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“Eh…Shinonome…?”
“Sensei. Seriously, what are you saying?”
I stare at my homeroom teacher from the front with cold eyes.
My homeroom teacher is obviously acting suspiciously, and his eyes are shifting from right to left.
“Sensei, you didn’t help me, did you?”
“No…that’s…”
“When I was being lynched and bullied, I asked you for help once, didn’t I? Didn’t I tell you the truth and ask you to be on my side? I still remember what you said to me then, you know?”
“S-Shinonome…wait, calm down…”
“No, I’m just telling you the truth.”
I brushed off the hand of my homeroom teacher who reached out to cover my mouth.
“I asked for help, and you said I deserved it and that I should take care of it myself. You didn’t believe me. I tried to tell you the truth, but he wouldn’t even listen to me. That’s the truth, isn’t it?”
“……”
My homeroom teacher stops talking with a bitter expression on his face.
The teachers around my homeroom teacher are holding their heads as if to say that something has gone wrong.
I continued to express my truthful thoughts to my homeroom teacher.
“You abandoned me. You have abandoned your duty as a homeroom teacher. To me, you are no different from the others. You are just as guilty as those who lynched me and bullied me for a crime that had no basis in fact.”
“T-that’s not the right way to put it…”
“Eh, did I say something wrong? If you have any objection, I’m all ears.”
“I-I may have said that, but that was…”
“What was that?”
“…?
“What is it? If you have something to say, I want you to say it clearly, I want to know the truth of what you said.”
“….”
My homeroom teacher who can’t say anything and shuts his mouth.
His shoulders slumped like a student being scolded.
I don’t know which one of us is the educator in this situation.
“When I asked for your help, you didn’t answer me and gave up on me. So why did you suddenly say you were on my side? Don’t tell me you said that in a panic because you got backlash?”
“N-no…I was originally going to help you…”
“Are you trying to say that you were going to help me?
“Y-yeah…”
My homeroom teacher nodded with a wobble.
He looked at me as if he wanted me to believe him.
However, I was not willing to trust his words at all.
If he really intended to help me, it was too late to take action.
It seemed to me that the teachers of this school were blamed by the netizens because this matter had gone viral on the Internet, and they were now saying this in a desperate situation.
“If Sensei had intended to help me,……then I would have wanted you to say what you just said right after the discovery of my innocence.”
“…….”
The homeroom teacher looked as if he had been hit where it hurt.
I stare at my homeroom teacher with a cold gaze and calmly confront him with the facts.
“Let’s just say it’s okay that you didn’t take my side when I was considered the worst person in this school for forcing Kisaragi. But in the days following the revelation of my innocence, you neither apologized nor made any attempt to contact me, didn’t you?”
“…..”
“But now, after all this time, you suddenly call me up and show yourself to be my friend and ally. You didn’t even apologize for doubting me once and acted as if he had been my ally for a long time.”
“…..”
“Isn’t this a quirky thing to do? Am I the only one who feels that you’re contradicting yourself?
“….”
My homeroom teacher could no longer say anything to me.
The other teachers in the room were also looking down as if they were being scolded together.
I looked down at my homeroom teacher with a cold stare.
There was no way I could argue with him.
Everything I had just said was true.
Nothing I said was a lie or an exaggeration.
I guess my homeroom teacher’s actions could have been seen as an act of self-preservation, and he was probably aware of it.
That’s why he is keeping his mouth shut, unable to say anything back to me.
“Haa…”
I sighed and stood up.
Well, when Saito san interviewed me, I didn’t talk about my homeroom teacher.
I might as well talk about this fact, so that there won’t be any other victims in similar cases.
If this incident can be used as an opportunity to reduce the number of teachers who cover up bullying or ignore students who ask for help in order to protect themselves, it would be a good thing for the world.
“Well…I might want to tell Saito san about this.”
“…?”
My homeroom teacher remained silent and didn’t say anything, so I pulled out a business card from my pocket.
My homeroom teacher looks up.
“When I asked for help, neither my homeroom teacher nor the head of the school helped me…….the teacher, who should have been protecting the students, kept me away for self-preservation and only contacted me after the fire……this fact needs to be spread, I think it’s normal.”
“….!?”
My homeroom teacher jerks and shakes his body.
He looks at me with a tearful expression.
“S-Shinonome…? What are you doing? Who are you talking about, Saito san…? What’s that business card?”
“This one? This was given to me by Saito san. He gave it to me saying that he would be my ally regarding this case and that I should contact him anytime. When I was interviewed at home.”
I show my homeroom teacher the business card that Saito san gave me.
“….!? The 00 Newspaper !?”
My homeroom teacher’s eyes widened at the name of the major newspaper written on the card.
“S-Saito is perhaps the one who wrote the article about…?”
“Yes, that’s right. He is the reporter who wrote the article that went up in flames this time and spread the facts.”
“….!? D-do you know him…?”
“I met him for the first time when he interviewed me for this case. But Saito san told me that he would be on my side. Sensei, to be frank, the treatment I received from you this time was quite terrible, even from an objective point of view. I think your behavior could have been seen as a way to contact me for self-preservation because of the flames and now you’re trying to act like you’re on my side.
“
“N-no…I…”
“Your true feelings may be different. That’s something I, as a stranger, can’t know. So that there will be no more victims like me in the future,……I want as many teachers as possible to be close to their students……that’s fine by you, isn’t it?”
“S-stop….what are you trying to say?
“What do you mean? Everything you did to me.”
“Please ! ! Please don’t do that. If you do that to me, I’ll…”
“No?”
“I’ll get fired…I won’t be able to stay at this school…please don’t do this to me.”
I shake off my homeroom teacher who clings to me.
“Please don’t touch me. Is this violence?”
“N-no…..I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to…”
“I just want to tell you the truth. Whatever happens to you…isn’t it your own fault? Just like you told me.”
“….Stop……I’m sorry…it was……my fault…as you see…forgive me, Shinonome… I’m sorry…”
“…”
Finally, my homeroom teacher cried out miserably and leaned his head on the ground.
The teachers around him turned their heads away, as if they couldn’t stand to watch any longer.
My homeroom teacher was sobbing and begging for my forgiveness.
“I was wrong…you were right about everything…I abandoned you…and now that I’ve gone down in flames, I’m trying to take your side…….all for my sake..I was a lousy teacher….who failed to protect you, my student, from false accusations, a lousy homeroom teacher…”
“…..”
“I beg you…give me another chance…don’t let them write about me…I can’t stay here anymore…I’ll lose my job……”
“…..”
“Forgive me, Shinonome…I’m sorry…I’m really sorry for what I did to you…..ugh…”
“…..”
I looked down at my homeroom teacher who was crying.
I didn’t feel sorry.
I felt that I had it all coming to me, as he put it.
But seeing my homeroom teacher sobbing miserably and begging me, I felt that there was nothing to be gained by pushing him any further.
The teachers at this school have already been bashed on the Internet more than necessary.
I didn’t think it was necessary to attack my homeroom teacher and make him leave the school.
“I understand, Sensei.”
“….Shinonome?”
“I don’t think I should tell Saito san about this incident. I have decided that there is no need to pour more oil on the flames.”
“T-thank you…thank you, Shinonome…”
“Don’t get me wrong, I haven’t forgiven you. I think of you as the same as the other students who were fooled by Kisaragi’s lies. I probably won’t forgive you no matter what.”
“Yeah…that’s fine…I did something unforgivable…”
“I have nothing more to say to you. Don’t worry, I won’t talk to Saito san about you, so please don’t get involved in this matter any more. That’s all I ask. Now then.”
“Uhh…uhh…”
I say what I want to say and leave the teachers’ room.
From my back, I could hear my homeroom teacher’s sobbing voice.
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The luckiest person to get his mercy so far.
I can’t tell if The Teacher was acting out of pure despair or He was truly feeling sorry and full of remorse? But Man, Tohru-San went freakin’ Gangsta on both The Homeroom Teacher and the rest of the Other Teachers. Now Tohru has really put Those hypocrite mutha*****n’ clowns in His pocket. Talkin’ about putting the fear of God in Their whole minds, hearts, and souls.
Fucking finally, an mc with the balls to go full scorched earth. All other stories like this have the mc puss out and forgive everyone. Not this time motherfuckers, not this time.