One o'clock in the afternoon.
Luxury cruise ship, second floor, Dragon Group.
[So let's start the first round of group discussion.]
Listening to the broadcast in the room, Hikigaya sizes up the others.
Strictly speaking.
Those present are all old acquaintances.
D class's good guy Hirata, Horikita Suzune, Kushida Kikyo, C class's Ryuen Kakeru.
Next to him is Kanzaki.
Next door is a short-haired girl from A class with glasses.
"Since the test has started, I'll just say it."
Ryuen was the first to speak, looking around coldly: "The one who is favored should stand up, otherwise, if you dare to waste my time, it won't end easily just because you can't get points."
Huh?
What does this guy want to do, beat someone?
Ryuen vaguely threatened, and Hikigaya was curious whether he could report to the school.
But it's probably not possible, after all, Ryuen didn't specify a particular target.
This might be his way of finding the favored one.
"Ah, It's over."
Horikita Suzune sighed heavily: "Ryuen, do you think the favored one will stand up just because of your simple threat?"
"Don't talk nonsense."
Ryuen got up and left his seat, jokingly said: "I'm just kindly suggesting, or is it, Suzune."
"The favored one, is you!"
Ryuen walked up to Horikita Suzune, his eyes like a venomous snake closing in on her, and the person involved would probably feel a lot of pressure being stared at by this delinquent.
"I advise you to give up this foolish act."
Horikita Suzune's cold and beautiful eyes fearlessly met his gaze:
"If you continue, it wouldn't be strange for the school to judge it as a violation of intimidation."
"Thank you very much for your reminder."
Ryuen slowly walked to the next person and said: "But I don't seem to have done anything, just a simple inquiry, isn't it?"
Just this level, it's probably hard to judge as intimidation.
"Or is it, you?"
Ryuen approached Kushida Kikyo, who maintained a sweet smile and said:
"Ryuen, regardless of the method, I don't think anyone here would be scared by you."
"Don't make it sound so scary, how do you know if you don't try?"
Ryuen continued to the next one, looking at Hirata and said: "Hirata, right? You look a bit pale, you wouldn't be the favored one, would you?"
"Ryuen."
Hirata quickly reassured: "You're not only ineffective this way, but you're also making everyone uneasy. Didn't the school also ask us to introduce ourselves first? How about we introduce ourselves first?"
"Whatever you want."
"I'm Hirata Yosuke from first year D class."
"..."
Ryuen didn't care at all, he went straight to A class.
However
No matter how Ryuen asked.
A class's Katsuragi just closed his eyes and thought, the others were doing their own things, not even looking at Ryuen.
The girl next to him was just reading a book.
"He's talking to you."
Hikigaya kindly reminded.
The other party finally reacted and glanced at him: "Is there something wrong with your brain?"
Kanzaki and Amikura Mako also looked at him puzzled.
Hikigaya laughed awkwardly and sat back down, feeling a bit embarrassed.
He had never played a game with so many people from childhood to adulthood, and he was inevitably a bit excited.
"Katsuragi?"
"Is this your A class strategy?"
Ryuen stood in front of Katsuragi, his face full of disdain: "Are you guys pretending to be stupid like a tortoise?"
"..."
Despite being insulted, Katsuragi remained indifferent, not even furrowing his brow.
"So."
At this point, Horikita Suzune also looked towards Class A and said calmly, "Can I assume that the VIP ones are in Class A, and you, Katsuragi, chose this strategy to protect them?"
"How you want to think about it is up to you."
Finally, the bald Katsuragi opened his eyes and said, "But not just the Dragon Group, no one in Class A will participate in any discussion."
After saying that
As if just to make a declaration, Katsuragi closed his eyes again.
This exam,
Each class has three VIP ones, totaling twelve.
As long as Class A maintains its leading position,
And does not participate in any discussions,
They can hide the three VIP ones without any risk.
Although they won't get class points,
They can ensure they get one and a half million personal points.
A risk-free turtle strategy.
It can also interfere with other classes looking for VIP ones.
Hmm.
Hikigaya stared at Katsuragi, lost in thought.
If it was before the deserted island test, he didn't think there was anything wrong with this turtle strategy.
After all, Class A,
Had a nearly 400-point lead at the start of school.
Steady and sure,
They just need to be careful not to let the lower classes rise.
In fact,
He used to admire Katsuragi's 'get without labor' approach.
But,
During the deserted island test,
Class A occupied a large number of strongholds from the beginning and planted many hands near each stronghold.
Obviously,
Katsuragi is aggressive.
While defending, he wants to get more.
Try to maintain the advantage of Class A as much as possible.
As a tactical execution, it's quite perfect, he also didn't quite understand how Horikita Suzune guessed the leader of Class A.
Causing all of Katsuragi's efforts to go down the drain.
Forget it.
What's past is past, it's not important.
What's important is,
Katsuragi is attacking while defending.
However
Now the gap between Class A and Class B has narrowed to 200 points.
And yet.
Class B was the first place in the last test.
If this continues, it's easy to be overtaken by Class B.
As a leader,
Katsuragi can't possibly not be anxious.
At a time when he should be trying to make up the difference, Katsuragi only defends and completely abandons the idea of attacking.
This is not reasonable.
Thinking about Class A's attitude on the beach, and Class A's leader being guessed by two classes,
Hikigaya couldn't help but speculate.
There was a traitor in Class A, who told Class C and Class D about the leader of Class A.
Only then,
Could Katsuragi possibly completely abandon the attack.
In fact,
Perhaps even Katsuragi himself doesn't know who the favored one in Class A is.
In such a situation, if there is still a leak of information.
It must be a problem with Sakayanagi's people.
Only in this way can Katsuragi's unusual actions be explained, and the blame can be shifted back to Sakayanagi's faction.
Perhaps,
He is looking forward to someone in Class A betraying them.
However,
He doesn't think Katsuragi is a person without any defenses.
That traitor from Class A.
How did he gain the trust of Horikita Suzune and Ryuen? It's not easy to trust each other, there must be some collusion in between.
Forget it, it's all in the past anyway.
Hikigaya doesn't want to think about it anymore, these should be problems for Ichinose to consider.
"That's you."
Ryuen didn't pay attention to Katsuragi, he continued to look at Amikura Mako, who then looked at Kanzaki and the others.
"Ryuen!"
Kanzaki spoke calmly: "Don't waste your energy, as Kushida said, no one here will be scared by you, why not think of some more feasible ways."
"That should be for me to decide, not you."
Ryuen passed the two of them and came to Hikigaya: "You have a confident smile, are you the favored one?"
It's over.
He's been found out.
"What can I say to make you believe?"
Hikigaya suppressed his slightly excited tone and pretended to be calm.
Like observing humans, he actually quite likes games like Werewolf Kill where people deceive each other, it's just that he didn't have anyone to play with before.
"Huh?"
Ryuen narrowed his eyes and joked: "So are you the favored one or not?"
"No!"
Hikigaya raised an eyebrow.
It's not easy to trust each other, let alone a person like Ryuen who is very suspicious.
No matter what he says, Ryuen probably won't believe him.
And, even if he asks everyone, everyone will say they are not, it's really interesting.
"Is that so?"
Ryuen obviously didn't believe it: "Then how about you show me your phone? I can pay you."
"How much?"
Hikigaya was a bit excited.
The money from these big dogs is really easy to earn.
"Hikigaya."
At this point, Kanzaki couldn't sit still, and the others also frowned instantly.
"Hikigaya."
Horikita Suzune frowned: "I advise you not to do something stupid, the moment you asked for the price, everyone here already knows you're not the favored one."
"Ah, I see, then forget it."
Hikigaya scratched his head awkwardly.
Suppressing the excitement in his heart.
Indeed, as Horikita Suzune said, the moment he asked for the price, the others basically knew the answer.
But then again.
Is that really the case?
Could he be using this method to deliberately eliminate the suspicion that he is the VIP one?
A chain of suspicion is thus formed.
What trust is there between people? It's interesting to keep doubting each other indefinitely.
That's why
He likes the game Werewolf.
Soon.
Everyone reacted, and their gaze naturally fell on Hikigaya.
Was he doing it on purpose, or was it an accident?
Is he really the VIP one?
Once such a thought arises, it can never be dispelled.
Hikigaya enjoyed the suspicious gazes of everyone.
What's the point of simply finding the prophet? Werewolf is fun when the situation is messed up.
Kanzaki frowned, looking at Hikigaya with a hint of dissatisfaction.
Although he didn't know what Hikigaya wanted to do, if this continues, it will only allow the real VIP ones to successfully hide.
Finally.
"Show me your phone."
Ryuen couldn't stand it anymore.
"That 30.000 private points?"
"What a joke."
"The reward for the VIP ones is 500.000, divided equally, each person should have more than 30.000, I haven't counted the class points that can be obtained, this should be reasonable, right?"
Hikigaya made a three with his hand.
"Hikigaya-kun."
Amikura Mako kindly reminded, "If divided equally, it's about 41.666"
"Uh..."
Hikigaya's face turned black, looking at Ryuen somewhat awkwardly:
"Then forty thousand, forget about the change, how about it?"
"..."
Ryuen laughed in anger.
This math idiot is actually arrogant, and even wiped out the change for him.
Does he lack this money?
However,
He does want to see if the other party is really a privileged one, otherwise this exam might not be able to proceed.
"Okay. 42.000 points, the extra is your reward."
"Thank you very much."
Hikigaya didn't bother to be polite with him.
These people don't seem to like playing Werewolf.
So far
No one has discovered the essence of Werewolf Game.
Hikigaya took out his phone without hesitation.
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