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Chapter 20

“Kiyotaka-kun come on! It’s time to open the presents!” I heard Chiaki yell from somewhere to my right.

Ignoring that I looked around my room and not finding the person I was looking for I pulled out my phone again and turned on the gps feature only to close my eyes for a second when I confirmed the fact that she was not here.

“Is something wrong Ayanokōji-kun? You look a little pale.” I turned to the voice that spoke seeing Suzune looking at me in worry.

“Hey Horikita I’m going to step out for a few minutes. If anyone asks where I went, please cover for me alright? I’ll be right back.” I requested of the girl and not giving her a chance to respond I was quick to maneuver myself out of the room as fast as possible before I took off in a sprint as soon as I had closed the door behind me.

I was in such a hurry that I didn’t even use the elevator and instead used the stairs climbing down as fast as I could almost slipping up more than once on trying to keep my speed to human standards. Once I had made it to the bottom floor, I took off in a run probably beating any and all records by how fast I was going.

The whole way I debated in my mind whether or not I could get away with murder and still be able to attend school like normal tomorrow as what I read in the email replayed on my mind.

“To Mr. Boyfriend,

Finally figured out how you were keeping a step ahead of us the entire time.

How about we meet face to face? I’ll be waiting with our friend for you in the address provided.

Come alone.”

‘Tsk, and I was so close to finishing the year without any major incident.’ I thought in annoyance keeping any emotions from showing on my face.

Reaching the place mentioned in the email, I was quick to spot Albert Yamada guarding the door to the entrance. For a second the thought of just hitting him with an Explosion Punch, self-explanatory magic I had recreated, and blowing his head off entered my mind before dismissing it a second later.

“Move.” I ordered the man in front of me in perfect English with a monotone voice even if I wanted nothing more than to tear his head off.

Luckily for Yamada he was quick to let me in and follow behind me as I quickly made my way to the back of the place noticing this was where Kei had been originally tortured. And just like in the original timeline the further I made it inside the colder it got making me twitch my eyebrow in anger at such an innocent girl experiencing such torture.

“Welcome Ayanokōji, we’ve been waiting for you.”

Ignoring the mocking voice of Ryuen in front of me, my eyes were glued on the wet silver-haired girl on the ground who was shivering nonstop but her teary eyed gaze was firmly locked on my face.

“Sorry I’m late Hiyori.” I apologized quietly attempting to smile at the girl only to give up almost immediately as I just couldn’t do it currently.

“K-Kiyotaka-kun y-you’re h-here.” Hiyori whispered stuttering horribly due to the cold and offering me a shaky smile.

“I gotta hand it to you Ayanokōji. I don’t know what you did to gain her complete loyalty but she refused to cooperate so I had to get a little rough on her. The stupid bitch refused to betray you even for her own dear classmates.” Ryuen mocked with a sneer.

Looking back to the teen I felt my eyes become almost hollow as all emotion was drained from them. Seeing 3 figures to his side I saw Ibuki, Ike and Yamauchi standing there silently looking uncomfortable as if ashamed of what they had done.

Especially Ibuki who couldn’t even look at me properly and was looking off to the side. Not that it would save them as despite their reluctance they had still subjected my angel to hell and I would not be showing mercy to them especially to Ibuki as this was her second offense.

Without saying anything I spun on my heel and delivered a devastating kick to Yamada who was standing behind me, hitting him in the ribs and sending him flying to the wall where he crashed head first against it and immediately crumbled to the ground. Not caring about his condition, I finished my spin and set my foot down on the ground again meeting the surprised look on their faces.

“One down.” I whispered with a monotone voice.

“W-what the fuck was that?! He just took Yamada down like it was nothing!” Ibuki exclaimed in alarm as she got into a fighting stance.

“Che that’s some amazing strength you’re packing there Ayanokōji. I see now why our plan during the Sports Festival failed.” Ryuen commented a little surprised but not seeming scared at all.

Not dignifying them with a response I took a step forward causing Ibuki to launch into action. I watched almost in slow motion as Ibuki got near me and launched a series of quick jabs my way which were easily dodged. Then getting frustrated she attempted a spinning back kick only to gasp in surprise when I blocked it almost nonchalantly with my wrist and grabbed a tight hold oh her ankle.

“Tsk, let me go you bastard.” Ibuki snarled trying to balance herself with only one leg.

“Four down.” I whispered before tightening my grip on her leg and throwing her against Ike and Yamauchi causing them all to be thrown against the wall as well and knocked unconscious due to my strength.

“Hahaha seems I seriously underestimated you but don’t think skill and brute strength are everything in a fight!” Ryuen yelled as he finally launched himself at me.

Seeing the target of my rage approaching I let some of my restraints fall and immediately kicked the teen in the solar plexus faster than he could react stopping his momentum and causing him to hunch over in pain. Directly following that I elbowed him in the back sending him face first into the floor.

Now satisfied yet I brought my leg up and ruthlessly stamped down on both of his hands hearing them crack as I did. Ignoring his screams of pain, I leaned down and roughly grabbed the teen by the hair and pulled him up until he was dangling in the air in front of me as blood rolled down his now broken nose.

Looking at Ryuen’s face I saw him glaring back at me in hate even with all the pain he was in and proceeded to use my free hand to rain down blows on his torso.

The sounds of pained grunts and moans filled the room for the next few minutes as I mercilessly and almost mechanically punched Ryuen making sure that no part of his torso was left untouched.

“P-ple- ‘smack’ -ease n-no ‘smack’ m-more…” Came the barely audible voice of Ryuen as he pleaded at me to stop only for his pleas to be ignored by me not caring about anything the teen had to say.

I suddenly felt a hand grab my sleeve preventing me from punching him again and halted my movements knowing who was responsible.

“K-kiyotaka-kun please s-stop. I’m alright n-now.” Hiyori whispered with a pleading tone managing to get that out with only a small stutter.

“And five down.” I said nonchalantly finally releasing Ryuen from my hold and letting him drop on the ground.

Looking down at him with a blank look, I felt nothing at the pathetic sobs I heard from the teen and the condition I had left him in. ‘You should be thankful that Hiyori inadvertently saved your life as I don’t want her to see me in a bad light.’

Looking away from the downed teen I finally turn to Hiyori who had managed to crawl to my side while still shivering terribly. Thankfully she had stopped crying and was only silently looking me with a relieved and thankful look on her face.

“Let’s get out of here Hiyori.” I said taking off my blazer and leaning down wrapping the girl with it who was quick to put it on.

“T-thanks Kiyotaka-kun.” Hiyori whispered quietly then let out a cute squeak as I pulled her up into my arms in a bridal carry.

“Rest now, I’m here.” I whispered softly kissing her on the forehead seeing as she seemed about to pass out then slowly made my way out of the building.

“Mmn okaaay.” Proving my point Hiyori was quick to fall asleep as she cuddled into my chest.

Before leaving the building I suddenly stopped and called out behind me. “You know what to do.” I then used my free hand and pulled out my Company Phone and tossed it behind me where it suddenly stopped in the air.

“Got it Senpai.” The air shimmered for a bit before revealing Ichika standing there with a wicked grin on her face as she held the phone in her hand.

Finished with what I had to say I finally left the building and headed back to my dorm room with the plan to make a pit stop on my Sweet Home to let Hiyori rest before rejoining the party. Trusting Ichika to finish up selling the five assholes behind me I finally felt myself relax a little now that everything was over.

I was just glad that I had been right when I had sensed Ichika following behind me when I left in a hurry earlier. The girl was probably curious about what I was about to get up to and followed.

Well at least any problems with former class C were now officially over after Ichika sold those five.

I felt no remorse whatsoever about their fate as they had dared to touch something that belonged to me. In fact, I considered them lucky as I had given them plenty of chances to back off but they had declined.

This confrontation also confirmed for me once again that I needed to get stronger if I wanted to stop this from happening again in the future. Without the power of Resurrection currently, I needed to be extra vigilant about keeping my girls safe.

When I finally got back to my room later that evening I was questioned for a while about my whereabouts. Foreseeing that however, I had pulled out a fruit desert from my inventory before entering my dorm and just told them that I forgot to pick it up from the store.

Everything was quickly forgotten after that as they dug into the desert though I did see the girls who knew about my abilities look at me weirdly as they wondered why I just didn’t make it myself. Thankfully they had stayed silent on the matter and the party continued without any more interruptions.

“Alright out with it Kiyotaka. What’s the real reason you had to suddenly leave like that?” Kei asked later that night as soon as we were all back in our Sweet Home.

Looking around me I could tell that all the girls were also curious at the answer. Them being Kei, Kikyō, Arisu, Honami, Airi and Tsubasa. The only one who didn’t seem curious was Matsu since she had seen me come in with the unconscious Hiyori earlier and I had tasked her with looking out for her after telling her what happened.

“Haah, I don’t know if you noticed but Hiyori wasn’t present at the party even though she had already said she would be there.” I said with a sigh sitting down in one of the sofas in the living room.

“Oh yeah. Now that you mention it Shiina-san was nowhere to be found tonight. Was she sick perhaps?” Airi asked curiously.

“No.” I shook my head before I looked away from everyone in a little shame. “She was actually attacked tonight.”

“WHAT?!”

As expected, those not in the know reacted in shock as Hiyori was the nicest girl you could ever meet so hearing that somebody attacked her mush have been shocking to them.

“What do you mean Kiyotaka-kun? Is she alright?” Honami asked being the first to pull herself back together.

“She is now.” I reassured them making most of them let out a sigh of relief. “She was targeted by Class D or more specifically Ryuen, Yamada, Ibuki and another two lackies.”

“Ibuki? That bitch again huh? I’m not surprised.” Kei said with an angry scowl taking over her face having already experienced being targeted by Ibuki.

“I found her soaking wet and shivering after having been forced to endure a light form of water torture.” I finally revealed making Honami and Arisu let out gasps of shock probably knowing what that meant.

Seeing the others give me a confused look I took a few moments to explain what that entailed getting the others to gaps in horror as well once I was done.

“T-that horrible! Poor Shiina-san.” Kikyō whispered with a hand over her mouth which said a lot that even a twisted girl like her had nothing against the pure girl.

“They should be expelled for this! No way can we just let them get away with this!” Tsubasa exclaimed not surprising anyone with her strong sense of justice.

The conversation suddenly halted as a giggle was heard and turning to the culprit everyone saw Ichika giggling like there was no tomorrow as if unbothered about what happened.

“Amasawa-san! This is no time to laugh! Can’t you see that one of our friends just went through something horrible?” Honami exclaimed with some anger in her voice.

“Fufufu it’s alright everyone. I don’t think that was Amasawa-san’s intention.” Arisu suddenly broke out into a little laugh of her own with a look of realization on her face.

“I see you just realized it as well Sakayanagi-senpai.” Ichika said with a smirk and seeing she now had everyone’s attention explained what she meant. “Have you all already forgotten that it was Senpai who went to retrieve her?” She asked with her heat tilted to the side with an innocent expression on her face.

As one everyone turned their attention back to me but seeing as Ichika had more she wanted to say I decided to stay silent for a little longer.

“Do you seriously believe that Senpai was just going to allow some nobodies to mess with what he considers his? Because make no mistake, each and every one of us here belongs to him. Also look at his face, does that look like someone who looks as if he let them get away with what happened?” After making her point and at the same time making them feel embarrassed at her words Ichika got up and headed to the kitchen before stopping and turning sideways with one last comment.

“It seems to me that you senpais still have a lot to learn about Kiyotaka-Senpai hihihi.” With that last remark she finally left leaving the room silent for a moment as the girls thought about the meaning to her words.

“What did you do to them Kiyotaka?” Kei seeing nobody stepping up took the lead and asked what everyone was probably thinking.

“Haah don’t worry about them. They won’t ever trouble us again.” I finished a little darkly before shaking my head and standing up.

“Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m heading to bed a little early. This day took its toll on me.” Without saying anything I left the room and headed upstairs hearing a few comments from some of the girls.

“D-do you guys think he k-ki-”

“Of course, he didn’t! If he had done that, he would have told us! Besides what does it matter what happened to those creeps? Or did you already forget that they tortured Shiina-san!” Whatever Tsubasa was going to say was abruptly interrupted by Kei who sounded angry.

“I’m heading to bed as well. Personally, I don’t really care either way what happened to those five. If they consciously decided to torture someone then they deserved whatever happened to them. Goodnight, everyone~” I heard Arisu say dismissively.

“I trust in Kiyotaka-kun as well.” Ichinose just chose to trust me not even contemplating I was in the wrong.

“Me too! I personally feel reassured that Kiyotaka-kun will protect us from whatever happens in the future.” Kikyō said sounding rather nonchalant about everything.

“I agree! Kiyo-tan must have been so brave and dashing when he rescued Shiina-tan~” Matsu said swooning in place with her hands on her cheeks and a blush on her face.

“Kiyotaka-kun is a really nice person who has already saved me before from being assaulted. I will stand by whatever decision he made.” Airi said surprisingly without any stutter.

With those last comments going over my head I got ready for bed just wanting the day to end already.

I was not at all surprised about Tsubasa’s slight doubt as she was a strong believer in justice but it said a lot about her that she didn’t push the subject any further. After all she was the one that had no trouble wanting to expel the original Kiyotaka in canon when she blamed him for Eiichirou’s death.

Now I just had to convince the girls if they were willing to lend me some points so we could have Hiyori transferred over into our class. If not, I would have to ask Arisu for a favor as she probably knew how to earn so many points in a quick time.

Knowing the girl though, it was probably going to be something sexual since she was a kinky girl.

The things I do for my girls sometimes honestly…

Ok who am I kidding I was a lucky bastard and I knew it.