Chapter 6 – Fighting in the Streets
As they picked up their food from the floor, the two girls' tears wouldn't stop falling. They internally wondered why all this happened.
"What did we do that was so wrong?" Aki couldn't resist asking. Her speech still seemed choked with tears.
"I don't know..." Madoka was already consuming herself inside and didn't have the strength to answer.
"Just because we questioned him? I know it felt wrong after all, but it's not like we got it wrong either!" Aki threw all the food on the floor again in frustration. She couldn't hold back anymore.
Madoka didn't answer and just looked at Aki. She finished putting away her soiled bento and went to help her. Her tears were still falling, but she was already trying to wipe them away.
"I think it wasn't because we questioned him. But when. We gave ourselves to him at the same time, but we wanted him to tear us apart again." Madoka was the one who got hurt the most in this. She's always liked Kai, but when she finally gets the chance, she blows it. So she had to rack her brain to find the reason for everything.
"I know that. I understood after what he said. But why was he so upset? He didn't even hug us back! I want to be hugged by him!" Aki, even though she understood, couldn't help but continue to act like a child.
"We disrespect him. We don't ask about his feelings, we just demand something for nothing. Even though he was in the middle of it all, he only offered lunch, but we kissed him, gave him our bodies and let him satisfy us. We had no right to demand anything, since from beginning to end we only used him." Madoka finally collected every grain of rice on the ground and closed Aki's dirty bento.
She then got up and helped Aki up as well.
"What are we going to do now? I'm sorry to say this in your face, but I can't imagine having another man in my life. Since we met he became my perfect boyfriend. I won't give him up for anything." Aki was also the most sincere and honest, and had already stated her thoughts.
"I don't want to give up on him either, nor will I. He's always helped me with my tennis practice and he's the best man I've ever met. I want to be with him forever." Madoka didn't want to give up either. Despite how Kai treated them in the end, she had already absorbed all the blame onto herself.
"So the two of us are going to be his girlfriends? How is this going to work?" Aki asked as she wiped away her tears.
"I don't know, we can find out later. We first have to find a way to apologize." Madoka then finished cleaning the dirt on Aki's skirt and held her hand tightly. "But let's do it together!"
"Yes!"
Smiling at each other, they walked down the terrace stairs hand in hand and with new conviction.
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A few minutes earlier. With Kai.
He had already left the school by this time, but he was still walking around. He dialed a number on his cell phone and soon the other party answered.
"Hello, my dear student! What good news shall I welcome?" A smarmy, old-fashioned voice sounded from the other end.
"Don't piss me off. I'm going to walk a little and I don't intend to attend the afternoon classes. Make up some excuse." Kai wasn't in the least bit of patience and spoke rudely.
"You see, my dear Kai. Today is just the first day of school, and it wouldn't be very good for your exemplary profile to just-" The Principal had already started to invent various nonsense to keep Kai within the walls.
"Cut the nonsense! Ten million yen for bathroom renovation. I will transfer another 50 million for further renovation in the sports club. If you ask for more I'll cut off your balls."
And without even waiting for an answer, Kai has already hung up the phone. Tucking it into his pocket, he began to think about what had just happened.
What he did was exaggerated, like throwing their food on the floor and leaving without looking at them. He should confess that there was a bit of emotional manipulation. But honestly, he was really pissed off.
If there was one thing he hated with all his might, it was being forced by someone to do anything. Even though he was already going to do it anyway. This led to numerous fights with the celibate old man, to the point that he had already broken his own arm just for not doing what the old man forced him to do.
It was also why he ignored his mother, as her constant insistence on marrying him off to some random girl was getting on his nerves. That was her punishment.
Madoka and Aki pushed his limits with their constant questions, so he decided to test their limits too. He took advantage of his anger to hurt the two emotionally and see if they would come back. If they didn't, then he'd dismiss them as targets and let their original stories take their course.
And as cold and indifferent as that sounds, what else could he do? If their emotion wasn't that strong, then it wasn't worth it for him to harbor any feelings for them.
While lost in his thoughts, he arrived at a spot near the back of the school. Close to here there was also a school for elementary education and some children also walked around here.
But soon he noticed that a group of people were gathering in one place. Since he was taller than everyone else, he could see what was going on.
A group of four men were teasing a small boy. He looked like your typical coward, full of freckles, bad-cut hair, and zero-resistance attitude. The child appeared to be crying and his pants were also wet.
{I think you better come closer. There's a group of targets here who are exceptional.} Sora informed him and then got busy with something else.
As angry as he was, Kai didn't dare disregard his GODDESS wife's suggestions, as she knew more than he did about anything.
It was only when he approached that a small girl started to invade the circle as well and looked ready to face anything. Even the people around were also starting to recognize her.
"See, see! Aoi-chan has arrived to save the day!"
"I love seeing her get into action! I should start recording a video of her to put on the forum!"
"Are you also part of the forum The Super Martial Artist Aoi-chan??? I'll record too!"
Several people started recording, waiting for the scene to unfold. The protagonist in particular had already entered the scene. She took off her coat, revealing a petite girl wearing a sports bra and panties! Quite unnecessary, but oh well...
"In the name of justice, stop what you are doing to this child and surrender or flee!" The girl looked dignified, Koshiki Aoi, and her beautiful features and athletic body complemented her actions of justice.
"Well well! What do we have here? A little princess wants to play heroine?" Bad Guy #1 said as he slapped the crying boy on the head and started laughing.
"Surrender to whom? Are you the police by any chance, brat? Aren't you afraid that you're the one being handcuffed? Hahaha!" Bad guy #2 also started laughing and this made the foursome burst out laughing.
"Laugh all you want, but don't you dare cry when you experience the FIST OF JUSTICE!" Koshiki Aoi immediately ran towards the bad, muscular and much bigger guys. It was already obvious that it was going to go wrong from the beginning.
Punch!
With extreme ease, bad guy #3 grabbed Aoi's fist like it was nothing. A creepy smile spread across his face as he squeezed her small fist.
"That's all, pretty? Is that what you want to make us cry with?" He clenched his fist and made room for her stomach, "Let me show you how to make someone really cry!"
Bang!
Before the fist could hit Aoi full force, Kai appeared beside bad guy #3 and caught his punch. He was waiting from the beginning of everything, so it wasn't really something mystical like appearing out of nowhere.
"Don't you think it's a little silly to want to hit someone smaller than you?" Kai looked strangely at bad guy #3's shocked expression. He looked at the other three guys behind him and saw one in particular who wanted to show off more.
What was possibly the bad guy #leader called the others. They forgot about the pissed boy and stared at Kai from afar.
"Let go of my arm, motherfucker!" Bad Guy #3 tried to break free of Kai's grip, but to no avail. When he tried to pull again, Kai suddenly let go and the momentum sent him stumbling towards his cohorts.
"Are you looking for some trouble, man?" The bad guy #leader looked Kai up and down and started making signs to the others, whom began circling Kai.
"Are you okay girl? You're Koshiki Aoi, right?" Kai ignored the bad guy #leader and turned to talk to Aoi. He even reached out his hand to her.
The girl, still taken aback by everything, automatically grabbed Kai's hand as she stammered, "Y-yes, I am Aoi, and my name is fine!"
"..." Kai kept looking at Aoi as he saw if she would understand what she just did. Only after a few seconds did she finally realize what she said.
"I mean, I'm fine and yes, I'm Koshiki-!" Aoi blushed in embarrassment when she saw the stupidity she had committed. But as she was lost looking at Kai, she saw a kick approaching from behind him, "Careful!"
Swoosh!
With a fluid movement, Kai felt the kick coming towards his head and dodged just by lowering his head a little. He almost came face to face with Aoi when he said it gently.
"Excuse me, I have some things to do." He then turned to the four bad guys as he loosened his tie.
"Here we go..."
***
The audience that was focused on recording Aoi-chan saving the day again was suddenly shocked by the turn of events.
When everyone saw that the bad guy caught Aoi's punch so easily, their expressions turned pale and they knew something bad was going to happen. But when everyone was going to witness a scene of violence against women, this big handsome guy appeared out of nowhere!
He grabbed the bad guy's fist, pushed him to the ground and cursed his mother! He even pointed the finger at them and challenged them to a death duel - ok, enough.
Now, while everyone was still reeling from the shock, and some die-hard Aoi-chan fans were wondering why their goddess was holding another man's hand and blushing, Kai suddenly started a brutal sports-style Taekwondo beating show!
"My God, are you recording this?? I'm recording this!!"
"Wait, isn't that Kai from Horizon? The model student and all? Does he also know how to fight?"
"Are you blind, you donkey? Can't you see him literally hitting a guy with a spinning kick? Did you think it was some dance?"
"Fuck you, I'm just impressed!"
***
As the crowd was starting to cheer, even more, watching Kai fight the bad guys, a tall girl with big black hair tied in a ponytal watched the 'hero' of the scene with shocked eyes.
"That fighting style! Does anyone strong really exist at this school?" She tightened her grip on the strap of her school bag as she felt adrenaline course through her veins just imagining fighting Kai, "He really looks like he's worthy of a fight! Thank you mom for getting me into this school!"
The girl continued watching Kai defeat each one while remembering her own struggles. She was a troublemaker of the first order, but she couldn't help herself when she saw the opportunity. Girls were just too weak, so the only excuse to have an interesting fight was with guys trying to do something to her.
Those disgusting, pitiful looks were reason enough for her to want to fight everyone, and that's why she got kicked out of her last school, for hitting the principal.
"Our fight will be epic!"
***
A girl with long purple hair looked at her senpai in the crowd, watching him develop and almost give a public demonstration of Taekwondo to everyone. She was of medium height, but had a well-proportioned body.
"Is that senpai? Wow! I didn't know that he was also a fighter, especially in this martial art. I learned too, but I only reached the level of self-defense..."
Her cheeks flushed as she watched Kai's movements. Memories of her always seeing him around campus surged to make her heart race.
"Model student, captain of the basketball team, winner of school Olympics... What else interesting do you have to show, Senpai?"
***
"Of all places, I didn't expect to find you here... Kai..."
A girl with medium dark red hair watched Kai from afar while a flood of thoughts came into her mind just with the fact of having seen him.
Ever since she heard that she had been kicked out of the swim club for 'growing too much', an intense sense of loss has settled in her heart. She had struggled for most of her life with the club, but all she got back was nothing.
To try to recover from this state, she visited the school during the winter vacation to see if there was anything that motivated her to get out of that state. She wanted to find some motivation again, something that would make her heart pound like swimming.
And there he was. From 08:00 to 18:00 playing, training and teaching basketball until he sat down on the ground with no strength. Training alone in the hot sun, heavy rain or bitter cold. From the moment she stepped onto campus until the moment she left, she saw him playing basketball.
She found in him an intense drive to improve, and there were times when she spent several days watching him play, finally making up her mind and knowing what she would do. She now not only knew how to get out of her depression, but also who would help her.
"But the moment I applied and finally got into the basketball club, it was announced that you...left..."
***
When all the bad guys were already on the floor and beaten up, Kai finally picked up his tie from the floor, along with Aoi's coat, and walked over to the girl.
"Is your mouth open in shock or is this some kind of injury from the fight?" Kai covered her with his coat again, "No need to answer, I'm just kidding."
While clutching the edges of her coat, Aoi looked at Kai with her mouth still open and wondered how she had never heard of anyone who could do martial arts like her.
Kai also took advantage of this moment to see her Status.
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| {Name: Koshiki Aoi}
| {Status}
| [Strength: 1.3]
| [Dexterity:1.4]
| [Constitution: 1.4]
| [Intelligence: 1.3]
| [Charm: 2.5]
| {Skill Tree}
| [Basic Education Skill Tree]
| [Basic Training Skill Tree]
| [Leadership Skill Tree]
| [Martial Arts Skill Tree]
| {Destiny}
| [Lovemeter: 10/100]
| [DP:350/1000]
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'Um, not bad. Some new stuff.' Seeing that it was still going to take her time to process things, Kai started walking towards the pissed boy while sending some messages.
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Author Note: Any grammatical errors or wrong spelling, please let me know. Sometimes it passes... :)
Bad Joke#6:
Two windmills are standing on a wind farm.
One asks, "What's your favorite type of music?"
The other says, "I'm a big Metal fan!"