"Avoided it?"
Kiryuin was somewhat surprised.
Although she hadn't used her full strength, it was still unexpected.
In fact.
After this period of training, Hikigaya's physical ability evaluation had already reached a B.
While it couldn't compare to monsters like Sudo Ken at the A+ level.
And his combat experience couldn't match the likes of Miyake and others.
But wanting to easily subdue him like before was already impossible.
It was just that Hikigaya disliked violence.
His training was mainly to maintain good health.
And to satisfy and enjoy Ichinose and the others.
Furthermore.
Facing a person with a problematic head like Kiryuin, Hikigaya had long been on guard.
"Kiryuin-senpai, it's not as if you didn't see the surveillance cameras, right?"
Hikigaya glanced out of the corner of his eye at the camera behind him.
In such an obvious position, Kiryuin could certainly see it; she just didn't care in her heart.
"Of course."
"It's just that the position where I threw the punch just now was in a camera blind spot."
The corners of Kiryuin's mouth curled up slightly.
The increase in hidden surveillance cameras would indeed make the original gray areas dangerous.
But correspondingly.
Positions where cameras were originally conspicuous would instead make people let down their guard.
As long as one found the right angle.
Evading surveillance was not difficult—at least not for Kiryuin.
"It looks like you are..."
"Sigh..."
Hikigaya exhaled a helpless deep breath.
He truly couldn't understand what Kiryuin was trying to do; was there something wrong with her head?
"Then does Kiryuin-senpai want to try?"
Hikigaya stood with his back to the surveillance camera, frankly spreading his hands.
"Just like this, stuck in the camera's blind spot, how about you give me a beating?"
"What do you mean?"
"It doesn't mean anything."
Hikigaya walked up to Kiryuin.
"I'm just betting that there are other hidden cameras nearby."
"If I lose, Kiryuin-senpai can beat me up without any risk."
"If I win, Kiryuin-senpai, you should prepare to be expelled."
"How about it?"
Hikigaya was truly feeling quite helpless.
Although he also liked being a "strongest talker," he still had a sense of reality in his heart.
Even problems that they could think of...
Would the school side not have thought of them?
He felt that these people who were confident in their strength all liked to treat the school side as idiots.
"Are you saying there are hidden cameras around here?"
"I don't know, I'm just guessing."
Hikigaya didn't have any certainty either.
"It's just that if I lose the bet, I'll simply get beaten up, whereas Kiryuin-senpai, your risk is expulsion; there's nothing you wouldn't dare to bet on, right?"
"However, I'll still ask for a moment: why does Kiryuin-senpai want to beat me?"
"It's not that I want to beat you."
Kiryuin sized Hikigaya up, her expression somewhat playful.
"I'm just a bit curious about what you would do if there were no evidence and you faced a situation where you couldn't appeal to the school."
"Sigh..."
Hikigaya sighed and looked away.
Damn it.
How annoying.
Conflict.
Why did both Nagumo and Kiryuin love to clash over their personal ideas so much, when it was all just unnecessary?
Can't they just stay idle and honestly wait for graduation?
In terms of risk perception, Kiryuin's perception was clearly very low, or she simply had no risk perception at all; she dared to do anything.
"Kiryuin-senpai."
Hikigaya said somewhat helplessly:
"Your family background should be very good, and your father must have doted on you very much; since childhood, you've probably never encountered any setbacks..."
As soon as these words were spoken.
Kiryuin's sharp gaze instantly turned cold. Hikigaya honestly shut his mouth, as if he felt a surge of killing intent.
What she hated most was this.
No matter how hard she worked, outsiders would always think she only relied on her family.
Her grandfather doted on her extremely.
Yet Kiryuin had never demanded anything from her family.
She mostly relied on her own strength.
Although she didn't have the intention of hiding her birth, she didn't remember ever telling anyone about these things.
Kiryuin was suddenly a bit confused.
"How did you see it?"
"One can tell just by looking."
"Explain in detail."
Feeling that Kiryuin's words were exceptionally cold, Hikigaya sighed.
"It seems Senpai lacks that self-awareness; ordinary people couldn't possibly be like you."
"Perhaps in the past, you overcame many problems through violence, but you probably aren't clear on how many troubles your father resolved for you."
Even Koenji's first reaction upon being surrounded by people was to slip away, shaking them off using his physical ability; Kiryuin's first reaction, however, was to punch them first.
Although the two seemed similar, they were fundamentally completely different.
"Are you saying..."
"That behind the problems I solved in the past, someone was always helping?"
Kiryuin narrowed her eyes, sizing Hikigaya up...
Although others didn't seem to think so, for Hikigaya to see it at a glance, there was clearly a fatal problem within her.
"If in the past, your first instinct when encountering a problem was to use violence."
Hikigaya shrugged his shoulders and said: "Regardless of right or wrong, then someone must have definitely helped you resolve many problems."
Regardless of right or wrong.
The party that uses violence first will certainly create problems.
At the very least, compensation is unavoidable.
Upon hearing this.
Kiryuin narrowed her eyes.
Back in middle school.
There were indeed quite a few girls who disliked her and spread rumors behind her back.
Kiryuin easily resolved them all, making it so they never dared to speak nonsense again; the matter was easily settled.
Looking at it now, according to Hikigaya's explanation.
It was very likely that her grandfather had suppressed the problems behind the scenes or provided some compensation.
After all, with her grandfather's status.
This might have just been a word or a drop in the bucket for him.
"Always doing redundant things."
Kiryuin closed her eyes.
Being able to have her problem seen at a glance by Hikigaya already spoke volumes.
Although she wanted to prove herself with her individual strength and did not want to rely on her family, she was still affected by her family.
"But does this have any connection to my question just now?"
"It doesn't have much of a connection; it's just telling you that ordinary people won't abuse violence just because of a bit of curiosity."
Hikigaya said somewhat helplessly: "If Kiryuin-senpai wants to prove herself to her family, how about learning from ordinary people?"
"Is that so?"
The corners of Kiryuin's mouth curled up slightly.
Suddenly.
Bang.
A punch slammed into Hikigaya's stomach.
The speed of this punch made it difficult for Hikigaya to react; he could only tighten his abdominal muscles and take the hit, his body involuntarily leaning forward.
At this exact moment.
A snowy white, pretty face appeared before his eyes. Their lips touched and separated in an instant. Kiryuin quickly stepped back, her fingertip wiping her lips.
An irrepressible, mocking smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
"But I still want to know what you would do when encountering a situation where you cannot appeal to the school."
Even if there was family influence, so what? What Hikigaya said wasn't necessarily correct.
Kiryuin would not make any changes.
She would still go her own way.
Furthermore.
How could a habit of over ten years be so easily changed?
Encountering a problem and solving it with fists first.
Even in this school where her family could not interfere, she could still solve problems in her own way.