Hikigaya's Route to Senior High Is Not Normal, As Expected

A Suspicious Test

Hikigaya's Route to Senior High Is Not Normal, As I Expected

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." – Robert Green Ingersoll."

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Hachiman's POV

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When it comes to surprises, Hachiman wasn't big on them.

When another person had asked for him to give them his contact information, he shrugged it off. He anticipated nothing would change nor happen.

In short, he expected that the person would never speak to him, and that was that. Hachiman would go back to his normal life, back in the library, and not speak to anyone.

He really didn't think anyone who asked for his contact would respond and continue to speak to him.

Sure, Sudou continued to message and ask him to join a sports club, mentioning how Hachiman should continue to workout if he wanted to be stronger. According to the short-tempered jock, Hachiman had a lot of potential that would be wasted and lost if he didn't continue to try.

But other than that, Hachiman hadn't had anyone message nor attempt to contact him back for reasons other than that.

Yousuke, Kikyou, none of them messaged back. Only Manabu did, but that was only in response to Hachiman asking him questions, and surprisingly, even Nao had yet to message Hachiman, however considering Hachiman had attended every time to work, he figured that she didn't have anything to mention, and thus she was fine.

So, when Hachiman added a girl from Class 1-C, named Hiyori Shiina, he didn't think much of it. In fact, the girl seemed to have forgotten, just like him, to get his contact.

"Although, seeing her light up about exchanging books was pretty cute." Hachiman thought to himself as he got up.

After having lunch with Shiina, Hachiman had continued to work, with Shiina remaining sitting and reading. Hachiman wasn't always outside, but the fact that when he did a bit later, only to see Shiina there made Hachiman wonder if she had even left the library at all.

Unless, perhaps for more typical reasons.

Regardless, once Hachiman finished, Shiina's eyes gazed to him before she approached him.

"There you are." Shiina informed Hachiman, who raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, I'm right here." Hachiman nodded slowly, being confused at Shiina's slight "anger?" Is that what she was showing? Hachiman wasn't sure.

"I texted you asking where you were. You didn't answer." Shiina exclaimed to Hachiman, who raised an eyebrow.

"You didn't text me." Hachiman explained, as he pulled out his phone. "You s-" Hachiman never got to finish his statement as, sure enough, Shiina had in fact contacted him at around 2:00pm. For reference, Hachiman had been working since 4pm so far. He had planned to continue until 7pm. Also, for reference, both Hachiman and Shiina had gotten lunch at exactly noon.

However, since it was Saturday, and Nao had anticipated that very little people would show up, she had entrusted Hachiman with securing the library and making sure everything was fine.

"Highly likely that because it's early in the school year, and the lack of assignments or tests to study for, nobody sees fit to use the library." Hachiman though.

"Oh..." Hachiman mumbled, clearly a bit stumped at the fact he had been messaged by someone. Shiina had actually been serious, waiting for Hachiman in the library he had been working in, wanting to continue speaking about books and the likes.