Asahina ran.
Her lightning speed allowed her to cover the distance she had walked in an instant.
In terms of time, it probably took less than a minute.
From the moment she felt something was off until now, she had arrived at this location at almost her fastest speed.
一But it was already far too late.
“W-what is this…!?”
The starting point of their Class C.
A large ruin hall near the entrance.
There, a massive amount of bloodstains remained.
Her breathing grew rough and shallow. The bad feeling sent shivers down her spine.
She shifted her gaze.
Many students lay collapsed, their forms entering her vision.
“A, ahh, ah, ahhhhhhh……!”
Among them were Sakuma and Karasuma.
They were lying in pools of blood, groaning.
They weren’t dead.
But they had almost no consciousness left.
It was clear they had been subjected to a calculated [violence].
一Because the perpetrator was still there, standing in the same spot.
“—Huh? Something smells. Did you take a bath recently? You reek of justice.”
The man stood there as if nothing had happened.
Already, there were no wounds on his body.
But his torn, blood-soaked uniform spoke volumes.
He had done this.
All of this was his plan.
“…Shinzaki Yasuhito!”
Asahina roared, letting her anger take over.
In response, Shinzaki smiled broadly and snapped his fingers.
In the next moment, alarms sounded from the devices of all the fallen Class C members.
Battered and bruised, they began to teleport away, and amidst the overflowing golden light, he spread his arms.
As if their screams were a feast for him.
With a look of delight, he walked through the light of their disappearance.
The prohibition of malicious actions. Asahina even considered using that rule as a shield.
But as things stood, Shinzaki Yasuhito had received no penalty.
Then, should she assume there was no malice一or that he had used some loophole?
Either way, since it was up to the school’s teachers to judge, relying on them was impossible.
From the beginning, she shouldn’t have trusted the school’s subjective judgment.
She clenched her teeth tightly, desperately trying to calm herself.
“You’re the one who guided Amamori-kun, aren’t you, Shinzaki-kun? To talk about fighting fair… you’ve got some nerve.”
“The one who broke the fairness first was一nah, you wouldn’t believe me even if I said it. Asahina, you only think about what’s convenient for you. That’s why you can’t protect anything, you know?”
She ignored Shinzaki’s words and raised her fists.
She knew this was the kind of man who would do such things without hesitation.
But somewhere in her heart, she had hoped.
一That she could face Shinzaki Yasuhito, a formidable enemy, head-on.
(That thought, even for a moment, was my mistake.)
That’s why she was too late. ……That sliver of hope for this man had dulled her judgment.
Then she would abandon all hope.
This man was evil. No matter what anyone said, Asahina would not acknowledge Shinzaki Yasuhito.
“Return Amamori-kun to me. Otherwise, I’ll use force to—”
With strong resolve in her eyes, she gave her final warning.
But Shinzaki laughed through his nose.
Without even listening to the end, he spoke the truth.
“No can do. I already killed him.”
“……………………What?”
A gust of wind blew through the entrance.
Asahina Kasumi stood frozen, her eyes wide in shock.
“Nah, just kidding. Amamori’s alive, so don’t worry.”
Shinzaki said this with a wide grin.
At his words, Asahina felt a slight relief.
It was a lie. Amamori Yuuto wasn’t dead.
She let out a sigh of relief—.
“—Or so you thought?”
“……!?”
At his continued words, her chest tightened.
“W-what are you…?”
“I killed him, for sure. He was strong, but I won, and it wasn’t a fight where I could hold back. ……Well, I don’t feel bad about it at all! Sorry, Asahina. I killed your precious classmate☆”
Asahina Kasumi realized.
His words weren’t a lie.
This man was telling the truth.
As someone who lived as a hero of justice, she understood the [sincerity] in his words.
No matter how much malice dripped from them, no matter how harsh the reality.
There was no lie in his words. ……She could sense it.
一In that moment, something inside Asahina broke.
With a crack, a sound echoed in her heart.
It was something that, as a hero of justice, should never have broken.
“Ah, this is fun, Asahina Kasumi! You’re going to lose to me again! Look, how many of your classmates did I knock down? Ah, I think I killed some of them too!”
Asahina could only clench her teeth, her voice barely squeezing out with no strength behind it.
“Shut up.”
“I won’t shut up! I’m having so much fun! Thank you for accepting our conflict request! Thanks to you, I’ve been able to kill people!”
The ultimate provocation toward a hero of justice.
For the first time since coming to this academy一Asahina Kasumi’s face burns with hatred.
Standing before her, Shinzaki Yasuhito speaks with delight.
“Yeah, I guess mere words wouldn’t be enough for you to understand. So, let me speak from the heart, with real feeling. Yeah, let’s do that.”
The pressure from Asahina swells. Yet, Shinzaki remains unfazed.
Instead, he escalates the provocation and begins to speak.
“So, whose story do you want to hear first? Ah, I bet you want to hear about him, right? Asahina Kasumi, the man you were so deeply obsessed with!”
Asahina clenches her fists so tightly that blood spurts from them.
But that only serves as spice to fuel Shinzaki’s arrogance.
“Man, he was strong. I never imagined he’d hide so much power. I doubt there’ll ever be anyone who can push me that far again. But I won. I exhausted every trick, every cowardly tactic, and every scheme… and all that was left was a crushed lump of flesh.”
There were no more words.
Asahina, cloaked in thunder, lunges at Shinzaki in an instant.
In response, Shinzaki catches her fist head-on.
A tremendous shockwave reverberates through the ruins, scattering dust and shaking the cave walls.
Asahina unleashes her hatred without restraint.
Shinzaki, with an unchanged smile, speaks.
“What a pathetic way to die, Amamori Yuuto!”
A scream that cannot form into words echoes, accompanied by another clap of thunder.
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“I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you…!”
“Haha! Doesn’t sound like something a hero of justice would say!”
Shinzaki laughs at the murderous intent radiating from Asahina.
In the next moment, Asahina disappears from sight, and the sound of her feet kicking off the ground echoes continuously around them.
The speed of lightning is said to be at least 200 kilometers per second.
That’s roughly 600 times the speed of sound.
But that’s just the minimum.
The minimum speed is 200 kilometers per second.
The maximum speed, on the other hand, is approximately一100,000 kilometers per second.
That’s 300,000 times the speed of sound.
Of course, it’s unlikely that Asahina can reach her maximum speed right now.
Even if she could, it would probably only be at the minimum speed.
一But even that minimum speed is far beyond what the human eye can perceive.
“Haah!”
Without mercy, Asahina delivers a spinning kick to the back of Shinzaki’s head.
A blow meant to split his skull.
It’s aimed directly at his cranium.
Yet, a strike that would be imperceptible to an ordinary person一is clearly visible to this man’s eyes.
“Slow… what is that, stopping a fly ?”
As if timing a counter, Shinzaki’s kick is unleashed.
Asahina manages to dodge it, but a part of her uniform is torn by the kick.
“……!”
“Ooh, so close. If that had hit, it would’ve sliced clean through.”
Looking in shock, Asahina sees that a blade extends from Shinzaki’s right leg.
That’s right一this man possesses the abilities of everyone in Class B.
So, this situation makes sense.
There must be someone in Class B with an ability like [Enhanced Vision].
Otherwise, it would be impossible to keep up with the speed of lightning.
“Tch, you… really!”
“I already said I killed him. You’re being annoying, you know?”
As he speaks, Shinzaki kicks off the ground.
Even on the unstable footing of scattered debris, his speed is the fastest Asahina has seen so far. She moves to dodge, thinking he might have been holding back, but Shinzaki denies that assumption.
“Nah, I’m grateful to Amamori… zee!”
His fist plunges into the ground.
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