Keyaki Mall.
With a gloomy expression, Hikigaya walked towards the dormitory building, his feet feeling as heavy as if they were filled with lead.
Likely.
Sakayanagi was waiting for him in Kamuro Masumi's dormitory, or he was going there to wait for the other party.
In either case.
Just the thought of meeting that vile woman again.
Was depressing to the extreme.
Just then.
A phone rang.
Hikigaya picked up the phone and heard Arisu Sakayanagi's loathsome, cheerful voice.
"Hiki-kun, you really never learn, do you? Or is it that you have no energy left to care about your surroundings? Or did I overestimate you before—is your spirit actually this fragile?"
"..."
Listening to Sakayanagi's mocking tone, Hikigaya's face was ugly and he did not respond.
This person was truly upright in her wickedness.
She didn't hide her despicableness at all, and even took pride in it.
"Forget it."
Failing to get a response from Hikigaya, Arisu Sakayanagi said indifferently:
"You are being followed by Ichinose and the others. Don't look back; find a way to shake them off, otherwise, you can certainly guess the outcome."
After saying that.
Arisu Sakayanagi hung up the phone.
Hikigaya's face suddenly turned a bit stiff.
Followed again?
And it was Ichinose and the others.
It made sense.
After all, they met frequently; perhaps not just Ichinose, but even the classmates might have noticed his abnormality.
Making Ichinose and the others worry so much again.
Hikigaya truly felt a bit bad about it.
On the other hand.
It showed that Sakayanagi was still sending people to follow him.
Even though she already had leverage over him, she actually still sent people to follow him.
This kind of control.
Always keeping him under strict surveillance.
It was simply disgusting.
However.
With Sakayanagi's wicked personality, she probably felt this was being cautious—one of the manifestations of her great strength.
Although he hated it extremely.
Hikigaya also had to admit.
Sakayanagi's style of doing things was airtight, leaving no flaws for him.
Dormitory building.
Ichinose and Himeno Yuki hid behind the wall, gazing at the dormitory building lobby.
Although neither of them had any tracking skills, Hikigaya was just an ordinary person.
"He went straight back to the dorm?"
Ichinose looked down at Himeno Yuki below her, furrowing her brows in some confusion.
Originally she thought.
Hikigaya would meet with someone, but she didn't expect him to come straight back to the dorm.
"Not necessarily."
Himeno Yuki narrowed her eyes and stared deathly at Hikigaya's back.
"He just took a call; it must have been from some 'thieving cat.' He's gone in. When he comes back tonight, Honami, you check his phone. Come on, let's follow him up first and see."
Watching Hikigaya enter the elevator, Himeno Yuki hurriedly rushed into the lobby.
She had already made a judgment.
There was definitely a despicable thieving cat.
Ichinose also hurriedly followed behind her, and the two watched the numbers on the elevator.
The slowly rising elevator stopped at the fifth floor.
"This..."
Himeno Yuki suddenly furrowed her brows: "He didn't really go back to his room, did he?"
"Maybe the problem has been solved."
Ichinose's eyes lit up.
For Hikigaya to go back to his room as soon as school was over was a rare good thing.
"How could it be that simple."
"Did you forget what happened in class just now so quickly?"
"Go, let's go up and see."
She pressed the up button.
In a short moment, the numbers on the screen quickly decreased, and the two entered the elevator and returned to the fifth floor.
"Honami, you go in and look first."
Himeno Yuki said a bit awkwardly.
She still wanted to save face.
She just had a conflict with Hikigaya a few days ago; wouldn't it be embarrassing to bump into him in the dorm now?
"Okay."
Ichinose took out the spare room card and walked into the dorm, quickly returning to Himeno Yuki and shaking her head bitterly.
"He's not there?"
Himeno Yuki bit her nails and said a bit angrily: "Damn it, that guy actually dares to play hide and seek with us!"
There was no need to guess.
He must have taken advantage of when they were waiting for the elevator.
He went to other floors from the fire escape, or left the dormitory building directly.
Whichever it was.
It showed they had already lost him.
More importantly.
Hikigaya actually played hide and seek with them, which required some wariness.
It showed.
The situation was extremely severe.
The expressions of both Himeno Yuki and Ichinose were not very good.
Except one was angry, while Ichinose was a bit disappointed.
"If that's the case, I'm afraid even the call records won't be kept."
If.
Hikigaya really made up his mind to hide it from them.
He definitely wouldn't leave any evidence.
"What exactly is going on with that guy? Is there something he can't say?"
Himeno Yuki angrily kicked the door and said somewhat unhappily.
"Let's talk about these things later."
Ichinose took a deep breath, cheered herself up again and said: "Yuki-chan, can I ask you to team up with Hikki and Chihiro-chan for the exam? Otherwise, if Hiki-kun takes the exam alone, he will definitely not pass."
This pairing.
Was also a choice Ichinose made after deep thought.
With Hikigaya's strength.
Participating in a two-week wilderness survival alone would inevitably lead to elimination.
Although.
Hikigaya still had many personal points, they couldn't be wasted like this for nothing.
This wasn't entirely just to take care of Hikigaya.
But to let Hikigaya and Himeno Yuki, two people with relatively strong physical abilities, carry Shiranami Chihiro, whose physical ability was relatively poor.
It was roughly a mode of one strong carrying two weak, or two medium carrying one weak.
As for Ichinose.
Although her grades were also in the middle, her academic ability was excellent, and she was good at taking care of the emotions of those around her, so she naturally needed to negotiate with Class A.
Otherwise.
If the leader doesn't participate in the cooperation, Katsuragi would probably find it hard to accept such conditions; he wasn't there to be a babysitter for Class B.
To cooperate, naturally, it must be the most beneficial way of cooperation.
And Hikigaya was clearly not in good shape.
As his girlfriend and class leader, Himeno Yuki was obviously the best choice.
As Hikigaya's girlfriend, and at the same time a class leader.
"This..."
Himeno Yuki suddenly said with some difficulty: "How about we change someone?"
"Eh?"
"No."
Seeing Ichinose looking a bit confused, Himeno Yuki quickly explained:
"I am naturally very happy to be able to team up with Hikki, but I am not very good at dealing with Shiranami Chihiro."
"Eh?"
Ichinose was even more confused: "Yuki-chan, you don't dislike Chihiro, do you?"
After all.
Himeno Yuki was one way on the surface and another way behind the scenes.
But Hikigaya didn't care about her, and Himeno Yuki seemed more inclined to continue that way, so Ichinose didn't say much.
4.9 But Ichinose also slightly understood now.
Besides knowing that Himeno Yuki was not bad by nature, she didn't have a deep understanding of the real Himeno Yuki.
"Of course not."
Himeno Yuki said with some difficulty: "I naturally don't dislike Chihiro-chan, but if the two of us are together with Hiki-kun, I'm afraid we won't be able to have a normal conversation at all, right?"
"Uh..."
Ichinose furrowed her brows.
Himeno Yuki didn't talk much in class either; if the three of them were put together, it would probably only make the atmosphere even more awkward.
If they were constantly worrying about each other, it would probably be a net negative for the group.
"Alright, then I'll think about it again."
Ichinose thought for a moment and nodded.
To her.
Hikigaya was her husband and backbone, and the class was like family.
Since Hikigaya is not in the right state right now.
What she should do is take good care of the family and wait for her husband to come home.