11: Natsuo’s Other Side

"Eh?! That's not it! I... I..." Kana stumbled back, stammering. Then she suddenly pushed his face away.

"No! Pervert! How could you say something like that to a girl?! Are you out of your mind?! Creep! Pervert!"

"You were the one who kept bringing up me sleeping with Rui," Natsuo shrugged casually. "I thought you wanted to know what happened."

"Who wants to know something so disgusting?!" Her face turned as red as a tomato, flushed with both embarrassment and anger. It was supposed to be him who ended up embarrassed and ashamed, so why the fuck was she the one feeling ashamed instead?!

'I guess she'll never bring this matter up again,' Natsuo thought with a wide, evil grin. His smile looked just like Tom's whenever he was plotting something devious.

Watching his annoying grin, Kana huffed and turned her head to the side. She stopped paying attention to him, took out her phone, and began fiddling with it.

Natsuo also stopped talking to her. The two continued walking in silence without saying another word.

"Kana,"

Suddenly, someone called out to Kana from behind them. The two turned around and saw a young man with brown hair and a stubbled beard.

"Mitsuo?" Kana said.

'Oh, it's that guy who's in love with her,' Natsuo thought as he looked at the man with a curious gaze.

He wore a dark gray skull cap, a black hooded jacket, and a red mantle over it. Just from a single glance, anyone could tell he wasn't exactly a good guy.

'How troublesome,' Natsuo scratched his head in annoyance as Mitsuo shot him a sharp glare. Was this guy really going to bother him just because he was walking with Kana?

Honestly, he didn't want to deal with something so cliché. Mitsuo could love Kana all he wanted. There was nothing wrong with that. Natsuo just hoped the guy wouldn't drag him into it.

"What are you doing here? Who is this?" Mitsuo walked closer, looking at Kana as he asked.

"A friend," Kana replied. Her cheeks flushed slightly as she stole a sidelong glance at Natsuo. Remembering what had happened earlier, she couldn't help but blush.

"A friend?!" Mitsuo's frown deepened. The moment he noticed Kana's blush and the way she kept glancing at Natsuo, an uncontrollable surge of anger rose within him. "You mean your boyfriend?!"

"Dafuq? We're not dating!"

Startled, both of them blurted it out at the exact same time. They instinctively turned to look at each other before quickly averting their gazes.

Anyone who saw this scene would assume that, even if these two weren't dating, they weren't far from it. They looked just like a bickering couple who argued all the time, unless they were in bed with their sweaty, wet bodies intertwined.

"Fuck!" Mitsuo cursed. Then, without any warning, he rushed at Natsuo and punched him directly in the face!

Thud!

The punch slammed into Natsuo's face. He staggered back two steps before falling to the ground. Holding his face, he looked up at Mitsuo in shock.

"What's with that look?!" Mitsuo wasn't done. Just looking at this bastard's face made him want to beat the living shit out of him even more.

He had been by Kana's side since junior high. He had been in love with her for five years!

Yet... yet... she had actually fallen for this pretty boy?

Why did she choose this cunt? In what way was he better than him? Was it because he was a little better looking?

Then he would ruin this fuckboy's face!

"Bastard! What are you doing?!" Kana hurriedly stepped in front of Natsuo and spread her arms, shielding him behind her. She glared angrily at Mitsuo, her eyes filled with fury and even disgust.

"Have you finally gone crazy?"

Kana had noticed Mitsuo's feelings for her a long time ago, but she had never been interested in him. On the contrary, perhaps because he was such a simp for her, she had never once considered him as a potential partner.

Most of the time, she simply made use of him. It was thanks to Mitsuo that she could hang around with delinquents and bullies, and even bully other students herself just for fun.

"Get out of the way!"

Despite looking like a rabid dog ready to bite at any moment, Mitsuo didn't shove Kana aside. He stared at her with blazing eyes. "Since when did you start dating him? Why would you go out with a soft, spoiled kid like him?"

"I am not dating him, err... Forget it!" Kana glared back at him, but the moment she saw his face, she knew he didn't believe a single word. Her temper flared. She threw her bag at him and roared, "Whoever I date is none of your damn business! Who the fuck are you to interfere in my life and tell me who I should or shouldn't date?!"

"Are you a stalker now? Are you going to beat up every man who gets close to me? Let me make one thing clear. I will never... ever... go out with you! Even if you were the last man left in this universe! I'd rather be with a hairy, overweight chimpanzee from the zoo than with you!"

The three of them were walking through a residential area, away from the main road. Very few people passed by, but that did nothing to ease the poor simp's pain.

"Kana..." No man would be able to take those words lightly. It felt as though a dagger had pierced straight through Mitsuo's heart. He staggered back a couple of steps, his trembling eyes fixed on Kana.

"How... could you..."

Suddenly, he noticed something from the corner of his eye. Unfortunately, he couldn't react fast enough. In the next instant, he felt a hard object slam into his face, followed by an excruciating wave of pain.

"Agh!"

Mitsuo groaned in pain. He held the side of his face, and from the corner of his eye, he glared at the person who had hit him.

It was the pretty boy he had punched earlier!

Placing a hand on the floor, he struggled to stand up as he glared furiously at him, "Crazy bastard!"

Bang!

"..." Natsuo didn't utter a single word. With a wooden stick in his hand, he raised it high above his head and slammed it down onto Mitsuo's shoulder with all his strength.

When he had been punched earlier, Natsuo's eyes had noticed a wooden stick lying nearby next to the wall. He silently waited for an opportunity. While the two of them were arguing, he picked up the wooden stick and slipped behind Mitsuo.

The guy's heart had already been torn into tiny pieces by Kana's words. He was so overwhelmed that he didn't notice Natsuo's movements at all.

"Agh!!!" Mitsuo cried out in pain once more, clutching his shoulder as he curled into a ball.

"Natsuo?!" Kana was also startled and shocked. She hurried over to him, trying to stop him. "Are you alright?"

"Stay away for a bit. I'll be done in a moment." Natsuo glanced at her. Despite the red swelling on his cheek, his expression and eyes remained calm... Too calm.

Then, without waiting for her reaction, he raised the stick and rained hit after hit down on Mitsuo, one after another, like your life problems, without giving him any chance to defend himself.

"Agh!"

"Stop!"

"Haah!"

"..."

At first, Mitsuo tried to defend himself and fight back, but Natsuo didn't give him the slightest chance. He kept hitting him again, and again, and again, until all Mitsuo could do was curl up in a fetal position, wrapping his arms around his head in an attempt to protect himself.

"Natsuo... You'll kill him if you don't stop! You'll go to jail!" Kana couldn't watch anymore. She grabbed him from behind, holding onto his arms desperately. "It isn't worth it!"

"The thing I hate the most is people like him!" Natsuo shoved her away and swung the stick again, smashing Mitsuo once more before kicking him.

"I'll fucking kill him!"

Natsuo went to an all boys school during junior high. There were very few things for the boys there to entertain themselves with, and perhaps because Natsuo stood out too much due to his performance at school, some students took notice of him, and he became a target of their bullying.

He was ganged up on by more than six boys who beat him up badly and took his money. However, the next day after he recovered, Natsuo was suspended from school for two whole months and was nearly expelled.

The reason was because of what he did in retaliation. He hit two of the students with a school chair while they had their backs turned, broke another student's leg with a steel pipe, ambushed one of them while he was going to the toilet, and the most outrageous incident was when he pushed one of the bullies out of the classroom window.

Fortunately, it was only the first floor, so the boy only suffered broken bones.

Natsuo didn't like picking up unnecessary trouble, but he absolutely hated it when someone tried to bully him or wrong him. When that happened, he would do whatever it took to retaliate.

He kept beating this bastard without any care or hesitation. In his mind, even if he ended up being detained by the police for killing him, it didn't matter. It wasn't like he would be staying in this world for his entire life anyway.

"Stop! Natsuo, please, stop! I beg you!" At this moment, Kana hugged him tightly from behind, her arms wrapped around him as she pleaded in a shaky, soft voice, "Please stop... please."

Natsuo took a deep breath. He gave the scum lying on the ground one last glance before throwing the stick away. Then, he gently removed her hands around him and walked away.

"Wait for me!" Kana gave Mitsuo one last glance before running after Natsuo.

With the two of them gone, only the poor simp remained lying on the ground, still curled up in a fetal position. His consciousness was hazy, his vision blurry, and his entire body was in unbearable pain. He didn't even have enough strength to move a single finger.

Fortunately for him, an elderly woman happened to pass by, noticed him lying there, and quickly called an ambulance.