Chapter 2: Onwards to School

Using the shortest route the young man quickly reaches the school.

Entering the school grounds Mike casually passes by without making attention.

Because the school time already started there are only fewer people are around outside classrooms.

Inside the school building, Mike stealthy walks the hallway as he hides from the windows of every classroom he passed by making sure he doesn't let anyone see him.

He didn't stop in any rooms as his destination isn't here.

In an instant, he stopped at a certain place finally reaching his destination.

"Ah finally."

Different from any classroom this room has a certain sign at the top of the door.

The signs said; [CLINIC] the place where the young man wanted to go since earlier.

Casually opening the door like it's his home he greeted everyone inside expecting a warm welcome that will greet him.

Sadly, looking inside the Clinic room there's no one here. He didn't feel any surprise there as he immediately goes the cabinet getting some first aid kit to patch up his wounds.

"As always there is no teacher... well don't mind me staying here for a while."

After patching up his wounds he quickly lies down to the clinic's bed and embraces the pillow-like he owns it.

Feeling at home the young man didn't take too long for him to sleep.

He goes into a deep slumber like his two-day sleep earlier isn't enough.

"zzZZzzZZzzZZ"

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Inside the clinic, where the young man is sleeping comfortably.

Someone is standing beside his bed waiting patiently for him to wake up.

Based on his clothing he's a teacher.

Strangely, the teacher also wearing a lab coat covering his teacher's uniform that one could not tell if he's a teacher or a scientist.

His arm is crossed to each other showing how annoyed he is from this young man.

The teacher keeps calling his name but the young man still not budging a bit.

"-ike."

"Mike."

"Oy, Mike." No matter how many times he calls him it's in vain.

Reaching his limit the teacher grabs the man's shoulder and shakes him up to forcefully wake him up.

"Mike!" While shaking him he repeatedly shouting his name.

Waking up from his deep slumber Mike opens his eyes in a half-sleep state.

He quickly sits straight on the bed while scratching his head as he yawns deeply showing how he is still sleepy even after those hours of sleep.

"*Yawn* Oh... Hello Sir. Lucas." He casually greets his teacher- Sir. Lucas who is still annoyed at his actions.

"Why are you here?"  Keeping his cool Lucas goes straight to the point.

Mike is still not fully awake yet that he takes time to answer Lucas's question.

"Uhmm... Well, you see I was sleeping here." As he said it he points the bed as if this thing is normal for him.

"Don't talk to me like it was normal to sleep here, Mike." Veins starting to pop out from Lucas's forehead because this young man isn't answering him clearly.

Lucas can't take Mike's half-awake state as he wanted him to get out from here immediately but he can't lose his cool especially this month. If he snaps here it will ruin his reputation as a teacher.

Going for another way, Lucas nicely asks Mike to leave the room and go home with a forced smile on his face.

"I'm sorry but can you please get out of here and go home?"

The smile was not quite pleasing to see if large veins are popping out from his forehead.

Everyone would easily read the situation and will back out but Mike is different, its not like he can't read the mood... He just didn't care about it.

But no matter how persistent he is, he's facing right now is a teacher so there's no choice but to leave or make him accept his stay here inside the clinic.

Showing his back, he unbuttons his shirt and shows his countless bandages covering his wounds from every part of his body.

"!?" Lucas is surprised looking at the wounds from all over his body.

(How can he casually talk like that while having this so many wounds?!)

Mike's speech continued not giving his teacher any time to recover from his surprise.

"You see, The school clinic is the only place where I can completely relax and recover (and it's free). But if I do leave I wonder what will happen to me with all of these wounds outside the clinic?" Mike showed his puppy eyes to Lucas who's still bewildered at the state of his body. I mean everyone would also feel the same as him if they see Mike's wounds.

Lucas feels amazed, pity, and somewhat scared to Mike when he saw the wounds like there is this big background hiding from Mike's back that he didn't know.

This was his first time seeing Mike's condition.

He only received tons of excuse letters from Mike explaining how he was badly hurt every time he was absent but he only thought of it as an excuse to ditch the class and only that.

"A-ah... *Cough* Okay, I'll let you stay here for a couple of hours and make sure that you heal before getting into the class."

"Hehehe big thanks, Sir. Lucas." Mike smiled and give his appreciation to his wonderful teacher.

Mike already knew Sir. Lucas because he is his adviser from his classroom so the problem of him being awkward towards him will be unlikely. He casually buttons up his shirt and quickly lies down in the bed to regain more sleep from his earlier slumber that has been interrupted.

As they agreed to let him stay for a couple of hours, Lucas takes a deep breath to regain his cool and continue to talk to Mike about something.

"Anyway, while you're here I'll treat your injuries," Lucas said as he brings out his first aid kit from the cabinet.

Even though he's kinda terrified at Mike's wounds he still wanted to take care of his student. A student is a student and he's the teacher.

"What? It's fine sir, I just need some rest and that's all." But Mike fully refused his teacher's offer.

Lucas didn't accept his refusal and force himself to treat his wounds. Somehow he's also persistent towards this stuff, I mean he's a teacher and not to mention he's a science teacher.

"No! How could I ignore my student after seeing this! There is no teacher in the world who would ignore their injured students! So stay still and let me treat your wounds!" Grabbing Mike's head Lucas forces him to treat him.

"No, no, no, no, no!! Like I said I'm fine so stop stripping me you pervert teacher!"

"How can you talk back to your teacher like that!? And me a pervert!?" For a rare occasion, Lucas snaps taking Mike more forcefully than ever.

Mike is still resisting as he did not want to let him take off his shirt as he covers himself with the clinic's blanket.

For a couple of minutes, the resistance finally comes to an end because Lucas tied him at the four corners of the bed making him in total restrain.

What a turn of an event if one would, what total chaos happened inside the clinic room. Luckily they are only them at that time.

"*Pant pant* Finally, you little runt."

He even has injuries yet he still gives him a hard time.

Lucas slowly removes his clothes as he cared not to touch his injuries and put his clothes at the end of his arms. He can't completely remove his clothes because he's tied on the bed.

He looks at his injuries and checks if there is an infection.

Thankfully it was only external injuries not internal.

Lucas showed a sigh of relieved and started to examine his body.

"Fuuu... What a messed up body you got here." Lucas talked to Mike with a sarcastic smile while he replaces all the bandages on his wounds with new ones.

Mike didn't talk back as he's been silent for all this time. He's quite mad at Lucas when he forcefully inspects his body without his consent.

Holding back his tears of humiliation Mike curse Lucas in his mind.

(If I'm at my full condition I'll never let this thing happened again into my life.) Swears Mike.

It didn't take that much time for him to replace all of the bandages and finally removes the restraints from Mike's hands and feet. He even put back his shirt on.

Even though that all happened in an instant Mike is still covering his red steamy face because of the humiliation he experiences.

Lucas after treating his wounds goes straight to the wooden table near the cabinet and sits at the chair beside it.

Using the keys he brought out from his pocket he opens the drawer of the wooden table and brings out his laptop to put it on the table.

Mike while covering his face with his hands, takes a look at Lucas wondering why he still hadn't left the room.

"So this is why you want me to get out of here... This is your workplace."

Lucas didn't reply to what he had said and just continued what he is doing from the laptop. It shows how concentrated Lucas can be, that's why he wants Mike to go out.

Seeing Lucas isn't gonna entertain him anymore he immediately lies back down and goes to sleep.

Lucas let him stay here a little longer, so he must use this little time to get back to his full condition.

(At least he did not ask me why I didn't go to a hospital after he saw my injuries nor asks me to go to the hospital.) If anyone sees your wounds not only they will ask you to go to the hospital but straight up call an ambulance for you because of how much wounds he got on his body.

*Tap tap tap* Silence fill in the room as the sound can only be heard is the sound of the keyboard tapping from the laptop.

Mike didn't notice but it was already 1 AM. As if times flies by in an instant for him.

Lucas didn't sleep that night as he continued to work until morning.

You could give him big respect for what he's doing for his student. Just staying all-nighter for his student's grade is a good teacher if one could have say.

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In the night as the air is breathing cold throughout the city a beautiful moon is at the clear sky showing it's dazzling presence.

The city is still lively even in this night as it conquered the dark night with its thousands upon thousands of light from the busy streets.

Lights covered the whole city except some small parts around the corners where only fewer people passed by.

At the dark street with only dim lights, there are 8 figures are sitting down at the ground.

It might be dim but one can see the wounds and bruises around their body.

They look beaten up to a pulp.

They groan as they endure their pain while trying to rest in this dim street.

"I didn't think that he was this good though."

"Y-yeah... The rumors around him are quite true."

"Could we go for a rematch to him?"

"Don't bother. I fought him before and let me tell you this... No matter how many we are nor how many times we tried he will be the only man standing among us." The one who talks to those three has this figure of a big man sitting between the eight. One could have guessed he's the boss among these figures.

Opening a box of cigarettes the big man put into his mouth.

"Light."

"Yes, boss." Without delay one of his figure beside him quickly put up his lighter and lit up the cigarette.

They already here for quite a while but they are only talking in minimum words as they are still enduring the pain from their bodies. Not only pain but their exhaustion is lingering around their tired body.

Not having a proper treatment on their wounds, unlike Mike who went to the clinic their recovery are much slower and the chances of them getting sick are higher.

The silence continued for a couple of minutes until the boss broke the silence.

A small gust of smoke came from the big man's mouth and spoke.

"Let's see, I don't know if this might work though. How about instead of using quantity to beat him..."

Pausing briefly he takes another sip from his cigarette, breath out again some smoke, and continues making the atmosphere colder and intense.

"How about we use quality?"

"...  !?" To his answer, the 7 figures near him are taken surprise from his thought.

They immediately understand what their boss is saying.

"OHH!!" As they come up some tactic they shout out excitedly like a madman not caring what will people around will say. Luckily, they only people around in that street.

"As expected from the boss!" One after another the 7 figures compliment their boss, their mastermind from their single operation.

Tucking each other's arm to one another the seven figures cheer happily except the boss.

"With this, we'll be famous in the whole city!"

As they cheer, dance, and sing from the half-ass genius plan that even the boss feels awkward from the situation, one of the seven figures comes up to him and ask a certain question.

"Boss, even if we can defeat him with quality. We don't have many people who are almost in par with him. Who are the people that we will be betting on for this?

Hearing his lackey's question the boss showed a grin smile. He already knew who are the people he's going to send.

"Leo's."

The boss only answered with one word but the man clearly understood what he actually means.

Tears flowed out from his eyes and immediately attempted to hugs his boss.

"BOSS!!!!!!" He openly spread his arms leaping towards his boss but the boss immediately shoves him onto the very ground.

The man was still teary even his face was shoved to the ground.

One of the eight people climb at the top of an abandoned car and shouted to the people below him.

"Because the boss have thought of a great idea, we'll buy drinks and food for tonight, my treat!"

""""OHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!""""

That night continued till morning that no one can stand properly anymore.

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