Hachiman Hikigaya, who returned from his studies after completing his training.

What a joke! He's already experienced the hardships of being a live-in son-in-law. If he hadn't made a mistake that put him in a situation where he had to take responsibility for someone, he wouldn't have jumped off the cruise ship to become a live-in son-in-law.

"Hehe, you're being rejected, aren't you, Sakayanagi." Ryuen couldn't help but laugh teasingly at Hikigaya's very serious gaze.

"Sakayanagi-san, you'd better respect yourself and not get entangled with me."

"Ichinose-san is right. People who don't love each other will never be happy together."

Sakayanagi thought she was offering a carrot, but Hachiman rejected it so quickly and decisively, mistaking it for a stick.

After being told a few things by Shiina and the others, the smile on his face vanished, and he silently returned to his seat.

“Since you don’t want to transfer to Class A, we have another option for Class A,” Katsuragi said, taking over from Sakayanagi.

"For the two groups in Class D who haven't finished their exams yet, Class A can send someone to deliberately guess the wrong favored student and give Class D class points in exchange for Class D ceasing to join forces with Class B and Class C to target Class A."

Hikigaya asked doubtfully, "Aren't you afraid of losing face in Class A? And do you think the other students in Class A would agree to you doing something so reckless?"

Katsuragi's move is tantamount to Class A intending to surrender and admit defeat to him. Would the proud students of Class A agree to do that?

“They have no choice but to agree,” Katsuragi made an explosive statement, and he wasn’t joking at all.

Ryuen and Ichinose's expressions also turned serious. If Katsuragi said that, then Class A is probably going to change.

Feeling desperate, Katsuragi is likely to become the new richest first-year student with the help of Sakayanagi. With all the well-known elites in Class A being persuaded by Sakayanagi to support him unconditionally, the other students in Class A can't cause any trouble.

Unless they intend to drag Class A down with them forever into the self-destructive state of Class D.

"Hikigaya, what do you say about Katsuragi's proposal?" Ryuen put his legs down from the table.

The strategy devised by Hachiman was for the three classes to target Class A and then fight amongst themselves. If he had agreed to Katsuragi's request, the invisible alliance between the three classes would have undoubtedly fallen apart. However, Katsuragi had even gone so far as to surrender and offer gifts.

If we don't agree, he'll probably bite Class D like a mad dog in future special exams, which would be fine if Classes B and C benefited greatly.

Because of Ichinose's presence, Class B's eating habits might not be so bad, but Ryuen will probably be the one who enjoys eating the most.

Katsuragi, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, could never have come up with such a vicious plan. It must have been that wicked brat Sakayanagi who came up with it.

Chapter 124 When I Go Crazy, I'll Even Bite Myself

"What if I don't agree, Katsuragi?" Hachiman took out his phone and placed it on the table.

"If you still don't agree to this, then Class A won't care about their own interests and will fight to the death with Class D in future special exams, and they won't cooperate with you to achieve result one in this special exam."

Katsuragi's voice was deep and powerful, and the eyes of several boys in Class A were also focused on Hachiman, putting pressure on him.

As Hachiman had expected, Class A was determined to force him to make a statement this time.

"Do you know why I suddenly became the leader of Class D and started targeting Class A?"

Hikigaya picked up the pen on the table and twirled it in his hand. Katsuragi and the others thought that this would force him to make concessions, but it was just a misconception due to insufficient information.

"Why?" Ryuen stepped forward, his eyes wide with interest in the reason for Hideya's sudden change in style.

"Because Ayanokouji from Class C offended me and someone offered me benefits to take him down."

"What does that have to do with Class A?" Ge Cheng said, somewhat angrily.

"That's because of your class's dear little princess, of course." After drawing all the attention of the onlookers to the livid kid next to him, Hachiman took out his phone and dialed Karuizawa's number.

Katsuragi thought he could threaten Class D by biting them like a mad dog in the future to force them to submit. Today, he'll show Class A that when he goes crazy, he'll even bite himself.

Class A, unafraid of death, went to the field and confronted him.

As Hikigaya pressed the call button and waited for Karuizawa to answer, he continued his previous sentence, "There's only one Ayanokouji, but Sakayanagi also wants to use Class A's strength to take him down, so she plans to eliminate me, the one who stole the kill, first. What do you think I should do, Katsuragi?"

“By the time the deserted island incident ended, Sakayanagi had already stepped down,” Katsuragi retorted.

"So she's back at the table now? I'm only giving Class A two choices: either drop out of Sakayanagi or Class A loses the ability to stop me."

When Sakayanagi appeared in this conference room, Hachiman had no intention of letting him off the hook.

If you're going to step down, then step down properly. Why do you have to come back and cause trouble? He doesn't want someone watching him all the time.

"Impossible." Ge Cheng refused outright; he would never voluntarily drop out of school with his classmates.

"Then I welcome Class A to fight me to the death."

After saying that, Hikigaya picked up the phone and didn't hide anything from others. "Megumi, help me arrange for the students in Groups 3 (Chicken, Cow, Dog) to send a text message to the school indicating who the recipients of the preferential treatment are. The names should be Beppu Ryota, Aikura Asako, and Kohashi Yume."

After saying "I understand" at Karuizawa Meeting, Hikigaya looked at the four members of Class B who were shocked. What he did was completely different from what Ichinose and the others had agreed on. They had initially said that when auctioning off the privileged members of Class D and Class C, they would not charge one of the Class B members a fee.

He directly gave Karuizawa the names of three people who weren't privileged members of Class B, which was equivalent to giving them 100 class points for free.

"Ichinose, I'm sending you three names now. They are the names of the remaining students in Class D and Class C who are receiving preferential treatment. Once you receive them, immediately have the students end this exam."

Before they could even finish being shocked, Hachiman sent another big gift to Class B after hanging up the phone.

"Is this really okay?" Ichinose looked at Hachiman with some concern. More than the joy of this windfall, she was worried that Hachiman might be resented by the students in Class D.

But Ichinose thought that since Amakura and the others were already grinning from ear to ear, not laughing out loud was to give the Class A students, whose faces were as black as charcoal, some face.

"No problem, how could there be a problem, don't you think, Katsuragi?" Hikigaya looked at Katsuragi with a grin.

"You're a madman, you're a madman, Hachiman."

With a dark expression, Katsuragi stopped talking about fighting to the death with Class D and silently walked out of the meeting room. Most of the Class A students also left with dark expressions, except for the three girls, Sakayanagi, who were left behind. Sakayanagi sat in a chair with her head down, seemingly lost in thought.

"You're getting more and more interesting, Hachiman." After the farce ended, Ryuen left with the students of Class C. This time, he was simply outmatched and lost, so there was nothing more to say.

He couldn't afford to spend five million personal points to buy a single preferential treatment name, and he didn't know how many Hachiman bought before he figured out the pattern.

"Well then, Hachiman, we'll be going now. Just call me when you want to discuss the compensation, and I'll come find you."

"Bye-bye, Hachiman-kun."

Seeing that Sakayanagi was staying, Ichinose and Kushida and the others also said goodbye and left first.

“Hachiman?” Shiina gently grasped his arm.

"It's alright, Hiyori, you don't need to avoid me. I trust you."

Hikigaya gently patted the back of Shiina's hand that was gripping his arm. Shiina was his first friend at this school and the person he trusted most.

He just caused Class D to lose 250 class points in one go, but Shiina never questioned his actions and always silently supported him from behind.

He would like to specifically criticize a certain brother-complex person on this point, as Horikita Suzune would definitely have argued with him if she had been there.

“Just say what you have to say. Dragging it out is not like you at all, Sakayanagi.”

Kamuro walked behind Sakayanagi, crossed her arms, and remained calm, showing no sign of anger towards either Hikigaya or Sakayanagi, because she genuinely didn't care at all about graduating from Class A.

She didn't even know what she wanted, and in short, she wasn't going to graduate from Class A.

Being around Sakayanagi doesn't feel boring at all; in fact, I sometimes feel a sense of satisfaction. I don't know if I'm taking care of Sakayanagi like a mischievous child and enjoying it.

“Sakayanagi-san…” Yamamura stood beside Kamuro with a worried expression, his eyes lowered, looking at the once proud and elegant little princess of Class A.

"I'm fine, don't worry about Yamamura." Sakayanagi looked up at Yamamura and forced a smile before looking at Kamuro. "I don't know what Hashimoto likes about you, you can't say a word."

"It's his fault for liking me, I don't have any feelings for him." Kamuro pouted, she had absolutely no feelings for Hashimoto.

Having learned from the example of the girl who was expelled from Class D, Hashimoto had already lost the right to choose a partner. Even without the precedent of Maezono, she would not have liked Hashimoto.

In her eyes, Hashimoto was just like her, unable to find what she truly wanted, bumping around aimlessly like a headless fly.

"Hashimoto will cry when she hears this."

"That's none of my business."

After talking to Kamuro, Sakayanagi seemed a little more relaxed, and was much more at ease about how her chance to make a comeback had been destroyed by Hikigaya.

After discovering that Class A had been wiped out and Katsuragi had suffered a crushing defeat, she used a strategy of retreat to advance, intending to push Katsuragi to the throne as a tyrant, while she would hide behind the scenes as a strategist to build up the trust of the students in Class A.

Unexpectedly, her first plan after returning to the mountain failed, and Hachiman even made her resentful of the students in Class A once again.

But she won't give up so easily.

Chapter 125: Will there be a transfer student in Class D?

"You're really not tempted at all? You should be able to estimate my family's situation." Sakayanagi tucked a strand of silver hair behind her ear, revealing her delicate, flawless profile.

Indeed, considering that the Sakayanagi family has held power over the school for two generations, Hikigaya could estimate that the Sakayanagi family is even more powerful than the local wealthy families he was supposed to marry into.

"I wouldn't dare presume to do that. The most important thing in life is to know your own limitations." Hikigaya looked at Sakayanagi. "You didn't stay just to say this, did you?"

Putting aside the fact that there was nothing about Sakayanagi that he could like, the fact that the Sakayanagi family's son-in-law was going to have to deal with a bunch of 'high-class' politicians made him uneasy. Those were all cunning old foxes.

A bastard like Ayanokouji's father will probably get what's coming to him.

“Ayanokouji’s father’s hand has reached in again.” Sakayanagi spun his chair toward Hikigaya.

No wonder Ayanokouji suddenly made his move without any warning, even though Class C was still under the control of Ryuen.

Hikigaya also knew the reason why Sakayanagi wanted to make a comeback at this time. She must have received news that Ayanokouji was going to be forced to take action, so she was eager to take advantage of Class A's great defeat to try to seize the power of Class A's leader again.

"What did your family say? You just let him do whatever he wants?"

"There is no reason to stop a father from relaying a message to his son."

Privileges exist everywhere, and the three-year ban on contacting the outside world has not imposed any restrictions on Sakayanagi, who is the chairman's daughter.

As the former teacher of the school's chairman, Ayanokouji's father's words to his son are not a reason to question him.

"Just to tell me this?" Hikigaya thought Sakayanagi wouldn't have stayed behind specifically to tell him this.

“There will be a transfer student in Class D at the beginning of the second semester, and someone asked me to look after her.”

"Why not put them in Class A? Just like you, you didn't interfere, did you?"

Hachiman complained that anyone who could transfer to this special school at this time of year was obviously not an ordinary person. The fact that they could speak to Sakayanagi and get her to obey them further suggested they were no ordinary individual.

"What do you mean I interfered? Are you mocking me, Hachiman?" Sakayanagi poked Hachiman's calf with his cane.

When did she get into Class A through connections? Her perfect scores in all subjects and her good judgment alone were enough to get her into Class A. As for the new transfer student not being transferred to Class A, that was their family's own decision.

They even went so far as to claim that they wanted to train the transfer students' abilities.

She wouldn't have told Hachiman about this personally if she hadn't been afraid that a transfer student she had met and roughly deduced about his straightforward personality might be targeted and expelled by the unsuspecting Hachiman.

"No, no, it can't be changed?"

"You'll be the daughter of a congressman in the future, so you can decide for yourself."

.............

"Don't be sad, Hachiman."

In the meeting room where only the two of them remained, Hikigaya lay listlessly on the table, while Shiina, with a smile on her face, placed her hand on his head and stroked it happily like comforting a child.

It was truly a bolt from the blue; suddenly, he was given a precious student in Class D whom he couldn't scold or punish. Now, he just hoped that the new transfer student wouldn't go against him, otherwise, he would be in a very difficult situation.

"I remember reading a proverb once, 'A loss may turn out to be a blessing in disguise.' The arrival of a new transfer student might be a good thing, Hachiman."

"I can only rely on your good wishes, Hiyori."

Enjoying Shiina's comfort, Hikigaya remembered that Shiina had asked for a reward that morning, but Horikita Suzune interrupted him, "When we get back to school, how about we go to Keyakizaka Center for a day and browse the shopping street? I want to do some revenge spending, so let's invite Horikita along."

He planned to observe what items Shiina was interested in but didn't buy while shopping, then write them down and buy them for her later as a reward.

Hopefully, Shiina will be somewhat satisfied with his gift.

"Rin-chan, you're coming too... That's fine too."

"Then it's settled."

While dealing with Shiina's reward issue, Hikigaya thought of Horikita Suzune, whom he had just mentioned. He figured she was probably on her way to confront him.

This should have been a resounding victory for Class D, but because of his actions, Class D can only get fifty class points in this special exam, while paying the price of three million individual points.

Class B practically effortlessly gained 300 class points, Class C lost 150 class points, and Class A lost 200 points.

Mentally calculate the changes in class points for each class.

Class A 880 points

Class B, 1680 points

Class C, 11:05

Class D, 1244 points

The point difference between Class B and Class A has almost doubled, and the gap with Class D has widened to 400 points. That crazy woman from Hoshinomiya is probably going to have a big drunken celebration.

Chazhu probably didn't look too good. Once again, she was celebrating her failure with champagne at the halfway point. This time, Class D could have easily made it to Class A, but unfortunately, things didn't go as she wished.