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Chapter 17 - Ushio
"If it's useless, why don't you bastards give it back to him?" Yukiko had just arrived with Kisara and Nuru with her, making Mutou celebrate in thought the arrival of her friends.
Both feel the blood freeze when they see the fury of the half dragon. The silver one was next to her and she looked with pity at her friend, as well as the tan one, and then the twins threw daggers with their eyes at the same time that the half dragon delivered the golden sarcophagus to her friend, who thanks her, passing by to embrace your treasure against your chest.
Then, she turns her back to Yuugi and begins to smile wickedly, showing a sadistic glow in her blue orbs, making Jounouchi and Honda retreat because they were terrified while the albino snapped his neck, causing chills of fear in them.
"Well, I confess that I haven't broken someone in a while. The sound of bones being broken is wonderful, you know? It's such a sweet melody." She smiled sadistically as she spoke.
Her speech and her smile, as well as the comment, make them terrified, with her walking slowly towards the blonde and the brunette who cower in fear against the wall behind them, hugging each other, even crying in fear while Nuru and Kisara advanced next to the albino and their desire to beat them was explicit in their eyes, while the albino's showed a sadistic pleasure in beating them, something that made them even more terrified.
Then, the advancing albino is stopped by Yuugi, who holds her arm, which automatically undoes the frightening appearance, before showing a kind face to his friend who smiles in relief, making a negative gesture with his head. Kisara and Nuru also looked kindly at him, undoing his furious face as they stopped their advance.
Jounouchi and Honda, like anyone else who knew Yukiko, knew that she was capable of beating a gang easily, as the albino sometimes did, in addition to experiencing her fury along with hearing rumors of the albino's delight to practice sadism in the gangs.
Therefore, they were fully aware that they had no chance against the trio while feeling very angry at being saved by Yuugi, again, since he always stopped them from beating them in the classroom or around the school.
The albino sighs and speaks, narrowing her eyes at both of them "Get out of here, before I change my mind and stop harassing the weakest, miserable worms ... No worms, trash. The poor worms don't deserve to be compared to the two of you."
Jounouchi and Honda were going to fight what the half dragon said, but they end up losing their voice when they see that the fury returned to the faces of the three and when they focused on Yukiko, both feel a cold sensation like death surrounding them, for later, if find themselves in front of an immense and fuzzy dragon with sharp fangs and claws, with both seeing themselves reflected in the angry blue irises. They watch in fear, the target dragon opens its powerful and immense jaws, filled with sharp fangs, releasing a deafening growl soaked in the purest fury and that vision that came into their minds was enough to frighten them again, with them fleeing in terror from the place, making Yuugi surprised by the speed they were able to run when it came to running away from their friends and believed, firmly, that they beat any speed record when they ran away in terror.
The young man with tricolor hair observes their unbridled escape, something that always happened when he detained his friends, without knowing that they tried to beat the duo out of school, if they found them on the street after they tormented their friend and if the torment involved them hitting him, the trio hunted them down the street to return twice the pain their friend suffered.
"These are lessons for me to be a man, Yukiko-chan."
"Men like them?" She asks, pointing her thumb back, in the direction that they both fled. "Do you really want to be an idiot like those bastards, Yuugi-kun?"
"They just want me to be strong." He talks with a shrug although he knew inside that they just wanted to harass him, just like any bully did for fun.
The dragon princess rolls her eyes and sighs because she already expected something like this.
After all, she knew that her friend was unable to hate someone, no matter what they did to him because of his kind, selfless, loving and kind heart. She knew that she might even be angry at first, but he was unable to maintain that anger for long.
As she looked at the two who had run away, Yukiko was fully aware that Jounouchi had taken one of Sennen Pazuru's pieces and was going to throw him into the school pool to relieve his anger.
The half dragoness confessed that she had to control herself a lot so as not to break their bones by what they did to her friend while she questioned how any friendship could arise from that.
Furthermore, as much as she knew what they would do for Yuugi in the future, especially the blonde who would risk his life more than once for him, she wanted to discount all the suffering and pain they caused to her dear friend and she wanted to do it alone because when she was with Kisara and Nuru she was obliged to restrain herself and because of that restraint, she could not punish them as she wished.
When she imagines a way to punish them, without spoiling the events that would occur, she smiles wickedly.
After all, it was a need as intense as breathing. Yukiko was fully aware that she needed to get revenge on them, before the events involving Ushio and when reviewing her plans for them, the albino smiles immensely because the night promised to be a lot of fun for her because they would be her prey and the half dragon confessed that she was eager to hunt and torture them.
In one of the highways of the school, Jounouchi exclaimed in disgust "What the hell! Why do we have to be saved by him ?!"
"You better get accustomed to that bastard always doing that."
"That bastard Yukiko! She's always hindering us along with Kisara and Nuru-chan! Didn't they realize how pathetic he is? She looks like a disgusting little woman."
"There are things that are inexplicable, friend. Although, in this case, it could be because they were childhood friends. Well, that's what I heard." Honda speaks while folding his arms.
"Childhood is one thing. Adolescence is another thing."
"In that regard, I see no distinction. Accept that it hurts less." Hiroto speaks after sighing while rolling his eyes.
"I will never accept it! As much as we show how pathetic he is, Nuru-chan ..."
Both were so distracted while talking to each other, that they just feel they hit something hard and when looking up, believing that they had hit a wall, they observe a tall and strong teenager with a height far above what could be considered normal and that showed an irritated face for them.
Honda immediately recognizes him and is terrified at the same time that Jounouchi did not recognize him and therefore did not show fear unlike Hiroto.
"What do you mean," As much as we show how pathetic he is "? How are you showing this? By any chance, are you mistreating someone? "
"It's none of your business. Stay on ..." The blonde starts to speak while taking on a defiant face.
As Hiroto had identified the man in front of them, he seeks to quickly cover his friend's mouth, starting to show his best smile, and then speak as humbly as possible "It's nothing. We were just talking cordially. Nobody was mistreating anyone. These are just conversations. We are all colleagues. "
"It's really good that they act like colleagues."
"Sure! It's like I said, we are all colleagues!" Honda exclaims smiling, displaying his best face of innocence.
"Jounouchi, you idiot! Or rather, suicidal. This is Ushio, the Student Monitor! He is in charge of the school order and even the teachers are afraid of him. Surely, he must have heard the school commenting on him and the fear that everyone feels about him. Besides, I don't know about Yukiko, but I can't imagine her being afraid of Ushio. In fact, I believe that if they both met, it would be a brutal battle it would be a battle and yes, a unilateral Yukiko massacre against him. " Hiroto murmurs to his friend after confirming that Ushio has completely departed.
The brunette comes out of his reflective state when the blonde manages to release his mouth.
"You almost choked me to death!" Katusya exclaiming indignantly.
"Better to almost choke him to death than you face Ushio's fury. Didn't you hear anything I said?" He asks with an incredulous face.
Jounouchi snorts and speaks, twisting his fists "Yes. I heard. Damn it! It is no longer enough to live in terror with Yukiko, Nuru-chan and Kisara, now will we have to live in fear of Ushio?"
As he spoke, the blond imagined himself kicking the albino, the silver and the Student Monitor, with the exception of his beloved Nuru.
"Well, if he believed what I said, we need not fear Ushio, but we must be more careful. Unfortunately."
Honda, who was also disgusted, decides to release his anger and frustration by kicking a wall.
"What the hell! This has been a bad day!" Hiroto exclaims angrily.
"Oh, yeah? I have a really cool thing with me that will make our day better!" The blonde speaks at the same time as he winked at his friend.
"What is?" Honda asks as he looks on in a mixture of curiosity and surprise.
In this, the blonde opens his hand and shows a golden piece that had the Eye of Wadjet.
"What business is that? It's golden." The brunette asks with visible surprise on his face.
Jounouchi smiles cruelly at the same time that he closed his hand with the piece in his palm.
"It's one of the items in that Yuugi treasure box. I just saw it quickly, but I believe it was a puzzle of golden pieces. So that means that if a single piece goes missing, he won't be able to finish assembling and his treasure won't be worth anything! "
"Wow! You are so mean, Jounouchi! It will be great to see that bastard's depressed face and his despair at the lack of the piece." Honda exclaims excitedly.
Then, taking advantage of an open window that was close to the school's swimming pool, the blonde throws the golden piece, causing it to fall into the water.
When the object sank, Honda exclaimed excitedly after laughing happily "In fact, it saved our day, Jounouchi!"
"Bah! Treasure! He looks like a disgusting little woman with his kindness, goodness and passivity! All of that is annoying! " Katusya thought to himself, showing a disgusted face
"Let's go." The blonde talks to Honda and they both walk away, smiling.
After classes, Yukiko, Nuru, Kisara and Yuugi are out of school, when Mutou realizes that he left his notebook under the desk when Yukiko said that she wanted to comment on the class notes between them.
"Damn it! I forgot in the room!"
"Do you want us to come along, Yuugi-kun?" Kisara asks in her usual gentle tone.
"You don't have to. I'll be right back." He speaks smiling as he returns to the school gates.
Yukiko sighs discreetly because without her friend noticing, she had taken the notebook out of his backpack to put it under the desk and only commented on the notes after they were a little bit away from the school because Kisara and Nuru couldn't get involved at the same time when your friend needed to meet Ushio on his way out of school.
As a precaution, she tries to distract the twins when she starts talking to them at random, turning their backs to the entrance, with the albino looking discreetly at the Student Monitor who had positioned herself at the entrance, pretending to be looking at something at the side see Yuugi returning to the educational institution.
The half dragon hated herself for doing this, as much as she knew it was necessary because there were events that needed to occur and that because of her involvement, she would have to ensure that they occurred no matter how much she hated herself afterwards. The event regarding Ushio was one of the worst, in his view, and it required all of his self-control to let events flow while taking Kisara and Nuru out of the scene, relieved to see how easy it was to manipulate them to prevent them from moving involved in events that could not be changed.
Therefore, feeling her heart constrict at the same time as she choked off the pain, she turns her face when she sees Yuugi returning to them while she smiles at the same time that Ushio is preparing to intercept him.
"Today, I finish the puzzle at home. I was very stupid to bring it to school. If it weren't for Yukiko-chan ..."
Then, as he crossed the gate, he stops talking to himself when he hears a voice at the same time that he turns his head to the source, seeing a teenager who is too tall and muscular. Mutou could feel that prudence told him to stay away from him, making him want to carry out that order as soon as possible.
"Is his name Mutou Yuugi?" He notices that the youngest was watching him with confusion on his face, although the pang of fear in the amethyst eyes was clear when looking at him and that was something that pleased him.
After all, he loved to see terror in the eyes of his victims.
"I don't think you know me. I am the student monitor at the school and my name is Ushio. I want to ask a question."
Yuugi arches his brow as he asks visibly confused why the teenager in front of him was not in his class and had never seen him in his life, at least as far as he remembered "What question?"
"Are you suffering verbal or physical aggression from your colleagues? That is, are you being bullied?"
Mutou feigns confusion because as much as Jounouchi and Honda harassed and assaulted him, almost every day, he did not want to see them in trouble and something about that man exuded danger.
"I don't! I don't get bullied."
"Calm down! It is precisely those who are persecuted who say this because they fear some retaliation. Besides, I have already investigated what happens to you" Ushio says smiling while crossing his arms.
"But from now on, rest assured Yuugi! After all, I will be your personal bodyguard! Your days of humiliation, aggression and suffering are over! You will no longer need to be dependent on three girls to protect you. " He speaks while smiling, placing both hands on Mutou's shoulders.
The young man with tricolored hair was confused by his act because he was not requesting any bodyguards and did not need one.
Even so, the young man decides to speak again to try to remove any misconceptions from Ushio, although he knew he was correct about Katsuya and Hiroto.
After all, Jounouchi and Honda chased him and even going through the humiliations and physical aggressions in his hands, he did not want to cause problems for them because he could never wish something bad for anyone, no matter how much it made him suffer.
He could be very angry, but that feeling would eventually dissipate and even if he was furious, he would never wish anyone else harm.
"I am not suffering persecution. Believe me. Still, I appreciate the intention."
Then he walks away while Ushio smiles, thinking to himself, "It looks like I got a beautiful victim. I will earn good money. "
When Mutou returned to his friends, he decided to hide Ushio's strange conversation because he saw no reason to worry them and to avoid thinking about his words, the young man decides to get involved in the comments on the notes while they agreed to visit the twins' doujo where they lived so they could study for exams in a few weeks.
In the late afternoon, after studying, they decided that they would go out to eat some hamburgers, Yuugi's favorite food, and then go to an Arcade Game Store to play some games because Yuugi was eager to play a new game that had just arrived at the game establishment that the group used to attend.
Within Sennen Pazuru, Atemu was restless, even with his sarcophagus back in the hands of his future host thanks to the action of Yukiko, who together with Kisara and Nuru, stopped the acts of Jounouchi and Honda.
This unsettling sensation had arisen in him a few minutes after Katsuya held his golden urn and still persisted, even with his sarcophagus returning to Yuugi's gentle hands, with Pharaoh failing to discover the source of such a sensation.
However, after a thorough analysis, he discovered that it did not come from him, but from the outside, although it was equally intrinsic, however surreal that thought was, considering that it was external and internal at the same time.
Pharaoh decides to continue his investigations by invoking his powers, in order to discover the real origin of this sensation and the reason.
As a precaution, until he finished his investigation, he incorporated his magic back into one of the golden pieces to prevent his future host from setting up Sennen Pazuru.
After all, there was little care.
When night fell, Jounouchi and Honda were walking down a deserted street, talking animatedly to each other, when they feel the temperature around them drops several degrees, abruptly, making them shiver with cold while rubbing their arms too much, trying to get warm, showing confusion in their faces due to the drastic change in temperature, to later feel that something was chasing them and it was a sensation so intense that they both start to look terrified to the sides.