there must be something fishy about this collective action by Third-year Class B.

So.

Akane Tachibana's choice to suffer in silence and sacrifice herself in order to solve the problem is futile.

In other words, if he doesn't intervene, Third-year Class A will be in a dead end.

"Akane Tachibana, are you really not going to discuss this with me again?" Hachiman decided to give her another chance.