"Indeed..." Although everyone had instinctively gathered around to watch him, Sogo Doma remained as composed as ever. He even stroked his chin and pretended to think. "As long as you assign enough homework..."
"Doma..." Before he could finish, Shizuka Hiratsuka could not help saying, "A child's childhood isn't just about homework. There's also..."
"Um..." This time, Takahashi spoke up. "Actually, having those children do more homework isn't really a problem. After all, the parents' committee seems quite happy about it..."
"Huh?" After being interrupted again, Shizuka Hiratsuka froze for a while before saying, "Then why did you say you had a headache over it...?"
"I never said that was what gave me a headache..." Takahashi said again. "What really gives me a headache is that group of children following Tsurumi... I mean, their classmate. Do you know? Those children were all victims of bullying..."
Before she could finish, Sogo Doma asked with a baffled expression, "So?"
Could it be that because these bullied children had banded together, the people who used to bully them could no longer do so, and that was what gave her a headache?
"A group of children who had been bullied suddenly started acting like ancient samurai..." Fortunately, it was not what he had imagined. Takahashi said gloomily, "What do you think the parents' committee would make of that? A new form of bullying?"
"This..."
"On top of that, the children who used to bully others were all punished with extra homework..." Takahashi continued. "At first, the parents' committee was quite relieved by that. But when they put the two things together, they began to suspect that those children who went home and did homework every day were being bullied..."
Shizuka Hiratsuka and the others: "..."
There was no need to wonder. Being punished with extra