Transfer Student

summer ended as fast as always and everyone returned to school, when I reached the class this morning I noticed that there's a new desk so I tried to hear what others are talking about

"I heard we will be getting a transfer student today"

"is she a girl?"

"I wish it could be a handsome boy"

everyone is speculating but for me I already knew the answer. I thought it was weird for Makoto to have only three girls in his harem so if a new student is here it's obviously a girl

talking about Makoto, he's not here today I think he's sick because I used a half-assed heal to cure his fever last time

"Attention everyone, as you may have noticed we have a transfer student"

the teacher walked into the classroom, following her a girl with a ponytail and of course she's blonde because apparently every foreign is blonde

"my name is Watanabe Emma, I'm glad to meet you"

she seems to be the calm type? that surprised me a lot since I thought she would be a strong character type

"you can take the last seat"

it's a little close to my place so I had to greet her

"Hello, I'm Sawano Aru"

she smiled in response, she's quite beautiful maybe more than Hiragi-senpai.

"ah since Watanabe doesn't have her books yet you should share with her Sawano"

"sure"

normally Makoto would be the one to do that but I'll take the lights today!

***

nothing happened at all, it's disappointing to know once again how much I lack protagonist powers

"hey Aru,why are you crying? it's creepy"

Kiriyama who appeared out of nowhere، I didn't talk to her since the festival but she seems to be fine now

"forget about that, why are you calling me by my first name?"

she did that last time too, but I thought it would be a one time thing

"don't you think Makoto will be I suddenly acted friendly with you?"

"I see, should I call you Naru?"

"No, that's weird "

"thought so"

I'm glad our relationship didn't change, I feel comfortable when I talk to her like this

"I feel comfortable when we talk like this"

"Wah you shouldn't say things like this it's embarrassing!"

I can't believe she would say that! I thought about it too but saying it is another thing!

"don't worry, I only started to see you as a human being so I'm not saying anything weird"

how did she think about me before? I don't want to know so I changed the topic

"Makoto didn't come to school today"

"yeah that's why I'm talking to you "

she seems to be uneasy about it, does she think Makoto is avoiding her?

"don't worry he's just sick"

"how do you know?"

"I just know"

I'm not sure about it but I can't say that now, I just have to take the risk

"Oh, the teacher told me to give those papers to Makoto, do you want to go instead?"

"Huh?!"

"it's a Rom-com event! it's your chance to take care of him when he's sick!"

the real reason is that I just don't want to go, but if she can get something out of it isn't it a win-win situation?

after some seconds Kiriyama took the papers and started running to see her crush

*sigh* she recently got rejected but she's trying harder...

when I reached the school gate time started moving slowly, I checked my phone quickly

[Dangerous situation is going to happen to someone close to you in 2 seconds]

damn, is it Kiriyama's luck striking again? I turned my head quickly to check on her but nothing seems out of place...both Senpai and Suzuki have things to do so they shouldn't be close from here...

"Watanabe!"

she was dragged into a black car by some suspicious looking men, I wasted a lot of time just to find the problem so I can't help her immediately

"should I even save her?"

the car is getting farther...honestly it's none of my business I should just leave it to the police I'm not a hero anymore

***

I ended up following them, it's the side effect of one of my titles

[One Who Protects The Weak]

[automatically activate "Stop Time" when someone close to the holder is in serious danger]

[severe heartache when ignoring someone weaker in serious trouble]

I'm not doing my best to hide my power but I don't want problems with gangs since I won't be the only target

I watched everything from afar

I followed the car for some minutes until they reached an isolated place, Watanabe seems to be fine for now

there's 17 people 13 of them uses knives, 4 of them don't possess any weapons

thry can't see me for now but that doesn't mean I can lower my defense so I watched from above a building, should I just beat the shit out of them or wait to see what are they doing?

"don't worry little girl, we won't touch as long as your father is following our orders"

[her father is Watanabe Satoru the owner of GX the biggest corporation in the country]

it's weird that a guy this rich would leave his daughter without bodyguards

I just have to wait until the father do what's he told to do, I'm not here to save him I'm just here to make sure nothing is going to happen to my classmate

"hey boss, we got a response they said that they will discuss it" said one of the guys

[Name:Iwahara Masada lvl.26]

[Str 32/Ma 1/Agi 33/Def 30/Lu 57]

I can take him in no time if he was alone, but even I can't take over 15 person without being noticed

"Discuss it? he's taking for some pushovers isn't he? we should help him make the decision"

the boss got closer to Watanabe and started touching her face

when I saw her face my brain stooped functioning for a second.

"why the hell am I scared"

I jumped from my place without hesitation,now that I'm doing this I don't care about them finding out about me I just need to install fear into them

the moment I reached the ground everyone looked at me.

I'll leave unarmed guys for last, using my speed it wasn't hard to take the first three guys.

"Don't be scared jyst attack him all!"

yes that's the right decision, I don't want to kill so if they all jumped at me I can't just knock them out.

"we don't have to fight, just give me the girl and I'm leaving you to your shit"

they didn't listen at all so I had to start attacking seriously.

a hit in the jaw is enough to knock them down, so the hard part isn't defeating them, it's going easy enough so they don't die

"Bind"

the only thing that I forgot to talk about is that I have magic on my side, I just need to use invisible ones.

[Bind] is a low level debuff that stops the target movement for 5 seconds

5 seconds it's all I need to take down 14 guy.

"are you here for money too? we can divide it between us what about 50:50? 70:30? 90:10?"

since I didn't respond to the boss he started getting angry as he pulled a gun

"listen kid, I don't know what kind of shit you learned but fighting a gun isn't possible so be a nice boy and fuck off"

I walked toward him without hesitation, his hand is trembling there's no way he's used to killing people.

*Bam*

the time stopped as the bullet got closer, I can dodge it without any problems but what I need isn't winning alone, I need to show him that I'm superior to him

I caught the bullet with two fingers, many other bullets were shot after it but nothing changed I caught them all.

"what are you..."

I stopped him from talking with a slap

"huh?" he didn't understand it at all

"that's not how you treat a woman, apologize. "

he got angry but everytime he makes a reaction I slap him again, it's not a strong hit but when he's hit constantly he will lose his mind.

***

"we're sorry we won't come close to you again"

repeating the same process for everyone until their pride is broken took time much more than I thought.

"did... you do that?"

"..."

I forgot to think about Watanabe's reaction, she was unconscious when I was fighting but she's looking at guys with broken arms and legs crying for forgiveness.

"I helped a little...but someone else did allthe beating "

"who is he? I want to thank you two for helping me..."

"Nah, don't worry about it he want to act as a hero, so giving him a prize would just ruin it"

"I see..."

she didn't question it more and just took my hand with a smile

"Thank you for helping me I'll make sure to repay you"

that's the first main character moment I got since forever...

"yeah it's worth it"