“…hmm? “
While everyone else remained stiff and motionless, Karin looked into Shiki’s face with a furrowed brow and said,
“You’re that Pashiri-kun from that time! “
(tn: a person who runs errands; gofer)
She raised her voice loudly and slapped Shiki on the shoulder.
“You’ve got guts, even though you were so scared of me. I’m impressed with you.”
To be honest, I’m still scared of her now――He tried to ask her what she was talking about when she said he had [guts.]. But,
“Whf….?”
He couldn’t say anything as his oral cavity, which had been shredded by Kawato’s blows dozens of times, was in pain.
“Uh, you don’t have to talk right now. I’ll explain later. “
After saying this, Karin glared at Kawato.
Kawato shuddered at the sight of someone who was at least 15 centimeters shorter than he was.
It was just like Shiki did when Kawato stared at him.
“You, I think I saw your face at the Arai faction.”
While Kawato shuddered again, Karin looked around at his two cronies.
“So, I guess you two are the same?”
When she said that, both of them trembled.
Seeing the three of them looking so scared, Shiki can’t help but think that maybe the reason he’s afraid of her is that she can casually make Kawato and the others so scared.
“This Pashiri-kun doesn’t look like a delinquent, does he? That’s why I thought it looked suspicious at that time, but… I guess this is what it was all about.”
By [At that time.] Shiki thinks she is referring to when he almost bumped into her the other day when he was bullied.
“….What are you trying to say? “
Then Karin answered in a terrible tone of voice to Kawato, who was asking in a hushed voice.
“It means that you guys are doing shit like bullying the weak behind my back.”
“…What does he have to do with you? “
“We don’t have any connection. But I don’t like it. So I’m gonna crush you.”
“Huh. You’re doing the same thing just like me, bullying people weaker than you.”
Kawato replies with his point, to which two of his followers whisper in agreement, [That’s right, that’s right.]
At the sight of Kawato and the others, Karin sighs.
“If you say it like that, then listen to me.”
Kawato and the others are almost relieved to hear her say that.
“I’ll change my words. Do you know that pretty dark-haired girl you were trying to take into a deserted place forcefully? She’s my junior.”
The next moment, all three of them lost color on their faces.
“Well, I don’t think you guys who secretly bully the weak behind my back would also be able to do such a big thing…”
With a pair of twinkling eyes, she pauses for a moment.
“You tried to touch my cute junior, that’s not going to change. And a little scolding is not enough for me to let you get away.”
In front of Karin’s pressure, who was smaller than anyone else in this place, Shiki, Kawato, and his two followers were all in a state of shock.
“Aah…ah…aaaahhh! “
One of the followers, perhaps unable to bear Karin’s [Pressure], screamed like a maniac and tried to hit her.
“Back away.”
Karin says, pushing Shiki’s body lightly.
Shiki, who had no intention of resisting the pressure, staggered back, then Karin pulled out a steel fan and threw it at the approaching guy.
The tip of the closed fan strikes his nose, and he stops moving momentarily.
Karin, who was already in close proximity to him, pulled another iron fan from her pocket and swiftly pierced his solar plexus, knocking him unconscious with a single blow.
“Damn it! “
Perhaps because his friend had fainted, one of his followers half-desperately tried to punch Karin from behind.
As if she had eyes in the back of her head, she dodges the punch by spinning around on the spot. At the same time, she caught the iron fan that she had just thrown and was about to fall to the ground.
With the momentum from her spin, she swung the fan and struck his temple, knocking another one of his cronies with another blow.
It’s just information that Shiki overheard, but Karin combines Kohinata-style ancient martial arts, which is dubiously an old ancient martial art, with her own style of fighting. Just by that, she could hold her own against the St. Lukimantz Academy’s fierce men, who were proud of their strength.
Shiki thinks that her fighting style is certainly different from that of Kawato and other delinquents.
Kawato, perhaps because having witnessed Karin’s fights, seemed to be unable to move even after two of his followers had fainted.
Karin turned her back on Kawato, put the iron fan in her left hand into the pocket of her Sukajan, spread out the iron fan in her right hand, and walked over to Shiki while fanning herself.
“Even if I crush here and now, when the heat dies down, he’ll probably do it again without me seeing it――Maybe.”
While Shiki is puzzled by what Karin is trying to say, Karin points at Kawato with her left thumb and makes an outrageous suggestion.
“So, you’re the one who’s going to take down that idiot.”
“…yes? “
