

In _Oregairu_ volume 9 chapter 6, there's a phrase,

> Yukinoshita Yukino’s held beliefs. Yuigahama Yui’s sought relationship.
> Hikigaya Hachiman’s desired genuine thing.

Really, I do not understand the meaning of this phrase.

What is it that they are looking for and can not explain?


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What does it mean by "Hikigaya Hachiman’s desired genuine thing"?


To put it briefly, he just wants them to have an open and honest relationship,
hence genuine.

**The longer version :**

Hachiman is basically fed up with the facades that happens in Service Club to
maintain their "friendship" that became more fragile in the time since Tobe's
confession request, Iroha's election, and Christmas event.

After Tobe's request, the relationship between all of Service Club's members
becoming more distant, but they are still trying to be together because they
all want to cling to this "friendship". The reason for maintaining this status
quo is because they've never had relationships this close with other people
before. Having a taste of what it could've felt like, makes them hesitant to
let it go, just like Hayama's group.

During Iroha's election, Yukino thought that she would be suitable for student
council president such that Iroha would lose with dignity. Everyone knows that
if she did, the club will end. So Hachiman forced Iroha to win and hoping with
that their "friendship" would still be intact. Though this makes things even
more tense.

After that Iroha come again with Christmas request, seeing as how bad things
already were, Hachiman didn't want this request to involve the rest of the
service club and decided to take matters into his own hands. Even though he
did this to save their fraying relationship, both Yui and especially Yukino
find it even sadder because they know on why he did it.

When Hachiman realized his methods were wrong, he's tries to request for help
from both of them. A bit fed up, Yukino rejected him. After some back and
forth between them, Hachiman can't take it anymore and basically admits that
he just wants a relationship where they are being honest towards each other
and actually become "genuine" friends instead of "playing" friends. Although
he worded it in the most vague way possible.

**_Next description will go a bit further than this genuine monologue, but
will provide more context_**

After they finished Iroha's Christmas request, they sat down together, Yui and
Yukino said that Hachiman's request is still not fully completed yet (the part
when he said about genuine relationship), but Hachiman didn't get it during
this particular time. Yui and Yukino were talking about how they will confess
their feeling to Hachiman instead of maintaining status quo. That's because
they want to make their friendship genuine now.


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