Mob and Love Rival(?)

For quite a short while, Cid had been lying on the school's sickbed in the infirmary, recovering as the nurse, Sigma or Sieghild, took care of "his injuries".

If he really had any.

He still had to act like he was injured, since he had to play the injured mob for a long while until two days pass.

"Dude.... What happened to you?" Po was definitely curious, and worried.

"Isn't it obvious? He got beaten down by Iris!" Skel interrupted Cid with a confident expression.

This one sentence had sealed Cid's fate, and rumors will begin to spread after this.

Upon the touch on his chest, he recoiled in pain, hunching over and even flinching to protect his bruised torso.

"Well, I can't really take any Bushin Classes for the next few days, really.... But I can still take on other classes, I guess." He admitted, chuckling it off as if it's not much for him.

Avoiding his worried sister was quite a pain, cause in the next day, loud banging from the door of his room woke him up.

"Ciiiid!!! Wake up!"

His sister is right outside his room, and once he checked what had happened outside, he was surprised to see his dormmates beaten down to the floor, and Claire immediately jumping towards him.

'Execute false blood puking technique!'

Once he was hugged directly on his chest, he swiftly put a packet of blood on his mouth and squished it hard enough to cough out blood.

"Cid! I'm really worried about you yesterday, what happened to you! Who hurt you!? I'm going to-"

"Phueh~"

Once she looked up, her face and some parts of her hair was painted red, forcing her to stop her advances while her emotions immediately switched to pure embarrassment.

"Ah!?"

Cid fell backwards, coughing even more blood as he looked barely conscious.

Claire clicked her tongue, cursing herself for accidentally worsening Cid's injury. So she wiped away the blood on her brother's face before hers with her handkerchief.

Her curiosity arose even further; who could've injured her dear brother?

Later on, the four of them sat around a table, two of which were shaking from head to toe, afraid of incurring the wrath of a sister.

One is just as blunt as ever.

"Tell me, what happened to you, Cid?" With a mix of seriousness, worry and curiosity, his sister leaned towards him.

"I, uh.... Yesterday?"

She nodded, and Cid thought of how to make Iris leave him alone.

"I was training with Iris Midgar. She's pretty much relentless and would dominate me in our special training." He explained, and Claire's imagination went overboard.

She imagined Iris in a dominatrix wear, and she's sitting crosslegged on Cid who's become a whiny brat being spanked by a crop.

"Fufufu~ Cid~ hold on a little longer, alright? Bis Sis will definitely make you feel her love~"

Her imagination of Iris sent shivers down her spine, so she decided to shake her head off those impure thoughts.

'Oh how I wished to be in that bitch's place....'

Honestly it was getting pretty irritating, but she thought, Iris possibly wouldn't injure him, right?

After a short interrogation of the three, she was led to believe that Iris probably wasn't the one who'd injure Cid to the point where he'd have chest pains.

That didn't stop her from investigating what had truly happened.

Now together, the four arrived just in time for the train to almost leave them alone. They blamed the long conversation as the factor that made them arrived late.

After telling Cid good luck, she split up from them to go to where her classes will be in.

And so, classes went on and usual, except Cid was excused from any classes involving physical activity due to his injury.

However.... Rumors could be quite dangerous and would pull attention to him, giving him some trouble in staying as a background character.

Having to stay out of the way of other students was a trouble, since right at lunch break, some students were following him.

'What are they doing?' He asked himself, taking a glance at whoever was following him.

They were the typical delinquent-looking students, spiky blonde, buffed, bald, fat, four-eyes (glasses), and.... Is that an instructor in P.E. teacher's uniform behind them?

They were led by a teenager who looked particularly generic. Black hair, blue eyes, looks like a tall 4th year student, and looks like a protagonist.

"Fucker.... Don't think you can get away from this after you took her away from us." He said, putting his position right towards the generic mob category.

And as if intimidated, Cid looked around for anyone who could help him.

But, the students don't really care since they already began to leave at the sight of the group.

"Hey, you! Start running already, they're the worst group in the academy!" One of the students yelled at Cid before running away.

'I don't believe I could do that, you know?' Cid internally replied when the ones from the group surrounded him with smirks and a confident grin on their mouths.

Their leader approached Cid and grabbed his choker, lifting him up and choking him until he was above head-level from the upperclassman.

"I wonder why did she even choose someone as weak as you, hm? Hey, speak up." The one who had become his bully spoke, and the mob couldn't do anything but shake and pretend to choke while grabbing an arm with his hands

"I.... hck, don't know!" Cid replied, choking between words.

Then he is shook harshly by his bully, before being punched on the abdomen, and on the face thrice.

Soon he was tossed towards the buffed delinquent before being beaten down black and blue.

Once he felt like he was done, his bully choke slammed him on the wall.

With a soft scoff, his bully glared at him.

"Don't show your face to us or even her. Understand? No, not really. I suppose I, Franko Rätsel with my group filled with her suitors will keep on venting our anger on you until you leave this academy. How about that!"

Cid nodded, before he was nonchalantly tossed away.

"Let's go, men. Start making his life miserable!"

Once the group was out of his sight, Cid stood up, his right eye being blackened and nose having bled. His body also sustained several bruises and the wall behind him is cracked.

'Oh my.... I've got more supporting characters being a part of my mob life now, haah..... Honestly, I'm more surprised by their appearance than how they acted towards me.'

He left the scene, only for him to trip down, instinctively putting his hands forward, only for him to be caught by someone.

"Cid? What happened to you?"

She was none other than Iris Midgar, who caught him between her arms. Once she took a clearer glance to his face, the princess was horrified.

And once again, Cid is brought to the nurse, before she began to focus on whoever had bullied him.

If he keeps on visiting the nurse to recover due to his injuries, then he'd miss a lot on his class! It was decided that it was bad for him, so the princess had to find a way to stop all this before it gets worse.

[ ~ TO • BE • CONTINUED ~ ]

Author's Commentary:

These bullies will be dealt of in the next chapter.

Wait, did you think Claire is the love rival?

Oh.....