Fate Online: Shadow

"There’s still one month left before school officially starts, so make sure to get your scheduled class within three days or so" a woman in glasses and around mid forties said to Michael as she handed him the papers that he’s now officially a student of the University.

"Thanks ma’am" Michael smiled, and left the building.

"Sigh~ How did I end up having to attend university?" Michael sighed helplessly, while his pair of legs led him to an unknown part of the school because he was too engrossed in his worries.

"Hmmm? What are they doing?"

Michael unknowingly arrived before a small woodland and behind an isolated school building where he quickly saw a scene where a young man is protecting a girl behind him, and they are probably around his age and surrounded by a couple of men and women.

"That’s certainly bullying" Michael said as he briskly walked towards them.

Bam!

The young man got punched on his face but laughed while wiping the blood on his lips.

"You call yourselves a man by bullying a girl? Tsk, how manly of you"

One of the three men was irritated by the disdainful look that was thrown towards them, and just as he was about to punch the young man, a hand suddenly caught it mid flight.

"What’s happening here?" Michael asked as he coldly scanned the people in front of him.

"Let go, and just go about your way in case you don’t want to get into trouble" the guy who got his arm caught glared at Michael.

In fact, they already noticed Michael coming over earlier, but they just ignored him thinking that a single man wouldn’t change anything, but what they didn’t expect was that he would immediately interfere the moment he arrives and even talked to them arrogantly.

The girl hiding behind the young man was about to tell Michael to just not mind them as she didn’t want to involve him to her matters, but something she didn’t expect happened first.

"Oh yeah?"

Crack!

"Ahhh! It hurts!"

The guy started screaming in pain, as Michael slowly tightened his grip around the man’s wrist. Michael wouldn’t have been able to do something like this if it weren’t for his intense training everyday.

"Gran!" one of the girls screamed in shock when she saw her lover screaming in pain, but she didn’t dare to move forward as she was afraid of Michael hurting her.

Gran’s companion was shocked at first, but then their heads were fueled with anger and rage and started attacking Michael.

"Whoa! Relax, I’m not going anywhere, and besides, you guys "attacked" me first"

Michael grinned after dodging a couple of punches and kicks aiming for his chest and face.

"Bastard! Die!" a long blonde haired young man yelled in anger, and sent a right hook towards Michael’s chin.

Bam!

Michael easily caught the guy’s fist on his right palm, he grinned as he looked at them.

"Do you guys know one of the things I hate the most?.....Bullies"

Then Michael kicked Gran who’s half kneeling on the ground on his chest, sending the latter slamming on the ground.

The eyes of the bullies quickly burned with more rage and anger, and one of the girls even yelled at Michael.

"Motherf*cker, do you know w-"

"I don’t care who the f*ck you guys are, and I don’t care, because this is my city! B*tches!"

Michael quickly cut her off with a nonchalant look on his face.

On the other hand.

The girl and the young man are whispering with each other.

"Who do you think he is? Doesn’t he know that this group of people have powerful backgrounds?" the girl said.

"Family background? Don’t forget that the moment a student steps foot inside this school, everyone is equal. That’s the reason why this group of as*holes haven’t gotten too far in bullying you"

"And besides, I’ve never seen this guy before. He must be new or else he wouldn’t have messed with these guys and just leave us alone"

Michael pushed the long blonde haired young man, and approached the other male student, where the latter took a step back and then suddenly roared in anger and charged towards Michael, while the long blonde haired guy gained his footing and quickly followed after his friend as they both jumped at Michael at the same time.

"F*cker, you’ll regret messing with us!" a red haired girl yelled, thinking that Michael would surely go down this time with the two guys attacking him at the same time.

Michael just grinned when he saw the two fist flying towards his face, he just cooly ducked below and suddenly burst forward and speared both students at the same time.

"Offt!""Offt!"

Two painful groans sounded as the two students got lifted off from the ground for a couple of inches before both of them got slammed onto the ground.

"Holy sh*t!" the student who was protecting the girl earlier couldn’t help but curse while holding both sides of his head when he witnessed the scene in front of his eyes, while the girls covered their mouth in shock.

*Groan*

The three male students groaned painfully as they laid down on the ground with frowns on their faces.

Michael stood up and dusted himself off while the rest of the students watched him.

"Ku..kuku"

Suddenly, one of the male students groaning on the ground laughed painfully while he glared at Michael.

"You’re gonna regret this. Do you know who my father is? He’s one of the upper executives of Black Skull. We might not be able to do anything on the surface in this city, but can you protect yourself or your loved ones if I had my father’s men attack you in the shadows?"

"Hahaha! Are you finally scared motherf*cker!? Say something!"

His companions suddenly have proud smiles on their faces when they finally remembered the background of this particular friend of theirs, while the male and female students who were the subject of bullying earlier had worried looks on both of their faces, as this is the scene that they didn’t want to see.

Michael just smiled while listening to the student before saying, "You done?"

Michael walked over beside that particular student and crouched down beside him and looked at the young man.

"So you’re from Black Skull?"

"Yeah, he’s Nicol, the son of Senator Smith. That’s why he is very arrogant" the male student who’s on Michael’s side quickly blurted out.

"Shut up! You pest!" the red haired female student angrily yelled, while she and her companions glared at the two.

Michael on the other hand suddenly had a menacing grin on his face, and when the students saw his grin, they shivered in fear as they suddenly had a feeling that the scene that they were expecting isn’t going the way they wanted to.

Where Michael should’ve have been kneeling on the ground, begging for their forgiveness, but no...this time, they knew...that they had truly f*cked up.

"More for you then little guy"

Michael grinned like a devil while lightly slapping the face of the terrified student.

"You, what are you trying to do!?"

The three male students looked at Michael with terrified looks on their faces.

"Not you two, but him"

"Wha-"

Bam!

"Ahh! My leg!"

"Oh my god! Please stop! Get away from him!"