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

Doesn’t he have any sense of shame?

But according to Amasawa’s words, people were left silent.

If Ichinose had some feelings for him, Hikigaya-kun would be sure of that.

Is it the same with Kushida?

Hachiman initially just thought that Kushida-chan was dumb, so it was easier for him to come to an agreement with her.

Therefore, Kushida may be a spare tire.

Now that Amasawa said this, doesn’t it make his choice difficult again?

Because the most troublesome and difficult thing for boys is to make a choice among girls who like them.

Hikigaya-senpai decided to change the subject out of rationality, ”Speaking of which, your class is fully prepared for this sports festival, right? Which events are you going to participate in?”

”Eh! You suddenly ask me this...” Look, Ichika immediately noticed that Hikigaya-senpai seemed to be beginning to waver.

What she just mentioned was just that Kushida-senpai had a crush on Hikigaya-senpai.

As a result, senior simply escaped.

That is to say.

’In fact, although Kushida-senpai looks stupid, she has a place in Hikigaya-senpai’s heart.....’

Ichika found that she still had to deal with Kushida-senpai seriously.

However, now Hikigaya-senpai changed the subject.

”For this sports festival, same rules apply to first-year students. My goal is to be top of first grade. As for the projects I signed up for, I didn’t pay attention to them.”

”.....” So, that’s why Hachiman feels like he shouldn’t marry a genius, who is too good.

Just like if your girlfriend is too beautiful....it makes people doubt.

”I signed up for all projects that my classmates had not signed up for, so remaining projects wouldn’t conflict with theirs. After all, no matter what events are left, I won’t lose to the first-year students.”

Is that so? Then you are really a genius.

Super ample.

Compared to Amasawa’s confidence in making up for the shortcomings wherever they are needed, Hikigaya’s project registration is relatively ordinary.

His physical fitness is not very good, so this is the kind of event where you may not win even if you go for it, but you can still give it a try.

For the five mandatory events, he signed up for standing long jump, 100 meters, 200 meters, swimming, and 110-meter hurdles.

Among them, only swimming is a new event as he had participated in others last year.

However, when day of the sports festival came, he also thought about signing up for sixth event.

That is a mixed men’s and women’s tennis and horseback fighting team competition.

Both second and first graders are working hard on special exams.

The students in Sakayanagi’s class are also making their final efforts.

They seemed to have discovered early on that students in Class B had started exercising on their own, and then they also started exercising after school every day.

Closer it gets to the sports festival, the more serious you become.

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After school that afternoon, Hikigaya-kun wanted to go directly to the shopping district.

Horikita-san was also busy during the sports festival, so she didn’t cook during this time.

Then he needs to make a living on his own.

As a result, when passing by the playground, he unexpectedly found a student sitting motionless on a chair.

Hachiman thought other person had an accident, but when he went over to take a look, saw that she was lying on a bench and snoring.

Quickly looked over.



He found out that person sleeping was a girl, and she was wearing black pantyhose.

There are many beautiful girls in this school.

Girls basically wear different styles of socks.

But after seeing so many girls’ socks, Hikigaya thinks that Yukinoshita-san’s and Horikita-san’s over-the-knee socks look the best.

Sakayanagi is suitable for white garter stockings.

In Karuizawa, either black socks or white socks are suitable.

As for Kushida-chan. One of her favorite things is white socks.

But this girl seems to be not very good at dressing.

Although she is wearing over-the-knee socks, Hikigaya-kun thinks it would be more suitable for her to wear black mid-length socks.

After all, her legs aren’t that long.

This girl seems vaguely familiar.

The other person was originally lying prone, but perhaps because she was sleeping comfortably, turned her head and revealed profile.

This face is immediately recognizable.

She is the girl from Class A who usually follows Sakayanagi, and is also the girl who got driven away by Horikita Suzune a few days ago.

Morishita Ai.

She was probably very tired and sleeping soundly.

Hachiman had previously seen Yukinoshita talking to Cat in an embarrassing manner, and he filmed it and made a video including notification tone of her.

So he got other party to help him.

This person who is usually very fierce and cold around Sakayanagi, unlike Kamuro-san, might be able to use this quiet attitude to make other person behave.

After all, Morishita is also a student in Class A and is still useful.

However, this girl sometimes gives Hachiman a feeling of Ibuki.

This means that even if he has a weapon that can threaten other party, Morishita may not buy it.

So from this perspective, man who took the photo looks like a pervert.

”Hmm—”

At this time, Morishita-san seemed to be waking up.

While Hachiman was thinking, she had already opened her eyes.

Then noticed Hikigaya Hachiman standing next to the bench.

”Damn, how could I have such a dream?” Morishita rubbed her eyes as she said this, ”Why is there a boy waiting for me to wake up? I don’t want to have anything to do with boys right now. My goal now is to get a job from Sakayanagi Arisu first!”

Morishita felt as if she had a nightmare.

”I’m sorry to bother you. You weren’t really dreaming, or you just woke up from a dream. I was just passing through. I didn’t even take out my phone to take a picture of you sleeping.”

”O O ?” Morishita-san.

She understood this was Hikigaya-kun saying that he didn’t do that, but he actually considered doing so.

Hello, hello, hello. Is it so scary to sleep outside?

She just trained alone, and took a nap when she felt tired.

”That’s it, then.” Morishita climbed down from bench in one go, ”You saw nothing. And I knew nothing.”

Having said this, she left in a hurry.

Hikigaya-kun, on the other hand, stayed where he was, watching the other person’s back as she left.

This Morishita does look somewhat like Ibuki.

But the other party is really powerful.

Now she wants to get a job from Sakayanagi, which means girl knows that Arisu Sakayanagi is daughter of Chairman.

It’s so realistic.

But this means that Sakayanagi is still the same as at beginning, without making any friends.

After all, people around her are either dogs or utilitarian people.

It’s regrettable.

So, Hachiman continued to head towards the shopping district.

After a while, he stopped at a meat hotpot restaurant. This place was very interesting.

The ingredients were marked on the plate with time they needed to be boiled in soup, such as 10 seconds, 5 seconds, 15 seconds, etc.

After doing this, it has a very fresh taste.

Therefore, this store was welcomed by many customers as soon as it opened, but the prices were a bit high, so not many came here.

”Welcom----”

”Excuse me, is this you?” As soon as he entered the store, a waiter came over immediately.

”I have an appointment with someone.” Hikigaya-kun looked around and immediately found the target person.

She was a very cute silver-haired girl with a faint smile.

Because of her cute appearance, she attracts a lot of attention.

She was also very deceptive.

Carrying a black cane, she looks pitiful and fragile, which quickly makes people want to protect her.

This is also the reason why after meeting so many students, Hikigaya-kun has never changed her ranking as the cutest girl among all students in the school.

This girl, just looking at her makes him think she is super cute.

Hikigaya-kun then walked towards that place.

”I didn’t expect you to have such a good relationship with other students in my class.” Sakayanagi greeted first excitedly with a little cold grin, ”You even went out of your way to meet Morishita-san.”

This is the shop she recommended.

She also needs to eat, Hikigaya-kun needs to solve his own dinner because Horikita-san doesn’t cook, so he and Sakayanagi hit it off.

Both parties work together to pay.

This is a bit regrettable.

Sakayanagi seems to have become a little stingy.

’However, if I order by myself, I have to pay the full bill, so there is no problem with Sakayanagi paying half.....’ Hachiman sat down opposite her, with thoughts of budget in mind.

”Morishita-san? Are you talking about? I just happened to meet her. But, Sakayanagi, do you have such a strong desire to control the students in your class?”

This question seemed to be double ball trying to make....

”No, no, they just report their schedules to me themselves.” Sakayanagi said elegantly, catching up his inner doubts in an instant regarding being too much of a control house-husband freak.

But this is a lie.

Sakayanagi just had something to arrange for Morishita to do, but when she sent a message other party didn’t reply, so checked the GPS.

After completing the search, Sakayanagi checked Hikigaya’s location as usual, and found that two people’s locations were the same.

This made her a little confused.

She had also given orders not to allow students in class to disturb Hikigaya, so she felt a little strange about Morishita’s contact with him.

Hence, a little cold treatment.

”I see. But students in your class are really self-disciplined. They train on their own every day, and they are free to move around after training.”

”I didn’t give such an order, it was Katsuragi-kun who suggested it. I actually have no interest in this kind of sports festival exam.”

No interest at all? Very suspicious.

Sakayanagi’s face directly caused red flags in Hachiman’s mind, it’s like she is definitely doing something shady!

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