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

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Qi t wo san Ming (IV) Jiu Shan (IV) "Ayanokoji Ayanokoji Ayanokoji!"

As she uttered a name she loathed, Kushida kicked the tree in front of her hard. Why did this person have to ruin her peaceful life?

More than a day has passed since Ayanokouji threatened her, and she still hasn't made up her mind whether to risk having her true colors exposed by Ayanokouji and entrust her safety to Hikigaya, or to decide to betray Hikigaya.

If Hikigaya knew that she was threatened by Ayanokouji with her family, he would definitely forgive her, right?

But she felt that if she did that, she would definitely lose Hachiman's true trust. Even if Hachiman forgave her, he would still let her know as usual and listen to her vent her dark emotions.

"Hikigaya——"

After his anger subsided, Kushida leaned weakly against the tree trunk and murmured someone's name. The starry sky above was mostly obscured by the lush trees, and even the moon was not visible.

Why did Hachiman make her hesitate so much? In the past, she would have made the decision to betray Hachiman without even thinking if it were to protect herself.

Even the usually carefree Xiaoqiaomeng could see why she was so troubled.

Lowering her head, she recalled the times she and Hachiman would chat under the moon. Sometimes, even if they didn't say anything and just sat there quietly together, their hearts were filled with peace.

"You've really ruined my life, Hachiman."

Kushida stood up from the ground, walked out of the woods, and stood under the unobstructed sky, reaching out his hand towards the moon as if to grasp it in his hand.

"You must take good care of protecting me, Hachiman."

Chapter 203 The Handprint Is Late But It's Time

It was late at night on the sixth day of the exam.

After everyone else had started breathing evenly and steadily, Hachiman opened his eyes, which were wide awake in the dark dormitory.

He tiptoed slowly from the upper bunk to the floor, then gently pushed open the door and left the room.

Every day at the restaurant, he has an hour to meet with girls and exchange information. Today, or rather yesterday, Kushida slipped a note to Hikigaya asking to meet without saying what it was about.

Please don't let me down, Kushida.

With a somewhat heavy heart, Hikigaya left the school building and headed to the agreed meeting place under the dim moonlight without making any backup plans.

Even if the dark emotions pent up in his heart exceeded the critical point, Kushida, being intelligent, would not choose to vent them in the middle of the night during the special exam; the risk was simply too great.

The fact that the note only contained the time and place also bothered him.

Looking back at the windows behind the school building, which were completely dark, Hikigaya walked quite a distance into the woods before finally finding Kushida looking up at the sky from a sparsely wooded meadow.

"What a beautiful night sky."

Hearing his approaching footsteps, Kushida stopped looking at the enchanting star-filled night sky, and a smile suddenly appeared on her lovely face.

The pink, slightly loose-fitting long-sleeved pajamas had the buttons undone at the neckline, and a glimpse of captivating white seemed to shimmer with a unique luster under the moonlight, drawing Hachiman's gaze.

Kushida seemed completely unguarded towards him today.

Adjusting his gaze, Hikigaya approached Kushida, "After all, it's on a mountain at a relatively high altitude, so there are many stars to see."

The thin air and low light in high-altitude areas result in high atmospheric transparency, which makes the sky background darker and the stars appear particularly bright.

"Shouldn't you be praising me for being beautiful right now?"

As she spoke, Kushida slowly sat down on the grass and patted the spot next to her. As she sat down, Hachiman could see a little bit of something he shouldn't have just by looking down.

He couldn't help but glance at Kushida quickly and met his somewhat teasing gaze.

Without the headband to restrain her hair, her bangs covered her usually smooth forehead and even partially obscured her eyes, giving her an aura that was quite different from usual.

She is neither an angel nor a terror; she is as peaceful as an ordinary, cute girl.

"Kushida is really beautiful today." After making a somewhat sentimental remark, Hikigaya sat down next to her, only a few hand spans away.

From an outsider's perspective, the two of them might seem like a couple who couldn't stand being alone and secretly came out for a date at night.

Every second they stayed here was risky.

However, after Kushida sat down, it was as if she had been hit by a powerful silence spell in a game. After waiting for a long time without her speaking, he did not urge her but simply lay down on the grass to admire the beautiful sky that Kushida had described.

The bright crescent moon in the pitch-black night sky lost its overwhelming presence.

"Ah~ Ah—I'm defeated by you, Hachiman."

"What did I lose to?"

Hikigaya turned his head to the side, and Kushida also lay down on the grass, looking up at the sky and reaching out as if trying to grab something.

"Why did you come?"

"Didn't you ask me to come?" Kushida's words left Hachiman completely confused.

If you don't come, I'll have a reason to betray you. Why do you trust me so much? It's so hard for me to do this, okay?

Hearing the somewhat puzzled voice of the boy beside him, Kushida pouted in dissatisfaction, thinking to himself that even though he had just made up his mind two days ago to stand on Hachiman's side, even at the risk of ruining his reputation.

But when the time came, she began to anxiously test whether Hachiman trusted her enough to entrust his safety to her.

It's a shame to hand it over to someone like her, who's all sweet talk and no kindness whatsoever.

“That bastard Ayanokouji found out about my dark side, met with me, and said he recorded it as evidence.”

"Um?!!"

Hikigaya no longer cared about the somewhat inexplicable words Kushida had said in the first two sentences. Ayanokouji knew about Kushida's dark side, which meant he had Kushida Kikyo under his control.

If his hidden dark side were exposed, Hikigaya thinks Kushida would likely choose to drop out of school.

Kushida endured immense pressure to befriend many students because she enjoyed the immense pleasure that came from the moment others trusted her and confided their secrets to her.

Once her true colors are revealed, no student will ever trust Kushida again to share their secrets with her.

In order to protect Kushida, he now has to find a way to silence Ayanokouji.

"What did Ayanokouji tell you?" Hikigaya asked hastily, sitting up from the ground. He no longer cared about Kushida's impressive figure, which was even more prominent after lying down.

"What did they say?"

Seeing the somewhat anxious look in Hikigaya's eyes, Kushida's lips curled up. Is this what it feels like to be worried about by Hikigaya? It seems to bring a joy no less than when someone else confides their secrets to her.

"Don't talk about knocking me down."

Seeing that Kushida could still laugh, Hikigaya was no longer in a hurry. Recalling the strange words he had just heard, he realized that Kushida had been testing whether he trusted her.

If you don't trust her, then she will choose to betray you and side with Ayanokouji.

"I can't not tell you, but I need to make a promise first. As a vulnerable woman, I feel very insecure."

With a meaningful smile on her face, Kushida grabbed Hachiman's hand, and then, as Hachiman wondered what kind of guarantee she wanted, she pressed his hand into her large, full breasts.

In the moonlight on the grass, the two people's posture was full of ambiguity.

The soft, distinctly different texture from Ichinose's came clearly from his hand, and Hikigaya's mind went blank at Kushida's unexpected action, as if his computer had crashed.

He couldn't help but tighten his fingers and carefully feel the firmness of the skin, a sensation he had never experienced before.

"Hmm~"

With a soft moan, Kushida blushed and quickly removed Hachiman's hand. She hadn't expected Hachiman to grab her hand so tightly. The tingling sensation in her chest made her heart pound.

"Hachiman, you're really great."

"It looks like I attacked you first."

Kushida's face flushed red as he clutched his chest with both hands, prompting Hachiman to smile wryly. He simply couldn't understand what Kushida was thinking.

Today, he was like a headless fly, being led by the nose by Kushida, but the feeling he had just experienced was deeply imprinted in his mind and lingered for a long time.

The bright, cool moonlight could not dispel the wicked desire that suddenly welled up in his heart to touch it again.

"I'm not going to wash this dress. If you don't help me properly resolve Ayanokouji's problem, I'll tell others that you have ulterior motives towards me. There are your fingerprints on it."

...Is this the guarantee you wanted? Hachiman was speechless.

Putting aside whether fingerprints can be extracted from clothing, even if Kushida does nothing, he will find a way to help her solve Ayanokouji's troubles.

From the moment she chose to believe in Ayanokouji even in the face of his threats.

Chapter 204 Both of them

"Sigh, how could Ayanoji possibly take a clear photo in such a dimly lit place? At most, he could only capture a vague outline."

"Although there are few students in the school with similar height and build to you, there are some. Given your credibility, who would believe that person is you?"

With a wry smile, Hikigaya replied to Kushida, who was relaying Ayanokouji's details of threatening her.

Fortunately, she didn't choose to foolishly listen to the enemy's threats and put herself in danger like Karuizawa in the preferential treatment exam, which resulted in him not being able to rescue her in time.

Ayanokouji is clearly trying to provoke her into not daring to risk ruining her image.

"Then I let you touch me for nothing." Kushida pouted. Although it was a good thing that Ayanokouji had no evidence, her troubles these past two days and her actions just now made her seem like a fool.

Especially after being grabbed by Hachiman, she felt she had been ripped off. She was still a virgin, and no boy had ever touched her there except for other girls.

Although I don't feel any dislike for it.

Is it my fault? Hikigaya, who was being complained about, wanted to just reply to Kushida, who was starting to act unreasonable, but for the sake of his own life, he chose to pretend he couldn't hear and play dumb.

"Hmph, teach me how to get revenge on Ayanokouji."

Not getting a reply, Kushida could only snort and stop talking about it. Now she wanted to take revenge on Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, who had made her look bad in front of Hikigaya.

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The next day was the last day before the four exams began.

The Ayanokouji group dormitory was not as peaceful as it had been in the previous days, and the disturbance was not caused by Tomomura and Hondo, the two guys who had basically done nothing during this forest school.

"Why are you still hanging around this school with a rich and powerful father? I was even feeling sorry for you and thinking you'd do your best on tomorrow's exam." Morishita from Class A glared menacingly at Ayanokouji.

During the one hour that dinner provided for exchanging information with the girl, Kanzaki informed the boys in Class A about the situation on the girl's side.

The most shocking story is that Kushida, the little angel of Class A, is approached by Ayanokouji who uses her family to threaten her into helping him prevent him from being expelled by Hachiman.

The method to stop it was still to threaten Hikigaya's boyfriend, Ichinose Archangel, with dropping out of school.

"Kansaki-kun has already said that while he knows your father, he doesn't think your father is an accomplice to evil. He thinks it must be you, the son, who is bullying him. He never expected that you, who seem harmless, have such a dirty heart."

"If you keep thinking like this, you'll be dropping out of school, Ayanokouji."

After Morishita, Beppu, also from Class A, cursed with a dark face, saying that Ayanokouji Kiyotaka was really too much, actually planning to hurt two of their class's angels in one go.

"Ayanokouji, this can't be true, can it?" Tokito looked at the silent Ayanokouji with some shock.

Given Kushida's usual sunny and energetic angelic appearance, the level of trust people have for her is second only to Ichinose. Moreover, it's not something that can be discovered without any information about who Ayanokouji's father is.

After all, no one would bother to investigate who their classmate's father is, especially since Kanzaki himself came forward to testify that his father's existence was real.

“You wouldn’t believe me even if I said it was fake,” Ayanokouji replied calmly.

He naturally knew that he was completely outmatched by Kushida in terms of public credibility, not to mention the unexpected fact that Kanzaki knew his father, so all his explanations were pale and powerless.

This time, he misjudged Kushida. He never expected that she would completely disregard her own interests and expose the matter to protect Hikigaya. Wasn't she afraid that he would ruin her reputation after he got his phone back after the exam?

She had put in so much effort to have a three-digit number of friends, only to have him become her boyfriend, Hachiman, who not only wasn't her boyfriend but also already had a girlfriend.

This is completely irrational. Given Kushida's nature, how could he entrust his future at this school to Hikigaya?

He doesn't understand.

Ignoring the questions from Morishita and Beppu, two students from Class A, Ayanokouji lay down on the bed, covered his head with the blanket, and closed his eyes to think.

With Kushida having lost his hand, threatening all team members to do their best in the exam tomorrow by saying that Hachiman won't use 20 million personal points to bail them out won't work.

In the four key road relay races, having fewer participants gives him an advantage. He is confident that as long as all the students in his group cooperate, he can at least get second place in the grade.

This way, the group's average score will not be lower than the school's passing score.

It's impossible to escape Hachiman's trap without taking any risks now, so he has to try his best to simulate the possible scenarios for tomorrow's exam in his mind.

Even the slightest trace of a crime cannot be caught by Hikigaya, who is the student council president.

Twelve o'clock in the morning.

Because the exam is tomorrow, most students don't plan to stay up late. The same goes for the room where Ayanokouji's group is located; the dormitory lights were turned off early at 10 p.m.

While sleeping on the unfamiliar wooden bed, Tochura, who was in a light sleep, felt as if tiny insects were crawling on his feet, which startled him awake. Then he heard the creaking sound of the door being gently pushed open.