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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