Without even raising his head, Karuizawa could already "feel" the terrifying aura emanating from the person opposite him.
Neither side spoke, and they just stood there in silence. Finally, Karuizawa couldn't stand this oppressive atmosphere anymore, and bit her lip as she looked at the boy with dead eyes opposite her: "You, what do you want to do?"
"If you want me to apologize to you, I will apologize to you right away. I'm sorry. It was my fault last time. I shouldn't have slandered you, Hikigaya. Please forgive me."
After saying that, Karuizawa placed his hands on the table and lowered his head to apologize.
"If an apology is useful, then what's the point of having the police?"
The words from the other party made Karuizawa feel like he was falling into an ice cellar. Sure enough, this guy wanted to...
Thinking of this, Karuizawa's body trembled unconsciously and his face gradually lost its color.
"This is a cafe, and there are a lot of students watching."
Karuizawa suddenly woke up and hurried to stabilize his mentality and emotions, determined not to let others discover his abnormality. At the same time, he also realized belatedly that Hikigaya's simple words had "controlled" him.
"I know what you're afraid of."
Hikigaya looked across at Karuizawa and said slowly, "You're afraid that others will know that you were bullied, right?"
Karuizawa suddenly raised his head and stared at Hikigaya with wide eyes.
"When a victim of bullying enters a new environment, it's natural to hide their past to avoid repeating the same mistakes. Especially in this school, where strength is paramount, you will naturally guard your secrets carefully. But now this so-called secret is no longer a secret."
Hearing Hikigaya's words, Karuizawa looked panicked: "You, did you tell others?!"
"Even if I don't tell you, think about it yourself. Ayanokouji and Manabe from Class C have already noticed your past, so what do you want to do? Ask them to keep it a secret? But you should also know that there are only two consequences of doing so: threatening them or being threatened by them."
Karuizawa's face turned pale. After hearing what Hikigaya said, Karuizawa was immediately at a loss. He subconsciously asked: "Then, what should I do? I, I don't want to go back to that hell!"
"Hell?"
Hikigaya's expression changed slightly when he heard this: "For those who are bullied, this is indeed hell, but now you are stepping back into hell."
"Wha, what do you mean?"
"Don't you know what you do? You thought you escaped from hell, but you only escaped to another hell. This time, you became the perpetrator."
Hikigaya said coldly.
"I-I didn't!"
Karuizawa's expression froze, and he quickly explained: "I, I just wanted to protect myself, so..."
"So you can hurt others at will? Protect yourself by hurting others?!"
Hikigaya scolded.
"I, I...it's not like that. I just wanted to scare them a little and teach them a lesson so that I won't be bullied."
Hikigaya looked deeply at Karuizawa: "Karuizawa, I understand your worry and fear, but that doesn't mean I understand your behavior. In the final analysis, you are just venting the resentment you suffered when you were bullied on others, and then you just say that you are 'protecting' yourself!"
"Then what do you want me to do?! Answer me! Then what should I do to avoid being bullied!!!"
Karuizawa suddenly shouted loudly.
Karuizawa's abnormality also attracted the attention of nearby students. Hikigaya seemed to have noticed nothing and didn't care about the curious eyes around him, but Karuizawa was like a frightened bird and immediately covered his mouth.
"Karuizawa, look at what you look like now, don't you think it's ridiculous?"
Hikigaya stared at him coldly: "You said you wanted to protect yourself, but what you did was bully others. Why don't you dare to fight back when you were bullied and feel resentful? It's because those people in Bo are stronger than you, so you are afraid.
So you're not afraid of people who are weaker than you? You're a cowardly idiot!!!"
Karuizawa's face turned pale and red after being told this by Hikigaya, and he angrily retorted: "You don't understand anything at all. You have never been bullied, how can you understand my pain!!!"
"Don't I understand?"
Hikigaya laughed to himself.
"Do you think I've been bullied?"
Suddenly, Hikigaya's words made Karuizawa stunned. She looked carefully at the boy with dead eyes opposite her, was silent for a moment, and shook her head.
“What if I’ve been bullied too?”
"How can a guy like you…"
Karuizawa was stunned in the middle of her words, because she looked into Hikigaya's eyes and felt that he was 'not lying', and she herself didn't know why she had such a feeling.
"Is it weird?"
Hikigaya chuckled. "He's withdrawn, has dead eyes, and doesn't like to communicate with others... I've suffered a lot of cold shoulder and indifference in junior high. I've even had people scribbling on my desk, hiding my shoes, or having bugs put in them."
"Then, then how did you..."
Karuizawa's expression was obviously relaxed when she heard this, and she stared blankly at Hikigaya across from her. She had experienced everything the other party said, but she was more curious about why he seemed to be unaffected by the bullying even though he was obviously being bullied?
"Bullying is essentially the exploitation of one person by a group of people. It's natural to be afraid and terrified because you didn't have the strength to resist, nor did you have a strong enough heart. When you have either, you'll find that those so-called bullies are nothing more than clowns in your eyes. They understand their own weakness, so they only wield their knives against those who are even weaker."
Hikigaya looked at Karuizawa: "And you are doing the same thing now, only bullying those weaker than you, Karuizawa, you are now... doing the very thing that you once hated so much!"
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Chapter 220: Same kind.
There is a saying that poor people harm each other.
To use internet slang, it means that one cannot bear to see his brothers suffer, but is also afraid that his brothers will drive a Land Rover.
In fact, it reflects a dilemma.
Most of the bullied people are like Sakura, who have simple and cowardly personalities, but there are also people like Karuizawa who were once bullies but are doing things that are no different from bullies.
Just like at the beginning of the school year, the monkey duo Yamauchi and Ike often mocked and belittled Hikigaya, with the goal of labeling Hikigaya as the bottom of the class so that he could replace the 'sacrifice' they had been the victims of bullying!
As a former victim of bullying, after leaving his original environment, Karuizawa wanted to stop himself from falling to the bottom of society and being bullied, so he bullied others and labeled them as the bottom of society, so that he could be saved.
This is the complexity of human nature.
Hikigaya had seen and experienced it firsthand.
However, he was the one who was "betrayed". In order to escape the current situation of being oppressed and bullied, the other party would betray Hikigaya without hesitation.
Can you say he is wrong? Can you say he did something wrong?
People are selfish, and this kind of thing is very complicated and difficult to define.
Hikigaya may not have seen much of the evil in human nature, but at least he has experienced some of it himself, so he can understand Karuizawa's psychological changes.
Karuizawa felt ashamed by Hikigaya's words, and at the same time, he actually felt a little admiration for the boy with dead eyes in front of him.
She knew very well what kind of hell that was. She even hurt herself and her body was injured because of it. But Hikigaya was able to hold on and even transformed into a stronger person!
And I can only live like an insect!
"You, how on earth did you do that?"
Karuizawa asked through gritted teeth. She really wanted to know how Hikigaya was "reborn" from that hell instead of constantly "degenerating" like herself!
"I just said that bullying is essentially the exploitation and oppression of one person by a group of people. Why? Because they realize their abilities are limited to bullying the weaker ones, and that's how they prove their strength and value."
Hikigaya looked at Karuizawa with his deep eyes. Karuizawa seemed to be attracted by Hikigaya's words and could not help but look into Hikigaya's eyes. For a moment, Karuizawa felt his scalp tingling.
"And the only thing you have to do is to become even stronger than them, so strong that there's no room for jealousy!"
"Become more powerful?"
Karuizawa muttered to himself.
"They bully you and oppress you just to knock you down and make you unable to recover. What you need to do is stand up again after being knocked down again and again, and tell them, you can knock me down, you can kill me, but you can't defeat me!"
"You can knock me down, kill me, but you can't defeat me?"
For some reason, Karuizawa felt inexplicably touched in his heart, as if his whole body was electrocuted, and he felt numb all over.
"Even though you've escaped their oppression, your current state is exactly what those guys expected you to be. They've turned you into one of 'them,' a 'worthless weakling' who only knows how to bully others to prove his own existence, one of their 'kind'!"
"Karuizawa, do you also want to become the same as those guys who oppressed and bullied you?"
"I, I don't want to! I don't want to be that kind of person!"
Karuizawa shouted excitedly, looking at Hikigaya eagerly: "So what can I do, can you please tell me?"
Today, Karuizawa is like a drowning person who suddenly grabbed a life-saving rope. She has always been confused and hesitant, because after she escaped from hell, she thought everything would return to the way it was before, but she found that everything could not go back, the way back was no longer in sight, and the road ahead was full of fog.
The fog on the road ahead was like a man-eating monster, and she didn't dare to take a step forward.
But now a faint light suddenly appeared in the fog ahead, and a lighthouse appeared faintly, pointing the way for her in the fog.
"The courage to face your past, take responsibility for your mistakes, and move forward."
Hikigaya said so.
……
"Do you know what I just saw?"
Hikigaya was reading in his room at night when Ryotaro Hondou came back from outside. As soon as he entered the door, he couldn't wait to shout to Hikigaya and Miyake Akito.
"what's going on?"
Akito Miyake asked doubtfully.
"Karuizawa, that strong and arrogant girl, you all know her, right? She was so annoying during the exam on the deserted island, but now she's actually apologizing to girls from other classes, and her attitude is very sincere!"
Ryotaro Hondou said in shock as if he had discovered a new world.
Upon hearing this, Akito Miyake simply said "Oh", and Hikigaya had no reaction at all.
"Hey, aren't you two surprised? That's Karuizawa! When have you ever seen her apologize to someone so humbly?!"
Ryotaro Hondou was very dissatisfied with the two people's reactions because it made him seem a little too ridiculous.
"I'm not very interested in the girls in our class."
Miyake Akito shrugged and said.
"What about you, Hikigaya?"
Ryotaro Hondou asked.
"Is she alone?"
Hikigaya put down the book in his hands.
"Uh... let me think, oh yeah, it seems like Hirata is also with her. Ah, I see, it must be Hirata, otherwise a girl as fierce and arrogant as Karuizawa would never apologize to others!"
Ryotaro Hondou suddenly understood.
"What happened after Karuizawa apologized?"
Hikigaya asked again.
"I don't know. I just saw this scene from a distance, and then I ran back to tell you."
Ryotaro Hondou said as a matter of course.
"But it's better not to talk about this matter casually."
At this time, Miyake Akito said: "Since Hirata is here, something may have happened. If we tell others about this, it may cause trouble and trouble for Hirata."
If it were anyone else, Hondou wouldn't have paid any attention, but as for Hirata's words... he himself had received help from Hirata many times, and at the same time, he recognized and respected Hirata's contribution to the class in his heart, so he nodded in agreement.
At this moment, Hikigaya's cell phone suddenly vibrated. It was a message.
Hirata Yosuke: Karuizawa-san has already apologized to Nagisato-san from Class C. Although the process was a bit bumpy, the final result was a good one. Thank you.
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Chapter 221: The result reached jointly.
Hikigaya casually glanced at the message on his phone and closed it. This was probably all he could do about Karuizawa.
Although he also hated Karuizawa at the beginning, because her behavior was so disgusting in Hikigaya's eyes, she bullied the weak and oppressed other people who were alone, and Sakura was one of the victims at that time.
But after learning that Karuizawa had been bullied, Hikigaya did not feel angry, but sad instead.
People who were once bullied have now become bullies and oppress others. This is certainly hateful, but it is more of a tragedy. It is an anger at the collapse of life trajectory and values caused by "bullying" behavior!
The incident that caused serious impact in junior high school was also caused by bullying. Hikigaya took action because he could not bear it anymore, which eventually led to a major incident that could not be resolved and had a huge impact.
Karuizawa's behavior is essentially a revengeful mentality. He releases his revengeful mentality against the bullies by bullying others. It is also an act of building prestige.
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