Sakura Airi found herself staring blankly at the exceedingly faint smile Fang Li wore before her.
Although Fang Li did smile from time to time, that smile was fundamentally different from the one before her now.
Usually, Fang Li's smiles carried an air of excessive calmness and composure. Rather than coming from genuine happiness, they seemed more like a habitual expression in his everyday words and actions.
But the smile Fang Li showed now was different.
Perhaps even Fang Li himself had not noticed that he was smiling at this very moment?
And indeed, that was exactly the case.
Fang Li had not noticed that he was smiling.
He simply felt this way.
"You don't need to apologize for this, do you?"
That was what Fang Li said.
"People only need to apologize after doing something bad. They don't need to apologize for failing to do something good, you know?"
If Horikita Suzune and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka had been here, they would surely have agreed with Fang Li's words.
Just like when they had first enrolled, giving up one's seat on the bus was an act of great kindness, but it was not something one was obligated to do.
Therefore, even if someone did not do it, condemning them would be unreasonable.
People only had the right to condemn others when they had done something bad. It was not as though someone deserved condemnation simply for failing to do good deeds; otherwise, it would be moral coercion.
The same applied to Sakura Airi's situation.
"Even as a witness to the incident, whether you choose to come forward and testify is your own freedom. No one has any reason to force you."
Fang Li made that declaration.
"You can come forward because of the sense of justice in your heart, or because