76 Chapter 75: Kumagawa

[Ding! New Quest uploaded!]

Quest: Condemnation or Salvation

Objective: Slay or Save Kumagawa Misogi

Rewards:

•3 Pulls, 1 Skill, 1 Bloodline, 1 New World Travel, 1 New System Function(Slay)

•3 Pulls, 1 New System Function(Save)

Failure: Earn the ire of the (Self-Proclaimed)Goddess

Zenkichi faintly narrowed his eyes at the dark-haired boy standing in front of him.

He knew him, as he loathed to admit.

Misogi Kumagawa, the previous student council president from his middle school and the one person both Zenkichi and Medaka hated the most in the world.

'Why the hell is this son of a bitch here?' Zenkichi clicked his tongue as Kumagawa continued smiling innocently at them despite the blood and death surrounding him. He glanced down at his trembling hands and clenched it.

'My fear of him still runs this deep huh... Though that's to be expected, if I were to choose between fighting against Gods or talking to Kumagawa, I'd pick the former without any hesitation.'

There was just something fundamentally wrong with the guy, even his Devil nature felt...confused? It was divided between entertained and repulsed by his existence.

Like Kumagawa was someone that equalled a Devil and not at the same time.

"Zenkichi, who is this guy?" Naze slowly asked, understanding the tension coming from Kumagawa.

Koga didn't say anything. Ever since she set her eyes on him, she had stealthily went into a fighting stance.

This wasn't just her enhanced intelligence but also her human instincts telling her that this man, is extremely dangerous.

Zenkichi hesitantly replied, "He's an old acquaintance that I thought had been thrown to prison at this point of time."

Kumagawa nonchalantly waved his hand, "Ah, yeah, yeah. After that whole fiasco with that woman I got incarcerated by Medaka-chan's lawyers and was sent into a special juvenile institution that holds people like me or well, us, to be specific."

Zenkichi blinked.

'Huh. Did not know that. Good work Medaka-chan–"

"Buuut, of course, because it's me we're talking here, I busted out of that place like I was Joker getting out of Arkham Asylum in just a couple days!" Kumagawa said, raising his arms up, with a extremely smug expression. "Then I went low for a while before enrolling into several schools and finally landing here, meeting old friends! Is this the work of fate?"

"Huh, looks like you went through an exciting experience this last few years..." Zenkichi said with a low tone of voice, his left hand slowly clenched as blue lines, a grey light, and a fiery heatwave covered his hand.

"Oh, like you wouldn't believe! One time, I went to this school full of delinquents that had an ogre bring in a baby everyday and another one that's almost filled with girls. Girls! It was paradise, but their student council members all had hate boners for men, which funnily enough, I had been incarcerated there as well–" Kumagawa's rambling was cut short as Zenkichi's fist collided with his face.

The impact sent Kumagawa flying through the air, crashing into a wall and creating a large crater upon impact. His body couldn't handle the godly force of Zenkichi's fist and he exploded into a bloody mist, not even bones were left.

Both Naze and Koga grimaced, though they had their fair share of blood and gore, especially the former, they were not prepared for this sudden level of brutality.

Zenkichi stood there, and his hand covered in Kumagawa's blood. The silence that followed was deafening. He slowly turned to face Naze and Koga, his expression hard.

"We need to go, now–"

"Now, that wasn't nice~"

Zenkichi stopped in his tracks, his heart racing as he heard Kumagawa's voice behind him. He turned around slowly, his eyes widening in shock.

There, standing in front of him, was Kumagawa, completely unscathed and smiling as if he didn't just get his head blown off.

"I didn't get to finish my story," He said, pouting as he patted down his clothes. "Also, nice straight punch Hitoyoshi-kun. You got really, really strong! You're probably even stronger than Medaka-chan right now."

Naze stared at the unscathed Kumagawa in disbelief, all sorts of theories and explanations racing through her mind. She had analyzed the sheer force behind Zenkichi's fist, comparing it to a missile, and yet Kumagawa seemed completely unharmed.

"Zenkichi...who is this guy...?" She asked with a low tone of voice, forcibly calming her rapidly beating heart. This was the first time she'd ever been afraid of someone.

"Naze-chan, stay close to me." Koga said as she stepped forward, standing in front of Naze as she prepared herself for the incoming threat. She clenched her fists tightly, her eyes locked onto Kumagawa.

".... He's Misogi Kumagawa, a frightening and terrible person. Even Medaka-chan doesn't like to be friends with this guy." Zenkichi said, his eyes using Divine Reflection to try understand and copy what Kumagawa had did to revive himself.

He was damn sure he put everything in that punch of his. Despite having lost contact with the guy for three years and strangely lost a good chunk of memories of the time he was in 1st year middle school, possibly due to trauma, and having god-like powers...

He was feeling a unprecedented amount of danger from Kumagawa.

Even Odin didn't give off this much!

Just what the fuck's going on with this guy?

"Eh? No, that's not right." Kumagawa tilted his head, blinking his eyes with confusion. "I'm not Kumagawa Misogi, I'm Kumagawa Yuki. His younger twin brother."

Naze and Koga widened their eyes, stunned speechless while Zenkichi's eyes turned colder.

Kumagawa burst out in laughter, "Haha. Nope, I lied. Gotcha didn't I? Correct! You got it absolutely right! Anyway, I am Kumagawa Misogi. Not!"

'...I have to test his healing factor or revival ability if there's a limit to it.' Zenkichi narrowed his eyes and his figure moved, turning into a blur as he appeared in a flash before Kumagawa and delivered a powerful kick to his chest. The force of the kick sent Kumagawa crashing through the wall, leaving a huge hole in his wake.

But unlike before, Kumagawa looked injured as he coughed out blood and slumped to the ground with wide, blank eyes.

Zenkichi approached him, a serious expression on his face as his red pupils shone. "Get up. I didn't kicked you that hard just to kill you, come on. Heal up. I wanna see how you're going to get up."

"Zenkichi-kun...why would you do this...this isn't you..." Kumagawa weakly said, tears trickling down his eyes. He panted heavily as he tried to catch his breath. "I thought...we were friends..."

Zenkichi's expression remained composed, his eyes turned colder. "Always such a lying bastard. Listen Kumagawa," He kneeled to one knee, his divine eyes glowing intensely. "I've seen hell, experienced despair, and I've bloodied my hands for the greater good. You think I wouldn't torture you because we're old acquaintances? Or you're a human teen? No."

He slowly shook his head, his eyes remained staring at Kumagawa's.

"All I want is peace and spend my days with my friends, doing stuff and have fun."

'I don't need a reward to beat the crap out of you, well, it's nice to have though.'

Kumagawa was silent.

"...Is this really Zenkichi?" Koga asked Naze in a low tone of voice, wide eyed. The latter had supposedly gotten to know him in a previous timeline.

Naze was hesitant for a moment and nodded. "If it means saving the people that he cares for, he would do anything. Even if it means becoming a demon."

Zenkichi tilted his head.

"Well? Aren't you going to say some–!"

He quickly caught a spinning large screw that was going to pierced through his stomach, the screw spun more fiercely but Zenkichi tightened his grip and broke the screw.

But that wasn't the end as two more screws appeared and shot towards each of Zenkichi's shoulder with incredible speed. Zenkichi's eyes widened in surprise as he barely had time to react. He quickly shifted his body, narrowly avoiding one of the screws but the other one grazed his shoulder, cutting through his clothes.

"What the hell?!" Zenkichi exclaimed, his anger boiling inside him. He turned his gaze towards the source of the attack and saw Kumagawa standing there, a twisted smile on his face.

His wounds and his clothes were completely repaired, as if they had never been damaged in the first place.

"Ah, I healed up before you can see how I did it," Kumagawa taunted with a sing-song voice. "But don't worry, I'll explain my ability. Just like any story villain."

He shrugged, letting out a sigh. "But that'd be for later, I just came here to meet you. After all, it's been three years! It's a middle school reunion of just two guys, though I wonder where Kouki-chan is. I heard he was here as well."

Zenkichi scowled, "You just wanna meet me...?"

Kumagawa shrugged once more, a 'what can you do' expression on his face. "Well, that, and I lost my way."

"...Didn't you lose your way long ago?"

"Oh, good one." Kumagawa unexpectedly snapped his fingers goodheartedly. "But in all seriousness, I transferred into Hakoniwa Academy and as any good new student, I had to go greet the board chairman but I lost my way to his office."

He sighed, rubbing his chin. "I was going to ask other students when, surprise–surprise, I saw a familiar face! By any chance, could you tell me where the Board Chairman's office is?"

Zenkichi stared at him.

Kumagawa smiled.

'This guy really transferred here?!' Both girls inwardly thought, dumbfounded. Though considering how most of the Thirteen Party didn't seem right in the head...

"...If I were to tell you where it is, you get the fuck out of here immediately." Zenkichi said.

Kumagawa smirked, "Of course, you know I wouldn't lie about such useless thing."

'You would.' Zenkichi, Naze and Koga simultaneously thought.

Zenkichi sighed, although he wanted to keep the wild card away from other people and even kill him for his potential danger and the quest reward. But from what he could analyze though, he couldn't do either.

And for some reason, he couldn't copy his ability with Divine Reflection.

'No, it's like Divine Reflection couldn't perceive his existence although I can see him. Is this part of his strange ability as well?'

Zenkichi clicked his tongue and finally said, "Fourth floor of the main school building and head left, you wouldn't miss it."

"Alright~ Thanks for the info!" Kumagawa turned around and started walking away, waving his hand up. "As for my ability, ah, I'll tell you tomorrow. See ya!"

As they watched his back finally leaving, Naze came up to Zenkichi and said. "Hey, Zenkichi, that uniform, I recognize it. That's Hope's Peak Academy's male uniform isn't?"

'Hope's Peak Academy? Isn't that the school from Danganronpa!? Wait, they had a uniform?' Zenkichi was stunned and hurriedly asked, "No, what about it?"

Koga chimed in, "Didn't you hear? A year ago, it was announced that they would indefinitely be closed down. It's how we got those Ultimate Students into our school."

'No wonder...' Zenkichi rubbed his chin. 'If he was in the academy...was he acquainted with Junko? Since he's here, was he also involved in The Tragedy in tbe previous timeline?'

"Ugh..." Suddenly, a groaning voice was heard.

"Ah! Naze-chan, Zenkichi, they're alive!"

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