COTE: A Man On A Mission || Love is War?

"Are you satisfied with this result?"

A girl's voice came from behind Hachiman, who couldn't help but turn sideways.

She was talking to Hachiman, one hand gently stroking ends of her own silver hair.

Her facial features are delicate and pretty, her skin is white and translucent.

This is Shiina Hiyori, beauty of Class D in first grade, and the person who received second largest reward in this exam.

She proposed that her class D be the leaders of boys and girls.

Took a huge risk.

And now there is also a dropout.

But she actually got 12 million.

Considered a winner.

"You are here to get the money, right? Then wait a few seconds."

"...Don't be like Pa****n, okay?" Shiina nodded obediently, but she had her own kind of doubts.

For this exam, Class D accepted Hikigaya's proposal to choose last place winner.

However, it would be very risky to just give up, so of course she had to come and get paid.

Hachiman then waited with Hiyori for people to gather.

In fact, he found that sometimes when he looked at Hiyori, it was like looking at a very beautiful painting.

Before long, Hiyori saw some very cute girls coming from other groups.

There were Karuizawa Kei, Wang Miyu, Sato Maya, Sakura Airi, Onodera from 1st-year B class, Shiranami Chihiro, Komako and others from the 1st-year A class.

As well as 3rd-year seniors whom she didn't know, and Manabe, Rika and Ibuki from her D class.

Total number is 29 people.

These are all acquaintances.

They are classmates of same group who came in last, that is, 29 students who gave up exam together.

Now that matter is over, come to Hikigaya immediately to get your reward.

Because this is nonsense, who would be willing to give up if there is no reward?

The risk is too high.

"Please line up, everyone," Hachiman said, when se felt the gazes of so many people at once, "First, 3rd-year seniors, then last 2nd-year students... please follow order. And Shiina-san, could you please help with the registration?"

Um...

'you are so polite today, Hikigaya-kun' Shiina saw a list in his hand, and he needs to pay them one by one, but it is a bit difficult to manage the cash and list at same time.

"Okay." Hiyori did not refuse.

So she took the list and took out a pen from sportswear pocket.

But at this moment, a girl with a golden ponytail in first-year team looked over here several times.

This is Karuizawa Kei.

Because.....Logically, she should do the assisting work.

Obviously, she is his classmate, she is more suitable for it, and she has been doing so all along.

'In the end, Hikigaya-kun asked students from other classes for help.....' Karuizawa was a little confused.

But Hiyori had already started checking the information, so Karuizawa had no choice but to continue waiting in line.

And after Hikigaya-kun paid a student, Shiina-san crossed that guy off the list.

But, Hiyori's mood was not as calm as it is now.

Because three days ago, Hachiman entrusted Karuizawa to bring a message to first-year girls' dormitory, asking to gather at the gymnasium in the evening.

At that place, Hiyori found that representatives from three classes, Class A, Class B, and Class D, were all there, which meant that he had already convinced these people, and these representatives agreed, so naturally there was nothing for Class D to refuse.

'But if Hikigaya-kun's plan is to be implemented, he will need help of 14 3rd-year students.....' Shiina was busy thinking while holding a pen.

'And Hikigaya-kun seemed to give 200,000 points to each participant as a reward. However, these seniors from Class C and Class D of 3rd grade are doing things for juniors across grades. If they help them in this way, definitely will become sinners in class, and interests of everyone will be lost.....So how can Hikigaya-kun convince them to help?'

"Seniors from Class C and Class D of 3rd year, please send information about the money that just arrived to your class group."

Um? Hiyori's big eyes, looked over, 'I found out that Hikigaya-kun paid 200,000 points by himself. However, he also gave an additional 2 million points reward to each of senior students in Class C and D of 3rd grade.....'

After receiving 2 million, two senior students directly sent the receipt information to group.

Then began to explain that although failed the exam, but had received compensation, and 2 million was share of entire class.

Class group seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then exploded.

[But it's true, XX you did a good job.]

[This month I can finally eat normal meals and such!]

"….."

'I see....' Hiyori understood that she would also be responsible for compensating for the points deducted from Class C and Class D in 3rd grade this time.

Since interests of entire class have been lost, then should make up for it.

For example, Class D in 3rd grade originally had a score of 0, and probability of getting more points was not high, so they were given 2 million directly.

The third-grade students still have to stay in school for more than four months, so enough to eat chocolate.

So, if a classmate in your class voluntarily gives up and becomes the last one, it is naturally not that he is a bad person but that he is doing charity.

Look at it this way.

Hiyori found herself at a disadvantage, because she realised something bad. 'Hikigaya-kun....you took all my profit!'

Because her class evaluation score was reset to 0, and she also took risk of taking exam this time, were all known things, but no additional compensation was needed.

'I originally thought Class D's move to take over all group leaders was a good plan, but now it seems I didn't get much salary from Hikigaya-kun!'

"• ! •" Shiina was in a bad mood.

So after dividing money, she reported the matter to Ryuen and complained very loudly.

But Ryuen gave her an indifferent look.

"What's the meaning of this?! He took all our profit. There is no income left!"

Hiyori was yelling.

"You don't know that guy yet," Ryuen's eyes were tired looking, "Why do you think my fighting spirit is lost and suffering a huge debt?"

Yes, Ryuen has returned to Class D's leader position.

This story begins with announcement of the rules for the forest exam 7 days ago.

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When the exam rules were announced, Hachiman immediately understood it was a stage specifically designed for 3rd years to compete in the final round.

In other words, real protagonists are actually 3rd graders, to be precise, Class 3-A and Class 3-B.

Their grade class rating scores are as follows.

Grade 3

Class A 2254 points

Class B 1830 points

Class C, 310 points

Class D: 0 points

Among them, C and D were both eliminated.

The gap between them and class A was almost 2,000 points.

Even if tried their best, they could not climb up with only four or five months left before graduation.

However, class B still had a chance to break the sealing.

Therefore, exam is particularly important for Class A and Class B, which are only 400 points apart from each other.

Class 3-B wants to move up, while Horikita-nii has to maintain its position.

This is weak point in exam, and because the final decisive battle, two classes will probably... rush forward no matter what the cost.

It means that students in a class can enter university of choice without taking an exam and can pursue the career they like, which are things ordinary students cannot do and can almost determine future.

Just look at Teacher Chabashira, she suffered regrets until last semester because of her failure at the last minute.

So even Horikita Manabu, who is praised as the best student council president in history, will be forced into a desperate situation.

Thus, from the beginning, Hachiman remembered entrustment that Suzune had given him before.

'You have to give a helping hand to Class 3-A when necessary. I can't let my brother's years of hard work go to waste.....please....'

Therefore, Hachiman also considered scope of exam and considered taking action.

He doesn't like to keep doing tasks without any benefit.

But if he wanted to take action, have to investigate first.

So he went to find Suzune who was happy to use her mouth and Kushida on the bus, and then contacted Karuizawa via text message.

He assigned tasks, and after arriving at the Jura Forest, he went to extract information about divisions of girls' groups.

Because joint exam for the whole grade.

If you want to get in touch with senior students, you need someone who is good at communication.

That person is naturally Kushida-chan

She was entrusted with important task of acting as a liaison between the senior classes.

In other words, when he learned the exam rules, Hachiman was ready to wait for the attack from 3rd-year Class B.

Then, while helping Suzune's brother, he also thought of a win-win plan to gain points from this exam to enrich his own wallet.

However, it is not easy to get money.

You have to be a hero, be in Class 3-B and then attack Class 3-A, and then [save] Class 3-A, so that Class 3-A can pay you.

Class A in Grade 3 didn't have much savings because of large number of exams and no one was willing to give up.

But class evaluation scores are very high.

School has to transfer more than 8 million yen to Class A of Grade 3 every month.

So this point can still be appreciated by Hikigaya-kun.

However, to be a hero, there are some prerequisites, so he is also waiting to see how to create such conditions.

Then he realized something was wrong.

Deviation is Nagumo Miyabi.

Nagumo gradually became more and more arrogant and claimed that he would challenge Horikita Manabu.

Blasted Manabu agreed because he was worried that opponent would cause trouble.

So, if you want to fight against Nagumo, you have to shield against all his dogs biting your lungs.

But is it really like this?

Hachiman had a feeling that something was wrong with Nagumo.

At least, although Nagumo was sometimes crazy, he shouldn't jump out at a time like this.

Then, Hachiman used 300,000 personal points as bait to obtain the fluctuations in class evaluation scores of third-year Class B over the past two years from a senior from 3rd-year Class D.

Then Hachiman discovered that level of 3rd-grade B class was actually lower than that of 3rd-grade A class.

There was even an exam where the second representative of his class dropped out.

This is just bullshit.

In addition, Manabu is very strong, so 3rd-year class B has no offensive power against.

After exams one after another, several students from Grade 3 Class B were missing.

They could barely take care of themselves, let alone offensive power.

This means that even classmates were unable to keep abandoned child, or were unwilling to pay the price to keep it.

Therefore, 3rd-year class B made rapid progress last semester, and even dragged down Horikita Manabu's class A.

This is very wrong, because if someone is really strong, they should have flown in the first year.

Even if 1st year is you accumulating strength, 2nd year should also explode, not scream desperately in last year.

So taking all factors into consideration, this is year 3 Class B that received support.

Support is most likely Nagumo.

Sports festival, Nagumo directly manipulated scores to make the Red Team lose, benefited Class B and C.

Thus, Nagumo's strange behavior was explained.

Nagumo was promoted to the vice-president of Student council by Horikita Manabu in the past because of his excellence.

It can be confirmed that he is indeed a very strong person.

Because if he is not strong, he will not be able to integrate the four classes of second grade, ABCD.

And if he has been supporting 3rd grade class B, means that he has a big plan to move forward.

Most likely Student Council.

He wants to be the next president.

He was qualified to become the official president, but because Hachiman threw Sakayanagi to the student council, he directly disrupted his situation.

Then, Sakayanagi even got 100 tickets for 3rd grade.

But only 133 students in 3rd grade.

Nagumo's own second-year class had even fewer people, 112.

Nagumo's stable seat as president suddenly trembled.

If he doesn't win 2-3 classes in the first grade or get remaining votes in 3rd grade, his election will definitely fail.

Nagumo had been plotting against 1st graders for a long time, and tried several times to control Ichinose and take over her class.

But unfortunately, it was exposed by Hachiman.

So Nagumo was in an awkward situation.

If he does nothing, there is a high chance that he will not be elected.

Especially, when sports festival started, Sakayanagi took the initiative to meet with students from all over the school as a candidate, so probability that passers-by who were unaware of the truth would choose Sakayanagi was very high.

Nagumo did everything so that he could be elected.

But he lost the chance of winning, so need to do something.

From this perspective, Nagumo is actually quite inspiring.

But it's dirty.

Because the way he wants to become president is to force Manabu to vote for him, and if he fails, the class of Suzune, who is Manabu's younger sister, will probably have no choice but to vote for him because she wants to help her elder brother.

Then at that time, Nagumo only needed to spend a little more money to bribe starving first-year Class D whose class evaluation score is 0, and get the tickets.

Therefore, Nagumo's chances of winning instantly reached the limit.

Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, Nagumo's final option is to control exam.

Supported Class 3-B for this very moment.

Instead of letting Class B rise to top, he wanted to let Manabu fall and then ask him for help.

What a nice thought.

Horikita Manabu is a person who understands the overall situation, so Nagumo is very sure that senpai knows what to do.

Miyabi was also paying attention to this forest exam, and challenged Horikita Manabu, and visited the first-years every night, pretending to cause trouble, but in fact he just wanted to hide that his target was Tachibana's group.

While gathering at the gymnasium and listening to the challenge between Miyabi Nagumo and Manabu Horikita, Hachiman had already received information from the seniors in 3rd-year class D, and began to speculate on Nagumo's patterns.

Then he guessed there was such a possibility, so Horikita Manabu fell into crisis without him having to do anything himself.

In this way, Hachiman is actually quite grateful to Nagumo's perverted way of life....'I will send him 1000 points at night....least I can do.'

So night when Nagumo came to play joker cards to decide how many times to cook, he did not go down.

Because Hachiman had already discovered the unopened cards that Nagumo brought, but had the seniors secretly tamper during shuffling, so had already confirmed what the joker cards looked like.

Seniors have been cheating.

Hachiman did not expose the truth, and not let him suffer any consequences, just to repay Nagumo for this favor.

Then, he calmly watched Nagumo's childish trick and watched him make a fuss.

However, Hachiman did not miss any of them.

He met up with girls whom had agreed to meet on the bus and got list of girls in her group from Karuizawa.

Then, got the names of the groups from Horikita Suzune and Kushida respectively.

In this way, he can directly obtain the list of the three large groups of girls.

Finally, let Kushida use her connections to obtain names of the two large groups of girls in Class A of 3rd grade, and observe the situation of these groups.

The night Hachiman discovered Hashimoto and Ryuen's meeting, he didn't actually happen to discover Senior Tachibana Akane crying.

Instead, he arranged for Kushida to obtain information and learned that Akane Tachibana was bullied by students from 3rd-year class B in the group.

Then let Kushida, an expert in identifying atmosphere, guess when Akane Tachibana will explode.

In fact, he came prepared.

He knew that Tachibana might secretly run out and cry, so he brought a recorder with him.

However, he unexpectedly met Ryuen and Hashimoto, so he deliberately tricked latter away.

When it was confirmed that Tachibana Akane was unwilling to look for Manabu even though she was crying, Hachiman was sure that girl was being targeted.

However, to fight against Nagumo's second-year and 3rd-year Class B, it is definitely not enough to rely on a single class.

Knowing that he wants Tachibana Akane's group to be last, it would cost a lot to bribe people.

Hachiman chose to confirm.

For first graders, being last in the class also brings harsh punishment.

Directly selecting people is different from the agreed luck, so it may result in price increase.

So, after recording the entire sound of Secretary Tachibana Akane crying, he went to look for a person, who did not leave immediately after meeting.

Hashimoto felt disgusted after being cheated out of 1 million points, so he left, but his friend did not leave.

A friend who had been cheated many times, and didn't think Hikigaya would follow Hashimoto just to earn 1 million points.

So, he stayed.

Hachiman didn't think certain friend wouldn't learn his lesson after being tricked so many times.

So after Secretary Tachibana left, Hachiman immediately looked behind him.

As expected, it was confirmed that person was staying in a dark corner.

Boy must have known about Tachibana Akane is getting bullied.

D Class took over all first-year teams, so might be able to take initiative.

Then, Hachiman wouldn't get the lion's share, he decided to trick other party.

"So, do you still want to be promoted to Class A? Ryuen Kakeru?"

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