I, Who Acquired the Ability to Read Memories, Am Being Swallowed by Darkness - While I Should Be Protecting Beautiful Girls, I Am Being Drawn into Darkness Each Time I Use My Power, Yet for Some Reason, My Harem of Beautiful Girls Keeps Growing - Chapter 25: Heading to Seiran High School

Chapter 25: Heading to Seiran High School

It was after school, and I stood in front of the Seiran High School gate.

My stature, 195 cm tall and weighing 120 kg, was certainly noticeable.

The students in their uniforms looked at me with suspicious eyes.

“That guy isn’t a student of our school, is he?”

“He’s huge…”

“He looks scary…”

I could hear their whispers.

Sagara’s classroom was 3-2.

I had gathered information beforehand.

With every step I took down the hallway, I felt the pain of the surrounding stares.

“Hey, fatso.”

Sagara called out to me, as if he had been waiting for me.

His friends were standing around him.

“You came all the way to our school.”

Sagara smiled provocatively, but his eyes showed that he was wary of my physique.

“I want you to delete the photos of Hayami-san.”

“Huh? What are you talking about?”

“You know what I’m talking about.”

My voice was low and heavy.

“Hey, fatso. Normally, if a student from another school comes to our school after school, it wouldn’t end well.”

Sagara’s provocative voice was accompanied by a smirk.

Kizaki moved behind me, and Kawauchi stood to my right.

The three of them worked in perfect harmony.

They were ready for a fight.

But I had reached my limit too.

I had nothing to lose.

Only the smile they had taken from Hayami.

The sweet, pure love between her and Akada.

The image of Hayami working hard flashed before my eyes.

Rage rose within me, making my vision turn red.

“I can’t forgive what you did to Hayami-san.”

My voice was low and growling.

My 89-kilogram body leaned forward slightly.

“Huh? What are you saying…”

Sagara’s words trailed off.

My body moved faster than I had anticipated.

The first strike was aimed at Kizaki.

I read his movement as he tried to move behind me and hit him with an elbow strike.

My body, trained in track and field, flew through the air in a beautiful arc.

“Guh!”

“Kizaki!”

Kawauchi came at me with a judo grip.

But the weight difference was obvious.

I countered his move and threw him instead.

A heavy sound, “dosun,” echoed.

The captain of the judo club’s body was slammed onto the cold asphalt.

“Ugh.”

I kicked Kawauchi’s face with all my might as he tried to get up.

“Dobakki!”

A few of his teeth broke and stuck into my leather shoe.

“You…”

“Dok!”

Sagara’s fist buried itself in my cheek.

It hurt, but it wasn’t that bad.

“You can’t beat us.”

“Let’s all go together!”

At Sagara’s command, the three of them attacked me simultaneously.

But my body, which had fallen onto a car and remained unharmed, was impervious to such attacks.

“This is your punishment for what you did to Hayami-san.”

I grabbed Kawauchi’s bloodied face with my left hand.

My fingers, clenched like an iron claw, dug into his face.

“N…?”

I lifted Kawauchi’s body into the air with one hand.

His 182-centimeter, 75-kilogram body floated in the air like a doll.

“Uwa…”

I threw Kawauchi with one hand.

He collided with Kizaki, and the two of them rolled on the ground, entangled.

“What the… that guy has such incredible strength…”

Sagara’s voice trembled.

“You made Hayami-san suffer like that…”

With every step I took forward, the three of them took a step back.

Their bravado had disappeared.

“Do you remember when Hayami-san was made to kneel and apologize?”

“K…”

“You filmed her tears while laughing…”

Right straight.

“Dogushshu”

Sagara’s cheek was pierced, and he flew backward, spinning.

“I won’t let you hurt anyone else ever again.”

“Please… stop…”

Sagara, lying on the ground with his bloodied face, pleaded in a trembling voice.

“Huh… stop?”

I approached him, smiling coldly.

“Did you listen to the victims when they said the same thing?”

“U…”

“When Hayami-san begged while crying?”

“When the other female students trembled and knelt in apology?”

With every step I took, the three of them crawled backward.

“Please… no more…”

Kizaki cried out.

But his voice only fueled my anger further.

“That’s right… everyone begged like this, didn’t they?”

I grabbed Kawauchi’s face again.

This time, I lifted him so high that his feet were several centimeters off the ground.

“Let me down… k…”

“Didn’t you give the victims the same choice?”

I increased the strength in my arm even more.

“Aggu!”

Kawauchi’s body swung back and forth in the air with abnormal force.

“Please stop! I’ll delete all the data!”

Kizaki shouted.

With my other hand, I grabbed Kizaki’s face and lifted him up.

“Agaa”

“So, did you listen to voices like that?”

“That guy’s strength isn’t human… what the hell is it?”

Sagara seemed to have lost his strength, and he was retreating while sitting on his butt.

His pants were soaked, and it seemed he had peed himself.

As he retreated, a wet trail was left behind.

I threw Kizaki and Kawauchi at Sagara.

I kicked the three of them as they fell to the ground, hitting their legs, stomachs, backs, and faces.

“Aggu!”

“Guhaa!”

“Shit…!”

“I’m gonna die…”

“I can’t… I can’t…”

Finally, there was room for negotiation.

“Really?”

“Ahh… all… the bag, too… everything…”

I kicked Kawauchi.

His body rolled on the ground.

“Stand up.”

The three of them rose unsteadily.

Their faces were swollen, their uniforms were covered in dust, and they had all peed themselves, their lower bodies were muddy.

There were many of their teeth stuck in my shoes.

“There’s something I want you to do from now on.”

The three of them, under the moonlight, were trembling.

This was their punishment.

“Let’s talk about the data. I’ll tell you, I have my own investigative network. Think carefully before you lie.”

“First, delete all the data.”

I stood there, looking down on Sagara and the others.

I maintained my position, ready to subdue them at any moment.

“Hand over your smartphones now.”

With trembling hands, the three of them took out their smartphones.

I checked them.

Kizaki’s smartphone had a large amount of organized data.

Kawauchi’s had more extreme videos.

And then there was Sagara’s…

“There’s more, isn’t there?”

“Eh…”

“Cloud backup. You also saved it on your PC, didn’t you?”

“Wh, why…”

“I told you, I have an investigative network.”

Actually, I only knew about these things by touching objects, but I couldn’t let them know that.

“Tomorrow, bring all the backup data.”

“Eh…”

“USB memory, external hard drives, everything downloaded from the cloud. All of it.”

Sagara looked at Kizaki.

“Didn’t you hear me?”

I grabbed Sagara’s face with one hand.

His feet were off the ground.

“Hii… I… I…”

“Kizaki.”

I turned to face the ace of the track and field club.

“You were in charge of all the technical stuff, right? Data storage and such.”

“Ba, bai…”

“Can you retrieve it all perfectly?”

“I… I can’t…”

“Kawauchi.”

The captain of the judo club tensed his body.

“All the data, including the one where you threatened the victims.”

“I… I can’t…”

“Tomorrow, after school. Bring it all here.”

The three of them nodded, trembling.

“It’s no use trying to deceive me. Do you understand?”

Under the evening sun, the three of them looked small.

“And from now on, we’ll have regular meetings.”

“Meetings…?”

“Once a month. Every third Wednesday.”

“Why… to such an extent…”

Sagara’s voice trembled.

“It’s called a rehabilitation program.”

I continued, wiping my uniform sleeve.

“If it happens again, this data will be submitted to the police. With the consent of the victims, of course.”

“What…”

“It’s easy to end your lives.”

The blood drained from the three of them.

“But I’ll give you a chance.”

“A chance…?”

“If you truly reform, the data will remain sealed forever.”

The night wind blew.

No one interrupted our conversation.

“Tomorrow, 4 p.m. Bring the data.”

“Yes…”

“And from next month, regular meetings.”

The three of them bowed deeply.

It wasn’t like the apology Hayami had been forced to make.

It was a genuine, remorseful apology.

As I walked away, I turned around and threw my last words over my shoulder.

“This is your last chance.”

I, who knew the tears of Hayami and all the victims, had no intention of forgiving them.

But I would give them a chance to reform.

Because that was the right choice as a human being.

“By the way…”

As I was about to leave, I slowly turned around to face the three of them.

“I have nothing to lose.”

“Eh…”

“If you break your promise, consider your lives over.”

“Hii…”

I reached out to a thick branch of a nearby tree.

With my 150-kilogram grip strength, I crushed it, making a cracking sound.

The shattered pieces of wood fell to the ground, illuminated by the moonlight.

“If I go all out, your necks will end up like this too.”

It was a complete threat.

But it was a necessary threat for people like them.

The three of them couldn’t move, as if they were paralyzed.

They looked up at me, their faces filled with fear.

“Just kidding.”

I added, smiling slightly.

But that smile seemed to amplify their fear even more.

“Tomorrow, 4 p.m. Don’t forget.”

The three of them could only stare blankly as I disappeared into the darkness.