Chapter 29 Part 4: Commission – Violence

“School uniforms are really uncomfortable. Don’t you think?”

“Haha, I’m being ignored.”

Should I have given her a heads-up?

Seeing her looking as if she had received such a big shock that she couldn’t hear me, I smiled slightly.

I wonder how shocked she is.

[Ella-ssi is too nonchalant.]

“Is that so?”

[Of course. Even if other people don’t, that child must be thinking that Ella-ssi isn’t a student. And that’s the correct answer.]

In Haran’s voice coming from the earphones I had plugged into my ears, along with scolding me, sympathy for Eun-ji yang was conveyed.

[Honestly, she must be really scared, right? If I were in that situation, I’m confident I’d faint.]

…Is it that much?”

[It means that you broke through the security of the Association and the Academy and manipulated something to be standing here. And that’s in less than half a day. It’s not like some movie, there’s no way that’s easy.]

No, it was super easy? The security was super lax?

Such excuses rose to the tip of my throat, but I didn’t say them and swallowed them.

Even if I spit out that story, Haran would say such things again.

That’s because Ella-ssi is~ That’s because you are~ or something like that.

Haran seemed to have become somewhat accustomed to the actions I was committing, but even so, when something that deviated from common sense happened, she would sigh.

There’s no need to tell it as if I’m bragging.

“Hey, transfer student.”

“Huh?”

“Don’t touch that kid.”

Leaving her still in confusion, not even talking to me, I was chatting with Haran.

Students with complicated expressions came to me as if they were doing me a favor and spoke to me.

They seemed to have mistaken my conversation with Haran for a conversation with Eun-ji yang.

“Why? I liked this friend. Can’t I get close to her?”

“No.”

“Why?”

“That woman is not good to touch. So, it’s better not to even think about getting close to her. Got it? We explained it.”

Ha, a warning, from who to who?

I suppressed the laughter that was about to burst out. If I laughed here, the atmosphere would become quite strange.

Various emotions could be seen in these guys’ eyes.

A sense of relief that they didn’t end up like that, a sense of mission to tell me that it’s dangerous to approach that woman, and a sense of superiority that they know more than I do.

And, various other emotions were mixed in.

I smiled at them and shook my head.

“Thanks, but I’ll decline. I want to make my own friends.”

“…Do as you please. We warned you. We don’t know what will happen to you.”

“Yeah. Thanks.”

Those guys weren’t the students who led the violence.

Judging from the fact that they were extremely reluctant to get involved with her, they were just normal students.

In a way, it was a very rational choice. If they helped Eun-ji yang with their flimsy sense of justice, they didn’t know what kind of retaliation would be inflicted.

I don’t know if Eun-ji yang would think so too.

“How…”

“Huh? Did you come to your senses?”

“H, how did you come here?”

“I came by hacking. Geez, it was really hard to come up with a name. How is it? It’s a pseudonym, but isn’t it good?”

[Hard? You looked at a book and said this would be good. In the first place, what’s a girl’s name Damian, Damian. That’s something you should give to a guy…]

I let Haran’s nagging that slandered my naming sense flow out of one ear.

What’s wrong with Damian? It’s a cool name.

I felt sorry for Haran, who couldn’t think anything about this cool name.

“Don’t you know that all of those are sexist remarks? I can’t help it, I have to educate you on people’s sexuality…”

[I don’t need it.]

“Yeah, I was joking too.”

“…Um, who have you been talking to since earlier?”

“Do you remember the older sister who was behind me when I met you last time? It’s that person. I have a way to talk to her.”

“Ah… I see….”

Huh? She understands more easily than I thought? I thought I would have to explain it one more time.

Is her brain turning faster than I thought?

Thinking that, I looked at Eun-ji yang, and I realized why she believed my words so easily.

It’s not that she understood, it’s that she gave up on understanding.

She seemed to have become enlightened because something that far exceeded her common sense had happened.

Well, from her point of view, I would be an incomprehensible being.

Because I’m standing in this place after deceiving the Academy and the Association.

“Um, if you’re going to kill me, at least make it painless…”

“Huh? Why would I kill you?”

“…Yes?”

“Rather, I’d like to ask, why do you think I’m trying to kill you?”

“Th, that’s….”

“I came to help you, to help you.”

Looking at her looking at me with her eyes wide open as if she hadn’t expected my words, I sighed.

This is serious.

I don’t know if it’s because her self-esteem has fallen through the floor, but her paranoia was quite serious.

If Eun-ji yang’s uncle hadn’t found out that there was a problem, something would have happened.

“Help me, how?”

“Hmm, well.”

[Well my foot…. Didn’t you think of anything?]

“So?”

[otot….]

Seeing signs that Haran was about to sigh and start nagging me, I hurriedly started to make excuses.

“No, think about it. I still don’t know what Eun-ji yang wants. It’s not too late to do it after I know.”

[…When I hear that, it makes sense. Well, Ella-ssi has always been like that.]

“What, you’re talking as if you’re already used to it?”

[It’s already the fourth time. It’s about time I got used to it.]

“Is that so?”

Already the fourth time?

When I thought about it carefully at Haran’s words, it was really the fourth time.

Alaune, Eun-ji yang’s uncle, the young teacher, and Eun-ji.

Has time already passed like that?

“Eun-ji yang. Don’t you want to resolve this situation now?”

“Ye, yes?”

“How hard it must have been? The people who bully you are powerful, so there was no one to help you.”

The reason why the classmates shun Eun-ji yang so much was simple.

Because they don’t know what will happen if they try to protect her. That was all.

According to what I heard yesterday, the parents of the people who bully Eun-ji yang are high-ranking people.

Association executives, judges, famous guild leaders, etc.

Even if she struggles, they are beings who can literally suppress her.

How many people can resist the children who act like rascals with that wealth and power on their backs?

I had such education when I was young.

It’s wrong to be a bystander. Tell the perpetrator to stop right away, or actively help the victim.

It was a story before I went to Neo City, so even I, whose moral values hadn’t been greatly damaged yet, ridiculed that education.

What kind of crazy person would do that?

Of course, if a bystander helps and rescues the victim or the perpetrator stops the violence, everyone will be happy.

The bystander doesn’t have to see the uncomfortable sight, the victim doesn’t have to be exposed to violence, and the perpetrator doesn’t have to receive sanctions that may be imposed later.

But, that’s the story if all situations are resolved happily.

What if something goes wrong even a little and the perpetrator doesn’t break his mind to commit violence?

What else can happen.

The person who tried to help the victim will also become a victim.

So I don’t think the bystanders are wrong.

But Eun-ji yang may think differently.

That’s why I wanted to ask Eun-ji yang what she thought.

“But I’m different. I, no. We can help you.”

“Re, really…?”

“Of course. Why else would your uncle send you there?”

Whether she’s finally starting to have the mind to believe, hope began to form in Eun-ji yang’s eyes looking at me.

The fact that I deceived the Academy and the Association and blatantly used a pseudonym and infiltrated here as a transfer student seemed to give her faith.

I don’t know how she did it, but it might really be possible. She might be able to get me out of this hell.

Such thoughts began to linger in her head….

And I didn’t miss that opportunity.

“Don’t you want to take revenge on them?”

I whispered.

Like a snake offering the fruit of good and evil to Eve.

In a subtle voice, in Eun-ji yang’s ear.

“Revenge…”

“Yeah, revenge. Revenge against those who bullied you and ruined your life.”

Eun-ji yang was conflicted.

Hearing that sweet word, revenge, it was obvious that her heart was greatly moved.

But, even so, her heart still hadn’t moved.

It’s probably because she’s still bound by moral standards.

That’s why, I said, intertwining my hand with hers.

“Don’t worry too much, Eun-ji yang. No one will know that you wanted it. There’s no need to be bound by moral standards. In the first place, didn’t they break the law first? I’m just passing judgment.”

“Judgment…?”

“Yeah. It’s not you who’s doing it. You’re just a bird that hasn’t broken out of its shell.”

“Bird….”

“Yeah, bird.”

I recited an impressive sentence I saw in a book I read for fun.

So that she can gain courage.

“The bird has to destroy the shell to get out of the egg. …They are the same. They are like shells.”

“B, but…. I…. Ca, can’t do it.”

“Don’t worry too much. It’s not like the bird has to destroy the shell.”

Sometimes, there are such chicks.

Chicks that can’t break the hard shell and die from exhaustion.

In that case, people artificially break the shell.

So that they can survive.

“I’ll destroy the shell for you. You just have to say what you want.”

[You’re like a real devil, Ella-ssi….]

A devil, that’s harsh.

I wish you would call me a savior.

At least the clients will think so.