He wasn't the leader that ordered them tho. He later says the only reason he joined that group was cause they saw him choking the teacher and kinda started hanging around him or something. The only reason that red hair stopped when the ml said to, was cause he was afraid of him after knowing that teacher incident.
I don't think he ever enabled them, i will admit he never outright stopped them, hell in some instances (2 i can think of) he even makes up an excuse of other people seeing the scars to stop them from going too far. He also talks to the bullied kid once after stopping the others and tries to understand him, but ends up seeing himself in him about not fighting back.
Also the bystanders were all kids, the bullying happened when they were kids, and it was by a group so it's kinda understandable why no one wanted to interfere. Kids probably value their own life more than a person they don't probably know about. You can even see the mom of mc telling him not to be involved or even help the bullied one so it's understandable that kids wouldn't really want to interfere.
I will put the blame on the teachers tho, fk them and the bullies too, i do wish we'd see them getting some consequences and update on the bullied kid.
If I'm wrong about ml not being involved in the bullying feel free to correct me. But i definitely didn't see him be involved in bullying actively, he definitely was a bystander too but you gotta remember he had his own shit going on and remained sort of emotionless during the first half(which even the mc comments on on the later chapter) and he too was a kid. I also say this cause i was comparing this to another work which had similar theme and how this one handled it better since it shows the consequences and the ml didn't actively take part in bullying.
I know everyone is like ml was not a bullie just watching but he pretty much was the leader?
The others were trying to satisfy him and he just enebled it more? Dunno i have a sour taste in my mouth with this story.
Everyone goes to live their lives but what about the poor child that tried to kill themselves? It was an attempt but its gonna be the first of many now and life long trauma. Dunno i deslike everyone. The bullies(yes Ml too) , the bystanders and the teachers that were doing even less.
Ya poor ml abused at home but how do we know if that boy was abused at home too? Imagine duffering at home and at school. Such hell