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

This school puts strength first. It conducts special examinations every month, allowing students to take classes as a unit, and it is not limited to the written examinations of ordinary schools, such as this time's code of conduct examination.

It can be seen that this school hopes to cultivate all-round talents.
　　
So to achieve this goal, it is probably to formulate different special examinations to guide students development.
　　

This is from the school's perspective, and from the student's perspective, the classes are divided from the beginning, probably based on the same set of evaluation standards, so students in the upper class are generally excellent and have strong various panels, while the students in the lower class are generally scumbags.

Class D is the weakest among the students in the same grade, it is similar to a bomb!

So people were assigned to Class D and failed from the beginning.　

Not to mention other things, the 100% employment and admission rate after graduation advertised by the school is absolutely impossible to deliver to Class D.
　　
But there is probably no difference between this and Hachiman.
　　
Because he doesn't want to go to work and be a social beast like his father.

Rather than having this conventional life experience, he wants to be taken care of by a rich woman.
　　
Of course it doesn't mean that he is shameless, he will become a househusband.
　　
Because in a family, there must be someone making money outside, and then someone also needs to manage the inside, right? So, this is not a bad idea, it is just a division of labor.

And now.
　　
Although he has yet to meet a rich woman who can and is willing to support him and his sister Komachi, the special rules of this school allow him to collect a large amount of points here.
　　
'Especially when I got the bargaining chip from Chabashira-sensei to bring Class D up to Class A once and get a reward of 10-30 million points.'

(A/N: It was previously stated reaching Class A = 10 million.

But acc to future chapters, it could be
Class C = 10 million
Class B = 20 million
Class A = 30 million )

　
So even if you don't have a rich woman, you can still live a leisurely life with the funds you get.
　　
Therefore, today is also a great counterattack as a Class D student.
　　
This month's special exam is a code of conduct exam. The whole school knows this, and it lasts for one month.
　　
The response method has already been worked out. Sign an agreement with the students in the class, which involves everyone's living expenses because the unpalatable mountain and vegetable set meal.....
　　
Yeah, no one wants to eat that stuff.  It's just a way of coping.
　　
There are many more special examinations in this school. Then the way of coping also needs to be adjusted.
　　
So, before the special exam comes next month, get as many [partners] as you can.
　　
This was Hirata-san’s suggestion.
Hachiman didn't refuse.
　　
And start with the people you are interested in. 'Indeed, if it is the person you are interested in....'

Only.
　　
"Good morning, Sakura." Early the next morning, Hachiman came to the classroom early, and then began to act as a camera.
　　
He folded his hands, then lowered his head slightly, leaving a field of vision that would not affect his observation, and then began to stare in one direction.
　　
Hachiman's seat is the one closest to the window, and Suzune Horikita is next door, but next door to her is Sakura.

'So, if I usually want to see her, I have to look at Horikita.'

But she is not here now.... there is no hindrance.
　　
As for Hachiman's target, Sakura Airi has quietly arrived at the classroom from the back door with her schoolbag in hand.
　　
Pulled the chair away and sat on it.
　　
Her sense of presence is very low, and she is timid and somewhat introverted, so she doesn't play well with the girls in the class.
　　
However, thanks to the assistance of Kushida-san, who has functions similar to Hirata, Sakura-san was not excluded.
　　
However, it is practical to often act alone.
　　
But she didn't seem to feel lonely, and felt at ease even if she was alone.
　　
Hachiman had noticed that she would not go back to the dormitory immediately after school, but would take a small camera everywhere to take pictures.

Maybe she is interested in photography or wants to record the good times.

She should be a person with a delicate heart. The above is the information obtained by Hachiman.
　　
He didn't know Sakura very well. But.

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"Good morning, Sakura."
　　
Today's Hachiman made a change. He greeted another girl, who had just sat down, put down her schoolbag, and then took out a textbook.
　　
"Huh...!"
　　
But for Sakura Airi, this seemed to be a bit surprising and... frightening!

Because, except for Kushida-san, almost no one in the class would talk to her.
　　
So, she was a little stunned after being suddenly called.
　　
Then she discovered that the person greeting her was Hikigaya-kun who usually stared at her.
　　
Yesterday, he was very aggressive.

Previously, he was accused of destroying the camera, and told Koenji to drop out of school.
　　
It's just that Sakura intuitively felt that the other person might not be such a bad person.
　　
"Eh..." She looked over timidly.

"Good morning," Hachiman said.
　　
"Oh, good... good morning." Sakura responded politely as if trying hard, then stood up the book and hid her face in it. So cute.

'Even though Sakura is scared, don't you think it's quite interesting to be able to play with a little squirrel like this every day?' Hachiman thought, it was quite a nice way to pass his time.

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Lunch break time.
　　
Hachiman was not invited by Sakayanagi today. There are no free meals.
　　
In fact, he found out yesterday that she didn't collect money from him.
　　
Although there is nothing wrong with being adopted, Sakayanagi is not a wise master.

Hachiman has no doubt that such a bad-character Lolita, even if she agreed to raise him before marriage, and still be with him after that.

'It's like being a devil's slave and she'll definitely force me to go to work!'
　　
Certainly. He also doesn't think he's in the other person's aesthetics.
　　
But it doesn't matter, he is having dinner with the most beautiful girl in school today.
　　
To be precise, watching her eat. The location is a classroom.
　　
As soon as the fourth period of the morning ended, the students left the classroom.
　　
Get ready to go to the cafeteria. After all, it was only the seventh day of school, so although everyone was spending money randomly, at least they still had money for food.

In this way.
　　
As for the mountain and vegetable set meal.
　　
Hey, hey, this is hard to eat, okay, so after eating it once yesterday, um.

Some students even questioned Koenji about his lies.

Why did he say that this free vegetable set meal is good enough for them? It's not delicious at all!
　　
He said that food is just to satisfy the hunger, and even an expensive meal is nothing more than that. Koenji said it as if he had eaten something very delicious everyday.

But overall, thanks to last night’s mountain and vegetable set meal, everyone was full of appetite and wanted to eat normal food today.
　　
In this way, the classroom became vacant.
　　
Hachiman stared at the girl sitting next to him. A girl with long black hair and fox eyes.
　　
Although the boys had previously made a list of beautiful girls, and then added some selections in terms of body shape.
　　
Although Horikita-san's figure is not the best, Hachiman once again admitted that she is indeed good-looking.
　　
Since it was lunch break, she took out her bento.

White fingers opened the lunch box, which contained broccoli, fried crispy meat, and a small octopus.
　　
The color combination is very comfortable and makes people feel appetizing.
　　
But Horikita-san, can you understand a little bit about the atmosphere?
　　
'Because your lunch is so rich and all I have is rice balls, why don't you show some humility?'

It's just that it's like he wants to eat the other person's handiwork.
　　
So his lunch was seaweed rice balls, which he bought at a convenience store and could be obtained with 300 personal points.

It was very convenient and tasted good.
　
And this is just the staple food. If paired with it, an ordinary drink will cost 120-220 personal points.
　　
And if we control the prices, the cheapest meal is probably around 300 points.
　　
You don’t have to eat in the morning, so in this school, the cheapest one-day expense is about 600 points.
　　
You have to spend at least 20,000 a month.
　　
Generally speaking, it is much cheaper to cook your own food, but you have to want to do it or be able to do it.
　　
For example, Horikita-san, Hachiman has noticed that she has no shortage of points.

Even when obtaining supplies, she always gets those that can be used for free. Points will only be used after the safety and shelf life are determined.

She is very frugal. But this kind of girl probably ranks very high among boys desired marriage partners.

Hachiman was thinking wildly in his mind, imagining Horikita Suzune running around in the kitchen, wearing a naked apron.

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Class A

“What's wrong, Masumi-san?!” Arisu heard a crunching sound from behind her, after looking over she saw that Masumi had broken her pencil.

Masumi was not in a good mood for some reason, her face looked quite angry, “I don't know. To be honest, I have a bad feeling.”

“A bad feeling. Is it related to Hachiman-kun? Because I also felt some disturbance in the force,” Arisu said, while handing her own pencil to Masumi.

“Yeah, for some reason, I think that Hachiman's thinking about cheating on us with....Horikita-san?” Masumi, said with a straight face. She was also confused a little bit.

Wasn't he planning to delete Horikita? So, why did he change his mind all of a sudden?

“I see, why don't we ask Hachiman-kun about this later?” Arisu said with a bitter smile, trying to comfort both of them.

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Class B

“W-what's wrong with you, Hiyori?” Ryuen asked, in a worried tone.

His deskmate was Shiina Hiyori, one of Hachiman's lovers, she was suddenly emitting a very dark aura, her face looked quite scary.

“It's Hachiman-kun's fault. He's being an idiot again!” Hiyori said, her voice sounded angry, scaring many of her classmates who were looking at their leader, Ryuen, with a nervous look.

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"So, is this why you looked at Sakura-san a dozen more times today?" Horikita said calmly.
　　
Hachiman had just told her that he wanted to join Class A, and Hirata became his assistant.
　　
And he also accepted his proposal to obtain information about his classmates.
　　
And the first one to get it was Sakura.
　　
Only. "..." Hachiman. 'So is it really that obvious? Hirata was like this, and so are you..... Oh no'

Because Horikita is sitting between Hachiman and Sakura, if he wants to look at her, his eyes will fall on the black-haired girl first.

She probably didn't think he would look at her, so just defaulted to looking at Sakura.

In fact, Hachiman wanted to say that occasionally he would also look at Horikita.
　　
After all, class is uncomfortable, so there is nothing wrong with enjoying the beauty with his eyes. But.

They always accused him of wanting to bully Sakura.
　　
"This is Hirata's suggestion," Hachiman said. "He also chose to help us to be promoted to Class A. You saw what happened yesterday, he is very popular in the class, so if you need to collect the cooperation of other students, you can leave it to him."

"..." Suzune. "Popularity? That's stupid, it's obviously a place for reasoning, but our class has to depend on that kind of thing. It's really regrettable."
　　
She continued with her eyebrows narrowed, "Besides I can't trust Hirata-kun, he is more interested in solving the troubles of his classmates than getting promoted."

'Then, you are great' Hachiman said in his mind.
　　
Yes, Hirata cares most about his classmates. Only.

What Hachiman thinks is that as long as his bottom line is not exceeded, then Hirata's mother will help.
　　
But once his bottom line was exceeded, such as yesterday when he proposed Koenji to drop out, Hirata immediately stopped him.
　　
So, I'm afraid this is his bottom line.
　　
'As long as his classmates don't drop out of school, Hirata can become a helper....' This rule must be applied flexibly.
　　
"You also know that neither you nor I have any friends in the class, so if we want to speak and be recognized, there will be no hope." Hachiman said, agreeing with the fact that both Horikita and him are similar in this aspect.

"So, this class actually needs popularity to be recognized, instead of being convinced by reasoning. Are all the students in the class indifferent to right from wrong?" Horikita was dissatisfied with this.

"There's nothing we can do about it, because just in the past few days, our class has been divided into several small groups, including Hirata's group, Kushida's group, the hot girl's group, and then Ike who performed poorly have Yamauchi, Sudo and the others in his group."

"So, why don't you try to fit into the circle?" Hachiman suggested  shamelessly, trying to throw away the pot on Horikita's head.
　　
"That's not necessary." She refuted, immediately understanding what he wanted to do.

"By the way, aren't you also alone in the class and don't have any friends?" She spat mercilessly. There is no need to take troublesome things for free.
　　
Him? He knew Sakayanagi Arisu from the outside, but he didn't know if he was considered a friend.
　　
Even though, the other party bought him a drink, and those who would do this are usually already friends.
　　
It's just that even if this relationship can be called a friend, it's not the kind of true friend that Hachiman wants.
　　
"A lonely soul does not need a place of fetters." Because his sister was not around, Hachiman used his own famous saying.

"But now with Hirata's help..."
　　
Hachiman thought of Kushida, whose role was similar to Hirata's.
　　
The popularity of this little angel, Kushida is also very high. And.
　　
The last time Horikita took the other party out to spread rumors, she finished it quickly.
　　
Although she may not be smart enough, she is very efficient.
　　
The students in the class were immediately panicked by the rumors, and then even started to explore the school.
　　
There is nothing we can do about it.
　　
If the students in the class are not vaccinated, even if the class evaluation scores are exposed, they will not feel threatened and will not restrain themselves.
　　
"Speaking of which, what's going on between you and Kushida Kikyo?" Hachiman asked, slightly curious.
　　
Previously, Hachiman accepted a request from Teacher Chabashira to investigate and obtain information about classmates in the class so that she could complete the update of student files.
　　
It was now confirmed that Chabashira-sensei was deceiving him.
　　
Investigating a student's information is one thing, but what she really wants is to dig out these people, then remove their bomb attributes, and then apply them to the class.

And now. Hachiman accepted the other party's promotion plan and signed an agreement.

Logically speaking, there would be no reward for further investigating the students.
　　
But this is the difference between watermelon and sesame seeds.
　　
Because investigating a student gives 200,000 points, and Teacher Chabashira definitely wants him to investigate people who can be useful for promotion.
　　
Then most of the students in the class will be passed.
　　
Therefore, Chabashira-sensei’s budget may only be one to two million. But now it'll be directly increased to one or two million.
　　
It's obviously more profitable for Hachiman now. And.
　　
If we really reach Class A, this class will definitely not be able to withstand so many exams, but as long as it becomes a threat, then the original Class A will definitely be willing to pay him to ruin it.
　　
Therefore, if you change hands, there is a lot of room for maneuvering.
　　
And now. Recalling the initial investigation of Kushida, Hachiman came to the conclusion that she had a dark history that could not be revealed, and once the dark history was exposed, Kushida would become a bomb.

From the contact with her, it has been confirmed that Kushida and Horikita are from the same junior high school.

"..." Suzune, "I can't understand her. She seems to want to be friends with everyone, but I refused outright."

Oh. Then, you are so brave.

"She comes to the door of my dormitory every day, and then after school in the afternoon, she will follow me back to my room." She said in an irritated tone.

"When I asked her to stop, she told me that she wants to have a good relationship with me. I think she may have some purpose." Indeed, Suzune was very suspicious about her secret motives to harm her.
　　
Yes. This is Kushida’s daily hard life.
　
In fact, we can analyze the purpose of her actions.

She already knew that Horikita Suzune came from the same school as herself.
　　
And Kushida has a dark history that cannot be told, at least not to everyone now.
　　
So, to prevent this, contacting Horikita Suzune is a good move.
　　
1. Once you become a friend, you can ask her not to talk nonsense. (Normal response)
　　
2. After becoming friends, even if the other party reveals a dark history, you can use the quarrel between friends as a reason to refuse to go back. (Normal response)
　
3. If you become friends, you can make the other person lower their guard, and then... drive the other person away. (Cold handling)
　　
These are cold tactics.
　　
As for Kushida, she is currently stuck in strategy 1. She hopes to have a good relationship with Horikita, but progress is slow.

After all, if it really went well, she wouldn't have been so proactive last time to help spread rumors to gain Horikita's favor.
　　
And looking at it now, even though she helped last time, Horikita still didn't open her heart to Kushida and even threw her away after the mission was finished.

How pitiful, Kushida-san. Hachiman also feels that Horikita is not easy to get in touch with.
　　
Rather, if he hadn't bumped into the meeting between her and Horikita's brother, and then her brother hadn't sent him 100,000 points of hush-money, then he and Horikita might not even have had a conversation.

So what Kushida’s strategy shows now is how difficult it is for an ordinary person to get close to Horikita Suzune.
　
"By the way, don't you have any impression of her?" Hachiman said.
　　
"What impression?" Horikita was puzzled.

"..." Hachiman. This girl!