The days flew for the Team, none seemed to be shown on the Midnight Channel for a while, so they could enjoy their life as normal adolescents.
School was tedious as hell, thanks to Morooka whom managed to bring up boring even something that was considered interesting like the modern philosophers.
"Isn't a little strange to wear a… scarf and a long sleeved shirt in the middle of May?" asked Chie looking at Kayth whom was wearing a blue cotton scarf and a gray long shirt despites it was extremely hot those days
"He may be coming from a city in the extremely south of Japan, so it's not so hot for him" suggested Souji with hesitation
"Who even cares about that? Let just it be, that's not our problem" yawned Yosuke fighting to be awake and concentrated on the lecture, even if Morooka seemed talking in Arabian
Finally the bell rang the end of the school day. Chie, Souji and Yukiko were already prepared to leave that heat cage called "classroom" but Yosuke, strangely, was not. In fact he got a call and motioned them to go without him because that would have taken a while. He spent about fifteen-twenty minutes arguing with his father about his inhuman shifts of the next week and he managed only to irritate his old man and risk to be grounded if he would have skipped them or keeping complaining
"Man this sucks!" muttered with resentful tone while he was about to leave the school. He didn't deserve that treatment, he was one of the best employees of Junes, but being the manager's son nullified his efforts.
He had reached the school gate when he noticed some bullies of the school, that he knew well, acting too suspiciously. They were heading to their best spot in which they could harass their victims without fearing to be seen by the teachers. He was one of their favorite targets until few months ago.
He stopped and thought if it was worth to give a peek or let it go and pretend to had seen nothing. He was so tempted to choose the second one but his curiosity won and so, trying to be as quiet as possible, he followed those damned three year students.
Their spot was nothing than a shadow area behind a building that in the past was a warehouse for gym equipment. Yosuke hid behind a sakura tree placed in a strategic position that covered him completely and allowed him to see clearly those punks.
Their victim was standing with his back on the wall, looking at the bullies with a blank stare. It was hard for Yosuke to recognize him due to the sight barrier that those morons were making, and that was quite frustrating
"Well well, who we have here! A brat who comes from the city that want to rule over us" the punks laughed as a bunch of idiots and moved to allow their boss, who was speaking, to have all the room he would have needed.
Yosuke gasped when he was finally able to see the threatened guy: he was Kayth
"It's too hot to wear such gay thing, isn't it?" asked the punks' boss before remove violently the scarf from Kayth's neck and laughed as a freak when he saw his neck full of bruises and signs of strangulation
"Oh… I was wondering why this thing" he looked at the scarf and tossed with nonchalance in Yosuke's direction "You're a bit slow to recover, aren't you? Those signs, we made them, last week, right guys?" asked rhetorically to his crew that grinned sadistically
"J-just leave me alone, I didn't offend you or nothing else" Kayth looked hesitant at the leader punk and he, after few second of suspense, he punched him breaking his nose that start bleeding
"You didn't offend us? Are you fuckin' kiddin' me? Uh? Your existence here is an offence to us! You are an intruder and your parents' fuckin' highway will destroy our families field" the bully grabbed the Kayth from his shirt and looked at him with disgust "You are not welcome among us! Go away city scum!" he threw the poor guy on the ground and started, with his crew, to kick him without hesitation.
Yosuke looked at them and cursed himself to not be as stronger as Kanji to stop that harassment, even though he couldn't stay there and looking those idiots beating the boy. He sent a quick message to the Investigation group asking for help and giving information about where they must go before leaving his hideout
"Four against one, that's not fair at all" provoked them standing a safety distance from them. The bunch of idiots stopped as soon as they heard the annoying voice of their precedent victim
"Are you nostalgic Hanamura? Do you want to relive the past experiences?" answered the boss with an menacing smirk on his dumbass face. They both know who is the stronger between them
"Not at all, I stopped making nightmare about you. You know, your ugly faces are the worst things of everything, even Morokin' is prettier than you" continued Yosuke, hoping to being able to buy enough time for the arrival of his friends.
"Ok that's enough Hanamura, it looks like you haven't learned the lesson yet. Fortunately we're merciful and so we are going to prepare you another one" the leader looked at his guys and smirked
"Get him!" they nodded and headed ominously towards the brunette who, is not idiot as them, and started running. Unfortunately the boss wasn't following him but at least the number of harassers decreased by three.
He run for a while without being neither tired, the dumbasses were extremely slow compared to him. He was about to return on the way leading to the bullies' spot when his cellphone started vibrating. That was the signal.
"Your guys need some extra training" grinned Yosuke at the boss, when he returned at the starting point
"And you need a new bunch of teeth" one of the bully, whom managed to sneak behind the brunette, kicked him to the ground
"You're so self confident Hanamura, are you serious? I mean, what's the purpose of coming here?" Yosuke was about to reply but a thud caught his attention, he turned and saw the flunkey fall down and Kanji standing right behind him with Souji, Chie and Yukiko
"And with this one we scored three…" muttered Kanji
"Stand up partner" said calmly Souji offering his hand to the brunette whom grinned and accept with enthusiasm his help. Now things were turning bad for the naughty boys.
"When did you call them?!" shouted the leader, who has not lackeys anymore
"Is he the last one?" asked Kanji heading ominously towards the three-year student
"I suppose so, there were four in total" answered Yosuke. The leader looked frightened at them
"SCREW YOU HANAMURA, YOU AND THAT CITY SCUM WILL BE REPAID FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE!" yelled at him before trying to flee and managed successfully due to Kanji's slow movements.
The team look at that idiot fleeing for few seconds, almost all the team, because Yosuke headed towards Kayth and knell on him
"Ohi! Are you ok?" shaking delicately with one hand. The newcomer had his face covered by blood though his glasses were safe, his nose was in a irregular position and new bruises showed up. No response, he seemed to had fainted
" We should take him to the infirmary, I don't like these wounds at all" proposed Yukiko really worried about the boy's condition. She was a healer after all, unfortunately she'd not power outside the TV world
"Totally agree…Partner, Kanji help me" Yosuke, Souji and Kanji picked Kayth up and transported him carefully to the infirmary.
The nurse reserved them a suspicious glance before indicating in which bed they could have laid Kayth. She asked what happened and Yosuke tell her that he was bullied and they accidentally found him fainted near the ex-warehouse. She seemed a little suspicious but she didn't ask anything
"Now I understand why he was wearing winter clothes…look at his neck and arms" muttered Chie glancing at Kayth's right arms that was full of bad bruises
"I wonder why he endured this for so long" added Yukiko putting the boy's scarf, that she gathered before leaving with the others, in the drawer
"The most important thing is that he'll regain his senses…and recover" concluded Souji quietly, even if he was worried for the boy too. He took off Kayth's glasses from him and put them on the drawer. An awkward silence fell down in the infirmary.
"I think we should leave. He'll be fine and safe here" muttered Yosuke standing up and the others reluctantly nodded and leaved the room quietly.