9 Mental and Physical

"Thank you for rescuing us" said Shido as he approached the seat where Saeko was cleaning her bokken. "Are you the leader, Busujima-san?"

In the original, Saeko said there was no leader. That they had survived because of their teamwork. Ryo remembered this scene more clearly than the rest because this was the first big supid mistake Takashi had made. But he wasn't Takashi and the situation was different.

"No. Hashimoto-kun is our leader" she answered as she looked in my direction. I was just looking at him with interest. I really wanted to see exactly what he was going to say. Before that though, I asked Saeko something. "By the way, Saeko, how many did you kill?"

"Fifty one" she answered shortly. I just smirked once again. I really had won. "Fifty five"

The reason why I had asked the question was rather simple. Shido now knew that both Saeko and I could kill that many undead and talk about it as if it was nothing. But I had to give it to him, he still had the guts to give his pep-talk.

"Now that is something we can't have..." he said with a matter-of-factly tone to his voice, as if his words were absolute. "A kid can't be a leader, after all, us adults know better"

I was extremely surprised at how his group of braindead people actually believed the shit he said, since he was basically saying that they couldn't decided for themselves. There was someone though who acted a bit off. To Ryo, it looked like she was acting, rather than actually buying that shit. The person was Yuuki Miku. Ryo was interested in why he felt like that, so he decided to later check her with Essence Reading. He was sure that, as long as he focused, he could get more info than just stats.

"Hmm... I found your words to be interesting. Shido-sensei" Ryo said while standing up. Everyone could see his handsome looks and well built body clearly now, since he had his shirt's sleeves rolled up and the first two buttons were unbottoned. He was sure of two things. His Charisma was higher than Shido's and his influence would be higher after his speech was finished.

"Why is that, Hashimoto-kun?" Shido asked. Ryo could tell he was on guard and slightly annoyed at someone interrupting his great speech. "Well... it was my idea to reach for the bus. It was also my idea to wait for you. I was the one who made sure the people here left the school alive.

Things already were different than canon, so Ryo wasn't surprised when Tsunoda had his outburst. But he was annoyed

"That! We will never get nowhere like this!" the punk said loudly, clearly acting like he had any right to complain or demand anything. "Why did you leave the school without asking us? Couldn't we have just found a safe place there?!"

Ryo just looked at him, annoyance written al over his face. He began walking towards Tsunoda without a care in the world and, once he was right in front of him, looked down at him. Tsunoda was around 1.76 meters tall, which was a good height for a Japanese. But Ryo stood at 1.86, dwarfing him by half a head.

"Then what do you want to do?" Ryo asked clearly and slowly. Tsunoda was agitated, clearly not expecting to be confronted like that. "I, I can't stand you!"

After he yelled those words, he tried to punch Ryo in the face. Ryo simply grabbed his wrist and moved it to the side, taking advantage of Tsunoda's own impulse to proper him a knee to the gut. The <CQC> was clearly visible there. When Tsunoda was on the floor, barely holding himself from vomiting, Shido clapped.

"Now, now. See? That is why we can't have k..."

"Oh shut the fuck up with your stupid bullshit" Ryo interrupted him, clearly tired of Shido's shenanigans. "Give me one valid reason for me to listen to you and I'll do it"

Everyone was surprised at Ryo's outburst. After all, he had always remained calm. They hadn't seem him getting excited, scared and much less angry. The most they had seen from him was relief and annoyance. Still, he wasn't over.

"But meanwhile, shut the fuck up. If you want to talk, do it within your group of brainded retards. I, on the other hand, don't want to listen to your annoying voice"

Shido looked at Ryo with shock written all over his face. Shido's followers looked at him with hatred, bar one. Yuuki Miku was looking at Hashimoto Ryo with... hope? Meanwhile, Shido didn't get the memo.

"See... it's because of these attitudes that you can't be the leader... only a reasonable person that can remain clear-headed can make decisions for everyone else!"

This time it was Saeko who talked, something completely unexpected, considering how she hadn't gotten involved in the conversation up to that moment.

"Then what do you propose, Shido-sensei?" she asked, clearly entertained by the situation. His answer was just as expected. "Well of course, if I were the leader, I woud avoid all conflicts! We would search for a safe place and stay there, living away from the danger!"

His followers began cheering him on and applauding. Ryo felt amused, so amused in fact, that he almost missed how Miku wasn't applauding, but was in fact looking at him intently, waiting for his next move. Ryo smirked and began laughing at Shido. His laughter silenced the bus to a chilling degree.

"You see Shido, you are mistaking the circumstances here" Ryo explained calmly while walking towards him. "First of all, even you were the only adult in here, your group is a minority"

When Shido understood those words, he realized one mistake he made. He thought he was the smartest and biggest dog in the room. He thought he was the alpha. But Ryo wasn't a painting in the wall, just to be looked at. For the first time since he woke up in this world, Ryo let go of his inhibitions.

"Second, I am not afraid of solving things with violence, as you have seen with blondie-punk over thre" he said while pointing at Tsunoda with his finger. He was already standing besides Shido and stood a few centimeters taller than even him. "Lastly, in this world your influence is shit"

"Look at everything around you, Shido. Do you think daddy has your back? Did you think that with a call everything would be solved and you would be at the top of the food chain? Let me put it in a simpler way. You are shit, Koichi Shido. You're a worhtless piece of shit who can't differentiate between reality and his delusions of grandeur"

After saying that, Ryo pointed towards a random kid with shoulder-length black hair. He was a member of Shido's group.

"Tell me, wasn't there another kid with ya'll? One with glasses?" he asked. As soon as his question settled in, Shido's group realized the kid was nowhere to be seen. When he was going to answer, Shido threw him a menacing look, daring him to answer. Ryo noticed this, so he upped the game. "Answer me honestly, or I will make whatever Shido does double the worse"

Clearly "enticed" by Ryo's "offer", the kid quickly confessed that, indeed, there was supposed to be another kid with them.

"Do you want to know why he isn't here? Your dear teacher who wouldn't hurt a fly kicked him in the face and left him to be eaten by the zombies"

"You have no proof of that!" Shido shouted, clearly agitated and, for the first time, worried. Ryo was extremely amused by his predicament. Without giving Shido any time to act, he propered him a low kick with enough strength for him to fall straight down.

Once Shido was there, he took off his shoes and showed everyone the blood present in one of them. "How weird right? If this was blood from the undead, wouldn't it have splatered in a more... wild, pattern? How come only one of his shoes has blood and how come his clothes are so clean?"

Each question that Ryo asked drilled into everyone's minds. Rei, Saeko and Miku were clearly enjoying the spectacle, thrilled at Shido's suffering.

"Oh wait, I know! It's because Koichi Shido is a fucking snake that would eat his own babies to survive!" Ryo said, mocking Shido with a totally derisive tone of voice. And his jeering continued. "Oh, but wait! Koichi Shido has another weapon! He, much like the snake that tempted Adan and Eve, has such a functional glib tongue. He is capable of making the ugliest scene in the world sound like paradise! Oh how great you are, Shido-sensei!"

"Aaaagh! I'm going to kill you fucking brat!" unable to hold back any longer, Shido tried to attack Ryo as he cursed at him. Ryo, on the other side of the coin, kept his mocking smirk and looked at Shido with eyes full of contempt. That was, surely, what hurt the man the most. "What is it, oh great savior Shido? Can't land a punch on a kid?"

Under Ryo's constant taunts, ridicule, mockery and soft insults, Shido completely lost his temper and his persona disappeared.

"Ugh! You fucking kids! You should all obey me! I'm above you all! Without me yo all would be nothing!" he screamed, confessing his darkest delusions while still being unable to land a hit on Ryo.

The black-haired teen that had been playing with Shido all this time, simply got tired of it.

"I advise those who are sensitive to not look at what is about to happen" he said while smiling softly, before his face turned cold and murderous. "Don't take this personally, ok, Shido-kun? I'm just blowing off some steam... because I can't stand your fucking face in front of me you piece of shit"

What followed after that wasn't something those weak of heart could see, so most of the girls and the weak-minded guys turned their heads. But that didn't stop them from hearing it.

Ryo grabbed Shido's punch with ease and propered him with a good knee to the elbow, twisting his arm in an angle that it should never be twisted. Shido, who was already on his knees shrieking in pain, didn't expect a kick to be propered to his face, breaking both his teeth and his jaw. Ryo certainly wasn't holding back his punches.

"Pwiss... pwiss fogiv meeee" Shido tried to talk but, much to Rei', Kouta's, Saeko's and Miku's pleasure, Ryo gave him another kick, this time breaking the man's nose.

Shido's face already was a bloody mess, but Ryo didn't feel satisfied with making him feel so little pain. Straddling Shido, Ryo began punching his face ruthlessly. Each time a fist landed, the sound of it reverberated through the silent bus as blood splattered in all directions. Ryo's fists, dripping in Shido's blood, went towards the man's stomach. Making sure that Shido didn't vomit his breakfast, Ryo made his throw up blood. He only stopped hitting after he made sure that Shido had a few broken ribs.

All that was left of Shido, was a broken mess that could only sob and squeal. Still, Ryo had to make sure the man would never again talk, right? As such, he opened Shido's mouth and pulled on his tongue. Once it was stretched to the limit, he closed Shido's broken jaw with so much strength that it was cut off. So as to not dirty the bus with more of his blood, Ryo kept his mouth closed and lifted Shido by grabbing his hair. With two swift kicks, both of his legs were broken.

"Now I feel satisfied..." Ryo said as he looked at the unrecognizable Shido. "Shizuka-san, can you open the back-door?"

The nurse nodded happily, as if she was oblivious to the absolute show of brutality Ryo had just performed. When she opened the door, Ryo picked Shido up by his hair and dragged him towards it.

"Well, now that you can't cheat, manipulate or threaten anyone and you will probably die either because of the zombies of beause or blood loss... I pray you don't break your head because of the fall"

When he finished his words, Ryo threw Shido out of the bus. There was now one less piece of shit walking on the Earth.

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I feel personally satisfied. If I'm honest, I thought mysef incapable of writing anything even slightly cruel, but for some reason writing how Ryo destroyed Shido was satisfying as fuck!

For those of you who are wondering how come Ryo was so brutal... well, it's quite simple. He was literally blowing off three years worth of accumulated hatred towards people like Shido. There will be a few times were he loses it with people like Shido and those times things will get bloody, trust me on that.

I hope you enjoyed this as much as I do!