#104 Crazy Stunt
"Not sure if you should call them idiots considering your own intelligence"
"Hmph! I don't think that you are the one who should criticize us." He snorted and replied with narrowed eyes.
"I have never said that I criticize you...I am just stating my opinion." I shrugged my shoulders and said with a smile.
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"This is looking bad..." Matsushita muttered when she saw Felix's group surrounded.
"It was pretty easy to guess that they will target his group. I am more surprised that he decided to go into the middle and not to the corner where they wouldn't be able to surround him like that." Horikita said and frowned while looking at the 3 groups currently surrounding Felix's group.
"Walker-kun won't lose despite these circumstances." Mii-chan said with confidence while clenching her hand.
"Hmph! Why are you so sure? Because he was able to get rid of 1 team? He was able to get rid of them only because he provoked them. Others won't make the same mistake twice." Horikita replied with a colder tone because she thought that Mii-chan was too naive to think like that.
"Nope, that's not why she believes in him, right?" Kei joined in and covered for Mii-chan.
Mii-chan just resolutely nodded to confirm Kei's question.
"He will win this because he has yet to lose any match and I am positively sure that definitely won't happen today." Kei said aloud in a confident tone while strangely looking at Mii-chan.
"What kind of logic is that?" Even Horikita's serious expression crumbled before Kei's logic as she started staring at Kei with a stupid look.
"Mii-chan can understand me, right?" Instead of answering Horikita's question, Kei turned at Mii-chan and asked her.
This slightly surprised Mii-chan and she also sensed that there was a hidden meaning in her words
"Well...I haven't spent that much time with Walker-kun as you who is his childhood friend but I think I can understand where you are coming from."
"Didn't you say that you just approached each other recently and that you haven't seen each other for around 9 years? It's inevitable that people will change in such a long time. How can you trust him so much?" Horikita asked with a slightly sad expression when she mentioned that people tend to change with the passage of time.
Horikita's words immediately piqued Mii-chan's interest.
"Kei-chan, how was Walker-kun during his childhood?" Mii-chan suddenly asked with stars in her eyes.
"Oho?" Kei turned at Mii-chan and smiled triumphantly. At this time, Horikita's questions were completely ignored but she didn't mind it because she could learn more about a guy named Felix if she heard about his childhood.
"Come on Kei-chan!" Even Matshushita's interest was piqued by Mii-chan's question so she tried to pressure Kei into telling them.
"Well, to be honest, we didn't spend a very long time together but 1 year was still enough for me to think of it as 10 years." Kei said with a nostalgic smile.
'They spent only 1 year playing around together before separating...is that enough to be called childhood friends?' Horikita thought with a weird expression.
"Tell us more about what you have done together...What about his parents? Did he inherit his looks from his father?" Matsushita pressed for more information and although her last question sounded a bit weird but everyone understood that she meant his pure white hair.
"Eh? I won't lie, he was a bit strange at least that's what I thought the first time I have met him. He actually rang our doorbell to look for some small errands. He was actually wearing ragged clothes but my mom still decided to let him in and let him do some chores for a little pay. If it wasn't for my mom wanting me to meet with him, I would stay in my room reading books. I know...yes I was a bookworm at that time and I tried to tease him a bit due to his ragged clothes but instead of teasing him, it was the other way around. He immediately struck me as a bigger brother figure but not in the sense that he is just a bit older than me. I felt as if he was by numerous years older than me." Kei became more talkative as she started to slowly remember the past with a nostalgic face.
Both Mii-chan and Matsushita couldn't help but genuinely smile when they saw Kei's nostalgic face while talking about her past.
'She must have really liked him back then' Both of them thought with a smile.
"As for his parents...I have never seen them. He always came to visit us alone so we never saw his parents which never bugged me before but now that I think about it... It's extremely weird that he was allowed to stroll the streets all alone when he was just 7 years old." Kei continued with a sad expression.
"Ehm, anyway, I almost forgot about your question, Horikita-san." Kei cleared her throat and stopped talking about the past by changing the subject.
"No problem" Horikita simply replied that she doesn't mind.
"You asked me how can I trust him despite not seeing him for so long...That's easy...because he is the same boy I first met a few years ago. He didn't change a bit...well, except for his body of course." Kei explained and event though she tried no to think too hard about that last sentence, she still ended up blushing a bit.
The other girls immediately widened her eyes when they heard her words and yet another misunderstanding was created.
'They knew each other for only 1 year...That's definitely not enough time for the kids to take baths together!' Horikita immediately thought when she heard Kei's words and frowned down.
"Anyway, it seems like they finally stopped talking, look!" Kei also noticed a strange atmosphere and tried to redirect everyone's attention to the match while pointing at Felix's group with an excited face.
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"We have already wasted more than 1 minute by talking with this kid, let's finally end this." The guy on blocking our right side complained to the guy in the front.
I guess he is the leader here.
"Mm" He just nodded at both of the commanders and they nodded back.
...For more than 10 seconds they didn't move an inch and just kept on observing us, perhaps to make us more nervous.
My smile disappeared and emotionless expression appeared on my face. I widened my eyes and started glaring and focusing only on the guy in the front, completely ignoring the other 2 commanders on our sides.
"Huh?!" The leader flinched at my intense and unblinking gaze.
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'What the hell is wrong with his eyes! It feels like I am being watched by some dangerous predator...I can't move!' The leader thought and started to shake a little, he was unable to tear his gaze away from Felix's brightly glowing red eyes with vertical slit pupils. He looked at the others beneath him from the corner of his eyes and he noticed that they were perfectly fine.
'Why is it only me?!' He started panicking even more since he had no idea what was going on.
By this time, he already lost it and felt like a venomous snake was glaring at him, daring him to move an inch.
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...Idiot
I was able to think of only one word when I saw his reaction.
I didn't even send the energy into my eyes yet he succumbed to the fear just from normal glare. I am slightly disappointed since I wanted to try out if I can actually produce better results by circulating the energy into my eyes but I don't want him to piss himself when there are his teammates beneath him. That wouldn't be even funny but just plainly disgusting.
If he kept his mind calm and simply stared back at me without panicking and trying to tear his gaze away from me at any cost, he would be able to easily resist it.
"Now!" I shouted and my "horse" immediately moved forward. They knew what to do because we already discussed the strategy while we were "talking" with those guys.
"..." The guys beneath the leader didn't say anything, only narrowed their eyes and increased their vigilance. They were totally clueless about their leader's mental state.
Of course, when I broke my glare he was also able to get rid of his immobility but he was still extremely confused and had no strength to move. Not to mention that even if he reacted quite fast, he wouldn't be able to stop me.
"Hey! What are you doing?!" Although his "horse" didn't notice anything, the other commanders noticed that he wasn't moving and only had surprised expression on his face.
Only then the guys playing horse noticed something wrong and tried to move away from us but it was far too late, We already had momentum while they had yet to move.
"Before you will once again think of acting arrogant in front of me, remember this humiliating moment and know your place next time." I said without any emotion as I snatched his headband while looking straight into his chaotic eyes.
Even after I snatched his headband, he kept on blankly staring into empty space with an opened mouth.
Hm? I noticed that something was wrong with his headband. It was much more slippery and if they actually were able to react faster then even if I would be able to touch his headband from a smaller distance, I would be unable to snatch it considering how slippery it is.
"Move! We can't lose this chance!" The commander who blocked our right side shouted at the other commander and both of them moved out to intercept us before we could move away from their defeated leader.
"Hey, you! You already lost, get the fuck out!" Sudo started shouting when the guys supporting the previous leader were blocking us from moving.
I glanced at the referee and from his angle, it would be extremely hard to see what they are doing... He probably didn't even notice me snatching their headband.
I quickly tried to create a tiny layer of energy on my hand. Hopefully, it will help a bit with that slippery otherwise it might be quite hard to snatch these headbands from them.
...Shit! Not enough time!
I quickly circulated the energy at least into my right hand since I wouldn't be able to spread it into both of my hands in time. I am still extremely inexperienced with this process and I am also in the learning phase.
Tch! I clicked my tongue when I saw two quickly approaching hands from both sides.
"Sudo, don't drop me!" I shouted at Sudo since he was the strongest one here and I bent my entire upper body backward, just in time dodging those two hands.
But I didn't want to only dodge their attack...When their hands missed my headband, I struck my hands toward each of them and mainly focused on the left side.
I was able to take hold of both of their headbands but the guys on the left side immediately moved his head backward while gritting his teeth and glaring at me with a shocked expression, making his headband slip through my fingers even though I mainly focused on him.
Thankfully, the guy on the right side reacted in the same way, however, instead of getting away from me with his headband on, his headband firmly stayed in my hand.
"Huh?" He looked extremely surprised and probably wondered why his headband stayed in my hand instead of slipping through like what happened with his classmate.
"Shit! Fuck this, run!" The only remaining guy, on the other hand, lost his will to fight and decided to order his "horse" to run away.
"Go after him, we can't let him keep his headband!" I also ordered my guys to move after them.
When we finally get rid of guys holding us in place, we moved after escaping guy.
"Don't let your guard down." Miyake reminded us, he was probably thinking that all these victories could get into our heads.
I must say that he is very cautious despite having such a successful battle.
While Miyake was cautious and trying to remain calm, Ike on the other hand just couldn't feel happier for all these victories. And Sudo was just feeling fired up but that also wasn't necessarily a good thing.
"Miyake-kun is right, focus on catching up to them and only after the event will end, you can finally celebrate." I agreed with him and reminded especially Ike and Sudo once again.
"Yeah, yeah" Sudo replied in an annoyed tone but he still tried his best to calm down because he knew how much we can get from that last headband and also how much we can lose if we are careless.
"Haah...don't...you...worry!" Ike said while taking a deep breath between each word.
His stamina is really shit considering that Sudo and Miyake are the ones who are mostly supporting my body.
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"Shit! We can't catch up to them because Kanji is slowing us down!" Sudo shouted with an irritated expression when he noticed that the small gap between us and the other guys was no longer shortening. It was a small gap but it still wasn't enough for me to snatch their headband.
"I..am- doing...my- best, guys!" Ike replied with a voice that sounded as if he was about to die.
I guess we need to end this fast or one leg of our horse will soon give in.
"Okay, guys, we need to end this fast. Are you ready for another crazy stunt?!" I asked them and a crazy smile appeared on my face.
Although they couldn't see my face right now, they still sensed it and shivered a bit, especially Sudo.
"W-What do you want to do?!" Sudo asked with an uncertain expression.
"This!" I shouted and stepped on Sudo's and Miyake's shoulder with my entire body weight and then jumped towards our fleeing enemy.
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'What The Fuck? Are you even allowed to do that?' Everyone thought while watching this unfold with dumbfounded expressions. Even the referee wasn't the exception because such a situation never happened before.
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"Huhehe, sup!" I landed on the shoulders of the two guys right next to their commander with my crazy smile across my face and I put my hand on his back while quickly snatching his headband and watching his shocked expression.
"So long, suckers! haha" I waved at them and quickly jumped back because I felt that those two guys' legs were slowly crumbling.
Sudo and Miyake caught me while Ike made sure I won't lose balance.
"Are you crazy?!! Do you know how much it hurts?" Sudo complained since it was already the second time he was used as a ramp.
"Well...it worked out, didn't it?" Miyake tried to calm Sudo down while massaging his own shoulder.
"*Whistle!!!*" The referee signaled for the end of the battle since 5 minutes just passed by since the beginning of the match.
"Yaaaaa!" The normal spectators and also students either from Class D or A immediately started shouting after they recovered from seeing my stunt.
"How the hell did he do it?!"
"Is that even allowed?"
"Well, he hadn't fallen from his horse, he just switched horses for a small moment which is perfectly normal in the "battlefield". I would actually be more surprised if the school didn't tolerate his stunt."
My stunt quickly started a heated discussion.