I laughed and threw the words out. As if waiting for those words, soone burst out.
"Hey, you bastard! You of all people got a perfect score? Does that make sense? Did you boil the professor with your stinking money? Or was it the teaching assistants? Ah, disgusting bastard."
Dennis the Double Faced.
It was him who had burst out. His eyes were bloodshot as he spewed curses. He seed to have flipped out from the humiliation of being beaten unexpectedly and falling behind in grades.
But I didn't blink an eye. Instead, I scoffed. There was no need to react to soone so undignified and out of my league. Instead, I shouted.
"Sunny Benesse."
"Huh, huh?"
"Bite."
Sunny seed to have his brain frozen. I kindly began to explain.
"Didn't I tell you? I hate people who are a nuisance the most."
"…Uh, uh."
"Solve it yourself."
"Ugh!"
Bang.
I kicked Sunny's butt. Sunny's body gained montum and staggered up to Dennis.
Dennis had an incredulous expression.
"Hey, you bastard! Aren't you coming out?"
"You're just a pig, he's enough for you."
"What, you bastard?"
The angry guy ignored Sunny and rushed toward . But I couldn't just leave it be.
"Block it."
But Sunny hesitated. It seed like the fear from being bullied all the ti was etched into his bones. Threats alone won't work at tis like this.
Knowing this, I took a different approach.
"The spear of Benesse does not weigh grudges, but it does not forget the weight of grace."
The motto of the Benesse family. I knew well what that motto ant to the people of Benesse.
"It's what you said earlier. Rember the weight of grace," I said sternly on purpose.
In other words, I'd owe him one for this, so keep his word.
"Kuk."
The effect was trendous. Sunny Benesse's eyes changed. More serious than ever. He was definitely timid.
But above that timidity, there was the weight of the family. From his expression, I was sure of it.
Once he uttered the family's oath himself, breaking that oath would tarnish the family's na. In that situation, he was trying to beco a warrior of Benesse, sothing his innate timidity couldn't suppress.
"You're making a fool of yourself," Dennis snorted. "Move, you stuttering bastard!"
He tried to kick Sunny away like an annoying bug. Sunny had always been such an existence. An existence like a worthless bug. But the current Sunny would be different.
"I can't do that."
Thump! Sunny's hand blocked Dennis's foot. Perhaps the first resistance of the bug. From Dennis's reaction, I was sure of it.
"This bastard?"
As if an impossible event had occurred,
Dennis had an incredulous expression. Sunny, too, seed to be trembling with excitent from his own actions.
"This insolent bastard dares!"
Dennis exploded. He instinctively knew. If he didn't trample him properly here, the food chain that had existed until now could break.
Thorough punishnt. That was the only answer.
Whoosh!
The fist heavily cut through the air. An extra, but a notorious one for throwing a punch.
Thud!
"Ugh."
The fist hit Sunny's jaw.
Too weak to even dodge such an attack?
That's not it.
It was because of a lack of experience. A lack of experience in such prideful brawls. Unable to react imdiately due to fear and trembling.
"God, you're nothing."
Dennis's montum rose.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The fists swung one after another.
Thud. Thud. Thud!
Each ti, Sunny's jaw turned. Unstable staggering. But he didn't fall, perhaps due to his toughness.
I clicked my tongue. Indeed, breaking out of the shell of timidity wasn't easy. So I gave him a buff.
"Is that all? Is that how you talk about the weight of grace?"
Flinch.
Sunny's body reacted imdiately. I drove the point ho.
"Is that the weight of Benesse's grace?"
"No, it's not!"
Sunny shouted loudly and rushed at Dennis for the first ti. The raised hand moved in a strange motion.
I knew that movent. The martial arts of Benesse.
Techniques used to subdue opponents without a spear or killing.
Leon Benesse, his younger brother, could easily subdue several rcenary scum with just that technique.
Of course, he wouldn't reach that level.
"But it's pretty good."
There was strength and speed. Just lacking sharpness. Probably because of his personality. Anyway, even if there were shortcomings, it wasn't a force to be ignored.
"This bastard dares?"
Dennis collided strongly, as if it was unbelievable. Still looking down from above, full of contempt. But the martial arts of Benesse were not sothing that could be underestimated.
Thud! Thud!
For the first ti, the sounds of impact rang out simultaneously. Dennis's fist shook Sunny's jaw again, but Sunny's hand also struck Dennis's throat.
"Ke, Keh."
A breathless sound. It's natural to have trouble breathing after being hit in the throat.
Dennis's eyes filled with rage. It was the first ti he had been hit by a bug. An intolerable feeling.
"This son of a b*tch!"
"Co on, co at !"
Finally, a real fight broke out. A brawl without a mont to breathe.
Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud!
Hit, strike, hit, strike, hit, strike.
The street fight was vulgar. But their desperate montum was real. Because they both had reasons they couldn't lose.
"Hoo hoo hoo… Han."
The two guys faced each other with panting breaths and exhausted bodies. But the difference in expression was stark.
Sunny, still full of determination.
On the other hand, Dennis, whose face was already covered with anxious trembling—it seed like his ntal state was starting to crumble due to more pain than expected and the unexpected strength of the underestimated opponent.
"Let's finish this soon."
As if my words were a signal, Sunny rushed at Dennis. Dennis also gathered his last strength.
"Huaaap!"
"Haat!"
Whoosh! Dennis's high kick cut through the empty air.
And then—
Thud!
Sunny's spinning kick exploded right into Dennis's solar plexus.
"Kuh...!"
Dennis's body flew and crashed to the ground. Sunny didn't miss the opportunity and climbed on top of Dennis. The desperate pounding followed.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Sunny's fists mashed Dennis's face. Blood splattered, and fresh blood flowed from his torn lips. This was no longer a fight. A one-sided slaughter.
"Stop, please stop… I lost, I lost…"
Dennis's plea flowed out.
Like the double personality of Dennis, as soon as the perception that he was less than a potato was ingrained, another personality seed to pop out like a ghost.
"I won…?"
Sunny's eyes wavered as he stopped punching. It still didn't seem real to him that he had beaten soone, especially Dennis. But one thing was clear.
Sothing inside him had changed.
"See. Didn't I tell you? That guy is nothing," I said it as if I knew it would happen. "Anyway, I definitely know. The weight of Benesse's grace."
I gave him a firm complint, as much as I used the family's na.
"Yeah, that's right."
Sunny sighed with relief. His eyes. Unlike before, they definitely had a useful light.
'This would pass as acceptable,' I evaluated.
Of course, a person doesn't transform overnight. But it was clear that he had evolved into soone worth keeping as a team mber.
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