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

President, Horikita Manabu is actually here!

God damn it!

“Student Council President actually took time out of his busy schedule to come over and actually watch a play.....Your life is pretty good....” Hachiman walked to Manabu's side, while passing unnecessary comments on him being a free person.

“Hikigaya, I didn't come here to watch the show.”

Boom!

As he said this, even put a mobile in his pocket with his left hand.

Hachiman confirmed that his device  was different from everyone else's, and it should be one of the staff.

Contacting his family just now.

After leaving school, you can borrow the staff's mobile phone to contact the outside world.

'It seems President is not really that strict. Unlike Horikita, he knows how to be flexible....'

“Your class's request to borrow a spare machine this time is a bit surprising,” Manabu also gave one of his requests declined officer a little glance, “But not outside the rules.”

“....After all, students in my class cannot discipline themselves." Hachiman raised both hands in defeat, it's like President is making him a criminal.

But, he really didn't do anything this time!

“As long as they don't operate randomly, no need to be so vigilant. Then I also paid the price of 400,000 points!”

Cost of borrowing a spare machine for 3 days.

You can buy anything with points, which is not false.

“And now, your sister is also working hard.”

“Suzune....” Manabu shook his head, elbow resting on right armchair to relax a bit,  “Although she has changed, unfortunately, this time my sister was just used as a gun by you.”

"My stupid sister still hasn't grown up significantly.” Manabu's eyes were filled with nothing but regret.

At first, he arranged for his sister to learn from Hikigaya Hachiman, but her growth was still not enough.

Gotta keep working hard.

“But....” Manabu now stood up from his seat, which has gotten quite warm....

Hachiman stared at his elbow, which he just put down to rest but instantly stood up a moment later.

What are you trying to do?

Then he pushed up his glasses casually and said, “You have to understand that you are inviting the wolf into the house.”

Luring a carnivore into my house?

But, after hearing Manabu's comments, Hachiman still didn't take it seriously.

If the purpose can be achieved, dark methods can be used.

For example, enemy may not be a bad guy, but a partner who can temporarily cooperate.

Moreover, he also had the authority obtained by Teacher Chabashira to exchange points for cash with the school in advance, and then.

You can earn about 15 million in cash by doing one job. It's just a lure, so why not do it?

Then in the evening, Hachiman was contacted by Ryuen.

To be precise, after waiting for an entire afternoon, Suzune and the others tried hard, but it was a pity they still couldn't figure out the pattern with the help of three VIP recipients in own class.

Ryuen seemed to have taken the lead in controlling rules of preferential treatment.

And what followed was.

As the ship's radio announced, four groups quickly ended their exams.

The preferential recipients of three groups are all in Class A, while the other in B.

"How could it become like this?!"

Almost instantly, Class A and B exploded.

Because this means that if guess is correct, 150 points will be deducted from Class A.

Same goes for Class B, which may be deducted 50 points.

Then Class D will receive 200 points!

“Ka ka ka ---” And this time.

The helicopter Manabu boarded started up steadily and then left from here.

Group with 3 preferential treatment recipients from Class A and group with B were immediately terminated from the exam.

This made students in Class A and Class B have an explosive mentality.

Time goes back 10 minutes.

Hachiman was contacted by Ryuen, or to be precise, he found himself getting blocked.

“Hikigaya Hachiman!”

But it wasn't Ishizaki and Albert who were always with him.

Instead, he was replaced by a girl with short blue hair, Ibuki.

“Is something wrong?”

Hachiman was not very polite to the thief who framed him for Karuizawa's underwear on Deserted island.

“I'm not looking for you.” But, Ibuki just shook her head in disgust.

“The hel-”

“Hikigaya Hachiman!"

A slight voice came from behind Ibuki, and then, a man with long red hair came out.

Ibuki stepped out of the way, like a subordinate.

You must know that on deck before, Ibuki and Ryuen had a direct fight, and she was even beaten by later with Albert.

But now she is Ryuen's loyal subordinate.

No one cares about this anymore.

Because Deserted island exam is over, Class D’s evaluation score is 0.

It was a big failure for Ryuen.

“Ryuen?” Hachiman also looked at the red-haired tyrant of Class D, “I clearly rejected you this morning, right? But now that you're here again, haven't you given up yet?”

“Kuku.……" Ryuen gave an evil laugh in response when he learned this boy's wording, but said nothing.

Very quickly.

“Hachiman!"

The girl's clear voice came from very far away. Then, long, straight black iceberg girl ran over with a slightly anxious look on her face.

This is Horikita Suzune.

And she would show her emotions directly.

It was obvious that when Ryuen arranged for people to find her, she deliberately said some terrible things.

“Horikita, you're here too, but not everyone has arrived yet.” Ryūen now showed a pleasant smile, looking like he was sure of winning, “After you are all here, I am going to feel more accomplished.”

In other words, people Ryuen wants to invite are not just Hachiman and the others.

“What have you found?” It's Hachiman going to make a frown now, realized things were not simple.

“As expected of you.” Ryūen glanced at him in surprise, and then praised, "This is first time I have suffered a big loss from someone else. Hikigaya Hachiman, I'm really interested in you!”

“• ! •” Sweat!

At first, he thought Hikigaya was the idiot who destroyed school's camera, but soon, during the subsequent exam on the island, Ryuen discovered that Hikigaya was the backbone of Class C.

Even Horikita Suzune might just be assisting the other party.

“I have always believed that birds of a feather flock together. Excellent people should stick together with outstanding people, and garbage should always remain in the mud with pigs! And your class...There are a lot of garbage people like Sudo who can be manipulated."

“That's because you have been targeting students in our class!" And, Suzune interrupted him.

“.....” Ryuen.

It's one thing to be interrupted, but doesn't this girl understand the atmosphere?

Just interrupt like this.

“Generally speaking, I actually have a good opinion of you Horikita and Hikigaya. I have already remembered your actions during previous exam...This is your last chance. Join forces with me in this exam, otherwise.”

Crack! Fists!

“I want to settle grudges!”

'In other words, is Ryuen-kun just here to seek cooperation this time?' Suzune looked over with bright eyes.

“How did Ryuen ask you to come here?”

“Bastard, you answer me first!”

"Ryuen-kun arranged for that Shiina-san to come and see me...”

In front of Hachiman, Suzune said pretty honestly, “She told me her class has deduced the law of preferential treatment!”

Ah...If Ryuen's class already knows rules of the exam, but now they still want to cooperate.

Well there's only one thing left.

He wanted to get most successful solution to this exam that Hachiman had thought about.

That is to let group achieve result 1 as much as possible.

On the third night, all members sent  group's favored information to their mobile phones, and no one betrayed them, and results were correct.

Then all members will receive a reward of 500,000 points, while the preferential treatment recipients in group will receive a reward of 1 million points.

But there are two difficulties.

1. It is necessary to master rules of preferential treatment and use to control all first-year students.

2. Go to Result 1 as much as possible, which requires full cooperation of the corresponding students.

Students here refer to the people in four classes, most of the Grade, acting together.

If you want these students to be obedient, you have to control the class representatives of the 4.

At the same time, greedy approach is not just to take the result 1, but to directly deduct 6.5 million points issued by the school to a group and turn it into their own.

In other words, all student accounts must be slashed.

....If you want to do this kind of thing, need to use coercion.

If you are on the same campus, people will insult you, look down on you, very notorious if you succeed.

It's hard.

“Hikigaya Hachiman.”

Seeing bastard thinking seriously, the corners of Ryuen's mouth now turned up slightly, and he was in a happy mood.

“I admit that it was me who underestimated you last time, which led to the fiasco of the Deserted island. It’s just a shame, but this time it’s different, I’ve seen through everything!”

“And you have also thought of deriving the rules, which is indeed excellent. But a pity that you have not deduced the rules yet!”

“And I found it!" Ryuen said proudly.

Get some kind of angry lashing, but Hachiman looked at Ryuen expressionlessly, saying nothing.

He was not surprised by the guy's state.

After all, anyone who looks back on wrong things they have done will regret it.

Thinking back to 'what if I had done it earlier', outcome would have been different.

Therefore, Ryuen has a feeling of "hindsight" more and more.

It is not surprising that it got extended to this exam.

“Y-you do not believe?” When Ryuen saw Hachiman's expression, he laughed even more dumbly, "Then, I'll let you see it! I actually notified Katsuragi and Ichinose to come over, but they were scheduled 10 minutes later, and I deliberately got them just to let you come and see how you lost.”

As he spoke, Ryuen took out his mobile phone.

It appears that message was sent to someone else.

“In this exam, addition to answering honestly, you can also rush. Once you do, regardless of whether the result is correct or not, group's exam will be ended immediately,” Ryuen's grin is now getting creepiest by the second.

“Could it be that……”

Suzune thought of Ryuen's purpose.

“Yes.....”

“Now that we have deduced law of preferential treatment, let's make good use of it!"

Almost as soon as he finished speaking. Public announcement came from the ship.

“Drop!"

“Because a student delivered the name in advance....”

“The Horse racing group exam is over.

Students in the Horse group do not need to take the exam anymore. Please wait for the results to be announced.”

This is a voice broadcast.

At the same time when Ryuen sent the email, everyone's cell phones began to ring or vibrate.

An email with the same information was sent to everyone's mobile phone immediately.

“• •” Horse Group.

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