3 Chapter 3

Kenzou looked at the person in front of him and saw a beautiful girl with red eyes and long black hair. His eyes widened a bit because he recognized her, she was the girl he 'saved'.

"Me neither, but now that I think about it isn't the convenience store near this school?"

"Yes there is, the one where you saved me from those delinquents."

'How did she even recognize me? I always wear a mask and that time she couldn't even see my hair.'

"Right, I guess you go to this school."

"What about you? I haven't seen you here before."

"I am transferring today here, I guess we will be in the same school."

"What year are you in?"

"Third year."

"Really? You transferred here despite it being the last year?"

"I had some financial problems so I couldn't really go to school, now that I got my shit together I can come to school."

"So the reason you worked part time was to fix your financial problem."

"Yes, now I don't really have to worry about it for months."

After some seconds of silence Kenzou said. "There are a lot of people looking at us, do you have any idea why?"

"Of course, the new student who just transferred to the school is talking with the most popular girl in school, isn't it an interesting sight?"

"You are the most popular girl in school?"

She puffed her chest and said with a proud expression. "Yes, I am the most beautiful and intelligent girl in this school."

Kenzou looked at her with a deadpanned expression even if you couldn't tell. 'She thinks very highly of herself. But I don't dislike that.'

"I'm happy to see someone who goes out of their way to talk to me despite how I look."

She froze on the spot hearing that, she looked at his face and saw that it was the same as usual. 'I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not, him having a mask on his face is not helping either.'

"I wanted to ask you this but I forgot, why do you wear a mask all the time?"

"I do it out of habit, but I guess that right now there's no need for me to wear it."

It was true, he didn't wear the mask because he was insecure about his scar, he wore it because in the delinquent world it is important to hide your face, at least for him.

He took the mask off and put it in his pocket.

He looked at Kasumigaoka's surprised expression and said. "It's considered rude to stare at a person's face."

She blushed a bit but she regained her composure. "I was just surprised, that's all."

Kenzou closed his eyes and said. "That's okay, most people tend to be surprised when they see something they don't expect."

"So you wear that mask to hide your scar?"

"Not really, in my line of work it was somewhat important to wear one." (beating people up, cleaning corpses and even killing others.)

"I remember you told me you work as a janitor."

"I USED to work as a janitor."

"What happened?"

He looked at her in the eyes and said. "They fired me for using violence against customers."

Her eyes widened and she realized what happened, she looked down and said. "I'm sorry for dragging you into that situation."

She looked up and saw those pitch black eyes staring at her and she flinched. He closed his eyes and said. "No, it's not your fault. I went out of my way to help a stranger so I had to take responsibility, and it's a good thing that I don't work there anymore. I can focus on my studies now."

"Then how did you solve your financial problem?"

Kenzou's brows furrowed and he said. "I don't think we are so close to tell each other stuff from our private lives, this whole conversation felt like a interrogation and it's making me uncomfortable. I don't even know anything besides your name."

After he said that she looked like she realized something and blushed. 'How embarrassing, to think I turned this conversation into an answer and question interview.'

She cleared her throat and said. "Then let me introduce myself again, I am Utaha Kasumigaoka and an up-and-coming popular novelist who wrote 'Metronome in Love'. I have sold over 500.000 units in total."

Kenzou's eyes widened and he said with a hand under his chin. "That's impressive, I never expected to see an independent highs schooler." 'That's an impressive amount of units sold, she at least got 10 million yen just from those numbers, but it can't be that easy, she either just got lucky or she really is a professional.'

She blushed a bit and she said "Thank you."

Out of nowhere a guy with black hair and glasses on his face came and sat down next to the girl.

"Utaha-senpai please reconsider writing my script."

After that they had a conversation in which Kenzou completely lost track of the topic. They were talking about some erotic game that the guy is trying to make, he wasn't mad that he interrupted his conversation with the girl since he was kind of bored.

As he expected, this whole otaku thing didn't interest him whatsoever, he never read a single light novel nor did he read any books. His childhood was full of despair and when he got older he was forced by his brothers into the delinquent world.

Utaha even mentioned something regarding Tomoya being her ex boyfriend or something, this triggered a thought inside Kenzou's head.

'Love huh.... The only person I ever loved was my mother.'

Kenzou felt totally excluded from the conversation so he started to look around the cafeteria. Another thing he noticed in this world was that there were a lot of people with unnatural hair colors that actually suited them.

*RING!*

He heard the bell so he got up from his table and left the two to their own conversation.

>>>>

School ended and Kenzou didn't make any friends, he didn't even know why he went with the school approach. He subconsciously wanted to experience what he couldn't in his old world. But now he realized that he doesn't belong in this type of place.

Even if he tries to behave in a socially acceptable way he will always be judged by the way he looks and his way of thinking isn't suitable for living a normal life.

Since he was little all that was he knew was violence and despair. The only happy memories he had were with his mother and even she abandoned him.

He was in his apartment thinking what to do.

Live a honest and normal life? Impossible.

Become a delinquent again? There is no need for that. Unlike others he doesn't fight to protect his pride or other bullshit.

Rule the underworld? He didn't have the drive to do that.

In other words…

He was LOST.

He decided to go out to clear his head from all of these annoying thoughts.

He got dressed in a black shirt, black shorts and his signature teeth mask and went outside.

He walked around looking at all the people having fun and spending their time with other people.

Meanwhile he was transported into another world with no warning whatsoever, no friends and no money.

The more he watched the other people have fun the more his pupils dilated.

Due to his absentmindedness he bumped into a person. He said sorry without looking at them and continued walking.

"Do you think a sorry's gonna cut it?!"

He looked back at the person he walked into and saw that he was dressed in a suit, burly and tall.

He was a middle aged man with slicked back hair and a scary looking face.

He looked at his shirt and saw that it had some coffee on it.

Kenzou sighed and said. "Yes, and I apologize again for not looking where I'm walking."

The man got mad for no reason and sent a punch towards Kenzou.

Kenzou dodged by leaning backwards, the man punched with his other hand.

Kenzou leaned his head forwards barely avoiding the punch,letting it go over exactly over his shoulder.

Kenzou put his hand over his arm and pushed downwards with unnatural strength.

*CRACK!*

His elbow broke and his arm bent in an unusual angle.

"GAH! AGH…"

Kenzou looked down at him with a scornful expression and said. "You're strong, I'll give you that…

But you need MORE than that…."

Kenzou turned around and started walking away.

"M-Motherfucker! You'll regret messing with me!"

Kenzou looked back and saw the man get up while holding his hand.

Kenzou got mad so he decided to take it out on this guy, he looked around and saw that he was in an empty parking lot.

*BAM*

He punched him in the stomach. The guy fell to the ground and started coughing.

*BAM*

Kenzou soccer kicked the dude in the chin, he flew a little and his jaw got dislocated.

*BAM*

He went towards him and stomped him hard on the face, after that the guy went out cold.

Kenzou started searching the guy in the pockets and took everything he had.

He walked away from the scene and went towards a big car he saw.

He took the screwdrivers linked to each other with a chain from his pants.

*SMASH*

Kenzou broke the window by swinging his weapon and entered the car.

He looked under the steering wheel and used the screw driver to unlock the panel there.

He took a knife from his back-pocket and cut the wires needed for starting a car.

*VROOM*

The car's engine started, he got out of the car and opened the back door.

He went towards the guy who was unconscious and put him over his shoulder.

He put the guy in the backseat and tied him with the seatbelts.

He closed the door and entered the driver's seat.

After that he drove away.

>>>>

Kenzou stopped the car near an abandoned building and got out of it.

He took the guy out of the backseat and dragged him inside the building.

He found some rope laying around so he tied his arms and legs so he couldn't move.

He started looking through the stuff the guy had.

A flip phone, a wallet, a gun and some documents.

He opened the flip phone and looked through it, he found all kinds of contacts and shady messages.

The most interesting thing was the gun. He too used to sell guns in his old world so he knew how they work.

He looked at it and saw that it had a serial number, he looked at the magazine and saw that it had 5 bullets minus the one in the chamber.

'He probably is a yakuza and not some random lackey, he has a gun on him while walking around unlike lackeys who only are given one when in groups.'

*BAM*

He kicked the guy in the liver.

*COUGH* *COUGH*

He coughed a little and he looked at Kenzou.

"Good evening, you and me are going to have a talk."