A Childhood Friend, Reunited After 10 Years Acts Deredere With Me

(Contains violence for the first and last time)

In my pitch black consciousness, I had a dream. It was the kindergarten and park where Alice and I used to play. Alice smiling without any impurities.

I miss it…

I almost smiled at that. And then…time passed in my mind.

In the spring of my senior year of high school, Alice transferred. From there, my youth changed at once.

__Haha…I knew it…I like Alice.

I finally realized that feeling. At the same time, a certain voice came into my head.

“Help me…”

It was the first voice I had heard out of all the many times I had heard Alice’s voice. A voice colored with fear, despair, and a variety of negative emotions.

This is the first time Alice has ever asked for help. No, it doesn’t matter.

I made a vow.

With Alice.

I would protect her.

If I don’t get up here, I’ll never be able to face Alice again.

“Ggh…ah…”

I regained consciousness. Every time I start to recover, I feel a sharp pain like my head is about to explode.

(I don’t care. This much is…!)

This is not important. Right now, I need to save Alice. Anyhow.

“Hey, hey… this guy…”

“This is bad… Saito-sa…!! So fast!?”

The intense pain is getting worse. I ran through at full speed, not stopping to take notice of it. I grabbed Saito’s arm.

“Hey… You…”

“I’m sorry, but I can’t shut up and watch. The woman I love is being attacked right in front of me. There is no way I won’t get up, even if I die.”

I turned to Alice and smiled thinly. Then she had large tears in her eyes.

“Sora… Sora… Sora…”

“Just wait a minute, Alice. It won’t take long.”

“Hah, what can you do when you’re dying?”

The fist is clenched tightly and a serious fist, involving not only the arm but the entire body, is unleashed on Saito’s face.

“Uggyaah!”

Saito fell to the ground and rolled around holding his nose.

“I’m sorry. I’m really pissed off, so I can’t take it easy on you.”

The only people who would be happy to see the woman they love in such a state are those who enjoy being cuckolded. Unfortunately, I’m not one of those people, so I’m pretty pissed off.

“You bastard!”

“What the hell are you doing to Saito-san!?”

“What the hell are you doing… you say?”

I turn around, with a blue vein running down my forehead.

“You guys realize what you’ve done to my girl?”

“Shut the fuck up…! Come on! You’re not the only delinquent here!”

The Tsuruhashi guy took a stance and came into my pocket and tried to bury his fist in my gut. I grabbed his arm and drove my fist into his stomach.

“Gobu…”

Shimizu’s jab to the head is delivered at about the same time as he drives Tsuruhashi to a perfect knockout.

“Otto…”

Anemia has clouded my judgment a bit. But, well, I managed to avoid it and hit him with a cross counter to the face.

Shimizu, who was completely concussed, passed out in the blink of an eye.

“Well, it’s only you at the end, Saito.”

In fact, my current situation is pretty bad. I can barely stand up and if I let up, I’m going to lose consciousness soon. I’ll have to end this as soon as possible.

“Fu… Fu… Fu…”

When I looked back at Saito, his eyes were bright red and he was holding his nose and breathing through his mouth, a situation I couldn’t bear to watch.

“You…seriously…I’m going to kill you…”

“That’s my line.”

In fact, I’m really mad at this guy. I’m not prepared to kill him…but I find myself thinking in my head of making him go beyond recovery.

“Damn…”

As soon as I shake off that thought, Saito comes running out. He moved a few steps faster than Tsuruhashi, though.

“Wha…”

Well, there’s no way I can’t react to the change in speed from a slug to an ant.

Avoiding the fist that is about to strike me, I grab his straightened arm and throw it to the ground.

“Gugah!”

Holding his arm down with my foot, I grab him by the chest and force him to make eye contact with me.

“Yo, how you feelin’?”

“I thought… you… never got in a fight.”

“I’ve never been in a fight. But I’m an athletic guy. If I use that to my advantage in a fight, I can beat you guys to a pulp.”

Reflexes and athletic ability trained for soccer. I’m going to use them in any way I want.

“You messed with my Alice. If it were up to me, I’d kill you right here and now, but that’s not how it works in this country.”

If I kill him, I’ll be arrested for over defense. Well, I don’t care about that, but I won’t do it because neither Alice nor I want me to spend time in jail.

I raise my fist and give him a cold stare.

“All right, listen up. I’ll let you off the hook this time. But if you mess with my Alice again, you’re going to pay for this. I won’t let you get away with this.”

With a final blow that mowed down his consciousness with all my might, Saito fell to the ground.

As I realized that my body was finished, the fatigue that I had forgotten about until now came rushing back.

“Hah…hah…”

“Sora!”

Alice supported me when I was about to fall down disgracefully.

However, I really can’t stand on my feet and legs. My consciousness is clouded and I feel like I’m going to pass out at any moment.

“Sorry…can you hold me like this for a minute?”

Now I’m in being held in Alice’s arms.

“…You’re not thinking of… dying or something, are you?”

“Haha…”

She saw through it after all.

No, I was really afraid that I was going to die. I was thinking that if I lose consciousness here, I might die.