Welcome Aboard

"H-Hold your horses, Kobayashi. Why would you want eyebags to join us?", Ken asked in denial as he jumped down.

Atushi angrily yelled, "What was that?! Who are you calling 'eyebags', you f*cking ketchup?!"

The two of them kept on murmuring with each other as they begun to hit each other repeatedly. Sabrina had a vein throb on her forehead in annoyance as she placed both of her hands to cover their faces.

Sabrina asked with her eyes filled with rage, "How about you two just shut up?!"

"Fine, but you’re nothing at all", Ken said in a smug manner as he smirked confidently.

"Huh?"

Ken wickedly smiled as he activated his red lightning at his right hand and asked, "You think you’re better at scaring people than I am?"

Atsushi interrupted as sweat flowed from his forehead, "Just quit it, ketchup." Ken deactivated his red lightning and his expression turned back to his usual straight face.

"So, Atsushi. You wanna join us? I still don’t have an ability though, but Ken would figure something out. I’m sure", Sabrina asked in an approachable manner as she tried to convince Atsushi.

Atsushi asked in doubt as he air quoted his hands, "How can you be so sure that he 'can figure' it out?"

"I hate to admit it but he’s in the Elite class and he does have basically perfect scores in all of his subjects", Sabrina replied in frustration with tears flowed from her eyes.

"So, are you in or what?", Ken asked as he took his right hand out for a handshake.

When Atsushi was about to return the handshake, be electrified Ken using on his neck using a stun gun that he held with his left hand. Ken stood still for a while after being electrified but moved again back to normal after five seconds.

Atsushi asked in surprise, "How can you move so easily after that?!"

Ken replied as he fixed his messy hair with both of his hands, "I can’t tell you about my secret for now. Don’t be misunderstood. I can’t tell it ‘cause I have trust issues. I’ll just tell you if it’s time."

Atsushi's eyes widen in surprise and smile as he replied, "Fine. I don’t intend to trust you that easy anyway…"

“So that’s a ‘yes’? Yeah! Now we have three members in our team, but I’m feeling like I’m forgetting something”, Sabrina cheered happily and suddenly switch to thinking aloud.

The school bell rang loudly as the three students were gasped in surprise.

“Shoot! I’m late!”, the three of them exclaimed in unison.

Somewhere inside the school, Ken hastily ran the hallway in panic as he panted continuously and thought to himself,

"Shoot! I still have to get my things from the classroom so I could get ready for the next class."

When Ken was about to get into the open door of his classroom, he saw someone walking towards outside the classroom, but he can't stop his momentum anymore and bumped into them like a car crash in the middle of the road. It was a good thing that it wasn't major for they only bumped each other by the shoulders as he continued to run towards inside and said to the girl, "Sorry."

The girl, who was standing still by the door while Ken was already inside, lowered her head down while her face blushed as she went out of the room and replied, "It’s fine." She then thought to herself with a smile on her face as she walked the hallway, "He’s strong. It looks like he’ll be able to grant my wish."

During dismissal time, the school bell rang as Ken walked out of the campus and towards the school gate with the other students so he could arrive home early as he thought to himself,

"Good thing Sabrina understood my reasoning. We were supposed to hang out at the cat café but I still need to study for the end-of-term exams." He increased his pace as he went out of the school gate and saw Sabrina who walking on the other side of the street. "I suppose Atsushi and Sabrina are having a good time right now. Wait, why is Atsushi not with her? Nah, I don’t care." He shrugged as he continued to walk on the sidewalk.

As Ken continued to walk on the sidewalk while passing different buildings of shops, he walked towards a net that was unnaturally lied flat on the ground without noticing, and out of the blue, he was caught by it, and started to carry him towards a rooftop. Ken continued to struggle so he could get out of the net while looking flustered and surprised.

As the net arrived at the roof, Ken was set free as he saw two big bodyguards who were both holding a rope that connected to the rope, and a blonde girl who wore a purple lion mask and his school’s female uniform.

Ken quickly stood up as he angrily asked while pointing his right index finger towards the mysterious group that looked quite identical to a mafia, "Who the heck are you?! Are you the new 'lion king' or what?"

"How dare a scum like you hang out with other people happily while I’m stuck in that stupid school with all the other scums. You even bumped me with your dirty self. Get him, men", the girl replied in arrogance as she gave her orders (towards her men, not food nor any related to a restaurant).

The two giant guards cracked their fists as they walked towards Ken intimidatingly. The surroundings suddenly turned black in Ken's perspective as only multiple punching sounds could be heard.

On the next day during lunch time at the school cafeteria, Ken and Sabrina sat on the table across from each other as she ate her lunch silently. Ken, who was across from her, was drinking coffee with dark circles under his eyes, and she stopped to observe Ken while looking freaked out and asked,

"Uh, is that trending? Drinking coffee for lunch?"

"I don’t want to talk about it", Ken replied as he took a sip from his canned coffee.

During last night, Ken was lying flat on his bed with his back as he thought about what happened earlier when he was beaten up to a pulp. Ken kept on panting to catch his breath as Euphoria just suddenly showed up out of nowhere. She rested her face to her right fist with her right elbow placed right next to Ken's pillow as she asked,

"Yo. So, had another fight, musclehead?"

"Shut Up. Just had been conquered by purple lion king earlier and I’m really tired. What’s with this lack of stamina right now?", Ken angrily replied as he turned his body to lie on his chest as he face planted onto his pillow and muffled scream.

"You mean you don’t know?"

"What?", Ken asked with his face still on the pillow.

Euphoria replied as she gently patted Ken’s head with her right hand, "Your healing abilities is not magic. It requires the user’s stamina in order to heal the target’s body cells. It’s called science, my dear friend."

Back in the present, Ken thought to himself, "That purple lion king’s voice sounded familiar." As he looked around his surroundings, he saw a blonde girl who was sitting on a different table a few distance away from theirs, chatting with a pink colored hair boy.

Under a Sakura tree in the school garden, Sabrina was sitting under the shade as she ate her lunch in silence while Ken was eating his lunch with an exhausted look on his face, eyebags worsening, and his complexion was starting to get pale.

Sabrina stopped eating as she asked with a worried expression, "Ken, did you get any sleep?"

"Yeah, yeah. I just… studied myself to death", Ken weakly replied.

On the next day, Wednesday, Ken looked sleepy as he ate his lunch from the lunch box. During Thursday, Ken’s drool flowed out of his mouth while asleep, and as his head fall forward, he slammed his face onto his closed lunch box on the floor. Sabrina walked away from the school garden then came back with a blanket on her hands and placed it on Ken's back. She sat down beside him and continued eating her lunch. Friday, Ken looked worse than before as he slowly crawled towards the tree while biting the wrapped cloth of his lunch box. Sabrina observed him with her jaw dropped in shock.

Sabrina said with an angry expression, "Ok, that’s it."

During sunset, Ken went out of the school gate and walked to the convenience store through the sidewalks. Sabrina, who was hiding behind the wall from the school gate, was discreetly following him from behind. After Ken’s shift ended at 8 PM, he went out of the store while wearing his school uniform and walked the streets to head back to his home while Sabrina continued on tailing him. As soon as Ken turned towards an alley, she thought to herself while witnessing the act,

"Hmmm… this looks suspicious…" She slowly approached the alley and saw Ken with a blonde girl who was wearing their school uniform and a purple lion mask to hide her face and two giant bodyguards standing beside her. Sabrina then hid behind the wall that will lead her to the alley as she eavesdropped on their conversation. As someone who was tailing someone and eavesdropped on someone else’s conversation, she’s not really convincing.

Ken said as he yawned in drowsiness, "You know what, purple lion king? You’re a coward."

The blonde girl smiled arrogantly as she replied, "What was that?! I’m not a coward. You’re the one who’s a coward here. You never fought back or report me to other people ‘cause you’re afraid to die young, right?"

Ken continued as he smirked, "Of course. I didn’t ‘cause you said so. By the way, you’re the one who’s a coward since you never dirtied your hands at all. Those massive bodyguards did all the dirty work for you. This is why I hate rich people. Got that, you spoiled brat?!"

"Shut up! Just get him!", the girl yelled as she pointed her left index finger towards Ken and the guards walked towards Ken.

Sabrina, who witnessed everything, was shocked, and immediately ran towards Ken with her right hand raised in front of her to try and reach him. Her hands released a cold smoke out of nowhere and suddenly froze the guards.

The girl exclaimed in anger and surprise, "What just happened?! What did you do to my men, you little b*tch?!"

Sabrina looked at her hands in awe, "Whoa. My ability is ice! Cool! Literally!" She ran towards Ken in worry, "You Ok, Ken?"

"I'm fi—", Ken weakly replied but was interrupted when Sabrina held and pulled his left hand on the spur of the moment.

"Good. Now, let’s get outta here", Sabrina said as she pulled Ken out of the alley and ran away from there as fast as they can.

The girl sighed as she wore a smile and closed her eyes that were seen on the space between the mask and her cheeks, "She even froze my guards." She opened her eyes widely in surprise as she ran away screaming in disgust, "Wait. Why am I in this filthy alley?!"

The first guard, who was still frozen solid, tried to speak but it was muffled by the ice and the translation was, "A little help…"

The second guard, who was frozen as well, muffled talk in reply and the translation was, "I don’t care anymore."