Chapter 2: Revealing the Secret to a Stranger

The Owl logo guy thought for a moment that this pair of Obsidian eyes is gleaming. However, when he blinked, those eyes glaring at him look like a sharp knife – thirsty for blood. He jolted and stands up immediately. Thinking, “This person is dangerous.”

He stepped back when Zitrey gets up and patted the dust on her uniform. While Zitrey is busy doing her work, the Owl logo guy notices the imprinted logo on her right chest – an Owl. He rejoiced for a moment and wanted to ask this person in front of him if he could tag along going to their school, yet, he dared not.

 He startled when Zitrey walked in his direction. His scalped tingled. He couldn't help but walk backward, but as he walks back, Zitrey continued to walk forward. 

“What to do? What to do?!” His mind was messed with negative thoughts. It was his first time to meet a person with such an intimidating aura. 

The Owl logo guy had already backed away to a corner of the wall when Zitrey stopped her step. His entire body froze, stiff like a corpse. Although he stepped away from the person in front of him, the distance between them was merely one foot. Having a short leg is indeed unfair when comparing to a long-legged guy. 

He jolted when Zitrey leans towards him. At the same time, his knees are trembling and becoming soft because of fear. This made him sit on the ground. The Owl logo guy clutched his chest, searching for something that can make him calm down, but he can't find it. His right hand touched his neck, and when he realized that the 'thing' that should be there was gone. He panicked. 

“N-no, no. W-when did I lost it?! When that fat guy bumped into me? No, it wasn't. It was still there at that time. W-where is it?” He murmured to himself. He looked around, but he found nothing. “Did, I really lost it?” it was then, he felt a bucket of ice thrown at him. 

At the same time, Zitrey bent her legs to pick up something shining on the ground. It was a tiny silver chain with a small bull pendant. This necklace seems familiar to her, as though she saw it years ago. But, she didn't think deeper about that idea. Zitrey saw this necklace fell from the Owl logo guy's neck when they bumped each other. It flew a meter away from them because she accidentally tapped it with her hand. She stands up and said with a cold expression, “Yours...”

 When the Owl logo guy tilted his head. His eyes gleamed when he saw a shiny object hanging at the hand of the person in front of him, it was his necklace. Like a soul came back to life, he immediately answered, “Yea!” voice full of energy.

Then he raised his hand and Zitrey put it on his palm without touching him. The Owl logo guy sighed a relief. This necklace is very important to him as this 'thing' was given by a person he can't forget. He examined it and found out only the locked was broken, “Thank goodness! I'll bring it to the repair shop later.”

He put the necklace on his inside pocket coat and gently patted it, making sure it was really safe. A while ago he was so scared towards this person but right now he felt so grateful. Then he faced this person standing in front of him. 

Zitrey took aback by what she saw, she didn't expect to see a wide smile full of happiness embedded in the Owl logo guys' face. “Thanks, Big Bro!” his eyes are sparkling like stars in the night sky. 

She looked away from that gaze. It's been a while since she saw that kind of smile: so bright and true without ulterior motive. This made her cold heart waver a bit. “Damn it!”

 Zitrey turned her back and about to walk when a group of people approached them. It was the Burning Arrow Gang. Some of them have a pinkish bump on their forehead, while others are holding their head like they feel dizzy. They are the people the Owl logo guy encountered and got hit by his things. Seems that the fat Guy called for reinforcement, as the other guys look well. 

When the Owl logo guy saw them, his eyes bulged in shock. He totally forgot about them. Afraid, he clings to the person in front of him. Feeling the weigh on her left leg, Zitrey glance on it and saw the Owl logo guy hugged his leg so tightly. She tried to break free, but those arms surrounded his leg didn't budge a bit. Instead, it tightens more. 

“Heh! Mr. Handsome looks like you knew that girl. She clings to you like a leech.” said of the Fat guy in his duck voice. After he had said it, the group laughed thunderously.

Zitrey and the Owl logo guy was surrounded by more than 10 persons. The passerby who saw them quite frightened about what they see. They lower their head and quietly walk away as if they're afraid to be noticed. “Let's call the police.” Zitrey heard what one of the passersby said.

“Hey! Can you give me that girl? She owes us a debt.” The Fat guy demanded. Hearing this, the Owl logo guy terrifies. Afraid that Zitrey will turn him over to the fat guy. He said in his cracking voice, almost sobbing, “P-please, h-help me.”

Zitrey just looks at him with her still unchangeable cold expression. She looked around to their surroundings and observed it. Then stare at the fat guy who's laughing so loudly while watching the girl beneath her shiver. This kind of scene satisfies him a bit.

Just then, a bone-chilling breeze went through them. “H-hey what kind of look is that? Do you want to fight hah?!” he yelled confidently, but his body can't stop shaking. Horrified to those pair of obsidian eyes glaring at them.

 The Owl logo guy suddenly felt a pain on his neck. In shock, he loses his grip on Zitrey's leg. Zitrey lifted him up while grabbing the back of his collar. Hanging in the air, the Owl logo guys still in thought that this person has quite a strength. “Jeez, I'm so thin and short that this Bro can lift me up like a child.” Surprisingly, this situation didn't frighten him.

 When his feet touched the ground, Zitrey spoke up. “I guess the Sports Department is likely a mere child playing a small gang in their leisure.”

Hearing this, the whole group was in a rage and about to attack but their leader stopped them. Their hands tightly clenched forming a fist. This Burning Arrow gang has the principle that they will only take down their opponent using their body strength without relying on any tools. 

The Fat guy chuckled, “It seems the Academe Department has really sharp tongue! So confident, your department always mocking us in our knowledge but unfortunately in this situation, physical strength will win! Hand us that girl and we will forget what you said.”

 Zitrey snickered, “You're a fool.” She pointed to the person beside her and said. “This person is a man.” With Zitrey's words, the Owl logo guy was in shock. He can't even move away from his gaze to the person beside him. “Did I heard him wrong? This big bro didn't think of me as a girl?”

“Hah?! What kind of joke are you saying?” the Fat guy said in confusion. “Are you blind? You can't even see that beauty beside you? How come she's a boy? With that slim body of hers.”

Zitrey chuckled terrifyingly. “Whose blind? You can't even see, he's wearing a gentleman's uniform?”

In his statement, the group has taken a shock. Indeed, this girl was wearing pants instead of a skirt. Nevertheless, they still confused as this boy has a slender and snow-like skin, like a girl. “What proof do you have?” in unison the group asked.

“Proof? Easy.”

It was then the eyes that surround them bulged in shock, but no one can have more surprised than the victim. In a flash, his uniform was unbuttoned showing his... undershirts. The Owl logo guy never dares to put some clothes without undershirts. He experienced enough. Seeing this, the expression of people around them disappointed. While the Owl logo guy sighs a relief, “Thank goodness he didn't rip apart my uniform.”

“See? He didn't wear any brassiere, and flat as aboard. You're so blind fatty.” Zitrey said, mocking him. The Owl logo guy hurriedly buttoned his uniform. Zitrey look at his watch and cursed in his mind. 

The surroundings became quiet. The Fat guy gritted his teeth and the veins in his forehead showed up. That pretty boy almost made him faint when he bumped him, also when he hit him with a bag. And now he was mocked by this other person who has a sharp tongue. The humiliation is piling up. Adding fuel to the fire. The fat Guy was infamous at their school. He was known as the 'Beast' and one of the top five gang leaders in the Sports Department that never been defeated. But, with these two he seems like a 'teensy-weensy rodent' that they could step on rather than a 'scary beast'. They didn't even know him. 

“We're going.” Zitrey pulls the Owl logo guy's collar. “Big bro, big bro it hurts. I can walk on my own.” Just then Zitrey let go of it.

“Big bro, thank you, but why the collar? You can hold me through hands.” They just met, but the Owl logo guy already felt familiar to her. Zitrey remains silent. Given no response, the Owl logo guy also shut his mouth and continued to walk. They about to leave the circle when Fat guy grabbed Zitrey's shoulder making her forcefully face him. 

“Who said you could leave-”, without finishing his word, the fat Guy cried in agony. “Ahhhhhhhhhh!” Zitrey grabbed the hand holding his shoulder and twist it towards the fat Guy's back. Then she instantly forced him to kneel onto the ground. Making his knees bleed from impact. “You fucking bast--Argh!” not yet completing his cursed, Zitrey kicked his back hard making him kissed the solid ground.

The Owl logo guy feels astonished, in just the blink of an eye the fat guy already laid on the ground, looking pitiful. “Wow! So fast. That fat guy was two times bigger compared to big bro, yet he easily defeated him.”

Zitrey brushed her hands against each other though brushing away the dust on her hands. “And who gives you permission to touch me?” she stamped her feet on the person underneath him. 

The Fat guy groaned, and spatted blood from his mouth. “What are you waiting for?! Beat this guy!”, he yelled against his dumbfounded comrades. Because of his shout, their soul came back to life. 

“W-what about the pretty boy, Sir?” one of his colleagues asked while pointing the Owl logo guy. In this, all attention is towards him. He gulped. “M-me?” pointing his finger towards himself too. A drop of sweat could be seen on his smooth forehead. “I don't know how to fight. What should I do? Should I, help him? But my expertise is only running. If I'd run what will happen to big bro? From what I've seen, he could fight but was this all, because of me?”

His train of thought stops when Zitrey uttered a word. “Back off! Don't come near here!” It was like Zitrey could read his mind, however thinking deeply this big bro want him to stay away as he was only a hindrance. 

At the time, he stepped back, the Fat guy yelled again, “Who the hell cares about him? Right now beat this guy up! Make sure you ruin his face nicely! And we will deal that pretty boy later o-!!!” Again not finishing his word, Zitrey kicked his trunk making him rolled to the ground. 

“Who dares to come one meter around me will end up in the hospital. Mark my words,” she said in a serious tone, threatening them.

 Frightened by her intimidating aura, the gang unconsciously stepped back. Looking at Zitrey, it seems there's a black mist surrounding her that when you get near you will be devoured completely.

“What?! Scared? Don't tell me you are all afraid of him? If that is, then scram! You scaredy-cat.”, the Fat Guy said mocking his comrades. Being told by their leader as losers, their blood boiled, and aggressively attacked Zitrey.

 Zitrey was surrounded with hands forming a fist but to her this was nothing. “I warned you,” she said. Then the brawl started.

 “Too slow.” The mighty fist stop in midair when Zitrey holds her Opponent's wrist then firmly punched his face, making it bleed. The first bold person coming her way taste his own blood. 

“This is your reward for bravely defying my warning. Congratulations.” Then she coldheartedly followed it by hitting the other side of his face, making his unattractive face uglier. Because of the strong force, the guy lost his consciousness. 

She then smoothly dodge the kick coming at her back by simply sidestepping. She strongly kicked the torso of her opponent coming to her blind spot. “Too eager.” This person lost his balance and collided with the person on the ground. Adding to his agony.

Another two opponents coming in her way, she quickly punched their abdomen simultaneously. This made the two curled up and shout in pain. Their opponent has extraordinary strength that can be compared to a beast.

Zitrey then instantly stops the hand that wants to hit her elegant face by simply blocking it with her palm. “Too weak.” She can't even feel the force out of his punch. She then swiftly kicked his waist. Because of this, the person flew meters away from them and collides with its own comrade.

 She then instantaneously elbowed the two people coming at her back once again, hoping Zitrey won't see them, yet their plan busted by her keen senses. And a result, severe pain could be felt from their chest, it was like they were pierced by a sharp sword.

Another group of ferocious people coming in her direction. Zitrey attacked them by fiercely kicking them without mercy. Every kick she made was like a kicked of a wild horse, creating a crisp sound of cracking every time it hit its mark. Her hard kicked and punched were accurately hit their critical point in their body. 

One by one the burning arrow gang was defeated. Holding the part of their body that was in unexplainable pain. Zitrey didn't even take 60 seconds to wipe out her opponents. Moreover, no one gets a chance to hit her. Experiencing hell of training since she was a child, couldn't compare to the situation right now. To her, this was merely a warm-up.

She put her right hand inside the pants pocket while the other holds the backpack. She then stepped her feet at the body of Fat guy who couldn't do anything. Standing in the center of people crying in agony she said, “You should know that, when you threw a punch, the other party will double the force, and hit back. Never underestimate your opponent even when he/she is alone.” After she had said it, she walked through them.

 The Burning Arrow Gang couldn't believe what happened. They've beaten so hard that they couldn't even stand up. And worst, it feels like they been lectured by their opponent.

Zitrey was already meters away from them when the Owl Logo guy catches up to her. At those moments of fighting the Owl logo guy couldn't tell what he would feel. There's a mixed emotion inside, it was his first time witnessing live-action fighting. His heart beat faster and faster from the excitement on the coolness of his big bro. His movement is so fast like lightning and hard as an iron bat. Nevertheless, he also sympathizes with the Burning Arrow Gang as their faces are ruined, and they're in pain. The Owl logo guy took a glance at the miserable situation of the gang, “Should I call for an ambulance?” he thought. Looking worried for them. As if Zitrey could read his mind again; she said, “No need, Police officers will come.”

Taken aback, the Owl logo guy gaze at the back of the person in front of him. He wondered, “Why do I didn't feel scared of this big bro anymore, instead I feel safe around him, why?” Thinking of this, his lips curved upward. “Ah, that's because of what he said a while ago...”

Still smiling he walks beside Zitrey. “Big bro... Big bro, thank you for helping me back then, and for finding my necklace.” he clutched the thing inside his pocket. “Big bro, what's your name? Can I be friends with you?!”

However, he didn't hear any response to the person. Zitrey didn't even take a glance at him and continued to walk. “Eh?! He didn't want to talk to me? Did I say wrong? Hmm, he talked a lot when fighting those thugs but right now it seems like a switch has turned off making him quiet again. Is this what he really is? But I will not back down, I'll make him talk!” determined he opens his mouth once again.

“Hehe, big bro... Big bro, you're so cool! Your strength is also extraordinary. How did you do that? I want to be like you too. Can you teach me? H-hey big bro are you listening?” Because of how noisy he is, Zitrey even walked faster. 

“Eh? Wait for me!” the Owl logo guy doubles his pace. “Big bro... I really wanted to know your name. I'm Nathan please remember my name. Big bro your name please?” Still silence. But Nathan is so determined. 

“Big bro, how old are you? What section are you in the academe department? Hope we're the same section so that I have a friend and know someone already hehe.” Zitrey didn't even answer him, but he considered himself her friend already. 

Veins in Zitrey forehead showed up. Her ears are hurt to the nonstop babbling of the person beside. She even regretted helping him.

 “Big bro, you really have a long leg. I'm so envious, you're even taller than me and more handsome. Ah! Maybe a lot of girls admired you.”

Zitrey feels irritated, she yelled, “Shut up!” But when Nathan heard it, his eyes lit up. “I make him talked.”

“No, I will not! I have a mouth so what used of this if I didn't talk!” Even Zitrey rise his voice Nathan didn't feel scared of him at all. This made her more irritated. “Annoying!”, she uttered.

“Yea, yea, big bro I will annoy you more if you didn't say your name. So big bro what's your name?”

Zitrey stops his pace when Nathan blocks her way. His jade pair of eyes lock at her. Seeing those eyes, Zitrey expression darkened.

“You really don't want to say your name. Calling you big bro is like your my brother, I don't like it.” He touched his forehead using his pointing and middle finger; he seems in deeper thoughts. With a snap of his finger, he said, “Aha! What about I call you, Meg? Dude? Hmm, Handsome friend? Cool friend? Boy friend?” His expression looks confused. 

However, those words aggravated Zitrey's rage, “I'M A GIRL, DON'T CALL ME that NONSENSE MONIKER!” after those loud cry. The two of them emerge in silence. It was then, Zitrey realized what she said. It was like a bucket of ice thrown at her, making her skin pigment ashen.