Chapter 157 Fireworks

Day 11 of the road survival game!

It turned out that during a sports activity, Xiao Zhenping was assigned to team up with a female classmate to complete a three-legged race. The female classmate was usually very popular, gentle and kind, helpful, and the center of attention for the girls in the class.

He actually started bullying the girl who teamed up with Xiaozhenping behind her back. It wasn't until he accompanied Xiaozhenping and the others to practice that he noticed she was acting strangely during her activities and guessed that she was injured that he found out she was being bullied over such a small thing.

I reported it to the teacher at the time, but unfortunately, everyone in Japan prefers to stay out of trouble. Since the law doesn't punish minors, the teachers did nothing, just gave them a warning and that was it. There wasn't even a school demerit or disciplinary record...

Back then, he was only in elementary school, and the way kids bullied others was simple and brutal. But when he got to junior high, he really opened his eyes and couldn't help but wonder why he had such a good brain and was always thinking about bullying others.

To put it simply, shortly after the start of junior high school, a female classmate, A, liked Kojinpei, but she didn't confess to him. She maintained her gentle and demure personality and remained a good classmate to Kojinpei.

At the same time, she became good friends and besties with B, a female classmate who was not good at hiding her feelings, clearly had a crush on Xiaozhenping, and was somewhat timid and indecisive. She also maintained 'good buddy' relationships with several bad boys in the school.

Then, a few weeks later, she secretly encouraged female classmate B to confess her feelings to Kojinpei. After Kojinpei rejected her, the news of female classmate B's confession to Kojinpei became common knowledge.

Her unrequited love diary entries and love letters to Xiaozhenping were all posted on the school's bulletin board. She was also bullied by the bad boys who were friends with A, because one of them was a member of the boxing club that Xiaozhenping had joined.

In addition, besides the two of them, only classmate A knew about her confession to Xiao Zhenping. After she was rejected, classmate A continued to comfort her gently and refuted other classmates when they mocked her because of the diaries and love letters on the bulletin board.

When the bad boys bullied classmate B, he protected her behind his back and confronted the boys who were taller than her. As a result, classmate B never suspected classmate A and thought that Xiao Zhenping had rejected her and deliberately spread those things to mock her. She was so sad that she hid at home and dared not go out.

Female classmate A, acting as if she was standing up for her best friend and wanted to get revenge for her, would visit Xiao Zhenping every day, seemingly wanting to see if she could help female classmate B convey her feelings and reunite the two of them.

Each time, he would ask Xiaozhenping to meet him alone, using excuses such as B being hiding at home, refusing to go to school, and refusing to leave home, and as a classmate, he should help her...

Then when they met, they were all dressed up carefully, and the meeting place was one of those places that students in love like to go to...

This combination of moves would probably leave an average junior high school boy completely bewildered, unknowingly falling into the other person's spell, and staging a scenario where he didn't fancy the other person's friend but instead fell for her and successfully won her over.

Unfortunately, despite her well-thought-out plan, Xiaozhenping had no idea that she had a psychological aversion to women who were gentle, considerate, and seemingly perfect. Whenever she encountered a girl with this kind of personality, she would subconsciously observe her.

After uncovering the true personality beneath the flaws in the other person's character, Xiao Zhenping will only treat those he feels he can get along with as friends. The more perfect and flawless female classmate A appears, the more subconsciously Xiao Zhenping will distance himself from her.

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When B's incident came to light, Kojinpei guessed what had happened, but he had no evidence. It took him many days to gather evidence that could convince B to distance herself from someone...

Looking back, when I first heard Kojinpei's reasoning, I laughed at him for having a paranoia about being hurt by gentle women. He was only in junior high school, how could he come up with such a meticulous plan to trick, harm, and pursue people?

If you really like someone, why not just confess? Even if you fail, you can still try to win them back with persistent pursuit! I never expected that what I found out later would be such a slap in the face.

This made him realize once again that women are not just cute and innocent, but actually very capable. It's just that she didn't use her brilliant mind in the right way. If only she had focused that brilliant mind on studying...

Upon hearing Feng Xingshou's words, Hagiwara subconsciously recalled the two things that had left a deep impression on him, thinking that this girl seemed to be somewhat similar to those two, but her level was far inferior to that of their junior high school classmate.

But Feng Jiang is naive and seems to have no experience in this area, so I'll still give her some advice to prevent her from being bullied by someone as cunning and malicious as Yu Ling Sang.

Thinking this through, he said quite naturally, "Feng-chan, you should be more careful about that female classmate in the future! This kind of misleading translation doesn't seem like a joke between ordinary classmates; it feels like it's carrying a lot of malice towards you."

He actually felt that the other party was subtly humiliating Fuu-chan. After all, if "Onii-chan" was a line used only in age-restricted videos, then Fuu-chan using such a "line" would be implying that she was...

"Yes, yes! I won't associate with people who are so cunning and malicious." Hearing that not only Matsuda said this, but Hagiwara also spoke so directly, Kazesei-no-Kami, who knew his own limitations, quickly agreed.

After all, this was my older brother's advice: knowing you're a fool, stay away from shrewd people, especially those who like to play mind games, lest you get sold out and still be helping them count the money...

Seeing that she agreed, Hagiwara and Matsuda both breathed a sigh of relief. However, Hagiwara still gave her some advice with some unease: "Even if you don't deal with them anymore, you still have to be careful. These people in school can evade many laws because they are minors, and some of them act recklessly."

"Okay, I know!" I was so worried and kept asking me to be so reassured... o(╥﹏╥)o Did I give them the impression that I'm unreliable? I've really embarrassed myself!

After explaining it all, it didn't feel much better than yelling at them with lines from those adult films! Could someone so humiliated really be friends with them? Feng Xing Shou was practically crying inside!

Suddenly, a whooshing sound was heard, and then the entire sky exploded instantly. A brilliant firework flashed in the sky for a second or two before disappearing in an instant, leaving only some smoke and clouds in the sky.

Just as Feng Xingshou was feeling a little regretful that the fleeting fireworks had disappeared, a new one shot into the sky, even more beautiful and brilliant than the last one...

"The fireworks festival is starting so early this year?" Matsuda asked, somewhat surprised.

"Who cares if it's early or not! Since they've started showing it, let's hurry up and find a good spot to watch." Hagiwara waved the banana chocolate he'd half-eaten in one hand: "Kaze-chan, let me tell you something."

At the end of the temple fair, there's a shrine uphill. The torii gate next to the shrine is the best spot to watch the fireworks display during the annual fair. Let's hurry up before there aren't any spots left.

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"..." Feng Xingshou looked at Hagiwara with some surprise. As she spoke, she actually grabbed her wrist through the sleeve of her clothes with her other hand and pulled her to walk quickly to the other side of the temple fair.

Matsuda followed behind at a leisurely pace, thinking to himself, "It's through my sleeve, and I'm only holding your wrist. This shouldn't count as me being held, right?" No, stop thinking like that. Why do I always overthink things when it comes to Hagiwara-san?

Perhaps it was this thought that caused a reverse psychological effect, making her subconsciously shake the hand that Hagiwara was holding and say to him, "Hagiwara-san, I can walk by myself, I won't get lost."

"Hagiwara!" Hearing her say that, Hagiwara didn't let go of her hand. Instead, he turned around, winked at her playfully, and said that.

Ling Fengxing looked over in confusion and asked in a puzzled voice, "Huh?"

"Hagi means you don't need to use honorifics when addressing us anymore. You can just call him Hagiwara from now on." Matsuda, who was following behind the two of them at a leisurely pace, translated his childhood friend's words and then added, "Also, you can just call me Matsuda from now on. No need for honorifics."

Matsuda disliked using honorifics when addressing others, and he wouldn't allow others to use honorifics when addressing him. Therefore, he was more comfortable with the method of addressing each other by their surnames.

"Then if we call each other that, we should be considered friends, right?" Hearing them say that, Feng Xingshou, who had always wanted to become friends with them, had her eyes light up. After mistakenly thinking that she had embarrassed herself, she had recently brushed up on a lot of Japanese common sense.

Knowing that in Japan, it's acceptable to address someone by their surname directly without using honorifics, either because someone is a bully or a friend would address them that way, I knew I couldn't bully either of them, nor would I.

So they must mean they want to be friends with her if they ask her to call them that! With that in mind, she quickly pulled out her phone from her pocket and waved it at the two of them: "Let's exchange phone numbers! We can keep in touch."

"No problem." Hagiwara readily agreed, and then teased her with a mischievous grin, "I can also help you with your studies while I'm at it."

"Uh... let's skip this!" She didn't want any more people in the world to know just how terrible her academic performance was. -_-||

Matsuda followed behind the two, glancing thoughtfully at the nearly finished chocolate banana in Hagiwara's hand. Despite Hagiwara's easygoing nature, she still maintained the Japanese habit of keeping social distance from others.

He would eat his family's food and his own food, or share the same food with his family and himself, in a way that avoids waste, but he would never do so with anyone other than his family and himself, especially girls.

If I remember correctly, this should be his first time, right? Tsk tsk! He's definitely quite proactive with the junior schoolgirls, and he always seems to unconsciously get close to them. Could it be that he's really met someone he clicks with? But he doesn't seem to realize it himself.

Hmm! Let's see? Maybe we just get along well and I want to be friends? If I actually have feelings for her but haven't realized it, hehe (*^▽^*) , then I'll definitely record this embarrassing moment and use it to tease him later…