When the two sides clash

The hustle and bustle of Teyvat High School students surrounding the sports field have managed to drain John Lee's energy, how could it not? He really doesn't want to get involved with his mistake of choosing to agree to an unknown voice in his post-accident coma.

Hu Tao continued to pull John Lee's arm all the way to the ground floor, the rousing sound of Itto and Childe's every punch was so thunderous that even the recess bell rang was not heard by them.

"Do you want me to give you money or not?" Hu Tao asked John Lee.

"Money? What's that for?"

Out of nowhere, Hu Tao knew this figure of John Lee, but the girl with brown hair always called him 'cousin'. In order to be safe so that there would be no more trouble, John Lee also agreed to all of Hu Tao's orders, perhaps there would be valuable information that he would get after this.

"Of course, for your snack!" snapped Hu Tao while slapping John Lee's head.

'This damned kid! If only she knew I was 35 years old, she would have bowed down and apologized!' John Lee thought annoyed, several times he sighed to relieve his emotions.

Hu Tao embraced John Lee's broad body, the girl pointed at Childe and Itto who were still busy risking their pride.

"Get involved, and I'll give you a hundred thousand Mora—"

Hearing the sizable amount of money managed to make John Lee swallow his saliva forcibly, even in his old age, he rarely got that kind of money.

"If you manage to knock one of them down, I'll give you two hundred thousand!"

"Just a moment, Hu Tao." interrupted John Lee in disbelief.

"Where did you get that much money?"

Hu Tao grinned, and the girl whispered something disgusting to John Lee, something he had never expected in his life.

"From my clients, I mean, duh, I'm a prostitute!" whispered Hu Tao softly.

John Lee's eyes widened, even though if seen from the outside Hu Tao looked polite and pious considering that the uniform she was wearing was not too 'troublesome' for the Student Council to cut it. Hu Tao's seductive voice also made John Lee believe that he could no longer call her 'a girl' in the future, he believed that Hu Tao was indeed such a person.

"Who's your clients?" asked John Lee warily.

"Do you really want to know or what? Go separate them, accept the consequences, and I'll entertain you tonight! There's a cousin discount!"

Hu Tao pushed John Lee's body into the middle of the field, because he was off balance, and John Lee tripped on his own feet. When he tried to get up, the man with black hair had become the object of ridicule by the Teyvat High School students who disturbed the continuation of the school's champion coronation event.

"Watch out! Who are you, weirdo?!"

"Don't you dare to interrupt!"

"What is this guy looking for, huh?!"

Itto stretched out his hand towards John Lee, while he smile and grabbed John Lee's arm then threw him back to the ground.

"Don't you dare to bother me, Bastard!" Itto shouted loudly and stepped on John Lee's body with all his might.

'I can't be humiliated by a high school kid like this,'

John Lee quickly dodged all of Itto's attacks and then swept his off guard off his feet, the giant boy fell a split second later while holding his head which fell to the ground first.

Now the cheer began to move to the new guy, John Lee. Childe smiled passionately while snapping all his fingers with a glare.

"Wow, it's also fun to see!"

Childe immediately hit John Lee's left side but with John Lee's high reflexes, he can easily flinch from Childe's punch. John Lee didn't counter Childe's attack, it made the orange-haired man feel intimidated by the new kid.

"You are one of the Harbingers?" asked John Lee without looking tired.

Meanwhile, Childe was out of breath from fighting Itto earlier. He just smiled without answering John Lee's question.

Itto hit his head with a glass bottle, but to his surprise, it wasn't John Lee who was hit by the glass bottle but Childe. One of the glass shards was still stuck to his left temple. Childe fell at that moment followed by several of his subordinates who immediately attacked Itto and John Lee in the middle of the field.

Hu Tao applauded wildly when she saw his 'cousin' action, so her elbow accidentally brushed against the Teyvat High School Primadonna's chest, Eula Lawrence.

"What the heck?" asked Eula intimidatingly.

"So-Sorry!" said Hu Tao afraid.

From the front of the class, a voice calling Eula's name made the light blue-haired girl look back.

"Come on, just let it be! Come and play with us!" asked Beidou while leaning his body on the wooden door of her class.

Eula glared at Hu Tao hatefully, she spat in the black-haired girl's face and headed towards the Beidou class afterward.

"Fuck!" Hu Tao was annoyed, she wiped Eula's saliva with her left arm, Hu Tao continued to curse Eula with her eyes until the girl disappeared from her sight.

John Lee and Itto were still busy dealing with Childe's men, more precisely Itto who was even more overwhelmed when John Lee easily knocked down Childe's subordinates one by one.

"Hey! Help me too!" Now Itto is being beaten by five people at once.

John Lee's gaze fell on Hu Tao because she had just been treated with disdain by someone he didn't know, John Lee quickly ran up to Hu Tao before she was completely embarrassed to be seen by many people.

"Hey! The new guy!" shouted Itto loudly, his body getting submerged by the sea of students because of his grudge against the giant boy.

John Lee managed to secure Hu Tao away from the audience, he cleaned Hu Tao's face with a mysterious handkerchief in his trouser pocket. Hu Tao looked at his cousin slowly, his heart pounding because no man had ever treated her this well in her entire life.

Hu Tao held John Lee's cheeks with both hands then brought her lips closer together while closing her eyes.

'Wait a minute?'

Hu Tao's forehead was held by John Lee's index finger, no matter how hard she tried to kiss her cousin, Hu Tao's head hurt even more because of John Lee's strength.

"I'm not asking anything in return from you, no need to kiss me," said John Lee as he removed his finger.

"Tch! Usually, guys instantly rocked and tense! Besides, I was just testing it, it turns out that your faith is strong too, huh!" Hu Tao quipped.

"Help me, Hu Tao. It seems you have a debt with me," continued John Lee regardless of the blush on Hu Tao's face.

"What?"

"Help me explain who are the people in power in this school,"

***

'At Teyvat High School, it's not just Childe and Itto who are the culprits in this school. There are many invisible troublemakers around you. Let's take the example of the person who spat on me, Eula Lawrence. A beautiful girl born with noble blood flowing in her curvaceous body, she looks tough and arrogant when she meets people whose social status is not on the same level as hers. Luckily she's already in grade 12 this year, I'm really tired of having her around because this isn't the first time I've been treated like this!'

'Second, yes, that giant boy! Arataki Itto, leader of the Arataki Gang. The members are few, but they are too loyal to Itto. One of them is Kuki Shinobu, she is the only girl in the gang, even though she is the daughter of a religious family. You see for yourself, right? Her make-up at school? She just cut her skirt down to her knees. I've heard that she's one of Itto's slut, that's why she feels at home when playing with him!'

'Lastly, I've also heard of this! Not necessarily completely wrong! Childe, his name was Ajax Childe Tartaglia, the youngest son of the Harbingers Family. If people had heard the name Childe, they would have been scared, they'd just be surprised why Itto kept challenging the boy even though in his third year, Childe was still the champion in our school, and the second one wasn't Itto either. There is, okay, I'll tell you later, I always get goosebumps when I want to say his name.'

'But the point is, Childe is too invisible for people like us. He is free to do whatever he wants because his family is one of the benefactors at Teyvat High School. You may have heard the names of significant people like La Signora, or Doctor Dottore? Well, that's—'

"One of the Harbingers?" said John Lee suddenly.

Hu Tao nodded hesitantly.

The black-haired man got up from the park bench in the city center, saying goodbye to Hu Tao even though he had no other purpose.

"Where are you going? We're living together, idiot! Grandpa told you to!" Hu Tao shouted when John Lee was already 100 meters away from him.

John Lee turned around, it seemed he had to spend the night at Hu Tao's house before looking for his wife, Raiden Ei, in Liyue.