Chapter 160 Can I Not Go?
"If the girls find out about this, it's not something that can be brushed off with a sentence or two of apology."
Ayanokouji Kiyotaka tried to persuade them with well-meaning words: "It's very likely, just as Sudo said, that we'll be expelled by the school."
"Don't bring up expulsion at every turn."
"It's not like this is an exam."
"Haruki and Kanji are right; our operation will not fail!"
These three seemed to have a mysterious level of self-confidence in their own intelligence. Perhaps because a semester had passed and all four classes (A, B, C, and D) were still at full capacity, they lacked a genuine sense of crisis regarding expulsion.
"The pool party starts at nine tomorrow morning. We just need to move in advance tonight."
"We'll place the remote-controlled camera car in the vent of the girls' changing room—completely undetected, hee-hee!" Yamauchi Haruki looked smug.
"And how about the recovery of the remote-controlled camera car?" Ayanokouji Kiyotaka raised a question.
"That's simple. When the time comes, we just need to send out a 'Great General' disguised as a janitor, hang up a 'Cleaning In Progress, Do Not Enter' sign, and then enter the girls' changing room to recover the car." Ike Kanji stated the criminal details with precision.
"You certainly have a lot of ideas." Ayanokouji Kiyotaka looked speechless.
Having this kind of brain and choosing to use it for peeping... he really didn't know how to evaluate them.
"How about it? The plan is perfect, right!"
"Ken, Ayanokouji, you guys should join us too!"
Yamauchi Haruki issued the invitation once more.
"Sorry. I have basketball club training tomorrow, so I can't go." Sudo Ken shook his head.
"Huh? You're such a buzzkill, Ken!
Besides, you train every day. It won't hurt to skip just one day, right?" Yamauchi Haruki complained with a look of displeasure.
"Can't be helped. I'm a mainstay of the basketball team, and we have important matches coming up." Sudo Ken's eyes flickered.
"..."
Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, however, saw through the other's insincerity. He had already heard that the club being sent by the school for the off-campus exchange was the Martial Arts Club, not the Basketball Club.
As for why he was paying attention to the Martial Arts Club's affairs—to be accurate, he was paying attention to Hikigaya Hachiman!
'Sudo, that guy... after being 'disciplined' by Hikigaya that one time, he's learned to act with caution.'
Thinking this, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka was about to find an excuse to decline. But Yamauchi Haruki accurately predicted this and forcefully interrupted: "Hey! Ayanokouji!"
"Don't tell us you have club activities too. You're clearly a member of the 'Going Home' Club."
Ayanokouji Kiyotaka opened his mouth and tried another angle: "Actually, I made plans with a friend to go shopping tomorrow..."
"Liar!"
"Ayanokouji, ask your own conscience—who else besides us would ask you out?"
Ike Kanji delivered a fatal blow.
Ayanokouji Kiyotaka was instantly rendered speechless. Ultimately, he was forced to join "Operation Delta."
"Ken, I'll ask you one last time. Do you want to join us?" Yamauchi Haruki asked solemnly, adding a tempting lure: "You'll be able to see cute girls in the state they were born in!"
A flash of struggle crossed Sudo Ken's eyes, but in the end, his "big head" restrained his "little head."
"Sorry, you guys be careful. I won't participate."
As they watched Sudo Ken get up and leave the room, Yamauchi and the others couldn't help but look at each other.
"Haruki, don't you think Ken has changed lately?"
"Could it be he got hit in the head by a basketball and turned stupid?"
"Heh~ I think he's just been hammered by Hikigaya until he's scared."
"Hahahaha!"
'See, this is the essence of a small clique.'
When things are going well, they call each other brothers. Once opinions differ, they immediately change their faces and even resort to harsh words.
'Is this what 'friends' are?'
Ayanokouji Kiyotaka thought reflexively. If he were to raise an objection, he would likely be immediately stripped of his "friendship status" as well.
That wouldn't be very good...
It wasn't that he felt a deep friendship for Yamauchi and the others. Ayanokouji Kiyotaka simply felt that humans were social creatures.
Having lived in the White Room since childhood, his cognitive level was clearly different from that of normal people. To learn how to become an ordinary human, it was very necessary for him to stay within the Yamauchi clique.
However, if he followed Yamauchi and the others in causing trouble, and the matter was exposed, he would be expelled along with them.
That was something Ayanokouji Kiyotaka absolutely could not accept!
Advanced Nurturing High School had a deep background of government-enterprise cooperation—it was a safe zone that the White Room forces could not control. Once he was expelled, he would inevitably be intercepted and pursued by the White Room.
Therefore, he had to find a way to stop Yamauchi and the others from their foolish behavior!
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On the other side.
After leaving the club, Hikigaya returned to his dorm.
"A pool party... no matter how you look at it, that's not a place for someone like me!"
In the past, Hikigaya rarely went to even ordinary pools. In his memory, he had gone a few times with his younger sister in elementary school, and once in middle school. Because his eyes looked too fierce, he was misunderstood as a suspicious individual and was stared at by the staff the entire time.
The experience could be described as extremely poor!
Therefore, Hikigaya had no interest in pool activities in his heart. However, it was difficult to decline Captain Muto's side.
'If it really comes down to it, I'll just fake diarrhea tomorrow.'
Hikigaya lay on his bed, scrolling through his phone. Surprisingly, he found that there were quite a lot of messages in the class group chat. Usually, he was too lazy to even open the group chat, not wanting to deal with the conversations of these "eccentrics." But today, he was far too bored...
"Eh? Why is the group chat also talking about the pool party?"
Thinking carefully, it wasn't that strange. This was an activity hosted by the swimming club; the information was public, and there were no restrictions on who could attend.
[Yamauchi Haruki: Kushida-chan~ You're coming to the pool party tomorrow, right?]
[Kushida Kikyo: Uh, I haven't decided yet...]
[Ike Kanji: Come on, come on! A party without Kushida has no soul!]
[Sotamura Hideo: +1]
[Okitani Kyousuke: +1]
Most of the boys in Class D were exceptionally excited. They were especially proactive in inviting the girls! Their true inner intentions were plain as day.
Of course, the girls weren't much better. They were constantly @-ing Hirata Yousuke in the group chat. Hirata Yousuke was making excuses about soccer club activities, clearly wanting to shake off the persistent girls.
[Shinohara Satsuki: Hirata-kun, for the sake of Class D's unity, you have to come!]
'This woman is quite calculating; she's grasped Hirata Yousuke's weakness of 'doing everything for the class.''
As expected, Hirata Yousuke soon agreed to participate.
"Tsk tsk~ It must be nice to be a handsome guy." Hikigaya muttered a complaint and closed the class chat.
However, many private messages arrived at the same time.
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