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"Shinta Uchiha, I will correct your wrongs. Labeling you as evil must be corrected. As for the rest, perhaps...no, never mind."
"That, Shinta-kun, uh, Uchiha-kun. Shiro-chan is a really good person, okay?"
The commotion didn't last long, and was quickly cut off by the start of class.
The teacher walked up to the podium, ignoring the chaos in the classroom and beginning the lesson.
As for the students who'd been knocked out, they returned to their seats like robots being rebooted.
To Yuki Tsukishiro, this was exactly what she needed.
It was as if the earlier commotion had never happened.
The script she'd written for pure, good girl Emma hadn't been disrupted much, and everything could proceed as planned.
There was just one extra intruder named Shinta Uchiha, sitting at the desk behind her.
Yuki Tsukishiro kept her smile, not listening to the lesson, but secretly observing Shinta Uchiha.
This man was a completely different person when he was silent compared to when he was talking.
"..."
Shinta Uchiha propped his chin in his hand, a grave expression on his face.
He acutely felt two waves of malice swirling around him.
The first wave of malice, Shinta Uchiha knew without even thinking, came from the inherently evil **Otsutsuki**, Yuki Tsukishiro.
This was the badge he'd earned for ruining her scheme.
As for the source of the second wave of malice, it seemed to be the revived **total dumb goldfish** in the classroom.
"So, are the **total dumb goldfish** in this class going to include me in their bullying targets too?"
"...Hmm, I get it. Even though I'm helping them stay away from the **Otsutsuki**'s plot, doing a good deed, they don't know that, and will only end up resenting me."
In Shinta Uchiha's view, bullying generally fell into two categories.
One was direct physical violence.
Dousing with water, hitting with **Iron Bucket Zombie** buckets, stepping on clean clothes with dirty shoe soles, beating, scribbling on blackboards, writing bad things about you, painting you as a complete untouchable villain.
The other was cold violence.
No one would talk to you, no one would acknowledge you.
Shinta Uchiha furrowed his brows. His sharper-than-average eyes let him faintly feel that the malice radiating from his **total dumb goldfish** had taken the form of a human shadow, lying on his shoulder and sneering at him.
See? This is what happens when you refuse to join us, when you don't help us teach that annoying Yuki Tsukishiro a lesson.
You have to read the room. You can't be a misfit!
"...Speaking of which, aren't all delinquent students naturally skilled bullies?"
Feeling this uncomfortable aura, Shinta Uchiha suddenly remembered a hot-blooded manga he'd read called *Crows*.
The main character, Bouya Harumichi, was the strongest high school student on the surface. The people he fought were usually primitive, dinosaur-eating savages from millions of years ago, or swordsmen like Musashi Miyamoto from hundreds of years ago, or even US presidents declaring independence, the strongest creatures that would never invade his territory.
But even such an awesome guy still got bullied.
The house he lived in, and the nearby streets, were covered in humiliating words by the **total dumb goldfish**.
Following this case, delinquent student **total dumb goldfish** should be extremely bold types, who would never stop bullying just because they can't beat the other person, nor because the other person has strength, money, power, or a high status.
Shinta Uchiha nodded. He thought the information he'd gotten from the only channel he understood modern society through was quite reasonable.
Even though...it completely defied real logic, and didn't fit the **total dumb goldfish**'s usual cowardly, pick-on-the-weak character, but when applied to the worldview of Naruto, it was completely flawless.
The villagers of the Five Great Villages, weren't they following this "not fearing the strong" logic, treating Jinchūriki like monsters to fear, while brutally bullying the Jinchūriki!?
The villagers in Konoha even directly bullied the father of Hatake Kakashi, that Hokage half, to the point of suicide.
That's right! This is exactly what Naruto is like!
So, as a misfit, he, and that evil **Otsutsuki** named Yuki Tsukishiro, would definitely still be subjected to both types of bullying!
However...this wasn't entirely a bad thing.
People's energy is limited.
If these **total dumb goldfish** had to target both him and Yuki Tsukishiro at the same time, they definitely wouldn't be able to focus all their energy on cooperating with the latter's scheme like before.
And as the one being bullied, he had an even more reasonable reason to fight back, to stop the bullying, and foil the inherently evil **Otsutsuki**'s plot.
Yes! This is a good thing!
It's nothing but beneficial for me!
"It's okay. Being bullied, being isolated doesn't matter. The Uchiha don't need friends. The Uchiha are like proud lone wolves. A person can live even better this way."
Shinta Uchiha analyzed this calmly.
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Yuki Tsukishiro, who was secretly observing, felt confused.
What is this guy talking about?
He's practically writing "I want friends, I'm scared of loneliness, I'm scared of being alone, please don't ignore me" all over his face, but he's saying he doesn't need it out loud.
So...compared to Shiro, is Uchiha-kun essentially just a tsundere version of **little puppy** Emma?
Then, will he take the initiative to join the **total dumb goldfish**'s team later, to fit in and not be hated by everyone?
If that's the case, he won't have to do anything...everything will go back on track?
"No problem. I'm a cold and aloof heartthrob, so it's totally fine. Being isolated is even beneficial to me, it highlights my persona."
Shinta Uchiha nodded lightly, cheering himself on again.
After that, the guy temporarily stopped thinking about bullying, and began using his rich ninja knowledge to think about how to deal with the inherently evil **Otsutsuki** Yuki Tsukishiro.
Hmm, in the world of Naruto, intelligence is the most important thing.
And the first step to gathering intelligence is to get close to the target and observe them.
In other words, that means...he should stay right next to Yuki Tsukishiro, keep a close eye on her, whether she's taking a bath, changing clothes, or carrying out an evil, sinister plot to try and destroy humanity. No matter what happens, he can't let her figure disappear from his line of sight for even a second.
He must keep his gaze fixed only on her.
He must keep staring at her, always staring at her with the Uchiha's eyes that can see through all lies—with the **Sharingan**!