Reason Completely Consumed by Fury

"I'm sorry, you two, but I have things to attend to right now and don't have the time. If you really want to ask for advice, let's set a date for another day, okay?" Kushida Kikyo replied with a slight bow, signaling her apology.

However, the sharp-eyed Ibuki Mio still accurately caught the faint trace of timidity revealed on the other girl's face. With that, she felt confident, and the tone of her voice became even more unbridled.

"Hey, you actually dare to refuse, Kushida Kikyo."

"Why has your face gone all stiff? If you're going to be like that, I'll have no choice but to force the issue."

"Eh, how could you? I've already clearly refused. Please, let me go, can't you?" Kushida forced a helpless, strained smile.

"Don't worry, as long as I haven't gone down in our one-on-one, he won't interfere. Are you ready, Kushida Kikyo?" After saying this, Ibuki Mio twisted her snow-white neck, and without waiting for any more nonsense, she stepped forward, closing the distance.

"You can't come any closer! I've already refused you, Ibuki-san. If you keep coming forward, the surveillance cameras will catch it and trigger the school rules," Kushida hurriedly warned, her heart racing.

She clearly hadn't expected the other girl to be so direct, but in doing so, her tone only further exposed her own guilty conscience.

"Heh, and then what?"

Ibuki Mio's eyes glinted with malice; she was now completely certain that this woman's strength was nothing but a facade.

Without further hesitation, she lunged forward with a quick step, instantly locking onto that infuriatingly prominent pair of assets on the other girl's chest. With a momentum that seemed to want to trample that area completely flat, she unleashed a full-force side kick.

"Stop!" At that very instant, a figure with hair reaching down to her waist suddenly rushed out from the corner behind them.

It looked as if she had been waiting in the vicinity all along.

"Bang!"

Even so, as a heavy, dull thud of flesh colliding echoed out, it was clear that the two had clashed.

As the dust settled, under the glow of the setting sun, two long, fair, pink-tinted legs could be seen pressed tightly against each other, as if neither wanted to be the first to admit defeat.

"Horikita Suzune!"

When she saw who was blocking her, Ibuki Mio's pupils dilated, her eyes filled with disbelief.

She could have accepted it if it were anyone else, but Horikita Suzune was the one woman she had disliked the most since enrollment—not only did she always manage to get the upper hand, but even that sinful area of her body was...

"Hmph, you detestable woman!" The more Ibuki Mio thought about it, the angrier she became, and she couldn't help but exert more force into her leg.

However, looking at Horikita Suzune, although she looked a bit strained, her stamina was clearly no less than her opponent's. Not only was she able to hold off the attack, but she also managed to turn her head and speak: "Kushida Kikyo, I've already called for backup. You go first; I'll hold her off here."

Yet, despite these words, Kushida Kikyo showed no signs of moving. Instead, her expression gradually began to twist: "You... why are you here? Why are you helping me?"

She never expected that Horikita Suzune, her mortal enemy since before they even entered the school, would step in to save her.

After all, she had used the private information she possessed to destroy the class she once loved most, and even now, she was planning how to force her to drop out of this school step by step.

Therefore, when faced with Horikita Suzune's righteous intervention, she could not accept it, nor could she tolerate the feeling that, in the end, the other girl got to play the hero while she herself became the villain.

"Get lost! I don't need your hypocritical pity!" Kushida Kikyo snapped again.

However, during their conversation, Ishizaki, who had been watching from the sidelines, had no intention of just standing by. Since Ibuki Mio had failed to complete the boss's mission, he would have to take care of testing and teaching the girl a lesson himself.

"Ishizaki, what are you doing? I haven't gone down yet, you aren't allowed to act on your own!" Seeing him walk toward Kushida Kikyo, Ibuki Mio shouted angrily.

"Tch, since when do I need you to order me around? Ibuki Mio, don't forget your place under the boss."

"You..." The girl was so angry her face turned pale, yet she was powerless to refute him.

Ishizaki gave her a look of disdain, then continued toward Kushida Kikyo, sneering with a fierce gaze: "Heh, aren't you a tough one, little girl? Daring to make our boss lose face in public? Let's see how I handle you today."

"I said I'm busy today. Don't force me to fight back," Kushida replied coldly, leaning against the wall with an unchanging expression, though the clarity in her eyes had now turned vicious and venomous.

"Oh? You can change your face, too? Let me see if your strength has changed!"

With that, Ishizaki pushed off the ground, raised his left hand, and lunged forward with a swift elbow strike aimed directly at her vitals, his posture showing not a shred of mercy.

"Run, Kushida!" Seeing that the consequences would be unimaginable if the strike landed, Horikita Suzune roared, trying to intervene, but Ibuki Mio's increasingly fierce attacks gave her no chance to break away.

"I don't need you to tell me what to do, Horikita Suzune."

"Remember, I'm not as incompetent as you think." Kushida Kikyo gritted her teeth, her eyes locked onto the rapidly approaching Ishizaki.

"Ah!"

The next second, a scream rang out. Looking closely, it was Kushida Kikyo, who had already revealed her dark side, having pulled a shard of glass from somewhere and precisely slicing the other boy's arm the moment he got close.

Watching his arm bleed profusely, Ishizaki endured the pain, his eyes blazing with fury: "Damn it, you little brat, you actually dare to play dirty? You're asking for death!"

Ishizaki immediately pulled a one-meter-long, dark-glowing electric baton from his backpack, his face twisted with malice: "Little brat, you forced my hand. Even if the boss comes now, you're going down!"

As he pressed the switch, electric sparks began to crackle and hiss across the surface of the baton.

"Isn't that a high-voltage stun baton from the school's security department? How do you have that!" Kushida Kikyo asked in disbelief as she backed away from the approaching Ishizaki.

"Heh~ you'll find out once you're on the ground." Driven by rage, Ishizaki sneered and continued to close in.

Seeing that lives might be at stake, the two girls on the other side no longer had the heart to keep fighting.

Freed from the struggle, Horikita Suzune immediately went to Kushida's side, ready to face the situation together.

"Get away! I told you, I don't need you to meddle in my affairs." Looking at the approaching Horikita Suzune, Kushida felt a strange stir in her heart, a feeling she found incredibly annoying.

"Say whatever you want. I just need to be able to live with my own conscience. I won't stand by and watch, no matter who it is."

"Tch, suit yourself."

However, as the two talked, it was Ibuki Mio who suffered, caught in the middle of a miserable situation—having just finished fighting Horikita Suzune, she hadn't even caught her breath before she had to desperately hold back her own teammate, Ishizaki Daichi.

"Hey, are you two done talking yet? Hurry up and run, I can't hold on much longer!"

Seeing that her entire body was hanging off his arm yet still unable to shake his volatile rage, Ibuki Mio couldn't help but curse out loud: "Ishizaki, you big idiot, Ryuen's mission was just to give them a tentative lesson, how long are you planning to go crazy for?"

"Annoying brat, get lost!"

As he spoke, Ishizaki, who already suffered from intermittent explosive disorder, didn't care who was trying to stop him; the stun baton in his hand jabbed toward her without a hint of mercy.

It's over. Ibuki Mio felt a sense of despair in her heart; she never imagined this guy would be crazy enough to actually use a stun baton on her.

This attack came without any warning, leaving Ibuki Mio with absolutely no chance to react.

Closing her eyes tightly to await the strike, she no longer held any hope.

However, the moment the stun baton touched the girl, a sudden, overwhelming gale of wind erupted from behind.

"Zzzzt!!!"

What was suffocating was that, despite the gale, the stun baton still emitted the continuous, crackling sound of electrical discharge, landing squarely on its target.

"Ibuki!" Horikita Suzune, who had just finished calling for emergency services, screamed at the top of her lungs. After all, a life was at stake, and this was the person who had saved them; even the usually cold Kushida Kikyo stood frozen in place.

"Whoosh~"

As the dust settled, just as the two girls trembled with wide eyes, unable to bear looking at the blurred scene, Ishizaki's tall figure was the first to collapse straight backward.

And that potentially lethal stun baton was now being held between the fingers of a boy with glowing dark-red eyes, where it sparked with arcs of electricity like a mere toy.

"Hey, I'm asking... did you get my permission to bully my people, hmm?"

His whisper, three parts playful and seven parts icy, echoed through the space without a shred of emotion.

Under the gaze of those suffocating, dark-red eyes, everything in this moment seemed to fall into a brief, deathly silence.

All Ibuki Mio could do was nod blankly, her gaze still fixed on the fair, slender hand that was brushing against the crackling electricity.

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