Chat Group For Magicians

Chapter 19: Coward

With the broken baseball bat in my hand, I made my way towards Sou who is panicking out. He looks around and hastily picks up one of the baseball bats I deflected earlier. He raised it and aimed it on my face.

"Don't you dare come here. I will beat you up!"

I grinned and continue to move forward. "Did you really think I am afraid? I am not someone who runs away from challenges and this is one of them. Without thinking twice, I made a dash towards him, not even caring for the baseball bat in his hands. He didn't look startled and from the looks of it, he prepared himself to do so but I noticed that his knees are shaking which means that he is just trying his best to look strong in my eyes. Seeing me in very close proximity to him, he swings the baseball bat towards me.

"Too slow!"

I blocked off his baseball bat with bare hands. Due to his unstable state after facing against me, his grip on the baseball bat is not so tight and that affected the strength of his swing. After blocking off the baseball bat, I released the broken baseball bat from my hands, formed my hands into a fist, and with a swing, I land my fist to his jaw.

BANG!

One of Sou's teeth flew out from his mouth, causing a bleeding. He shouted in pain as blood profusely gush out of his mouth. He covers it to stop the blood flow but that didn't help. Before Sou can recover, his abdomen meet my elbow in which I focused all my force while holding my fist to support its momentum. When my elbow hit his abdomen, I shifted the force of my attack to my fist, using my elbow as support to put an explosive force into my fist. With that force intact in my hands right now, I didn't waste it for nothing. After elbowing Sou, I quickly punched him on his chin.

Sou collapsed after that combo but he is still conscious, proving my attacks are not as lethal as it used to be before. Sou stood up, backed off and run away while on the verge of collapsing. I didn't chase him back, it's not worth to chase a coward like him. I even treated him as a final boss in this clash but it ended up as a joke boss instead where he can't even give a proper battle.

I stood up and wiped off the blood in my fist while the blood in my uniform is needed to be washed. I have no serious wounds in the battle, only the delinquents who ambushed me were the one who got wasted. Without anything else to do, I shrugged and removed my uniform, put it on the bag and left the area. I need to take a bath and get some rest.

...

Above the area where Kazuma and Sou's underlings fought, three figures, one girl in uniform with a bamboo sword on her back, one guy in a uniform, and a guy with a civilian clothes but his violet hair is the most catchy one on him, stood on the roof while observing the situation of the aftermath that occurred after the battle.

"That was anticlimactic isn't it?" the girl who was revealed to be Moonlight looked at the situation below.

"Indeed. I expected a very rash and dangerous battle since they are using weapons but that was one boring fight," the guy in civilian clothes who is revealed to be Voltaire said as he lights up a cigarette and puffs out smoke.

"Still, this newbie of ours is indeed a piece of work. From the looks of his styles, he is well versed in street fighting and a few other techniques from martial arts but it was like it was not maintained properly by him. Still, I didn't expect him to emerge victorious with a one-sided victory at that," the guy on uniform who is revealed to be Godou, or Titan in the chat group said.

"I still have no trust about that guy. He seemed to be not up to any good and the fact that we didn't know how he managed to access our private chat group is a mystery that we have no answer, I don't think I can trust him easily," Moonlight said.

"It takes time, Moonlight. Just observe him for now since Titan and you are the classmates. He also knows that the two of you are magicians. We can't risk it if he abuses the power a magician has," Voltaire said as he puffed out another smoke.

"If he ever did, I will make sure to take him down and forget everything with my own hands," Moonlight said with a resolute look on her face.

"Scary..." Godou said as he pulls out his phone and photographed the scene below.

...

It's almost seven in the evening when I arrived home. I left my bike in the school because I decided to walk just to find out who is going to attack me. If I have my bike, I would have been able to arrive home much earlier than expected.

"I'm home," I said loudly as I take off the shoes from my feet.

My voice just echoed around the house which is quite lonesome. I just remembered that no one will greet me, "Welcome back," once I get home. My whole body is sore after the battle. I took out the uniform that is stained by blood out and put it on the washing machine. The blood dried up already which means, I still needed to wash the uniform by my hands after washing it using the washing machine.

I don't have much time to prepare and cook food so I decided to just buy canned food on the nearby convenience store. While on the way, I stare at my hands and clenched it. If I didn't recover my injury in my leg, I wouldn't be able to fight back like how I did back then. Even though Sou is a coward who ran away after beating him up, I don't think I can underestimate him. This only proves that I have to return to my training once more. It was a bit easy right now against them but what about the demons? If I remember right, I was almost pummelled to death until Voltaire arrived and rescued me. That means I am still an inferior magician that can't kill any demons yet.

As I walked towards the convenience store, I suddenly heard a shrill scream.

"HELP!"

Someone is screaming for help? I am not sure whether I heard it right.

"HELP ME! AHHHH!"

Now that was clear in my ears. It was a girl around her teens screaming for help. Normally, I don't have the guts to care about anyone else. I know it was coldhearted of me but that is mostly what the majority of people do. But I want to change, especially now that demons are now plaguing this whole place. I am hesitating for a moment but this is a crucial thing. It might be important. Deciding to help, I tried tracing out the scream from where it came from but to no avail. Then, I just remembered that I don't really need to trace it using the sounds, I can just scan the whole place.

"Mana Scan!"

The same 3d model appeared in my mind and replicates the whole perimeter. Then, I saw where the event is going on. My whole body shook when I saw a red color. Not just one, but it was two this time around. And they are assaulting the female cashier working in the convenience store.