Steel and Mana
Chapter 401 – Brawl
Chapter 401 – Brawl
"Where''s the money, Lebowski?"
"I think you got the wrong person... my name is Leon. I know both start with an L and have an E and O in them... but come on! Ugh!"
"You have a big mouth, Lebowski!"
"If you keep kicking me in the stomach, I may faint..." I grunted, lying on the floor of the school''s bathroom, already in pretty bad shape.
"Get it ready by next week, shithead!" With a final kick, the four of my tormentors finally left, and I had time to lie there on the small tiles, enjoying their cold, soothing my muscles.
"Geez your a wuss..." Echoed a young, thin voice, one that I quickly recognized.
"Ren-senpai...? That''s cruel to say. Plus, what are you doing here? This is the men''s bathroom."
"I know." She replied, opening the stall next to me as she was sitting there. Was that a cigarette between her fingers? Nah... at a closer look, it was just a cigarette-shaped lollipop. "I came here to wait for LeiLei, but he is being late. Lucky for you, because otherwise, you wouldn''t be able to play the injured prince game and rush to your Sasha for healing kisses. He would have for sure stepped in and beat those fuckers."
" But not you? You sat there watching them beat me up? That''s cruel..." I answered, pushing myself into a sitting position.
"Duh. I know you have the strength to break their kneecaps; you just refuse to do so. If it was me, I would have bashed their heads against the sink until one of them broke."
"It would have been probably their heads which gave out first."
"Good. So? Wussy Leon, when will you fight back?"
"Dunno. It''s just a nuisance, anyway. I am not too bothered by this. It would bring the teachers'' attention to us."
"Let me change my previous assessment. You are not a wuss but a weirdo, Leon."
"Including teachers. But they will arrive last, as usual!" Luna added before turning back and kicking the one who was struggling with Merlin.
"Fun!" Ren clapped as steps were heard coming from the corridor. Turning towards it, I saw Ren roundhouse-kick one of the guys who was a step away from the entrance to the classroom. She was barely reaching his chest, but her ankle landed squarely in his face while her skirt flipped, revealing her panties with the face of a panda on it. Huh... Of course, as our luck would have it, it was not just one dude but a bunch of them.
"A fight?! Again?! Geez, I am late once, and you stir up trouble?!"
Ah... that voice. I recognized it. It belonged to Leinor, Ren''s boyfriend. It was then followed by other shouts. I knew them just as well as they were all members of Ren''s gang. Yep. She was the leader of the local delinquents and my senpai. She has been trying to recruit me for a while now and probably just managed to do that after today.
"Take this!" I heard another shout, followed by a sharp scream.
"IT''S COOOOOOLD!"
That was probably Lia-senpai smashing a bag of ice over someone''s head. If I recall, she was part of a different delinquent group at first. They called themselves Misfits or something. But, by the time I got to this school, they were in alliance with Ren''s gang, and if I heard it right, Lia was some kind of ''disciple'' of Ren.
"This is getting out of hand..." Sasha whispered, hugging me after the guys in the classroom were all knocked out cold.
"It is... but hey... you are smiling."
"No, I''m not!" She pouted, trying to cover it without success.
"She is." Luna nodded, betraying her best friend, while Yuri picked up one of the chairs and looked towards the door. By the grunts and shouts, a brawl was still going on in the corridors, and it wouldn''t end anytime soon.
"Whatcha sayin''?" She giggled, looking at us, "Are we going to join?"
"Well..." I shrugged, looking at Oleg and Merlin, who were ready to rush out the moment I nodded my head. "It''s not like we can back out now, can we? Let''s go!"
Soon enough, we were among the other two groups, beating down the bastards who were trying to control the school we were living in. Even if we were going to be expelled after this, at least I could say I left with good friends and allies supporting us through fire and flames.