Guilt

A sudden wave of guilt hit you as you see her sprint down the stairs toward the first floor. Although your legs were not healed yet from the previous encounter with Shuji, you ran down the stairs after her as if nothing had happened. As you get to the first floor, you frantically look around but caught no sight of her. panic starts to set in as you continued thinking about where she could have gone, as you look around to no avail, you sprint outside into the open fields, your legs carried towards the old corner playground that was shut off for maintenance. Your breathing starts to speed up as you see a girl backing off slowly from an advancing group of three.

It was Shuji’s little gang, Sakura is slowly backing off, but you know that she has no way of escaping from them. At that moment, nothing mattered to you more. You printed up in front of her as if you did not care what would happen to you. You held your arms up, catching everyone by surprise.

“STOP.” You shouted at Shuji.

“Ahaha, look at Mr. White Knight here. Saving lives! You didn’t have enough yet?” Shuji said with a smirk on his face that alone could make you flinch away. Yet you stood your ground.

After pulling that off, you had no idea what the next step would be. The gang grabbed both your hands and feet and slammed you towards the floor. Kicking, and stomping on your torso, and face. But this time, this time it felt different. You felt like it was worth it, you felt like you did something right.

You start to drift, everything becomes hazy, the cry of Sakura, the laugh of Shuji and his gang, everything.

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