@Ugga He
is weird, though - that's partly why people pick on him. At the beginning of the story he was almost non-verbal. I don't think it's particularly out of character for him to say something strange in the middle of being bullied.
@comeonnow0 yeah even when I was translating it I was cringeing, so it wasn't surprising to me that the bullies just hurt him even more.
He's not a very normal child and he says/does weird things a lot. I read the earlier chapters in the raws and not the translations, so I'm not sure if that came across earlier. But he's a sweet and deeply weird kid.