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

“Owaahhh!! Help, Senpai!”

Isshiki Iroha is pitiful.

From this perspective, Amasawa is indeed serious about making money.

She not only took orders from seniors, but also from students in same grade.

“Then I think you can go find President Sakayanagi,” As a good hearted senior Hikigaya-kun still gave the junior girl some pointers.

“Let’s forget about this,” However, Isshiki shook her head, “Although I think there must be some good rewards from President Sakayanagi that I haven’t received yet. But I think she will play me....”

’So, you were worried about being played around by Sakayanagi, so you came to find me?’

“Then you may be disappointed.”

“Eto... what’s wrong?”

“Because I am in same situation as you, and only have one chance left to scan QR code. I can either wait for others to scan to confirm the reward, and then I will scan it, or I can only do it by myself.”

“Then...can Senpai take me with him?” Isshiki looked up at him using her puppy eyes, acting coquettishly and tried to pick his palm but Hachiman moved away in time.

“Do you think I can get a good QR code?” Hachiman ignored her actions.

“Yeah.” Isshiki nodded like she wasn’t just rejected at all, “Because I think Senpai has always had good luck...!”

’But your Senpai just scanned two 10,000 and one 30,000-point in a row!’

However, Hachiman was originally planning to scan the last QR code to get a good reward, so it was convenient to take her along.

“Do you want to get points or results of written test?”

“Private points would be best. But getting a 10-point class evaluation score is not bad either. I just joined Utomiya-kun’s small team, so I want to work hard too.”

’I see....Utomiya is a person who is determined to get promoted. So in front of him, as long as you get points, you will be valued.’

“Then I’ll ask for advice,” Hachiman pulled out his cell phone, “Sakura-san, are you free now?”

In the end, didn’t receive a message from Sakura, but a text from Hasebe.

[Airi is not here. She went to pick power stones. Hikigaya-kun, what can I do for you? I am Hasebe. She left her phone with me. I just saw it light up.]

“Then wait a moment,” Hachiman began to reply, [I’ll wait for her to come back.]

[Can’t you ask me something? Horikita-san is actually right next to me.....okay]

[I’m not looking for her.]

[……] Haruka is now holding her phone in a daze. ’Because Hikigaya-kun and Horikita-san have a good relationship, right? So now he wants Airi over her? I don’t understand the relationship between young men and women at all.....!’

Hachiman and Isshiki then stayed where they were.

Waited about ten minutes.

“Hikigaya-senpai, are you sure you want to wait for senior named Sakura to come?” Isshiki began to ask.

Because after sending message, Hikigaya-senpai took her to a reading desk and sat down.

He even put the book she wanted to take on table for her to read!

And that was just Isshiki’s mistake, as she thought cover of the book looked like a QR code.

Just now, a third-grader found a QR code at place where the two of them had just talked and scanned it.

Answer questions and get 100,000 points. How heartbreaking this is!

Hikigaya-senpai replied in a calm tone, “Don’t worry, just wait for good things to come our way.”

Then during these ten minutes, was even news in the library that someone had received a class evaluation score of 5, and someone else had obtained 100,000 personal points.

“.....” Isshiki’s face darkened even more after hearing this. She gave her Senpai a look saying she wasn’t impressed at all.

“You should take care of your expression when senior will come later. She is quite introverted and not good at dealing with outsiders.”

“• × !”

’Then can we be more relaxed towards our family members?’ Isshiki’s thoughts are somewhat wandering.

However, she placed her hands on her knees and asked with sparkling eyes, “So, we are waiting for this Sakura-senpai to come over. Do we need her help?”

But information about this Sakura-senpai had already surfaced in her mind.

This was about second graders that Tsubaki Sakurako forced her to memorize.

It’s simply heartless.

Judging from the information, Sakura Airi and Hikigaya-senpai were once classmates, but the data panel can only be described as above average.

It’s neither good nor bad.

At the same time, her ID photo is a bit old-fashioned.

Isshiki herself once encountered this Sakura-senpai, and saw her alone on the deck taking pictures of seagulls.

She must be the type who finds it fun to be alone.

At this time, Hikigaya-senpai continued in a non-profit manner, “Sakura’s sixth sense is very accurate. When you have no idea, you can trust her intuition. So all we have to do is wait for her to come over, and then ask her where she thinks there might be some QR codes with higher rewards.”

“……” Isshiki found it hard to believe. ’Because no one’s sixth sense is so accurate. If they were, people wouldn’t be cuckolded. At the same time, if it is really so metaphysical, then in future, we don’t have to study hard. We can just ask other party about key points of the exam.’

“She has superpowers.”

Isshiki Iroha really doesn’t believe in luck or anything beyond the ordinary.

But, Hikigaya-senpai stared at this cunning junior. There was no emotion in his eyes.

There are actually some issues with feathers. Because his relationship with Isshiki isn’t good enough to have such frequent contact, but she is also a good person and knows the limits.

As saying goes, a shallow relationship leads to deep words.

Between them is not that deep, so you shouldn’t ask him for help with all the troubles.

However, Hachiman had promised to help her restore her reputation and join a reliable small team, but the work has not been completed yet and still needs to be dealt with.

’Isshiki had just shown the results of her answers, which were 3 QR codes, and rewards for all of them were 10,000 personal points, which made her even more unlucky than me. This still makes people feel good. So let’s just take a look at what this little devil is thinking.....’

“Hi, Hikigaya-kun, I’m sorry to have kept you waiting.” Sakura appeared in a corner of the library like an expert ninja.

After seeing them, she ran over directly while panting.

Although she had trained, Hachiman also saw Ichinose running and knew that some things could not be solved.

It’s very stressful to carry a heavy weight.

“This is Sakura Airi. You should learn to respect her more.” Hachiman said to Isshiki, as if educating an illiterate person, after that he quickly turned to new comer, “This first-year girl is upset because she scanned three QR codes worth 10,000 personal points in a row. So, Sakura-san, can you help her?”

“Eh? Can I help with this?” Sakura was surprised. ’Since my ability to answer questions is not high, or in other words, can I be of use for problems that even Hikigaya-kun cannot solve?’

“I was going to look for Amasawa from Class A of first year, and I was able to find her thanks to your guidance. So Sakura, don’t underestimate yourself, your sixth sense is very accurate.”

Looking at her like she is a Goddess!

“Hmm.” But this will put very high pressure on her. Sakura never thought that she still had this advantage.

She just felt that sometimes going somewhere would become troublesome, so she wanted to avoid going there.

“So, where in this library do you least want to go right now?”

“...ahh...place I least want to go?” Sakura looked around using her eyes to scan, as if girl could see through everything.

Unlike the school, this library only has one floor, but nearly seventy or eighty students here looking for QR codes.

“I guess....I don’t want to go there.”

Pointed in a direction. It’s over there with J-shaped bookshelf.

“So which direction do you think we should go?”

“Eto...well, if you ask like that.” She looked at bookshelf beginning with the letter B, very suspicious eyes.

“Okay, thank you for your help. Are you in Horikita’s group now?”

“Yeah. Um... I was originally with Haruka-chan, and I thought I could join Yukimura-kun’s cram school group to curry favor with him, but Kushida-san invited me over to hang out. Well, I am not familiar with boys like him and Miyake-kun....”

Um....Because before, Sakura was staying with members of the cram school group as Haruka’s friend.

But don’t move all the time, so still a little shy.

But Horikita and Kushida were different. When Hachiman was still in the class, often hung out together.

Both treated her the same way, which made Sakura feel relieved.

“Then hang out with Kushida and others. They will protect you.”

“Woo.”

’So, Hikigaya-kun is saying there will be another special exam and it will become very dangerous!’

Having unexpectedly learned of something terrible, Sakura left first.

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