Chapter 214

Chapter 214

Pterosaur VS Gorilla

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“What kind of education are you giving your child!?”

The mother pterosaur shouted, her voice filled with fury. Beside her, her son pterosaur smirked mischievously. At this, the gorilla… no, Jess’s father frowned and spoke.

“Isn’t it that your son was bullying his friend, and our daughter stopped him?”

Despite his massive frame, fierce appearance, and striking red hair, the mother pterosaur hesitated for a moment but soon puffed her chest out with a defiant expression.

“Our sweet son would never do such a thing! Your child must have misunderstood and hit him! Right, son?”

“That’s right!”

The teacher, covering her lips with her hand, marveled at the scene.

‘They say reality is stranger than fiction… Do people like this really exist? Aren’t they embarrassed to say such things out loud?’

The teacher glanced quickly toward the door and windows of the staff room. For the students, who spent their days in a monotonous cycle, this kind of spectacle was rare. Even though the teachers were shouting for them to go back, the children were hiding like mice, secretly watching the parents’ argument.

The sound of a video recording starting with a “Ding!” was an added bonus.

‘How much has the world changed, and yet there are still people like this… Ugh…’

The teacher realized that a video that would soon be the main feature of tomorrow morning’s news and a hot topic on social media was being created right before her eyes. She quickly slipped away to a corner where neither the eyes of others nor the cameras could reach and made her escape.

“They say he was so brutish that he broke the classroom door! How could our delicate son not have been hurt?”

The mother pterosaur tried to frame her son as a pitiful victim, using Jess’s strength as an excuse. The son, raised by such a wonderful parent (?), had already conspired with his friends to fabricate details that didn’t even happen.

“And what do you mean by bullying? Ha! Bullying, my foot! If anything, our son says he’s the one being bullied!”

Could anyone be more foolish?

Everyone knew that Lian was being bullied—teachers, students, even the school guards. How could they lie so brazenly when they were bound to be caught, and even face backlash?

The reason was simple.

“Isn’t that right, teacher?”

“Ah, well… um, you see…”

It was because Lian was strangely unloved by the world. The people who lived in this world naturally felt a sense of rejection toward him, and no matter how unfair the situation, there was no one who would protect him.

Lian, however, loved this world despite everything, and the power he gained through his survival instincts was not one that killed others but rather one of ‘adaptation,’ allowing him to blend in and live within the world.

A gentle person in a world that didn’t suit him at all.

Jess, with her beast-like instincts, could sense just how unpleasant this world was, how rude and threatening it was to Lian.

‘Can’t I just take him and run away?’

Jess began to imagine escaping with Lian to the world where they had once lived, a world where neither of them would have to deal with this nonsense.

Perhaps irritated by Jess’s attitude, the mother pterosaur raised her voice sharply and pointed at her.

“Look at that! Look at that attitude! So rude!”

She even began to tear up, as if to appeal to the world about her supposed injustice. She had pulled out her trump card before any proper conversation had even started.

When someone tries to win a fight with emotions, the way to win is simple.

“Why don’t you take a look at this first?”

Jess’s father handed over a brown file with a blank expression. The mother pterosaur, still sobbing, tried to ignore the file. Perhaps she thought that if she just held out a little longer, she would win… or something along those lines.

“If you don’t want to read it, that’s fine. To summarize, we’ve already gathered evidence that your son has been repeatedly involved in assault, theft, and sexual harassment. The parents of the students are planning to file a group lawsuit, so you should be aware of that.”

“What…?”

When someone comes at you with emotions, you deal with it rationally. Facts always hurt, and the hammer of the law can easily ruin lives. The mother pterosaur, who had been crying as if the world was ending, now stared blankly at the man.

Whether her tears had been crocodile tears or not, there were hardly any tear stains on her face. She might as well have yawned to force them out.

Jess’s father, not caring about her reaction, turned to Jess.

“Daughter, are you hurt anywhere?”

“No.”

He was simply a father who wanted to ensure Jess could continue living in this world alongside Lian. It wasn’t that Jess was cold or calculating, but rather that she instinctively sensed that the mother pterosaur was nothing more than an illusion.

The only reason he could smile at such an illusion with any affection was because he could faintly sense Lian’s power within Jess.

Just as Jess’s desire to protect Lian had created a protective shield around her, a fragment of that will had seeped into the illusion, making him want to show affection and help her.

It was a faint trace, barely noticeable, but not something to completely push away either.

“Next time, make sure they can’t even talk. I’ll take care of everything. Oh, my daughter is so wonderful! Helping out a friend who’s being bullied, too.”

His large hand reached out to pat her head, but Jess slipped away like a liquid cat. Only a select few were allowed to touch her head.

As he made a disappointed face, Jess pouted and lightly tapped his arm with her shoulder, as if to say thank you. The sulking gorilla instantly became a happy gorilla.

“Huh, huh…”

The mother pterosaur was so dumbfounded that she couldn’t even form a proper sentence. Just as she was about to open her mouth for round two, Jess’s father turned around and handed her the brown file again.

“Before you say anything else, read this first.”

She was about to raise her voice again, but the terrifying word “group lawsuit” flashed through her mind, and with trembling hands, she took the file. Her shaking hands roughly flipped through the pages.

As the pages fluttered, she saw an image of what was clearly her son, smoking and bullying other students. She collapsed to the floor.

She had never imagined that her precious child could have done such a thing. If she regretted it now and tried to discipline him, there was still a chance she could fulfill her role as a proper parent.

Unfortunately, she wasn’t that smart.

“This… this must be doctored! Even if it’s not…! He, he could have been stressed from studying too much!”

Denial of reality, self-justification.

It was clear how she viewed the world and how she had been living her life. Jess tilted her head slightly, curious about how her father had neutralized the opponent without throwing a single punch.

The habit of twitching her ears had remained, even though the ears that once sat atop her head were gone, leaving her only with the gesture of tilting her head when she was curious.

‘More than that, I want to see Lian.’

Because of the classroom destruction incident and the delinquent fainting incident, Jess had been dragged to the staff room, separated from Lian. Having seen him collapse helplessly several times, her anxiety wouldn’t let her sit still.

“Is it over now? Can I go?”

Jess looked at her father, suppressing the urge to bounce up and down in place. Seeing his adorable daughter, he smiled and nodded. Without looking back, Jess ran off to find where Lian might be.

Screech, bang!

The door opened violently, and the noisy students, who had been chattering loudly in the staff room, suddenly fell silent. Their startled eyes turned toward the door that had been flung open.

Lian sat alone in the seat closest to the trash can. As if he were some kind of germ, the desks around him were all pushed far away.

Jess’s sharp gaze quickly scanned the classroom. Despite her urge to hug Lian and shower him with kisses, her sharp mind first assessed the classroom’s atmosphere, the situation, and who was in charge.

“Lian!”

On the surface, she was like a puppy who had just found its owner. Jess quickly approached Lian and nestled into his arms with practiced ease. The moment Jess appeared, Lian, who had been frozen like a statue, was suddenly pulled into her chest, his face buried in her embrace, and he flailed his arms helplessly.

Jess took his flailing hands and placed them around her waist. As his hands grasped her slim waist, firm yet slightly soft, Lian turned into a complete statue.

“What, what the heck?”

“Who is she…?”

“Why is such a beauty all over him?!”

The class turned upside down as the beautiful girl, with looks and a figure that could put celebrities to shame, displayed such bold and intimate affection toward Lian, the most ignored student in the class.

End of Chapter