The next day after school.
Horikita Suzune still moved together with Sakura Airi and the others.
Although her surface remained as cold as before, her actions felt enthusiastic, likely because she had a favor to ask.
Inside the room.
Kushida Kikyo reached her hands under Horikita Suzune's armpits, her fair arms pulling up and locking her hands.
Horikita Suzune did not resist.
She only looked at the ill-intentioned gazes of Hasebe Haruka and the others in front of her, feeling confused for a moment.
"Kushida... what is the meaning of this?"
"Don't you want to ease relations with everyone? Then be honest and obedient."
Kushida Kikyo turned to Hikigaya with a cold expression:
"Come on, Hikki, let this girl taste your strength, I want to see if she can still be as arrogant as she is now."
Suddenly.
Horikita Suzune realized.
Kushida Kikyo and the others probably wanted to see her ugly, distressed, panicked, and hidden side.
Although she could understand.
Horikita Suzune was truly speechless, not knowing what the point of doing this was.
However.
Knowing Kushida and the others' intentions, Horikita Suzune didn't feel any rejection.
Horikita Suzune turned to look at Hikigaya in front of her.
Her gaze was calm, and her tone was even somewhat expectant.
"Then come, I'll trouble you."
"Is your body okay?"
"I'm fine, if anything, I really want it now. Hurry up."
Late at night.
Kushida Kikyo wiped the stains off her body with a tissue and glanced at Horikita Suzune, who was crawling beside Hikigaya, using her mouth to clean the popsicle.
"Hmph... boring."
Kushida Kikyo mocked with great dissatisfaction: "I really didn't expect you to be such a slut."
She had originally wanted to see Horikita Suzune's miserable, panicked side begging for mercy.
Unexpectedly.
Compared to veterans like them who had been through many battles, Horikita Suzune was actually more open.
One should say Horikita Suzune was frank.
Horikita Suzune didn't hide her desires at all, and her shouts were even more intense than theirs.
"If you put it that way, I feel everyone is more or less the same, right~~?"
Horikita Suzune raised her hand, her small hand continuing to clean the popsicle.
She became even more puzzled:
"It would be understandable if it were to avoid being discovered by others, but you all do these things with Hikigaya because you like it, right? What's there to be ashamed of?"
"That's why you're a shameless bitch."
Kushida Kikyo mocked coldly.
One should say Horikita Suzune was straightforward, or perhaps "blunt" was more appropriate.
Anyway, it was a fact that she liked this kind of thing. Since she liked it, she just said it out loud; there was no need to hide or suppress it.
However.
Kushida and the others just wanted to see her miserable side.
Since Horikita Suzune didn't care and instead showed this side, perhaps she would be more easily accepted.
Unfortunately, she was still too blunt.
But.
Precisely because of this bluntness.
Knowing that what Horikita Suzune said was the truth.
The contrast between her usual coldness and her behavior in bed gave Hikigaya a full sense of conquest.
Sure enough.
A few days later.
At Keyaki Mall, Palette Cafe.
While doing various wanton things with Hikigaya and the others, Horikita Suzune also invited Sakura Airi to the cafe.
"Sakura-san..."
Horikita Suzune requested in a low voice: "I heard you've been on good terms with Wang-san recently, could I trouble you to do me a favor?"
"This..."
Sakura Airi was somewhat hesitant.
No matter how one looked, among all these people, the easiest one to talk to was Sakura Airi.
As long as one had enough perseverance, Sakura Airi almost never refused.
Seeing Sakura Airi's hesitation, Horikita Suzune pressed her advantage while feeling nervous:
"It's okay, you just need to ask Wang-san out to play normally, and then be a little late. I will communicate with her in a 'coincidental' way; that will be enough."
If there was someone she had an appointment to meet.
She believed Wang Meiyu wouldn't find it easy to just leave.
In this way.
There would be enough opportunity and time to communicate with Wang Meiyu.
What Sakura Airi needed to do was simply ask Wang Meiyu to meet, and then be about ten minutes late.
There would be no risk.
For the following matters, Horikita Suzune would take it slow.
Using Wang Meiyu as a starting point.
And then gradually easing relations with Mori Nene and the others.
This was also the only potentially effective way Horikita Suzune could think of.
True.
What Horikita Suzune said was factual.
There was no risk for Sakura Airi, and Wang Meiyu would likely be as she expected—not in a position to avoid her ahead of time.
It would be very easy to create a necessary opportunity for conversation.
However.
This style of doing things was always slightly uncomfortable; being too calculating is not truly clever.
"...Um..."
After a moment of hesitation.
Sakura Airi still shook her head.
Even if there was no risk, Sakura Airi didn't want to deceive people.
Furthermore, deceiving her own friend felt like a betrayal of Wang Meiyu; she feared they might not even be able to remain friends afterward.
Before Horikita Suzune could say anything.
Sakura Airi said hesitantly:
"If Horikita-san really wants to communicate with wang-san, I can talk to her and arrange for you to meet, but it won't be in this way. Is that okay?"
"Yes, then I'll trouble you."
Horikita Suzune breathed a slight sigh of relief, but her heart felt complicated.
In front of Wang Meiyu.
Sakura Airi's words would certainly be more useful than hers.
Having someone mediate would definitely be better than being alone.
It was just that this style of behavior was what she cared about; perhaps being direct isn't the only way to be sincere.
Sakura Airi and the others might not be the smartest, but they would consider things more from the other person's perspective to avoid affecting them.
To become someone worthy of trust.
Perhaps this was the way she should learn more.
"And, I will explain the situation to wang-san in advance. Whether wang-san agrees or not, I don't know."
Sakura Airi added somewhat hesitantly.
Although she didn't think Horikita Suzune would succeed, Horikita Suzune's persistence was admirable.
"Yes, that's already enough. Thank you, Sakura-san..."
Horikita Suzune let out a long breath.
By contacting Wang Meiyu through Sakura Airi, and then contacting other people in the class through Wang Meiyu.
As long as a connection could be re-established, she believed this relationship would improve.
No matter what.
She didn't want the class to graduate in such a shattered state.
Otherwise.
Horikita Suzune could feel it.
She might regret it for the rest of her life.