The Silent Bullying Victim

However, due to his recent internet cleanup campaign, these guys have indeed become more cautious. They've probably replaced many servers, and things from a long time ago have been completely buried by them.

What Jiang Hang was finally able to confirm was that the organization's name was "Phantom," which means phantom or ghost. It seemed to indicate that the organization's purpose was to act like a ghost, inducing the desires in others' hearts before quietly leaving to wait for the fruit to bloom.

It's likely that the earliest Suicide Website were established by Phantom, and then gradually spread covertly throughout Japan.

Jiang Hang is now looking for the Suicide Website in Asahikawa, which is his other target besides Kiyomi Mizushima.

Jiang Hang was not lying yesterday, but the situation regarding this target is different from that of Kiyomi Mizushima.

Kiyomi Mizushima was lured out of her inner darkness by the Phantom. Unable to extricate herself from the spell of the Phantom's words, she chose to end her own life rather than kill her sister, and left this world alone.

The other target, to be precise, wasn't some big shot, just an ordinary high school girl.

Even the darkness within him wasn't as great as that of Kiyomi Mizushima, which is why Jiang Hang didn't rush to deal with the matter after discovering her presence yesterday.

The Phantom's method towards this high school girl wasn't to induce her to commit suicide, but rather to amplify her inner jealousy and resentment, elevating her to a high position and making her increasingly arrogant and domineering with encouragement and suggestions.

In essence, Phantom's contact with this target is an attempt to entice the target to bully others.

Simply put, it's school bullying, only it's more extreme and has no limits.

To be honest, school bullying was a relatively unfamiliar area for Jiang Hang. After all, his school environment in his previous life was quite good. It was only in junior high school that things got a bit mixed up. But being in the top class, he was practically invisible and naturally didn't encounter any inexplicable bullying.

However, this does not diminish his aversion to school bullying, especially this kind of Japanese-style school bullying, which he has witnessed too many times in various works.

In Japan, where the collective is paramount, if a few people gang up on one person, that person, being the one who doesn't fit in, will gradually be ostracized by the entire class.

Jiang Hang didn't understand at first why the Phantom would use this method to make people feel less psychologically pressured to bully others. Wouldn't it be easier to directly target the victims?

But upon closer examination, it becomes clear that the Phantoms don't actually care who the bullies are. They simply wait for the darker aspects of the bullying process to gradually emerge in the hearts of both the perpetrators and victims, and then seek out the most radiant fruit to pluck.

As Jiang Hang pondered this, he arrived at the location of the high school.

He had investigated this high school, and it could be considered the public high school with the highest deviation score in Asahikawa.

Just a quick glance from the outside reveals that this high school has a rather strict academic atmosphere.

However, even the strictest school rules cannot stop the bullying that is hidden deep within.

Based on the chat logs with others on the target's phone, Jiang Hang was able to roughly piece together the cause and effect in his mind.

Simply put, it's about being angry and ashamed because you can't have the love you want.

The best boy in the class confessed his feelings to a beautiful but withdrawn girl, but she rejected him without hesitation.

Then, taking advantage of the boy's disappointment, she developed a crush on him. At the same time, she was also a popular target in the class and planned to use this to take her relationship with the boy to the next level. However, she was rejected by the boy again.

It was around that time that the girl, who had failed in her confession and ruined her relationship with the boy, posted a lot of complaints about the boy and her dislike for the girl he liked online, which caught the attention of Phantom.

Thus, a certain entity of the Phantom gradually lowered the target's guard through these social platforms and through some replies, becoming the target's emotional dumping ground.

Eventually, under the other party's gradual enticement, the target transferred all his anger and hatred to that girl, and began to try to isolate the other girl by gathering his close female friends.

The girl's family must have some money, so they couldn't use any extreme measures against her. Moreover, the other girl seemed to have long been used to this level of passive-aggressive behavior. Even though she was isolated by the whole class, she was still able to attend class peacefully.

Fueled by ever-growing jealousy, the target, lured by the Phantom, began searching for the girl's weaknesses, eventually discovering another seemingly weaker and less noticeable girl who was the only one in the entire school who was close to the girl.

Realizing this, the target immediately began Shinichi of bullying, except that the bully changed from that girl to a girl who was close to her.

The girl's family background wasn't great to begin with, and she was previously considered one of the lowest-ranking, invisible people in her class. Because she became friends with a girl, she was targeted by the target in a more intense manner.

Under the dual torment of mental and physical suffering, not only did his grades plummet, but his overall appearance also deteriorated.

If this continues, it might not be long before the other person can't bear the torment and chooses to drop out of school, or be taken advantage of by the Phantom and die in despair, or become a weapon in the Phantom's hands to take revenge on society.

However, now that Jiang Hang has arrived, and Phantom stopped its actions yesterday after noticing his arrival, the ending of this story will naturally be completely rewritten by Jiang Hang.

"And... I didn't expect to run into a character from another work here, although the character's reputation was a bit hard to judge before I transmigrated," Jiang Hang shook his head.

Or perhaps, that work was written simply to capitalize on a trending topic and create a buzz to attract readers.

Jiang Hang looked at the student photo he found on his phone.

Even in the most ordinary student photos, you can see the girl's aloofness and beauty, as if she really doesn't care about anything.

The student's photo below shows the other person's name: Ogihara Sayu.

Although he had never actually watched the work and only knew about it through online discussions, Jiang Hang had indeed been familiar with this famous female bodhisattva in the world of anime for a long time.

A rich young lady ran away from home and spent half a year begging her way from Hokkaido to Tokyo.

The root of all this is the girl who is now being bullied, Masaka Yui, who is the only friend she can be considered a friend in this school.

In the story he mentioned, Masaka Yui was unable to bear the bullying and chose to commit suicide, while Sayu chose to run away from home after the death of her friend and the distrust of her family.

Then, because he grew up in a loveless environment, his values were distorted, which led to the things that happened later.

Moreover, in this world, the Phantom might have been secretly involved in causing this.

Of course, these conclusions were drawn by Jiang Hang after secretly observing the girl this morning. As for the girl's family situation, that would only be known after further contact.

However, Jiang Hang himself didn't think much about these internal family conflicts, and he didn't have any particular feelings about Ogihara Sayu, even though nothing had happened yet.

To be honest, I'm just curious about the other person's abilities and how much residual value he can exploit.

With this in mind, Jiang Hang did not rush to meet the person who was being manipulated and still believed that his exclusion and bullying were "just" targets. Instead, he patiently waited for the moment when the other party would actually start bullying him.

Compared to Ogihara Sayu's cool and beautiful face, Masaka Yui's appearance is indeed much more ordinary, though she is by no means ugly.

The other person wore glasses and had some freckles on their face. Because of their lack of confidence, they were slightly hunched over and kept their head down, not daring to look people in the eye.

Although there were no visible signs of abuse on her exposed skin, Jiang Hang could tell from just one glance that those people must have directly attacked Masaka Yui, and probably quite severely, which was why she was so timid and hesitant.

After all, Ogihara Sayu's family is rich. Even if the whole class isolates her, she doesn't care. No one would deliberately mess with a rich girl like her. Cold violence is already the limit.

So when they couldn't get this "aloof" young lady to back down, those people started to go too far.

Especially after shifting their target to Masaka Yui, the bullies finally felt a sense of pleasure in controlling her, as her fearful and withdrawn reactions were the only things that made them feel that way.

Jiang Hang watched as Masaka Yui was taken to the rooftop of the school building before lunch break, bypassing the school's surveillance cameras, and subjected to various forms of humiliation. He filmed all of this from a distance. Although there were no scenes of direct physical assault, there were certainly pushes and shoves as the girl was pushed all the way to the rooftop railing.

Coupled with the clearly visible malice on those people's faces, this is sufficient evidence.

In any case, he doesn't need to worry that the school will suppress these news reports to protect the school's reputation.

If the other party wants to exert pressure, then he should find someone at a higher level who can handle it.

He had just saved Yuichiro Asakura's life, and the latter was still waiting for the Pioneer Foundation's investment in Hokkaido. He should be able to tell which was more important.

Moreover, given Jiang Hang's internet technology, there was indeed no one who could stop him from directly placing these news items on the trending topics list.

This bullying continued until class started, after which the bullies made some more threats before leaving the rooftop with their heads held high.

Only Masaka Yui Yuko, who had been bullied but had never put up a fight, remained alone on the rooftop, leaning against the railing with a slightly unfocused look in her eyes. She made no move to get up, seemingly intending to skip the class.

I guess at this point, the other person had already started thinking about suicide.

Thinking that this bullying had been going on for several months, Jiang Hang collected the jumbled thoughts in his mind and walked over to the other person.

"Didn't you ever think about resisting?"

The previously empty space was suddenly filled with the voice of a strange man, which startled Masaka Yui so much that her head bumped against the railing behind her.

She let out a soft gasp, reaching up to cover her head and rubbing the spot where she had bumped it, trying to figure out who was speaking.

Then she saw Jiang Hang standing in front of her.

It was a man in black who wasn't wearing a school uniform.

Continue upwards and you'll see what the other person looks like.

The first thing she noticed was Jiang Hang's eyes.

Those eyes weren't particularly beautiful, but they were very expressive and clear.

As such a gaze swept over her body, she felt as if everything about her was being seen through.

She also understood the "anger at their lack of ambition" in the other person's eyes.

Then she noticed Jiang Hang's overall appearance.

Not the pretty boy type, nor the traditional tough guy.

He's clearly good-looking; he's quite handsome in every way.

But for some reason, it inexplicably gives people a very ordinary feeling.

When she observed Jiang Hang again with this thought in mind, she realized that his appearance was not as outstanding as before.

Did she see it wrong?

Also, is this the new teacher?

The school has very strict rules, and unauthorized personnel are generally not allowed to enter the school.

Masaka Yui's first thought was that the other person might be a new teacher at the school, who had just arrived and caught her skipping class because of bullying.

Thinking this, she quickly stood up, slumped her head, apologized, and prepared to go back to the classroom.

This action made Jiang Hang chuckle.

"We can talk about class later. Let's talk about your own things first."

Chapter 594: The Silent Bullied

After Jiang Hang's explanation, Masaka Yui finally understood Jiang Hang's identity.

Not a school teacher, but that famous detective from Tokyo who frequently appears on television and in the news?

Masaka Yui didn't know why the other person would appear on their school's rooftop at this time. She even subconsciously wanted to defend those who bullied her, saying that it was all just something that couldn't be helped.

"What reason could possibly lead you to become the target of those guys' bullying?" Jiang Hang carefully observed the girl in front of him.

She's almost 17, but looks like she's only 14 or 15, and her skin is quite pale.

This is because the other person's health was not very good to begin with, due to long-term anemia and malnutrition.

The victim likely suffered not only bullying at school, but also mental stress at home that was no less intense.

Jiang Hang had naturally already thoroughly investigated the girl's situation.

To be honest, this girl's family situation is somewhat similar to that of her friend Ogihara Sayu.

Both are from single-parent families, but in the case of Ogihara Sayu, her father was philandering and fell in love with someone else after giving birth to Ogihara Sayu brother. Her mother wanted to regain her husband's love through Ogihara Sayu, but instead, she was abandoned by her husband.

In the end, Ogihara Sayu's father married someone else with her brother, while Ogihara Sayu was left with her mother after the divorce.

For this reason, Ogihara Sayu's mother never showed her maternal love to Ogihara Sayu from childhood to adulthood, and even regarded Ogihara Sayu as a burden and the fuse that led to her being abandoned by her husband.

The end result was that Ogihara Sayu grew up in an environment lacking love, becoming a silent person who didn't know what it was like to be loved or to love someone.

Masaka Yui was also abandoned by her mother, but in a more extreme way. At least Ogihara Sayu had an older brother who cared about her and could receive child support from her father, so she lived a life of luxury from childhood.

Masaka Yui was raised entirely by her mother alone. Because her mother was a university student when she was born, and was forced to drop out of school because of her, her mother probably blamed all the reasons for her failure in life on Masaka Yui and the man who abandoned them.

Masaka Yui developed a cautious and meticulous personality in such an environment.

She could have relied on her good grades to remain a nobody in the class, just like before. Although she didn't have many friends, she shouldn't have been bullied by so many people.

But Ogihara Sayu, whose Masaka Yui are too dazzling for this high school. Moreover, she is the only friend of Ogihara Sayu "cool and aloof school beauty" who never smiles at anyone, rejected the invitations of the popular group in the class at the beginning of the school year, and disdained those love letters.

For the popular students at school, this was Masaka Yui's greatest sin.

Why is it that despite all the effort they put in, Ogihara Sayu refused to lower herself to fit in with them, yet she could chat and laugh with this lowly, aloof woman?

And so, starting from the first year of high school, she became the target of the entire class.

Faced with this targeting, the introverted and insecure girl chose to swallow her anger, while Ogihara Sayu, who didn't understand love and didn't care about other people's opinions, also made a choice here.

Having long been accustomed to ignoring her mother's coldness and learning to communicate with her mother in the same way, she believed that as long as those who bullied them felt that doing so was useless, they would naturally stop bullying them over time.

Furthermore, after entering her second year of high school, she was no longer in the same class as Masaka Yui and often couldn't get to Masaka Yui's side immediately. Therefore, she was completely unaware that, in the past year, due to Phantom's covert instigation, the bullying against Masaka Yui had already subtly escalated.

Seeing Masaka Yui Yuko sitting silently on the ground, Jiang Hang also sat down.

Do you feel happy with this kind of life?

Masaka Yui silently shook her head, but her only friend Ogihara Sayu, told her that as long as she ignored these people, they would eventually give up, and no matter what, they would always stand by her side.

Most importantly, both of them did try to resist, but the results were not very good.

Ogihara Sayu's mother didn't want to get involved in these matters and would only tell Ogihara Sayu not to meddle. Her mother went even further, not only not caring about the bullying, but also because of the decline in her grades caused by the bullying in the past year, she directly said to her, "If this continues, you might as well drop out of school and go find a job."

As for those teachers?

Their homeroom teacher was a guy whose only concern was grades. Nothing else mattered to him, including the bullying in the class. Because some of the bullies were high achievers, he turned a blind eye to it as long as it didn't escalate.