Chapter 5: Chapter 5
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Making someone fall in love with you is hard, but making them hate you is very easy.
Lin Yi didn't want to waste time with these classmates, so he adopted an indifferent expression and answered their questions coldly and disinterestedly.
Seeing Lin Yi maintain a distant and cold attitude, the girls felt uncomfortable and decided to stop asking questions.
They left automatically and consciously.
However, some girls were more stubborn, believing they could win sincerity with their own enthusiasm.
Then, Lin Yi, with the harsh reality, showed them that it wasn't possible, no matter how hard they tried.
Eventually, the last girls also left in anger.
Finally, the noise settled down, but the break between classes also passed that way.
After another class, the recess finally arrived.
Lin Yi didn't rush to approach Ran and Sonoko; he knew that haste didn't lead to good results, and being so proactive would give the impression that he was doing it for them… even though the truth was that he indeed was.
He looked at how his classmates eyed him hungrily, wishing to devour him.
Being the "[male enemy]" had earned him a lot of enemies.
Lin Yi felt helpless. He felt uncomfortable everywhere, so he got up to go to the bathroom.
However, Lin Yi didn't expect to find trouble even while going to the bathroom.
Just after Lin Yi entered the bathroom, a group of classmates entered and surrounded him.
Lin Yi looked at them; they were all students from class 2B.
"Hey, the transfer student," said a burly boy, approaching Lin Yi with an annoyed expression, "Your attitude in class a moment ago was quite arrogant."
"Don't you even know how to introduce yourself? Bastard!!"
"And with that pretty face of yours, it's really irritating."
"I hate guys who are popular with girls."
"…"
They took turns venting their dissatisfaction with Lin Yi, spewing every word they could.
They didn't even have girlfriends, and this guy had been received with so much interest by the girls in the class since his first day. How could they accept that?
Is being handsome such a big deal? Right?
That's why they had banded together to teach this guy a lesson and make him drop his arrogant attitude.
Lin Yi wasn't surprised at all when he saw them being so aggressive.
He had watched many Japanese dramas and noticed that school-related ones always featured the theme of bullying.
At first, he thought it was an exaggerated plot to make the script more interesting.
But after researching, he discovered it wasn't like that; bullying in Japan is indeed very serious, and with the Minor Protection Law, juvenile offenders can act with more impunity, and schools, to protect their reputation, prefer to handle problems internally and rarely let them be known outside.
He knew that bullying in Japan was serious, but he didn't imagine it was this bad… On his first day at school, they were already intimidating him.
"Hey! Why aren't you talking?"
The burly boy, seeing Lin Yi still not responding, got irritated, and taking advantage of his size, grabbed him by the collar and said, "Are you deaf?"
Lin Yi thought for a moment and finally found a suitable phrase to respond, and began to boast:
"Buddy, I just want to finish high school in silence… I don't want any trouble, but I'm not afraid either."
"Ha?"
The muscular boy raised an eyebrow, angered to the point of laughing, and suddenly pushed Lin Yi against the bathroom wall, shouting, "If you don't behave, I'll show you what trouble is!"
Really?
Lin Yi smiled with a look of disdain, as if he were looking at a clown.
His gaze conveyed maximum contempt, and combined with a touch of natural sarcasm, it was evident.
The muscular boy became enraged immediately and exclaimed, "You bastard, it seems you won't learn unless you get a lesson!"
Saying that, he raised his hand to teach Lin Yi a lesson.
However, Lin Yi reacted faster than him and slapped him, stunning him.
As he recovered, the muscular boy was even angrier and, with a fierce expression, shouted, "You jerk! I'm going to kill you!!"
He hadn't finished speaking when Lin Yi kicked him, sending him crashing against a urinal, and he screamed in pain.
The others, seeing that Lin Yi, who was surrounded, still dared to strike first, became furious.
Did they think they could do whatever they wanted with them?
They shouted angrily, fueled by courage, and raised their fists to attack.
Even the most basic bullies couldn't match Lin Yi, who was an expert in martial arts.
For Lin Yi, the others' attacks were completely disorganized and full of flaws.
He easily dodged one punch and returned a strong blow to the nose.
He avoided a flying kick from another and kicked him in the groin.
He caught the punch of another and hit the face of the person running next to him.
The muscular boy, who had barely gotten up, received another kick from Lin Yi and fell back against the urinal, crying out in pain while sitting on the ground.
The high school boys waiting at the bathroom door expected the transfer student to have problems, but they didn't expect the situation to take such a drastic turn.
Watching Lin Yi handle all of them alone left the high school boys visually shocked. Their eyes widened more than Yang Tianbao's, and they kept shouting:
"Hey,… this is too exaggerated, isn't it?!"
"Seriously? One guy beat five people?"
"This guy… he definitely has practiced martial arts!"