You know what? Fuck keeping his head down, teach this sleaze a lesson!

Tsukane stared after Saizo for a moment, before taking a deep breath, and closed his eyes, mentally focusing for a moment. The confidence he could tap into was in his mind, and he simply turned it on, flipping that switch. He stood up, all fear gone, pushed aside. Fuck this guy. Tsukane was going to at least try kicking his ass.

In the span of a second, Tsukane caught up to Saizo, and had his hand on his shoulder, and squeezed it "lightly." Saizo cried out in pain, and turned, eyes widening in surprise as he saw who had gripped his shoulder like that. "I'm sorry... Who told you you could tell me what to do?" Tsukane asked Saizo in a dark tone. "You think I'm scared of you, is that it? Hardly. I consider myself a nice guy, so I don't go throwing my weight around like I'm trying to compensate for something. But now you've gone and pissed me off."

"You... You bastard!" Saizo snarled, pulling away, and slamming his fist into Tsukane's face. While Tsukane felt his head move from the **** of the blow, again, there was no pain, no damage. Had he still had normal human levels of durability, his head would have been obliterated, or at least his neck snapped, but now... Now he was just laughing.

"That all you got?" he mocked Saizo, who blanched, and took a step back, now actually nervous.

"...you know what? Fuck the school rules, I'm crushing you like the bug you are!" he roared, growing in size as he took on his full monster form, towering over Tsukane and the students who had stopped to watch the confrontation.

Tsukane, with his confidence active, didn't bat an eye, despite the fact that he normally would have run away screaming. Instead, he stared up at Saizo with air of boredom. "What? You think I'm impressed?" he mocked. "I bet my dick's still bigger than yours," he added in a tone clearly meant to royally piss off Saizo.

And you know what? It worked like a charm. Roaring in rage, Saizo swung at Tsukane again. Tsukane, despite the confidence, still had the common sense to dodge, still not knowing the limits of his durability. The large hand smashed into the ground, and Tsukane leaped for the arm, and rammed his fist into it. Flash caved as Saizo's radius snapped.

Saizo screamed in pain, pulling his broken arm away. Tsukane landed, and looked at his own hand in amazement. He hadn't thought he was THIS strong, but apparently he was. He still wasn't sure where Saizo stood on the food chain, so he wasn't much use as an accurate measuring stick just yet, but it was clear Tsukane had the better of him.

"What... What are you!?" Saizo demanded.

"Now now Saizo... That would be telling, and I have enough restraint to follow the rules," Tsukane replied. "So you'll have to settle for this as an answer: your better." Tsukane would, after turning this confidence back off, chide this side of himself for the arrogance, but for now, it was totally worth seeing Saizo lose his shit again, and try hitting him with his other hand.

Again, Tsukane dodged, and then, ran up the arm, reaching Saizo's face, and he leapt forward, fist drawn back. Seeing the fear in Saizo's face just before Tsukane slammed his fist into it was incredibly gratifying. Saizo fell backwards, his face bloodied, and he was barely conscious as he crashed into the ground. Tsukane landed next to him, and approached as Saizo groaned.

"Still awake I see... Now let me put this in terms you might actually understand," Tsukane said to the monster before him. "Don't let me catch you near Moka again. If you even speak to her again, I'll kill you," he stated, throwing Saizo's own words right back at him. While they did come across as possessive, he was really just letting a known molester know to stay away from Moka.

With that done, he walked back to his bags, picked them up, and headed to the school, ignoring the mutters that many of the other students were giving.

...

'Oh shit, I actually did it!' Tsukane mentally panicked a bit, now in the school, confidence flipped back off. 'I kicked someone else's ass... I'm gonna have a reputation here now for sure!'

"Tsukane!" Moka's voice cheered, before he felt her embrace him from behind.

"Ack!" he yelped, startled.

"Hey, did you hear?" Moka then asked as she broke the embrace, and walked with him.

"Eh, hear what?" he chuckled nervously, scratching the back of his head, though he had a pretty good idea what Moka was about to tell him.

"Saizo, apparently he broke school rules, and is currently in the infirmary, apparently he antagonized someone else, and got beaten up for it!" she told him.

"You don't say..." Tsukane replied.

"Can't say I'm too sorry for him, I know he's not a very nice guy," Moka said.

"Y-yeah, me either..." Tsukane laughed, though clearly still nervous.

"Um... Tsukane, why are you looking guilty about something?"

"Eh... Funny story..." he stated.