Chapter 156

"I think that was an unprecedented way of handling things. They forcibly disbanded all the classes, then reassigned everyone, including me, to new classes, and finally kept us under close surveillance until we graduated."

In short, they're simply covering it up, trying to stall for time until this year's students all graduate, then it's none of their business anymore, right?

Ha~ Given that it's such a lousy school, it's not surprising that they would choose this approach.

"I think I understand. There shouldn't be any more problems after this, right? If there are, just say it all at once to save me from having to deal with this headache multiple times."

"After that, I was recommended by my junior high school to participate in the admissions interview for Kodo Ikusei Senior High School. I thought I wouldn't pass, but I actually did."

"Looking back now, the school must have known about my past before assigning me to Class D."

Hirata looked up at the sky, his voice filled with melancholy, "But this kind of thing doesn't matter. It doesn't matter which class it is, as long as everyone can trust each other and get along harmoniously, I'll do anything. But I can't do it! I can't do anything!"

"I couldn't stop Wang Meiyu and Koenji Rokusuke class, nor could I change Yamauchi and Ike's decision to drop out. So when I saw so many people from the whole school using violence against Yamauchi and the Yamauchi, I finally couldn't hold back anymore."

But even if he picked up violence again and tried to stop the bullying with his fists once more, he still couldn't do anything.

Aragaki Shun was easily defeated by Shun Hirata, which caused him to completely break down and confess everything in a daze.

"Aragaki -kun, tell me, has my life been a complete failure?"

Rolling his eyes, the Leader of Class A said bluntly:

"If you're sick, go get treatment. Don't act crazy here."

225. Hirata decided to discard his brain; please make good use of me.

"If you're sick, go get treatment. Don't act crazy here."

After hearing about Yosuke Hirata's dark past, when asked if his life was a failure, Aragaki Shun only had this one thought.

"What's wrong with your junior high school? People have jumped off buildings, yet they still let bullying happen repeatedly, and just stood by and watched you suppress and ravage the entire grade. Was your junior high school training underground boxers?"

He really couldn't hold back anymore; he had to yell it out.

What a lousy school!

Only after the entire grade had been reduced to mindless zombies by Yosuke Hirata did the school's higher-ups leisurely step in, covering the matter up by reassigning students to different classes and imposing surveillance.

Were these people unresponsive robots before this?

Someone attempted suicide at school, jumped off a building resulting in brain death, and is now in a vegetative state in the hospital, yet they show no concern, allowing the bullying group to find the next vulnerable person to persecute.

"Honestly, I find it hard to believe that such an outrageous school actually exists in reality, whether you've made this story up or not."

"If that's true, I suggest you file a complaint directly with the education committee or the police station. You can also use the media to expose it, gather evidence, and find a way to deal with it severely."

Yosuke Hirata: "..."

He had considered many possibilities, but he never expected Aragaki Shun to react this way.

Directly targeting junior high schools?

What normal student has the courage and connections to take this step?

"According to the School Education Act, the government requires every school to establish a bullying countermeasure mechanism, and homeroom teachers are obligated to initiate investigations."

Aragaki Shun rubbed his temples and said, "Of course, I know that the law is just the law, and its actual implementation is the key, but the fact that bullying at your school is so rampant and the school's response is so lax is really quite rare."

After a student is found to have jumped from a building, shouldn't the school at least make a show of doing something about it?

Later on, Yosuke Hirata will have to single-handedly break the mentality of all the students in the entire grade, which is definitely not something that can be done in a short time.

Because he only intervenes when there are disputes within the grade, it would theoretically take him at least four or five months to complete this great undertaking.

During this period, Hirata's actions were so obvious, yet no faculty or staff member stepped in to stop him... This attitude goes beyond mere lax management.

"Why don't you tell me the name and address of your junior high school? I'm going to leave the school tomorrow, and I'll make a report for you while I'm at it?"

Aragaki Shun was still somewhat confident in his influence. He believed that it was two different things whether he reported the school or Hirata did. He didn't believe that such a lousy school could have any unfathomable background.

Do you really think all schools are Advanced Nurturing institutions, protected by the Prime Minister's faction?

Yosuke Hirata opened his mouth, unsure of what to say.

Why did it suddenly escalate to reporting on the school?

"... Let's not trouble Aragaki -kun with this," the handsome boy with short green hair said with a bitter expression. "Let bygones be bygones. All the students from our year have graduated, and the school should be in a much better situation now."

"Whatever." Since the main character of this matter didn't seem to care much, Aragaki Shun naturally didn't care either.

"So, you only started trying to maintain harmony in the class and couldn't accept violent conflicts between students because Sugimura was driven to suicide by school bullying?"

"That's right," Hirata sighed wistfully, "I don't think this will be Sugimura's salvation, but I want to try my best to make amends. I believe I can only achieve this by saving others."

"I know I'm not some righteous hero, but I want to at least help the people around me. I must help them. This is the responsibility I must bear because of my sins."

Therefore, he could not forgive the actions of numerous students on campus who ganged up on Yamauchi Haruki, Kanji Ike, and others.

Even if they did commit an unforgivable crime, haven't they already been punished by the school and are about to be expelled for secretly filming women's changing rooms?

He did not object to the ruling that the Advanced Nurturing, because he believed it was reasonable.

But now that the verdict has been handed down, this matter should end here. He absolutely cannot allow Yamauchi to continue to be bullied by their classmates!

"What a half-baked idiot!"

Aragaki Shun mercilessly mocked, "When you see your friend being bullied, you don't dare to lend a helping hand, but after something happens to them, you blame yourself and feel that you almost drove them to their death."

"Even at this point, you still chose to run away, afraid to face the other person who had become a vegetable, only thinking that by helping others you could put your mind at ease and find redemption on your own."

"But on this path, you're still just a half-baked amateur, incapable of managing Class D properly. You can only constantly try to smooth things over, sacrificing yourself and other reasonable people to appease those troublemakers."

"Heh~ Yamauchi Haruki and Kanji Ike were so arrogant that they dared to peep into the women's changing room. Don't you think it's related to your half-baked protection? After all, no matter what mistakes they made, in their eyes there was always someone to cover for them and prevent them from getting beaten up, right?"

As a leader, if you want to exercise power and make everything develop according to your will, you must inevitably bear all the negative backlashes that arise in the process of exercising power.

To be honest, Aragaki Shun didn't think Hirata's idea of wanting a harmonious class and preventing violence was wrong.

The key issue is that the idea is just an idea; he has absolutely no practical ability to put it into practice.

If you can't do it, you can't do it; no matter how loudly you proclaim your ideas, you can't actually do them!

He could not bear the numerous consequences resulting from these actions.

"If you insist on protecting Yamauchi and the others, shouldn't you also bear some responsibility for this locker room peeping incident?"

"My suggestion is, if you don't change your usual half-baked way of doing things, you might as well just drop out of school with Yamauchi Haruki. Anyway, you'll be implicated in the future and eventually be abandoned and kicked out of this school."

"I'm a half-baked amateur?" Yosuke Hirata looked up at Aragaki Shun, his voice trembling. "Is it all my fault?"

"So that's how it is. I'm really useless. I guess I'm just a good-for-nothing who can't protect the class. Even if I try my best, I can't change the fact that Class D is falling apart."

"You understand now, don't you, Aragaki- kun? I'm beyond saving. In order to protect others, I also considered using terrifying methods to control them. I know perfectly well that what I'm doing is wrong, but I still..."

Seeing Yosuke Hirata's distraught appearance, with tears streaming down his face, Aragaki Shun curled his lip, showing no sympathy whatsoever. Instead, he added insult to injury by commenting, "How hypocritical and disgusting!"

"You remind me of your Class D's Chabashira Sae. In my eyes, you two are both only thinking about your own ideas, but her deeds and her way of doing things are ten times, a hundred times more disgusting than yours."

If you feel you've done something wrong and wronged someone, then try to make amends or compensate them!

Why do some people like to use meal replacements, thinking that by finding an unrelated person to atone for their sins, they can find peace of mind and find relief?

Just as Hirata regretted not being able to help his friend who had attempted suicide, he decided to maintain harmony in the class at all costs.

After ruining the efforts of everyone in the class due to her own selfishness, Chabashira Sae ultimately chose to return to Advanced Nurturing as a teacher, hoping to make amends and resolve her obsession by leading a class of Class D students to advance to Class A.

These people are really only thinking about themselves!

They only care about their own comfort, completely disregarding the lives of those who are truly harmed, right?

Strictly speaking, Ichinose Honami also had this tendency in the past, because of a mistake she made in junior high school, she was willing to sacrifice herself to protect her classmates.

It seems they just can't bring themselves to face the real parties involved, so they prefer to compensate for their guilt by taking it out on outsiders.

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This certainly doesn't change anything, but it can be used in the name of atonement to make oneself feel better.

With a cold expression, Aragaki Shun recounted the feud between Chie Hoshinomiya and Chabashira Sae in front of Yosuke Hirata, and finally asked bluntly:

"Why do you think Chabashira Sae would rather waste her time in Advanced Nurturing, waiting for a miracle that might allow Class D to be promoted to Class A, than apologize to her former classmates?"

"Leaving aside the others, our class Chie Hoshinomiya, is also involved in this matter. She's always around her, does she just pretend she doesn't see anything?"

"Yes, why?" Yosuke Hirata muttered to himself as he collapsed to the ground. He knew what Aragaki Shun meant, but he had no idea how to respond.

Every time he tried to speak, the Matoba from that day would flash before his eyes, with Sugimura's swollen face seemingly staring intently at him.

On that very day, Sugimura said nothing, did nothing, and so tragedy inevitably struck.

His childhood friend jumped out of the classroom window.

Jumping off buildings, suicide, brain death, vegetative state... Hirata felt a chill run down his spine whenever he thought of those past events.

So he ran away!

He didn't dare go to the hospital to find out about the other person's condition, so he could only use even stronger violence at school to suppress the bullying that had resurfaced.

When he made a second grave mistake, he dared not face the victims he had bullied and left scarred, and once again chose to escape to Kodo Ikusei Senior High School.

Hirata dared not look back, only wanting to start over here and maintain a good class atmosphere, but still achieved nothing and could only watch helplessly as Yamauchi and Ike dropped out of school because of their mistakes.

"I'm a complete failure! It's all my fault! It's all my fault!"

Clenching his fists, Yosuke Hirata kept patting his chest, as if this self-harm would make him feel better.

Instead of standing idly by, Aragaki Shun chose to intensify his efforts.

"If you truly want to take responsibility for all of this, then these are indeed mistakes caused by your incompetence."

"With your fighting skills, you don't need to worry about group bullying at all. You only need to take action when you discover that Sugimura is being persecuted, and there won't be any suicide attempts later."

"If there's not enough time, when the bullies choose their next victim, you could clearly stand on the side of the weak and stop the bullies' actions, instead of beating everyone up."

"When you come to Advanced Nurturing, if you treat everyone in your class as your classmates, then you should set limits for them from the beginning and restrain them from breaking the rules and regulations. This way, there won't be any incidents of secretly taking photos."

"But in the end, you always made the wrong choices at crossroads, completely lacking the wisdom and ability to shoulder everything on your own."

Aragaki Shun spoke irrationally, blaming all the mistakes on Yosuke Hirata.

Normally, this is certainly incorrect.

Regardless of what Hirata truly thought, he genuinely tried his best to unite his classmates and maintain class harmony, and he was always willing to lend a helping hand to anyone who asked him for help.

By ordinary standards, Yosuke Hirata, after undergoing Advanced Nurturing, would undoubtedly be a good person.

He just hasn't done well enough and hasn't achieved the goals he set for himself.

But precisely because of this, having chosen this difficult path, and having decided to become the leader of Class D and lead all the students to graduation without fail, he must also be prepared to bear all the responsibility in the event of failure.

"I... I--!"

More tears welled up in Hirata's eyes, and he murmured sadly:

"It's all because of my incompetence... How cruel, Aragaki -kun, do you really enjoy reopening old wounds?"

"I'm just making you face reality," Aragaki Shun said, arms crossed, "Because you don't recognize your own abilities, which is why you hesitated when you could have stopped the tragedy; and for the same reason, you chased after illusions that you could never reach."

"In my opinion, Hirata, you are simply not suited to make choices. You should work under a reliable leader and move forward under the guidance of someone who can help you make decisions."

Different people may have hundreds or thousands of different opinions about the same thing.

In Aragaki Shun's view, Yosuke Hirata is indeed capable, but he lacks a clear understanding of himself and is not wise enough when faced with problems, which is why he always makes the wrong choices.

"Am I not suited to make choices? I've known that for a long time!"

Reaching out to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes, Hirata felt an endless exhaustion.

He was truly exhausted. He had made the wrong choices at every crossroads in his life, and Hirata really didn't want to continue.

Perhaps we shouldn't overthink it; we should simply listen to the advice of truly Akito and silently follow it.

"So Aragaki -san, what do you think I should do next?"

"If you want to atone for your sins out of guilt and remorse, then first determine to whom you need to atone."

Aragaki Shun said coldly, "The root of everything is Sugimura, so the first goal is to find a way to improve his condition. This requires you to first determine his current situation."

"And then there's the time you used your fists to dominate the entire grade. Have you ever thought about how you'll face the innocent people you bullied?"

"Finally, there are your Advanced Nurturing classmates, but you only feel gratitude towards them and have no debts to them. Just try to suppress their little tricks in the future and prevent them from doing any more bizarre things."

By the end, Yosuke Hirata felt a wave of suffocation wash over him.

He admitted that what Aragaki Shun said was correct, but precisely because it was so correct, it made people even more embarrassed.

If some things were truly so easy to face, would he have avoided them time and time again?