Chapter 15 – I Almost Got Lost Because of You. Endure

“Hey! White hair!”

Crossing through the trees, the high school students shouted at the Demon King. I noticed that it was a knife in his hand, but I wasn’t too worried about the demon king. He has supernatural strength that surpasses that of an adult man, and his martial arts skills are good enough to sweep awards. He thought he’d probably take the knife and subdue him in an instant.

Contrary to my thoughts, my body was rushing toward a high school student.

Just a little while ago, I only thought about exaggerating. However, only high school students caught my eye with the momentum that ran towards him. Passing by the hype that I hated so much, I ran towards the bully with the sword.

“Where is that bastard!”

The high school student shouted these words when he arrived right in front of Yuri and the Demon King. The demon king just sat on a chair and looked up at him. Even when he saw the knife in his hand and his red face, he didn’t look scared or scared at all. It was a world apart from the white glass sitting right next to him.

When the demon king looked up at him with a nonchalant expression, her high school student could not stand it and brought her sword to her. At that moment, I flew towards him while maintaining the speed.

“100 million!”

I closed my eyes and expected a big shock, but I only felt a sensation similar to hitting a thin wooden board. I opened my eyes, which had been closed in preparation for the shock, due to a slight embarrassment.

He was shot in the shoulder by me, but he flew through the air for a few seconds as if he had been hit by a truck. Then he fell to the ground and slid about 10 meters. At the same time, the boy must have let go of her hand holding the knife, and the knife he was holding fell and made a sharp sound.

While the high school student was in shock, I could see the knife he was holding. It was a thin and smooth metal handle that ignored the grip, and a blade with a hole in the side that seemed to be weak in durability. It was not a knife dipped in to stab people, but a product made for decorative purposes.

But that didn’t mean it wasn’t dangerous. Just as a knife without a blade would bruise or break a bone even if hit, that object was an unmistakable weapon. Even that blade, which seemed to break easily, would split the skin and spill red blood if cut.

To think that he was aiming something like that at an unarmed man made him even more angry than before. Maybe the anger that rose because of the exaggeration was directed at that bully.

“Ugh, this dog, bastard!”

The high school student who finally came to his senses got up from his seat and grabbed his knife. If he had been a soldier, he could have been praised for his great spirit. But now, that guy was nothing more than an immature modern bully.

I shouted at him who was glaring at me with a knife.

“Drop the knife!”

“Why are you scared!”

“The person to be scared of right now is you, not me! Why are you ruining your life with your own hands!”

“Shut up! Lee’s haircut. I’m going to put a knife in your stomach, so come here!”

After hearing that, I started changing seats. It wasn’t really going to high school, it was to get away from the girls even a little bit. If that guy rushed at him, the sparks could have splattered at Yuri or the demon king.

I changed my position while glaring at him in case he suddenly rushed at me. Fortunately, the boy didn’t come close until I was about 5 meters away from the girls.

I told him that this would be all right.

“Drop the knife, please! If you make it this far, I might be able to see you!”

“Who is watching whom? You must beg me to save you now!”

The high school student shouted that and strode towards me. Her red, bloodshot eyes, fortunately, were only directed at me.

Still, I continued to get his attention, and at the same time, I began to persuade him.

“If you keep doing this, your life will be ruined! You’re going to jail!”

“Don’t worry, I’m going to kill you, huh?”

“What about college or employment!”

“Ah, shut up!”

He shouted and ran towards me. Grabbing his blade in the direction of the palm, it was a gripping method that cut his knife like an awl.

“Kyaaaaagh!”

As he started running, a scream was heard from the side. I thought that there was no way I could go unnoticed after making such a commotion, then I watched the boy approaching me at high speed.

Just as bullets do not have eyes, so did cold weapons like knives. All weapons were used regardless of people, and death and suffering were inflicted on everyone equally. The knife he was holding now was the same. Even a knife wielded by an amateur bully could mortally wound me, a former warrior.

I felt this feeling only in the first battle. On the first day I went to battle as a warrior, a man charged me with a small blade like that. At that time I was not naked. He was holding a one-handed sword ten times larger than the one he had been holding. As he approached, I unknowingly assumed the lunging position I learned in training. So I stabbed the man in the chest.

It was like checking if a potato is done. You can feel every detail, from the peeling of the potato’s skin when you poke it with an iron chopstick, to the crunchy texture of the unripe part. So did people. The feeling of piercing skin, slicing through bone, and piercing soft intestines was all transmitted through the handle of the knife. Besides, I had to feel the same process again while pulling out the knife.

As I was doing these useless flashbacks, the high school student was right in front of me before I knew it. No, it wasn’t useless. It was because it reminded me of another training session.

Just like the first time I killed a person, my body moved on its own. As I had learned in training, I raised my arms to block his knife hand, and rotated my body counterclockwise while holding the sleeves. Then, using the momentum that came running, he bent over and knocked him over.

The boy fell to the floor with a thud, and I moved his body before he came to his senses. I grabbed the sleeve that wasn’t released and pulled it with all my might to the left so that he would lie face down on the floor. When I turned over, I twisted his arm and at the same time turned my body clockwise and knelt on the boy’s back. While he was still unconscious, he lifted his knee and interposed the wrist of the hand holding the knife between his back and knee.

This is all 1 second, no, that would be an exaggeration. It happened in 3 seconds with enough catch. Before I could even think of what to do, my body moved on its own.

“Kuuk!”

The boy underneath groaned in agony. As I was pressing on his back, he seemed to be in pain because he couldn’t breathe. As he did so, the strength in the hand holding the sword was released.

As he let go of the knife, I carefully picked up the blade with my index finger and thumb. The surface of the handle was smooth, so fingerprints seemed to be easily left. I slipped the knife into an empty place so that it could be used as evidence later.

Wanting to know what to do now, I looked down at the bully. Then I felt the need to tie him up.

I looked up and found someone to help me. Of course, Yuri was impossible, and if he ordered the demon king, he would be criticized for asking a woman like that. At that time, the exaggeration was noticeable. He was staring at me with a white face, not far from the bathroom entrance. My eyes met, so I called him right away.

“Hey! You!”

“… “

He didn’t answer, just looked at me. I almost died, but he screamed louder because he was secretly angry at the fact that he hadn’t done anything.

“Hey! Wake! Yes, you!”

“Uh, huh?”

“Yes you!”

He finally responded to my words.

“Go somewhere and get something to tie.”

“Tie it up, will you?”

“Okay! I’ll tie you up!”

“Uh, where are you?”

“I know that! Did you ask at the box office? Or go to the popcorn shop! Hurry!”

Hearing my words, the hype ran toward the box office. I don’t know where he is in such an appearance, so I’m asking,” He grumbled and looked down at Yangachi. He shamelessly opened his mouth while breathing hard.

“Ah, mister, ah, dig.”

“What?”

“Let it go, give it to me, or not… ?”

Even though I’m still 20 years old and calling you uncle, I don’t know why I took up a knife to pretend to be so weak.

I looked around, lowered my head and whispered softly so that others wouldn’t hear.

“Do you think it will hurt?”

“Yes.”

“I almost fell behind because of you. Hang on, you bastard.”

“Ah, mister.”

He flapped his intact left hand like a fish on the ground. Then someone came up to me.

“Hey, here… “

The hype gasped for breath and brought a charging cable. It brought several cables to charge the phone. Recalling that this is quite tough, I took some of it and said.

“Tie your legs.”

“Uh?”

“Tie your legs!”

“It’s not burdensome.”

The demon king, who had come closer at some point, said. She took the cable in her hand over her exaggeration while putting on an unusually sullen face. She saw the demon lord walk behind me, and when I turned around, she was squatting at the feet of the arch and she was tying his ankles.

“Stay there.”

In an instant, she tied her ankles and got up again, coming closer to me. I took the cable in my hand, grabbed Yangachi’s left hand and moved it, tying it with my right hand under my knee.

“I-here.”

Then a man spoke to me. When he turned his head, a large man was standing next to me, talking to me.

“Let me help you.”

Seeing as she glanced at her demon lord while talking to me, it seemed that she was aiming for her. But it didn’t matter to me now, and I just wished that the excitement had gone and I could give my tired body a rest.

I slowly moved away, making my place available for him to take.

It felt like I had been driving for over 10 hours. My whole body felt heavy and my head was dizzy. When I was a warrior, it was okay to fight all day long, but now it was too much to subdue a bully.

“Jiheon!”

Suddenly Yuri called me. She cried again with her pale face.

“Blood!”

Blood? In an instant, I checked where Yuri was injured. However, the dark red color characteristic of her blood was not visible in the gray cloth she wore.

“Are your arms okay?”

I only found out after the demon king informed me. Several thin veins of blood were running down my fingers on my left hand.

It was then that he felt a burning pain in his forearm. It didn’t hurt that bad, though. Of course, it was much more painful than falling and being scratched.

Holding back the throbbing pain, he moved his fingers to see if the tendon had been cut. It looked like everything was working, so the ligament wasn’t out. Still, I headed to the bathroom to look at the wound.

I went into the bathroom holding my arm up to stop the bleeding and stop spilling on the floor. I lowered my arm into the washbasin and pulled the knife-slashed sleeve to widen the torn area.

There was a stab wound no more than 5 cm on the outside of the forearm. It was straight in the middle, as if it had been cut with scissors, but at the ends it was sloppily torn like paper torn by hand. It must have been that the wounds were wide open from being cut and forcibly exerting force when suppressing Yangachi.

“Are you okay?”

Hearing the demon king’s voice from behind, he raised his head and looked in the mirror. I saw her standing at the bathroom door, looking through her mirror.

He was a little bluffing towards the demon king, not his usual dignified expression.

“This is the men’s room, get out.”

I tried to smile a little, but she ignored me and came next to me.

“Let’s see the wound.”

The demon king inspected my wounds through the torn sleeves. I thought she was unfamiliar with such a caring expression, so I threw a joke on her.

“I must be a warrior who is also a warrior. Even though I knew you wouldn’t get hurt, my body moved on its own.”

“I’m sorry, sincerely.”

“What?”

I raised her head and looked at her. However, the demon king turned his back to the mirror and looked towards the bathroom door. As I leaned back and tried to look at her face, she said.

“Stay there. I am ashamed to see your face.”

I turned my gaze to the mirror. I could see the demon king’s silver hair that had grown to his back in a black tracksuit.

“You know, too. You are the only one who can be called Jim’s friend. As a result, even if I disciplined him like before, the price always returned only to Jim.”

“… “

“After living like that for over 10 years, I got used to being alone. I never thought you’d get hurt. No, maybe it was something I didn’t want to think about.”

“… “

“If you are Jim’s friend, you could get hurt again like today. If you want, you can stop being Jim’s friend… !”

As he spoke his last words, his voice trembled as if he was about to cry.

“Still, it can be forced, but,”

I didn’t want to hear the demon king’s voice weakened like this.

“Still, Jim’s brother… “

“Hey.”

So she cut her off.

“Where are you saying that there was nothing unreasonable about what you said?”

“To?”

“A friend. Anyway, if it’s not you, I’ll be bad in the department.”

I checked the demon king’s reaction in the mirror. Even with her back to me, I saw her raise her arm and wipe her face with her sleeve. Then, with a big swing of her arm, she slapped me on the back.

Jap!

“Evil! Hey!”

“Don’t be rude! Doesn’t it hurt!”

“It hurts!”

I looked at her reflexively. Then, the demon king looked at me with a confident smile as usual. In that smile, I noticed that the corners of her eyes were slightly red. But I didn’t show it, and I said it as usual.

“Why did you hit me!”

“No way! Doesn’t this even count as a hit! Let’s see your wounds!”

Making a fuss, the demon king looked into my wounds.

“Hmmmm, compared to the bleeding, it’s not that deep.”

“Because my blood pressure was elevated. But do I have to sew this? I’ve never sewed here.”

“I think it would be okay if I just applied ointment.”

“It’s torn like this, just apply ointment?”

“Hmm! Shouldn’t we apply disinfectant too!”

“I’ll just sew it up! How can you be so unreliable?”

“What’s wrong with Jim?”

Bean bean

Suddenly there was a knock on the glass from behind. I turned around and saw a male police officer in a gray uniform knocking on the bathroom door.

He said while making eye contact with me.

“Teachers, would you like to see me for a second?”