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The first night of the special class exam.
Hondo, who had been designated as a dropout, was spending his borrowed personal points at the Beechwood Center when he bumped into one of his few, if any, female friends.
A friend who had already transferred to Class B and could only reply to his text messages occasionally, so he rarely saw them.
"Ah, it's my classmate from this hall. What a coincidence!"
"What a coincidence... Kushida-san... are you alone?"
"Hmm, I just happened to be out buying something." With a sweet, angelic smile, Kushida slowly approached Hondou, her prey.
Kushida, who felt she understood Hikigaya's personality, roughly knew why Hikigaya wouldn't do anything after telling her.
But it's really awkward, Hachiman.
Since you can't find a reason to lay a hand on your own students, let me provide one.
As she dealt with Hondo's outpouring of grievances, Kushida recalled the image of Hikigaya leaning against a tree root and smiling at her not long ago.
He wasn't exactly a stunningly handsome guy, yet she was willing to do thankless tasks for him.
She felt like something was wrong with her, but she had no intention of fixing it.
"Hachigaya is really despicable. He has 20 million personal points, but he has no intention of using any of them."
This prompted Hondo to bring up the issue of Hikigaya having 20 million personal points but not giving them out, and Kushida immediately picked up on his point.
"Yes, yes, yes, we should vote for Hachiman. He has 20 million personal points anyway." Hondou's face turned fierce. "He has 20 million points but he won't even lend them to the class temporarily."
"It would be better if Hachiman was the one who got expelled, then there wouldn't be any students dropping out of Class A."
Adopting a somewhat indignant expression, Kushida continued to coax him.
She knew that Hachiman never showed mercy to traitors.
Chapter 128 Money Makes the World Go Round
The second day of the class voting exam.
It was long after school had ended and the student council had disbanded when a visitor came to the counseling room next to the student council office.
“Provoke some students from Class D to vote against you, and you'll get a million personal points.”
Hikigaya got straight to the point, explaining to Hashimoto, who had just sat down, the reason for inviting him to the secret meeting.
His ace angel, Kushida, gave him some news that morning that left him both happy and worried—Hondo had asked her to secretly incite the students in Class A to vote for him in criticism.
The reason for his joy was that he no longer had to personally engage in entrapment, but the reason for his worry was that Hikigaya was certain that Kushida had acted on his own initiative to lure Hondo into digging his own grave so quickly.
It was not his wish for Kushida to do such a thing, and he didn't know how to repay Kushida.
"Are you asking me to betray Class C? Hachiman, you know I'm not—"
“That’s the kind of person you are, otherwise you wouldn’t have come.”
Hikigaya interrupted Hashimoto abruptly, his mood not very good, and he wanted to get back to the dorm as soon as possible to enjoy Shiina's soft embrace.
“You won’t get a vote of criticism from Class A, and I promise you won’t be expelled.”
"It's impossible to add more money."
"Choose one million as my friends, and ten million as my enemies."
"Ten million?" Hashimoto showed a hint of interest, but it quickly disappeared.
Given the extent of Hikigaya's dislike for him, this ten million was definitely not for him.
"It's ten million, but it's not for you. It's for those who voted to expel you." Hachiman leaned back in his chair. "I believe many students will secretly join this plan where they get money if they achieve the goal of expelling you."
Money can make the world go round.
It wouldn't be difficult to get Kushida to provide contact information for most of the first-year students. With a huge amount of personal points available with just a few clicks, many people would likely join.
"Hey, Hachiman, why aren't you my class leader?"
With a sigh, Hashimoto reached out his hand to Hikigaya.
It wasn't that he wanted to betray Longyuan, the school that bought him back; it was just that he really didn't want to be expelled.
And a million personal points is really tempting.
"By the way, cast your criticism vote for Hondo Ryotaro." Hikigaya grasped Hashimoto's hand.
"Understood, Mr. Hachiman."
After receiving a transfer of one million yen from Hikigaya, Hashimoto left happily.
Twenty minutes later, Saki Yamashita pushed open the door to the counseling room and sat down opposite Hachiman Hikigaya, her expression not looking too good.
This man dropped out of school, and his two former best friends also had leverage over her.
Although she took the position of leader of the girls in Class C because of her best friend's dropping out of school, the fact that she was being manipulated made her unhappy.
"Tell me about the current situation in Class C, everything."
Seeing the somewhat dissatisfied expression on Yamashita's face, Hachiman didn't care and took out his phone to transfer one million personal points to her.
This instantly cleared the disgruntled look in Shanxia's eyes after receiving the transfer, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily curled up.
Just as Yamashita was relentlessly betraying information about Class C to the students in Class A, another student in the KTV room at the Beech Tree Center was also relentlessly betraying information about Class C to the students in Class A.
"Are you referring to Ryuen or nothing at all?" Horikita frowned slightly, somewhat puzzled.
It's already evening on the second day of the special exam, and voting will begin on the morning of the fourth day. There's not much time left for Longyuan.
After Class A openly announced their intention to vote for Ryuen, according to Kinoshita, Kaneda had already begun quietly lobbying students one by one to cast critical votes for Ryuen.
If things don't get moving soon, Longyuan will definitely drop out of school, and Class D doesn't have the resources to lend him a large amount of personal points to raise 20 million.
“No means no. He has only taken Albert to the gym during this period, and his schedule has not changed.”
Minori Kinoshita's expression showed some impatience.
She was nostalgic for those extravagant days, and the voting was completely anonymous, making it impossible to trace who voted for whom afterwards. If it weren't for these two reasons, she wouldn't have dared to take the huge risk of continuing to betray Class C.
She had already been discovered to have betrayed them once by Ayanokouji and Ryuen, and Ryuen would definitely think of her whenever there was a problem with Class C.
This was the second time Horikita had asked her to meet him.
If there's anything, just talk on the phone. It'll be a big problem if someone sees it.
She inwardly complained that Kinoshita hadn't given Horikita a friendly look either, but in her mind, Horikita wasn't a ruthless person like Hachiman.
"You can leave now. Remember to let me know immediately if Ryuen makes any moves." Horikita withdrew her gaze from Kinoshita's changing expression.
Kinoshita didn't give her any sense of unease about lying, and her gaze never wavered or looked away from her with guilt.
This shows that, in Kinoshita's mind, Ryuen really did nothing.
Longyuan couldn't possibly do nothing and just watch herself drop out of school.
"Ishizaki Daichi, Nishino Takeko."
In the counseling room where only one person remained, Hikigaya lay back on the sofa and began to ponder.
According to Yamashita, these two are likely to receive the most criticism votes after Ryuen.
Ishizaki was Ryuen's number one lackey when he did bad things.
Takeko Nishino, on the other hand, is straightforward and bold, which offends many students in Class C, leaving her with almost no friends in Class C.
Just like Horikita's judgment, he knew that doing nothing would prevent Ryuen from becoming what it is today.
If he still couldn't figure out Longyuan's plan by the final voting day, he felt that Class A's criticism votes didn't necessarily have to go to Longyuan.
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The third day of the special exam.
"surprise"
After finishing his basic student council duties and returning to his dorm, Hachiman saw a petite and adorable girl in his line of sight as he opened the door.
Wearing a light-colored floral dress with a small cape wrapped around her upper body, Sakayanagi stood straight in the entrance hall with a smile, reaching out towards his schoolbag.
"More like a shock."
Handing the schoolbag to Shiina, who arrived later with a pout, Hikigaya took off his shoes and followed Sakayanagi, whose smile hadn't faded, into the room.
"Hachiman."
"Hikigaya."
Yamamura, sitting on a cushion in the room, looked somewhat shy, while Kamuro next to him had a cold and even somewhat unfriendly expression.
Tomorrow is voting day, and Hachiman has given the first-year student council members a day off.
Ichinose wasn't here today because she went to a meeting with the students from Class B.
"Sakayanagi and the others plan to vote against Hondo in tomorrow's special exam, and in return, Hachiman will treat them to dinner tonight."
"It should be that he invited us to eat a meal cooked by Hachiman himself," Sakayanagi corrected with an elegant smile.
"Yes, you'll be cooking dinner tonight, Hachiman."
After putting away Hikigaya's backpack, Shiina approached Hikigaya with an apron in hand. Seeing the slightly murderous look in Shiina's eyes, Hikigaya promptly bent down and lowered his head.
The apron wasn't immediately hung around his neck.
In the sight of Sakayanagi and the others, the cute girl whose face suddenly turned slightly red blushed and she tiptoed.
Pink lips silently imprinted on the cheek of the dead-fish-eyed boy.
Chapter 229 Class Voting Begins
"Heh, trying to have your cake and eat it too, Hachiman."
"Scumbag."
After dinner, Hachiman saw the three girls from Class D off at the entrance and returned to his room with a wry smile.
Although I was mentally prepared to be called a scumbag, I still felt a bit conflicted when I was called that.
"The vote is tomorrow morning, Hachiman, are you confident?"
After drying the water from the dishes she had just washed, Shiina sat down next to Hikigaya.
She knew that Hachiman had started his operation from the fact that he was returning to his dorm later than usual the past two days, but she didn't ask him because he didn't want to go into details.
"About fifty percent."
He put his arm around Shiina's waist and held her in his arms like a large doll, wrapping her cold hands in his large hands after washing the dishes.
Sakayanagi and his group from Class D, Hashimoto, Yamashita and her close clique from Class C, Ichinose and Kushida from Class B, and the two students they can persuade.
It shouldn't be a problem to get a dozen or so criticism votes for this class.
Including the class's criticism votes, the total number of criticism votes for this class should be a little over fifty.
After deducting the criticism votes cast for this class, the other three classes still have about one hundred criticism votes. Subtracting some who are unwilling to obey the leader's orders and those who are voted on by Hashimoto due to his hatred, the number of criticism votes will fluctuate between ninety and eighty.
Even after deducting the class's net positive votes, Hachiman's own negative votes are estimated to be around fifty.
"Only 50%?"
Quietly feeling the warmth emanating from Hikigaya, Shiina looked somewhat worried.
She thought that Hachiman's seemingly effortless demeanor these past two days must mean he had made ample preparations.
“If we get to the tenth floor, what’s the point of me pushing Horikita up to the top as the person in charge?” Shiina Hikigaya played with her no longer cold little hand around her waist.
The main character of this special exam for Class A is Horikita, and it can only be Horikita.
This was her last chance to prove herself to her older brother, Horikita Manabu.
With 20 million personal points, Hachiman can afford to gamble.
If he loses, he'll consider it repayment for Horikita Gaku's kindness and Horikita Suzune's wages for working for him in the student council for the next two years.
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