The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

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, Yuko Masaka, who is the only friend she can be considered a friend in this school.

In the story he mentioned, Masaka Yuko 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 Ogiwara 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 Sayu Ogiwara's cool and beautiful face, Yuko Masaka'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 Yuko, and probably quite severely, which was why she was so timid and hesitant.

After all, Ogiwara 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their target to Yuko Masaka, the bullies finally felt a sense of pleasure in controlling her, as her fearful and withdrawn reactions were the only things that made them feel that way.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 Yuko 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 Yuko, who had been bullied but had never put up a fight, remained alone, sitting on the rooftop floor with her back against the railing. Her eyes were slightly unfocused, and 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 Yuko 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 Yuko'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 Yuko 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?

Yuko Masaka 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 5, 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, Sayu Ogiwara.

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

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

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

The end result was that Ogiwara 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 Yuko was also abandoned by her mother, but in a more extreme way. At least Ogiwara 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 Yuko 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 Yuko and the man who abandoned them.

Masaka Yuko 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 Masaka Yuko becomes friends with Ogiwara Sayu, whose looks are too dazzling for this high school. Moreover, she is the only friend of Ogiwara Sayu, the "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 Yuko's greatest sin.

Why is it that despite all the effort they put in, Ogiwara 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 Ogiwara 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 Yuko and often couldn't get to Masaka Yuko's side immediately. Therefore, she was completely unaware that, in the past year, due to Phantom's covert instigation, the bullying against Masaka Yuko had already subtly escalated.

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

Do you feel happy with this kind of life?

Masaka Yuko silently shook her head, but her only friend, Ogiwara 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.

Ogiwara Sayu's mother didn't want to get involved in these matters and would only tell Ogiwara 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.

Not to mention other disciplinary committees.

Among those who had long bullied them were members of the disciplinary committee.

In this situation where they were completely isolated by everyone, the two girls who huddled together seemed to have nothing more to do than remain silent and hypnotize themselves to ignore everything.

"Then let's make a big fuss about it," Jiang Hang said, looking at Masaka Yuko with a surprised expression.

"Do you think ignoring this will make these people stop bullying you? That's not true. In fact, it's precisely this indifferent attitude of yours that has led those who weren't involved before to join in the bullying after seeing your attitude."

In Japan, there is a strong sense of collectivism, and group bullying is a common occurrence.

Many of these people didn't initially intend to participate in bullying; they only joined in because they saw everyone else doing it, trying to align their actions with the crowd.

If, during this process, those who are bullied show strong resistance, it can make people realize that they are engaging in "bullying," which may lead the perpetrators to take more extreme measures against the bullied, but it can also deter other people who have come to their senses from participating.

Moreover, if the bullied people resist fiercely enough, it will also deter the bullies. These bullies are not desperate criminals. When they see the desperate mentality of those they bully, they will be more hesitant to act, and thus change their bullying methods. At most, they will resort to some form of passive-aggressive behavior to isolate them.

Neither Sayu Ogiwara nor Yuko Masaka care about being isolated.

"Those people will only see you as a punching bag and an emotional dumping ground. How can people stop throwing trash into a dumping ground just because it doesn't resist?"

"Either erupt in silence or perish in silence. If you do not have the courage to erupt, then the only path to your future is destruction."

"After being bullied by those guys for so long, can you really keep going? You're probably nearing your limit. Are you really planning to jump off here and end it all with your death when you can't take it anymore?"

Jiang Hang's words caused a hint of struggle to appear on Masaka Yuko's face.

How could she not have had such thoughts?

In recent months, she has even dreamed occasionally that she would choose to leave this world to end it all. The sense of ease she felt in the dream made her feel that death was not a problem.

"But what will happen to your good friend Sayu Ogiwara if you die? Do you think she can bear the pain of your passing, or do you hope that she will leave this world with you?"

When her secrets were exposed, and Jiang Hang laid bare things she didn't want to think about, Masaka Yuko's face turned even paler.

Death can't end everything, even if she really can't withstand the pressure and hands everything over to Sayu, what will Sayu do then?

But how can they make these things escalate?