Sayaka added, "It was awful."
"So there must be something wrong."
"It's just that the school didn't stand up for the teachers, and Teacher Koyuki took leave."
Ohhh, Su Yang understood.
Teacher Yukino was like a drop of oil falling into water. Her presence did not disrupt the whole, yet she could never completely blend into it.
It showed in daily life: she treated everyone with kindness and was both friendly and polite, but she never got too close to most people. Very few could enter her lonely inner world.
Many people at school liked her, or at least had a favorable impression of her. They felt sorry for what had happened to her and knew the full story, but they would not actually do anything for her.
Just like Sayaka.
When discussing the matter, she would indignantly defend Teacher Yukino.
But she had not truly done anything herself. ...
And that was probably how things had turned out.
Su Yang leaned against the second-floor classroom window. From there, he could see outside the school.
In a shadowy spot by the school gate stood a girl in a plain-colored knit sweater. She wanted to move forward, yet fear made her draw back her legs.
She was caught in a dilemma, unable to advance or retreat.
Yet no one reached out a hand to her.
But he was different from Sayaka and the others.
Su Yang wanted to get close to Yukino Hyakka.
So, without the slightest hesitation, he said, "If the teacher asks, say I took leave because I had something to do."
Then, amid Sayaka's astonished gaze, he left the classroom and headed straight for the school gate.
0.8
As he went down the stairs, he could hear students talking.
"I heard Koyuki came to school?"
"That's great. Takehara's