Chương 55: But it Became Scolding!

Thoughts and memory came rushing to Renir's head because of Imee's words.

How did he come to it? To the point that even the weak could mistreat him?

While Renir ponders, Imee quietened since she realized they were in public. She couldn't control her voice again.

Renir found no friend since the whole neighborhood was avoiding him for his family while his classmates found him an easy target for bullying because he was silent and timid.

Is it because every person he met was hurtful that he accepted no friend?

No, Imee became his friend once and proved him not all people are bad. It was his fault she left him and became her enemy.

So the cause must've been way before that...

Since Renir was a child, he was being abused by either his father or his mother after being embraced by the ephemeral warmth of maternal love.

Is it because he was used to it that he was so accepting?

No, that wouldn't be it. He still didn't like being mistreated as he silently cries every night, wishing for a different day to come.

Except for Imee and his mother once, Renir was alone all his life. Although his life got better in high school when his parents left him into his uncle's apartment.

His uncle rarely hurt him. He just scolded Renir almost every single day while making him do all the job which he accepted.

Renir treated his aunt with care but in exchange was despised.

He knew why.

Because this aunt was unable to have a child so his uncle and she slowly drifted apart emotionally.

They accepted Renir in the household, hoping it would change somehow. But Renir just reminded them of the incapability for the aunt to have a child.

Renir, a child of others, became a stigma to the household.

However, after all this time, his uncle and his wife began to connect somehow as Renir became their hate.

Renir knew that scene, that scene was when his mother left him along with the love he needs.

He wasn't used to it. He endured all his uncle's demands and mistreatment while he treated and cared for his aunt, hoping they would return it somehow.

When he found out the result was the same, Renir felt heartbroken.

Then, he realized why he was so accepting. He learned that people with a common enemy unites, but in this case, people with common hate...

But he turned a blind eye to this. Back then, he cried alone.

He realized by being accepting and being common hate, he became a bridge for them to connect.

But... Renir didn't want to be good, he wanted to be happy too.

He wants someone to connect too.

.....

"Renir?? Renirrrr--!"

Renie woke up from his thoughts.

"Yes?"

"What I am saying is you need to show them who's boss.", Imee tried to be a boxer and softly punched Renir's cheek, "You have to flaunt your intellect and show them they can't touch you.", she then proceeded to point at her head.

Renir smiled, "Wouldn't they hate me if I do that?"

Imee stared at him as if he was dumb. She then clicked her tongue, "Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! That is where you are wrong.", she pointed her slim finger at Renir and said, "They already hate you."

"...."

Renir thought about it, 'Yes, I know that... Ah!', and realized, he needed a facepalm!

'Am I that dumb?!', he thought to himself as he opened his ears for Imee, wanting a lesson from her.

"You are quiet, you don't fight back, you have an enviable look and intellect, but you are strong and was not getting down. Anything they do to you, you would just come back to school tomorrow and do as you always do. You are hated because they can't 'defeat' you while being a loser and a coward. Maybe that is why everyone eventually stands together against you. If you don't make friends, they eventually become enemies in your case. They wanted to see you finally broken, not just bend."

Imee spat facts that roasted Renir and it was very effective.

"But don't worry, I don't hate you.", Imee's face wasn't confronting Renir's when she said this.

To this, Renir didn't blush, Imee seemed like a big sister rather than a lover at that moment, although they are not really lovers. Even if Imee straightforwardly confessed her love to him, it would feel like a familial kind of love.

Putting that aside, everything Imee had said was actually right. When he entered high school, he thought he would just stay quiet, avoid trouble, and just study since that was the only thing he could do.

But that greatly backfired just by looking at the results!

He naively thought that if he stayed quiet, the bullies would go away somehow.

"But, Renir, your sacrifice is not for naught.", Imee took Renir's attention again.

"While... observing... you,", Imee's confident tone turned to timid when she said the word "observing" then the confident tone came back after it, "I found out how to commence my plan to stop bullying and all this hate.", she smirked.

"How?", Renir leaned forward, totally gripped by Imee's words. He almost forgot she was the current student school president of their school if what she said was correct.

Not only a student high school president but one with ambition. An ambition to stop bullying. It was something even modern society had a hard time dealing with.

"When you became the target of everyone, you became the common hate and the bullying decreased overall, they were just focused on you, poor you.", she pointed her index finger out, "But then, how about we make another common thing the students can agree with? We cannot have a common love since humans are sensitive to this and have different preferences, whereas hate was as easy as ticking them off."

Renir didn't foresee that this would become so deep and important, but he was hooked with the plan.

"I just need to find that perfect commonality we all can share.", but at this thought, Imee sighed, "But our school has nutcases compared to the others... I'm sure they will impede my plans if they think it would deter their actions or reputation."

"Nutcases?", Renir comes to the same school but didn't know there were such people.

"Yes, these people are crazy, unique, or special enough to gain a title for themselves.", Imee dropped her head on her palm, wanting to surrender.

'A title?', Renir was baffled.

As long as he could remember, his school was just normal. The titles you can only get in his mind were your nicknames or something embarrassing you did in the past that was engraved to everyone's memories and you can just accept it.

Although their school was a den of delinquent since teachers don't give a care and rules are pretty much useless because no one was able to reinforce it.

But even if they are delinquents, they barely skipped school, they smoke to show they are cool, fights only happen verbally and when it really comes to physical, the whole school will chatter about it for a week or so.

Many students still study, go out with friends, slack off, review for the tests, and all of that. Renir thought it was normal and haven't heard of these nutcases.

Imee saw Renir's confused expression and blatantly explain, "You have a title yourself you know."

"Wait, what?", when Renir realized it shouldn't be a good one but he couldn't take back his question as Imee already answered;

"The Indestructible Wimp", Imee was holding her laughter, "You always study, go home and come back tomorrow. You don't even have friends to talk to so you don't know what's happening around you. And most probably, these nutcases are in a whole different league that they don't concern themselves to you."

"You really have a sharp tongue...", Renir made a sad smile.

"Well", but Imee didn't back down, "I'm honest. If you don't change yourself, I'm going to be roasting you forever."

Renir couldn't do anything but accept it, "Yes, ma'am, you're right. I'll try to change myself."

Imee didn't know that Renir already decided he wouldn't act easily to be fooled and mistreated. He just found a more accurate way of looking at it- A clear goal because of her.

On the other hand, Renir didn't know that he himself had already changed. He was about to dismiss it at the edge of his mind. Unless he proved his experience in Gantlet was real, he wouldn't believe he really changed.

So these changes happen in his blindspots.

Nobody expected the Indestructible Wimp, Renir would enter school again and catch the attention of these nutcases. The nutcases Imee spoke of are students that obtain so much reputation with their confidence and achievements that they made a name for themselves in school. Any normal student couldn't do it.

Renir himself wouldn't expect he would be a center of it all.

But that was still in the future, the near future.

Renir and Imee were still oblivious to what will happen.

After they took their rest after eating, the two of them went out of the restaurant, full of energy.

The two went their way to Renir's apartment, or his uncle's apartment.

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