"What?! The hell you mean by that! don't screw with me, you've met me In middle school"
'Ah this guy, now that I take a closer look at him'
Bright quality memories rushed in his head, snapping in frames of different scenes that he recalled vividly
'He's a friend of that guy'
The guy that Cale was talking about was in Middle school.
'That person was pretty violent, his name was I think Ryl Laquir?'
It happened in his second year of Middle school.
'That person had beaten me up pretty good'
It wasn't a lie, Ryl truly was exceptional at fighting
'He could've been a wrestler or boxer...Though I heard that he used to be gentle at heart'
At the time, everyone pitied Ryl but the same wasn't true for Cale, how could he? I mean he didn't even know about Ryl's condition until after he got beaten up
Many people before had the daylights beaten up by that guy so badly that they didn't have the courage to say anything since the teachers never did anything, of course Cale was a different case
*** ###%% Middle School
"Hup!"
A punch straight to the jaw rocked the head up
The lights flickered in the eyes of Cale, he attempted to usher a strike right back in kind but he stopped?
"Kuil"
"Yeah?"
The boy named Kuil tapped in a crouching position tapped the floor while also gazing at Hans, the head though didn't turn to meet him
But Hans knew that Kuil directly only looked at him, a weird oppressive feeling came over and entered the restroom
"Do you think this is right?"
"What kind of nonsense are you talking about?"
Kuil traced his fingers across the floor, as if moving delicate chess pieces
"Do you not see how happy Ryl is?"
Ryl kept jabbing and punching at Cale with a steady playful rhythm, the recipient on the other hand oddly held no emotion. His body accepted the strikes with grace and by now people would normally think that blood would start trickling from the victim, but no
Only bruises stayed on him, no blood flushed out, just an eerie stare at the one who was enacting these actions
"Who is this guy?"
Kuil asked Hans if he knew, only the rustling of shoulders chimed at the end of his sentence though
"Still, doesn't he feel it, it must be a tough act he's pulling right?"
Hans asked at Kuil who was more knowledgeable than him in stuff like this
"Who knows? Maybe he does or maybe he doesn't"
Kuil only evasively avoided the question, something that Hans picked up on him was that Kuil would always do this when answering question, sarcastic answers would often not be a reoccurring thing and trait
"Please answer...."
Hans was not in the mood of something like but unknowingly he spoke to the crouching Kuil in a casual tone
"I-I'm sorry, I didn-"
"He feels it, but they are weak"
"?"
Ignoring his apology completely. Kuil answered
Every word spoken would drive fear at his doorstep all because of the weirdo crouching
"What do you mean?"
The fist of Ryl slammed and hit the unresponsive Cale
"Look at him, his entire body is tensed and ready to brace for impact"
A frown so deep clattered on Cale, surprised yet detached
"The punches are basically doing nothing, his body is eating them up like a sponge"
"Huh? But the bruises..."
"He'll feel them later"
The bruises on his body only increased, but the pain that should be felt from them couldn't register with all of the adrenaline shooting up his brain
"Then....Why is he just letting Ryl punch him?"
The tapping stopped, his lips twitched, the lights shining brightly and from a distance, footsteps could be heard rattling the floor above them, above the restrooms were the faculty. The teachers were moving
Cale's lips parted in a manipulative grin
'Ah. It hurts so much'
The grin stretched against his skin further, creasing his cheeks, and the paled white fist of Ryl had already stopped by then at the sight before him
Finally the red head raised their gaze from their tracing fingers to look at the one being beaten up
"We've...Been had"
"??"
Hans only frowned in confusion, tilting his head to the side like a bent arrow
"Wha-"
"HEY! GET OFF RIGHT THIS INSTANT!"
The loud shout screamed at the walls, everyone froze at the shrill they heard and almost immediately figures stormed the restroom, grabbing Ryl off of the bruised Cale
Ryl flailed in protest, but his condition also seemed not that good especially so when the nurse begun to check him
"Agh!"
The flailing stopped and Ryl's body started spasming, a seizure, which also meant a new symptom
"He's having a seizure! Someone call a hospital!"
One of the older teacher ruffled and reached for their phone, calling the hospital, the hospital in turn sending paramedics to the location quickly
The teacher carried out the beaten up body of Cale
"You might even make me here cry with that amazing performance"
Kuil brushed his finger in a elegant manner against the ready teared up eye
Gabriel and Catrina saw Cale getting beat up and dragged to a bench and immediately started fanning and checking his condition
While almost all the other teachers rushed to Kuil and Hans, bombarding them with questions
'So that's why he let himself get beaten up'
To make himself look more like a pitiful victim Cale did not strike even once
He wanted to appeal and make the teachers decision more biased towards him by making the beating more one sided, getting hit and feeling the pain was only temporary and would pass away eventually but the way people perceived him? That would last for a very long time, maybe even forever and hitting Ryl would not give him that, of course that didn't mean that he felt no fear, he did and prayed that they wouldn't escalate the situation more than this
'Still, the fact that he didn't bleed at all, guess the drug was a utter failure...'
He snapped out of his thoughts and stared at the adult man before him, a black goat pin sat on the front pocket of the neat flawless suit
"Come with me"
He asked nicely, but it was more like an order when it came from him
It was the principal of the middle school Kuil goes to right now
Zenox Tersus Mundus
A popular and an incredibly skilled teacher and principal too that made even the most riled up tamed
"You have some nasty hobbies it seems"
He grasped the still crouching shoulder of Kuil, raising him up like how one would to a stray kitten
The room held its breath at every motion carried by the individual, respecting every action he executed
Kuil felt instinctual fear, it only filled a corner in his heart but it remained unnoticed by everything
It was like it had always been there since the dawn of all creation, his breath got caught when Zenox dragged him away, the more eyes that left them, the tighter the grip on the shoulder of Kuil became, before long they already disappeared from everyone's sight and soon focused their attention on Cale
"Hey! You oka-"
"How many fingers am I holding up"
"Put this Ice pack on your head, hey! Don't close your eyes! Stay with us!"
'Can this be considered exaggerating?'
Cale's body was bruised all over so it made since for them to be at least this worried
"What's your parents phone number?"
"..?"
"We're asking to call them over!"
"Ah, I-I don't know"
He brushed off the question in a timid manner, not that he was pretending, it was actually him speaking naturally
'Anyways, what hell was with that guy?'
Soon after waiting for the storm to pass he asked this, he was sitting across the school nurse right now
She told him to wait until this hour finished before he could even consider getting in a classroom, but ultimately the nurse wanted to call the parents of Cale to pick him up
30 minutes have already passed since then, and Ryl left the school completely with Hans getting in massive trouble with the teachers screaming at him at the bullshit he was spouting
"You okay..."
A timid voice broke the silence arriving right behind after the nurse left Cale to his own devices, from another perspective it could be seen as neglect but to Cale it was a miracle that the school cared so much unlike the time he went to primary school where ignorance could get someone ostracized by all the kids at the school, with the teachers not caring whatsoever and thinking it was just kids being kids
"...."
Lips twitched and the murmurs in Cale's ears grew more intense, so intense he wanted to tear his hair out
But nonetheless, he calmed and looked behind to see a timid girl staring at him
It was Catrina Rouge
Eyes zoned in and took in the image of the dwarf in scrutiny, feeling exposed by the intense gaze she stepped back slightly, it wasn't like they didn't know each other but Catrina was simply a quiet girl by nature
"What do you think? Would someone say 'yeah I am' after getting beaten up?"
"I-It will pass"
Her voice didn't hold any tremors, it was because she spoke slowly
"So why are you out?"
Cale knew Catrina and considered her a close, childhood friend of his.
"Teacher...le-t us out"
"Ah"
He didn't probe any further and stared out of the window outside, the warm light stung in his eyes, the scene turning into a light blue shade for a few moments before turning normal, it looked beautiful, so he kept replaying it in his mind the entire day
The whispers died down completely, a certain calm gripped tightly at him but also awe
'Will they at least punish him a little?'
Those were the only words that were muttered in his ears every few seconds that passed, though he didn't carry any hope with him