12 Jealousy is scary

Ibara was in a good mood and entered the class, wondering where she should go with Mineta at the weekend.

Every weekend, they often went out together.

Still, they were only middle school students, so they didn't have that much money. It was impossible for them to splurge their money to go out to Enoshima all the time. They also wanted to visit other places instead of the same place every week.

While she was in the middle of a thought, her friends suddenly approached her.

"Shiozaki-san."

"What's wrong?" Ibara asked curiously, but she noticed their expression was quite weird.

Even though they took the initiative to find Ibara, they hesitated when they were about to show what they had found. However, after a moment of hesitation, they decided to tell Ibara since it was their purpose to find her.

"Please don't get angry. This is what we have found by accident."

Ibara even became confused, but her expression distorted when she saw what was written on her friend's smartphone screen.

"A fucking dwarf is dreaming."

Ibara wasn't sure how to describe her feeling, but she felt her chest was stuffy, and it was hard to breathe. She was so furious when she saw what was written on the forum. She saw many people scold Mineta for getting too close to her while joking around that he was dreaming that he could get someone like her.

However, many also laughed at Ibara for getting close to Mineta since she was blind for choosing Mineta.

After all, while Mineta wasn't ugly, his appearance was definitely at a low point, especially because of his height. He might be the shortest among all the students in this school, which made him mocked as a dwarf.

"Why did they do this? What did he do?"

Ibara was crying and sad about what was written and how easily someone could hurt others.

Her friends didn't know what to do, but they didn't expect Ibara to cry, so they could only calm her down, telling her everything was alright.

Yet if Ibara asked Mineta this question, he would only say that it was impossible for everyone to be liked.

He had brought the attention of everyone, including the teachers, especially when his change was noticeable. He had become popular and likable by many of his classmates. He also got the 1st rank on his entire grade on his last exam.

Lastly, his relationship was so close with Ibara that they often held each other's hands, which made many people think that they were dating.

If people were worse, the others would either ignore or just look down on that person secretly.

If people were so overwhelmingly better than others, like All Might, they could only look up to and admire this person.

However, if people were only "slightly" better than others, they would be envied and mocked secretly.

His situation was like that.

If he was handsome and tall, he knew that he wouldn't receive this treatment, but he was short, and his face was only so-so.

In other words, many people were jealous of him and wanted to talk badly about him.

The secret forum at the school gave them a platform to do this.

They stayed anonymous, without showing their identity, mocking him happily with everyone.

The people they had thought were worse than them suddenly became better, making them feel unacceptable, and they unleashed their ugliness on him to show they were better.

Mineta was innocent, and he didn't do anything.

Yet the world was like that.

This was a cold and cruel place, so they shouldn't blame him if he wanted to take revenge.

Mineta knew that his personality wasn't suitable for becoming a hero, but in the end, being a hero was a job, and he could separate his job and his private life.

Still, his plan to take revenge didn't change since if he let them go, they would think it was okay to mess around with him. He had to show them that he wasn't someone they should mess with and show them the price for messing up against him.

If he was alone, it would be hard for him to give revenge, considering how those people who mocked him in the forum stayed anonymous. While he could operate a computer normally, it was impossible to hack or find out the identity of the perpetrator and their clique.

However, with the help of his two friends, everything was possible.

The three might not be the most handsome guys, but they had their own advantage.

Mineta was strong and in charge as a thug, conspiracy, strategy, and leader.

Kota was in charge of information since he had all the information about students and teachers in this school, including their parents, contact info, and much other information.

Lastly, Tanaka was in charge of the internet since he was skilled with computers.

Mineta had taught the two how to become popular, and they followed his words, so their reputation in the school became better and better. Many girls also greeted them from time to time, which made them happy. Still, they followed Mineta's words, telling them not to fall in love easily. Instead, they should joke around with many girls, spreading their net as large as possible, so even if they miss many, they might catch a few.

Yet many people were just evil and wanted to take them down, so those people should be prepared for action.

With Kota's skill, they quickly found out who had messed up with Mineta before he deleted the thread about Mineta.

Tanaka also quickly made a thread about the people who had talked bad about Mineta. He wrote all the gossip and all the bad things about this person he knew, including the fiction one.

"Why did you add a few lies?"

Tanaka was confused at why Mineta told him to write lies.

"Kota, a lie which is told several times will become a fact. People don't care what is right or wrong. Instead, they only care about what they believe. If they believe this is the fact, they will become fact."

Mineta patted Tanaka's shoulder and said all of those words calmly.

"........" Tanaka and Kota only realized that this "person" had messed up with the wrong person.

Mineta might be cute and loveable, but if someone messed up with him, he would screw this person till nothing was left.

However, this also made Tanaka and Kota think that they should follow Mineta even more since his understanding of human physiology had reached a level where it was beyond their understanding.

During this time, Mineta didn't meet Ibara and solved this problem in a day with Tanaka and Kota. They even skipped a few classes together, and he also ignored Ibara's calls and texts.

Right now, they aren't much different from the three musketeers.

When they were together, they stood, and no one could bring them down.

Still, right after the afternoon break, they returned to the class since they had finished their battle.

Right now, the school is starting to talk about the perpetrator, who made a mocking thread about Mineta. They also began to forget about Mineta's matter and changed their mocking target to the perpetrator.

Mineta knew that a human was a forgetful creature.

As long as there was a more interesting talk, they would forget the previous one.

This was also why he made a new gossip, so they would forget about his matter.

After his problem was solved, he spent a day feeling nice since he had done his revenge.

Yet when it was time to go back, he was surprised to see someone who was outside right of his class.

"Shiozaki-san?"