The boy seemed to hesitate.
He knew Shota definitely wanted him to perform alone, but after performing alone, Shota, who had nothing to lose, would surely treat him like dirt.
Afterward, if that video, 'only' featuring him, fell into Hayato's hands, it was hard to say whether he would die without a burial place.
But if he was recorded with Shota, although the process was a bit disgusting, Shota was more powerful and much smarter than him, so perhaps he could rely on Shota to get the recording back. Besides, he didn't have a backup of Kurashiki Reina's video; the backup was also in Shota's hands.
Shota could also use this for leverage.
So, no matter how you looked at it...
"Hey!"
Shota somewhat saw through his 'companion's' little scheme. He glared at Hayato: "Aren't you afraid I'll call the police!"
Shota had edited the video of Kurashiki Reina hitting someone.
He cut out the cause and the consequence, only keeping the part where she brutally beat a younger boy. It could be said to be flawless.
And if this guy recorded it, whether he let his companion kiss him or grope him, it would be quite out of place, and a quick investigation would reveal it was forced.
'Call the police'... such a familiar phrase again.
Even in ancient times, Aihara Yamato was tricked by him this way.
But even though he knew about the loopholes in this world's judicial system, Hayato didn't plan to respond with 'the police won't care.'
He took two steps back.
He exited the corridor and went to a spot in the central courtyard.
Looking up, he could see the scattered students on the upper floors of the teaching building; they had just finished their three-way talks and were either chatting or planning to go home.
Shota was stunned, thinking Hayato was scared by his words and intended to withdraw from the dispute.
The police, sometimes they're quite useful, aren't they?
Shota breathed a sigh of relief.
Unexpectedly, Hayato looked up and shouted to the students upstairs:
"Hey! You guys tell me, who's in charge of this school!?"
His voice was very loud.
The startled students almost cursed out loud. After looking down at the person standing in the central courtyard, they all swallowed back words like 'Are you crazy?' and didn't dare to speak them.
One student, seeing that none of the officials dared to speak, and fearing the person below might be in a bad mood, chuckled and replied:
"Of course, it's you, Brother Hayato. Would it be me?"
Hayato smiled faintly, nodded, and bowed, saying: "Thank you for your support."
Then he walked back into the corridor again.
Since this corridor was on the vertical plane of the upstairs corridor, unless the floor was transparent, students upstairs couldn't possibly see what was happening downstairs.
"You see, I also have 'cloud backups'..." Hayato said with a smile.
"Cloud...?" Shota temporarily didn't understand.
"If you call the police and have me arrested, my people will come and trouble you, and not just you, but also your family. Amazing, right?" Hayato said as if with genuine sincerity.
These were all Snake Mound George's methods, and the so-called 'learning from the barbarians to control the barbarians' probably meant this.
Including the 'recording method' he was about to implement, it was also inspired by Miyajima Sosaku's films.
George-kun's legacy is quite valuable too.
"Also."
Hayato leaned in and said with a smile: "I know you have someone behind you, but it doesn't matter who it is. Even if I can't deal with them, I can deal with you. If they lay a hand on me, I'll have my people lay a hand on you."
He thought for a moment, and to appear more ferocious, he began to grin: "Heheheh..."
Hayato's words were not actually for the kid Shota.
According to Mizuno Lian, the kid Shota was more mature and composed than his peers; these words might be useless to him, but his companions were merely middle schoolers whose lust was more inflated than their peers.
Especially the one sitting cross-legged next to him, when he bared his teeth in a smile, combined with the 'Gaze of the Strong lv.4' and 'Nonsense' skills... Hayato's smile, to the highly tense middle school boys, seemed like a devil crawled out of hell.
His hand had already frantically reached for the kid Shota's crotch.
Then, like a fierce tiger pouncing on its prey, he lunged at the latter's face to bite.
"Get away—get away—"
Shota wanted to kick away the kid who pounced on him, but his body itself was not fully developed. Neither his height nor his strength was as good as his peers, he only had a big...thing, and in this kind of situation, it was only useful for...nothing.
As for his companion, facing Shota's punches and kicks, anger rose from his heart and evil grew in his guts. 'I've done meritorious service for you! Just two days ago, I was brutally beaten by Kurashiki Reina, and now we're about to be on the same rope, and you actually want to sneak away!?'
No way!
So the scene was too beautiful, Hayato didn't dare to look.
He turned his head away, pretending to look at the scenery.
When people look at scenery, they also become scenery.
And Hayato was being regarded as scenery by Kurashiki Reika.
She also didn't watch the 'playful scuffle' of the two underage boys, but instead, with her lips curled, she observed Hayato with great interest, her gaze burning.
Hayato's body trembled.
After a moment, Shota looked like a wronged person who had been violated, staring blankly at the corridor ceiling, while his companion sat beside him.
If he had a cigarette in his mouth at this moment, it would be a perfect kill, but unfortunately, he couldn't.
Hayato checked the integrity of the video and was surprised to find that Shota, whose underwear had been pulled down in the video, really had something going on; it was almost 80% of his.
He didn't expect him to be a rare case, too bad he went down the wrong path.
"Get lost." Hayato said.
Mizuno Lian knew the kid Shota's home address, so Hayato was not in a hurry to ask who the mastermind was at this moment.
Kurashiki Reika was still standing beside him.
The two were on the same side now, but some matters were not suitable for her to interfere too much.
Shota and his companion fled in a panic.
Shota ran while pulling up his pants, tears still hidden in his eyes.
This was his first time crying since entering middle school... Sunglasses Bro, what kind of vicious thing did he make him deal with?!
When he got back, he absolutely had to make Sunglasses Bro send reinforcements to teach this kid a good lesson.
Later, he learned that, for him, perhaps Sunglasses Bro was even more vicious than this Hayato.
"And you guys, the same!"
Around the corner, Shota's one or two companions were still hiding, but facing Hayato's threat, none of these middle schoolers, whose lust was greater than their peers but whose courage might be even smaller, dared to step forward to stop him.
At this moment, hearing Hayato's smiling call, they all tensed up and froze.
"I'll be watching you." Hayato said softly.
Watching their fleeing backs, Kurashiki Reika said faintly:
"Today is 'Family Talk Day.' If middle-aged people mixed in, it could be understood as mistaking them for parents... How did these middle schoolers get in? Baiqiu High School's security is a big problem..."
Then her gaze swept over Hayato: "It's you... I remember now, thank you again this time."
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