11 Chapter 11

Rei felt two hands firmly gripping his shoulders.

It was Iori and Motoharu.

A long string of memories surged in Rei's mind.

The guys surrounding Baki, who constantly bullied him at school, even pushing him to the point of contemplating self-harm, were these three. It had been a week since Rei awakened his memories from a past life. Rei had been anticipating when these three would show up. After all, these delinquents didn't appear at school every day.

Because of these three delinquents and their bullying, classmates who used to have some connection with Rei quickly distanced themselves, fearing they might become targets too. In this situation, only Iori and Motoharu stuck by Rei.

Well, the result was that they all got beaten up together.

"Hey, Rei, going in will only get you beaten. Let's wait until they leave," Motoharu timidly advised. Iori, standing beside him, also nodded cautiously.

If it were the pre-awakened Rei, he might have actually hidden away. But now...

He patted the shoulders of his two good friends. "Don't worry, I've got this."

"No, that means if only you get caught, you'll get beaten even worse," Motoharu and Iori spoke up, distancing themselves from Rei.

Seeing the two figures disappear around the corner of the corridor in a matter of moments, Rei couldn't help but twitch his lips.

Damn, he shouldn't have expected anything from these two.

"You, boy, you're coming with us!" the guy with the yellow hair from the trio said to Rei. Baki's imposing presence made them uncomfortable, and now that they saw Rei, who had been constantly bullied, they naturally wanted to regain some confidence by picking on him.

"Alang's right. We let you off the hook last time. This time, we'll make up for it."

The burliest one with red hair nodded in agreement.

And so, with the three leading the way and Rei and Baki following behind, they headed towards the corner behind the teaching building.

Rei just gave the situation a slightly more serious look. The three didn't dare to reach out to him.

Rei didn't exude the same kind of intensity, or rather, he completely controlled all the strength in his body, making him seem no different from an average person.

Since they didn't dare touch Baki, did that mean they wouldn't dare touch Rei either? With this thought, the guy with the yellow hair from the trio swung a punch directly towards Rei's cheek, hoping to display his own violence to Baki.

Then...

In that moment when the fist came swinging,

Rei raised his leg and, relying on brute force, sent the unsteady yellow-haired guy flying.

The muscles in his legs bulged, and the force Rei exerted was incomparable to what he used in his one-on-one battle with Kagami.

"What... What just happened?"

"Why did Alang get thrown out?"

Baki wore an expression of 'I knew it.' "This guy's strength is not weak."

Rei rubbed his fist and walked towards the other two. "I've actually been wanting to find you guys. After all, being bullied by you guys in this life is a deep shame."

"No... I think there must be some misunderstanding in all of this."

The two standing saw the sorry state Alang was in and stammered.

In the next moment,

"Rei! I'm here!"

"And... so am I!"

A baseball bat was accurately thrown from a distance, and with a loud 'bang!', it struck the red-haired guy squarely on the head.

Iori and Motoharu, each holding a baseball bat they had sneakily taken from the equipment room, rushed over.

Seeing the red-haired guy hit by the baseball bat, without a word, they continuously swung their bats at him.

There seemed to be a strange smell.

Rei sniffed... It was the scent of oolong tea.

Inside the trio, the only one still intact struggled to speak. "Stop!"

"Stop! Don't hit them anymore!"

"Stop hitting them!"

Alang, sprawled on the ground, and the red-haired guy, curled up from the beating, why did it turn out like this?

"Right, and you, almost forgot about you!"

"Last time, you snatched a thousand bucks from me! Do you know how important that thousand bucks was to me!"

"I didn't even eat for a whole night, you jerk!"

Motoharu looked at the guy and immediately thought of their past encounters. Together with Iori, who also wore a sympathetic expression, they directed their bats towards him.

"No... you guys better keep beating them."

He tried to escape, they pursued, and with each step he took, the situation grew more desperate.

A small flying bat hit the back of his head, and with a single swift step, they closed in, swinging wildly.

The red-haired guy struggled to get up,

Only to see a pair of size 45 shoes appear in his line of sight.

Looking up, it was Rei.

Looking down at the fallen red-haired guy, Rei slowly uttered his words, "I don't know what mentality bullies use to bully, but I do know that if you bully bullies, there's no fundamental difference from them. So..."

So? Was he going to spare me? The red-haired guy couldn't help but think.

Sure enough, this guy still had a soft heart. He couldn't actually do anything truly heinous.

Next time, next time! Once I'm healed, I'll definitely make these guys pay!

"As long as the bullies can no longer harm others, that's the best solution."

A foot descended, the tip landing right on the center of the red-haired guy's spine.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

If everything went as expected, this guy would be confined to a wheelchair from now on.

Rei repeated the process with the yellow-haired one.

Baki raised an eyebrow, apparently not expecting Rei to go this far against ordinary people.

Meanwhile, Iori and Motoharu, holding the only relatively intact guy from the trio, came over to Rei's side.

"I didn't expect that this old man is actually quite formidable, hahaha~" Motoharu laughed without a care in the world, gripping his baseball bat. He patted Baki, whose arms were thicker than his legs. "Classmate Baki, don't be afraid. If you ever get bullied at school in the future, feel free to come find me!"

Iori spat out a thick wad of phlegm, his face flushed, and hooked Baki's shoulder. He said, "Rei, am I tough?"

Baki: "..."

Rei: "..."

One was acting tough, the other acting cool.

These two...

"No, what just touched me? What did you guys drink?" Baki sniffed and asked, puzzled.

Speaking of which, Iori immediately got excited. He pulled out a bottle of brown drink from his pocket, opened the cap, and took out a wrinkled disposable plastic cup from another pocket. He filled it up, then shoved it in front of Baki's mouth. "Of course, it's oolong tea!"

"..." Baki wore an expression of speechlessness and picked up the lighter that had fallen out of the red-haired guy's pocket.

He lightly pressed the lighter.

'Oolong tea' instantly ignited.

There was no way oolong tea could catch fire!

"Hey, you guys!"

"What are you doing here?!"

The teacher's voice came from afar, instantly snapping Iori and the others back to reality.

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