"Get out!" Ulf shouted .
"What?"
This was the boys' locker room after all, but it couldn't be helped . "Girl incoming . Out!"
He helped Christina inside and glared at the boys as they exited . A few showed signs of reluctance and needed some help convincing . "Get the hell out of here! You don't help them when they're in trouble, you don't bloody get to look at them!"
That convinced the last ones .
'When did it get this bad? I got photos from her locker and desk, but I never believed they'd actually beat her up . '
Christina had made it to the toilet and locked herself inside when he heard voices behind him . "Outside!"
"What makes you . . . " he started before he thought of listening to the distinctly female voice inside the boys' locker room .
"Look," Noriko, because it was Noriko with Kyoko in tow, said in a much friendlier tone . "I like your good intentions . Pity they didn't come with a brain . "
Ulf stared at her . Then he stared at the bundle she held in her arms . 'Dry clothes? Dry clothes! Brains one, white knight zero . '
He bent his head and gave his feet a long stare as he shuffled outside .
There he took up guard by the door . Yukio was already waiting, and down the right wing stairs, several steps at a time, Ryu came jumping and joined them .
'You get an F for tardiness and an A for attitude . ' Ryu's face was flaring with rage .
"Teachers coming?" Ulf asked Yukio .
"Hope so . This is getting dirty," Yukio answered and threw an exaggerated look at the left wing stairs .
Boys from second and third grade were slowly descending on them .
"I'm not moving," Ryu growled silently, as if he was worried about how Yukio and Ulf would handle the threat .
"You freshmen, get away from there!" And now the threat had been verbalised .
"Make me!" Ulf suggested . It didn't matter any longer . Any hope he had left of maintaining the fiction of being a member of geek squad was already destroyed . 'Spreading the graces . Bye bye monopoly, 3:1 . '
"Learn to respect your elders you little shit!"
Now that was novel . The speaker was easily ten centimetres shorter than himself, which put the definition of 'little shit' in a new light .
"Respect where respect is deserved . Doesn't include you . " Ulf removed his glasses and stretched to his full height . There was a time for being polite and one for being intimidating .
"We're going inside, so move it!"
"I'll stop you . "
There were over a dozen of them now . Ulf knew he could handle himself well if it came down to violence, but there were just too many of them now .
The speaker felt the addition of supporters as well . "You and what army?" He eyed Yukio and Ryu over and smiled .
"This army!"
All of them turned to see who had shouted the last words .
'Watabe, I bloody love you!' Both twins came down the right wing stairs spearheading more or less every member of the combined fan-clubs . By now a fight was out of the question . The last forces to arrive included girls in the double digits . Ulf slowly let out air from his lungs he hadn't even noticed he had drawn .
With the situation finally defused Ulf felt the door behind him budge . Kyoko and Noriko came out flanking Christina in a dry PE-uniform and a bag with her soaked school uniform in her hands .
They had made an attempt to fix her up, but nothing could hide her swollen face and cut hands . The sight made the present freshmen gasp, and then the sound of their voices turned ugly again .
"What happened?"
"Seniors . They beat her up . "
'Shut the fuck up Yukio! You're not helping . '
Ulf looked at Christina . She could take a joke, he decided .
"She tripped and fell into a doorpost . Several times," he said deadpan .
"Clumsy me," Christina added .
'Atta girl! You're my heroine!' "My lady, shall we?" he asked and offered her his arm .
She accepted, and together they strode down the corridor in the direction of the infirmary . Finally understanding the game the freshmen filed in behind them .
Chapter end
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