"Yes, Sudou actually told me~"
Wu Yi kept patting Hirata's face from behind with contempt.
"At first, those two idiots, Yamauchi and Ike Kanji, were planning to ask Sudo to join them, but at that time Sudo owed me a favor, and considering that if he took indiscriminate photos, he might take photos of Kei and Kikyo, so he told me about it."
"Oh, I know that with your way of thinking, Hirata, you must think that I am making a big deal out of nothing. It is obviously a problem that can be solved privately, so why do you have to make it so serious that you have to drop out of school, right?"
Wu Yi continued to ask himself questions and answer them.
"But have you ever thought about this question, why did Sudou tell me this instead of you? Everyone's Hirata-san?"
"The reason is very simple. You are not familiar with Sudo and the others at all. As for why you are not familiar with them, you can only ask yourself this question."
"After all, the reason why Sotomura, Yamauchi, and Ike Kanji dropped out of school was because you, Hirata, didn't stop them in time before they did something stupid?"
"So, stop making excuses. This is all your fault, Hirata."
Wu Yi made the final decision.
"This... I just..."
Hirata Yosuke shook his head in confusion.
"I just hope that everyone can get along well, why is it so difficult to do so..."
"difficulty?"
Wu Yi couldn't help laughing out loud.
"Please tell me, what do you mean by difficult? Do you mean that when you open a mobile game and don't pay attention to your training level, you cheat on your self-discipline, but end up getting beaten to a pulp and then crying and cursing at the phone screen that the game is too difficult and the production team is inhumane?"
"Wake up, everything has a cause and an effect. Why don't you look at how much effort Shimonose has put in to create such a united and friendly atmosphere in Class B next door?"
"You don't care about some of your classmates, you don't try to understand them, and in the end you still ask them to do this and that. Aren't you just enjoying the results without fulfilling your responsibilities?"
"If you had stopped them from doing those things in time, wouldn't you have to be expelled from school now?"
Wu Yi's three consecutive soul-searching interrogations completely broke down Hirata's last psychological defenses, causing him to lower his head and murmur with a trembling sound.
"It's unreasonable. This is really unreasonable."
"Unreasonable? Oh, maybe."
Wu Yi twitched the corner of his mouth.
"But your behavior now is even more unreasonable, isn't it? On the one hand, you did nothing and didn't intervene when things were about to happen and were happening, but on the other hand, you waited until the truth came out and then you got angry. Who taught you this way of dealing with things, huh? Your parents or your teachers?"
"The smallest unit of strength is to carry out one's own will, but you can neither stop Yamauchi and the others from doing those things nor give them 20 million to offset their expulsion penalty. You can only keep giving others the cold shoulder afterward. Tell me, who do you think you are?"
"It seems that I misunderstood, Hirata Yosuke. I originally thought that you should be a relatively capable person among ordinary people, but now it seems that you are just a superficial and incompetent student who can only talk."
“…I, I——!”
Hirata raised his head and nodded to me several times, as if he wanted to refute something, but in the end it turned into a faint sigh.
"I finally... made the same mistake as before..."
"You may as well tell me so that I can laugh at you."
"…Mr. Wu Yi."
"What are you doing?"
"Has anyone ever told you that you are a bad person?"
"No, next one."
Wu Yi gave a decisive negative answer and clicked his tongue twice.
"But since you said it like that just now, you must want to talk about it. I don't think it's necessary for a grown man to act like a tsundere, so, hurry up and talk."
"I... had a childhood friend whom I was very close to in junior high school."
After a brief pause, Hirata began to talk about his past.
"For some reason, bullying was prevalent in my class at that time. My childhood friend was one of the targets of bullying. I wanted to help him several times, but I was afraid that I would also be bullied, so I hesitated to lend a helping hand..."
"Finally my friend - he jumped off a building and committed suicide."
"Although his life was saved, he has not recovered until now and has been in a state of sleep..."
The past that he thought would be buried forever was gradually revealed like an old scar. Hirata Yosuke closed his eyes and lowered his voice to talk to himself as if he was confessing in front of a mirror.
"I understand. What next?"
As if feeling that this was still not exciting enough, Wu Yi urged.
"Then……"
Hirata Yosuke took a deep breath, and there was an obvious tremor in his breath.
"I thought that after he failed to commit suicide by jumping off the building, this series of bad habits would calm down. After all, after such a heavy sacrifice, there should be no more bullying in the school... But they just changed the target of bullying to another student in my class."
"Oh--"
Wu Yi had expected this result and was not moved at all. He even used one hand to dig his ears.
The one with the worst status in the class is bullied, so the second to last one automatically becomes the last one and is bullied. That’s roughly the logic.
"So, how did you do it?"
"I...finally chose to rule the entire class with violence."
Hirata Yosuke was silent for a moment, then revealed a shocking fact.
"Although I'm not as good at fighting as Sudou-san and Ryuen-san, there aren't many people in this world who can seriously beat someone up. When I raised my fist seriously, no one would fight back. I became the only 'high-level' person in the class at the time, making the other students lower-level. Whenever there was a dispute, I would intervene immediately and give equal sanctions to both sides. In this way, I eliminated bullying in the class."
"Really? Then I think you look more presentable that way."
Wu Yi released his hand that was pressing on his shoulder and put it back into his pocket. He turned sideways 180 degrees and leaned against the back of the bench with his back facing away.
"At least you knew when to take action back then. Look at you now. When something goes wrong, you just act deadpan. Others say you haven't made any progress, but you haven't made any progress at all. You've even shrunk a lot."
"Because it's too late... No matter what I do now, it will be useless, right?" Hirata smiled bitterly in despair.
"To no avail? It seems you still don't understand what I mean, Hirata Yosuke."
Wu Yi's gaze dropped sideways and landed on the shoulder of a dejected figure on the bench.
"What I mean is, don't you want everyone in the class to get along well? Then the job of mediating and preventing conflicts is left to you. Do your best to care about every student in the class. If it's something you want, then do it yourself. That's not too much, right?"
"Or, if you feel that you just can't get over this mental hurdle, and you just can't cheer up and become a complete loser, then just sign the withdrawal application and go home and show your displeasure to your parents. I can afford to lose these two hundred class points anyway."
"That's all I have to say. You can do whatever you want."
After saying the last sentence, Wu Yi stood up and left.
Volume 290: Chapter : Sakura Airi's Great Victory
After throwing the withdrawal application form to Hirata who was still sitting on a bench in a corner of the school, Wu Yi went to the school cafeteria to pack up some takeout before returning to the dormitory. As soon as he opened the door, the warm atmosphere in the room hit him in the face like a spring breeze.
The lights in the room were on. Wu Yi changed his shoes at the entrance and walked in.
A certain blonde girl was sitting on the edge of the bed, swinging her legs and scrolling through her phone. When she noticed someone coming back, she immediately dropped her phone, got up, and walked over in her slippers. She took the takeaway and spoke in a reproachful tone.
"Why did you come back so late?"
"Well, I had something to do, so I went to meet someone."
As the saying goes, the speaker may not mean it but the listener may take it to heart. Wu Yi just explained it casually, but Karuizawa Kei immediately became alert.
The girl who had just put the takeaway on the table turned around and her eyes became sharp.
"girl?"
"…If Hirata is considered a girl."
Wu Yi reached out and pinched her cheek speechlessly, his eyes slightly moving downwards.
"Also, are you that hot, Hui?"
"Well?"
Following her gaze, Karuizawa Kei also looked down.
It's no wonder that Wu Yi said that. The main reason is that apart from her invisible underwear, the only thing on her body is a cream-white high-necked long sweater on her upper body, the hem of which just covers her hips. Her two white legs are glaringly naked, and her pantyhose and jacket are casually draped at the end of the bed.
I don't know whether she is cold or hot.
"It's okay. It's not cold anyway. It's more comfortable this way instead of having to wear pantyhose all the time."
As she spoke, Karuizawa Hui stretched her legs, then opened her arms wide towards Wu Yi and pouted.
"Come on, give me a hug."
Huh? So proactive?
Wu Yi raised his eyebrows in a bit of surprise, but his hands did not slow down at all. He took a step forward and picked up the girl, moving closer until their foreheads touched.
"This is quite different from your usual tsundere style, Huihui?"
"You are Xiao Huihui..."
Karuizawa Kei's face turned slightly red and she spat lightly.
"Besides, what's there to be proud of? You've figured it all out."
Emmmmm, to be honest, that’s true.
"Understand thoroughly" in various senses.
"Okay, let's have dinner first."
After savoring the wonderful touch of the girl's lips for a while, Wu Yi put her down on a chair beside the table, sat down on the other side, and began to open the takeout boxes one by one.
Soon, the rich aroma of food filled the room.
After dinner, Wu Yi had just thrown away the empty takeout boxes and returned to the dormitory when Yukinoshita Haruno, whom he had entrusted with collecting special exam items, sent him a message.
To be precise, it was an Excel spreadsheet.
There isn't much content in it, but the items of the special exam are written at the front of each line, and the corresponding contestants are listed at the back, for a total of seven lines.
In other words, in half an afternoon today, Yukinoshita Haruno not only finalized the seven competition events, but also found the necessary participants.
Very efficient...
Wu Yixin thought about it and started to browse them one by one.
The skills that have been confirmed so far include basketball, English, archery, swimming, tennis, table tennis and typing.
There is no duplication of personnel or number of people.
This is also one of the rules of this special exam. Not only can the items not be repeated, the participants cannot be repeated, and even the number of participants cannot be repeated.
For example, in the class, Akito Miyake from the Kyudo Club is the only one who knows Kyudo. And in the class, even though Sudo is the only one who is good at basketball, Sudo cannot be the only one playing.
Because the "individual event" area has been occupied by Kyudo.
This is also formulated to avoid the situation where each class selects ten events and each has ten unique talents, resulting in the side that gets the most events selected by its class winning.
"Huh? What is this?"
Seeing that Wu Yi had been sitting at the desk staring at his phone motionlessly since he came back from throwing out the garbage, Karuizawa Kei tilted her head curiously and leaned over to take a look.
"Is this... a form?"
"Yes, it was sent to me by Yukinoshita. The competition items that have been finalized are what you see now."
Wu Yi stroked his chin and said thoughtfully.
To be honest, there is really nothing wrong with the projects selected by Yukinoshita Haruno, except for one thing that is a bit explosive.
That is - why didn't he see the project that Kouenji was in charge of? Why?
You just let go of such a big main C? Seriously?
Wu Yi said she couldn't understand it at all.
At this moment, a video call invitation popped up from the top of the screen without warning.
Glancing at the profile picture, Wu Yi saw that it was Yukinoshita calling, so he decisively pressed the answer button.
The video call window quickly loaded and expanded, and Yukinoshita Haruno's face appeared on the screen.
"Hello, hello~ Good evening, classmate Wu Yi..."
The girl on the screen who had said the first half of the sentence suddenly paused, and noticed a blond girl with a curious look on her face leaning towards her from the opposite camera. She couldn't help but blink her eyes and added the second half of the sentence on the spot.
