20 The Bald Man Who Once Helped Me

"I'm sorry, you've been affected, Fujitora."

"It is okay. Wait! What did you call me earlier?"

"Fujitora. So what?"

"No, no, no, my name is Fujita, not Fujitora."

"OK." I nodded as if I understood. "Alright, Fujitora, we-"

"Oi!"

What we both do is wait for the arrival of that spooky man, who is taking something to punish us.

"Yeah…" I looked around where there were so many people. "It turns out that we are not the only ones who are late, but they are too."

Fujita and I weren't the only ones late here. So many students are late and even the number exceeds 20 people. And among them were 3 people wearing blue ties, which meant they were Elites.

"Even 2nd class is late too." Fujita saw what I saw, those three people.

We've been here almost 5 minutes, waiting for the spooky man to come to punish us. We also saw people in the front yard of the school starting to enter a building that didn't look like a study building, possibly a special building.

How could I know that it was a special building? That's because before I saw my cell phone which had rung earlier and showed me a map of this school.

3 buildings in this school are "U" shaped, 2 as learning buildings for the Rookie Class and Elite Class, 1 special building for other activities, such as indoor sports, rooms for various clubs, training grounds for fighting, and others. And in that yard, there is also a very large field, the possibility of being a place for training as well as outdoor sports.

The map on my phone shows everything, so I know the structure of this school building. But strangely, this cell phone also displays a basement of this school building, which is a hiding place for students and the surrounding community from the attacks of Astral Beings that suddenly appear.

I came to know why people here don't panic and live a normal life because of it. They would be hiding in the basement when an Astral Being suddenly appeared to attack, and they would be safe there just like the hospital incident.

I was confused by the absence of humans during that incident, but now, I'm not confused thanks to this phone.

"Hey, Fujitora—I mean, Fujita."

"Why?"

When he turned to me after noticing the latecomers, I showed him my cell phone.

"Do you also have a cell phone like this?"

He suddenly paused for a moment when he saw my cell phone, then suddenly startled and his face looked surprised by what he saw.

"Woah, you have Wlynina's Phone?"

"Wlynina's Phone? What is that?"

He took my phone quickly and looked at the body from my phone.

"To think that you—Awwwwww…" He suddenly got electrocuted while holding my phone.

"Huh? What happened to you? Why are you dancing like that?"

"I'm not dancing, I'm being electrocuted. Help me!"

I quickly helped him and got electrocuted too.

"Awwwwww..."

We were both electrocuted and people looked at us with bewildered looks.

"Awwwww… h-help me!"

No one paid any attention to us, they were still confused about what had happened to us.

However, after a while, someone helped us by taking my cell phone from Fujita's hand.

"You can't hold anything that doesn't belong to you. If you hold it, you'll—Awww…" He was electrocuted while explaining what had happened to us earlier. "Help me! Whoever has this phone, please take it now! Hurry up! Awwwww..."

Fujita and I looked at each other and glanced at the man several times.

"Hey Fujitora, how about we get out of here?"

"I agree with that. Let's..."

When we turned and walked a few steps, he asked for help to take my phone from his hand.

"Oy, help me first!"

Fujita and I walked up to him and looked at him closely.

"Hmm…" I turned to Fujita. "Do we need help?"

"Yeah, how about leaving it alone?"

"Oi! Help me—Awww…"

Feeling sorry for him and he had helped me and Fujita earlier, I took my cell phone from his hand.

"Ah." He stopped shaking his body, then looked at us with a serious look. "You bastards. I wanted to help you, but you didn't want to help me."

"Yeah, what can you do. You see, you were the one who told us not to take what didn't belong to us."

I agree with Fujita's words, he was the one who told us not to take what didn't belong to us, but he took it instead. It was an act that he had to accept because of the result of swallowing his own saliva.

But looking at him, I realized that he was from the Elite Class, it could be seen from the tie he was wearing. So, what happened to us earlier, he wanted to help us not to get electrocuted. I must thank him with all the courtesy that Karin and Shiva have taught me.

"Thank you… thank you for returning my phone. I thought you were a thief, but you weren't. So, thank you."

"God damn it!!!" He clenched his fists and raised them towards me.

"Stop it, Kyosuke! You can't hurt that Rookie, you're the senior." Suddenly a man with black hair and a pretty good build with a blue tie on his uniform came towards us.

He turned. "But, Arata, these are…"

"Do not! We can't be reckless with the rookies here."

Fujita and I were confused by this, we both looked at each other and glanced at those who were fighting.

After we nodded to each other, the two of us walked over and approached one of them.

I held the black-haired man's body, while Fujita held the other man.

"You guys don't fight, it's not good!"

"No, I didn't fight with him."

Hearing his voice which was quite calm, I removed my hand from his body.

"Is that so?"

"Yes."

"Yeah, I thought you two were fighting. Sorry, sorry, sorry."

What we thought turned out to be just a misunderstanding. So, I immediately apologized to him.

"It is okay."

"OY!"

Seeing the man who was still struggling from Fujita's hand that was still holding his body, I immediately looked at them.

"Do not fight!" said Fujita.

"I'm not fighting, you idiot! You guys should be the ones fighting with me!" Suddenly he nudged Fujita in the stomach.

"Ugh..."

It made Fujita take his hand off the man's body.

"Yeah, I thought you two were fighting, but you weren't." Fujita scratched his head with that innocent face. "Sorry, sorry, sorry."

"May I see your phone?"

Hearing the voice of the man, who was standing in front of me after turning his body backward, I took out my cell phone which had been placed in my uniform pocket.

"What do you want? You can get electrocuted later, you know."

"It's not a problem. I just want to know if it's Wlynina's cell phone."

"OK, I'll give it." Hesitantly, I slowly handed my phone to him.

Seeing the good condition when looking at my cellphone, I was surprised by that.

But after a while, I saw his body shaking. But strangely, he didn't show that he was being electrocuted.

"Hmmm… this phone… cell phone…" He stammered as he spoke with his already shaking body. "This… this… this phone…"

His body kept shaking when he wanted to speak, it made it difficult for him to finish his words. And I couldn't help but stare at him like that.

Fujita walked over to me. When he was beside me, Fujita and I looked at each other who was trying to finish his sentence as his body trembled.

"This phone..."

"What is he doing?" Fujita asked.

"I do not know. He said he wanted to check my phone, but it didn't work."

"Hmmm... is he planning to take your cell phone?"

Hearing Fujita's words, I immediately took my cell phone from his hand.

"Hey! Don't you try to take my phone!"

"Ah…" He sighed after his body stopped shaking. "The cell phone turned out to be Wylnina's cell phone. How did you get it? Shouldn't you be a student of this school first? You're not officially a student here, why do you have one?"

I didn't know that this cell phone had to be obtained from being an official student at this school. I got this phone from Karin who left it on top of the hotel washing machine. So, what he said showed that I already had this phone before officially becoming a student at this school.

"That..."

"Oh, it turns out that many are late, huh." A bald man came towards us with some things along with the spooky man.

Seeing that everyone was shocked at his arrival, I couldn't help but take a serious look at the bald man.

"You guys… how many times have I told you, don't be late!"

"No, you never said that." The spooky man reproached his words.

"Is that so? Hahaha, maybe when I said that I was dreaming."

As the bald man got closer, I recognized his figure.

He is the bald man who gave me the katana at the hospital.

However, her appearance was slightly different from what was in the hospital. At the hospital, he wore a uniform like mine. But here, he is only wearing shorts without wearing any shirt. I think he looks like that to show his big muscles.

When he arrived in front of me, he was silent and looked at me.

"You..."

"W-aa, the bald man who gave me the katana that time."

Fujita brought his lips to my ear.

"You know him?"

I nodded.

I have never thanked him when he wanted to give me a katana at that time. So now, this is the perfect time to thank him.

I bent down. "Thank you for helping me back then."

He also bowed. "You're welcome. Thanks to you, we were saved too."

He is a polite person, very different from his face and body. I mean, judging by anyhow, he should be a typical tough guy, who doesn't have any tenderness towards other people. But my guess turned out to be wrong.

After bowing a few times and he was the same way, we talked to each other.

"Do you want to go to school here?"

"Yeah, I…" I can't say that I was forced to go to school here, so I won't. "I want to go to school here after what I saw yesterday."

"Oh, I see. That's good. You have good swordsmanship, so it's perfect to be a Melee in this school."

"Melee?"

"You haven't learned that yet?"

"No, I haven't learned anything here, because I just got here."

"Oh, I see. So you didn't have time to receive the explanation on the page earlier?"

"Not yet. I'm late to get here. So, I don't know anything."

He put his things on the ground. "Okay, I'll explain to you."

"No, you don't have time for that," said the spooky man beside him. "We have to punish these latecomers."

"Hahaha, I forgot." The bald man looked around and walked over to them. "You guys are late, huh. I will punish you as the Captains of Team 2, AAT Squad."

"Forgive us." They all answered in unison.

Then, the bald man turned to me with a single wink.

"For you, you go in there. I can't punish you because you helped us yesterday."

Hearing the good news from him that I didn't get punished, I was immediately happy. But on the one hand, I feel sad for leaving Fujita here.

Therefore, I will try to ask her and plead for Fujita to be released from this punishment as well.

"May I bring my friend too?"

"You have friends?"

"Yes." I nodded to him.

"Go ahead. Who is your friend?"

"Person-"

"I." Before I said that Fujita was my friend, they all said that to the bald man, pretending to be my friend, including those two.

"I."

"I'm his friend."

Conditions became excited because of this, even though they were not my friends.

Therefore, I immediately grabbed Fujita's hand and took her away after saying, "This is my friend!"

The bald man saw me and Fujita running. "So he's your friend?"

"Yes," I screamed because I heard the bald man's voice behind me. "Thank you for not punishing me and my friend, the bald man who gave me the katana."

"Hey, I'm not your friend."

"Ugh..." I was shocked when I heard this voice behind me. When I turned around, it wasn't Fujita who was there but the spooky man. "Sorry." I let go of her hand and ran towards Fujita. Then, I brought him into this school building.