I Was Blackmailed Into Accepting Bullying Using My Childhood Friend as Leverage, But When I Found Out My Friend and Bully Were Together, I Abandoned All Compassion and Swore to Take Revenge with Everything I Had - Chapter 19: Scum File - Ryusei Iketsuki - The Miscalculation That Led to Hell

Chapter 19: Scum File – Ryusei Iketsuki – The Miscalculation That Led to Hell

Note: This work contains depictions of violence and sexual content, but it does not promote any of these actions.

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Ryusei Iketsuki – The Miscalculation That Led to Hell Arc

The next morning, I strutted into school with my group, bragging about how I’d spent the last two nights sleeping with a girl who had been a virgin.

“So yeah… the night before last, we went at it all night—huh, what the hell is this…?”

I noticed a large hole in the seat of my chair. Immediately, I turned to the rest of the class, demanding to know who was responsible.

“Hey!! Who the hell did this to my chair!?”

I grabbed the collar of a nearby classmate, who quickly shook his head, denying it was him. His eyes darted toward the mutt.

With my group in tow, I surrounded the mutt and kicked over his desk.

“Hey, mutt, was it you who thought this would be funny? Hah!?”

The mutt lifted his head and looked at me. His hair, usually covering his face, was now neatly trimmed, revealing sharp eyes that caught me off guard for a moment. But I quickly sat in front of him, glaring at him from up close.

“Answer me, Komainu! Was it you?”

“Yeah, I’m the one who put the hole in your chair. So what?”

[Snap]

I lost it and punched him hard in the face. My group followed suit, landing several kicks on him.

But something was wrong… No matter how much we hit or kicked him, he didn’t flinch… not even a little.

While still sitting, the mutt suddenly kicked up his left leg, and in an instant, I blacked out.

When I came to, he had grabbed my prized blond hair and was holding me up in the air, strands tearing from my scalp with every movement. I tried to struggle, but the more I thrashed, the more hair was ripped from my head. My mouth was full of blood, and several teeth were broken, making it impossible to speak.

Tears of pain welled up, but I managed to choke out, “You… you think you can do this and get away—”

[Slap]

More hair tore out, and a sharp pain hit my cheek, making the world spin. The next thing I knew, I had fallen to the ground between my group.

“Y-You… you think you can do this and just get away—”

Before I could finish, he landed a front kick square in my gut.

“Oghee…”

I vomited up everything in my stomach, writhing on the floor in agony.

“Put my desk back in place…”

He sat in the chair, glaring at me coldly.

“W-Why should I—”

[Smack]

A light backhand from him was enough to make my head spin, and the sheer power difference made my body tremble instinctively with fear.

“O-Okay! I’ll do it! I’ll put it back!”

Panicking, I scrambled to return his desk to its original position.

“Hey, there’s puke in front of my seat.”

He pointed out, ordering me to clean it up. My pride meant nothing at that moment—I could feel my life was in danger.

“W-Wait! I’ll get a rag and clean it up—”

As I tried to head for the cleaning supplies, he stopped me.

“Huh? I just cleaned those rags and put them out to dry yesterday. Are you going to dirty them up? Clean it up with your clothes and those of your lackeys.”

What? Clean up the puke with my clothes? Is he insane?

“N-No way… That’s not—”

“Got a problem with that? Huh?”

I can’t refuse him… If I do, I won’t get away unscathed. I have to obey…

“N-No… hey you guys, take off your jackets!”

Forcing my unwilling lackeys to remove their blazers, I used them to wipe up the vomit.

“You’re all wearing those for the rest of the day.”

“”W-What?””

This is bad… This guy’s seriously crazy… My whole body trembled with fear.

Just then, Himeno walked into the tense, eerie atmosphere of the classroom.

“Ken-chan! What’s going on here!? And Iketsuki-kun, what are you all doing!?”

Himeno… You’re perfect. I’ll cancel my plans with the other girls today and spend the whole evening with you.

Confident that I’d turn the tables, I addressed the mutt.

“Hey, Komada! You know what’s coming, right? After pulling something like this on us—”

I tried to put on a brave face, even though I was battered from his blows. I glanced between him and Himeno, a smirk forming on my lips. (You’ll pay for this, tenfold… no, a hundredfold.)

But he just looked at us, sighed, and turned back with a cold, indifferent expression.

“Sigh… You two are already together, aren’t you? And I couldn’t care less about what happens to my former childhood friend.”

I was shocked by his words… This is bad, really bad. He’s already figured it out! If this continues, I won’t be able to blackmail him… What do I do? What do I do!?

“Huh!? What are you talking about, Ken-chan? Why do you think Iketsuki-kun and I are together? And why ‘former’ childhood friend…?”

“Oh, I came back to this classroom after school yesterday. I saw you and Iketsuki going at it on my desk. And don’t bother with excuses—I took photos and videos.”

“N-No… that can’t be…”

He whispered something to Himeno, and with a pale face, she bolted out of the classroom.

“Hey, hey, what’s the class rep doing skipping out early like that? Haha.”

He turned back to me, grabbed my hair again, and twisted it painfully.

“Argh! It hurts! Stop it!”

“Stop, why?”

“P-Please… Komada-san… Please forgive me…”

Right now, I just need to survive this. As much as it disgusts me, I have to apologize, even if it’s just for show. When I did, he released my hair and pointed at my forehead, saying,

“452 times and 165,220 yen.”

He threw out some numbers at me—wait? What does that mean?

“Sigh… That’s the number of times you guys punched and kicked me, and the amount of money I spent because of you.”

“W-what do you mean…?” I couldn’t understand his intentions. I just wanted to find a way to settle this peacefully…

“Don’t get it? During the rest of our second year of high school, you’re going to pay me back for every single hit and every yen. You can divide it between the three of you, I don’t care. So, what’s it going to be?”

His cold, icy smile filled us with fear. And then, just like that, the lackeys I had treated so well turned on me, betraying me in an instant.

“N-No, we… we were just following Iketsuki’s orders! We didn’t want to! He made us do it! Please, let Iketsuki handle the beatings and the money!”

One by one, they kneeled and begged in front of him. Rage welled up inside me as I watched them betray me.

“Hey! Don’t mess with me! Do you know how much I’ve spent on you? I even took care of the girls for you! You should be the ones taking the hits for me!”

I grabbed one of them by the collar, yelling in his face, but then the other one punched me in the side of the head.

“Guhe!”

Caught off guard, I fell to the floor. The lackeys started kicking and punching me while I was down.

“You’ve been pissing us off for a while now!”

“Always acting like you’re better than us!”

“S-Stop! Please, stop! Stop it!”

I curled up, trying to protect myself like a turtle, when suddenly, the beating stopped. I looked up and saw my lackeys far away, unconscious and buried under desks.

“From now on, we’re going to have fun every day. Look forward to it, okay? I’ll be hitting you thirty times a day, as a daily quota.”

“Hiii!”

“Don’t die on me, Iketsuki~, ahaha.”

He looked like a devil or some kind of monster. As he walked back to his seat, he turned around and added,

“Oh, and by the way, you can try to sue me if you want. But just so you know, I’ve got a recording on my phone over there that shows you guys threw the first punch this morning. Plus, I’ve got footage of your ‘inappropriate activities’ at school with my former childhood friend. So, if you want to take this somewhere, be my guest.”

With all my escape routes cut off, I buried my face in the floor and groaned.

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Author’s Note: I’ll also be posting the tragic story of a mob character that I had originally planned to shelve. It’s a side story about how this minor character was cornered, so please enjoy it as a little bonus.