In This Life I Will Be Strong

Chapter 3

For the first time, Samuel felt the thrill of seeing his father's back. His heart was racing, his eyes were round as the light illuminated his father's body, and there were many mixed emotions. Of all the emotions, Samuel felt the most sadness.

He felt he had to stop his father from leaving or he would be hurt forever. 

At that time, Samuel should have followed his feelings and stopped his father from leaving. Maybe he wasn't alone at the academy now. He could still visit from time to time or use magic to make video calls.

Again, Samuel was stupid for putting his ego before his instincts. He wanted to make things right. To meet his father and mother. To ask them to live with him.

Being alone was painful.

"Hey! What are you doing? It's so loud, you keep calling mom, do you have a mom? Haha."

Two students laughed at Samuel for calling mom in the bathroom. Their names were Gunnar Vonsca and Jaiver Koiler. Both came from respectable families, just like the three students who killed Samuel.

However, their level did not exceed or equal those three students.

"Wh-who?" asked Samuel, rubbing his eyes and pretending not to see.

"That kid must be crazy after being bullied by them, how about we do it too?" asked Javier, standing next to Samuel.

"Good idea, I'd love to bully someone and he's an easy target. How should we start?" Gunnar also stood beside Samuel.

Samuel's instincts told him that these two would continue to bully. As long as the three students didn't, these two would. 

Like a distraction when the core bullies weren't doing it.

Damn it. Samuel was not ready to fight back, let alone this. He hadn't thought of a plan either. For now, Samuel was helpless.

But if he just accepted it, it would be even worse. 

Do whatever it takes with a sudden plan!

"Hey, let's take off all our clothes and hide them. It'll be embarrassing for sure!" Javier shouted, preparing to touch Samuel's shoulder.

Ddduuaar!

"Fire! There's a fire in the men's room, water wizards, let's put it out!" shouted many people who saw the flames coming from the bathroom.

Samuel had three options: to hope that someone would go into the bathroom and stop them, to fight back with all his might, and finally to make everyone go into the bathroom because of something big.

The first option was impossible, because from that moment on, Samuel would never do such a weak thing. The second option was also impossible, since he believed he had fire magic, he wanted to hide it, it was not the time to show progress.

The last option was what Samuel did, he made everyone go to the bathroom because of something big.

"Quick, put out the fire! There are three students inside!"

"Damn, the fire is so big. We don't have enough water mages!"

However, this was beyond expectations. Samuel had intended to make a small fire, not one so big that it would spread to other rooms. 

The power of the fire that Samuel expected turned out to be quite large.

Surprisingly, Samuel's face felt hot. The heat seemed to form a pattern from both sides. Fortunately, there was no bleeding.

"Ah, no way..." Samuel looked down at the shards of glass that revealed his current face.

As expected, there were different patterns on both sides of the face. The color too, one side was blood red and the other was fiery red like a raging fire. One more thing, the color of his eyes was fiery red. Not the usual inky black.

The pattern looked beautiful, but it was painful to Samuel. He wanted to get rid of the pattern immediately because it felt so hot.

As for the three students, they were already on the ground from the fire explosion. Fortunately, they could not see Samuel's current condition.

Slowly, Samuel began to see the darkness. He fell unconscious along with the others. Just before that, one of the professors came in with them.

Samuel couldn't believe that he had managed to do what he had planned on the spur of the moment. Thanks to the fire magic he'd tried the first time, he hadn't been bullied.

It really felt great.

Could that be called joy? Samuel wanted to keep smiling, considering the condition of the two students lying on the ground.

More than that, the screams of the people were melodious; for the first time, Samuel didn't hate the screams.

He wanted to hear them again, over and over.

"Are you sure you're okay? The professor will continue to treat if anything hurts," said Professor Geni, the worker who took care of the school health room and taught in the health department building.

Geni was one of the professors who felt sorry for Samuel. She always looked at him with pity without doing anything.

Many times Geni caught Samuel being bullied, but the woman did nothing. She just stared sadly, as if she understood what Samuel was feeling.

How disgusting.

There is no more disgusting human being than one who feels compassion but does nothing. Just watches.

Did Samuel hate this woman?

"It's okay, Professor, thank you for helping me. Don't you have a lot of work to do? It's better to do it now. I'm really fine, I can go back to my activities tomorrow." Samuel smiled cheerfully as usual.

Yes, Samuel really hated this woman. He wanted to torture her as much as possible, but it would be easy, no thrill at all.

And Samuel wanted something more complicated, something that this woman would remember forever. Something that would make her regret ignoring him all these years.

"All right, you can call me if you need anything. I'll go first," Geni said, ruffling Samuel's hair before leaving the room.

Samuel's face, which had been full of a cheerful smile, immediately went flat as the door to the health room closed. 

It's hard to make someone feel remorse. More than a few people have chosen to take their own lives rather than have their target beg for forgiveness for a perceived mistake. 

Of those few, Samuel would be one. He would take a sweet and gentle revenge. 

Sweet means that no one will suspect that Samuel is taking revenge. Gentle, on the other hand, means to feel the pain slowly, little by little, without being able to stop for a day, until eventually the person realizes all the wrongs but can't do anything about it.

It was already too late.

"Actually, I should target these three people, but seeing your face now made me change my mind. Geni, you are the first target. Are you ready to feel the revenge of this weak disciple?

Don't worry, there will be no blood and no rough treatment because you are not the one who will feel it." Samuel pulled the corners of his lips into a thin grin.

The most painful thing for a loving women was to see a dear sister get hurt. Let alone that, just to have someone else taunt them made you want to kill them.

Especially if they were bullied the way Samuel was. Maybe it would be fun to watch.

Samuel couldn't wait to see the end of Geni's life. What it would be like and how it would feel.