Wang Meiyu was quite easy to find.
Her situation seemed much better than that of Ike Kanji and the others who were holed up in their dorms.
Seeing that Wang Meiyu was beautiful.
The girls might say a few sarcastic words, but the boys would more or less show some mercy with their words, not being as harsh as they were toward Ike Kanji and the others.
Therefore.
The number of times she went out alone was quite frequent.
Aside from occasionally going shopping with Matsushita Chiaki and others, she basically went out once in a while.
At this time.
Inside the library.
Hikigaya found the right opportunity to sit opposite Wang Meiyu.
"Why is it you?"
Wang Meiyu froze for a moment, knitting her beautiful brows: "Excuse me, there are other people here, could you please go somewhere else? There are plenty of seats around here."
"Mm..."
Hikigaya did not respond and continued to sit there.
His skin had already become quite thick anyway.
As expected, he wasn't popular; however, given the state of things these past few days, Yukimura clearly hadn't told the people of Class D about meeting him.
"Do you want to rise to Class A?"
Hikigaya repeated exactly what he had said to Yukimura to Wang Meiyu.
However.
Wang Meiyu immediately stood up, propping her hands on the table, becoming even more angry.
Summoning her courage, she said in a delicate voice:
"Scum, you're simply too much, do you think you can make me betray the class in this way? Impossible, please leave, I don't want to talk to you."
"Am I really that disliked?"
Hikigaya asked with a flat expression.
Seeing that this guy could actually be so shameless, Wang Meiyu became even more dissatisfied:
"I can't believe you can even say such words, if you hadn't hired Class C, how could the atmosphere of Class D be this bad right now, it's simply too much."
As long as they were from Class D.
More or less, they had already noticed some problems.
Like a dying old man, the atmosphere of Class D was only silence and depression.
Although Horikita Suzune, Hirata, Matsushita Chiaki, and many others actively wanted to change this atmosphere.
However.
The effect was minimal.
Unless the external environment changed,
this kind of atmosphere would persist forever.
"Mm..."
Hikigaya looked up at Wang Meiyu, whose eyes were turning red.
Every woman is a natural actress; it was difficult to judge whether she truly cared about the class.
"Wasn't it all because you made Airi drop out? Being criticized is only natural, don't you have any thoughts about it~?"
"I know that wasn't good, but I also felt it was unavoidable, and besides, you can't use this kind of manipulative verbal violence against Class D."
"Mm..."
Hikigaya fell silent for a moment.
As expected of Class D's academic mainstay, she sees things very clearly.
Doing things this way is essentially the same as cyberbullying.
It truly is lacking in morality.
Although Hikigaya felt this method could directly crush Class D, the culprit who first instigated the cyberbullying would undoubtedly be criticized.
However.
The main reason.
Was that Hikigaya had not signed a confidentiality agreement with Ryuuen.
If a confidentiality agreement had been signed.
Wang Meiyu and the others likely wouldn't even know who had plotted against them, and it would be impossible to shift the conflict onto him.
He didn't really care anyway.
Making Ryuuen sign a confidentiality agreement would require more money.
Moreover.
The original intention was to teach Horikita Suzune a lesson.
The amount of cyberbullying every year is countless.
In school, it can be detected that he is controlling things behind the scenes, but it wouldn't be so simple in the outside world; one wouldn't even know how they died.
However.
There was no point in saying these things to Wang Meiyu.
"Unavoidable?"
Hikigaya's voice was flat: "That really is a useful excuse."
"You..."
Wang Meiyu's eyes turned even redder:
"It's not an excuse, should everyone have to give up on rising to A and let everyone lose hope for it to be right?"
"Letting Sakura-san drop out, we naturally feel very guilty too, and the guilt won't disappear, but you don't understand our pain at all."
"On what grounds do you stand on such high ground to criticize us, don't you feel ashamed?"
Hikigaya scrutinized the young girl before him with a deep gaze.
This person who looked like she would cry for a long time after a single punch actually skipped class right after making Sakura Airi drop out.
No matter how you look at it, she has a weak inner character.
No matter how he thought about it.
Hikigaya didn't think she was the type of person who could be so eloquent.
Someone must have said something to her to allow Wang Meiyu to pull herself together.
Ayanokouji Kiyotaka.
Anyway, if something happens, push it onto that guy; the accuracy rate is as high as 100%.
Hikigaya leaned toward this kind of empiricism.
"Pain? Don't make me laugh."
Hikigaya sneered and said: "Then I'll ask you in return, is it more painful to abandon a companion to rise to Class A, or more painful to abandon Class A to choose a companion? You just chose the easier path, didn't you?"
Once these words were out.
Wang Meiyu's pretty face instantly stiffened.
By their theory, the latter was undoubtedly more painful.
Compared to Class B.
They would rather give up class points to protect a companion.
Even if someone really had to drop out.
Ichinose, Kanzaki, Shibata, Hikigaya, and so on—there were several people in Class B willing to drop out voluntarily.
Class D just chose the easier path.
What kind of big shot are you pretending to be in front of him?
"Did I hit the mark?"
Wang Meiyu kept her head down and did not respond, the tears she had been holding back falling instantly.
She was very bad at arguing with people.
Regardless of whether she was right or wrong.
She would cry.
Indeed, it had been hit.
At that time, she just hoped that cruel exam would end quickly, so she pressed the button to agree to Sakura Airi's withdrawal.
She chose the easier way.
It was all seen through by Hikigaya at a glance...
If Ayanokouji used various rhetoric to enlighten and solve problems, allowing Wang Meiyu to rejoin and contribute to the class.
Then Hikigaya was tearing open the bloody reality completely.
Forcing her ugly side to be laid out in front of Wang Meiyu.
This was naturally an extremely unlikable behavior.
Exceedingly cruel.
"Wang-san..."
Hikigaya stared flatly at the girl before him: "What you want is just for someone to tell you 'that's not how it is,' that's all, isn't it?"
Apologize!
"It's not..."
"What do you mean it's not? Even now, you haven't apologized to Airi, have you?"
"This..."
Wang Meiyu clenched her small fists, letting out a sob with her head down.
Perhaps out of shyness.
Perhaps out of cowardice.
Perhaps out of guilt.
Perhaps out of concern for the impact on the class.
Perhaps out of fear of being suspected by her class companions.
Perhaps because she didn't want to disturb the current Sakura Airi.
Countless reasons could be found.
However.
The reality was.
Except for Hasebe Haruka, Karuizawa, and Horikita Suzune—no one else from Class D had come to apologize to Sakura Airi.
And.
Even Karuizawa's apology was likely not sincere.
Horikita Suzune's apology was even more filled with calculation.
The only person who apologized sincerely was Hasebe Haruka.
No matter how many reasons you find.
It doesn't change that Class D is a group of self-centered people.
After all.
This was also unavoidable.
Even though they were in the same class.
Wang Meiyu and Sakura Airi might not have spoken a single word in two years; their relationship was almost no different from strangers.
To feel guilt.
In Class D, it was already considered something worth noting.
There was nothing wrong with that either.
It's just.
Hikigaya was a bit sick of it.
This act of self-deception to numb oneself while pretending in front of him.
He just didn't say it before.
But now Hikigaya insisted on saying it.
What are you pretending for here with me?
It wasn't even as good as Yukimura's frankness about just wanting to rise to A no matter what. .