30
Faith
Furuichi just needed pee. A simple routine of heading to the bathroom after third period before heading off to lunch, Oga would wait for him by the vending machines on the bottom floor; the whole thing took about 4 minutes. Five minutes if there was a line. "Hey, Furuichi, are you really going out with Oga?" Furuichi didn't feel safe when the usual thugs cornered him in the bathroom. Normally they'd ask for lunch money, and Furuichi would brush them off, but this time felt different. "No. Who told you that stupid story?" Furuichi tried to edge toward the bathroom stall to his right, but they were unusually smart this time. "So," the school bully with too many bad piercings and bad breath pulled out his phone to shove into the shaking silvernette's face, "this isn't the both of you?"
Furuichi's heart pounded like a drum. His eyes went from thug to thug. He wouldn't win this kind of fight. Even as the group began to close in around the silvernette, Furuichi knew it wouldn't be much longer until help arrived.
"What the hell is taking you so long, Annoyichi…"
Bingo.
"I'm over here. It looks like they wanted a photo like the one we took."
"Oh yeah?"
Oga placed Baby Be'el in an actually clean sink while the group tried a mixture of pleading for their lives and giving into their false bravado. Oga didn't even need to roll up his sleeves to keep the blood from spattering over his school uniform. Even though Oga wanted nothing short of murder, the sight of Furuichi barely holding himself together forced Oga to keep the beating short and quick. "C'mon Annoyichi. We're hungry."
The brute held out his hand which Furuichi took without a single moment of hesitation. They stepped over nearly murdered bodies, carried Baby Be'el out of the sink and walked off to lunch. The silvernette knew that his faith in Oga wasn't misplaced.