To Be a Power in the Shadows!

Two years at Sakurazaka High School, Nishino Akane has a classmate she doesn't like.

The student has a black-haired, black-eyed, mediocre face, but always has a bear under his eyes with sleepy eyes.

His name is Ajino Minor. He is the classmate Acorn hates, and worst of all, he and I are next door seats.

Impact Minols have always been shady students, as the name suggests.

My grades are under inside, my exercise is under inside, I'm not in the club, I don't have many friends, but I know someone to the extent of talking to.

He was a very mediocre discreet student, everywhere.

At first Acorn didn't hate him either. Of course I didn't like it, but I'm going to have treated you as a very normal classmate.

But while I was dealing with him for a while, I couldn't forgive him enough.

That was the morning greeting.

Akano Minolu and Akane Nishino attend school every morning at critical times when the school gate closes.

We always go through the school gate at about the same time, where we greet each other.

"Morning, Hatano-kun"

Acorn greeted the disliked impacted fields he met at the school gate again today.

"Good morning, Mr. Nishimura"

Affection returns that in a flat voice, as usual.

Not Nishimura, Nishino!!

and Acorn shouted in his heart, smiling on the surface and headed to the dumpster.

I've been in the same class as him for three months, and this goes on every morning.

The first month I didn't say anything that I would realize someday, but Akane finally corrected me for being kept getting the wrong name even after GW had passed.

I can still remember the conversation then.

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"Um, Hatano-kun. My name is not Nishimura."

"Huh?"

Shadow blinked his eyes, observing Acorn's face as if it were even a strange thing to see.

"Wasn't that Nishimura?

"Yeah, my name is-"

"Oh, wait. I remember. You were a named character for once."

"Named character?"

Acorn tilted his neck at a word he could not hear.

"Oh, talk about this one. I remember the names of important people. [M] But I can make mistakes by accident."

"Fine, because everyone can make mistakes"

Acorn also smiled at Shadow, who lowered his head honestly.

But freeze in the next word.

"Sorry, Mr. Nishitani"

At that moment, Acorn squeezed his fist tightly under the urge to slap the right straight into this joking man's face.

"... it's Nishino"

"... Huh?

"My name is Nishino"

In an awkward silence, the two stared at each other.

Then Acorn turned his heel back and headed to the dumpster, where he did not speak a word with Ajino that day.

- The next morning.

As usual, the two met at the school gate.

After one night, Acorn's anger was also a little chilled. I didn't mean it in the first place, and I might have been too angry just because I had the wrong name.

That's why I was the first to say hello from Acorn that day.

"Morning, Hatano-kun"

"Good morning, Mr. Nishimura"

Not Nishimura, Nishino!! Why don't you go back to normal!!

And Acorn, who was about to scream, suppressed him with a smile on the iron wall.

What Acorn couldn't forgive more than anything was that Affected Field was as usual as if nothing had happened yesterday.

He called Akane the Nishimura, as usual, and he didn't see the Akane, as usual.

When he says hello, when he talks, his gaze should be on the acorn properly, but he always has a distant eye that looks somewhere different.

I didn't like that.

What I really didn't like about acorns wasn't that I could get the wrong name.

His gaze was that he hadn't seen the acorn.

When he realized it, Acorn totally hated the matter of Impact Field.

Since then, Acorn has tried to stay out of contact with the affected fields.

I say hello to each other every morning, but that's all. No matter how many names you get wrong, you don't even make corrections.

Seating is next door but there is little conversation. Exchange the minimum amount of conversation you need only when you really have to talk in class.

I really wanted to ignore it altogether, but I also wanted to avoid being noticeable due to acorn circumstances.

A female student named Nishino Akane stands out.

Akane was a clear beautiful girl with beautiful dark hair, attracting the attention of both men and women because of her appearance.

Moreover, she is an active high school girl but an actress.

Naturally, my classmates also know that Acorn is an actress. If Acorn and Shadow are found to be unfriendly, rumors may spread that they are not. I wanted to avoid that.

Acorn has been a child actor since he was a young child. But when I entered middle school, I had a past where I had been scandalously inactive for a time.

After that incident, Acorn began to wear a mask.

He is an honorary student so that teachers don't hate him, he has become popular so that students don't hate him, and he has stood around so that no one resents him.

So she pushed herself to death so that she wouldn't be hated by the shadows she hated, and so that she wouldn't be enlightened around.

That's how she lived to this day.

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And even today, Acorn said nothing to the wrong field of influence.

Without speaking a word with Akano as it was, Akane finished the day's class.

Akane is not in the club. Usually it was an acorn to go home as soon as class was over, but there was a remedial service that day. Acorns are often unable to attend classes at work, and they have to earn days attending by taking remedial classes.

There were many other things that day, and the sun was setting when Acorn left school.

"My smartphone's battery is dead..."

Exhale out of the school gate.

It was usually the acorn calling the driver on the phone, but unfortunately the battery on the smartphone was dead.

Acorn's house is half an hour walk away. It's not a distance you can't walk.

The temperature in the early summer, when the sun fell, was out-of-the-box and Akane decided to walk home.

Come to think of it, it's been a long time since I've walked home from school. It would be the last time I was in elementary school when I was a group drop-out.

Secondary school gives me a daily pick-up and drop-off in a car with driver according to the policy of the house.

So for the first time in a long time I had some fun walking off school with my own legs and I wasn't anxious for her even on a dark night lane.

But I even forgot to be vigilant because of it.

Suddenly, a black painted wagon car stopped beside her and a big man came down. I was late to realize that.

"- Huh?"

When she noticed, a man's thick arm was wrapped around her neck.

"Ah..."

Critically tightened, her consciousness fades in just a few seconds.

The last thing she saw was a familiar classmate running over here.

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"... ooh"

When Acorn woke up, it was a dim warehouse there.

Both hands and feet were tied up and monkey bites were on his mouth.

My consciousness is still unclear. I did get strangled by a guy coming out of a black painted car... and finally, I think I saw someone.

"Ugh! Ugh!!

I groan to call for help, but because of the monkey monkey, I can't speak up or speak up.

"Oops. Have you noticed?"

That's when I heard a man crouching from behind, and Acorn stopped moving.

"Stay with me. If you don't want it to hurt."

The man, 190 cm tall, was a likely big man. Besides, I can tell from the top of my clothes that I have thick muscles all over my body as well as just big.

And there was another man behind him. He would be the accomplice who grabbed the acorn.

"I sent a threatening letter to your daughter's home. If you pay me, I'll give it back to you satisfactorily."

The big man had a vicious grin.

"I shouldn't. I can't believe the lady from Nishino Treasury walks the night lane alone. You'll get caught by a bad man."

Tell him to hiccup and mock, and the man walks over to Akane, who remains down.

"Ugh!"

Don't come!

Yelling like that doesn't make it a word.

Akane tries to stay away from the big man like he crawls through the ground.

"Oops. It's no use, lady."

A man grabbed Acorn's thin legs and drew them to power.

Then lift the acorn's jaw and observe the neat face up close.

"You look beautiful just because you're an actress."

"Ugh! Ugh!!

Acorns that shake their heads and resist.

"Don't resist!

The man slapped the cheek with a flat hand.

"- Huh!!

"Don't resist. Oh, grow up."

The taste of blood spreads in the mouth of the acorn. Tears accumulated in my eyeballs dropped zero.

Ha, ha, and a big man's hand exhales roughly down Acorn's jaw to neck and neck to shoulder.

"Such a beautiful young lady is careless. Speaking of which, my lady, I hear you've been kidnapped before."

Bicker.

Acorn movement stopped.

"Surely your daughter was about to go to middle school. I hear it was the stalker's fault then."

Memories I was about to forget come back to the back of Acorn's brain.

Gakugaku and Acorn's body shook out.

"I don't even know what it's like to be a stalker. What's wrong with being so frightened, little lady?

"... ooh! Uuuuuuuuuuu!!"

"No use, nobody's coming."

The big man's thick arm holds down the acorn that tries to resist the last.

- Help me!

That's what I screamed, at that moment.

Gashan, and. The sound of glass breaking echoed in the warehouse.

"Who!!

Looking back, the warehouse window was cracked.

The moonlight plugs in and illuminates one man standing on broken glass.

He wore black sweatshirts up and down, black work boots, and a black eye-catching hat on his face.

Suspicious figure with full body blackheads. At first glance, he just looks like a fellow kidnapper.

Tips, tricks, tricks, and.

He slowly walks over with his boots ringing.

"Who is it?!

The big man screams.

"Me -? I'm just... a stylish thug slayer"

He stopped walking and adjusted the position of the eye-lifting cap.

"I'm not kidding! Do it!"

At the same time the big man screamed, a sneaky accomplice man from behind waved his bat down on the eye-catching man.

Completely unintentional - but he flaunted it as if he had eyes behind his back.

"- Nah!?

"There was a shadow in the moonlight - you're an amateur"

That said, he slaps his fist as he turns around. I could barely see that fist because of the black costume and the dark indoors.

A blunt sound sounds and the accomplice man collapses off his knees. And he also stopped working with Pickle.

"Did you strike out the jaw exactly? Oh, my God... you're experienced."

The big man lets go of the acorn and gets up. He rattled his neck and stared at the man with the eye-catching hat.

"But I'm sorry to hear that. I'm not an ex-military."

The big man pulls out the knife. The movement was sophisticated.

"Ex-military... I see, just fine. I wanted to fight a soldier once."

That said, the man with the eye-catching hat stood with his hips down. The structure is the same.

Two men stared at each other in the dim darkness.

The twitch and the intermission shrink, and...

"Death!

A big man waves a stepping knife.

Just being a former soldier, the move was agile and compact, not suited to giants.

The man with the eye-catching hat tries to prevent a knife aimed at his throat with his right arm.

And kink. A tall noise rang.

"What!?

The man with the eye-catcher was taking the knife with his right arm.

No, if you look closely, he has something on his right arm.

What he stands for was black...... Barr.

It sets Barr up like a tongue of fur.

"Ba, you said it was Barr!?

"Barr's good. Sturdy and unbreakable. It's easy to carry, and even if you're questioned about your job, Barr might be able to make an excuse. And most importantly - you can use it like a tonfer."

"What!?

The next moment, the eye-catching man returned his arm.

Barr arcs like a tongfer and hits the big man in the arm.

The knife flew away from the man's arm.

"Shit."

A big man puts up his fist.

Barr, the man with the eye-catching hat, approaches the big man and the big man intercepts it with his fist.

Barr hits his thick muscles and his fist plunders his eye-catching hat.

The two met in a moonlight plugging warehouse.

But gradually the man with the eye-catching hat is pushed. Every time he prevents a heavy fist on his weight, he takes another step back.

"Hmm. That's just the right hand"

We beat each other up for a while, the big man said.

"Sure, I'm strong. I get used to that in action too. But there is one major weakness. He's 170 tall at best. I also weigh sixty. There it will be. But I'm 115 of 194. Physical is fundamentally different. Even if I have a bar, I just have to protect my head. But not at all. Eat one of my attacks and you're done. That's the weight difference."

The man with the eye-catching hat quietly looked back at the big man who spoke well.

"That makes sense. Now I'm dealing with one ex-military. This is the reality...... if it is, do you mean it"

The structure of the man in the eye-catching hat changes.

"- What?"

"I found potential in Barr. It was shaped like a tongue fur and had high potential in its weight, sturdiness, portability and everything. And he kept beating the runaways scattering noise at night, and came to one conclusion..."

"- Nah! No way. Eye-eyed hat bursar car punching a runaway with a single bar!?

It was a famous story that he caused a nearby runaway to wear a helmet. If you wear a helmet, it doesn't matter when you get beat up.

"I kept beating runaways at Barr and came to the conclusion... that Barr is usually stronger to beat than to use as a tonfer!!

And the eye-catching man shook that bar down to the face of the big man.

That's a big swing but fast, just a simple beating.

The big man protects his head with his arms aggressively - but a dull noise sounded.

"Grrr, my arm..."

The big man groans holding his beaten left arm.

"You broke it? This is Barr's potential, the trick is to hit him with this L-shaped horn. The shock will gather."

And hit him.

"Gah! Ma, wait..."

Hit him, hit him.

"Ya, stop, wait..."

Hit, hit, hit.

"Gve...... uggo......"

Hit me, hit me, hit me, hit me!

Dull sounds echo over and over in the warehouse.

That figure is exactly what violence is about power.

The man with the eye-catching hat kept hitting him even at the bar, and when was the only time the big man stopped moving?

Pota, pota, and. Blood dripped off the bar.

"No... I can't reach the ex-military to this extent... more strength..."

He looked up at the moon floating out the window,

"I need more power..."

And he shrugged cuttingly.

Its appearance was as if it was reaching out to a moon that could not be reached.

He shakes his head and looks back, as if to resist reality.

And he picked up the knife the big man dropped and approached the acorn.

"Ugh!"

There was no way Acorn, who felt in danger, could try to escape, and the knife was shaken down mercilessly.

"Huh?"

The knife had severed Acorn's restraints on his hands and feet.

The freed acorn looked up at the suspicious black-crushed figure wearing an eye-catching hat and a bar.

He looked down at the acorn,

"Now watch your way home."

That's what I left out, and I walked away.

Akane, who shrugged off his hindsight, finally realized after a while that he had helped himself.

"Stylish thug slayer... what the hell is he..."

In a quiet warehouse, the acorn murmured.

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The next day, Acorn went to school as usual, worried by her parents.

I'm still scared when I think of yesterday, but at the same time, the laughter creeps up when I think about the stylish thug slayer.

"Phew... no stylish thug slayer"

And as I walked through the school gate, I met a classmate I still hated today.

"Morning, Hatano-kun"

"Good morning, Nishino."

"Huh?"

Surprised, Acorn stopped unexpectedly.

Shadow leaves the acorn and walks to the dumpster.

That Shadow didn't get the Acorn's name wrong. And I felt like I was looking at Acorn.

"That voice... no way"

Acorn smiles and chases the back of the field of influence.

"Wait! Ajino-kun!"

Just for a moment, I thought I'd talk to him.