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forcing me to hiss out
hese a
t only jus
roperly, the entire classroom had broken into la
s feel it? The floor ju
whale!" Some
ar her, poor girl,
if the flo
ockery, and now their words, cruel and gleef
ough I had all memories of Veronica's su
body. I was not yet
was too fragile and untrained. It shivered violently at the imp
. I must make this body us
stigious! Don't insult it by comparing with h
him erupted again, l
figured her head probably didn't even touch the floor. I b
, I was a bit stunned. Never in my life had I experienced
bad for Ver
tone filled with disgust. "Her hair... it looks like a mop so
e wobbly noodles! I've seen marshmallows
o get up - haha! I've never
ntire time, instead, lettin
lash on the face, designed
e to shrink, to crumble, to apolog
rtained themselves b
as very easy for someone in her place to end her life, but I'd started admir
ed her hairstyle." One timid
they're... actually kinda pretty without th
anyway, and the backlas
! Are you
it, admit it!" Students shriek
"N-no! I-I didn't mean-uh..." He sank into
new body. Although I was still struggling with it, I ha
hat had lain dormant inside me for so l
unfit for such a mild attack, but my min
countless times. That girl was gone. Now, this belonged to me, and t
tly, yet with head held high, unlike Veronica
oom fell into a strange, uneasy silence, punct
Veronica for years froze.
itch touched the
to survive, hadn't expected me to carry anything but f
someone whispered. The shoc
hey will. I'll make sure of t
nother added, and for the first time
ould have reacted. This p
anner, letting the silence stretch,
e. Indifference was what I had grown up wit
inally rang. Although, the entire time I
about the teaching system,
rs taught students as though they feared them. And the portions were too s
ored in the class actually. The topics were too easy and yet the students' faces looked a
s I was about to walk out of the toilet, giggl
r in the toilet?"
God, I can't wai
e too funny."
y brows. What are
. She'll regret coming back to schoo
re waiting to throw wate
d I took my time to get used to it. Bu
sudden. And before they could even realize what happened, I kicked
ls toppled, shrieking
rl's hand, pressing painfully on her fing
ng anguish was my specialty and
wering my face to her scared one "because next
shivering tone, but the moment our gazes met, her e
eve it or not, I would and I could do it. This was what I had be
her fingers permanently, I removed my foot from her hand, and instantly, she
wever, the moment I turned to the door of the re
y from the memory of Veroni
te of disbelief. Clearly, unable to belie
had seen me endure, seen me take cruelty silently, and now she was seeing me fight back-s
She gasped out. Her ton
nd patient, my gaze locking
ack, yet cornered b
r voice bare
she could understand, my fingers found her hair, yankin
against her ear. "Or next time, you'll f
t i
e paled, breath coming in short,
y, making her tears drop. "Answ
." She bre
re hierarchy of her world had cru
was no longer Veronica, the meek, fragile girl
ed her cheek, and released her, letting her
ned, and the prey- everyone who had mocked Veronica, la
ge had ju
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