Zenkyo's shoulders started to shake. Soft sobs were heard. In the end Zenkyo sobbed into Kevin's chest.
Kevin didn't say anything. He gently stroked Zenkyo's arm, giving comfort to the girl he had a crush on from a few months ago, since Zenkyo had just transferred to this school.
"Sob, I hate myself, Kevin! I hate myself, who is weak, sob," Zenkyo said in the midst of her sobs.
Kevin tightened his grip on Zenkyo. He also gently stroked Zenkyo's head which was still on his chest.
"It's okay, Zenkyo. You can look weak when you're with me," Kevin said softly.
Zenkyo gasped when she felt a gust of cold wind hit her face just now. She felt like something was falling right in front of her eyes.
"Kevin, do you feel something?"
"Yeah, I feel a love vibe from being near you, Zenkyo." Kevin doesn't give up. He always makes a death seduction at every opportunity.
"That's not it, Kevin. I feel a chill around here." Zenkyo rubbed her arm, roughly. "Suddenly my fine hairs flared, Kevin. Did you feel it too?"
Kevin was stunned for a moment. He stroked the soft hair on the back of his neck.
"Yeah, I feel it too, Zenkyo. Like the air of an annoying invisible creature," Kevin raved.
Zenkyo and Kevin sitting under a tree, during break time behind the school.
Kevin got up and grabbed Zenkyo's wrist.
"Let's go back to class, Zenkyo! The cold around here is making me shudder even more."
Zenkyo followed Kevin's steps.
***
"Thief!! How can this class have a thief?!"
"Just get lost!!"
"Scumbag!"
"Your innocent looks have hidden your lecherous behavior!"
"Disgusting!"
Those vile rumors were uttered by Zenkyo's classmate. They all accused Zenkyo of stealing something of value from one of the class's residents.
Zenkyo sat in the corner of the classroom. Her cry sounded so sad. Her body was shaking. The clothes he wore were dirty from the attacks of his friends. Some threw at Zenkyo using trash, paper bundles, milk boxes and much more.
"STOP THIS!!" cried a young man in the doorway. It was Kevin Hirano who currently came and approached Zenkyo in the corner of the room.
Kevin helped Zenkyo up, and cleaned the pretty girl's clothes.
"Are you okay?" Kevin asked, lightly shaking Zenkyo's shoulder
Zenkyo nodded. She wiped away the tears that had betrayed her. Zenkyo tried not to cry anymore after she was satisfied crying in Kevin's chest. However, the incident this time really made her weak again. She wept bitterly at her friends and at herself.
Seeing Zenkyo who seemed to be depressed, Kevin got angry. Kevin's sharp eyes fell on everyone in the class.
"WHAT ARE YOU ALL, HUH? YOU'RE BEHAVIORING LIKE A TRASH!" Kevin snapped at the whole 3-F class.
One of the young men who dyed his hair red came forward. He was chewing gum at this point. HIS name is Nakamura Kei.
"Oho, it turns out that there is a hero who protects the thief overnight," said Kei. Don't forget the disdainful smile that appeared on his blackened lips, maybe because he smoked too much.
When he was right in front of Zenkyo, the young man spat his gum right into Zenkyo's cheek.
"HEY! HOW DARE YOU, NAKAMURA!!" Kevin pulled the collar of the young man's uniform. He punched the handsome boy in the face several times.
"Damn you, Nakamura!" Kevin shouted, still punching Nakamura Kei in the face.
Nakamura Kei didn't fight back. The commotion only stopped when a teacher entered the room.
***
Zenkyo and Kevin are in the counseling room at the moment. They were sentenced to write 'letters of apology' 200 times.
Zenkyo had been silent all this time. In fact, her tears repeatedly escaped and fell onto the paper in front of her. She is not afraid even though she has to be hostile to the whole school, which she is afraid of only if her father is really called to school.
What will she explain about the current slander? What if after that her father hated him even more? What if her father got sick from thinking about this matter?
Just imagining it already made Zenkyo's heart constrict.
"Zenkyo?" call Kevin.
"Yes?"
"Now what are you trying to plan, huh?"