In front of a relatively remote dormitory, several students were shoving another student.
The student looked terrified, constantly trying to squeeze back into the room, but he was blocked outside by several people.
Totsuki Academy was a place of immense pressure. Every day brought endless academic stress, facing culinary prodigies from all over.
This boundless pressure always needed an outlet. If one was a food war maniac who loved cooking, then constantly competing with classmates was a source of enjoyment.
But if one only wanted to strive for a diploma, then without a doubt, classmates were the best scapegoats.
If adult workplace bullying in Japan meant that no matter where you were from, as long as you followed their unwritten rules, they wouldn't discriminate, but if you didn't, they would only show discrimination in all actions outside of words.
Then school was the simplest form of bullying, especially regional discrimination. Tokyoites looked down on outsiders, Kanto people looked down on those with Kansai accents, and mainlanders looked down on those from Hokkaido.
The most typical discriminated region was Fukushima. After the 2011 earthquake, many people from Fukushima became displaced due to various reasons and fled to different places. Don't be fooled by the news where Japanese people say they trust Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Cabinet.
In reality, there were even dark jokes like school teachers turning off the lights and asking a transfer student from Fukushima why he couldn't glow.
And there were also actions like everyone dragging a Fukushima classmate to the restroom, stripping him naked, and insisting on seeing if he had a third arm growing out of his back.
What was happening here was exactly such a scene.
It was like hearing about a haunted building at school, and these people would force the bullied person to go inside and wander around.
Now, since they weren't allowed to go outside, they would grab the bullied person and make him wander around.
"No! No! I'll be expelled!"
"With you like that, you won't even pass the training camp. How much longer do you think you'll last?
Stop talking nonsense. Before, your research club president could protect you, but now he's in trouble himself. Speaking of which, we saw your phone earlier, your girlfriend back home is very pretty. How about we take the risk of radiation and go visit your hometown?"
Several people pushed the young boy out.
However, at this moment, two figures appeared behind the anxious boy who had been pushed out.
"Who are you...?" Seeing the two figures appear, the students exchanged glances.
"We are teachers here to check on your academic progress."
"Are... are you here for a tasting?"
"No, we're here to check on your physical education."
"Crash! Bang!"
After a brutal beating, Keli and Kazuma tied up everyone in the dormitory, except for the young boy who was there initially, including the old dorm manager who tried to use the intercom to report to the school, using ropes they found for ingredients.
"Stuff their mouths." Kazuma ordered the trembling young boy to stuff their mouths with rags.
"Remember, this is how you'll do it from now on. And you guys, remember, if you ever bully anyone on campus again, we'll come back and deal with you."
Seeing the group on the floor with swollen faces and missing teeth, looking utterly miserable, the young boy trembled even more.
On the other side, Keli was secretly peering out the dormitory window at the roadside.
According to Sadatsuka Nao's estimation, usually, after finishing negotiations at the reception building, the Ten Elite's cars would return this way.
This roadside dormitory was the perfect ambush spot, as openly chasing them would only make them flee.
Kazuma looked at the most severely beaten person on the ground, pretending to check his ropes, but actually loosening them slightly.
Then he walked to the door and started chatting with Keli.
"How come you seem to know the origins of those guys? You're not surprised at all."
Keli blinked, surprised that Kazuma was so perceptive.
"Those guys" here undoubtedly referred to the Deep Ones.
"Of course, I know. You can tell by their skin color."
Keli replied seriously, looking out the window.
"Skin color? Aren't their scales black?"
"Yes, I heard mermaids always need to breed with humans. These fishmen clearly look like descendants of the black people thrown off ships during the triangular trade."
"You guy..."
Just as Kazuma was about to retort, Keli gestured to him.
The car is coming!
He immediately understood and walked into the crowd.
"The Totsuki Academy car is coming soon. All of you, don't make a sound. Get into the rooms!"
Completely unaware of why they had been kidnapped, the people could only keep making "woo woo!" sounds.
Then, when Kazuma saw the time was right, he deliberately loosened the first person's ropes, then went to loosen the others'.
That person felt a lightness in their hands; in fact, without the use of hands, it's very difficult for a person to stand up.
Seeing Kazuma go to the back to try and move people, and hearing the approaching car, the person who noticed their hand ropes had inexplicably loosened, rushed out of the house like a madman.
He ran a few steps from the corridor to the dormitory entrance, tore off the cloth over his mouth, and stood in front of the car, screaming frantically.
"Teacher! Teacher! Save me!"
Although he didn't know if the people in the car were teachers, a desperate person has no reason.
Ryouzan Etsuya, who was in the back of the convoy, was showing the same smile as Kennedy in his convertible. This matter had been discussed very well. All he had to do was wait for Tsukasa Azami to arrive and have the priest find a way to identify those murderers.
Suddenly, a person rushed out, shouting irrational words. The long convoy was forced to stop. The security guards got out angrily and cautiously to inquire about the situation.
The next moment, Keli and Kazuma, armed, rushed directly towards the end of the convoy.
Since there was only one gun, the gun was back on Keli, and the chainsaw was nowhere to be found. Kazuma only had a small sickle he found in the house, while Keli had a large hammer.
However, this did not affect them. Seeing two more people getting out of the car, the security guards immediately became professional and prepared to close the car doors to protect the passengers inside.
But the two of them rushed directly towards the last few cars regardless. Those cars immediately started moving. Nakiri Erina, sitting in the last car, watched as the car in front of her was directly smashed by Keli, its windows covered in cracks.
Keli and Kazuma's prediction was correct; the Ten Elite's convoy was indeed arranged in order.
Ryouzan Etsuya, sitting inside, watched in horror as the other party smashed the glass.
At this moment, he deeply missed his own bulletproof car, but this was the school, and everyone basically used unified vehicles for travel.
He shook his head in horror, but then saw a large hand reach in and grab his collar.
The other person, meanwhile, began to confront the security guards who rushed out of the other cars.
Keli didn't care about the car; he directly grabbed Ryouzan Etsuya's head and smashed it against the front of the car.
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