COTE: Broadcast of Hikigaya Hachiman

Chapter 27:

　　Just now, Chabashira-sensei has clearly stated that it has nothing to do with him. So after excluding the teachers, the only ones who can control the students' points are the student union and the school, and the school probably won't manage the first grade alone.

　　"Then... there is an answer."

　　"It's really troublesome, one after another. I just finished the midterm exam... and there will probably be more troublesome things later."

　　When going to school in the morning, at Ichinose's strong request, Hikigaya had no choice but to exchange email addresses with her, and just now, he received a text message from Ichinose.

　　The content is...

　　"Hikigaya-san, please come to the back of the Special Teaching Building after class. I have something to ask of you."

　　Although he could have just ignored it completely and made up an excuse afterwards like 'I turned off my phone during class and only realized it when I got back to the dorm' etc., but facing this innocent little angel, Hikigaya felt a little embarrassed to lie to her.

　　Just like that...After class in the afternoon, he set out on the road to the special teaching building alone...

　　At this time, in another place, Secretary Tachibana was appealing to Student Council President Horikita Gakuho from Class C of the first year to Class D of the first year.

　　If it was matters of other classes, Horikita Manabu might not have any interest in them, and might even leave it to his assistant to solve, but in Class D of the first year, there is not only his younger sister Horikita Suzune, but also the man he is extremely interested in.

　　Hikigaya Hachiman.

　　"Oh wow...interesting..."

　　He wanted to see with his own eyes how these two people were going to resolve this appeal.

　　...

　　The warm evening sun shines on the boy's body, and his hair is reflected incomparably golden at this moment.

　　After class, everyone flocked to the commercial area. Only a few students stayed in the teaching building. Except for some students who were still active in the sports field near the special teaching building, there was almost no one to be seen.

　　Hikigaya arrived at the back of the special teaching building as promised. At the corner, Ichinose seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

　　The sweet smile she had in the morning was gone from her face, and instead her face was filled with worry and uneasiness.

　　Seeing the boy coming, the girl first showed a happy smile, but it soon disappeared completely.

　　"I'm sorry to call you out so suddenly."

　　"What's up."

　　During the entire journey, Hikigaya had already prepared himself mentally. After all, if a girl asked a boy out alone, it was nothing more than a confession of love and some things she didn't want to reveal on the surface.

　　Of course, the first point was directly ruled out by Hikigaya.

　　Hikigaya concluded that she had encountered some difficult things.

　　Although I may not be able to help her, I won't object if it's just a piece of cake.

　　Perhaps due to the setting sun, Ichinose's face looked particularly red.

　　She lowered her head, avoiding his gaze as if she was embarrassed.

　　"It won't take you long."

　　"I hope so..."

　　Ichinose still kept her head down. Although Hikigaya didn't know what she wanted to say, he felt something was not right when he saw that she seemed to be hesitant to speak.

　　Ichinose's pupils were trembling uncontrollably, and nervousness and anxiety were written all over her face.

　　"Hey, hey, I'll get nervous if you act like this, you idiot."

　　"Someone...someone..."

　　"Someone wants to confess to me here!"

　　Ichinose seemed to have used up all his strength to speak out all the words in his heart in one breath.

　　"ha?"

　　A little confused, no...very confused.

　　Having never encountered such a situation before, Hikigaya was a little confused for a moment.

　　"I'm sorry, Hikigaya-san, but you may not understand what I mean."

　　"really..."

　　"That's it... that, someone will confess to you here later..."

　　"Isn't this the same thing?"

　　"In that case, it would be better if I wasn't here."

　　'No one would expect me to witness their love or something like that...'

　　How can I be such a person...

　　Ichinose finally raised his head, although the slight blush on his face still did not disappear.

　　"But I don't know how to fall in love. I found this in the closet yesterday."

　　Ichinose slowly took out the envelope with both hands. Perhaps inside was a love confession letter from an unknown person, who was also asking Ichinose to wait for her here.

　　"By the way, I don't know how to fall in love either."

　　Hikigaya really wanted to complain like this, but seeing the girl in front of him looking eager for help, he kept this sentence to himself.

　　"I don't have any romantic feelings for that person, but I don't know how to reject him without hurting him, so I wanted to ask you, Hikigaya, to pretend to be my boyfriend, so I asked you to come."

　　Ichinose said this with a slightly tearful voice, like a pitiful child.

　　Hikigaya suddenly recalled what happened during the school trip. Because of his own willfulness, he caused the relationship in the Servant Club to fall apart.

　　If you want to avoid hurting the other person, there are countless ways.

　　Whether it's pretending to be a boyfriend or pretending to confess and then making it public that Ichinose doesn't want to be in a relationship, it can allow Ichinose to avoid this trouble at this point in time.

　　But... this is fake.

　　It is the falsehood that I hate the most.

　　The mistakes made in the past may be irreparable, but the choices today are still in our hands.

　　He no longer wanted the tragedy of the past to happen again.

　　Moreover, this is absolutely unfair to the girl in front of him.

　　Whether you become her boyfriend or falsely confess to everyone that she doesn't want to be in a relationship, this has already deprived her of the right to love.

　　Hikigaya would never agree to such a thing.

　　"I can't help you."

　　"....Please...."

　　If you fail to make a decision at this moment, you will only get further and further away from what you are pursuing in the future.

　　"Why don't you find someone else..."

　　"Because...Because I don't know any other boys anymore."

　　These words made Hikigaya feel a little unbelievable.

　　Although she is a socialite like Kushida, she is not like Kushida who has good relationships with people from different classes and grades. The girl in front of her seems cheerful and lively, but her social circle is limited to Class B.

　　Class B seems to have the fewest boys among all the first-year classes, and it is also the easiest to be exposed if they are classmates.

　　"Indeed...by process of elimination, there aren't many people I can find who can help me."

　　'But...I can't help her.'

　　At this moment, he thought of that guy Hirata Yosuke. If he were here, he might have agreed, but... he already has a girlfriend, who seems to be his classmate Karuizawa kei.

　　Faced with the girl's pitiful expression, Hikigaya simply turned his head away and no longer looked at her face.

　　"I think it's better for you to talk it out in person. To be honest..."

　　"but!"

　　Ichinose's body couldn't stop trembling, and his eyes looked behind Hikigaya.

　　Led by Ichinose's gaze, Hikigaya also looked at the figure in the distance.

　　"She's a girl... so brave."

　　"Ichinose, he is..."

　　The girl clenched her fists, her face full of tension.

　　"Um....Chihiro...I'm sorry I brought someone you don't know."

　　Ichinose's voice became increasingly quiet, and he lowered his head again without knowing when.

　　Hikigaya looked at the two girls and finally understood their situation.

　　"It seems that it would be better for me not to get involved."

　　Since Ichinose is not ready yet, let her get ready.

　　Ichinose: "He is Hikigaya from Class D."

　　After hearing the pink-haired girl's introduction, the girl named Shiranami Chihiro had already clenched her hands tightly around her heart, with an expression of extreme pain on her face.

　　The vision in front of her eyes gradually became blurred and the corners of her eyes began to become moist. Shiraha Chihiro could feel that this relationship was gradually breaking down.

　　"Is it your boyfriend?"

　　The sobbing voice made Hikigaya unsure of how to respond for a moment.

　　Obviously, just saying "hmm" or nodding your head would be enough to solve all this, but...

　　'That's wrong. That's absolutely wrong.'

　　Ichinose seemed unable to face Chihiro and tell her all this. She lowered her head and said with a worried expression:

　　"Hikigaya is my..."

　　"I am just a classmate I just met here."

　　Hikigaya's words made the two women look up suddenly, and they stood there in confusion.

　　Hikigaya turned his head, but couldn't meet Ichinose's gaze.

　　"I have a friend who was once unable to calm down for a long time because of the naive love he had when he was a teenager. He tossed and turned in bed every night. Finally... he mustered up the courage to confess his love on his phone, but he never received a reply from that person."

　　"At first, he just thought that the girl didn't see his message, so he was a little sad but not discouraged. Until one day, my friend accidentally heard that he was being ridiculed and disgusting remarks during a discussion with his classmates..."

　　Hikigaya spoke seriously, but Shiranami Chihiro and Ichinose just opened their mouths in disbelief.

　　Finally, Ichinose smiled innocently:

　　"That friend is you."

　　"Idiot, you all said you were my friend."

　　Ichinose looked at the boy with a doting and pitiful expression, as if he had already determined that he was the friend he was talking about, and agreed:

　　"well."

　　Hikigaya finally set his eyes on Ichinose. At this moment, he looked serious, which made Ichinose put away his smile.

　　"Anyway... Ichinose, confessing your feelings is not as simple as you think. Perhaps you haven't realized it yet."

　　"But one day, you will understand, the action of staying up all night and finally mustering up all the courage, the emotion that becomes volatile because of every move."

　　"Every day, struggling with myself, but always lack the courage. always fantasizing about the scene after the confession is successful, but I am always afraid of the pain after the confession fails, so..."

　　"Since the other party has made up his mind, you should also respond with all your emotions."

　　Listening to the boy's words, the girl lowered her head in shame.

　　"I know I'm not qualified to say this. After all, I'm just someone who has never had any relationship experience, and I don't even have any friends... But..."