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

After only two seconds, seven or eight second-year students lowered their heads and walked away quickly, as if they had seen a ghost. The good-for-nothing handsome guy was the fastest to run away.

This left Hachiman speechless.

Who's trying to embarrass whom? Nagumo's actions are like offering his face to be slapped; the people he's hired all seem like the idiots from Class 3-B.

"I'm sorry, it must have been my fault that you got into this mess and became so angry that you started cursing."

After waving to disperse the students of Class D, leaving only Horikita and Shiina, Hikigaya looked at Shiina. The headband on her smooth, long silver hair had been replaced with the pair he had given her.

After dispersing the crowd, he realized where his anger came from, but he didn't want to admit it.

"I'm not angry at all, Hachiman."

When Hikigaya thought Shiina would complain a little, Shiina did not do as he expected and even hugged his arm tighter.

"I won't be angry when you yell at me." Shiina's incredibly gentle voice came from Hikigaya's ear.

Chapter 139 Standing Like a Henchman

"This isn't like you at all, Shiina." Horikita Suzune, who had witnessed the whole thing, approached.

She never expected that Shiina, who was usually gentle and exuded a soft aura, would directly berate an upperclassman, calling him a piece of trash and showing him no respect whatsoever.

This changed her perception that Shiina wouldn't do anything outrageous; her actions just now were nothing like Shiina's.

"I can tolerate it if it's aimed at me, but not at Hachiman." A blush appeared on her face, and Shiina avoided Horikita's gaze.

She knew almost nothing about Hikigaya's affairs, including the incident Shibata had caused in the past two days and how it was handled.

While she was somewhat dissatisfied that Hachiman didn't take her along, she was also somewhat happy to realize that Hachiman didn't want her to get involved in these 'bad' things.

After being confessed to by a handsome second-year student who was considered the school's heartthrob, her first reaction was shock, because she had never spoken to this senior before.

After only a moment's hesitation, she realized that this was almost certainly a scheme by Nagumo against Hikigaya.

She could forgive being deceived, but she couldn't accept using that to humiliate Hikigaya, so she retaliated fiercely, making the man who was just a tool for confessing his love look bad.

Hikigaya ruffled Shiina's hair and complained irritably, "Even if they came for you, I can't stand it."

The texture of that silver hair was as smooth as ever, even more so than the finest silk.

In the past, he might have added something like, "Don't worry about those who are only after you," but now he knows that's not something he can say to a friend.

He was very happy that Shiina valued this matter so much, even more so than drinking an iced Max coffee in the summer.

Horikita Suzune glanced at the two bodies huddled together, "Let's go, time to go back and cook."

With her cute appearance, she naturally received many confessions of love during junior high school, but she felt that having a boyfriend would only hinder her studies and couldn't understand why anyone would date while studying.

But seeing Shiina's transformation for Hikigaya, she seemed to understand a little why some students date while they are in school.

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

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

There are still ten days left until the end of summer vacation.

The expensive luxury karaoke rooms at the Beech Tree Center were unusually booked by students.

In the dim light, Long Yuan held up a conical glass filled with soda. Although a man in the private room promised to get him some alcohol, he refused.

He knew perfectly well that the blond-haired man in front of him was no better than him, and that framing others was something he could do effortlessly.

"I don't need to go into the details of my conflict with Hachiman, he's also your biggest enemy. I think we can cooperate." Nagumo sat imposingly in the middle of the private room.

There was only one second-year student, Nan Yun, in the private room, while there were four first-year students.

Kohei Katsuragi and Arisu Sakayanagi from Class A, and Sho Ryuen and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji from Class C.

After gaining the unconditional support of more than ten elites from Class A, Katsuragi Kohei forcefully suppressed all students in Class A who dared to oppose him, becoming the new tyrant. The monthly personal points collection rate was changed from 50% to 75%.

It was even more outrageous than Longyuan, but no one dared to object or outwardly comply while inwardly defying them.

Despite the threat that a dozen elite students would give up and find their own way if they disagreed with Katsuragi taking the lead, all the students in Class A agreed that Katsuragi should continue to serve as the leader.

With the threat of expulsion for outwardly complying but inwardly disobeying, no one dared to do so. After the preferential treatment group suffered a major defeat, Class A's strength increased rather than decreased.

The problem of disunity in Class A was resolved, but Class C faced a split, though most of the students in Class C were unaware of it.

The day after the preferential treatment exam ended, Ayanokouji took Kaneda to visit the Ryuen dormitory.

After that day, Class C gained another decision-maker, but on the surface, Ayanokouji was still Ryuen's follower.

After glancing at Ayanokouji, who remained expressionless and unwilling to speak, Ryuen crossed her legs and adopted a relaxed demeanor. "I don't care whether Hachiman is an enemy or not. Just tell me the benefits and I'll see if I'm willing to accept them."

"Class A won't go looking for trouble with Hachiman."

Kohei Katsuragi isn't brainless. How could Nagumo expect Class A to do something just because he said Hikigaya is our common enemy?

Like Longyuan, he understood that this was an case of exorbitant pricing.

The news of two students in Class 2-C dropping out of school spread to the first-year students within a few days. After some investigation, the leaders of Class A and Class C roughly realized that this was the result of a struggle between Hachiman and Nagumo.

If he hadn't known that he would inevitably face Hikigaya in the future, Katsuragi wouldn't have had any interest in talking to Nagumo.

It's much harder for students to drop out of other classes than to drop out of their own, let alone those who aren't in the same grade. Hachiman has now evolved to the point where Katsuragi Kohei doesn't want to be his enemy at all.

"Hachi is running for student council president. If he succeeds, you'll have even less chance of getting into Class A."

"You can't beat him in the election? Didn't you already control the entire second year?" Katsuragi was shocked. Hachiman was only a first-year student.

As the leader of Class A, he naturally knew about Vice President Nagumo, a prominent figure in the second year. Based on the anomalies in the class points of each second-year class, he also understood that Nagumo had taken control of the second year.

Faced with Katsuragi's question, Nagumo smiled confidently, "I was talking about hypotheticals. Right now, I'm naturally in the lead. You guys are just one of my backup plans."

He wanted to gain the support of Class A and Class C in the first year but didn't want to spend too much money, so he couldn't appear to value them too much.

There were twenty or thirty students in Classes C and D of the third grade attending the tutoring class organized by Hachiman. With so many people, the news spread quickly, and he couldn't sleep at night after learning about it.

Classes B and D in the first year were already Hachiman's stronghold, and with all the students in Class A in the third year and more than half of the students in Classes C and D, Hachiman is now almost catching up with the votes of his five classes.

The key to determining the outcome now lies in the competition between Class A and Class C.

"None of you have students in the student council, so you probably don't know that the student council president can participate in the formulation of special exam rules, and even organize activities that don't involve class points but only individual point rewards."

"The student council president is the only student who can voice opinions to the school administration. Generally, the school will not refute the student council president's proposals, and his opinions will be taken into account in subsequent special exams."

Nagumo elaborated on the negative consequences of Hachiman becoming the student council president, and these consequences weren't entirely untrue; at least most of them were genuine.

"Class 1-B has clearly received special treatment from Hachiman. If Hachiman becomes the student council president, I think your class will never have a chance to be promoted to Class A."

Nan Yun's lips curled into a mocking smile.

"You don't want to be standing in the audience like lackeys being lectured by Hachiman at next year's opening ceremony, do you?"

Chapter 140 More Money Needed

"The fruit seems a little stale, I'm going to the restroom."

After rubbing his stomach a couple of times, Long Yuan, without giving Nan Yun an answer, swaggered into the restroom and quickly dialed the number of one of his good buddies.

The lambs to the slaughter have voluntarily exposed themselves and delivered themselves to the door; if he doesn't ruthlessly slaughter them, he wouldn't be Longyuan.

Perhaps it was because there weren't many decent students in the second year that Nagumo thought such a simple trick could deal with them. Did he really think that boasting about the dangers of Hikigaya taking the stage would make them panic and agree to an alliance? Nagumo really underestimated them.

Given Nan Yunyue's situation, Long Yuanyue was certain that his current predicament was far from good.

"Come quickly to take down the local tyrants." Long Yuan said succinctly after the call was connected.

"immediately."

After telling his good friend the location, Long Yuan sat on the toilet seat and began to think about how many people he should squeeze points out of before stopping.

Nanyun has the most individual points among the students, and the position of student council president is very important to him.

He didn't know Nagumo's urgent reasons, but his good brother Hikigaya, as his sworn enemy, certainly did.

At that point, Nagumo will no longer be in control.

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

When Katsuragi knocked on the door to ask if he had fainted in the bathroom, Ryuen also received a message from Hikigaya that he was already in position.

Ryuen flushed the toilet and left the bathroom, returning to her original seat. However, she didn't know why Ayanokouji sat a little further away.

When he saw Ayanokouji's gaze as he placed his hands on Ryuen's, it dawned on him...

"Three hundred thousand for a ticket, no bargaining." Long Yuan turned to look at Nan Yun, pretending nothing had happened.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible." Nan Yun's face twitched. "Right now, I'm leading Hachiman by two classes. If I need to buy tickets, I can ask third-year students to do it for me."

He really wanted to slap Long Yuan, that little thug, to death. Why didn't Long Yuan just rob a ticket with 300,000 personal points? He only had tens of millions of personal points.

If each ticket costs 300,000, then forty students from Class C and forty students from Class A would need to contribute a total of 24 million individual points.

Until the moment Hachiman pushed open the door and walked in, he didn't even have the slightest thought of agreeing.

Nagumo's voice was somewhat urgent, "Who let you in, Hachiman? Get out."

If there's one person he least wants to meet right now, it's Hachiman.

The appearance of Biqi Gu means that his wallet will shrink significantly.

"Hehe, I invited my good brother Hachiman over."

“If we’re going to sell votes, I think having two buyers would be more advantageous for Class A, Senior Nagumo.”

Unlike Ryuen's sinister smile, Sakayanagi smiled like a little fox.

Upon hearing this, Katsuragi immediately understood, pulled Hikigaya into the room, and closed the door in one swift motion.

"It seems like Vice President Nagumo isn't welcoming me here. As his colleague, I'm quite heartbroken." Hikigaya moved a chair and sat down opposite Nagumo, speaking to him sarcastically.

As if afraid he wouldn't know the current situation, Sakayanagi made it clear to him with a single sentence after he appeared that Nagumo wanted to buy tickets from them.

In comparison, Katsuragi was indeed a bit slow to react, but his composure was his strength, and Hachiman wouldn't underestimate him like that.

"Senior Nagumo just said that it's better to buy votes from third-year students than from us. What are your thoughts on this, candidate Hikigaya?"

"Yeah, yeah, I also want to hear my good brother's opinion. Is 300,000 too cheap?"

"Don't push your luck. It will only do you harm if Hachiman takes over, and I don't necessarily need the student council president position."

Sakayanagi and Ryuen's confident demeanor made Nagumo feel as if he had eaten shit. How could all the first-year students be so cunning and bully him, an older person?

It was shameful and disgraceful of him to be ridden and bullied by a junior in front of Hachiman.

He was determined to get the position of student council president, but it wasn't a necessity for him.

Now, Class A of Year 2 has a lead of more than a thousand class points over Class B in second place. Given the existence of the unequal agreement, there is no doubt that Class A has already won the victory.

"With 300,000 student points, students from Class A and Class C can be selected to join the student council."

Seeing that Ryuen and Sakayanagi seemed to be intimidated by Nagumo, Hachiman immediately cheered them on, even though he wouldn't actually spend that many personal points to buy tickets, which Nagumo was unaware of.

All Nan Yun knew was that he did have the ability to use 300,000 personal points to win the votes of Class A and Class C for a year, but he would have to pay in installments.

"Hachiman, you bastard—" Nagumo's face was somewhat ferocious.

If someone else were to compete with him for the position of student council president, he might back down if the price he had to pay was higher.

But Hachiman is different.

It's one thing to embarrass him twice, but the most unforgivable thing is that on the day she argued with her childhood friend at the coffee shop, Asahina said that she would rather be Ichinose's substitute as Hikigaya's girlfriend than be his girlfriend.

You must understand that he has always regarded Nazuna, his childhood friend, as his possession, and Hikigaya's interference is absolutely unforgivable.

"What's wrong with me, Vice President Nagumo? What's wrong with me?" Hikigaya brought his face close to Nagumo's. "You don't mean to hit my lovable junior, do you? No way, no way."

Nagumo hated him, but so did Hikigaya.

After failing to take down Ichinose, he then targeted Shiina, who was almost inseparable from him. Nagumo was even more displeased with him than Ayanokouji.

He would get angry or mock Nagumo whenever he could.

If Nagumo dared to throw a punch at him, that would be even better.

Long Yuan, always eager for chaos, shouted, "Beat him up! Vice President Nan Yun, are you even a man?"

He felt that having popcorn was good enough, but the conflict between his best friend and Nagumo seemed to be much bigger than he had imagined.

How could it not be acceptable to release a large amount of Nanyun gold coins?

"Judging from his body proportions, Senior Nangumo probably won't make it."