Despite all of them being classmates, the one who could accurately remember her name turned out to be Tenya, who had just transferred.
"Who cares about you!"
"Why are you speaking up for Takanashi?"
"Could it be that you're also a chuunibyou?"
Jumping to conclusions right away, this was a common tactic of the Minami clique.
"Whether I'm a chuunibyou or not..."
"...seems irrelevant to you bullying Takanashi-san, right?"
Megumi didn't fall into their question trap.
She went straight to the point, exposing the fact of their bullying.
"You, you're talking nonsense!"
"When did we bully Takanashi?"
"Exactly, who saw it?"
The Minami clique flatly denied it and then swept their warning gaze around the room.
Most people, under pressure, didn't dare to respond directly.
"Um, Sagami, you guys are going too far..."
To everyone's surprise, Yui, who was usually timid and afraid of trouble, actually spoke up at this moment.
"Yui, do you dare to say that again?"
Minami was startled at first, then glared at her with a face full of anger.
In her eyes, Yui was just a yes-girl, someone who only echoed others and catered to the atmosphere, an easy target to bully.
For her to dare to contradict her, someone from the "upper class," this was simply an act of rebellion.
"Sagami! What are you shouting at my Yui for?"
Yumiko was indifferent to strangers, but she was very protective of her own people.
"Miura, you!"
Minami's face sank.
"You what you!"
Yumiko put her hands on her hips, raised her eyebrows, and glared angrily at the other party.
"Everyone, calm down first!"
"Is there anything that can't be settled by sitting down and talking properly?"
Seeing signs of the situation escalating, Hayato, as the class representative, couldn't help but speak up to mediate.
Hearing this, Yumiko and Minami, who were in a standoff, gradually reined in their anger.
"As expected of Hayato!"
Everyone praised Hayato's efforts to mediate.
"But..."
Megumi's brow furrowed slightly.
It was clearly Minami's clique bullying Rikka, yet Hayato insisted on both sides calming down. Megumi really couldn't agree with this method of mediation.
Just when the tense atmosphere in the class was about to be "peacefully resolved" by Hayato, something unexpected happened again.
"Yo! I heard you guys arguing from a distance."
"Did something interesting happen?"
Tenya walked into the classroom.
Although his voice carried no emotion, everyone could hear a hint of coldness in it.
"Tenya!"
Rikka's eyes lit up, as if she had found her backbone.
"Rikka, are you okay?"
Tenya gave her a reassuring look.
"We didn't bully Takanashi-san..."
Among Minami's clique, a girl couldn't wait to defend herself.
You idiot!
Isn't that just admitting guilt?
Minami cursed her teammate under her breath, then quickly forced a smile and tried to explain.
"Yoshida-san, actually, we were just joking with Takanashi..."
"Slap yourself!"
Tenya didn't listen to her excuses at all and gave her a cold look.
"Huh?"
"Yoshida-san... you, you're joking, right?"
"Ah ha ha ha ha..."
Minami's face stiffened, and she let out an awkward laugh.
"Are you going to slap yourself, or should I do it?"
Tenya's eyes were still cold, with no room for negotiation.
"Yoshida! Don't go too far..."
Hayato's brow furrowed. As the class's nice guy, he opposed anything that disrupted the class's order.
"Hayato is right!"
"Yoshida-san, your approach is too extreme!" Tobe spoke up in agreement.
"Shut up! Put away your hypocritical faces!"
"When Rikka was being bullied, why didn't I see you come out to stop the bullies?"
"By what right do you force the victim to reconcile?"
Tenya didn't hold back and angrily retorted against Hayato and the others.
"I..."
Hayato was speechless for a moment.
"Hey! By what right do you talk about Hayato like that..."
Yumiko immediately stepped forward to support her friend.
"You shut up too, you brainless simp!" Tenya continued to spray.
"You...!"
Yumiko instantly turned red-hot, yet she couldn't retort, which was very frustrating.
So, so cool!
Not having to cater to anyone, expressing one's emotions as one pleases.
Yui's eyes lit up, then she quickly lowered her head, afraid of being discovered.
Tenya's outburst against the top cliques in the class shocked everyone.
However, the bigger shock was yet to come...
"Slap!"
Everyone only heard a loud slap!
"Ah?!"
Minami was spun around by the slap!
Finally, she landed on the ground, and half of her face visibly became red and swollen at a speed visible to the naked eye.
But compared to the physical pain, being slapped in front of everyone caused Minami severe psychological trauma.
She was like a broken person, slumped on the ground without saying a word.
He did it just like that!
Without any hesitation!
Tenya waved his hand with a look of disgust, looking like he felt his hand was dirty from hitting her.
"Yoshida Tenya!!!"
Hayato couldn't take it anymore.
He rushed forward, grabbing Tenya's collar tightly with both hands, trying to lift him up.
He found that Tenya was as steady as a mountain and couldn't be pulled, which was very awkward.
"Why did you do this?"
"There was clearly a better solution..."
Hayato questioned loudly.
In his opinion, boys should never lay a hand on girls, no matter what.
As for girls hitting girls, that was not a problem he could consider.
"Whether there's a better solution or not, let's not talk about that for now."
"But I prefer to be direct, just do it and it's over!"
"Just like this..."
Tenya easily pried open Hayato's hands and, while he was at it, pinned the latter's arm in an anti-joint lock on the ground.
"You!!!"
Hayato struggled desperately, his arm muscles bulging.
After all, he was the ace of the soccer club, so Hayato's physical fitness was still very great.
But it was useless...
Tenya's seemingly not-so-thick wrist, however, seemed to possess the strength of ten thousand pounds, suppressing Hayato completely.
"See..."
"Violence may not necessarily solve problems, but it can definitely solve the people who create problems."
Seeing Hayato, the leader of the F Class's popular kids, being pressed and rubbed on the ground by Tenya, everyone was stunned.