Chapter 80: Blackbeard's Return

Shinji's POV:

On the third day of Walpurgisnacht. Me and Aiko were going to visit Kenji, but as we reached the sick bay…

"HAY, YOU TRASH! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" A certain black bearded former vice principal wearing the uniform of a rival academy, suddenly approached us as we were about to enter Kenji's room.

Seeing as he is a 5th tier mage, it's not strange that he would attend this event. Though I didn't expect our former vice principal Blackbeard to fall in with another academy less than a year after being fired.

"Come on, let's go!" I said to Aiko as I reached for the door.

In my experience, responding to a bully would only egg them on. Hence, I ignored him as I moved to enter Kenji's room. If only it was that easy.

"I ASKED YOU A QUESTION TRASH?"

*Bang*

Just as I was about to open the door, he grabbed me by the shoulder and punched me in the gut. Luckily, I wasn't as frail as I used to be or that hit would have made me vomit. I never thought I would be thankful for all that endurance training the mad professor put us through.

"ANSWER WHEN YOUR BETTERS TALK TO YOU! OR HAVE YOUR EARS TURNED TO GARBAGE TOO?!"

I was about to respond with an attack of my own when suddenly.

"Hello Mr. Blackbeard! Are you here to finally get your brain damage fixed?"

A wild mad professor appeared.

"YOU!!!"

"Yes, me! Very good! I see you've regained the ability to speak simple words! What miraculous work they do here!"

While the mad professor was busy praising the medical system while indulging in his mad delusions, the former vice principal was preparing a spell.

"DIE YOU PIECE OFF SH-!"

*BANG*

Just as Blackbeard was about to fire his spell, the mad professor quickly closed the distance, grabbed him by the face and slammed him into the ground. He then lifted his index finger in front of his lips as the lightning elemental spell fizzled out behind him.

"Shh! Don't you know it's rude to disturb the ill! And what if you suddenly surprised a surgeon in the middle of an operation with that yelling? What would you do if someone accidentally cut the main artery while attempting a lung transplant! Could you live with that? Now be a good little Blackbeard and stay away from my brats, before I make Graybeard sad by killing you!" He said, as a suffocating atmosphere started covering the halls.

"WHAT'S GOING ON?! YOU UNHAND HIM!"

Just then an angry, balding old man in a black robe suddenly started yelling from further down the hallway. He cast a spell on the floor then jumped through a shadow before jumping out of the mad professor's shadow and grabbed him by the neck before lifting him off the ground. Showcasing a surprising amount of strength for such a frail looking old man, he strangled the mad professor in the air with one hand.

"You done?"

Despite the fact his neck seemed like it was about to snap off, the mad professor still spoke in a clear and calm voice as he looked down on the elderly man.

"Cause if you are? Can you take your baggage and leave, already? This is getting boring!"

"WHY YOU!"

"That's enough Kuro! Let him go before you do something you'll regret!"

Just as the elderly man looked like he was going to pop a vein. Principal Shiro stepped around the corner and told him to stop.

"Stay out of this Shiro! It has nothing to do with you!"

"Oh really! Then why may I ask are you strangling my new professor?"

"This guy's yours? Figures! He's a savage just like the rest of you!"

"What are you implying?"

As they were arguing the atmosphere grew even heavier as silent sparks flickered between the two old men.

"Uh? I don't mean to interrupt the flirting between you love birds, but could you let me down now?"

"Okay, maybe you could strangle him a little bit longer!" The principal spoke.

"With pleasure!"

"*Moan* Harder daddy!"

As the mad professor was making everyone uncomfortable with his moaning and sexual remarks, the bald old man eventually let him go.

"Ugh! Gross! You pervert! Why did you lick my hand! Hey Shiro! Catch!"

Just then the bald guy threw the mad professor at the principal, who then dodged to the side as the mad professor was gesturing for a romantic embrace as he was falling. He eventually ended up falling face first on the ground while making a kissing expression.

*Thud*

"Ugh! I'm going to go wash this hand! And you better not let that pervert near my students you hear!" The balding man said as he wiped his hand on the unconscious Blackbeard before dragging him away.

"Is it really too much to ask for you to stay out of trouble?" the principal asked after grabbing his temples while looking at the professor making out with the floor.

"Don't blame me! I have a chronic condition!"

"Uh-huh. And what would that be exactly?"

"It's called murphy's law! Anything that can go wrong will go wrong! Hence, I have been burdened with the fate of being a trouble magnet. Oh! The humanity!" He said while doing an overly dramatic sad pose.

"Hmph! Just make sure not to go near the Kuro academy people! Our relationship is tense enough as it is. I don't need you making it worse!" And with that the principal left.

"Hey, kid! If you're going to pick a fight, then make sure it's one you can win." He said as he turned to me.

"He started it!" Aiko spoke up.

"And?"

"And what?" I asked

"And what would have happened if you had launched that spell at that short-tempered guy?"

"…"

"The same thing your bastard father would have done! He would have killed you both."

"What? No, he wouldn't! The rules of Walpurgis won't permit it! He wouldn't have dared!"

"Yes, he would! And you know why? Because you would have given him an excuse!"

"An excuse?!"

"The rule of Walpurgisnacht prevents anyone from harming the participants, but that only applies if the participant in question isn't the one who threw the first punch!"

"BUT WE DIDN'T!!!"

"AND WHO'S GOING TO BELIEVE YOU?!!"

"…"

"The only witnesses would have been two corpses and himself! That means he would be free to spin the tale however he likes! 'Oh! I was just minding my own business when two salty haters from my last job jumped me.' That's more or less how it would've gone down had I not been here you brats!"

"Then should we have just sat there and taken it!" I said as I clenched my fist in frustration.

"No! You could have made a run for it, or you could have made a scene like me and put him off his game! Bullies like that are easily affected by their moods and environments! If you had gotten the attention of all the patients and faculty in the area, then he would feel too self-conscious to continue and back down! Assuming he doesn't hate you so much you trigger his berserker mode just by being near him, like with me!"

"…"

"If you understand then wipe that look off your face and let's go see brat number 3!"

And with that, he opened the door to Kenji's room.