Chapter 135 - Not Anymore

Absolutely no one knows this except me and the Principal but Roy's entire family has been in the radar of HYDRAs ever since Roy returned from here. 

The Principal whose entire family was eradicated by the HYDRAs became a sensitive matter for her and that led her to investigate it personally. 

Soon it was found out that Roy was asked to try to put pressure on me and make the situation worse for me in order to keep his family safe. 

His entire household was held somewhere around the new construction site. He could only meet twice and as an assurance, they would let Roy see his parents on a regular basis but on one condition. 

'To Never Let others know about this. If only a single word were to get out his younger sister's arm will be chopped off along with his father's all of the fingers.' 

How do I know this? 

As I thought, the Principal wasn't that incompetent, she is actually pretty finance and sly. She found this and took action accordingly. 

When did all this take place? 

I don't know the specific date but I am guessing when she was trying to avoid any contact from me she was investigating that matter and here I was assuming she wasn't feeling well because she let go of the only lead about the HYDRAs. 

Also, the ones she captured, the same group who had kidnapped Roy's parents, were just ordinary streets though who had been paid beforehand so the trial that Principal turned out to be a disappointment. 

And most likely right now, the news is being disclosed to Roy as his eyes swell up. 

*Click* 

He gave me my phone back. 

"So how are you going to leave school on your own or do I have to expel you?" I asked him. 

"W-What…?" Although he was delighted beyond anything at the moment he still has to pay for all the troubles he has caused me. 

"You didn't think that if you were forced to do anything you wouldn't get punished, would you have been able to walk free if you were to tell the jury that you were forced to kill me?" I said. 

I don't care what made him do all this but I can't have a person like him around me at all. He is too impulsive and acts on emotions. The one thing that I can't endure is the decisions made on emotions. 

It's the worst thing any human can do with emotions. 

"B-But… I was really forced… what would you have done in that situation…?" he asked me. 

"Me? Of course, I would have done what they had told me to do," I said. 

"So why are you still after me…?" he asked me. 

"Your's was found out by me. If you had hidden this fact and I wouldn't have known about this I wouldn't do anything like this but that's not the reality," I said, "You got caught. You have to pay the price." 

"... Why should I listen to you anyway…?" he said. 

So ungrateful. I helped him free his family and all his struggle, why can't he just do one thing I tell him to?

"I was hoping you would accept my gracious offer but it appears you aren't going to accept it so why not see this before you get expelled?" I unlocked my phone and opened my gallery. 

… 

Right, when I was pulled inside the room I needed a perfect alibi that I was threatened and forced. So I instantly took my phone out and opened the camera. 

Although the room wasn't lit up, the camera was still able to capture certain images, and most of the time, it recorded the conversation pretty clearly. 

And after I knocked out Roy, I checked the video. 

And miraculously my phone has a feature to automatically enable night mode. So not just slight images but it was clear enough to discrete the people inside the video and above all Roy was seen pretty nicely and clearly attacking me.

It wasn't me who was going to get expelled but it was him. 

I could have used this on him earlier but I didn't, I had to find out the truth and my guess his family being threatened or him being threatened turned out to be true. 

There was a slight possibility of HYDRAs involved in it so hoping to find something I waited for the right opportunity but in the end, the HYDRAs weren't stupid enough to get caught that easily. 

So with nothing to gain from him, I am using the video now. 

…

"Wh-... how–" he was shaken and above all his delighted and brightened look was half turned into despair. 

"So Roy here's the idea," I said, "Since you aren't accepting to leave the school on your own and by the way, that would have been the best choice-" 

"I a-accept to leave the s-school on my own…" he said. 

"Oh, sorry but that's already off the table. You can't choose something that isn't on the table anymore. Now the only option left is to get expelled," I said. 

I wouldn't even think of letting him off easily. Absolutely never. After all, that he has done I won't go easy on him. And I intentionally proposed the idea of letting him leave the school on his own. 

I wanted him to lose all hope and have just one, i.e., to be grateful that I  didn't go any further. If I want to, I could ruin his entire life with just this video. 

He will get jailed although he is under 18 it wouldn't be anywhere similar to the real jail, it would be juvenile jail. But only the word 'jail' is enough to ruin someone's entire life. 

So, I was just going to make him get expelled without leaking the video. He can resent me but he also has to be indebted to me. 

"... N-No don't do that… Allen… I am sorry… I am really sorry," he begged me. 

His eyes that were crying, that cries that were filled with joy and relief are now turned into despair. 

"Why are you saying sorry now? I am not the evil here, don't make me look like a villain," I said. 

"... Allen… please don't… it would ruin my… life…" he was on his knees now. 

Completely laid himself on me. Not one bit he thought of it as shameless, the only thing he was thinking on how to change his current situation. At desperate times you need desperate actions without thinking twice. 

"Don't worry I won't do that to you…" I said. 

"W-What… what do you mean by… that?" He looked up, still trembling. 

"The Principal will help you get into a new school of course you would still have the word 'expelled' right next to your name," I said, "I can't do anything about it but." 

"B-But…?" tears of droplets curled down his wrinkled face. 

"You have to be indebted to me until the day you perish… also I need to know the name of the person who forced you to come here today," I said. 

"... " he seemed hesitant. 

Let me finish that hesitation for good," WHy not just send this video online… I wonder what will happen then…?" I placed my index finger at the upload button and showed him. 

"No! I will t-tell you," he said. 

"You better or else this might get uploaded soon enough," I said.

It was Harrison and the President… they both told me to rile you up and get you to use force on me…" 

That's how it is. 

"Also… about the prior one… I won't forget that…" he said. 

"You better…" I said, "Go to the Principal's room, and when you again meet with Harrison and the President tell them this… 

'If you have the guts then come at me from the front and not from those sly tricks that you have been using till now.'" 

"I will…" he replied as he shook the dust off his clothes and stood up. 

And with that, I left him behind. 

… 

With this one less problem in my life. 

And it seems like things have started to steer up a bit now. For this long, the President or even the Student Council seemed to be silent but with this, I think they have started to do something. 

And especially the President… I need to be precautious of him. The first time he was not just one but the entire football field ahead of me. This time it won't be. 

He had already predicted I might force my way out and as a precaution, he recorded only the specific parts of my speech. 

And the one he used to record was also someone who is entirely secluded from the school. I can't let that happen again.

I won't let it be like that this way again. I have enough of this humiliation, false charges and being excluded… I had enough of this. It's time to turn things around. 

TO BE CONTINUED…