Crushing Defeat

Under the scorching sun, in the middle of the hot weather. In a location where the incident will shock the city of Kediri later, where Arslan and Deren are also the gang right now.

However, where the fierce battle took place, many of the surrounding people who saw the incident both young and mature, were shocked by the show that was before their eyes.

Of the 15 people who fought Arslan at this time, only 2 of them were standing limply facing Arslan. Only Deren and Agus are left to finish the pinnacle of this fight. But what was even more surprising to the spectators around the field was Arslan, who was not injured at all, even his breathing was still regular. It didn't look like someone who had done a tough battle against 15 people.

He was alone against 15 3rd graders, that was impossible.

Deren, whose breathing started to become irregular, looked at Arslan in horror. Arslan wasn't hurt at all. Every now and then his gaze traced his friends lying on the ground helplessly, some fainted, and some grimaced in pain. According to him, who has attended Patra Junior High School for three years, his friends are not weak at all. Deren struggled to gather them under his orders with great difficulty. Every one of them he invites to a duel, and the loser belongs to the winner. And Deren of course won all those fights one on one. But somehow today, he was so afraid from the start to provoke Arslan. Even Deren had not thought about a fair fight, he knew that Arslan was only alone. But he forced himself to fight with the rest of his group.

"Did I realize from the start that I was going to lose?" Murmured Deren on his mind.

"Deren! We better finish this, I've reached my limit!". Agus shouted at him.

Deren who heard that just nodded in agreement

He immediately rushed towards Arslan, giving punches from various directions with his hands swinging alternately, targeting the punch right in Arslan's face. However, none of the punches hit Arslan. Arslan only dodged the punch with a swift motion, when one punch was aimed straight at Arslan's face, he thought it would hit him, but his thought was wrong. Arslan caught the blow with his left hand. Arslan responded with 3 punches in Deren's stomach which made him fall to the ground.

Agus, who saw Deren on his knees holding the pain in his stomach, immediately ran towards Arslan trying to get him away from Deren. Agus shot made the distance between Arslan and Deren, sending Arslan several meters away. But Agus did not stop there, he saw Arslan stagger because of avoiding his kick, immediately ran to Arslan, giving a punch with his last power. But what Agus did not expect, Arslan approached him and jumped at him with his knees pointing towards Agus's chin, so that Agus was hit by the knee kick and immediately fell to the ground unconscious.

Arslan, who was a little panting, looked at Deren who was kneeling while grimacing in pain holding his stomach. Arslan quickly approached Deren, who seemed to have run out of energy.

Arslan is seen reaching into his pocket, taking a cigarette and giving it to Deren's mouth, and lighting the cigarette with a lighter that he also carries. Then Arslan squeezed the cigarette box into a thin circle, and put it in the front pocket of Deren's shirt, as well as the lighter.

"A Junior high school student shouldn't smoke. The money given by your parents should be used for useful things. You are just a bunch of spoiled kids pretending to be thugs". After saying that in front of Deren, Arslan immediately kicked Deren's head until he fell on the ground and was unconscious.

The 15 VS 1 battle ended in a landslide victory by Arslan who was alone. He was standing in the middle of 15 people lying on the ground, making it a terrifying sight. He is currently like a lion standing in front of the defeated hyenas.

Arslan immediately moved away from that place, he took his bag which was not far from him, and rushed home. Suddenly this incident made him a legend among school children and delinquents in the city of Kediri.

Tino and his friends who saw the incident could only be stunned. They were shocked, this was the first time they saw a fight scene that was as impressive as in a movie.

Meanwhile, the principal of Patra High School, along with Mr. Darto, Annisa, and others, seemed too late to stop the incident. All they saw now was Deren and his friends lying on the very hot ground, exposed to the scorching sun at that time. Annisa who saw the incident just closed her mouth that was wide open, various questions flashed through her. Her gaze immediately explored the area, but she did not find Arslan's whereabouts. Where is he? Thought Annisa.

****

One hour later.

When Arslan got home, he immediately washed his face which was full of sweat. Every now and then he was seen smiling happily.

"Huh, I've wanted to hit them for a long time. Well at least I made them receive the reward, I still couldn't do anything before because my body was small and weak". Murmured Arslan who at that time saw the reflection of his face in the puddle. He remembered the incident clearly, which made him unable to forgive himself.

In the past, when Arslan was in the second grade of junior high school, he had a lover. Of course, the same school with him at Patra Junior High School, but not his age. His lover at that time was still in the first grade of junior high school, Arslan's younger class at the time. The tragedy began when Arslan's lover was alone walking to the women's toilet. Deren and his gang, who at that time were there, saw Arslan's lover walking alone, and they were thinking about teasing the girl. However, unexpectedly, this trivial idea turned into a shocking incident all over East Java. The news spread everywhere, out in a newspaper, the article said that 5 male students raped a girl who was a grade 1 student in the women's toilet. Because in his previous life, out of 15 of Deren's friends, only 5 of them, including Deren, did not graduate from school, and were forced to stay in class.

At that time Arslan only knew about the incident since the news spread that his lover was hospitalized, because she had cut her own wrist. Arslan's lover, who has woken up from a coma, then tells the truth to her parents. Arslan's lover's parents also reported their child's confession to the police and arrested Deren and his other 4 friends. Arslan, who heard the news, was very angry and devastated. He blamed himself for not being able to protect his first lover at that time. When he just feels the beauty of adolescent love, at that time he feels the pain of adolescent love. He just swore to himself that he wanted to repay the pain over and over again to Deren.

"Well, at least now I can protect the people I care about"

He deeply regretted his inability at that time. Arslan really wants to change all these bad events so they don't happen again. He just doesn't want to live with regrets.