Chapter 10: Revenge

He wanted her to know he wasn’t joking. He would take her down with everything he had. Even if he had no chance. Even if she was an unstoppable force. He was tired. He was done with people. After what happened with the scarlet car, he realized he no longer cared as much as he used to. He was dead. His life was gone. What did he have to lose, anyway?

“You may be a few levels above, sure. You might have an expensive bike and that broken-ass fire skill. Heck, for all I care, you could even own the whole damn road and shit rainbows out of your butt and be the literal reincarnation of Jinmu-tennō, it’s all the same to me! At the end of the day, you’re nothing but a worthless little kid, crying for her mommy while the world moves on without her. Abandoned, yet unable to accept it.”

“... What…?” the girl mumbled, confused. “Where did that even come from…!?”

However, Haruto kept going. He didn’t stop. He just wouldn’t shut up. He couldn’t shut up. He was taking that mockery to its bitter end.

“Don’t play dumb. You’re here for a reason, aren’t you? Me, personally, I got into a freak accident so ridiculous it would make a folk storyteller blush in their seat, but of course, I’m only one person, aren’t I? What are the chances of that happening again?”

The girl’s expression soon shifted, realizing where he was getting at. Her snickering smile was gone. Her eyes wide.

He wouldn’t shut up, still.

“I can tell, though… You’re not like me, in that sense. Acting all high and mighty, unironically looking down on people like you’re above them. You… You are not here by accident, are you?”

This time, the girl was the one to grit her teeth. Her face had been taken over by a hard frown. Her own hands balled up into fists. He wouldn’t shut up, and that had hit her hard, somewhere, somehow. And unfortunately, the girl’s reaction only served to propel him forward, farther.

“How I got here is none of your business, you damn amateur! Who do you think you are!? I… I won’t allow…”

“Oh? What’re you gonna do? Seal my mouth shut with tape!? Try to throw some more fire at me?!? Would that make you feel better? Would it hide the truth?” he laughed, this time.

“Silence!” she got off her bike, standing stiffly before him.

He only just realized how tall she was. Even from a distance, she seemed to reach about a few centimeters above him, even though she looked way younger otherwise. It made no difference to his words, however. Because he wouldn’t shut up, no matter what.

“So you did come here on your own, didn’t you? But why? Were things back home not going as well as you hoped? Was daddy mean to you? Did mommy’s cooking stink? Boyfriend left you for a classmate? Or, maybe… Things weren’t going all that well at Kabu-gakko, and you wanted a way out? Maybe something… a bit more radical than the common extreme sports?”

Haruto gave a snigger. To him, it had sounded unbearably forced. He did it because he could, not because he felt the urge. However, to the girl, there was no difference. She was too blinded by his words, herself. Faint tears seemed to form in the corners of her eyes, rendering her now into a hopeless effort to pull them back in.

“How… How do you even…? No… Shut up! Shut…!!”

“Why? You don’t want to talk about it? But I’m just an extra, aren’t I? Whatever I say shouldn’t matter at all!! Why do you look so distraught?”

Because he wouldn’t shut up, she was overcome by a strange grief.

“Y’know, with a stuck-up personality like that, one has to wonder how popular you were back there, too. Probably a lot, right? I bet you had a lot of friends in that rich-girls school. You had a bunch of teachers and classmates that sucked up to you because your daddy had money, you had a bunch of admirers sending you love letters everyday, and I bet you even had a fanclub at school and a bunch of guys fawning at you, because you were just so amazing, right?”

The girl took a step towards him. Her own fury mirrored his own, now, but she did not seem to hide it quite as well. Not that it mattered to him. It wasn’t enough. Not yet.

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He kept on, giving a few hearty laughs along the way.

“You know, I always dreamed of being popular myself, you know? Having all those things would be pretty nice! But you know what the best part of being at the top of the food chain is? You can do whatever you want to whoever you want, and they won’t do anything about it! Like that ugly, spineless girl who always sat in the middle rows in my class and tried not to call attention. Shy, quiet, wouldn’t touch a fly. What was her name? Ha… Ka… Oh, what does it matter?? Those types are really fucking annoying, am I right? Ever since I could remember I always wanted to give her a piece of her medicine, already. The popular guys could do it, and it was always so cool! I was really jealous. You could just go up to her and call her everything you wanted. Pull her hair! You could spread rumors that she’s sleeping around with everyone stealing other girl’s boyfriends and empty trash-bins over her head while she’s in the toilet, and steal her shoes before school starts, and make everyone pretend she doesn’t exist while she flails pathetically around! You can leave trash and paint all over the classroom and have everyone blame it on her just ‘cause you asked! You can beat her up after school when no teacher is looking, you can sneak up on her in the locker room before gym and steal her clothes, and maybe even take that chance to take some racy sneak photos to share with the whole grade over LINE, and everything! And honestly, if she’s just gonna stay quiet, she kinda deserves it, anyway, right? Nobody asked her to be an ugly, annoying bitch, anyway, am I right!? Worthless garbage like them don’t deserve life to begin with–”

“Enough!!!”

That was the moment the girl’s expression broke. All that was left on her face was despair. Despair, which took only a single moment, however.

Then, came the pure rage.

“You want me to give you a race, Maekawa?”

Her voice was cold as that of a demon, her eyes as dark as the night sky.

She spoke slowly, as though appraising each and every second of his reaction.

“What’s wrong?” he grinned, eyes wide like a beast. “Did I hit a nerve, somewhere?”

“You’re dead.”

The boy ignored her threat, however, reminded of one last thing.

“Oh, yeah, just in case you’re curious to know what tipped me off… In a world supposedly based around racing, and where people can enslave whoever they defeat into serving them… Why are you out here, completely alone, in a deserted place such as this? You can’t have me believe every single place on this ‘Cyberway’ is like this, can you? People die everyday! And yet, level 27 or not, you don’t have a single servant. Surely, you would be able to afford one.”

The girl nodded, with a crazed grin of her own.

“Don’t misunderstand. The reason why I don’t have anyone follow me around… Well, I suppose you’ll find out soon enough.”

“Bring it on, then.”

That same instant, two menus opened up, each before one of the two teens.

‘Do you wish to engage in a duel match with this soul?’

Both pressed yes without hesitation.

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