Blake's first rank battle.

'Just as planned.' Blake thought as all eyes in the canteen were now on him he moved back to his seat.

Blake's goal was to make every 1st year student aware that he was going to be the hero that would fight against the tyranny of the 2nd year students. He had already gathered momentum from the previous day, so he wanted to keep it going.

For his plan to work, he needed a constant flow of bullying to intervene, that was why he had defeated the second years in the most demeaning way possible. This was to further disgrace them and cause them to take out their frustrations on other 1st years.

[You are creating more problems so that you can solve them. That's evil, but genius!] The system said with a proud smile.

According to the It's explanations, being a hero was more of the view of those being saved. So as long as they didn't know what was happening, and he kept on saving them, they would continue seeing him as a hero.