Chapter 6: The Rules
"Kick my ass? Pfft! Hahaha..." Apart from a devilish faint chuckle from Zenith, Kylian's bold words caused an unanticipated baffled silence among the crowd of students around them who were whispering among themselves until now. Even Stephan rolled his eyes with deep fear embedded in them as he gazed up above at Kylian's tall stature, wondering why this unknown boy was almost jumping into the hellfire right now for his sake!
But before Stephan could say a thing, Aiden who was only a bystander among the gang of bullies until now came rushing close to them and grabbed Zenith's right arm from behind as if he wanted to stop him from advancing towards Kylian.
After that, Aiden rolled an anxious glower toward Kylian before commanding in a hoarse voice, "Hey newbie, you better understand your position here. I saw what you did to Garry, and just a reminder, you have only arrived today. So you better not cause any trouble and go inside when we are still willing to let you be..."
"And did I ask for your advice, tattoo guy?" Noticing the big colored tattoos of roses and thorns starting from the right side of his neck and descending towards the chest-line of the grey t-shirt Aiden was wearing, Kylian scorned him without a flinch while glaring at Zenith's smug face, "I want to deal with this asshole on my own, so you better not try to butt in between us."
"Hey, but—"
"Isn't he kinda cute, Aiden?" Before Aiden could interrupt Kylian again, this time Zenith tossed his diabolical sneer at Kylian when he snagged his arm away from his hold.
After that, averting an icy-cold glare towards Aiden's anxious face, he muttered, "I can see you are deliberately trying to protect this newbie from me, but his bold declamations are kinda cute. It's been a long time since I have faced a guy like him head-on, so just let us be, okay?"
"Cute, my ass!" Gritting his jaws, Kylian sneered at Zenith while clenching his fist hard, "Once you get a beating from me, maybe you'll fuckin' stop looking down on others like this..."
"H-Hey, stop it! Don't do that, please!!" This time Stephan grabbed Kylian's arm from behind as if Aiden's intervention in between them gave him the signal to pull Kylian away before he created a bigger trouble.
His bruised blue hands were still shivering when he tightened his hold around him, "Master Aiden is right, y-you don't realize what you are doing, you just came here today! Y-You don't have to disrespect M-Master Zenith like this anymore, just beg for his mercy, and let's go inside—"
"Beg for this punk's mercy?" But with a rash movement, Kylian yanked his hand from his hold and glowered at Stephan, while his ocean eyes looked furious, "Just because of morons like you...assholes like this one possess the authority to look down on weak people! If you don't have the guts to fight back, then just stay behind and let me do my task!"