Shirahama Kenichi, an average first year middle school student and big brother to Shirahama Honoka was currently taking a beat down.

Which while wasn't nearly as common as one might think considering his personality and fame of being a bully magnet, it was still a regular sight in his school. Specially now that he started to get into more trouble lately.

He couldn't help it, he simply couldn't. Before when the bullies came, he simply folded and bowed when he simply couldn't run away, taking their abuse silently and sometimes even with a smile on his face. Things changed after his sister had been kidnapped though.

While he knew he had nothing to do with the incident, nothing he did or didn't during that day made any difference about his sister fate, that in the end she was returned home safe and sound, he still felt incredibly responsible for what happened. Deep down he knew that was an irrational thought with no basis in reality, but still it shaped his current thinking process.

If only I had been stronger, if only I could have protected her. If he simply weren't such a failure as a brother. If only he were the actual hero that his sister thought he was, long, long ago.

Thus he vowed to never again to simply run away from his problems, to always help the weak if he were able, and he would be damned if he ever admitted that he wasn't able.

Because of that he couldn't let when another student was being intimidated for his lunch money, and without hesitation he went after the kid to help him, and in doing so he shifted their focus from their previous target to himself. The result was predictable, discounting how Kenichi wasn't a fighter by any means, it was two against one and they were quick to beat up on him.

'That's alright', he thought, 'at least the other student is safe'.

*Flash*

"What's that?" Said one of the delinquents looking around, when he found someone with long ears, an evil looking face and if they squinted their eyes they could see a pair of antennae on top of his head. Possibly.

"Ka ka ka ka! You two are really brave to do this kind of thing on school grounds, but now I have solid proof about what you two are doing. You're done for!"

The two delinquents looked at each other. "Get him!"

"Oh shit!" And the evil looking student took to a run, two pursuers hot on his trail.

Gingerly Kenichi stood up, feeling the bruises in his body. To be honest with himself they didn't hit nearly as hard as he thought, and lately he's taking their blows much better than before. 'Must be the exercises I'm doing with Honoka', he thought to himself. The circus exercises he was learning that improved his overall health by leaps and bounds was a bit too strenuous at first, but now he can perform most of them good enough. Not only that but due to the increased fitness he could now at least start to attempt to fight back against the bullies, and even if by now there wasn't much progress on that front he still felt better about himself.

Once he was back on his class he meet with his bad friend, Niizuma Eiji, the evil looking student from earlier. He wasn't nearly as bad as he initially thought since he often helps him escape the bullies, even if from time to time he engaged in some light bullying of his own against Kenichi, but Kenichi himself didn't took those attempts too seriously since Niizuma hit far less harder than even the weakest regular bully of his.

"So, did you found something about the one who helped me back then?" Asked Kenichi to his bad friend, who looked annoyed at his question.

"'Thank you Niizuma for helping me', 'you're welcome Shirahama, that's what friends are for'."

Kenichi rolled his eyes. "Don't pretend you helped me just out of altruism, you did that to get more blackmail material for later."

"That's true", Niizuma shamelessly admitted, "but does it hurt to thank me?"

Kenichi made the cross sign before looking at Niizuma. "God bless you."

The evil looking boy hissed in pain before glaring at his friend. "Not funny."

"On the contrary, I find it highly hilarious."

"Do you want to hear about him or not?"

Kenichi nodded, and Niizuma took a notepad from his pocket. "The boy is apparently a very talented martial artist since he took down so many gang members by now, though he's on the short side people assume he is in the middle school. No one heard him talk yet, but they call him White Ghost due to his ability to sneak past his pursuers and extensive use of hit and run tactics to deal with his opponents."

"Thank you Niizuma, you're not so bad after all." Kenichi honestly said, making his friend crackle with glee.

"One day I will find this boy, and then my ambitions will come to fruition! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Kenichi tuned out the other boy before he thought back on when he was rescued. It could only have been the boy since he's targeting know bullies of his for a while now, and he had been helping him since the time when he and his little sister and friends were ambushed before. He wanted to thank him for the help, but also to tell him to stop to beat up on those bullies for him, since he wanted to deal with his problems himself. Granted he might be after those bullies for other reasons other than helping him, and him benefiting from it might be entirely coincidental.

Of course, he ignored the few rumors that the bullies had been beaten up by a trio of primary school girls, since that sounded absurd even on his own head, and it was Honoka that was on the list of people that beat them up. His little, innocent, sweet, traumatized little sister.

Her and her friends against three middle school bullies? Simply absurd.