Chapter 149 Harassment That Can't Be Understood

Day 11 of the road survival game!

"Heh..." Upon hearing this, Matsuda gave him a "heh heh" expression and then sharply and sarcastically remarked, "No matter how many advantages you have, being unserious is terrible for women, tsk tsk... Just wait! Be careful that one day your unserious personality will get you into trouble."

"How could that be! I'm a super proper person." Hagiwara declared confidently, then added with amusement, "By the way, Jinpei, look at these students in uniforms, they should be our juniors, right?"

Haha... I never thought we'd be seniors one day. It reminds me of those club activities where upperclassmen would always say things like, "Because I'm your senior, I can do this and that for you."

At the time, I found it ridiculous that Japan, even in schools, liked to rank students by seniority. Did being a few years older make you so special? Now that I'm the senior, it feels a little strange!

Hagiwara recalled how, during his high school years, he was constantly bothered by senior members of his club who used their seniority to their advantage, especially since the seniors were popular and female classmates often confessed their feelings to him or used him as an excuse to reject other boys' confessions.

He was often targeted because of this, but he skillfully and quickly resolved the situation with his excellent social skills, without causing any unpleasantness with anyone. However, he still couldn't stand the kind of behavior that seniors could take for granted.

As his childhood friend, Matsuda naturally knew that Hagi had been laughing and joking on the surface, but was actually quite resentful inside. Hearing him mention it, he couldn't help but laugh: "If Nakata-senpai knew that you were just laughing and joking with him on the surface, but then you tricked him back, he would probably regret messing with you..."

"Huh? Am I that petty?" Hagiwara said innocently, "I just happened to accidentally let Nakata-senpai's girlfriends know about each other!"

"Tch! Your innocent face doesn't work on me."

The two chatted and laughed as they passed by the middle school girl who was eating with a satisfied expression, neither of them really paying attention to the other...

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Two days later, the two decided to take advantage of the cooler weather to go to the park to play baseball and catch. When they passed by this street again, it was already past 5 p.m., unlike the last time they returned from the store.

Summer days are long and nights are short. Even at 5 p.m., it's still as bright as noon, just not as hot. The two chatted idly while tossing their baseballs around.

Just then, they heard some unpleasant noises coming from the alleyway in front of the street: "Wow! Why is this cucumber broken? The thorns are gone too, did you use it?"

"Growing this tall while still in middle school, do you think you'll never get married and are just going to stay single?"

"Tsk tsk! You're burning up!"

"No man wants a woman this fat, but these two plump balls are quite alluring! Hehe!"

"Ha ha……"

Hagiwara and Matsuda knew that there was a serious problem of school bullying in Japan from elementary school to university graduation. Hearing such offensive words, especially since they were locals, made them even more upset.

I know that the alley in front of this street is often frequented by some shady characters, neither truly innocent nor truly corrupt, and some bad students who didn't study hard in junior or senior high school, who do shady things there.

They also frequently extort money from passersby, and even drag people into robberies. From their conversation, which mentioned middle school and used profanity, I immediately realized that a female middle school student was being sexually harassed inside.

They exchanged a glance, then took long strides and ran quickly towards the alley ahead to stop the people inside from being bullied...

Sure enough, when they ran over, they saw the chubby middle school girl they had seen eating on the street a couple of days ago, who looked quite cute and had a particularly delicious appetite. She was frowning at the few people surrounding her, her naturally drawn, untrimmed eyebrows.

The jackets those people were wearing, draped askew, were from the same school as the school uniform she was wearing that day. However, judging from the style, they were probably high school uniforms, and their figures and appearances suggested they were around seventeen or eighteen years old.

Several shopping bags were scattered at their feet, the labels on them indicating the name of the nearby convenience store. At that moment, one of the boys, with a buzz cut, was waving a cucumber that was clearly broken in half at the female middle school student while saying some inappropriate things.

Given such an obvious situation, even if they hadn't studied reasoning or crime scene investigation, they could still make a rough deduction, let alone the fact that they had already learned these related skills in order to apply for police academy.

It was obvious that it was evening when the female junior high school student came to the convenience store to buy groceries for dinner. She was targeted by a group of bad students from the same school but a different grade. The girl was tall, a bit chubby, and well-developed.

She's another type of bullying target that's easy to spot in Japanese schools. I guess she was targeted while she was still in school. After figuring out her routines, they deliberately looked for opportunities to bully her. Luckily, her hair and clothes were all neat, so it's probably just the beginning of the harassment...

Having deduced what had happened, the two men strode towards the group, shouting at them, "Hey! Do you little brats want to spend a few years in juvenile detention?"

"I can take you there for free, and I'll ask the prison doctor there to fix your teeth while I'm at it." Hagiwara said as he tossed the baseball he was casually tossing at the wall next to them.

The ball grazed the face of the high school boy with the buzz cut who was carrying the cucumber, smashed into the wall beside his head, not only denting the wall but also 'coincidentally' grazing another person's neck before hitting the opposite wall and finally falling to the ground.

The two boys were startled, especially as they walked over and saw their sharp and handsome features, as well as their height, which is extremely rare in Japan, at least 1.8 meters tall.

Especially the man who was slightly less handsome than the other one, whose casually tossed baseball almost hit them on the head, looked almost 1.9 meters tall, which gave them, who were not even 1.6 meters tall in high school, a great sense of pressure.

The group, blustering but trembling, yelled at the two men, "Huh? You want to meddle in other people's business?"

"You want to be beaten? I'll grant your wish immediately."

"Hehe... I hate guys like you who are handsome and look like top students the most."

"Get lost! If you dare meddle, we'll beat you so badly you'll be crawling on the ground looking for us!"

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"Tsk! Looks like I need to stretch my muscles today." Hearing that some guys had been witnessed committing a heinous act, they not only didn't run away, but dared to turn around and curse, and one of them even pulled out a folding fruit knife.

As Matsuda thought about how kids these days were becoming more and more unruly, even daring to carry knives and trying to bully girls, he felt he needed to teach them a lesson. He stretched his arms and then, without hesitation, raised his fist and charged forward.

My friend was facing four or five people, one of whom was carrying a fruit knife. Although the knife was a folding type, about the size of a palm, and didn't look very sharp, it would definitely be dangerous to use it in a fight.

Hagiwara, instead of helping, went over to the high school girl who had been frowning and now looked worried, and gently comforted her: "Are you alright? There are often some shady guys on this road, so don't walk here anymore!"

"...Aren't you going to help your friend?" Almost in unison, as he began to comfort her, the chubby middle school girl also said to him in Chinese.

After all, they were top students from a prestigious university, and Chinese is widely used in Japan, so they couldn't avoid learning Chinese in university. Plus, after they got into university, they saw a wide world outside their hometown.

Based on the national conditions and systems of various countries, as well as the situation of my own country, I have long believed that China will become a powerful nation that will influence the future of the world. It can be said that China has a future that is more promising than any other country in the world.

Therefore, they had put a lot of effort into Chinese characters and language during their university years. Even though they still couldn't speak Chinese well, they could understand it. Now, they heard her speaking to them in Chinese, but she didn't respond to their previous words.

Judging from her somewhat bewildered and uneasy expression, Hagiwara knew that the girl probably couldn't understand Japanese. He also recalled what his sister had told him a few days ago about how international schools had opened up their quotas for international students in order to maintain operating costs.

He immediately realized that she was likely an international student from China, which made him somewhat relieved. Fortunately, she couldn't understand Japanese, so this little international friend didn't understand the offensive things those nasty guys were saying.

While feeling relieved, he replied in broken, strangely pronounced Chinese, "It's alright, there are only a few people, Xiaozhenping can handle it by himself."

Moreover, given Xiaozhenping's fiery temper and sharp tongue, since those guys dared to curse them and say things like "crawl all over the ground," Xiaozhenping would definitely make them crawl all over the ground for a while to vent his anger.

"Huh! You can speak Chinese?" Hearing his broken Chinese, the girl seemed quite excited, looking at him expectantly and asking, "Do you know what those guys were saying to me just now? Why did they throw the groceries I bought on the ground?"

Why did they take the cucumbers I bought, break them in half, and then not eat them? Will they compensate me for the cost of the vegetables? Vegetables and fruits are so expensive here in Japan! Uh… by the way, why did they start fighting?

"..." Hearing the girl's series of questions, Hagiwara fell into a subtle silence. Even if he didn't understand what she was saying, he should have been able to tell that those guys had ill intentions, right? Why didn't this girl think that way at all?

He was still confused by those guys' behavior and was trying to get them to compensate him for the shopping losses. He couldn't quite understand the girl's thought process. Was she too naive, so naive that she couldn't even sense other people's ill intentions?

Or is the social order in China really as good as those Chinese students I met at university described? Students with poor grades in school would encounter passive-aggressive behavior from other high-achieving students, teacher favoritism, bullies picking fights, and so on.

Yet, incidents of male students bullying or harassing female students are so rare? Could this mean the Chinese female student was completely unaware she was being sexually harassed? If that's the case, then the environment and public safety in Chinese schools are simply too good!