If he had, that yakuza punch would probably have laid this high school student out.
While a quick knockout sounded impressive, Hachisuka Hidemichi had his own plan. An evenly matched one-against-three fight would make people realize how difficult and dangerous the situation was, and then Kobayashi Ayaka's gratitude and guilt towards him would deepen even further.
He was a master strategist, worthy of being called a great general.
Hachisuka Hidemichi was smug, calling himself Zhuge Liang.
The male deer and his two cronies surrounded Hachisuka Hidemichi.
At one moment, he punched The male deer, kicked one crony, and also had to be careful of the other crony's sneak attack. The back-and-forth battle was quite lively.
—"Hiss,"
Even Kurashiki Reina, watching from the side, gasped.
Hachisuka Hidemichi was, after all, her boyfriend, and he was stepping up for them this time. There was still a bit of genuine concern mixed in. "Hayashi Hidemichi!" Kurashiki Reina exclaimed.
A crony's punch to the waist landed on his stomach.
Looking at the crony's ashen face and ferocious expression, he seemed to have used all his strength.
In reality, from Hachisuka Hidemichi's perspective, it did feel a bit painful at first, but after a careful sensation... it really was a bit painful.
However, after hearing Kurashiki Reina's cry of alarm, Hachisuka Hidemichi forgave the clumsy idiot.
This was worth it!
This was also part of his plan; appropriate injuries could elicit sympathy from girls.
He just didn't know how Kobayashi Ayaka was doing.
"No need—"
Hachisuka Hidemichi glanced over with his peripheral vision, the words "to worry" still unsaid.
He then saw Kobayashi Ayaka's figure flash.
Then,
She leaped into the air.
She stomped her athletic shoe onto Oshika Masaru's face, then used her long legs to kick him with a "boom," sending Oshika Masaru flying into the air, spinning seven hundred and twenty degrees.
Then the latter landed like a useless rag.
With a "thud," Kobayashi Ayaka landed lightly in front of Hachisuka Hidemichi, then gave him a disdainful look,
"You can't even hit someone with force, and you dare to call yourselves yakuza?"
Hachisuka Hidemichi:...Huh?
"Tsk,"
Kobayashi Ayaka rolled her eyes, then, completely uninterested, stopped looking at Hachisuka Hidemichi.
The latter, however, seemed to hear her mumble to herself,
"After all this time, he can't even deal with three small hoodlums..."
Hearing this, Hachisuka Hidemichi blinked. As a yakuza delinquent with quite a few underworld connections... at this moment, his confused expression was like that of an innocent child.
What the hell just happened?
Oshika Masaru was screaming, clutching his face, struggling to get up. (This thought not only appeared in Hachisuka Hidemichi's mind, but Oshika Masaru also thought the same thing.)
What the hell? What's going on?
He felt a bit confused.
Then the cronies stopped, first looking at Kobayashi Ayaka with a "?" expression, then looking at Hachisuka Hidemichi with confusion.
Wait, this isn't what we agreed upon.
We said it would be a fake fight, so why are you throwing real heavy punches?
—Judging by Ren's flight path, this couldn't possibly be faked, could it?
"Hey,"
Kobayashi Ayaka, however, completely ignored their current mood. Instead, she flexed her wrist, a cruel smile rising on her lips: "You guys, you considered the consequences when you picked a fight, right?"
The cronies: "...Huh?"
They looked at Oshika Masaru; two noodle-wide streams of blood flowed from his nostrils, and his nasal ala seemed to have collapsed a bit.
His eyes were filled with tears about to overflow, and he couldn't even speak, only groaning in pain, "Ah, ah..."
"Kurashiki."
Kobayashi Ayaka called out.
Kurashiki Reina, this time, obediently scurried to where their belongings were placed and pulled out a bamboo sword.
Then she quickly but gently threw it to Kobayashi Ayaka.
"Ayaka-senpai is the Vice Minister of our school's Kendo Club, and also the strongest in the club, second only to Senior Miyajima," Kurashiki Reina said.
Although she didn't quite understand why Miyajima Sakura valued Hayato so much.
But she herself admired this Senior quite a bit, especially her achievements in Kendo. After all, at every major ceremony, the principal would bring out the medals she had won and talk about them.
"Now I can only rank third."
Kobayashi Ayaka mumbled.
...Was she talking about the newly joined Hayato? Kurashiki Reina clicked her tongue, "It's that Mr. Hayashi again..."
She raised the sword, its tip pointed at the three delinquents,
"I won't be as soft-hearted as that Mr. Hayashi... no, I won't go easy. Prepare yourselves!"
With that, a cold light flashed repeatedly in her eyes.
Ugh! Hachisuka Hidemichi, inexplicably mocked, felt his heart sink, but he couldn't retort. He couldn't possibly say this was acting, could he?!
As for Oshika Masaru and his cronies, after exchanging glances, they realized things were bad.
The wind is tight, let's scram!
Retreat!
Without waiting for a signal, they took off running.
"Hundred Steps Flying Sword!!" Kobayashi Ayaka raised her hand.
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