Desire - H. Umemiya

Chapter 13. Rage at 360

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Yuki continued to run.

"That idiot." She muttered when she witnessed Nirei tackling that Keel dude. She jumps down from the platform and knocked out everyone who was in her way.

Seconds passed and as she continues to watch her classmate getting hit and gripped at the hair, the more annoyed she became.

She was irked by that dude, totally irritated, so before he could hit Nirei with his lumber, she grabbed the dude by the wrist, twisted it, and forcefully turned him towards her direction, swinging her fist directly to his face.

She was absolutely mad.

Yuki continuously hit him in the face until he fainted, throwing him at the side like a useless trash when she was done. She cracks her knuckles, pops her neck side to side, and stood in a fighting stance.

"Whoever is brave enough... come at me!" her deep anger-filled voice resonated inside the place that however preoccupied anyone is, they all turned towards her direction.

Her aura's screaming of intense madness that those near her couldn't help but tremble from it. She was not smiling like she usually is, instead she was sporting a wicked grin on her lips, as if she was ready to wreak havoc in that place at any second.

"Shinomiya-kun..." Suo muttered. Gone was his smiling face instead it was also replaced with a serious look. He helped Nirei stand up and sat him in a far corner. He stood there by his side, as he watches Yuki with eyes filled with total concentration.

She flinched and let her gaze wander around her. Her intense aura vanished instantly.

'Did I just yell that?' Yuki thought. It was meant to be only in her mind, but did she really let it out? 'I must have gone crazy!!!' she was totally freaking out.

She left her guard open, as she thought of how embarrassing that is. 'I probably sound like an idiot right there talking like a hero-wannabe.' She covered her face in utter mortification. "Ground, eat me up now." She muttered.

She was busy fretting over her embarrassment that she couldn't see the opponents' reactions. Their smirking at her thinking about her supposed bravado, they forgot about her punches earlier. They even let out a snicker which have gone absolutely unheard, because she was still caught up in her own little world.

Two of the opponents, looked at each other and charged at her at the same time, as if they thought of the same thing, while wearing a smug look on their faces, but still, she couldn't be concerned.

When they had her in their ranges of combat, the first guy swung his lumber, targeting her in the back of her head, while the other one, settled to give her a punch in the stomach. She was trapped in between the two that she can easily be injured if she gets hit but she still was busy moping.

Suo seeing this all, really let go of the nice guy façade he had and bit on his lips hard.

"Damn it."

He wants to help her but he just couldn't leave Nirei there alone and injured. He wandered his gaze around her, looking for any possible ally that could lend her a hand, but unfortunately, they were all caught up in their own fights now that Keel deemed her a fraud with her reactions and all. 'Why did you even come here?' he thought as he sat there clenching his fists so hard.

"Shino-!!!" Suo was about to get her attention when she suddenly moved, leaving his words hanging in the air, unheard.

As the two attacks her from both sides, both grinning in their delight to see wounds and blood on her, Yuki immediately uncovered her face, brushing the few strands that were hindering her eyes backwards with both her hands. "Don't disturb me." She slowly muttered giving them shivers all over.

Before their coordinated attacks could hit her, she dropped down low causing the unexpecting duo to hit each other before swinging her right leg in a 360-degree angle making them stumble and fall on the ground. She removed her hands from her hair.

Yuki stood up from the ground and wiped the back of her jeans because she felt like it has been smeared with dirt. "Oh-!" she couldn't help but utter in surprise when she caught sight of her offenders down on the ground, totally asleep.

"Isn't it too early?" she muttered as she scratched her index finger on her temple in wonder. But as she sees the face of one of her offenders, she can't help but feel pity for him. "That would seriously hurt for a few weeks." She whispered flinching when she imagined being hit by the lumber herself.

Unconsciously, she touched her face frightened. Though, if she were to be actually hit by the lumber, it would be the back of her head, not her face, that will ache all over... it might even put her in comma, but here she is, worrying about her face.

"Not my beautiful face." She whispered shaking her head in freight.

"He's talking to himself in the middle of a fighting area?" Suo chuckled. His classmate's unusual behavior got him laughing too hard. "Moreover, he's shaking his head... in what? ...denial? of what?"

He bursts even more in laughter, when she saw her bowing her head on the fainted duo before leaving them. In reality, both him and Yuki became weird in the eyes of the opponents and allies who had their eyes on them... he is included.

Suo brushed that lone tear in the corner of his eye, somehow, he was relieved of his worry.

A few minutes later, the Second Year representatives of Class One surprisingly arrived at the scene and joined their fight with Keel.

"Suo-san, let's swap." Yuri Kakiuchi immediately spoke to Suo when he finishes his fight. He doesn't want his skin to get blemishes, so, he was wanting to take over Suo's observation task, of course, he didn't tell him that.

"Yuri-kun. Is that alright?" Suo asked in confirmation which the former enthusiastically nodded to.

"Is that so?" He asked weirded out by his animated fellow but smiles gradually. He called for Nirei's attention first but the latter's silent, he seems down, that is why Suo didn't bother him any longer because he thought that what Nirei is asking right now is some space and silence, though, the place wasn't probably the best place to asked for that but still... Suo respects his decision.

He stretches his arms and approached Yuki. "Shinomiya-kun, perhaps do you need some help?"

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