Hearing the commotion.
Hikigaya and the others turned their heads. A group staying at the station seemed to be having an argument.
"Ah, Manno and the others."
Tsue Hitomi said with some concern.
It was classmates Nakanishi and Manno Yuriko, as well as Ike Kanji and Inogashira Kokoro from Class D. The others were students from Class A and Class C.
Status.
Obviously.
The composition of this group had generally low evaluations. Of course, they themselves were in no position to say such things.
"Ahhh~ I'm really fed up."
The speaker was Kondo from Class C, looking at Ike Kanji with a face full of disgust.
"As expected of the defective products of Class D, selfish and willful, really no sense of collective consciousness at all."
"No... I just."
"Enough, enough, don't you just want to go to Shiroi Koibito Park? I beg of you, can you please just shut up first, okay?"
Kondo waved his hand in disgust, too lazy to continue talking nonsense with him.
Seeing this.
The expressions of Ike Kanji and Inogashira Kokoro dimmed, and they silently lowered their gazes, not knowing what to say.
The disagreement was also very simple.
They were more inclined to go to closer places, while Ike Kanji was more inclined to go to Shiroi Koibito Park.
That was all.
However.
Almost no one wanted to listen to them speak.
Because of Hikigaya.
Coupled with Nakanishi and the others, the perception of Class D was very bad. Although they weren't like other classes who cursed, they were kept at a respectful distance.
Without a doubt.
Class D had indeed fallen to the very bottom.
No matter what they themselves thought, whenever a disagreement was encountered, someone would bring up the matter of the Unanimous Special Exam over and over again.
By default, Class D was a group of people with no collective consciousness, who did not keep promises, and who were selfish.
Even.
It would extend from there.
Whenever a topic related to unity was encountered, even if they were not at fault, they would still be pointed at and accused.
Resistance would only intensify the contradiction and make people think they were feeling guilty.
Silence would only make people feel they were defaulting.
Compromise would only make people feel they were weak and easy to bully.
Everyone was already powerless.
Although everyone praises democracy, there is an objective gap in influence and voice between people.
Reduced to the bottom layer.
Ike Kanji and others have already lost the rights equal to ordinary people.
No matter what they think or do, or how reasonable their words are, no one will take their words seriously.
To put it simply.
They have already lost the qualification to be human.
Horikita Suzune must also be facing the same situation, only her higher ability might make it somewhat different.
Moreover.
It basically has nothing to do with Hikigaya now.
He only hired Ryuen for three months, and that time is about to expire now.
What's more.
Although he hired Ryuen.
Hikigaya did not supervise. Besides it being unnecessary, there was no way to conduct supervision.
Except for the first few days.
It was impossible to follow Class C people every day to supervise whether they were keeping their promises.
People like Ryuen, Shiina Hiyori, and Ibuki Mio did not follow suit.
It is unclear whether they received personal points, but the act of insulting Class D was certainly not done.
Promising verbally.
But doing things in a contrary way.
But what does it matter?
Hikigaya did not keep an eye on every single person in Class C.
Urging Class C to stare at Class D people and curse them hard; even if they acted in a contrary way, they did not need to pay any price.
The fact that some people would choose to abide by the contract and insult Class D.
Undoubtedly, what Class D did in the Unanimous Special Exam was enough in itself to make people feel disgusted.
One cannot say what is wrong.
Even if Horikita Suzune's reasons were justified, it just made people feel very unhappy.
Hikigaya just used personal points to provide them with a sufficient reason.
According to Hasebe Haruka.
Even Class D itself was inclined to keep it a secret.
Clearly.
Class D itself also felt that doing so might be somewhat wrong, perhaps a mistake.
Making a mistake itself is nothing; everyone makes mistakes.
But some mistakes cannot be made.
If made.
One must be prepared to bear the cost.
If the surroundings were a bunch of idiots, or purely interest-oriented guys like Ryuen, then it wouldn't matter much.
But most people in the world are just ordinary people.
If one is utilized.
Then there is only a dead end.
Seeing this.
Sotomura Hideo, who had just wanted to speak, started stammering again.
Next to him, Machida Koji and Tokito Yuya also didn't think anything was wrong, but this itself was enough to constitute a problem...
They had already defaulted that Class D was the bottom-most existence.
Ike Kanji's encounter was truly too terrifying.
Just for normally stating his demands, he had to be ridiculed and mocked.
By comparison.
Although the atmosphere in this group isn't great, it is at least much stronger than Ike Kanji's group.
What's more.
It wasn't that he absolutely had to go.
Seeing Hikigaya look over again, Sotomura Hideo said somewhat awkwardly:
"I'm fine with anything..."
"Is that so..."
Hikigaya didn't care either.
His relationship with Sotomura Hideo was average to begin with.
And.
It has to be said.
Regarding Class D's choice to sacrifice Sakura Airi, Hikigaya also harbored a trace of prejudice.
Except for Hasebe Haruka, no one spoke up for Sakura Airi, which should be enough to show Class D's nature.
Yukimura, who frankly said that in the end as long as he himself was saved it was fine, was instead not that annoying.
"Let's talk as we walk."
Hikigaya looked at Machida Koji and said:
"Let's go to the nearest few attractions for sightseeing first to ensure we can move freely tomorrow, and then see if we can get all 20 points, or go to the places we want to play, how about it?"
"No problem."
The people around naturally had no objection. After thinking for a moment, Machida Koji also nodded.
He knew Hikigaya was temporarily shelving the problem.
But what could he do.
When the time comes.
He would still put forward a contrary opinion to observe Hikigaya's handling method.
Several people split into several small groups to take the bus to the Clock Tower.
Sakura Airi, Kamuro Masumi, and Tsube Hitomi naturally surrounded Hikigaya.
As for Kushida Kikyo.
Although she still only followed behind.
But compared to before, the distance seemed much closer. The other loners kept their distance and followed behind.
Compared to the groups that left the station earlier, they were already behind.
But for just these few minutes, Hikigaya felt it was irrelevant.
Just.
For some reason.
Clearly, Tokito Yuya and the others still didn't join the conversation and just trailed behind the team, but the atmosphere felt much better.
Maybe only he thought so.
Soon.
Machida Koji wouldn't be able to laugh anymore.