He who defy Gods (Arifureta X OC/Male Reader)

Chapter 15 The Enemy

No one's POV

After the battle, Sora dumped the unconscious Shimizu in front of the students. His head bounced a few times on the ground before coming to a rest. Aiko and the others all gasped.

When she'd seen Sora dragging Shimizu back, she'd waited for him outside the town walls. The only people present at the moment were Aishia, Hajime, Tio, Shea, Yue, Will, the students, Aiko, David and his guards, and a few of the town's most important people.

If they'd brought the culprit into town, Sora had no doubt it would have caused an uproar, so he'd met them all here. The mayor and many of the other town's prominent figures were busy dealing with the battle's aftermath.

Aiko hesitantly walked up to Shimizu, who was still unconscious. The fact that he was wearing a black robe, and that Sora had taken him directly from the battlefield, proved his guilt. She hadn't wanted to believe it, but now she had no choice. Aiko looked down sadly at Shimizu and shook him to wake him up.

David: Aiko, he could still be dangerous.

David tried to stop her, but Aiko simply shook her head. She asked he be untied as well. She said she wouldn't be able to have a proper conversation with him otherwise. Aiko still intended to have a teacher to student talk with him.

Aiko: Shimizu, Shimizu! Please wake up, Shimizu!

Yukitoshi: Ngh...

Finally, Shimizu regained consciousness. He gazed around with unfocused eyes. A second later, he realized where he was, and came to himself with a start.
He tried to stand up, but the concussion still hadn't worn off, so he fell back to the ground. Terrified, he tried to crawl backward. His eyes darted from one person to another, his expression a mixture of wariness and fear.

Aiko: Please calm down, Shimizu-kun. No one's going to hurt you. I just want to talk to you. Why did you do something like this...? That's all I want to know. I just want to understand your feelings.

Aiko kneeled down until she was at eye level, then gazed patiently at Shimizu. His eyes stopped darting about. He guiltily averted his gaze and that started explaining... or rather insulting everyone.

Yukitoshi: Why? You can't even tell why? That's why you're all a bunch of incompetent losers. You all always look down on me... and go on about hero this, hero that. Even though I'm way better than that prick Kouki... none of you ever noticed. You always just pretended like I wasn't even there... You're all a bunch of retards! That's why I wanted to prove my worth to all of you...

Atsushi: You little... Do you realize what you did!? You nearly killed everyone in the town!

Noboru: And you called us losers!?

Nana: Do you even know how worried Ai-chan-sensei was about you?

Shimizu didn't show the least bit of remorse. Atsushi, Nana, and Noboru couldn't take it anymore and started yelling at him. Intimidated, Shimizu hung his head and went silent. Aiko couldn't bear to see Shimizu like that, so she stopped Atsushi and the others from going any further. Then, in as gentle a voice as she could muster, she responded to his words.

Aiko: I see. So that's what you were dissatisfied about, then... But you know, Shimizu. I don't understand, why would you try and get back at your classmates because of that? Why'd you try and attack the city? If you'd succeeded... and killed all the people of this town... even if you had an army of monsters at your command, that wouldn't have proven your worth.

He looked up at Aiko, dark eyes peering through dirty bangs. He smiled thinly and gave a most shocking answer.

Yukitoshi: It would have... to the demons.