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A gift from Santa Claus had been placed under her pillow.

ps: Because of the rhythm posted in the previous chapter, I would like to reply in a unified manner. This volume only has five chapters. It is a short story and I will travel back in time after writing it.

ps2: Ryo's reality corresponds to the BE of the four heroines. This chapter is the BE of Ichinose Honami: the family he wanted to protect is no longer there in the end.

ps3: Thank you for reading and subscribing. This volume is about Ryo herself, who has experienced the plight of every heroine, but is still trying to survive in the end.

The Abyss of Youth: Chapter 3: School Bullying and Family

"Ryo, your phone."

After hearing the summons from the personnel, Liang stood up from the corner of the room. Under the flickering incandescent light, his black eyes seemed to be reflected with a silver-white luster, with a bit of sharpness, which made the work outside the room The staff shuddered.

Thinking of the file of this boy who was actually younger than his son, the staff also avoided Liang's sight and handed over an old-fashioned flip phone through the window on the door.

"Thanks."

Liang took the phone, lowered his head and said thank you.

Most of the teenagers detained here are delinquents or gangsters on the streets. It was rare for the staff to hear the word "thank you" from their mouths. He was slightly stunned for a moment, then nodded and said :

"I'll take it back in half an hour."

Everyone has half an hour to receive their own mobile phone every night. Whether it is used to communicate with family members or browse news and play games, this is the time of day for teenagers who are extremely energetic and look forward to the most. At the most restless moment, even though he was separated by a wall, Ryo could hear the excited cheers from the room next to him.

However, compared with other people's various smart phones, the flip-type phone in Liang's hand looks like a product from twenty years ago. He flips the phone gently with his thumb, and the upper half is small. Below the screen is a row of buttons.

The staff has closed the small window, and now there is only the hanging chandelier in the room, with the incandescent bulb flashing on and off.

The light from Aomori cast a shadow on Liang's face. He sat on the bed and prepared to send a text message to his sister.

The younger sister, who was still in the ward, had to worry about disturbing the patients in other beds, so the two planned to communicate with each other through text messages.

Not knowing when he would be able to go out, the endless waiting was the longest, so Liang started typing words.

But Hotaru's text message was sent first, and Liang guessed that she must have finished typing the text message in advance because the content was quite long.

"elder brother."

Liang smiled slightly. Although it was just text, it seemed that he could already hear Hotaru's voice in his ears, the clear and crisp voice of a little girl who had just started to change her voice.

"The nurse sister came here three times today, and the doctor uncle also came four times. They said my current condition is very good and there is no need to worry."

"But it's still uncomfortable to eat. I can't swallow it. My throat seems to be blocked all the time. It's itchy and I always want to cough, but my chest hurts when I cough."

"Because my right hand is always on fluids, I eat with my left hand. In fact, the nurse sister said she wanted to feed me, but I am already thirteen years old, so I happen to eat a little slower."

"My nurse sister accompanied me when I took a shower. I had to wear a tube-like waterproof bag on my hand because there was some kind of auxiliary needle inserted in my right hand. I didn't understand it very well. Anyway, they said my blood vessels were too thin. It's easy to prick, so I use this one."

"It's very uncomfortable to wash my hair with one hand, and my brother knows that I'm super afraid of washing my hair. I always feel uncomfortable with my eyes closed, so I washed it very quickly today, but it seems that the foam was not washed away."

"By the way, brother, the shower in the hospital is a card-type one. As soon as you put the card in, the water will flow out, but the number on the card will also decrease little by little. This kind of money will be lost when you look at it. It feels very uncomfortable when the dots become less and less, which is why I washed them very quickly today."

"I was reading during the day today. There are many books and magazines in the hospital. It's much easier to flip through books with my left hand than to eat with my left hand."

"The books I read were "Fairy Tales" and "The Little Prince". Because I had read many of the stories in the first book, I read them very quickly. I started reading the second book in the afternoon."

"What does brother do all day?"

This was the content of the first text message, and Liang quickly replied:

"I'm working at a client's house. In fact, maybe Yingying has seen him before, the old man with a lot of beard who often visited our house when you were a child."

After receiving Ryo's reply, Yingying also quickly entered the text message, but because only her left hand could be used, the real-time input speed was quite slow compared with the text messages she had prepared before. She accidentally typed a wrong word, which made Yingying almost lose her temper. Tears shed:

"I don't remember. When will my brother come back?"

"You will come back after finishing your work, in about seven or eight days? Yingying can just treat her illness peacefully. When I come back, I want to see a healthy Ying."

"A long time."

This should be the longest time the two of them have been separated since they were born. Both Ryo and Hotaru are used to each other's company.

"Actually, it's only a week."

Ryo tried to keep his voice as soft as possible, comforting his sister.

He was definitely not willing to tell Hotaru that he had been involved in quite troublesome things due to a series of incidents of campus bullying, but in fact Ryoya knew very well that he would not be locked up for long. On the one hand, because he was essentially in this incident He was more on the victim side, but on the other hand, he also used the few favors left in his family to contact a senior who was enough to help him escape.

The matter is actually not complicated. If it weren't for the fact that the cost of hospitalization for his sister was getting higher and higher these days, Liang would not have cared about the bullying he had been suffering at school.

For most students, campus bullying is something that they are quite afraid of or even unwilling to face. The horror of campus bullying is that it can add insult to injury without any restrictions. As long as the first person takes the lead, the victim will be harmed. The person is branded with a layer of humiliation, just like a bee using its scent to signal to its peers, and other people will swarm to attack the person again because they know that the person has been bullied.

They will think that since they have already been bullied by others, they might as well do it one more time.

In fact, he has been quite unsociable since the first grade of Liang Junior High School.

The targets of campus bullying can be students with excellent grades, students with the lowest grades, boys, or girls, but in the final analysis they are all students who do not fit in.

Because you are not gregarious, you will be isolated. Isolation will make you appear weak. If you are weak, you will be easily bullied.

Thinking about it carefully, it all started when he refused a conversation from the girl in the class. Because he didn't like the pungent smell of perfume and ferocious red lips of the other party, he gave up on her offer to go play games after school. The other party seemed to be quite angry because of the laughter of the friends next to him. For such an inexplicable reason, from that day on, he began to enter the state of being bullied.

However, general cold violence has no effect on Liang. Without it, he has no sense of social interaction.

As for the more common tricks:

Deliberately kicking over your lunch box, making you lie down on the floor to eat the meal, or driving you to the toilet to eat...

I'm a little sorry, but because I want to save money, Ryo never has anything to say about lunch, let alone a bento.

Put dead mice on the table. In fact, the most common people in the basement are mice and cockroaches. Not to mention Liang, even Yingying will not be frightened by such things.

Doodling in textbooks was only done twice, because after Liang ranked first in the class once, his textbooks and notebooks were borrowed and copied by other people in the class, and the bad guys didn't dare to violate it. The whole class could only reluctantly move the target to Ryo's desktop.

"Go to hell" and "orphan" are probably relatively mild words, but Liang always found the remaining nastier words with relish and wrote them down in a notebook. When his father comes back one day, these swear words will most likely be It can come in handy.

When none of these tricks work, it's the last and most direct way of bullying:

Violence.

Ryo himself is not a superman, and of course he cannot defeat four or five people on his own, but he adopted a very smart way to deal with it:

If you catch someone and fight back, even if you bite with your teeth, you have to take a bite of the other person's flesh.

This strategy was quite successful. From then on, every morning, although Liang had to be blocked in the toilet and beaten first, one of the people on the other side would also be hit twice by him. After doing this several times, that person I can't bear it any longer.

After all, bullying someone who has been bullied in school will only make them feel more at ease, because they will not feel that it is their fault. On the one hand, this is because of the peace of mind of placing individual behavior in group behavior. They did this; on the other hand, it was also because they could comfort themselves. They were not the ones who started it anyway, and the whole thing had nothing to do with them. They were just joining in the fun and adapting to the atmosphere.

But why do I have to be retaliated like this when the person I bully is okay?

With this thought in mind, the first person took the lead in quitting the bullying.

In the early morning of the next day, when Liang locked his eyes on another person, the other person actually shivered first. From that day on, Liang had never been blocked in the toilet again.

Their methods began to turn to surprise.

Liang didn't want to make the matter a big deal, because he knew his family situation very well, and he and Yingying couldn't stand any further trouble.

Accepting and resisting at the same time, Ryo formulated this plan for himself.

Although the feeling of being splashed with a bucket of cold water in winter is not pleasant, and the feeling of being hit by a football while walking on the road is also terrible, but I can endure it by gritting my teeth.

Victims of school bullying often suffer more serious mental injuries than physical injuries, but this does not apply to Ryo.

Of course he hates bullies, but he pays more attention to how to protect himself.

The essence of bullying is to rely on strength to bully the weak, so just make yourself stronger.

If it hadn't been for Hotaru, Ryo would have been able to solve this mess on his own in about a month or two.

However, after Hotaru fell ill and was hospitalized, Liang gradually abandoned his previous plan.

Liang once heard a joke:

What should I do if I am defrauded of 10,000 yen by telecommunications?

The answer is to call the other party another five million yen, which will greatly speed up the police investigation.

Liang had always been afraid of making things bigger, but now he found that sometimes it might be better to make things bigger.

The result is that he is now temporarily detained here because he fought back quite vigorously.

However, the situation of the bullies was much worse than him. He was found to be violent to his classmates at the school's 70th anniversary open day. It was quite a big news these days.

Although he is expected to be expelled from school after this incident, he will still receive a large amount of compensation and hush money.

After stretching, Liang realized that his sister had actually dialed a number directly.

Obviously the other party should be in the ward, could it be that the call was made to him under the quilt?

"Hey, brother."

After being connected, Yingying's voice was not as weak as expected.

"I'm here. Why did I call you? It will disturb other people."

"It's okay, I came to the bathroom secretly."

Firefly probably admired her own flash of inspiration, as there was a little bit of pride in her tone.

"Is the dripping over?"

"Well, it's just that it's still difficult to move my right hand."

The environment between both parties on the call was very quiet, and Ryo seemed to be able to hear the faint chirping of insects and thin breathing on Hotaru's side.

"Brother, it's so quiet over there."

Yingying seemed to have heard the situation here. In her small hand, she held a flip phone of the same style as Ryo:

"It's so quiet."

"I can see the stars from here."

Liang listened to what Hotaru said, and he imagined the scene of the other party lying on the bathroom window. Hotaru has liked to look out of the window since he was a child.

Look at the stars in the sky, the people on the ground, and the wild cats jumping around on the eaves.

"Brother, do you still remember the origin of our names?"

"Um?"

Ying suddenly asked such a question, and Liang didn't respond. He was stunned for a while and then replied:

"I remember it was a Tang poem from ancient China, which seemed to be written by Du Mu."

"Well, it's "Autumn Eve" by Du Mu."

"I heard that my mother thought of our names based on this poem from the beginning."

"The cold autumn light of silver candles paints the screen, and the small fan blows against the flowing fireflies. The sky is as cold as water at night, and I lie down to watch Altair and Vega."

"But I don't think I've seen fireflies yet. There aren't any in the city."

Yingying said angrily, full of childishness:

"The fan at home is always used to swat away mosquitoes and flies."

"Pfft."

Rarely amused by his sister's words, Ryo couldn't help but laugh.

"I don't know if the star I saw is the Altair and Vega in the poem."

"It won't be obvious until the Chinese Valentine's Day."

"Too."

Yingying nodded and asked doubtfully:

"The meaning of stars shining is so that everyone can find their own star one day."

"This is the sentence I saw today."

"But in the legend, Altair and Vega are stars that were meant to be together and belong only to each other."

"Brother, don't you think the two statements are conflicting?"

Ryo didn't know where Hotaru learned so many weird questions, and he really couldn't answer them for a while.

"I think both sentences are correct."

Yingying didn't hear Liang's reply, so she asked and answered herself. Her face looked paler in the moonlight, but she still smiled beautifully:

"Stars will have their own stars, and people will also meet their own people, and they will be the stars in each other's hearts."