For high school students who have a heartbeat, it is useless not to watch the excitement.

Although those delinquent teenagers have some deterrent effect on ordinary students, there is still a circle of melon-eating people around them.

Uesugi Kiyoshi followed the flow of people.

He first looked at the short girl in the center.

According to the logo on the collar, it can be seen that she is a second-year student of the same year as herself.

is very short, estimated to be less than one and a half meters, many middle school students may be taller than her, but the figure is unexpectedly material, and the exquisite curve of her body supports her small school uniform round and full, convex and backward, looking quite colorful.

The front face of Uesugi Kiyoshi couldn't be seen clearly, she was bowing and apologizing, and the bangs on her forehead hung down, blocking most of her face.

Her voice was very timid and soft, like a harmless little animal, and her accent made Uesugi Kiyoshi feel a little familiar and familiar - this girl's accent had a hint of Hokkaido dialect.

After a little thought, Uesugi Kiyoshi really remembered who this was.

This is his classmate, Kyoko Nohara.

Kyoko Nohara's personality is very introverted, she doesn't like to talk, she doesn't have many friends, and her presence in the class is not high, and Uesugi Kiyoshi thought about it for a few seconds before remembering her name.

The reason why he can remember it is because Nohara Kyoko's grades are very good, and he can often be next to him when the exam results come out.

Around the bad of the Nohara apricot, Uesugi Kiyoshi also knows, the bad leader of the next class, Tosaka Tiger.

This is also a famous person, although it is only the second grade, but since the beginning of the school year, it has cleaned up a lot of third-grade seniors, and the following grams have been very successful, and it is the top of the food chain among the bad teenagers in Haicheng Middle School.

Tosaka Tiger led a few followers, blocking Nohara Apricot, with an impatient face, scolding, and not very good.

Uesugi Kiyoshi was not in a hurry to go to the hero to save the beauty and stand up for Nohara Apricot, but first transported the "heart eye" and carefully looked at Nohara Apricot.

His heart and eyes come from the system of a hundred ghosts walking at night, known as "taking the heart as the eye, you can see the ghosts and gods, breaking the delusion and the void, and the eyes are like torches", and he has indeed not disappointed him in the past year.

But he looked carefully for half a minute, and he couldn't see anything on Nohara Kyoko that was on the side of the "monster".

This is just a short female high school student who looks a little cute, dresses rustic, and has an explosive figure.

He wanted to observe again, but the alarm in his head sounded again, and it kept beeping, as if urging him to do something.

The flow of information from the system had just reached his mind.

"The condition for retrieving the [Yingcao] Demon Soul is to obtain the approval of the Demon Soul Linker."

In other words, do you want Kyoko Nohara to approve of me?

The corners of Uesugi Kiyoshi's mouth twitched, a little helpless, this condition is too vague, and he is not very good at dealing with women.

But now I can't do it, and I have to take it.

With skillful efforts to push away the few henchmen of Tosaka Tiger, Uesugi Kiyoshi squeezed in front of Tosaka Tiger with a warm smile, and spoke softly.

"Tosaka-san, what's going on?"

"It's almost class, and it's not good to get together here, so let the teacher on duty see it, I'm afraid there will be trouble."

"I've heard of Tosaka-san's reputation, so I shouldn't bully a girl, right?"

These few words are also skillful.

First of all, go to say hello, Uesugi Kiyoshi has a smiling face, he has no intention of provoking these bad people, he doesn't stretch out his hand to hit the smiling person, it's best to solve things peacefully, and then, he brought out the "teacher" to deter these bad people, and finally put a high hat on Tosaka Tiger, these bad people care about face very much, and the reputation of bullying women is spread, which is not a good deed for them.

Sure enough, as soon as Uesugi Kiyoshi said these three words, Tosaka Tiger turned his head and frowned.

He wasn't a stupid person, he heard Uesugi Kiyoshi's meaning, snorted coldly, and squinted at Uesugi Kiyoshi.

"Hmph... Who should I be, it's Uesugi. ”

"What? Big heroes come to fight grievances? Are you nosy? ”

"Don't use teachers to press me, do you think I'm afraid of them?"

Tosaka Tiger's words are quite arrogant, but those who are familiar with him may feel that he has already restrained himself.

If someone else is nosy, he may scold, and it is not impossible to do it, after all, it is not a shame to beat a man.

But Kiyoshi Uesugi... He was really a little jealous.

This is the school's man of the hour, the best scholar in Kyoto, the principal's baby bump, if he follows Uesugi Kiyoshi, he may not be able to get into any trouble - he is bad, not stupid, so he just threatens Uesugi Kiyoshi and wants him to retreat.

Of course, it is impossible for Uesugi Kiyoshi to retreat.

He smiled slightly, took a step, and stood in front of Nohara Kyoko, not frightened, and his tone was neither humble nor arrogant.

"I just wanted to ask what happened, did Tosaka-san do something unseemly? Don't dare to say it to me? ”

Kyoko Nohara, who had been bowing and apologizing, suddenly felt that someone was blocking in front of her, and raised her head in some amazement, and saw the reliable back of Uesugi Kiyoshi, and the young man's gentle but powerful words echoed in her ears.

She rubbed the corners of her school uniform a little crampedly, her eyes were red, and she didn't know if she was moved or frightened by badness, but because of her cowardly character, the words of thanks were still stuck in her throat and didn't say it.

Tosaka Tiger snorted unhappily, his eyes became a little unkind, but he still spoke patiently.

"The little man behind you owes us two months' protection money, and we are here to ask for the debt, and it's not your turn to take care of this matter!"

"I'll put it in front of you, we took the money, but if you ask that little girl, she wasn't bullied at school, we're not those extortion gangsters! If she pays the money, we will cover her! ”

"But she can't come up with the money, and she owes us two months of protection money, so I naturally want to ask her if she is using us as monkeys and letting us work for nothing!"

As soon as Uesugi Kiyoshi heard this, he knew what was going on.

In Japan, there is a strict hierarchy of social classes, and a boss reprimands his subordinates just like he reprimands his grandson, and in school, it's pretty much the same.

When the junior meets the senior senior, he should bow and salute and use honorific titles.

It is even more common for seniors to support juniors to run errands and do work, and it is a matter of course.

This environment is a breeding ground for bullying in schools.

School bullying may seem like a cliché in various films and television works related to Japan, but this shows how widespread this phenomenon is in Japan.

According to a magazine, Japan's campuses are divided into three, six, nine, and so on.

At the top of the campus class pyramid are the generals and presidents of various popular sports clubs, as well as the leaders of delinquent teenagers, and at the bottom are introverts, unsociables, and people who have no friends.

If these people are silent, they will gradually become the target of bullying, not only will they be subjected to cold violence, but they will also be beaten, mischievous, and even have to hide in the toilet for lunch, because they will be bullied when they go out.

They have no way to resist, and those who commit atrocities are not afraid of reprimands from teachers and student councils, and in reality, Japanese high schools have student autonomy and teachers have limited control over things.

Their only recourse is to pay "protection money" to the delinquent juvenile in exchange for a temporary peace.

Ironic, right?

These abusers are not afraid of teachers, they are not afraid of people's words, they are not afraid of the resistance of the victims, but they are only afraid of those who are more pure violence than them - bad fists do not recognize people!

This kind of bad protection money is also an unspoken rule of the campus, which is unreasonable, but reasonable.

Once this rule is gone, then those who are bullied will really have no way back.

"That's right..."

Uesugi Kiyoshi nodded thoughtfully.