Hachiman Hikigaya's Elite Game

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And this voice was like the bewitching words of a succubus.

Making Horikita Suzune fall into thought once more.

Yes.

She came here following her brother's footsteps to prove that she wasn't useless.

But her start was unfavorable, and she had also caused her brother to lose a massive one million point for nothing.

It was equivalent to her brother wasting one million due to his sister's foolishness.

Such a thing was indeed difficult to bear.

But what if she could fill this gap, and then… prove her strength?

"…" Horikita Suzune.

Hachiman gazed at the black-haired girl beside him.

Looking at her over-the-knee socks.

Because she was so close, if he looked at her, he would see from her neck down to her abdomen, which wasn't a good line of sight.

So he could only avert his gaze for now.

But he could feel that Horikita Suzune seemed to be stirred.

And just like this.

"Then…"

Horikita Suzune finally moved her body away.

She turned sideways.

Her left hand gently formed a loose fist.

"If I want to climb up…" Her opinion was already expressed.

"This is a good thing. Climbing up, it's good for you, good for me, good for everyone," Hachiman nodded.

"And your brother will have no choice but to acknowledge you. After all, you're utilizing the school's rules to climb up."

But.

Horikita Suzune tilted her head again, her eyes filled with doubt, "Indeed… your idea is surprising, and I am very tempted."

"If I don't want to be expelled."

"I came here following my brother's footsteps, I don't want to stop here, and I don't want to tarnish his reputation."

But.

Horikita Suzune looked over, her gaze steady and unmoving.

"So, by obtaining the true nature of this school, do you want to be promoted to Class A, Hikigaya-kun?"

Uh.

Did he want to be promoted to Class A?

Would he want to be promoted to Class A?

It seems an honest person isn't so easy to fool.

Because she had found out.

Hachiman freely told her that the School's true nature was just to let her help him get some food, which was too cheap, but it was inducing her to climb higher.

So she now suspects Hachiman has ambitions?

But Horikita, you might be mistaken.

Because.

The one who truly wants to be promoted to Class A is Teacher Chabashira.

He just wants to get a bargaining chip to negotiate with that bad woman, Teacher Chabashira.

And that card is you.

...

8:30 PM.

Not far from the vending machine where he met the Horikita siblings yesterday, at the railing of the quiet Artificial Lake, a boy gently sighed.

Because he had plenty of time in the evening, he even took a shower before coming out.

It's just that some preparation is indeed necessary.

And this boy is Hikigaya Hachiman.

He is working hard for himself.

To be precise, to get more points.

Being assigned to Class D from the start, the plan to acquire points on a Class basis was basically hopeless, so going solo was the best option, but it was also confirmed that the Shopping Street does not allow part-time jobs or other ways for seemingly ordinary high School students to earn living expenses.

So he can only start from other methods.

And for him, it's relatively simple.

When he enrolled, he made a deal with his Teacher, Chabashira, to help investigate a student's file for a reward of 200,000 points.

Points can be used directly as money at the School, and they are also redeemed for cash by the School upon graduation, which is very generous.

Logically, it's a good job.

But from Horikita Manabu, he got bad information.

He suspects Teacher Chabashira has greater ambitions.

So he hopes to raise the price accordingly.

Thus, he is currently arranging to meet Teacher Chabashira, and this time the agreed meeting time is 9 o'clock.

He arrived at the scene early.

However, it's not about acting like a gentleman, but about making some preparations.

For example, getting some information about Teacher Chabashira.

And the first thing to get is... her salary.

The other party didn't reply to this before, but directly showed a huge sum of 6.02 million.

Then she also took out a point card.

Hachiman swiped the point card, and both cards Chabashira gave him had a limit of 200,000.

Fair and square.

She seemed rich and powerful.

But in the end, he still had to ask.

Normally, to get information, one can trade points, which is the most direct way, for example, Class A, where Sakayanagi is, directly used a high price of 2 million to get the true nature of this School from their Teacher.

As long as you can afford the price, there's nothing that can't be sold.

For example, being assigned to Class D at the beginning is not hopeless, because you can collect points and gather 20 million to directly fly to Class A.

Of course.

Hachiman doesn't have such great ambition.

20 million, for ordinary people, would take several years of work, or even ten years of work without eating or drinking if the salary is low.

Is it not a good thing to use it as collateral for 10 years of work?

Hachiman chose to take the money.

After all, this is more direct, because even if you get promoted to Class A and go to your desired university, is it guaranteed that you'll find a job after graduating from university?

Will the salary definitely be good?

Hard to say.

And instead of choosing to go to university, he chose to get a recommendation letter from the School to go directly to his desired company, but what if he encounters economic or efficiency problems and gets laid off?

These are all risks.

So compared to the imagined future, he chose cash, which is more reliable.

Just like the type of women he likes are also those who are rich from the start.

Compared to working hard together, it's better if the other party is already wealthy from the beginning.

Hmm.

These are all the thoughts of a househusband.

Hachiman is doing serious business.

After all, there isn't a reliable and suitable rich woman for him to cling to right now.

It's just that during the consultation process, he discovered some rather troublesome news.

Like this.

"By the way, Student Council President, is a Teacher's salary very high?" Hachiman typed into the chat box with Student Council President Horikita Manabu.

The Student Council President, Horikita Manabu, is known as the most outstanding Student Council President in history.

He is also the Class representative for Third Year A Class.

According to the scores of Class A, B, C, and D posted on the Floor of the Third Year academic building.

Hmm.

Now he knows that's called the Class evaluation score, which is the share obtained from the School on a Class basis.

The ranking of Class A, B, C, and D is fluid.

Whoever has a higher Class evaluation

score is the higher-ranked Class.

So there's also pressure on the higher-ranked Class, worrying about being surpassed by the lower-ranked Class.

But.

Third Year A Class 2530 points

Third Year B Class 1300 points

Third-year C Class 300 points

Third-year D Class 20 points

Among them, Horikita Manabu's Third Year A Class is far ahead.

As the representative of the Class, Horikita Manabu's contribution is indispensable.

He is indeed a formidable person.

He is also a very self-disciplined person, even though he was talking about the School's information with his sister alone, he could have not paid points according to the rules.

But he chose to enforce the law impartially, punishing himself by paying a cost of 1 million.

Of course, this could also be to let his sister experience the cruelty of this School, that one wrong step could directly lose 1 million.

So it's an older brother's earnest advice.

But his sister doesn't know at all.

From this point of view, Hachiman is in a very good mood.

Because his own sister doesn't need to be worried about so much, rather, he is worried about by his sister.

Worried that he doesn't fit in, worried that no one will want him, worried that he won't go to work in the future, and so on.

But.

Komachi, wait, Oni-chan is studying for free now, and he's also accumulating enough living expenses during his studies so he won't have to work in the future.

Hachiman felt full of motivation.

The only drawback was that he sent a message to President Horikita, but he didn't reply immediately.

Indeed.

According to the School's rules, anything can be bought with points.

So, does he have to transfer points to the Student Council President for him to answer?

Just as he was wondering how many points to transfer to buy this information, Horikita Manabu's reply came.

[Your Teacher's salary is probably around 200,000.] BY Horikita Manabu.

And his wording here is very precise.

He said

your Teacher,

not the teachers' salaries.

In other words, it's possible that students' living expenses are related to the School's evaluation obtained through Class competition, and teachers' salaries may also be linked to the Class they lead.

But Teacher Chabashira's salary is only 200,000.

Then the 6.02 million in her private account on her phone...

"Do teachers have free accommodation and free meals as rewards? Or are there any extra bonuses?"

[...]

Horikita Manabu didn't reply with text this time, but sent three dots.

Yes, Hachiman's question is strange.

[Normally, teachers, like students, have free accommodation, but they have to solve their own meal problems.]

[But your Class's Teacher Chabashira is probably a very frugal person. Sometimes when I leave work late and go to the cafeteria, I see her queuing at the free window.]

[Sometimes I also see her going to get free daily necessities for relief.] Horikita Manabu probably thought Hachiman had something going on, so he provided more information.

Oh.

So that's how it is.

In other words, the Student Council's work is very hard, which is why President Horikita leaves work so late.

Just.

Teacher Chabashira also eats free meals.

So Teacher Chabashira is also very family-oriented... No way.

Even though she has a salary, why would she eat the wild vegetable set meal that upperclassmen found terribly unpalatable?

In other words.

Is this Teacher actually saving money?

Could it be that the huge sum of 6.02 million he saw was actually what she saved by being frugal in the past?

And she's so frugal, yet she gives him 200,000 just to investigate a student.

Teacher Chabashira.

Perhaps you don't just want to climb higher because teachers' salaries are linked to the Class they lead.

But there's something deeper.

In other words.

Just like the students, are those assigned to Class D, whether students or teachers, all problematic?

Receiving information that made him doubt life, Hachiman sat in a daze.

"Click, click, click——" At this moment, the sound of high heels echoed.

Chabashira Sae, the Teacher of Class D of Grade 1, had already arrived.

High heels, a lady's suit, black stockings.

A mature woman, a big sister.

This was Chabashira Sae, the Teacher of Class D of Grade 1, with a high ponytail, very tall, and an excellent figure.

She seemed uninterested in everything, somewhat nonchalant, and even in her own Class, she was indifferent to the students' small movements.

And from the complete School rules obtained from Sakayanagi Arisu of Class A, it was known that after enrollment, all First Years entered a special examination.

The assessment was to determine whether a student of Advanced Nurturing High School possessed the corresponding qualities.

Then, points were deducted from the identical 1000 Class evaluation points of all four Classes.

All students were subjects of attention and scrutiny.

And this was already a custom.

So on the first day of enrollment, when he went to the Shopping Street and saw Sudo Ken, a classmate, being bullied by older students, the older students' mockery of Sudo at that time was:

"You will soon experience hell."

Then they left gloatingly.

And what the older students said was probably this matter.

All students underwent this assessment upon enrollment.

So those with experience were accustomed to such assessments.

Having suffered themselves, they certainly wouldn't want to see others happy.

And as for Teacher Chabashira, since Horikita Manabu could see her at School, it means she not only serves as the Teacher for this batch but perhaps has led a batch before.

And perhaps that's when she started accumulating her salary.

Because students are under closed management, teachers and staff of the Shopping Street also cannot freely enter and exit the School.

So the salaries of teachers and staff are also distributed in the form of points.

However, the School would probably convert them into cash when they needed it.

Of course, they could also choose not to convert them and accumulate them all.

And after sorting all this out.

Hachiman looked up.

The current location here is the Artificial Lake.

The slightly salty wind from the lake blew towards them.

The wind made Teacher Chabashira's ponytail sway.

In terms of appearance, this Teacher was indeed very beautiful.

Similar to Teacher Hiratsuka, but with more feminine charm than Teacher Hiratsuka.

After all, Teacher Hiratsuka always wore a white lab coat and pants, coupled with her bold demeanor, always giving off the aura of a female uncle.

But in Hachiman's eyes, if Teacher Hiratsuka dressed up and toned down her uncle-like aura, she should be a rather beautiful mature woman.

He just felt it was a pity.

Because Teacher Hiratsuka was a rather good person, if people knew her mature and beautiful side, he would feel it was a pity.

Thus.

Hachiman probably made the same mistake as when Kushida held his hand before.

Although he felt the warmth from Kushida, the Little Angel, he thought of Sakayanagi Arisu.

And now, realizing that Teacher Chabashira had arrived, Hachiman's eyes saw Teacher Hiratsuka instead.

Only, Teacher Chabashira was unaware.

"So, why did you ask to see me this time?" Chabashira spoke first.

"Actually, I contacted Horikita Suzune," Hachiman said.

"Oh, haven't you already reported that?" Chabashira Sae said, "And she is Student Council President Horikita Manabu's Horikita. And I have already given you her reward point card."

"Is there a problem with the point card?" Chabashira asked.

"That's the point," Hachiman said. "…"

"…"

But Hachiman suddenly fell silent.

"?"

Chabashira obviously noticed his strange state.

This student was very different from the other students in Class D, and Chabashira even felt that her old friend had specially sent him to her to fulfill her wish.

However, today Hikigaya Hachiman clearly seemed… somewhat distracted.

And from time to time, he looked at her, seemingly wanting to speak but hesitating, then wanting to speak again.

And just as Chabashira was guessing whether the other party would speak, Hachiman had already spoken.

"Teacher Chabashira, have you seen a psychologist?" The other party said.

"…"?

The sudden words, and the seemingly slightly worried tone, made Chabashira feel… that she couldn't respond to this.

Chabashira was momentarily taken aback.

Because.

"See a psychologist?"

"Are you telling me to see a doctor?" Chabashira almost laughed.

"Although you might not be happy to hear it, I suggest you really need to consult a psychologist," Hachiman said.

"Because you are already broken."

"…" Chabashira.

Chabashira Sae then focused her attention on Hachiman's hand.

But this was just a distraction.

"Where did you hear something, or did you learn something from Teacher Hiratsuka?" Chabashira asked.

Hachiman was recommended for enrollment by Hiratsuka Shizuka.

There was a suspicion of half-backdoor entry, but he also passed the School's review, so it wasn't considered backdoor entry.

He could also be considered a regular student.

However, externally, he had already enrolled in April, so Hachiman had already been enrolled when he was recommended at that time.

So he was Hiratsuka Shizuka's student.

Then he should be acquainted with Hiratsuka Shizuka.

So… Chabashira suddenly felt now, did Teacher Hiratsuka say something to Hikigaya Hachiman?

"What strange things are you saying?" But Hikigaya Hachiman said, "I judged from deduction that you need to see a doctor."

"Because, Teacher Chabashira, you have an obsession, and this obsession is unrealistic."

"It's even…"

Hachiman paused, then said, "Twisted."