Naritu asked, "What?"
Ren pointed his finger forward and shouted, "Naritu!"
Naritu flinched and wondered whether they really wanted to go again. The guys put their hands on his shoulders and asked where he had disappeared to yesterday.
Naritu looked at them in surprise, and Ren said, "This is a victory party."
Naritu asked again, "A party?"
Ken screamed, "Of course. Your victory is the victory of the whole class."
Naritu thought he seemed to have mentioned something like this once.
Ren said, "Well, okay. Thanks to you, we can all walk with our heads held high, right?"
The guy said that if he had any questions, they would be happy to answer them.
"Questions?" Naritu said in surprise. Then there was something he would like to know.
Some time ago, Ren had said, "Inui, huh?"
Ken said that would be Miyamoto — Naritu's first opponent.
After a while, Rayma turned around in fear and asked, "Naritu?"
Naritu came out from around the corner and said, "Miyamoto."
Naritu said he wanted to ask him something. Rayma asked what it was. The two of them went off to the side, which Yui noticed, and he frowned. What is he planning?
The guys went outside, and Rayma looked around and thought, he's brought me to a deserted place. Is he going to beat me up?
Naritu turned around and asked, "What happened? Come on."
"Okay," Rayma answered. He grabbed his chain in fear and thought, this is terrible. Why did he decide to drag a weakling like me along with him? Everyone probably thinks I'm going to get beaten up.
Naritu said, "I heard something. Is it true that you were recruited by an upperclassman named Inui?"
Rayma asked, "How do you know that?"
Naritu ordered him to just tell him.
Rayma looked away in fear and asked, "What if I don't say anything? You came here to beat me up and force me to talk, right?"
Naritu said, "I would never do such a thing."
"What?" Rayma asked.
Naritu said, "If you really don't want to talk, then it isn't necessary now."
Rayma asked, "Then why come here at all?"
Naritu replied that in case he felt uncomfortable speaking in front of everyone, he had thought it would be better to bring him here. And besides, they did not want to spread important information around.
Rayma lowered his head and said that he was the biggest loser in the Freshman War, so Naritu could simply give him orders.
Naritu said he did not care about such things. If he could not say it, he would not ask, and that was that.
Rayma said that he was indebted to him.
Naritu looked at him in surprise, and Rayma yelped. "After all, you helped me when Ikada beat me up. So I'll at least repay a little of the debt I owe you." He asked, "Inui recruited me, right?"
"Yes," Naritu replied.
Rayma said, "That's right. I went to their gatherings. It's a club that Inui often uses as a base. If you go there, you can probably find him."
Naritu asked again, "Some club?"
Kiritani came up from behind and said, "That's very good information."
Rayma looked at him, puzzled, and Kiritani waved his hand.
Naritu asked Kiritani, "Since when?"
Kiritani asked, "Okay, okay, it's fine, right? You were going to share it with me anyway, right?"
Rayma asked, "What is he, anyway?"
Kiritani interrupted him and told him to be quiet. "If you make noise, people will come running. You know Inui's contact information, right?"
Rayma asked, "So what does that matter to you?"
Kiritani asked, "Can you send it to me? Then Makoto Naritu says he wants to join the Dragon Alliance. That's it."
After a while, Inui received the message on his phone, and he looked at the screen.
Music was playing in the club. People were dancing and relaxing. Naritu sat and thought, how did this come about?
Two hours earlier, Kiritani had asked, "So can you send it to me?"
Naritu asked him to wait. "What are you doing, without asking me?"
Kiritani said he had already contacted Tada, so it was time for them to go to a meeting about their new strategy.
At the moment, Naritu was worried, and thinking, but still — such a sudden infiltration.
Rui came up to him from behind and asked, "Isn't that Naritu? That's right. Naritu. And he looks completely different. This isn't ordinary muscle. Is this our model student?"
Naritu looked at him in fear and thought, Narumiya. What is he doing here? This is bad. I can hardly say I'm on a mission to infiltrate a dangerous group.
Naritu adjusted his hair, sighed and said, "Well. Sometimes you need to relax."
Rui sat down next to him and said, "Testing is of course important. But would an excellent student spend his free time in a place like this?"
Naritu asked, "I'd like to know the same thing from you. Narumiya."
He answered, "That's right. Yes — perhaps in that sense we're the same."
Naritu laughed, and Rui said, "But my presence here is a little different from yours. This place is in some way my refuge. You understand."
Naritu frowned and thought, a refuge, here? Narumiya. He definitely is.
At that moment Matsuda was standing near the toilets and saying, "There are so many scary people here. The atmosphere is even worse than in Shaon. They're not the kind of hooligans I like."
A shout came from behind a door. "Are you an idiot? That's not how you collect money. Inadequate."
Matsuda looked into the room and saw Inui, who was sitting on the couch and shouting, "Why is everyone here such an idiot?"
Someone told him to calm down. "Stupid people are easier to take advantage of."
Here it is, Matsuda thought. He picked up his phone and said, "Tada."
A voice came from the other end of the call. "Matsuda, what's wrong?"
Matsuda said, "I found Inui. His room is right there."
A guy came up to him from behind and asked, "What are you doing, idiot?"
Matsuda turned around in fear, and a voice came from the phone. "Are you okay, Matsuda? Answer me."
The phone fell to the floor, and Tada started to run.
He opened the door and shouted, "Matsuda!" He saw the guys, and the beaten Matsuda turned around and said, "Tada."
He clenched his fist and said irritably, "You idiot. Using fake people, other people's fists, to poison my friend."
He offered Inui a one-on-one fight.
Inui stood up and said, "He's stupid. Who even does that any more?"
Tada frowned and asked, "What did you say? Your way is much worse. If you use your own fists, you feel pain too. That means it means something to you. But you keep injuring people with other people's hands."
Inui asked, "Does that mean you can't understand someone else's pain until you experience it yourself?" He chuckled and said, "You're really stupid, dude. That's why you lost before. A guy who doesn't know how to use people will never win in numbers. In other words, you're a weakling."
Tada said, "You're a complete idiot."
Inui replied, "It's better to be an idiot than stupid. The proof is this guy. He's absolutely useless."
The guard hit Matsuda in the stomach, and he screamed.
Tada screamed in fear, "Matsuda, stop."
Inui said, "He can only ignore everyone. That's why he's a weakling."
Tada ordered them to let him go.
Matsuda said, "Tada, go ahead. If you let him go now, that man will never come here again. If that happens, more people will suffer."
The guy ordered him to shut up.
Matsuda screamed, "Go ahead. Deal with that man here."
And the guy squeezed his neck, and Tada said, "You're cool, Matsuda. Much cooler than any other problem teenager in this world. But forgive me. I can't abandon you."
He quickly rushed to attack, and the guy ordered him to stop. Tada asked for forgiveness. He would find Inui and he would help Matsuda. "So your presence here is bothering me."
He hit the guy, and thanked his friend.
Matsuda said happily, "Yes. Go ahead."
At that moment Inui ran out of the room and called someone. They asked him what had happened. He screamed, "An annoying guy is chasing me. Help me."
At that moment Naritu was sitting on the couch next to Rui.