[Cijiu colleagues] Two or three things about the big demon

* Modern campus paro

00

People in darkness yearn for light more than ordinary people.

So I yearn for you.

Even if you just ignore the flame for a moment, it is enough to illuminate my life.

01

Is this the first time?

Inexplicable bullying, beating, robbery.

Ibaraki leaned against the rough concrete wall behind him and sat up with difficulty. He drooped his head and panted heavily, but his eyes were turned up through the hair hanging on his forehead, staring at a group of people who had gone far to the entrance of the alley.Those people hooked their shoulders and smiled wantonly, as if the violence that happened in the depths of the alley had nothing to do with them.

The noise at the end of the alley was far away, and the whole alley fell silent.

Ibaraki sat motionless on the spot for a long time before slowly recovering. He tried to move, and after confirming that he only had a few new traumas, he stood up on his knees.Because he kept one posture for too long, his femur and spine were hurt by the hard ground and wall, and he limped a few steps to the side, picked up the dusty backpack, shook it clean, and then put it away The books on the ground were packed back one by one.This process is going on very slowly, every movement of bending over to pick up the book will affect new and old injuries on his body, making Ibaraki gasp in pain, but what makes him most uncomfortable is the stagnant breath in his chest, it is simply It was about to suffocate him.

But in the end, he just panted and staggered away.

After leaving the alley, turn left and you will find the snack street where vendors gather near the school. Many students like to stay here in small groups after school to eat and chat.It has been a long time since school ended, and most of the students have gone home one after another, only a few of them are still wandering on the street.

Adolescent boys exhaust their energy quickly, and Ibaraki is no exception.Smelling the aroma of food that wafted over from time to time, he clearly felt that he was hungry, but he touched his penny pocket, could only swallow his saliva, and walked through the snack street as soon as possible.

"Yo, why did you send it to your door again?"

The voice from behind made Ibaraki stunned, he turned his head, and as expected, he saw the group of people coming out of the small restaurant next to them, all of them looked full of wine and food.Seeing them approaching him, Ibaraki subconsciously took a step back, but the leader grabbed his front.

"Hehe, you want to run away when you see my brothers without saying hello?"

Feeling unlucky in his heart, Ibaraki didn't struggle, looked at him blankly and said, "I've given you all the money, what else do you want?"

"No, I just want you to accompany my brother for a few refreshments."

The man looked at Ibaraki and grinned grimly, as if I was trying to pick on you.

Ibaraki's stomach hurts from hunger, and he frowned when he heard him say that, "Let go, I should go home."

"What's the hurry..."

"Excuse me."

The one who interjected was a boy with red hair and pigtails called Shuten, whom Ibaraki recognized.

This boy occasionally haunts here, he doesn't talk much but is a ruthless character, almost no one dares to find out his right and wrong.A few times when Ibaraki was beaten in the corner, he stood under the wall on the other side, as if he was waiting for someone, his sight would occasionally float over for a brief moment and then turn away quickly—Ibaraki expected In the rescue, it never happened.

This time was no exception, Jiu Tun didn't mean to meddle in other people's business at all, the reason why he interrupted them was purely because the snack street was too narrow and he was blocked.

"Who is so short--" the provocative boy turned his head cursingly, swallowed the unfinished sentence after seeing who the speaker was, and changed his words: "Tun, brother Tun? What, what, what? It is you?"

When Jiu Tun heard this, he was overjoyed, "It can't be me?"

"No, no, how could it mean that, I just..."

"Okay," Jiu Tun was too lazy to listen to his nonsense, and raised his hand to pat his face twice, "Don't get in the way, let me pass."

"Hey, yes, Brother Tun can go now." The boy was taken aback by his patting, and at some point, he let go of the hand holding Ibaraki's skirt, and stepped aside.

Shuten snorted inexplicably, brushed past the boy, and shoved Ibaraki who was still stuck in the middle of the road, "Let's go, good dogs don't get in the way."

Pushed by him, he staggered back a few steps before stabilizing his footing. Ibaraki looked at him in some embarrassment, but was startled by the arrogant look on his brow and quickly looked away.Lowering his head, Ibaraki turned around and left without saying a word, not daring to think that he was deliberately helping him out.

Due to the existence of Jiu Tun, the group of people did not dare to catch up, cursed in a low voice and then broke up.

Ibaraki walked slowly, trying to steady his steps so that he didn't look like he was limping.Jiu Tun put his hands in his trouser pockets and kicked the small stones on the side of the road carelessly, walking even slower than Ibaraki, when Ibaraki couldn't help but look back at him, the two of them were almost ten steps away.

"Shuten?" Ibaraki waited until he came to his side before opening his mouth, "Then what, thank you."

Jiu Tun continued to walk forward as if he didn't hear it, and stopped after walking about four or five meters before turning around to look at him, with a half-smile expression on his face, "What did you say?"

"Ah?" Ibaraki was worried and couldn't react for a while, until Shuten began to grind the pebbles on the ground with the soles of his shoes, making some harsh sounds, he repeated in a panic: "I say thank you , thank you for just..."

"Ha!" Jiu Tun interrupted him with a nonsense laugh, and kicked the stone out with all his might.

Ibaraki watched the round stone draw a parabola in the air and fell to the ground and then bounced into the grass by the roadside. When he looked up again, Shuten had already walked a long way.

Ibaraki stared at his back for a long time, thinking, what's going on?

02

Generally speaking, after being severely bullied by those boys, Ibaraki can live a relatively peaceful life until the next bullying incident comes.But this time is different, although he was beaten and given money, but due to Shuten's interruption, the bully couldn't enjoy himself to the fullest, so in the days that followed, Ibaraki was always in trouble.

Pages were torn from the handed-in homework, paper scraps were thrown all over the floor just after sweeping the floor on duty, women's items inexplicably left in the schoolbag... Ibaraki is used to it, but when faced with the teacher's indiscriminate questioning, It will still be a little sad.But he knew that one day he would become numb, just like from being sad to being a little sad now, it wouldn't take long.

Soon it was Friday again, and Ibaraki waited for the people in the classroom to leave as usual before starting his duty.The few boys who gathered in the middle of the classroom kept fighting, which hindered sweeping the floor. Ibaraki guessed that they would not be able to leave for a while, so he had to go to the front to wipe the blackboard first.Glanced at the duty column on the right side of the blackboard where his name was written, Ibaraki shook his head and wiped off the white chalk writing in other places.

"boom--!"

The spine of the book hit the blackboard with a loud noise, and Ibaraki looked at the book that fell on the floor, sweating a little - if he hadn't moved a step to the left just now, he would have been hit on the back of the head by the spine of the book.

"Hey! Why are you wiping the blackboard without leaving so many people!"

There was a roar from behind, Ibaraki sighed secretly, picked up the book and turned to put it on the podium, he looked at the three or five so-called "so many people" and said: "I am on duty."

"We didn't remember what we were on duty for and what our homework was. Did you do it on purpose?" The boy refused to let go.

Ibaraki knew that this was deliberately finding fault, and he almost gave up hope: "I forgot, I will lend you."

"What if you remember it wrong and cause me to write the wrong page?" The boy stopped Ibaraki who walked off the podium to get the notepad from his seat.

Ibaraki glanced at him and thought to himself: It's like you usually do your homework, "No, it's right."

"Why don't you write my homework together, what do you think?" The boy moved his knuckles, and looked at Ibaraki with a hint of threat in his eyes.

"That's right, why don't you write ours too." A few boys next to him booed.

Ibaraki lowered his eyes, hesitated briefly, and was about to say a word when the classroom door was pushed open with a "bang".

"Yo, what are you doing here? It's a meeting." Jiu Tun stood at the door with a basketball under his arm and looked at a few people with astonished expressions, and couldn't help laughing.

"Uh..." In view of the fact that he intervened in Ibaraki's affairs intentionally or unintentionally last time, the leading boy couldn't figure out his attitude, so he was a little bit jealous.

Jiu Tun understood, but he just asked casually, he didn't want to listen to their answers at all, he went to his seat and started packing his schoolbag.

Ibaraki stood motionless on the spot, and the boys glared at him and then turned their heads to look at Shuten furtively.

The atmosphere was once very weird.

"I said, are you not in a hurry to go home?" It was Jiu Tun who broke the silence, carrying his schoolbag, he glanced at the people standing like telephone poles with a half-smile, and raised his chin obliquely above the blackboard, "The monitoring is on, don't blame me for not reminding you."

"Damn!" The leading boy cursed in a low voice, winked at the others, grabbed his schoolbag and left.

Jiu Tun watched them leave one after another, and also turned the basketball and walked out, but was blocked by Ibaraki between the two rows of tables and chairs.

Ibaraki is a little taller than Shuten, and Jiuten needs to raise his head slightly when looking at him, which makes Jiuten very upset, "Why?"

Ibaraki still lowered his eyes, moved his lips but still could only choke out a sentence, "Thank you."

"Hmph." Jiu Tun sneered, bumped him away with his shoulder, and left.

The classroom door was closed with a "bang", and the sound of lockers opening and closing came from the corridor, hurried and irritable.

Ibaraki turned his head and looked at the door for a long time, until the sound of footsteps outside disappeared, he returned to the podium and continued to wipe the blackboard.

He helped me again.

But he hates me.

Ibaraki suddenly didn't even have the strength to wipe the blackboard. He arched his back and lay down on the podium table, buried his head deeply in the crook of his arms.

It wasn't until the school bell rang that Ibaraki returned to his seat, packed his schoolbag and left the classroom.

I won't be on duty today.He thought, anyway, he will be on duty next Monday.

As a result, Ibaraki was late on Monday.The reason was that the shop where he worked was so good on Sunday that he stayed busy until late at night before returning home, so that he overslept the next day.

I hurried into the classroom, just in time to bump into the head teacher who came to check on morning reading and hygiene.

This is good, being late and not doing duty on Friday and this morning, in exchange for the next class teacher's class, I will be at the last punishment station in the classroom.

During recess, the homeroom teacher called Ibaraki over to talk, and it was still the same old lecture. Ibaraki didn't want to argue at all, he just nodded and admitted his mistake.

The conversation ended with him continuing to be in charge of the class for a month.

Ibaraki returned to his seat and sat down, and began to rummage through the hole in the table for the books to be used in the next class. The moment he found it and looked up, he met the gaze of Shuten who was sitting obliquely in front of him.Izuku stared at him in bewilderment.

Jiu Tun stared at him blankly for a moment, mouthed silently, then turned around and continued lying down on the table.

Ibaraki looked at him, frowning and then loosening his brows. After a while, he looked back and sighed.

If possible, he hoped that he didn't understand Shuten's lips.

03

For the whole class, Ibaraki was staring at Shuten's back in a daze, so that he didn't know what he was talking about when he was called up by the teacher to answer questions.

The teacher in charge threw the chalk down angrily, and said sternly: "What time is it and you are still absent in class! Look at your score in the model test, and see how long the college entrance examination is left!"

Ibaraki blushed, not knowing whether he was being exposed in public or ashamed.

"I'm sorry." He glanced at the countdown to the two-digit college entrance examination that had turned into a "4" above the blackboard, and apologized softly.

"Sit down! Listen carefully."

Ibaraki sat down in response, and hurriedly found the question the teacher was talking about, and he was a little relieved after confirming that he could actually do it.

Jiu Tun turned his head and glanced sideways, as if thinking of something, there was a hint of playfulness in his eyes.

Timid and fearful, withdrawn and reticent, with mediocre grades and poor family background.

From the time Ibaraki transferred to this high school, the impression he left on people was nothing more than this.

The classmates isolated him, the teacher didn't want to see him, and a few boys bullied him. For Ibaraki, going to school became a hard and terrible thing.

But no one can save him.

In a high-pressure learning environment, everyone has nothing to do with themselves, except for the perpetrator who is a cold-eyed bystander.

Therefore, the existence of Shuten seems a bit special.

He has a strong family background and outstanding grades, but he is not a good student in the traditional sense; he enjoys a lot among his classmates, but he doesn't get too close to anyone; he seems to act casually but actually has his own principles.

A person who is contradictory but shines.

His care for Ibaraki, even if he himself does not admit it, is enough to stir up waves in Ibaraki's heart.

After finishing physical education class in the afternoon, Ibaraki went to the equipment room to return the equipment as usual, and Shuten, as the sports committee, took the equipment statistics sheet to check item by item.Neither of them expected that the iron door of the equipment room would be slammed hard just after counting the number of basketballs, followed by the sound of being locked from the outside.

Jiu Tun reacted quickly, and rushed to the door and knocked on the door, "Don't lock it, there are still people!"

After putting the last basketball in the box, Ibaraki also walked to the door, but after hearing the faint laughter outside, he grabbed Shuten's hand, "Stop shooting."

Unable to swallow the alcohol, he withdrew his hand and shook it, and said bitterly: "What's wrong!"

Ibaraki couldn't help laughing at his cheeks that were flushed with anger after exercising.

Jiu Tun glared at him, with an expression of "Is this funny?" clearly on his face.

Ibaraki didn't mind much, turned around and sat down on a pile of sponge cushions, "Sit down for a while, anyway, no one will come anytime soon."

He was right. The equipment room is a separate small house on the playground farthest from the teaching building. If it is not for physical education class, almost no one will pass by here.

So Shuten also walked over and sat down on the other side of the sponge cushion.

Speechless for a while.

Ibaraki stared at the toes of his shoes for a while, then turned his head to look at Shuten, who was facing away from him, and saw that his elbows rested on the two legs that were spread apart, and his head was very low, probably because of his physical strength in physical education class. Too much consumption, the whole person's posture is very tired.

"Do you drink water?" Ibaraki paused after asking, and called his name, "Shuten?"

"Ah?" Jiu Tun turned his head slightly, his expression was a little dazed, and there was only a dry sound in his throat.

Ibaraki saw a drop of sweat rolling down his forehead, and turned the question into a statement, "I'll bring you a bottle of water."

"Oh." Fatigue made Shuten's mind unable to keep up, and he just stared blankly at Ibaraki going around to the shelf where the volleyballs were placed and squatting down, reaching for a toolbox from the lower shelf, and taking out a bottle of mineral water from the toolbox water to him.

After getting the water, he gulped down half of the bottle and immediately felt much better, and looked at Ibaraki with a hint of joy in his eyes, "How do you know there is water there?"

Ibaraki came back and sat down, then handed him two pieces of candy, "I put it."

Jiuten thought it was strange, took a piece of candy from his hand, peeled it off and ate it, and at the same time motioned him to eat the other piece, "Why did you think of putting these in the equipment room?"

Ibaraki lowered his head and slowly fiddled with the candy wrappers, trying to smile or not: "Experience."

"What kind of experience is this?" Jiu Tun laughed for a while, but soon realized that this was not the first time Ibaraki had experienced such a thing, and couldn't help feeling embarrassed, "Ah..."

Ibaraki smiled, and took the initiative to take over the conversation, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

Jiu Tun squeezed the mineral water bottle, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart, but he didn't know how to respond, so he could only change the topic abruptly, "You don't want to drink some water?"

"No need." Ibaraki put the sugar into his mouth, and then spoke in a vague voice, "Don't drink too much."

Jiu Tun stopped his hand on the bottle cap, puzzled in his eyes.

Ibaraki glanced at him quickly, then turned his head away, his face was hot, "If you want to go to the bathroom, it will... be inconvenient."

Jiu Tun listened, amused, put down the mineral water bottle to tease him, "Why are you blushing?"

Ibaraki raised his hand and rubbed his face, pretending to be calm and said: "It's too hot."

"Heh." Jiu Tun chuckled, without looking into it, fell back, stretched out on the sponge cushion and muttered: "You are really weird."

The sponge cushion behind him sank down with Shuten's movements, and Ibaraki's heart sank as well. Taking a deep breath carefully, he tentatively asked, "What's wrong?"

"For example...pretending to be easy to bully, but not fighting back even though they were able to beat them well; also deliberately low scores in the exam, the test paper and scratch paper are more complete than the answer sheet; and..." Jiu Tun tossed and turned to find a more comfortable place Lying down in the same posture, the tone of voice dragged out very long, sounding lazy, "It's too much."

Ibaraki was terrified when he heard that, he didn't understand how Shuten would know these facts that he thought he had hidden well.Turning his head stiffly, Ibaraki's voice trembled slightly, "What are you talking about?"

Jiu Tun didn't answer, but only half-closed his eyes and looked at him, with a faint smile on his mouth.

Ibaraki finally settled down in this battle of eyes, he slumped his shoulders and said in a low voice: "How do you know?"

Jiu Tun hooked his hand to signal him to come closer, "Come here, I'll tell you."

Ibaraki hesitated, turned around and knelt on the sponge pad, bent down and slowly approached him.

"However," Jiu Tun changed the subject, and suddenly stretched out his hand to grab his front lapel with force, and the two instantly touched their ears and lips, and Jiu Tun's warm voice slowly and clearly entered Ibaraki's ears, "as In exchange, you must first tell me why you did this."

04

Ibaraki's family is not as poor as the rumors say, but his family background is indeed not good, or he has no home.

His father who died when he was young and his mother who left a sum of money in junior high school and left him with others made him start a life alone prematurely.The special growth environment allowed Ibaraki to develop an independent and resolute character since he was a child, so when faced with the fact of being abandoned, he was not so at a loss except for being sad-after all, everything was not without warning, and it was not that he had never done this general assumption.

Ibaraki's house is not big and the lighting is not very good, but he cleans the house every day and draws all the curtains to make the room look as bright as possible.Just as he has been carefully arranging his life in an orderly manner, he hopes that one day, the gloomy life will usher in the long-awaited brilliance.

"I'm not like you. No matter what you do, at least your parents will tell you the truth. What about me?" Ibaraki looked at Shuten, who listened with a frown, and couldn't see any more expressions on his face.Ibaraki continued: "I can't bear the consequences of beating up my bullies, being expelled from school and being recorded in the files."

Ibaraki simply gave an example. Real life is far more difficult than words, and he has to be responsible for every decision and everything he makes.Because they cannot be reckless, encounters must be endured.

"You can..." Jiu Tun considered his words for a while, "Be a good student, and if you get good grades, the teachers will pay more attention to you, so they will restrain themselves somewhat."

"Will it?" Ibaraki asked back, with a bit of sarcasm on his face, "You expect the teacher to take care of it?"

Accustomed to seeing Ibaraki's resignation, it was hard for Jiuten to believe that he would show such an expression, he couldn't help being taken aback for a moment, then snorted and said, "That's right."

"You have too many things that I don't have. The only thing I can rely on is my brain and ability. Those people can't take it away, but not being able to take it away doesn't mean it can't be destroyed."

"What do you mean?"

"After I transferred to a second school in high school, I was in the top ten in the first monthly exam. Before the second exam, they asked me if I could get the test paper in advance. I said no, and they asked me to help them cheat. Even if it is study No matter how good a student is, like you, what will happen if you are caught cheating in the examination room again and again?"

Jiu Tun pursed his lips tightly and remained silent, but showed a complicated expression.

"Endure for another 49 days." Clenching his hands on his knees, Ibaraki exhaled slowly and turned to Shuten, "It's your turn to answer me."

"Oh." Jiu Tun sat up straight, hooked his neck, and said succinctly: "Maybe you just stare at me for two years, and you are not allowed to pay attention to you?"

"What?!" Izuku was startled.

"It's a good thing the one I fell in love with isn't a real trash." Jiu Tun let him go, talking to himself and lying back on the sponge cushion.

waste.

Ibaraki's heart trembled - this morning, Shuten Shogun used this word and gave him a silent contempt.

Seeing Jiu Tun resting his head with one hand and taking out his cell phone from his trouser pocket with the other hand and pressing the dial pad, Ibaraki realized that he must have been tricked.Recovering from the shock, Ibaraki quickly grabbed his hand that pressed the button, covered him with Shuten and looked down at him, and said seriously, "I'm not a waste."

The completely suppressed posture made Shuten a little annoyed, but when he met Ibaraki's scorching gaze, he lost his temper again, "I know."

"And you just...just now..." Ibaraki's eyes flickered, and the strength in his hands loosened, "What do you mean by those words just now?"

Letting Ibaraki grab his wrist, Shuten let go of the phone, and slowly pulled his hand down so that the palms of the two touched. Then, his fingers passed between Ibaraki's fingers, and his fingers interlocked.

"I like what you mean. What about you?"

Ibaraki never knew that a person's mood could experience such great ups and downs in a day, and he didn't know why he heard Shuten's confession on such a day, and he didn't even know that his heavy and gloomy life would burst out Such a pleasant surprise.

Thinking like crazy.

ecstatic.

Shuten looked at Ibaraki, and already got the answer.

"Now, let me call someone to answer the door... Ugh!"

05

I yearn for you.

You shine brightly and my dreams come true.

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