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"Then teachers, you have the responsibility to stop the spread of that trend, right?"
“Teachers also have many frustrations.”
"Your words are similar to those of Japanese bureaucrats."
"You're going too far! Is it true that there is no school bullying in China?"
Seeing that she couldn't win the argument with Ling Wu Ji, Hiratsuka Shizuka started to compare her shortcomings.
"Although that kind of thing usually has nothing to do with me, it probably does happen," Ling Wuji didn't shy away from saying, "It's especially serious in rural middle schools, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the school class system we're discussing, right?"
"But you said that kind of atmosphere is incorrect. Isn't it because that kind of atmosphere is the main cause of school bullying? If there is school bullying in China as well, then it only means that this phenomenon cannot be eliminated no matter what!" Shizuka Hiratsuka suddenly said righteously.
"That being said, Mr. Hiratsuka, as a teacher of literature, have you ever read a prose poem called "Threshold"?"
"Be more specific."
"The one written by Turgenev."
Hiratsuka Shizuka thought about it and could only roughly recall that it was a prose poem with strong symbolism. She couldn't remember anything more in depth, so she could only shake her head: "I have read it, but I have almost forgotten it."
So Ling Wuji, who had a photographic memory, recited it to her on the spot:
"Ah, what do you want to do over this threshold? Do you know what awaits you there?"
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"Cold, hunger, hatred, ridicule, contempt, insults, prison, disease, and even death?"
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"Estrangement from people, complete loneliness?"
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"Not only your enemies, but also your relatives and friends are going to give you this pain and this blow?"
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"Are you ready to sacrifice yourself, too?"
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“This is an anonymous sacrifice, you will perish, even without a soul… No one will know about you, and no one will honor you in memory.”
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"Are you willing to commit a crime?"
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"Do you know that in the future when you are in trouble you will deny your current faith and think that you have wasted your youth?"
"I know this too. I just ask you to let me in."
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Whether it was Hiratsuka Shizuka, Yukinoshita Yukino or Hikigaya Hachiman, they could only look at Ling Wuji in dumbfounded. Although the young man in their eyes had always been an outstanding figure, he gave people the feeling that he was too thin, just like the man who questioned the girl in the prose poem he was reciting, revealing a kind of coldness like wind and snow. Strictly speaking, it was precisely because of this trait of his that he seemed particularly contagious when reading those questions.
But if he really is that kind of person, he shouldn't behave like this.
I shouldn't be so appreciative of the article he recited, as if I was eager to share it with others.
"I always thought someone like you would be the one who questioned her from a high position or mocked her as a fool after she stepped through the door," Shizuka Hiratsuka said after listening to her. "But, are you the one who praised her as a saint?"
"Because none of us can be that person, can we?"
"Yes," Hiratsuka Shizuka closed her eyes, carefully recalled the boy's clear voice, and nodded heavily, "Reality is a hopeless world. Some people can carry heavy ideals to transform that world, even if they know they will never achieve their ideals, even if they know they may betray themselves in the future. But just like what your great writer wrote, a few people have stood up. You can't say there is no hope of destroying this iron house. [1]
"But there are people who just want some people to adapt to the world. Unfortunately, I am one of them."
She laughed at herself.
Yukinoshita Yukino and Hikigaya Hachiman looked at each other in surprise: they had never seen Hiratsuka Shizuka like this.
In their impression, Hiratsuka Shizuka is the kind of person who has her own little temper but can see through everything and face everything maturely. But now, for some reason, she seems to be weak. So Yukinoshita Yukino tried to join their discussion and said, "This is how the world is. After all, no one is perfect. Humans are a species that is weak and ugly at heart..."
"so what?"
Ling Wuji interrupted her and asked.
"So I want to change humanity and this world!"
The girl made a delicate but exceptionally firm voice.
However, the only response she got was the weak voice of the young man: "Let me ask you, what is your methodology?"
"Methodology?"
"It's about how you plan to implement the method to change humanity and the world."
Yukinoshita Yukino was stunned for a moment, then whispered, "To think someone would ask such a question seriously..."
"I also didn't think anyone would seriously say something like that."
The girl immediately regained her original clear and upright look and said, "I want to inherit my father's position as county councilor!"
Ling Wuji almost burst out in anger: "After all this time, is this all you can do?"
"What do you mean by this degree?"
"Hey, Yukinoshita-san, although I don't know exactly what the situation is in Japan, but generally speaking, the position of a county councillor in Japan can be hereditary, right?"
Hiratsuka Shizuka said, "Ah, she actually has a sister."
"You're getting more and more vulgar. One second you're talking about a grand narrative of changing the world, and the next second you're talking about the trivialities of sisterly grudges. Isn't your ideal of changing the world simply a case of a second-year syndrome?"
Note [1]: "Self-introduction". In addition, although I don't know why, Xun Ge'er's pen name is a sensitive word in Shuke, so basically we can only use other names to refer to him.
Volume 3: Between God and Man: Chapter 28: Sisters
In fact, Hikigaya Hachiman has been imagining that he would complain about Yukinoshita Yukino like Ling Wuzhi for a long time.
When Yukinoshita Yukino heard Ling Wuji's complaints, her eyes suddenly turned cold and she said, "Since classmate Ling thinks I'm just a simple middle school student, what do you think?"
Ling Wuji thought for a moment and said, "Speaking of which, what is your program?"
"Tsuna."
“It’s something like a target.”
"It is to change humanity and the world..."
"That's too vague," Ling Wuji sneered, and said, "According to materialistic thinking, the world and human beings are constantly changing. In other words, there is no need for anyone to change it. It moves spontaneously. What I want to ask is, what do you want to change human beings and the world into?"
Yukinoshita Yukino suddenly stammered a few times.
"If you want to make humans no longer weak and ugly, that's still too empty, Yukinoshita-san," Ling Wuji did not hesitate to expose the essence of her words, "You just want to find a place to stay, right?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka was holding her forehead and sighing.
She knew it.
The way this brat talks will reveal the girl's true nature sooner or later.
But she originally thought that Ling Wuji would not be so unscrupulous towards his classmates.
Although essentially he wouldn't speak so recklessly to his classmates because he wasn't interested.
"What do you know!"
Yukinoshita Yukino became so angry that her cheeks turned red and her whole body trembled.
"I really don't understand what the eldest lady who wants to compete with her sister for the position of successor to the county councillor is thinking," Ling Wuji nodded decisively and said, "But, Yukinoshita-san, the shadows of childhood will indeed be the beginning of the destruction of one's own world. If you can't overcome those shadows, you can only move towards self-destruction."
"You don't need to tell me!"
When Yukinoshita Yukino heard him say that, she immediately responded coldly.
"Of course, I have no intention of judging other people's private affairs. But then again, Yukinoshita-san, if a person wants to change the world, but he always hides in one place and just lets others bring people who need to be changed to him, does that person really want to change the world? What can he get from the process of changing others? Can he establish the belief that he is excellent and correct? But such an excellent and correct self still cannot overcome his own shadow in the end. Wouldn't that make him more desperate?"
The look in Yukinoshita Yukino's eyes was more terrifying than ever before.
Hikigaya Hachiman, who was watching from the sidelines, almost felt as cold as if he were in the dead of winter in this season that was almost approaching summer.
However, looking directly into this gaze, Ling Wuji remained exceptionally calm.
Seeing this, Hikigaya Hachiman couldn't help but wonder if he was really hunted down in China because of the way he spoke, but the hunt was unsuccessful, which led to him becoming like this.
"Student Ling, do you think you are a perfect human being?"
"of course not."
"That's surprising. I thought someone like you would admit it so freely."
Yukinoshita Yukino has a rather weird look to her.
But Ling Wuji just shook his head and said, "Of course there are things I can't do, and of course I regret some things. I just feel that people like you will sooner or later fall into a dead end, and most likely end up asking for help."
"I……"
Yukinoshita Yukino immediately wanted to categorically deny this possibility.
But there was no way she could say that.
Perhaps she herself had already known this fact.
No matter what she does now, she cannot defeat her sister and her mother, but she is unwilling to admit defeat, so sooner or later, she will fall into the situation described by the boy, sooner or later, she will want to ask others for help -
As long as that person can help her.
It's like a straw seen by someone who falls into the water.
She was silent for a long time, wanted to speak several times, and closed her mouth several times, just to maintain a heavy atmosphere in the society. In the end, except Ling Wuji, both teachers and students had strange expressions on their faces.
However, when Ling Wuji was leaving school, the violent female teacher suddenly drove past him in a silver sports car, opened the window, and said, "Get in the car, I'll take you home."
"No need, right? It's only a few steps away."
"boarding!"
Ling Wu Ji thought about it and decided to sit on it.
"What do you want for dinner tonight?"
"Why do you ask?"
"I'll take you to dinner."