There is something wrong with Hikigaya's classroom of supreme ability

Kamuro looked up at the two of them slightly, then continued playing with his phone.

"Today, it's just me, Hikigaya-kun, and Masumi-san here." Sakayanagi walked to a table where a chessboard was already set up, turned around, and leaned forward slightly.

"please."

Seeing this, Hikigaya took his seat without hesitation. He looked around and asked in confusion, "Is this your Class A activity room? Why are there only a few of you here every time?"

Sakayanagi chuckled. "It's a shame this is the club room, but losing a game of Go is a price to pay. Especially in this school, winning is a big deal, am I right?"

"I have a feeling Sakayanagi-san is hinting at something."

"Haha, this manager has lost three games in a row, and now I have the right to use this activity room for three days." Sakayanagi said casually, "So, Hikigaya-kun, what are you going to bet on? If you win, I can agree to any conditions you want. Anything."

"That's a tempting offer." Hikigaya remained calm, undeterred by Sakayanagi's bait. "But the prerequisite is victory. Otherwise, all your promises will be empty."

And I wouldn't do that kind of thing under these conditions! Maybe?

Hikigaya had personally experienced Sakayanagi's chess skills last time. To be honest, the chances of defeating him at his current level were too small.

"But I accepted it."

This was Sakayanagi who was surprised. She had thought that Hikigaya would take this opportunity to propose other conditions, and she had made corresponding preparations. It could only be said that the result was right, but the process was wrong. This cast a shadow over Sakayanagi, who was originally in a good mood.

Kamishiro, who was not far away, subconsciously looked up at the boy with dead eyes, frowned slightly as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just sighed silently.

"Could it be that Hikigaya-kun has some magic weapon that will ensure victory?"

Sakayanagi tried to find some clues from Hikigaya's face, but unfortunately all she saw was an expressionless face and a pair of cold, dead eyes.

Seeing this, Sakayanagi stopped hesitating. In the face of absolute strength, any small action would be in vain. Sakayanagi was still very confident in her judgment of her own strength.

Sakayanagi immediately chose the black side, which could also be seen as a sign of confidence in his own strength. Hikigaya understood the difference in strength, so he chose the white side without hesitation.

In the silent activity room, the only sound was the falling of chess pieces. As soon as Sakayanagi made a move, Hikigaya had already grabbed the piece and pushed it forward. His moves were incredibly fast.

Then, just as Hikigaya finished his previous move, Sakayanagi had already completed his next move without any time to think. Sakayanagi raised his head slightly and glanced at Hikigaya, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, as if to say, "Since you want to play fast chess, I will accompany you to the end."

Afterwards, the two began to compete with each other, constantly increasing the speed of their moves, which in turn shortened their thinking time, so the game progressed very quickly.

Although they were playing fast chess, there was no trace of nervousness on Sakayanagi's face. On the contrary, she appeared very calm and confident from beginning to end. This was due to her confidence in her own chess skills, or perhaps it was because she had already figured out Hikigaya's level of chess skills.

Like a cat and mouse teasing.

Kamuro didn't know when she walked up to the two of them. She didn't know how to play chess, but she could read their expressions. One was confident and calm, while the other was completely focused and didn't dare to relax. It was obvious who was better.

However, in the middle of the game, Hikigaya's speed obviously slowed down, and then Hikigaya's pause and thinking time also became longer. On the other side, Sakayanagi still maintained his state and his speed was still very fast. It was full of oppression to outsiders, and at the same time, the smile on Sakayanagi's face became more and more intense.

"Is it true that hard work can't defeat talent?"

Kamuro felt an inexplicable melancholy. No matter how hard he tried, other people's talents were enough to make up for most of his life's hard study.

Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% talent, but that 1% talent is the most important.

Last time, Kamuro originally thought that Hikigaya deliberately concealed his strength and lost to Sakayanagi, but now it seems...it is Sakayanagi who really concealed his strength.

Damn these two liars!

Thinking of this, Kamuro couldn't help but feel annoyed.

Just when Kamuro thought that there was no suspense in this game, Sakayanagi suddenly made a soft sound.

"Ok?"

Suddenly, a trace of doubt flashed across Sakayanagi's face. The little hand that was originally ready to hold the chess piece stopped in mid-air for dozens of seconds but did not fall. However, this seemed to be just a trivial episode. After that, Sakayanagi played chess very smoothly.

But even the girl herself might not have noticed that her speed had unconsciously slowed down, and she had become more cautious when making moves.

On the chessboard, Sakayanagi's black side always has the advantage. No matter how Hikigaya attacks, he cannot break through the iron wall defense. At the same time, if Sakayanagi changes his formation slightly, the original iron wall defense will turn into a sharp spear and pierce Hikigaya's "heart"!

Sakayanagi maintained a big advantage going into the final game. As long as she played steadily, victory was only a matter of time.

But Kamuro unexpectedly noticed that Sakayanagi's face was no longer as calm as before, and the faint smile on his face disappeared without a trace.

Can Hikigaya create a miracle?

Is there a reversal?

Unfortunately, there was no reversal, and Sakayanagi won in the end.

But as a winner, there was no smile on Sakayanagi's face, and he even looked a little gloomy.

"Hikigaya-kun, you never intended to win from the beginning?" The silver-haired girl raised her head and looked at the boy opposite her who had no change in expression.

On the empty chessboard, the only two remaining black pieces seemed somewhat conspicuous. The boy on the opposite side had been thinking of fighting to the death from the very beginning, and there was no option of winning at all.

"I guess no one likes to lose, right?"

Hikigaya picked up the two black pieces on the board and returned them to their original places. He then looked at the girl across from him, his expression indescribably calm. "I'm certainly not as skilled as you, but there's no rule in this world that says the weak must yield to the strong. While the end result won't change, at least this will give the process some meaning."

"I know that Sakayanagi-san from Class A is far superior to me, the odd one out from Class D, in terms of family background, class standing, and academic ability..."

Hikigaya slowly stood up, glanced at the empty chessboard, and then said self-deprecatingly: "But, this is my last struggle as an ordinary person."

Even ordinary people have their own struggles and ways of fighting.

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Chapter 58 Three Liars.

After Hikigaya left, only Sakayanagi and Kamuro were left in the activity room. Sakayanagi was still sitting in front of the chessboard without saying a word, while Kamuro sat down in Hikigaya's original seat.

"Sakayanagi, did you have fun today?"

Kamuro tore open a lollipop and put it in his mouth. Hmm, it had a sour and sweet strawberry flavor, really good.

Sakayanagi didn't answer immediately, but just stared at the chessboard silently, not knowing what he was thinking. Suddenly, Sakayanagi smiled.

"Uh……"

Kamuro looked at the sudden smile on Sakayanagi's face across from him, and suddenly felt a very strange feeling. This smile did not contain the annoyance that Kamuro had expected, on the contrary, there was a kind of... joy as if he had found a new toy.

Kamuro was so familiar with this smile, because Sakayanagi had smiled at him like this before, and then... he became her 'pet'!

Dead fish eyes, rest in peace!

Kamuro silently lit a stick of incense for someone in his heart.

"This Hikigaya-san from Class D really taught me a lesson!"

Sakayanagi picked up the chess pieces and began to replay the game. Relying solely on his memory, Sakayanagi could perfectly recreate every move made by the two.

"I just wanted to have an appetizer before the main course."

Sakayanagi fiddled with the chess pieces on the board, muttering to herself, "Is this the start? No, that's not right..."

Kamuro watched the girl mumbling to herself with a rather strange expression on his face: "Sakayanagi, are you okay?"

Kamuro feels that Sakayanagi seems a little...abnormal now?

"Haha, Masumi-san, don't worry, I'm fine now."

Sakayanagi stopped what he was doing, looked at the chess pieces on the board with satisfaction, and raised his head to give the girl opposite him a faint smile.

"I, I'm not worried about you! No, I mean you look very..."

Kamuro was a little unsure how to describe it, and finally came up with a word: "Satisfied?"

"As expected, Masumi-san knows me very well."

Sakayanagi smiled, but to Kamuro, it seemed a little cold: "Sure enough, he was deliberately hiding his abilities last time."

"But he still lost to you."

Kamuro said unhappily.

"Haha, you know what? The right result requires the right process. This result is what I want right now, but this process is what he wants."

Speaking of this, Sakayanagi couldn't help but think of the time not long ago when he 'guided' Hikigaya to accept the bet. The situation was almost exactly the same as now. The result was right, but the process was not what Sakayanagi wanted.

Sure enough, anyone who is related to that woman is not simple.

"It seems so complicated. Anyway, you win in the end, isn't that enough?"

Kamuro always felt that Sakayanagi was deliberately showing off. He had clearly won, but he still pretended to be like "I won, but I didn't win". It was really annoying.

"If we limit ourselves to this chess game, this is indeed the case."

Sakayanagi didn't refute Kamuro's words, but simply gave him a deep look. "However, knowing something without knowing why is a very dangerous thing."

"Huh? You mean I'm shallow?!"

Kamuro raised his eyebrows and glared at Sakayanagi very rudely.

"You see the chess game, but he and I see something beyond it."

Sakayanagi sighed: "From the moment he took over the chess game, I should have realized that I had been fooled."

"This is the first time I've seen you admit defeat."

Kamuro said in a somewhat unbelievable way.

Sakayanagi seemed to be very sensitive to the word 'lose'. She stared at Kamuro with a very unfriendly look and said word by word: "I, didn't, lose!"

Ignoring Kamuro's discontent, Sakayanagi analyzed to herself, "He deliberately chose to play fast chess so I could mistakenly think he knew he was inferior and therefore employed unexpected tactics. This was to show his weakness to the enemy."

Afterwards he deliberately acted as if he was in trouble and thinking deeply, making me mistakenly believe that he was sure to win, but in fact he was secretly planning something. Even now when I think back on it, his expression at that time didn't seem like he was pretending at all.

In the end, the real purpose is revealed, and both sides are doomed to fail. Such a deep conspiracy and... such a cruel person."

"Is it that exaggerated?"

Kamuro muttered to himself, "Is Sakayanagi overthinking things?" Is this what all so-called "geniuses" are like?

“This is a liar!”

Sakayanagi made such an assessment.

"Sure enough, only liars can be friends."

Sakayanagi couldn't help but sneer.

Really? I think you're a liar too!

Kamuro could only mutter in her heart that she didn't dare say this in front of Sakayanagi. Of course, it was definitely not because she was afraid of her, but just to save her face!

That’s right, it’s to save her face!

……

Time has unknowingly come to mid-May. Because of the holidays in the first week, everyone spent most of the time in the Golden Week. When we returned to normal school, we realized that half of May had passed.

During this period, Hikigaya went to the library more frequently. Of course, this was for the midterm exam, Hikigaya reminded himself so.

Because there are less than two weeks left until the midterm exams, there are obviously a lot more students in the library, mainly first-year students. After all, the pressure of dropping out is really felt by every student.

Regarding the situation in Class D, thanks to Hirata's efforts, the class successfully organized a study session. Many students who were worried about their grades responded and joined in. Everything seemed to be moving in a positive direction.

Hikigaya was quite surprised to learn that Sudo, one of the idiot duo, had also participated in the study session. And what surprised him most was that Horikita was also there.

Hikigaya really couldn't imagine that Horikita and Sudo, two people who were as fierce as a volcano hitting the earth, would actually "reconcile"?

Could it be that Horikita had learned the secret method of monkey training from somewhere? How could he have made these three brothers obey his orders so obediently? However, after seeing Kushida at the study session, Hikigaya began to understand what was going on.