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Upon hearing this, Shoko nodded again, feeling a deep sense of grievance welling up inside her once more.

Before she could even start to have any wild thoughts, Kitagawa Yu suddenly put on a serious face and said to her very earnestly, "Do you know how terribly wrong you are?!"

"Eh?"

Shoko made a sound unconsciously. She had thought that Kitagawa Yu, who was always the gentlest to her, would comfort her, but she did not expect Kitagawa Yu to 'blame' her.

Coming to her senses, Shoko felt even more aggrieved, and her eyes welled up with tears again.

On the other side, Kitagawa Yu looked at Shoko, who was still choosing to silently endure, and sighed helplessly.

After thinking for a moment, he first reached into his pocket, took out his phone, opened the browser, and searched for a while before holding the phone out to Shoko.

"Shoko should know this person, right?"

Shoko looked up at the screen and then nodded slightly.

On the screen is a vibrant teenage idol singing and dancing on stage. Her group is not only currently the most popular in Japan, but has also produced many tokusatsu films for children. Shoko especially likes her.

"As the most popular idol in the country, she must have countless fans and countless people who would like to be her friends, right?"

Shoko nodded again upon hearing this, but a hint of doubt appeared in her eyes.

At this moment, Kitagawa Yu tapped the comment section below the video with his finger, browsed through it briefly, and then put it back in front of Shoko.

Shoko glanced at it, and then couldn't help but frown.

The comments on the screen were not support and praise for that popular idol, but rather extremely malicious slander and abuse. Moreover, there were many such comments, accounting for at least a quarter of the total number of comments in the comment section.

"Did you see that?" Kitagawa Yu kept dragging the screen.

"Even if she is the most popular idol in the country, there will still be so many people who dislike her, slander her, and hurl insults at her. There must be at least tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people who dislike her, right?"

"Compared to what she suffered, how severe was the isolation and ridicule you endured? How much did it amount to?"

"No!"

"You're only being bullied by seven or eight people in your class, which is nothing compared to her tens or hundreds of thousands of haters!"

“Those crazy haters even send her razor blades, throw rotten eggs, send threatening letters, and some even want to kill her!”

"Despite so much malice and pressure, she can still live and perform happily, and her smile is still so bright."

"But what about you? Just because of this little bit of grievance, you sneaked out alone so late at night. Do you think that's a good thing?"

"I'm sorry, I was wrong," Shoko finally said.

However, Kitagawa Yu didn't just want her to admit her mistake.

Putting away his phone, Kitagawa Yu grabbed Shoko's shoulder, applying slight pressure, and continued earnestly, "And Shoko, you should understand one thing: it's impossible for someone to be liked by everyone, nor can they be friends with everyone."

"Look at your idol, she works so hard and does so well, but she still can't be friends with hundreds of thousands of people. Why are you so insistent on being friends with everyone in your class?"

"You don't need many true friends, just a few are enough. Like me, I'm already a second-year high school student, and I only have you, Chizuka-neechan and Ayumi-neechan, as my friends."

“Your sister Ayumi seems to be very popular at school, but besides me and your sister Ayako, there are only two other people who can truly be considered good friends.”

"This kind of friendship can't be forced; it depends on fate."

“You now have me, Chizuka, Aya, Ayumi, and Anya. You now have five friends who are truly devoted to you. Isn’t that more than the friends of those bad kids who bully you?”

"Or do you think we're not as good as that classmate of yours, and you don't consider us friends?"

Shoko, who was still pondering Kitagawa Yu's words, shook her head vigorously upon hearing this and said anxiously, "Onii-chan, and Chitsuka-neechan, Ayako-neechan, Ayumi-neechan, and Anya are all Shoko's best, best friends!"

After a pause, Shoko continued, "Ishida and the others don't want to be friends with Shoko, and Shoko doesn't want to be friends with them anymore either!"

“That’s right,” Kitagawa Yu smiled and patted Shoko’s head, advising, “There’s nothing wrong with wanting to make friends with your classmates, and you can take the initiative to show them your goodwill. But if you don’t get a response, you don’t need to force it or force yourself to cater to them. That won’t make you true friends.”

"Most importantly, you need to learn to protect yourself and be brave, you know?"

"When they try to bully you, you should warn them not to do it, or you should tell your teacher or parents."

"If they are about to bully you, if you can fight back, you should muster up the courage to fight back. If you can't, you should run away quickly. Don't just stand there and be bullied. Don't be stupid and endure it silently without saying anything to anyone."

Shoko's eyes had widened without her realizing it, and she stared blankly at Kitagawa Yu.

No one had ever said these words to her before.

On the other side, Kitagawa Yu continued speaking, his voice becoming increasingly serious: "Shoko, remember this, swallowing your anger won't make these people stop. Look, you've endured it for a week, has their bullying of you lessened?"

"No! They're actually bullying you more and more!"

"Your tolerance will only embolden them and lead to more and more outrageous bullying!"

"You may think it's okay, but have you thought about how your family and friends would feel? They would feel sad and heartbroken if they saw you hurt and upset!"

Do you know how I met Yuzuru?

“It’s not just because of Anya, it’s because Yuzuru came to the shrine that day and begged me, even if it meant using up all the pocket money she had painstakingly saved, she wanted to pray to the gods for you, hoping that you wouldn’t be bullied and that you could be happy.”

"Have you thought about how upset she would be if she saw you like that?"

"Don't think you can hide it. The truth will always come out. If you don't want to hurt the people who love you, you have to learn to fight back bravely!"

As if something inside her had been shattered, Shoko pondered Kitagawa Yu's words while recalling past events.

Especially after each time she was bullied, the pained and worried looks in the eyes of her neglected grandmother and Yuzuru made her frail body tremble involuntarily.

Seeing this, Kitagawa Yu finally smiled with relief and asked softly, "You admire your Chizuka-neechan and Ayumi-neechan very much, right?"

Upon hearing this, Shoko nodded subconsciously: "Shoko admires Chizuka-neechan and Ayumi-neechan, and Shoko also wants to become a strong person like Chizuka-neechan and Ayumi-neechan."

Unable to find a better way to describe it, Shoko finally used the word 'powerful'.

This made Kitagawa Yu chuckle.

To some extent, Chizuka and Ayumi are indeed quite powerful.

"Do you know what happens when those two encounter people who want to bully them or speak ill of them?"

Shoko first shook her head, then looked curiously at Kitagawa Yu.

"While you don't necessarily have to follow their example, if they encountered this situation, they'd definitely give the other person a good beating!"

"Eh?"

"Even Ayako, who seems gentle and elegant, is a second-degree black belt in karate~"

Kitagawa Yu didn't actually know how Asuka Ayako would react in this situation, but that didn't stop him from subtly instructing Shoko.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Shoko's eyes widened, and a look of understanding appeared on her originally delicate face.

"I guess I've learned it, not failed. No, I've learned it, right?"

"Then it's time to make those bullies get the punishment they deserve!"

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Chapter 23 How can a god personally engage in battle?

School bullying has always been a very serious and serious social problem because it involves minors and students, so it has been a subject of ongoing debate.

While Kitagawa Yu wouldn't be so cruel as to kill these bullies outright, he wouldn't just resort to lecturing—a weak and ineffective method—to teach them a lesson.

"Let everyone in Shoko's class who bullied her, along with that irresponsible teacher, have nightmares about being bullied for a whole month!"

Let these guys experience being bullied, just like Ishida Shoya was treated in the original story. This is him giving them a taste of their own medicine.

Somewhat unexpectedly, the mental power of creating nightmares, which may not involve rewriting reality, consumed far less of his wish power than he had originally anticipated.

It was achieved with just a little bit of wish power.

"Hey, get out of the way! Don't block the way!"

The next morning, as Shoko pulled out her chair and was about to put down her schoolbag in the classroom, she was suddenly shoved roughly from behind. She almost fell over if she hadn't grabbed the table in time.

The person who pushed her was none other than Ishida Masaya, whose seat was next to hers.

Even now, Ishida Shoya hasn't been ostracized or bullied for breaking Glass's 170 million yen hearing aid; he's still the same bad boy and little tyrant in his class.

In addition, he had nightmares all night and was in a bad mood, so his face looked irritable, gloomy and frightening.

"sorry"

Shoko instinctively wanted to apologize.

But then she remembered what Kitagawa Yu had told her last night, and the determination she had made all night after going back home.

Finally, she raised her head, which she always kept down, and with trembling hands, she lifted her schoolbag. Then, amidst the bewildered gazes of Naoka Ueno, Tomohiro Nagatsuka, and the others around her, she unexpectedly slammed it forward with all her might.

There was a dull thud.

The schoolbag hit Ishida Shoya squarely in the face, who was completely unprepared.

Although the backpack itself wasn't very heavy, and the thin and weak Shoko wasn't very strong, the blow hit him squarely in the face, and since Ishida Shoya was completely unprepared, it still knocked him to the ground with a thud.

In an instant, the previously noisy classroom became so quiet you could hear a pin drop, and everyone looked in shock at Shoko.

At the same time, when Shoko looked at Ishida Shoya, who was sitting on the ground looking bewildered and with tears streaming down his face, all the tension and timidity in her heart quickly receded like a tide, and her previously flickering eyes became firm.

"You're not allowed to bully me anymore! Otherwise, I'll tell the teacher or call the police! And I'll tell my brother and sister too, and they'll come and beat you up!"

Shoko shouted at the top of her lungs.

This startled Ishida Shoya, who was just getting up, and Ueno Naoka, who was about to shove Shoya after seeing him being beaten.

These words were naturally given to Shoko by Kitagawa Yu.

Shoko practiced in her room all night long before finally achieving what Kitagawa Yu had asked for: speaking fluently and without hesitation or stutter.

For mischievous kids, being told off by the teacher or called the police isn't really that scary, but if it's a punishment like getting older students to beat them up, the threat level is much higher.

"We...we didn't bully you. You're the one who kept bothering us. We didn't want to talk to you at all," Naoka Ueno, who was usually bold and sarcastic, stammered.

Faced with Shoko's somewhat 'sharp' gaze, their eyes involuntarily darted away.

Now, let alone asking her to lay a hand on Shoko, she wouldn't even want to go and help Ishida Shoya up.

Just like when their hearing aids were destroyed, they shifted all the blame onto Ishida Shoya, making him take the fall alone.

Shoko's resistance made them feel ashamed, but they didn't dare to cause any more trouble for her, so they could only turn their anger and embarrassment towards Ishida Shoya, who had caused the incident.

Ishida Shoya also faced the fate of being isolated and bullied ahead of time.