Chapter 341

〈 Chapter 342 〉 Chapter 334 – Breaking the Academy (4)

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Not long after, humans huddled together in one place.

However, their appearance differed significantly from when they initially gathered out of hostility toward me.

Well, I mean, it’s understandable.

“Get out of the way! Why are you all crowding this way?!”

“If you’re so mad, why don’t you break through those monsters?!”

“Let the professors or students handle this!!! Staff are non-combatants!”

“We’re all getting the same paycheck, so you should step up too!!! Can’t you see most of the professors are totally done for!!!”

“W, who put me behind this?! I’m new here!!!”

“Oh, sorry. I accidentally stumbled in.”

“Show some respect for the Chief, you useless bastards!”

They were physically forced to huddle together due to the monsters’ encroaching net.

As I had warned earlier, the monsters weren’t killing them yet.

Most were just getting adequate injuries or fainting from blunt force trauma.

[……Adequate? Look how many of them have burned hair?］

‘If they’re alive, it’s adequate, right?’

In fact, the injured folks were hurt even worse because their own side betrayed them.

The monsters didn’t do anything special to those who collapsed and lost consciousness.

They just tossed them where the people were gathered, like trash that needs to be collected in one spot.

­ Thud.

“Damn, filthy. Fuck.”

Just a moment ago, they were on the same side.

And yet, they were blatantly avoiding even those injured because of them.

They were really trashy bastards.

Thus, the monsters were busy gathering the trash.

At that moment, a gap appeared in the monster’s encirclement as they shifted the trash, and three students quickly broke through to approach me.

“I’m sorry! Just spare me this once!”

“I’ll follow any command!”

“I don’t want to die like this!”

Then, they immediately started bowing their heads to the ground.

“Actually, I was being blackmailed by the Chief! I didn’t want to do this!”

“I, I too! We have no hard feelings towards you at all!”

“Rather, you’re like our friend1!”

“Remove the 1, you dog bastard.”

The last student said such garbage, so I hit his head hard.

The student I struck let out a groan but still didn’t express any real discontent.

It was as if they couldn’t afford to miss this opportunity.

“Sniff…”

­ Smack!!!

Of course, I did hit him one more time.

“Don’t make that kind of crying sound. You’ll die.”

“Got it…”

Their disgusting display of begging for mercy from me, their enemy, who had betrayed all of them, was naturally enough to provoke scorn.

From both their original group and our Kemono Friends side.

“Y, you dogs! You dare betray us!”

“I knew that would happen! Just a moment ago, you backstabber hit me hard!”

“I never trusted those guys from the very start.”

“You bastards! If you’re leaving, return the money!!!”

“What kind of ugly act is this! Even in the world of pirates, there’s a sense of morality!”

“How can they engage in such shameless acts of betrayal? They can’t even look up to the likes of my Pecorin! ”

[……Why are these bastards saying such things they shouldn’t be saying?］

‘Isn’t it the common betrayers who are more brazen?’

Soon, the betrayers started spewing random words as if to win my favor.

“Kemono Friends is a masterpiece! I was impressed by it!”

“Y, yeah! I’ve watched it multiple times from beginning to end!”

“I didn’t watch it in real-time, but I searched it because it’s famous!!!”

“Really? How did you watch it?”

Hearing my question, the last student eagerly raised their head and shouted.

“I’ll answer! Let me do it!”

“Go ahead.”

The student showed a rather confident posture.

The moment I was anticipating what they would say.

The student’s mouth opened excitedly.

“Of course, I watched it by downloading it from Torrent!”

­ Crash!!!

“Are you crazy, you dog bastard?”

I forcibly closed that mouth halfway through.

By way of smashing their head with my mace.

Since the student excitedly talked, I swung my weapon relatively cheerfully.

[……Why are they so proudly talking about that?］

‘There are even some who write on their anime site applications, “I watched it on M.”‘

Now, only two students were left.

The moment I kicked the unconscious student to pass them off to the monsters, the other two students quickly opened their mouths, shaking in fear.

Fearing they’d be called out for something.

“I, I, I watched it on TV!!!”

“I watched it online! Not on an illegal site, but a legitimate anime site!!!”

Of course, countless eyes watching them were constantly firing arrows of scorn.

But the two didn’t care about the criticism and continued to flail their arms and legs, spewing anything they could.

Their survival was desperate.

“Actually, I’m a dog friend, so I’m confident when it comes to dog talk!”

“I, I’m a black bull friend! I can show you my spending amount!”

Seeing their desperation, I decided to grant them a special opportunity.

“Then, answer what I’m going to say.”

“Of, of course!”

“As much as you want! I know everything!”

The two students looked at me with bright, slightly overwhelming gazes.

Desperately hoping my mouth would open soon.

To meet their expectations, I slowly began to speak.

“If you say just one famous line from Kemono Friends, I won’t lay a finger on you.”

“Really?”

“Just wait a moment! I’ll be right there!”

It was indeed an outstanding offer.

It’s famous enough to be among the top picks, not to mention loaded with famous quotes.

For them, there wouldn’t be a better opportunity than this.

[Are you really going to let them go? They lied from the start.］

‘As long as I don’t touch them, right? Our Kemono Friends will handle it for me.’

Of course, I had no intention of letting them go freely.

Whether they knew it or not, the student who introduced themselves as a dog friend began to speak with a serious face.

Desperate to escape from this hellish place.

“I’m going home.”

“……Hey, that means.”

It just meant going straight to hell.

“That’s a line from Kemono Season 2!”

“Ah, shut your mouth!!! You dogs!!!”

­ Bang!!!!!! Bang!!

Before the other student could even sound disapproval, I quickly smashed their heads with my mace.

With that, the two students helplessly slumped down to the ground.

However, my actions didn’t stop there.

Although the other two students had already fainted.

I continued to alternate smashing their heads with my mace.

They uttered truths that shouldn’t exist.

­ Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

“Kemono Season 2 hasn’t been released yet!!! It’s still in production!!!”

And I had to pay the price for that utterance.

[Don’t look away from reality.］

‘No! Don’t distort my truth with that dumb doujin anime!’

[Frankly speaking, does it even matter who directs it?］

‘Did you come from Kadokawa, you bastard?’

Soon, I tossed the two students back to their original group.

You might wonder why I didn’t hit them more.

But I didn’t need to exert more effort.

The beating I was giving ended up being continued by them.

“We’re not just saving ourselves! I was going to take the lead!”

“Does it make sense that you can’t solve that simple problem?”

“What on earth did you learn in class! You bunch of idiots!”

“This guy isn’t a dog friend; he’s a house dog friend!”

Finally, with the student who had been smashed at the beginning joining in, the intensity of the beatdown increased even more.

[Won’t they end up reuniting again?]

‘It’s fine. That won’t happen.’

Although they appeared to unite as a single mind against a sudden mutual enemy,

After a certain point of beating each other, the cracks that emerged between them became irreparable.

They realized they could betray each other at any moment, just like now.

“Try betraying me once. Professors, staff, anyone, I’ll kill them all.”

“Aren’t the student bastards the ones who are the candidates for betrayal? Even now.”

“Look at us, learn from us! You’re seriously dragging down the level!”

“The staff didn’t do anything; why are you running your mouth?”

“Why the hell should we do the physical work! That’s your job!”

‘Could there really be such lowly beings in Nopia?’

[Are you talking about the Demon-cursed girl Eltus?］

‘……That’s physically low, you fuck.’

[Anyway, there’s a drop, isn’t there.］

A relationship of mutual distrust with not a hint of trust.

Because they were exchanging suspicious glances, none dared to move easily.

Now was the time to carry out my next plan.

However, before I could open my mouth, an unexpected event occurred.

­ Puh-wooosh!!!

“Keeeeee!!!”

From where the Kemono Friends were, two strange sounds were heard.

The sound of something blunt hitting.

And a cry resembling that of a piglet being butchered.

­ Rooooooar!!!

Soon after, a massive hunk of meat flew fiercely, landing in the group less than human.

It didn’t belong to any of the students, professors, or staff, but.

It had the commonality of not being human as well.

Moreover, it was too closely related to the Chief to say it had no connection whatsoever.

“Ah, my son!!!”

“Dad!!!”

It was none other than the Chief’s son.

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