After leaving the teaching building where the student union is located, Chihaya found that she didn't seem to have anything in particular she wanted to do.
It is now the afternoon tea time unique to Huanghua, a school for young ladies. Ordinary civilian students are either participating in club activities at this time, or staying obediently in the classroom to study homework.
Except for the members who also go to club activities, the eldest ladies will basically hold tea parties in the backyard of the college.
As a member of commoner students, Chihaya would definitely not go to that tea party with a high-class atmosphere—although those tea party members would definitely raise their hands to welcome her to attend.
So she went to the atrium anyway, but as soon as she arrived at the atrium, she saw a few children in the lower grades huddled under the tree, looking up at the tree with worried faces.
Anyway, having nothing to do, Chihaya simply came to the tree and looked up at the tree.
Soon she understood what those children were looking at: a white kitten was trembling at the end of a branch, and in front of it, a big colorful snake was coiling around the root of the branch and staring at it , and hissed out the snake letter.
If things go on like this, kittens that dare not jump down will soon become the snake's feast.
Although the children around the tree wanted to stop them, firstly, they basically didn't know how to climb trees, and secondly, as girls, their natural fear of snakes was difficult to overcome.
"Didn't Nanako call the teacher? Isn't the teacher here yet?"
"Usually, you can always see those patrolling security guards, but now when you need them, you can't see any of them!"
"What should I do? Why don't you go to the sports room and take out the mat and put it under the kitten?"
In the end, they could only twitter and quarrel like a flock of sparrows.
This made the kitten even more frightened, but the snake was not affected at all, and continued to approach the kitten...
Chihaya looked at the little white cat, a trace of pity flashed in her eyes, but soon she lowered her head and planned to leave the courtyard.
Because she doesn't know how to climb trees, she won't be able to help her in the past. And as a child who has been bullied since she was a child, she understands the meaning of the weak and the strong better than those young ladies in the greenhouse.
At this time, she felt someone tugging at the corner of her clothes.
Turning around, she found that Jasmine appeared behind her at some point.
"Want to save the cat?" the little girl looked up at her and asked expressionlessly.
The afternoon sun filled the atrium, and the girl's smooth and fair skin reflected the sun, making her body seem to be covered with a layer of fluorescent light, making her look like a dream.
"... But if you save the cat, it will become a snake with nothing to eat and starve. There is no right or wrong, it's just an act just to survive. This is what the so-called law of the jungle means."
Chihaya looked away from her and Jasmine's gaze, turned her face away and said softly.
"Japanese is too complicated, I can't understand it."
But Jasmine ignored the girl's self-pity about her past, and just looked straight at Chihaya with Wugou's gaze: "I just want to know if you want to save the cat."
Raising her head, Chihaya looked at the shivering little white cat again, feeling as if she saw her helpless self before.
Facing the maliciousness around me alone, I can't do anything, I can't resist anything, I can only hold my head and cry alone at night, letting loneliness and pain eat my heart.
If someone had come to help me at that time, maybe I would not have become the awkward character I am now that I can't even make friends with, right
"Save..."
When did you become like this? Lost hope for the future, closed his heart in order not to be hurt, and lost any interest in everything.
Even if you encounter this kind of thing, you can use the sentence "This is the law of the jungle, there is no way to do it", and you won't feel any sadness because of it.
Since when did I change from a "victim" to a "perpetrator" like those who treated her with indifference
"Save it, please..."
Jasmine's gaze seemed to contain magic power (in fact, it did contain magic power), causing slight cracks in Chihaya's originally solid inner defense line. Finally, the girl lowered her eyes and pleaded with Jasmine in an almost inaudible voice.
"Leave it to the nest!"
Jasmine nodded in satisfaction, patted her chest that was barely heaving, then turned around and squeezed away the girls under the trees, all the way to the front of the tree trunk.
"Wow, my foot was stepped on, who is it?" "Wait... don't squeeze me!" "Who is this little guy from the face, is he the transfer student from the first grade?" "Give me a little... Hey, Miyama-sama!"
The girls who were squeezed away were still a little unhappy, and wanted to find Jasmine to make a theory, but when they saw Chihaya behind Jasmine, whose face was even worse than usual, they couldn't help being discouraged.
"Language has power." Standing in front of the tree, Jasmine raised her head and looked up at the confronting kitten and big snake, and said seriously what sounded like a great truth, but because of that immature face and the truth of the truth. It doesn't match, so it gives people a funny feeling of a child trying to pretend to be an adult: "As long as you communicate well, others will understand—that's what the landlord said."
After finishing speaking, she didn't leave time for Chihaya to complain about 'what the hell is the landlord', but made a trumpet shape with both hands, and shouted directly at the big snake on the branch with a rhythmic voice: "Mr. Snake, Mr. Snake, You stop, don't do stupid things. Mr. Snake, Mr. Snake, think of your old mother in your hometown, she will cry if she finds out."
Did the police persuade you to surrender
Chihaya was still serious because of Jasmine's words and serious demeanor, but she didn't expect that this unreliable Jasmine not only planned to persuade the snake to come down with words, but her lines were similar to those of the police advising the gangsters...
This made Chihaya suddenly feel like "I will believe her because I have a problem with my brain".
However, just when everyone thought Jasmine was just joking, the snake really stopped moving, and then swam down the tree trunk, scaring the girls under the tree and fleeing in all directions. Only Jasmine herself and Chihaya is still there.
But even Chihaya was a little uneasy when he saw that big snake with thick wrists.
After the snake came down, it actually raised its triangular head, nodded towards Jasmine and the others in a very humane manner, then got into a small ditch next to it, and disappeared completely with a bang...
"It really succeeded?"
Chihaya blinked her eyes, her eyes filled with disbelief.
"Look, Wo just said there's no problem."
Jasmine turned her head and proudly held up the washboard: "This is the power of communication."