Chapter 31: Schezo?: Intentional 2nd Hand Haze by kirbymanx/huskynator

You know him well by now: Schezo Wegey, the Demon of Primp High School as he's come to be known. A name that strikes a cold sweat in everyone who hears it.

He and his gang have been terrorizing and swindling desperate students out of their money for 3 years and running on their fourth and final year at this school.

And good riddance. This year's freshmen have it lucky that they don't have to deal with the SchezCo for much of their continued learning at this "ordinary" school.

Sure, bullies will always exist. The SchezCo's potential new recruit will probably continue to be one in his four years here. But Schezo, Carrie, and Lawrence will be gone from Primp High. That's three less to worry about.

Some have noticed the main trio hasn't been as ruthless as they've been since late last year…

F1 - Library

"And then! Pffufufuphahah! He got a concussion! Heheh." Hilda explained.

"That's not funny." Nasos said as she was flipping through some books both physically and digitally for her personal research.

"I haha wasn't telling a jo-hehah joke." Hilda reiterated to her friend.

"Oh, yeah." Nasos gave a small slap to her own temple. "Forgot, still not funny."

Hilda went back to her own Friday studies, doing her best to suppress her laughter in the library.

A head peeked around the corner. "Oh, th-there you are!" A shy voice said with a lot of relief.

"Huh." Nasos looked up. "Oh!" She bookmarked everything. "Liddy, Liddia, Liddels~" The senior welcomed the freshman.

"Uh… None of those are m-my name." Lidelle said.

"I know. But they're fun to say."

Hilda rapidly wheezed instead of laughter to keep quiet. "Can I call you, Liddels? Hehehe."

"Um, call me Lidelle, pretty please?" Lidelle barely knows Hilda, just her curse from their mutual friend Nasos.

Hilda notices something. "You look stressed ffffft." That ffffft is suppressing her laughter.

"Oh, you do!" Nasos now noticed too. "How come? What's troubling you?"

"Um… Uh…" The little imp-ish girl hid behind her oversized sleeves. "Schezo's puh-picki-" Nasos and Hilda winched, filling in the blanks in their heads.

"Oh, say no more!" Hilda said. Preparing a seat for the small girl. "My haha dad is a coun- hahaha, a couns- wahahaa."

"A counselor." Nasos finished for her friend. "Thooooouuuugh, I don't think you'd wanna hear it from a hyena." Nasos guessed, slowly looking at her fellow senior with a nervous grin hoping it wasn't too insensitive to her friend. "Y'know. With how skittles Liddels is. And you laugh all th… I'll stop. Digging a hole. I'll stop doing it sometime, Hilda, I swear."

"Ughsnrrrk… Cure hahahaha-When?" Hilda slapped the clown spirit haunting her away, knowing it's to no avail. "But ahaha! But let's pffft not fo-hohaha-cus on my woes right now! What did the SchezCo do haha to you?"

"Um…" Lidelle looked nervously around. "I uh… tellmeaboutthattimethosemeanieswhenthey wereinjuniorclass!" She shouted rapidly in the otherwise empty small library, eyes shut tight, several muscles clenched.

"Oh, uh. Oh yeah, you're new... Heard about it offhand? Okay, we can do that if you want." Nasos looked confused that her little friend wanted to learn about that day instead of help or comfort.

"I pffff just need to be ha sure you really wan-haha-na talk about that and not about those jerks did to ahaha you?" Lidelle gave a quick nod to the hyena. "It's gonna snnrk be a little icky, you don't look like the type who'd take it well." The cursed pinkheaded senior said with a concerned grin which just looked off due to her curse.

"Yeah." Nasos concurred. Wincing at the memory.

Lidelle looked über nervous. Stammering hard thinking about it. "Uh, uuuh, YES! Tuh-Tell me!" She shivered.

"If you're sure."

"You're lucky hehehe we were onlook-hahaaaha-onlookers when it happe- Ow!" Hilda bit her tongue. The clown spirit laughed.

"Where to begin…" The other pinkhead headed senior tried to formulate how best to tell her story.

Hilda wheezed in laughter. "The." She wheezed some more. "Beginning!"

Nasos giggled along with her. "Ha! Good one~"

"Ummm… Story, puh-lease."

"Oh, sorry." Nasos cleared her throat. "Should we talk about Runelord, orrrrrr…?"

"Ehehe-heh? I'd raaaaather not." Hilda bit her lip. "Let's just keep it to the Schezo era."

"Soundsgoodtome." Nasos agreed. "Schezo was worse before the last school year was nearing its end. He and Lawrence were shaking someone down. I forget who."

"I for-heheh-got myself." Hilda added with a little guilt in her voice.

"Anyway, Schezo held them at knifepoint."

"Knifepoint?!" Lidelle turtled.

"Ooooooooooh… Yeah, should've mentioned that first." The astro nerd had one eye closed in a winch inducing state seeing Lidelle like that. "Sorry."

"Schezo never hu-ha...haaaa-hurt anyone with it if it helps. He just threatened people with it."

"Did he?" Nasos raised an eyebrow. Her eyes widened. "You're right! Wow."

"He was being a show-off with it. Pffff, I saw it up close, it was a seethrough knife, not so-HAAA-omething you'd want blood on."

"Puh-Please don't say bluh-blood."

"Sorry, that's gonna be unavoidable though. So we were there, but we didn't do anything, Schezo had a knife and he was threatening this kid for… something. And then Arle pushed the kid to safety. Schezo pointed the knife at Arle. We didn't get a look at her face, but Arle was paralyzed."

"My laughter didn't help." Hilda clenched her fists and scowled at her possessor, annoyed that it chose at that moment to let the curse loosen for that specific sentence.

"Schezo made an unexpected motion with his knife arm, and Arle panicked. She punched him… eeeeh."

"Punched him where?"

"Hahaha, that's not what she's eeeeh-ing about! Arle pffffft slit Schezo's throat!" Hilda cut to the chase.

"EEEE!" Lidelle wished she never asked.

"Yeah…" Nasos and Hilda remembered the blood from Schezo's neck… "Arle was in a panic, and did to Schezo what she thought he'd do to her if he was the one to pick up his knife first. She was in shock, as was everyone there, it was Lawrence and Ally that took him to the nearest Nurse's Office."

"Took Ally a bit to live that down. Arle was devastated at the fact she could've taken a life she needed a while to recover from that, heheheher sister told me she can't stand to look at blood ever since that day...Fufufeh... Most want Schezo to just die, pffwahaha! But he lived, his hair turned white. Wears less threatening clothing now. That's it."

"Though, his reputation shot up despite that though, they called him a figurative demon before, and now he earned that title. Surviving that certainly screams more demon than Lawrence, actual demon, is."

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"Lidelle?"

"Everyone lived, happy snrrk end."

The green freshman didn't wanna hear any of this. She shut herself off. No replies.

Meanwhile, on the outside of the Library was Alucart, the one who pressured Lidelle to ask these seniors about what Schezo and his friends wouldn't. He was satisfied with the answer.

'So that's why he leaves those bloodbags alone.' The dhamphyr thought. A sharp grin creeps onto his face. 'A regular human surviving a throat slit and not becoming necrolaptic? Schezo's SO HARDCORE!'

Authors' Notes:

HUSK: I slummed it a little. I hope this doesn't become a trend.