Kageya Shinjitsu looked at his hand, now free, and wondered what it had just been through.
He also wondered what he had just done.
A hint of aggression crept into him as he slowly spoke.
"Do you still have something to explain? Sure, I was the one who grabbed your hand first, but then you grabbed mine really hard. You did it on purpose, didn't you? You enjoyed it, didn't you?"
"Boys really do think about nothing but this kind of thing!"
As she spoke, Kushida Kikyo's expression grew more and more disgusted.
Her words hit him hard.
"That's too much. It's too much."
"Every time, it's the same. You always try to pin all the blame on me."
"I already told you to forget about it. I'm not interested in digging into your business. Can't we just be classmates and get along?"
"Why do you always have to make me think about awful things?"
Agitated, Kageya Shinjitsu scratched several blood-red marks into his own neck.
He stared straight at Kushida Kikyo, his gaze unlike anything she had seen from him before.
It frightened Kushida Kikyo, and she could tell something was wrong.
"You think you can scare me with that?"
"You really aren't afraid of getting arrested? You don't care if your family finds out what you're like?"
Even though she was terrified, Kushida Kikyo gritted her teeth and kept talking.
"My fingerprints are on your clothes. And there's everything you just did. If you don't do exactly what I say, I won't let you get away with it..."
Kushida Kikyo tried to bluff her way through it, trying to give herself a little confidence...
"Threatening me again? Am I supposed to say, 'Yes, I'll be a good little dog for Kushida from now on'? Is that what'll make you happy?"
Kageya Shinjitsu stepped forward, yanked Kushida Kikyo toward him, and backed her up against the railing. Then he lifted her onto it, so she was facing him.
Kushida Kikyo jumped in fright.
"Ah! What are you doing, you bastard...?"
Kushida Kikyo was starting to panic.
There was no one around.
And if she screamed...
"I already promised I wouldn't tell anyone. All you had to do was act cute like you usually do, and I would've pretended nothing happened. You're the one rejecting my kindness."
Kageya Shinjitsu held her as he spoke.
His body was pressed right against Kushida Kikyo's.
One arm wrapped around her, his hand gripping her hair from behind. He tugged hard, pressing her head down.
She smelled as if she had just showered, with a hint of shampoo in her hair.
"What are you going to do?"
Sitting on the railing, Kushida Kikyo was in agony. The pain left her no choice but to lean against Kageya Shinjitsu.
The little lake was right behind her. If she fell in this position, she had no idea what might happen.
Kushida Kikyo realized she had picked a fight with the wrong person.
Why? Why had things turned out like this?
One sentence, and a boy had completely changed?
P.S. I feel like I can't get this right no matter what I do. I've deleted and rewritten it over and over, cutting more than ten thousand words.
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Chapter Sixty-One: Kushida: Even if I had to jump from here, I'd never go out with you—
Kushida Kikyo was starting to wonder if she had done something wrong.
"Since you rejected my kindness, you can experience my cruelty."
"Kushida Kikyo, have you ever had a boyfriend?"
Kageya Shinjitsu ignored Kushida Kikyo's disgusted look.
His indifferent gaze was fixed on her.
That only made Kushida Kikyo more uneasy.
"Do you really think I'd ever date a disgusting boy?"
"You're not thinking of asking me out, are you? Hah. Even if I had to jump from here, I'd never go out with you... Mm—"
Before she could finish, he pushed her head down, and she leaned into Kageya Shinjitsu.
"Mmmph—!"
Kushida Kikyo couldn't even open her mouth. Then, somehow, something seemed to block it.
She could only keep pounding on Kageya Shinjitsu.
But her strength was fading.
A few minutes passed.
"Hah..."
"Are you trying to kill me, you bastard?"
Kushida Kikyo cursed at him.
"Bastard."
"You really should just die."
"Ahh!"
"Why does someone like you even exist?"
Kushida Kikyo lost her temper and started hitting him.
Her tender cheeks had turned completely red.
She wasn't embarrassed. She was absolutely furious.
She landed a few punches before he caught her fists.
"So you're a pervert too. All boys are the same."
"You can't handle this? I'm just giving you what you asked for. This is only the beginning."
"You had the guts to say all that, but you can't even handle this? You're really disappointing me."
"You know, a girl once threatened me like this. She accused me of secretly taking pictures of her. The truth was, her boyfriend didn't like me, so the two of them teamed up to frame me. You know what I did to them?"
Kageya Shinjitsu's expression now looked a lot like Kushida Kikyo's. They made quite the pair.
His expressions were just as exaggerated as hers.
"What are you going to do?"
"You..."
Kushida Kikyo was starting to get scared.
She might have been good at handling things, but she was still just a girl.
She was all talk.
She hadn't expected Kageya Shinjitsu to actually do something.
"I did what she wanted and beat the two of them up. Then I took a whole series of artistic photos of the girl who'd falsely accused me of taking pictures of her."
"And then..."
Kageya Shinjitsu kept confessing of his own accord.
"Ahhh!"
"Get away from me!"
Kushida Kikyo already knew what he was going to say.
She began to struggle.
"What do you think I should do? What's the point of framing you? Why not just go for it? Right now?"
"Call more people over. Do it in front of everyone."
"Maybe the school wouldn't even find it strange. After all, we're both 'defective products' from Class D."
Kageya Shinjitsu spoke with a twisted expression.
He put on an exaggerated performance that rivaled Kushida Kikyo's.
He showed her that the quiet boy who usually went along with her wasn't so quiet after all.
He made her feel true terror, panic, and regret.
Looking at the frenzied Kageya Shinjitsu, Kushida Kikyo felt an even greater fear.
It was worse than what she had felt back in middle school, when her true personality had been exposed.
That had been a dark chapter in her past.
If she didn't handle this right, it would be an even darker one—something that could haunt her for the rest of her life.
"I don't care if I get expelled or sentenced."
"I already know what's going to happen to me."
"Do you understand what's going to happen to you?"
"I know how to make sure you're convicted. I'll leave my DNA all over you, so you can report me properly."
Kageya Shinjitsu spoke with reckless abandon.
"Bastard! Bastard! You're a disgusting pervert! Die! Just die!"
His words made Kushida Kikyo even angrier, and she let it all out.
At the same time, she felt a little afraid.
If everything really came out, then what would happen to her future...?
Seeing Kushida Kikyo like this, Kageya Shinjitsu smiled with satisfaction.
It was a feeling completely different from what he felt with Karuizawa Kei.
"You're a pervert..."
Hearing that, Kushida Kikyo didn't know what to say.
"You've said that so many times already. Didn't you already know all boys are perverts?"
Kushida Kikyo could tell that the boy in front of her wasn't joking.
And he was gripping her hair so hard, it felt like he might pull it right out.
The pain frightened her, but it also helped her regain a little of her composure.
Now she knew that the boy in front of her, like her, had two sides to him.
At the same time, she sensed something else.
If he were really going to lose control, he wouldn't waste so many words.
"I see. You're twisted too."
"Is that why you've been making me angry from the start and avoiding me?"
"Because someone like me is too much for you?"
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