Chapter 80 Interlude – The Memoirs Of A Certain Delinquent I
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
”Hey, you little brat! Are you looking down on me?!”
”Eeek!”
A well-built boy raised his large fist, and Haraguchi Kouki (Bullied kid who made his high school debut as a yankee in the first returner), a small boy, covered his head with both hands and let out a shriek.
The fist swung down with a loud “Bash!” and hit Haraguchi’s right palm, but the difference in physique was too great, and it didn’t stop there. The blow sent Haraguchi’s hands flying, and he fell on his butt, his face contorted in pain.
”Hey, Mitsuo. Let’s spare his face today. If the teacher sees us, we’ll be in big trouble again.”
Kurokawa Tetsuto (the former member party who died on the first dive), a boy with a delinquent vibe, called out to Takehata Mitsuo (the other former member party who died on the first dive), who had a stern expression after knocking Haraguchi down.
”Damn it! You coward!”
”Ugh…!”
Takehata kicked Haraguchi’s stomach, and Haraguchi curled up into a ball, clutching his abdomen.
Even though he was called a coward, Haraguchi had only told his teacher about the bullying he’d been suffering from for 3 years.
He’d been complaining about being beaten up and harassed every day, but nothing had changed. In fact, he was even told, “Maybe it’s because of your attitude?”
This time, he’d been robbed of his lunch money, and when he told the teacher about it, he was told to take it from his parents’ wallet. The teacher finally took action, but the result was this.
But getting beaten up was nothing new. Today was just a day when there was a clear reason for it.
”Alright, next time it’s one-on-one with me!”
Kurokawa grabbed Haraguchi’s hair, which was messed up like a turtle’s, and pulled him up after Takehata had kicked him around. It was clearly a one-sided act of violence, and Haraguchi had never retaliated before, but these guys always claimed it was a fair fight.
”Ugh!”
Haraguchi jumped back, his body flailing, and fell to his knees.
”Aww, man, you’re still too light, and I don’t feel a thing. This is so boring.”
Haraguchi thought, “Why bother with me, anyway?”
”You’re just a kid, so it can’t be helped. But this is no different from usual. You’re still not listening.”
”Hey, I’ve got a great idea. Mitsuo, hold this kid down.”
”Okay.”
Takehata kicked Haraguchi away, making him flip onto his back, and then carelessly stepped on his chest with his foot.
”Guh?”
Haraguchi’s lungs were compressed, making it hard to breathe. He tried to push Takehata’s foot away, but it wouldn’t budge.
”Good, good. Keep him down like that.”
Then Kurokawa started to undo Haraguchi’s belt.
”W-what are you doing?! Stop! Stop it!”
Haraguchi panicked and tried to cover himself, but Takehata pressed down on him with his foot, making it hard to breathe, and he couldn’t move his arms.
”Oh, you’re not going anywhere, kid.”
In that moment, Kurokawa yanked down Haraguchi’s pants, along with his underwear.
”Hehe! You’re fully exposed, fully exposed!”
”Hahaha, this is great!”
”Give it back! Give it back!”
Haraguchi’s face turned bright red with shame and humiliation.
He frantically tried to cover himself, but Kurokawa and the others held up his pants and laughed, keeping their distance.
”Hahaha, this is perfect!”
”You’re getting what you deserve for being so arrogant!”
”Damn it, give it back!”
Haraguchi realized his voice was shaking, and he couldn’t hold back his tears anymore. He felt miserable and pathetic, and he just wanted to disappear. He knew he couldn’t win against them, but he refused to give in and resisted with all his might. They even took his money, but he didn’t beg for mercy. The last bit of pride he had left was crushed into pieces.
”I’m not a demon, so I’ll deliver this to your seat for you.”
”Get it before the bell rings. You’ll learn your lesson and change your attitude then.”
Kurokawa and Takehata laughed as they walked away from the school building.
Haraguchi was on the verge of tears. The intense feeling of powerlessness filled him with anger, sadness, and despair. All the emotions he had been holding back until now were mixed together and overflowing as tears. He was barely holding back his screams, clinging to his last shred of dignity.
As some time passed, his head cleared up, and he started thinking about what to do next.
How is he supposed to get his pants back in this state?
Haraguchi’s classroom was 2 buildings away. Even after school, the athletic teams were still practicing on the field, and there were still students lingering around the school building. It seemed impossible to sneak back to his seat without being seen.
This is impossible.
He couldn’t avoid being seen in this embarrassing state by several people.
As he imagined the situation, he turned pale, and suddenly, he heard a “thud” behind him.
He flinched and turned around reflexively, and what he saw was unexpected.
”Huh?”
A stupid-sounding voice escaped his lips.
There, lying on the ground, was a pair of athletic pants.
The long pants with a light blue fabric and 2 white stripes on the sides were the same as Haraguchi’s, a third-year student. It was exactly what Haraguchi had been desperately wanting.
He reached out to grab them, and then Haraguchi looked around cautiously, making sure no one was there, before gazing up at the school building.
All the windows were closed, and there was no one on the rooftop.
If someone had been watching the whole time and decided to lend a helping hand, that would be okay. But what if it was Kurokawa who had thrown the pants?
The too-convenient development made him feel uneasy, wondering if it was a trap.
Even now, he has no one to rely on. He can’t exchange his body. Haraguchi stretched out his hand, trembling, towards the gym uniform that was spread out like a 2-fold screen.
He lightly unfolded it to check, but there was nothing suspicious. Haraguchi steeled himself and put his foot through.
The waist was tight, but the length was quite long, and the hem was folded back several times to just the right size.
”Is this… for girls?”
At this length, the narrowness of the waist was unnatural for a boy. It made him feel a little uneasy.
Haraguchi wiped away his tears with his arm, and while being conscious of the gaze of others, he ran towards the classroom in his unbalanced outfit.
* * *
”Haa…”
Haraguchi let out a deep sigh for the umpteenth time, and looked down from the rooftop at the school building behind. The place where he was just bullied was right below his eyes.
When he returned to the classroom, he found his pants and underwear scattered on top of his desk.
He couldn’t bring himself to go home, and with a gloomy mood, he somehow ended up back in this place.
Thinking about his life from tomorrow onwards made him feel down, and he couldn’t muster the energy to do anything.
Why did it end up like this? The trigger was just a small thing.
It was a day not long after the new school year started, and there was a physical education class. That day, it was pouring rain, so the boys’ and girls’ classes, which were usually held separately, were combined in the gymnasium.
The boys played basketball, and the girls played volleyball, divided into teams and playing short games in a place where they could see each other.
Kurokawa was popular among the girls because of his good athletic ability and handsome face, and every time he held the ball, he received loud cheers.
Haraguchi was on the team that played against Kurokawa’s team at that time.
Kurokawa received a pass, smiled confidently while basking in the cheers, and drove in with a dribble.
If one had some athletic ability, it wasn’t that hard to get past an opponent who wasn’t a basketball team member.
So, Kurokawa easily broke past one person and drove in towards Haraguchi.
But if one had some athletic ability, it wasn’t that hard to stop an opponent who wasn’t a basketball team member either.
Kurokawa didn’t know that Haraguchi, his new classmate, had considerable athletic ability.
He looked down on Haraguchi, who was short, as a weakling and tried to intimidate him by stopping in front of him and pretending to pass the ball, making a fake move to the side.
The girls cheered at Kurokawa’s smooth move.
But Haraguchi, who wasn’t fooled by Kurokawa’s body language and kept his eyes on the ball, quickly snatched it away and made a swift counterattack, carrying the ball all the way to the goal and scoring.
Kurokawa was humiliated and couldn’t take it. During lunch break, Kurokawa and Takehata dragged Haraguchi to the back of the school building, beat him up, and forced him to apologize.
But no matter how much they beat him, Haraguchi refused to apologize. “I didn’t do anything wrong.” He had a strong spirit that wouldn’t let him back down, even if he couldn’t win physically.
But whether that was a good thing or not, he doesn’t know.
Haraguchi became a target for Kurokawa and his friends, and from then on, he was constantly bullied and harassed.
In the new class, where groups hadn’t been formed yet, no one dared to approach Haraguchi, who was already marked by Kurokawa’s gang, and he was quickly isolated.
The bullying didn’t stop even after summer break, when the second semester started. Now it’s already autumn. In half a year, he’ll be a high school student, and Seito Academy is a combined middle and high school. Even when I enter high school, those guys will still be in the same school.
Haraguchi’s stress had reached its limit. Compared to before, he had become more introverted and was getting more anxious.
He just wants to be free from this.
At some point, he found himself standing up, with his school bag at his feet, trying to climb over the fence.
When he poked his upper body out from over the fence, he was suddenly called out from behind.
”Hey, are you trying to die?”
He was startled by the emotionless voice and turned his head around to see a tall girl standing right behind him, looking up at him.
She had silver-rimmed glasses, long hair divided into 2 sections and tied into 3 braids. She looked like a diligent student, but it was a bit too much, giving off a cosplay vibe.
Haraguchi gazed at the girl with a vacant expression, thinking to himself, “(Ah, I see. I’m really going to die, huh?)”, as if it was someone else’s problem.
”You’re really pitiful, aren’t you? Well, it’s not like it’s any of my business, though.”
The girl’s face lacked expression, but her features were well-defined, giving off a cold impression. Her tone was devoid of emotion, but her voice was strangely cute.
”Pitiful?”
Who is this person, anyway? Haraguchi thought, and asked her back.
”Yeah. I mean, you’ve still got decades to live, right? It’s just tough right now, so you’re going to give up on everything? That’s really pitiful, isn’t it?”
It was a logical argument, but her insensitive way of putting it grated on his nerves.
”…What do you know about me?”
”Well, I don’t know anything, but I just thought it was pitiful, that’s all.”
The girl stared at Haraguchi with a blank expression. Haraguchi’s sudden impulse had passed, and he had calmed down, but being stared at like that made him feel awkward and unable to move.
”Well, shall we get down then? Your arms are all wobbly.”
It was as if the girl knew exactly how Haraguchi was feeling, and her words made him reluctantly decide to comply. In reality, his arms were strained and wobbly, like he was doing muscle training.
”Are you Haraguchi Kouki-kun?”
The girl called out to Haraguchi, who had awkwardly gotten down to the ground.
”Huh? How did you know me?”
Haraguchi reconfirmed the girl’s face, but he didn’t recognize her. He could tell she was a third-year student like him from her light blue ribbon tie and skirt. Her back was as tall as a boy’s, and her line of sight was higher than Haraguchi’s.
”I’ve been watching you from here every day. It wasn’t hard to figure out.”
”From here, every day…?”
Haraguchi’s eyes widened as he looked down at the school building’s rear area. It was usually in this out-of-the-way place that he was dragged off to by Kurokawa and the others to receive a brutal beating. If he resisted, he’d get beaten up in the classroom too, but no one would help him.
”So, did you see what happened earlier too…?”
The girl nodded silently, and Haraguchi felt his face burning with shame, as if his face was on fire.
”Ha… haha…”
Haraguchi let out a dry laugh and leaned against the fence with a flailing motion.
(Is that how I’m going to die?)
”Haraguchi-kun was really cool, you know. There’s nothing to be ashamed of.”
The girl’s uninterested expression belied her words of encouragement, which only made Haraguchi feel more miserable.
”What’s cool about it?! That humiliation…! And to think a girl saw it too…”
Haraguchi bit his lip and looked down, but the girl continued.
”No, you were really cool. Compared to my dad, Haraguchi-kun was way cooler. I think you should be more confident.”
Something… doesn’t feel right. Is this… about that? No, but maybe…
”Wait, what are you talking about?”
”Well, aren’t we talking about Haraguchi-kun’s… d*ck?”
The girl replied with a perfectly calm expression and tone.
”No way! D-don’t say that!”
”What do you mean it’s not that?! Then, what’s the difference? Explain it quickly. Come on.”
The girl looked surprised, but Haraguchi was even more surprised as she demanded an explanation.
”Huh? Wh-what’s the difference… um… ah…?”
Wait, is she talking about his… d*ck, and she’s worried about being fully seen…? Ah, ah… Are they not the same thing? Hmm?
With his confused mind and low experience points, middle school student Haraguchi couldn’t immediately grasp the difference.
”Can’t explain? Then, it’s the same thing, right?”
”No way! Just wait! Um… you’re talking about size, and I’m talking about… Ah, yes! Pride! It’s a matter of pride!”
After getting a bit mixed up, Haraguchi managed to arrive at the correct answer by thinking it through.
”Hmph… you’re pretty good.”
This girl…!!
”But think about it carefully. Both are just branches of the same problem, and the root is the same.”
”Still not good enough!?”
”A discussion is something that both parties need to be convinced about. Haraguchi-kun seems to be ashamed of being exposed, but this stems from the inferiority complex of being overpowered by the strength of a superior male. However, in today’s society, physical strength and excellence have no relation to each other, and it’s an old-fashioned value. Anyway, Haraguchi-kun thinks that his other symbol of being a man, which he originally wanted to keep secret, was exposed, and that’s why he’s hurt.”
”Oh, oh…?”
”But Haraguchi-kun’s… ah, if you don’t like your d*ck, then just call it a p*nis.”
”That’s not the point!”
”Then, it’s a p*nis. Haraguchi-kun’s other symbol of being a man, his p*nis, was really impressive. In reality, it’s possible that it’s more impressive than theirs. So, there’s no need to be bothered about it being exposed. Instead, you should show it off. Haraguchi-kun’s weapon against their physical strength is his p*nis!”
”No, no! What are you saying, you!?”
This girl is crazy!
”I said that the 2 problems are separate but have the same root, right? In other words, being beaten by strength is the same as before. If Haraguchi-kun doesn’t think it’s important, then it’s not a big deal. What Haraguchi-kun is feeling is anger because his p*nis was exposed. But since Haraguchi-kun can’t win with strength, he can’t vent his anger and feels powerless and frustrated.”
”M…… .”
”Thinking that something should be kept secret is a childish shame. In reality, what they did was really childish. Haraguchi-kun doesn’t need to follow their childish behavior.”
”Then, what do I do with this frustration? I’ve already cried in front of everyone, and if I see them in class, I might get frustrated and cry again!”
”Calm down and change your mindset.”
”Change my… mindset? .”
”So, you knew from the start that you can’t win with power, right? And Haraguchi-kun is just embarrassed because he thinks he’s been exposed, but what if it wasn’t something to be embarrassed about? If Haraguchi-kun just gave a ‘what’s the big deal?’ face and acted cool, then the ones who should be embarrassed are those people. They’d realize their own actions are childish and pathetic.”
”U, yeah… maybe…”
Huh? Is this guy saying something that’s not wrong…?
”Haraguchi-kun is probably scared of being teased or having the same thing happen again, but that’s actually a chance. If you show off Haraguchi-kun’s impressive p*nis, that’s how adults handle it. And if you get all worked up and show it off, that’s the best. Those people might get scared of Haraguchi-kun’s… thing and run away with their tails between their legs.”
”I, no, getting all worked up and… you…!”
He kind of get what she’s saying, but hearing words like ‘Haraguchi-kun’s p*nis’ and ‘getting all worked up’ from a serious-looking girl’s mouth is just too much.
What she’s saying might be right, but when he thinks about it in relation to his feelings and the common sense, showing off his… p*nis to others is still something he doesn’t want to think about.
How did it come to this? As he’s thinking about that, he realizes something.
”No, wait a minute You, can you see my… p*nis from here? That’s just ridiculous!”
He says that and looks down at the school building. They’re on the rooftop of the 4-story school building. From this distance, you can tell who someone is, but can you really tell the size of… that? Even with his 1.2 vision, it seems difficult. And it’s unlikely that a girl with glasses can see that far.
But the girl says, “I can see it,” and takes off her thin silver-framed glasses.
”Ah…”
He thought she was cute, but her face is even more beautiful than he expected, and he catches his breath without thinking.
Her eyes, with their long eyelashes, left a strong impression. Her nose was straight and pointed, and her thin, cherry-colored lips were beautifully shaped.
Her arms and legs were long and slender, and although she had a small face and a tall, slender build, her curves were pronounced in all the right places.
Her hairstyle was a bit sloppy, and she didn’t seem to be wearing any makeup, but with just a bit of effort, she could become a stunning beauty.
”This, I’m wearing glasses because of my nearsightedness. My vision is 2.5.”
”No way, that’s too much!”
Her serious face made it impossible to tell what was a joke and what wasn’t, giving him a feeling like he was talking to an alien. Although she seemed to be trying to encourage him in a carefree atmosphere, he also felt a sense of danger, as if he was being led astray.
”What’s your problem, anyway? Who are you, anyway? First, tell me your name!”
When Haraguchi pressed her for an answer, the girl thought for a moment, then put on her glasses again and slowly opened her mouth.
”I don’t really want to introduce myself, but I suppose it’s not like it’s a secret or anything. I’m Higurashi Asuka, a third-year student in Class A.”
The girl spoke in a businesslike tone, but her voice was still cute and endearing.
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