Mahiru to the rescue again!

“I-I think I’d rather play video games, thanks…” Chiaki said nervously. His eyes narrowed.

“Huh? Video games? Wait, how old are-” He started, but stopped as intense pain blasted through his entire body in the span of a moment. His body froze in shock before he collapsed, and he howled in pain as his hands rested against his groin. His friend whirled to find Mahiru reeling back from a kick between the boy’s legs.

“What the fuck-!” He cried before Hiyoko did the same to him, and he went down alongside his friend.

“Big words coming from a man who goes down so easily.” Hiyoko said, while Mahiru went up to Chiaki.

“Come on, let’s go!” She said. Chiaki looked around to see a crowd had gathered, first from the naked girl, then the man’s flirting, and now from him crying out in pain. Chiaki nodded and, clutching her arms close to her body, she, Hiyoko, and Mahiru pushed through the crowd, and towards the door. Chiaki was pretty sure somebody tried to cop a feel, but she managed to dodge it as they ran. It didn’t take them long to get out the front doors and back on the way to Hope’s Peak.

As they were halfway there, they stopped and panted. It seemed they hadn’t been followed. “Man…” Mahiru said. “I swear, some guys are just total assholes…”

“No kidding. Who calls someone a board?!” Hiyoko cried. Chiaki straightened up with a gasp.

“Th-thank you guys.” Chiaki said, and bowed. “I…I don’t know what I’d do without you two.”

“Oh, stop that. It was just a kick in the balls, anyone could’ve done it.” Hiyoko said.

“B-but I didn’t. I didn’t even think to, I just…froze up.” Chiaki said. She felt ashamed of herself, but Mahiru walked up and put her hands on Chiaki’s shoulders.

“What if…you take some self-defense classes?” She offered. “There’s a place near here that offers classes for fairly cheap. Apparently, the protege there is really dedicated.”

“You…you think I should?” Chiaki asked.

“I do. Though, if you do…” Mahiru hesitated, “you’ll have to expose yourself to do it, you know.” Chiaki’s heart sank.

“R-right,” She said. “I’ll…think about it.”

“Alright,” Mahiru said with a smile. Chiaki returned it, and Mahiru blushed, before quickly looking away. “A-anyway, let’s head back.” She started walking, and Hiyoko followed. Chiaki did as well, but stuck behind them. After looking around to make sure no one was looking, not even her ‘bodyguards’, she quickly removed her hands from herself to unzip and fumble in her purse. Her heart raced as she was now completely exposed, completely naked, in public. If someone came by right now, they’d be able to see everything. That made her pause for a second before she finally pulled out her phone, and sent a text.

“Can we meet up? I need to do something.”