Hikigaya turned his gaze away from Ayanokouji and continued discussing the previous topic with Horikita.

"According to you, Nanyun's policy is to win over the elite to form a group of vested interests. This is an irresistible temptation for students who want to graduate from Class A."

When Hikigaya and Ayanokouji were talking just now, Horikita gradually came to understand what Hikigaya meant.

"Even when I heard what he said, I was shocked, but I also had a desire to do something."

Horikita directly expressed her feelings at the time.

"That's normal because the ones who are really feeling insecure are the students who don't have confidence in themselves or their abilities."

Hikigaya said coldly: "But Nanyun overlooked one thing, that is, he underestimated others."

The reason why Nan Yun could make such fierce remarks at the general meeting so unscrupulously was largely because he dominated the second grade now. Regarding the current situation of the second grade, Hikigaya had also collected a lot of information from various sources and learned how the other party controlled the entire second grade.

Nan Yun did manage to dominate the entire second grade, which was enough to prove his ability, but expanding the scope to the entire school and wanting to use the same methods as before seemed a bit overconfident.

"Nangumo's policy is undoubtedly exacerbating class conflicts and divisions, deliberately creating these conflicts to gain greater benefits. Just like the reason you have feelings about Nangumo's policy, Horikita, it's because it gives you 'hope', the 'hope' of getting rid of the other lagging students in the class and being promoted to Class A."

Hikigaya's words left Horikita silent, because... this was indeed what was in her mind at the time, or rather, her initial thought when school started.

"That's actually what most people think. There's even a fair number of students in Class D who think this way. Why should I be grouped with these other laggards and burdens when I'm so talented? Even if I weren't assigned to Class A with my abilities, I wouldn't be stuck in Class D with these defectives, with no hope of advancement or escape."

Hikigaya's eyes looked a little deep: "So when someone tells you 'I can help you get rid of these annoying guys', it's natural to have similar thoughts. What price can you pay for this?"

As soon as Hikigaya finished his last words, Horikita felt a chill on her back and even got goose bumps all over her body.

A barely perceptible sharpness flashed in Ayanokouji's eyes.

"So the speech just now by the new student council president was a trap from beginning to end?"

Unexpectedly, Ayanokouji interrupted at this moment.

Hikigaya looked deeply at Ayanokouji, then looked away and said, "If Nagumo can truly deliver on his promise, then it wouldn't be a lie."

Hikigaya didn't say the last sentence because everyone already knew it.

Horikita couldn't help but clench her fists slightly. If it weren't for Hikigaya's step-by-step instructions, she would have no idea what had just happened in the gym.

"So, Hikigaya, you're not optimistic about the new student council president's abilities?"

Ayanokouji spoke again.

"From a very simple perspective, if you wanted to comprehensively reform the rules and regulations of this school, would you express this idea in front of all the teachers and students?"

Hikigaya sneered in his heart, this is not just a trap, but also an open conspiracy!

32

Chapter 32: Unexpected Misfortune.

October passed in a flash and it is already November.

"Okay, everyone return to your seats. There are important things to discuss next."

After Mr. Chabashira entered the classroom, he spoke at the podium. Many students were slightly startled when they heard his words, and then they seemed to realize something and hurried back to their seats. In the blink of an eye, the originally noisy classroom became quiet.

Chabashira-sensei noticed the changes in the students below. He nodded slightly and said, "It seems that you all took it very seriously. Now we will announce the midterm exam results."

The second midterm exam was held the day before yesterday, which was the end of October. Everyone still remembers the midterm exam of the previous semester. After all, if you fail any one of the midterm exams or the final exam, you will be expelled.

"Congratulations, everyone has passed for now."

After Mr. Chabashira displayed the midterm exam results, everyone in the audience cheered, but there were also some who were happy and some who were sad, because the last person at the bottom just barely passed.

"Phew~ That was a close call! I almost came in last. Luckily, Jian is at the bottom of the list!"

Yamauchi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw Sudo's name was last on the list. He then couldn't help but joke, "Takeru, you have to study hard. Last semester's final exam was where Kanji was at the bottom, and now that he's gone, it's your turn. You have to be more careful. I don't want to lose another friend!"

"What did you say!!"

Suddenly, Sudo stood up abruptly as if stimulated, looking furious as if he was about to rush up and beat someone up!

Yamauchi seemed to be shocked by Sudo's sudden action, but after realizing that Sudo was just bluffing, he couldn't help feeling annoyed, especially since the eyes around him seemed to be mocking him.

"Hey, Ajian, what are you going to do to me?"

Yamauchi couldn't help but yell, "It's just about the basketball team. There's no need to take it out on me. And I'm telling the truth. You were the last one in the group, and you disappointed everyone at the sports festival, losing so many points for nothing..."

"Yamauchi-san, stop talking..."

At this time, Hirata stepped forward to stop Yamauchi, because he could see that Sudo's face had turned red across from him. However, Yamauchi seemed to be in a state of drama. Not only did he ignore Hirata's persuasion, but he became even more excited, as if this could prove that he was a man that even Hirata could not control: "Hirata, get out of the way. This is none of your business. Ken's desertion at the sports festival..."

boom!

Before Yamauchi could finish his words, Sudo's fist had already hit Yamauchi's face, and Yamauchi flew backwards. It could be seen that Yamauchi's face instantly swelled up as he lay on the ground, and a tooth fell out of his mouth.

Yamauchi stared dumbfounded at his teeth on the ground and the severe pain on his face. After a moment of silence, an unexpected scene happened... Yamauchi actually cried!

He collapsed on the ground, covered his face and burst into tears. This scene made everyone feel that Yamauchi was very pitiful and also looked very funny!

"Asshole, don't think I don't know. It was you, Yamauchi, who spread bad words about me everywhere that caused me to lose the election!"

Sudo seemed to have lost his mind, kicking and smashing things around him.

The first to suffer were naturally the surrounding students. Sakura was also affected because she was close to Sudo. Sakura seemed to be frightened by the scene and stood still. The next second, a figure blocked the girl's body.

"Hey, enough of the noise!"

Hikigaya's action seemed to irritate Sudo even more, and he raised his fist and hit Hikigaya in the face, but Hikigaya seemed to have anticipated it. He tilted his head slightly, then suddenly stepped forward with his left foot, lowered his body's center of gravity, and grabbed Sudo's arm. In front of everyone's shocked eyes, he actually pulled Sudo into the air!

boom!

With a loud thud, Sudo was thrown heavily to the ground!

The originally noisy classroom suddenly became quiet. After a few seconds, others finally reacted. Many people looked at Hikigaya with eyes full of shock and...fear!

Hirata also hurried over to check on Hikigaya. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that Hikigaya was fine, but when he saw Sudo who had fainted on the ground, Hirata couldn't help but smile bitterly.

A normal class meeting had to be temporarily suspended because of this incident.

After Yamauchi and Sudo were sent to the infirmary, Chabashira-sensei continued the class meeting as if nothing had happened, and he didn't seem to be too bothered by the violent act that had just occurred in the classroom.

"The matter of Yamauchi and Sudo will be dealt with later. When the time comes, whoever of you is willing can tell them what I am going to explain next."

Teacher Chabashira looked at the students with apathy. "Next week, we'll have quizzes in eight subjects. The content is very simple, and anyone who has studied carefully through junior high will already know what they're covering."

When they heard that there would be a quiz shortly after the midterm exam, many students showed expressions of pain and wailing on their faces. However, because they had just experienced an accident, everyone was very restrained, but sighs and groans were still heard.

"But don't worry, this quiz won't have any impact, so you can get either zero or 100 points. Ultimately, this quiz is just a test of your current abilities."

The people who had just had sad faces breathed a sigh of relief as if the sky had cleared up after a storm after hearing this, but some people had already noticed that something was wrong.

As expected... Mr. Chabashira looked coldly at the students below who looked 'saved' and said, "Although this quiz won't affect you, it will affect the content and format of the final exam."

Before anyone could ask, Chabashira-sensei continued, "Because this final exam is a bit unusual, it's being conducted in pairs. This means that the results of next week's quiz will determine your partners for the final exam."

Then Mr. Chabashira began to explain that there were two types of failing scores for this final exam. The first was that the score for one of the subjects did not exceed 60 points. Of course, this referred to the combined scores of the two students. In other words, even if one of them scored zero, as long as the other got 60 points, both of them could avoid failing.

The second type of failing line is based on scoring 60 points in each subject, because there are a total of 8 subjects with a total score of 800 points. If the total score of the two does not exceed this failing line, they will also be judged as failing. According to Mr. Chabashira, this score line in previous years was around 700, which means that for the 16 subjects combined, each person must get at least 43 points in each subject!

33

Chapter 33: What a great official power.

The special method of this final exam is called Paper Shuffle by Chabashira, but until now Chabashira has only introduced the rules but has not explained the punishment for this exam.

"Regarding the penalty for failing Paper Shuffle, unfortunately, both of you will be expelled from the school. This means it's a life-or-death exam."

After Chabashira-sensei finished speaking, everyone in the audience looked at each other in confusion, with expressions that were both understandable and unexpected.

"As for the question of partners, it will be announced after the quiz next week. And there's another task you need to complete together. You will be the ones to come up with the questions for this exam..."

Although the exam questions are set by the students, these questions are not used for the class exam, but are exchanged with other classes. That is to say, if Class D sets the questions, one of the other three classes will answer them. Similarly, the questions for Class D's exam will be selected from Class A, Class B and Class C.

However, this is a one-on-one duel between classes, which means that once the class is selected, it will not change. If Class D and Class A compete, then both sides will give each other questions and answer them, and then compare their scores. The side with the lower score will be judged as a failure and 50 class points will be deducted. The class with the higher score will receive 50 class points.

In other words, this Paper Shuffle exam not only tests the coordination between students, but also tests the collective team ability, because there are 8 subjects and a total of 400 questions. This is undoubtedly a very urgent matter with only one month left.

After explaining the rules, Chabashira-sensei left, and Hirata stood up and greeted Horikita, Kushida and others, as if he was ready to start a discussion about the exam. Hirata also came over to find Hikigaya, but was rejected by Hikigaya on the grounds that the student council still had things to deal with.

In fact... the Student Union does have a lot of things to deal with.

"Hikigaya-kun, you came early today!"

In the student council office, as soon as Hikigaya entered the door, he heard the cheerful greeting of a pink-haired girl from inside. Ichinose had been a member of the student council for almost half a month, and Hikigaya had gradually gotten used to not seeing the petite, ball-haired senior who was often busy in the student council office.

"Thanks to Hikigaya-kun's help during this time, I've been able to gradually become familiar with the affairs of the student council. I'm so grateful."

As he spoke, Ichinose took out an exquisite little gift box from under the table.

"If you don't mind, this is a small token of my appreciation."

Ichinose looked at Hikigaya with great anticipation. Hikigaya, who was about to refuse, felt embarrassed by the brilliant smile of the girl in front of him. This was an offer that could not be refused, so Hikigaya had no choice but to accept it.

Originally, as a newcomer to the student council, Ichinose should have a "senior" to guide her to familiarize herself with the corresponding work. Nanyun, the pervert, naturally took on this role without hesitation. As for his thoughts, anyone with eyes could see what Nanyun was planning.

However, what Nagumo probably didn't expect was that Ichinose actually refused, saying, "I can't let others think that I joined the student council because of President Nagumo's connections, as this will damage President Nagumo's reputation." This left Nagumo speechless, so the task of teaching the "newcomers" fell on Hikigaya, the notorious "job slacker."

"Hikigaya-kun, how about you open it?"

When Ichinose saw Hikigaya was about to put away the gift, she couldn't help but speak quickly. Hikigaya opened it under the girl's expectant gaze, and found a handmade cookie inside.

Hikigaya looked up at Ichinose across from him, who had a look on his face that said, "Hikigaya-kun, try this quickly." Hikigaya took a bite and heard Ichinose's voice: "How does it taste? I've made this many times in the dorm, and I always felt that the recipe online was a little too sweet. I wonder how it tastes this time!"

"Hmm~ seems a little bland?"

"Light?"

Ichinose reached out and took a piece and took a bite, then frowned the next second: "It's still so sweet~"

"Uh... maybe it's just my taste. Everyone has different tastes. The more you care about others, the harder it is to make something that's your own. So just make something that you like, and don't try to accommodate me."

Hikigaya said meaningfully.

But the girl opposite seemed to have not noticed at all, and instead looked distressed. The boy with dead eyes couldn't help but sigh when he saw this.

At this moment, there was a sound outside the door. Ichinose hurriedly put away his things as if feeling guilty and returned to his seat. The person who came in was Vice President Kiriyama, the "junior" who Horikita Manabu expected to compete with Nagumo.

Just as Hikigaya had initially assessed him, he had been quiet since Nanyun became the guild president, as if he had completely forgotten Horikita Manabu's expectations of him.

It can be said that during the time when Horikita Manabu was in office, Vice President Kiriyama was suppressed by Nanyun and had no sense of existence. Now that Nanyun has become the president, the situation is probably similar.

"Hikigaya!!"

Hikigaya had originally thought so, but as soon as Vice President Kiriyama walked in, he approached Hikigaya with an air of accusation, his face gloomy as he asked, "What's going on with the club?! Mizowaki just came to me and told me you're not cooperating with him at all. What are you trying to do?! This is the student union, not a place for you to act recklessly. Put away your little tricks and honestly follow our instructions. That's what you first-years should do!"

Kiriyama was clearly charging at Hikigaya with anger and resentment, and he immediately accused Hikigaya of something. Kiriyama's sudden questioning also stunned Ichinose, who was standing nearby. He quickly stood up and tried to ease the atmosphere: "So, Vice President Kiriyama, is there some misunderstanding? Don't get angry yet, why don't we all calm down and understand what happened? Maybe..."

"First grade, shut up!"

Before Ichinose could finish his words, Kiriyama interrupted him with a loud scolding. Ichinose's face froze and one could see that he looked very ugly. It was not only because of Kiriyama's aura, but also because Kiriyama was lecturing the "junior" as a "senior".

In Japanese and Korean societies, the cultural customs of seniors and juniors are very similar and deeply rooted. They attach great importance to hierarchy and order. It is common for people to curse or even hit others if they don't like something. Therefore, bullying often occurs. So when Kiriyama used the majesty and momentum of a senior to scold, Ichinose was immediately shocked by this "atmosphere".

It’s just… some people will be worried about this, but some people will not be afraid at all.

"Haha, Vice President Kiriyama really has such great authority. If you didn't know, you would think you were the student council president!"

34

Chapter 34: Troublemaker.

"What a powerful official~"

Anyone could hear the sarcasm and disdain in Hikigaya's tone, which added a bit more gunpowder to the already tense atmosphere. Ichinose even hurriedly pulled on the corner of Hikigaya's clothes to signal him not to resist.

In Japanese and Korean societies, disrespect by younger generations and subordinates towards their elders and superiors is a very serious matter. In some ways, it may be more serious than the so-called social death, because it is equivalent to challenging the rules and authority that have been tacitly accepted by "everyone". It will be excluded and suppressed by "everyone", and such matters cannot be resolved through normal channels at all. It is more difficult and sensitive than solving problems such as school bullying!

To quote a line from a certain film or TV drama, subordinates are not allowed to kiss their superiors!

So after hearing Hikigaya's sarcasm, not only was Ichinose frightened, but even Kiriyama on the opposite side was dazed for a moment, as if he had not expected that a mere first-year student like Hikigaya would dare to resist. Instantly, a surge of anger surged in his heart, and he raised his hand to slap him!

But his palm was firmly clamped in mid-air by the dead-eyed boy opposite him!

"you!!!"

Just as Kiriyama was about to open his mouth to scold the other person, he felt a sharp pain in his wrist the next second, and then a huge force came, causing Kiriyama to step back several steps in a hurry. He staggered and almost fell to the ground!

Hikigaya not only challenged Kiriyama's authority, but also took direct action. This scene not only confused Kiriyama himself, but even Ichinose who was standing next to him was frightened.

"Vice President Kiriyama, why are you so careless? Are you okay? Be careful, the ground is slippery."

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