Chapter 1824 Not Every Effort Can Be Rewarded...

"Actually, I know..."

"Um?"

"I know the question you want to ask." Hikigaya Hachiman repeated.

"Sure?"

"Um..." Hikigaya Hachiman raised his head at a 45-degree angle and looked up: "It's probably the same as what Hayama experienced today. Choose?"

"Emmm..." Sougo Toma pondered for a while, then shrugged and said, "Okay, then if you were Hayama, who would you choose?"

"Choose no one."

"What if I have to choose?"

"Then let's solve this necessary premise..."

"Can't it be solved?"

"I think it's okay..." Hikigaya Hachiman said seriously.

"Are you so confident?" Sougo Toma tilted his head: "Let me explain in advance that Hayama and the others were able to escape unscathed entirely because of good luck, or because I am too lazy to care..."

“What would happen if you calculated?”

"Maybe I'll die!" Sougo Toma still smiled, but even so, Hikigaya Hachiman didn't feel the slightest bit of joking from it.

"Will I die?" So, he repeated it first, and then said: "So, the necessary premise is to be afraid of death, right? If I am not even afraid of death, then does this premise have been solved? "

"Aren't you afraid of death?" Sougo Toma asked with an undiminished smile.

"Afraid!" Hikigaya Hachiman was also very honest: "Who wouldn't be afraid of death? However, for humans, there are some things more terrifying than death, right?"

"What if you don't choose anyone, everyone will die?"

"If there is no betrayal, wouldn't it be better for everyone to be together?"

"What if it's not you who will die, but your family members? For example, your sister..." Before Sougo Toma could finish his words, Hikigaya Hachiman's expression changed and he said: "This is impossible! "

"Student Dead Fish Eyes, anything can happen in this world. Just like no one knows who will come first in an accident tomorrow, so how do you choose..."

"..."

"Do you understand?" Seeing that the other party was silent for a long time, Sougo Doma patted his shoulder and said: "The so-called loyalty is just that betrayal does not give enough chips. On the contrary, when loyalty gives enough chips, , betrayal will no longer exist.”

"..." Hikigaya Hachiman opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

"Student Dead Fish Eyes, do you still think that friends cannot be betrayed?"

"..."

"Besides, when you ask others not to betray you, isn't that a yoke to the other person?"

"Shackles...?"

"Yeah!" Sougo Toma nodded and said, "It's a shackles, because you put a price tag on friendship from the beginning, that is, you won't betray, because you feel that you won't betray your friends, so you asked Others can't betray you, it's like you get what you want for whatever you pay, emmm... equivalent exchange?" Hikigaya Hachiman: "..." Is this what you think?

"So, when you feel that the other party cannot give you the same equivalent, you are too lazy to do something for the other party, and even isolate yourself from those who cannot give you the same equivalent, and observe the surroundings with a self-admiring mentality. Maybe he would also be secretly laughing at others for working so hard just to maintain a false friendship that might fall apart at some point..." Hikigaya Hachiman: "..." No, no, what he is looking for is obviously The real thing is not the equivalent...

"By the way..." But before he could speak, Sougo Doma changed the topic and said, "Actually, what I just wanted to ask was not about who you would choose."

"Eh!?"

"What I want to ask is, how can you make friends who will never betray you?" Hikigaya Hachiman: "..." Of course he knows that it is difficult to do, how can the real thing appear so easily...

"Ask a question, will you become friends with a stranger you meet for the first time and promise not to betray that person?" Sougo Toma smiled.

"..." At this, Hikigaya Hachiman was stunned again. Of course it's impossible! The first meeting... While his thoughts were racing, Sougo Doma had already given the answer: "I don't think so..." Hikigaya Hachiman nodded subconsciously.

Seeing this, Sougo Doma smiled even brighter: "Since you won't even become friends with a stranger you meet for the first time and promise not to betray the other person, then why do you ask others to treat you like this?"

"..."

"Do you know what kind of leverage loyalty gives?"

"Um?"

"The first is affection, which is the bargaining chip created by the passage of time after friends have been together for a long time. The second is goodwill, which is the bargaining chip given after mutual understanding. Then there is maintenance, which is..."

"..."

"But no matter what it is, the premise of all this is to understand each other. If you don't understand others, how will others understand you? How much chips can loyalty give when you don't understand each other?" Hikigaya Hachiman : "..." Could it be that his search for the real thing was wrong?

"Speaking of which, the reason why your teacher Hayakawa asked you to establish the Master House was based on this consideration, right?" Sougo Toma shook the bottle in his hand and said: "After all, when you help others, you have to deal with others, and Show kindness..." qqxδnew

"Huh..." Hearing this, Hikigaya sighed: "Maybe? It seems that the fact that I have no friends is really embarrassing for you."

"Don't count me in..." Sougo Toma shrugged and said, "I never thought about helping you make friends..."

"Really?" Hikigaya Hachiman's eyes were full of disbelief.

"Of course..." To this, Sougo Toma just said, while drinking down the beer in his hand: "I just want to listen to your story and have a drink..."

"But you said more than me..." Hikigaya Hachiman's eyes twitched again.

"I can't help it. Who told you to always have to make up your mind?" Sougo Toma shrugged and said, "Obviously I just want to know what you went through to become so autistic. What do you say? Come on, humans just need to tell embarrassing things..." After hearing this, Hikigaya Hachiman said thoughtfully: "Tree Hole? Telling embarrassing things will make people feel much better?"

"No..." Sougo Toma shook his head: "I mean that would make other people happy and happy..." Hikigaya Hachiman: "..." Nuno~~┻━┻Who is this person? ah?

"So, why did you become so autistic?" Hikigaya Hachiman: "..." He doesn't want to remember it at all!

"Is it because of a certain gentle girl?" Hikigaya Hachiman: "..." I wish my memory was so good!

?

"No, it's not..." He turned away.

"why?"

"..."

"By the way..." While Hikigaya Hachiman was silent, Sougo Toma seemed to suddenly think of something. He took out a teapot from behind and said, "I'll give you tea, so that you won't be thirsty when you tell the story later... "

"..." Do you want him to tell stories until he is thirsty?