Watching the scene unfold before him, Fang Li frowned almost imperceptibly.
Ahead in the corridor, Karizawa Kei was surrounded by Manabe Shiho, Yabu Nanami, and Yamashita Saki, backed into a corner against the wall with nowhere to run.
Karizawa Kei herself clutched her head and curled up, tears of fear glimmering in her eyes. None of her usual haughty air remained.
Fang Li's frown deepened, only to relax again immediately.
"I never thought I'd actually come across a bullying scene one day."
As though he were talking about something that had nothing to do with him, or watching children roughhousing, Fang Li's tone was calm and detached.
Bullying.
And school bullying, at that.
Fang Li truly had not expected to encounter something like this one day.
For someone like Fang Li, who had always lived in environments where violence meant that someone absolutely had to fall, this really did seem like children playing around.
However, Fang Li did not miss the way Karizawa Kei's body suddenly trembled upon hearing the word "bullying."
As for Manabe Shiho, Yabu Nanami, and Yamashita Saki, they seemed to panic as they hurriedly defended themselves.
"W-We weren't doing anything like that!"
"Yeah!"
"If you don't believe us, you can ask her!"
Their voices were both anxious and flustered.
The three of them truly had not yet done anything like that.
But if Fang Li had arrived one step later, wouldn't things inevitably have turned out that way?
And Manabe Shiho, Yabu Nanami, and Yamashita Saki could never admit it.
Otherwise, committing violence against a student from another class during the Special Exam would certainly result in expulsion. In serious cases, it might even cause their class to lose its qualification for the exam.
Therefore, none of them could admit that they had bullied Karizawa Kei.