Let's do it again, Yukino.

Hitting girls really disgusted Haruhi, like being seeped into her bones by filth from a sewer, an indescribable feeling of revulsion welling up from her heart.

"Do you guys want to stand up for this Aizawa-kun? Sorry, this kind of hero-saves-the-damsel-in-distress situation is probably not your turn."

A boy seemed to want to stand up for Aizawa, and his punch was easily caught by Haruhi. Although the boy used the back of his hand to shield his face, he still received a heavy slap from Haruhi, his chin taking a hard blow. The boy's face contorted for a moment, and then Haruhi kicked him in the stomach, sending the troublesome boy flying.

The violent impact caused the boy and the boy behind him to crash into several desks, knocking them over.

In an instant, the classroom was a complete mess.

The two boys, lying on the ground, breathed out hot air as they groaned in pain. They glared angrily at Chunri, who remained sitting at her desk, seemingly indifferent.

"We will report your behavior to the head of student affairs. Haruhi Kasuga, you can expect to be expelled for using violence against a student of the same grade without any reason!!"

"You all know it's wrong to bully others for no reason, right? I thought you were all captivated by Aizawa's good looks, huh?"

The boy's cold laughter echoed in the classroom.

"Where do you think you're going to run off to?"

Without turning around, he stiffly pressed down on Aizawa Shoko, who was about to get up and run out of the classroom, and kicked the boy who was yelling at him about telling the teacher.

"You're going to tell on the teacher, huh? So, in your eyes, teachers are the kind of people you only confide in when you need them, and then discard like trash when you don't, right?"

"Go ahead and complain! If you're so capable, go and cry to that Ms. Yukino and tell her that a classmate is bullying you!!"

Just as he was about to stomp on it again,

Instinctively, he felt a sharp pain coming from the hand he had been pressing on Aizawa Shoko's. Turning around, he saw that Aizawa Shoko, who had originally had a vicious and twisted expression, was now crying and biting his hand tightly with her teeth, her voice trembling with sobs.

"What does a bastard like you know?! Clearly—"

Snapped! !

With a frown, Haruhi, her hand still wet with the girl's saliva, slapped Aizawa across the face again.

"I have absolutely no desire to hear Aizawa's explanation of his predicament. If you have this much time, you might as well listen to that teacher's explanation. Besides, Aizawa, you look really ugly when you cry. Do you want me to take a picture of you?"

"It's all that woman's fault. I used to admire her the most—but—"

Snapped! !

A clear red mark

"I clearly like her so much, I clearly like her so much, it's all Yukino-sensei's fault—"

Snapped! !

Another clear red mark

Despite the spring sun's slaps that eventually swelled her cheeks like balloons, the girl continued to cry and shout loudly at the spring sun.

"It's so noisy. I've already said, you should use this time to explain to that Ms. Yukino."

Feeling that she had suddenly become a little too immersed in the role, Chunri picked up her hands, ready to deliver the final blow to this willful young lady.

Seeing the girl's tearful face, the boy inexplicably thought of Yukinoshita pleading with him on the phone that day. Thinking of this, his hand, which was raised in the air, hesitated.

And at the very last critical moment

His fist was grasped by a soft hand reaching out from the other direction.

"That's enough, student. Please stop bullying my student."

It was a woman's unfamiliar voice, somewhat soft, yet carrying an unwavering tone.

Oh, so the main character has arrived?

Upon hearing this unfamiliar voice, Chunri naturally stopped his rampage. Without turning around to look at the person behind him, a strange and eerie smile appeared on his lips. Looking at the mess he had made of the classroom, he said casually.

"Is it worth it? Those students didn't treat you as a teacher, and you, Yukino-sensei who is about to resign, don't need to treat them as your students either. It's better to avoid trouble."

Humans are the most complex creatures in the world. Only after witnessing the cruelty of reality and suffering losses will they learn to back down.

Can Yukino-sensei really teach her students well based solely on her unrealistic attempt to become friends with them?

Chapter Thirteen: I Hate That Kind of Sunny Spring Day

Yukino once said to Haruhi,

She longed for Yukino Hyakuri, who was her classical Chinese teacher.

Whether it was her elegant and moist appearance or her aloof and proud personality, she made Yukino Yukinoshita a little envious.

So at that time, Yukino-sensei's inexplicable resignation left her feeling regretful for a long time.

Not only because their surnames both contain the character "雪" (snow),

However, compared to the harsh winter, Yukino Yukinoshita, whose name contains the character for "snow," prefers the bright and gentle spring.

However, Chunri, whose name contains the character "Chun" (spring), actually prefers the silver-white world under the heavy snowfall of winter.

Despite her name being Yukinoshita, she hates winter; despite her name containing the character for spring, she hates spring.

In a sense, this somewhat childlike couple also share a surprisingly similar affinity for the seasons.

……

…………

This was also the first time in spring that I truly met Yukino-sensei, whom I admired under the snow.

It's a bit like Yukinoshita.

No, it should be more like a snow woman.

Looking at Yukino-sensei one last time, Haruhi once again affirmed in her heart.

Although it was short hair, it was soft and beautiful, with a slightly light color. At first glance, you could see the woman's long, jet-black eyelashes through the gaps in her hair. Her shoulders and neck were very thin, but not in the way that comes from malnutrition; rather, it was more of a delicate, sickly beauty.

Perhaps it was something that happened recently; although her voice was sweet, it was filled with a sense of fatigue.

Objectively speaking, this Ms. Yukino Hyakuri is very beautiful. Compared to Hiratsuka Shizuka's dashing and heroic demeanor, the female teacher in front of him is a true beauty. Although Kasuga has not been very interested in women's appearances for a long time, he has to say that Ms. Yukino's beauty is somewhat inhuman. Just as he described at the beginning, she is like distant clouds or towering, untouchable mountain peaks. This woman is very much like the "Yuki-onna" who appears in the snowy mountains in ghost stories.

"Stop!!"

Ms. Yukino's usually gentle and delicate features were now extremely tense. She must have just learned of this news from the office. Holding a copy of the textbook in her hand, she stood in front of Haruhi and protected Aizawa Shoko, who was being bullied by Haruhi, behind her back.

"Has the party involved arrived?"

Spring chuckled lightly, and involuntarily shook off the hand that Snow Woman was holding, and the warmth in her palm instantly dissipated.

"No matter what your motives are, please don't hurt Xiangzi. We're all classmates."

Springtime brings a touch of curiosity.

Despite looking like she was about to cry, Ms. Yukino maintained her professional demeanor as a teacher in front of the students in the classroom.

Yukino-sensei, who was protecting Aizawa, didn't know what was wrong with her either.

Since last year, she has been harassed by the female students in her class. She doesn't know what she did to upset Aizawa, but Aizawa led most of the students in the class to boycott her classes, and even dragged many students' parents into it.

The beginning and the center of it all is Aizawa Shoko, who is crying behind her at this moment, looking rather disheveled and even ugly.

Although she wanted to laugh, she refrained from doing so from a teacher's perspective.

After all, she had secretly cried many times at night throughout the year.

"Even though he wants to resign, why is he still meddling in other people's business?"

Meanwhile, Yukino-sensei watched as Haruhi, sitting on Aizawa's desk with a roguish smile befitting a delinquent youth, greeted her.

His hair was cut very short, and his forehead was clean and neat, unlike other boys who had half-length bangs. His eyes and eyebrows looked somewhat stubborn, and his clothing style was somewhat adult-like. Apart from his aura of being aloof and his fierce eyes, even if you met him outside of school, Yukino would probably think he was a peer of about the same age as her.

In her memory, she seemed to have never had any dealings with this boy. Although she had heard some bad things about him from other teachers, he wasn't in her class, so she didn't care.

Are these students who don't look like students at all really from our Zongwu High School?

She has some doubts about Yukino-sensei now.

"Fighting is wrong..."

Thinking of this, Yukino Yukari was also a little afraid of this fierce boy, and she mustered up her courage again to speak.

Kasugano shook his head, pointing to the classroom he had made a mess of.

"It wasn't a fight, Yukino-sensei. I think you've misunderstood. Can't you see? It was just one-sided bullying."

Haruhi also had the heart of an adult. He knew that if he wanted to dissuade Yukino-sensei from resigning, the ultimate solution was to resolve the conflict between her and Aizawa. With that in mind, he gently lifted Aizawa's chin, who was crying incessantly with her head down, and shook her off without any pity.

"Aizawa-kun, it just so happens that Yukino-sensei is here too. I'll give you one last chance. If you don't want to get beaten up again, please explain what exactly happened between you and Yukino-sensei."

Fifteen minutes later,

Ultimately, under Haruhi's threat, the girl named Aizawa Shoko finally revealed the truth about everything.

It wasn't originally a big deal.

Aizawa had a crush on an older boy, but that boy fell for Yukino-sensei. Later, the third-year boy confessed his feelings to Yukino-sensei, but was rejected without hesitation. After that, rumors began to circulate in the school that Yukino-sensei had made a move on Aizawa's boyfriend. Feeling that his self-esteem had been hurt, Aizawa developed hostility towards Yukino-sensei, whom he had once admired, which eventually led to all of this.

It must be said that the saying "three men can make a tiger" applies even in the originally sacred school environment.

Although it is unknown who first spread the rumor, once such completely fictitious information is circulated, even if it is false and hard to believe, some ignorant students will still believe it. Once someone believes it, things will start to turn in a bad direction.

The spread of misinformation and rumors, which was originally just a seed of fire, spread throughout the entire Zongwu High School with a force that the parties involved could not have imagined. This is the result of the greatest malice between people. However, the malice that originally belonged to only one person eventually became something that no one knew to belong to.

Was it the boy who confessed to Ms. Yukino? Or was it Aizawa, the source of everything, or perhaps it was these classmates who were swayed by the rumors? No, none of them.

Because the law does not punish the masses...

Teacher Yukino was also driven to a dead end by the malice gathered by these students.

If it weren't for Haruhi's intervention today, perhaps those students who maliciously pressured Yukino-sensei wouldn't feel the slightest bit of guilt even if Yukino-sensei left Soubu High School tomorrow.

Just as Hachiman Hikigaya once explained regarding malice.

Nothing is more terrifying than unseen malice. If you're verbally abused to your face, you can vent by punching or yelling back. Or you can channel your hatred for that person and channel that mental stress into something else.

Because such dark emotions possess immense power, they can be transformed into something positive somewhere. However, hatred, jealousy, and revenge are merely ambiguous emotions if they have no proper target.

How annoying...

……

Haruhi didn't know when she left Class J. In her mind, all that vaguely came to mind was Aizawa, who had learned the whole truth, kneeling in front of Yukino-sensei, tightly hugging Yukino-sensei with red eyes, and crying loudly as she apologized.