The bulk of this ep was quite annoying to watch, for sure, because of the submissive attitude of those two targets. I was expecting the second one to fight back. The first one seemed to be from the helpless nerd stock but the second looked like he could have fought. But alas no. I never actually witnessed systematic bullying, the zero tolerance is effective after all, but if you believed manga, anime and games it looks like the teachers in Japan don't give a shit. A bit hard to believe really, since like this series has shown, the schools really may want to retain their image.

Fortunately in the end this episode didn't let down because the second dude cracked and stabbed. Jolly good. Though I still would have preferred a more intelligent outcome (no less violent; those bullies deserved what they got, but a more strategic payback) but this does suit this series better, I reckon.