"Um, Makoto-kun... it looks like Kokoro and the others have arrived. They're waiting for us."
At that moment, Kotonoha spoke up, still sounding a little nervous.
Makoto then remembered that the elementary school Nayuta attended let out much earlier than the high school. She had probably been waiting at the gate for quite a while.
"Let's go."
Makoto nodded.
If Nayuta got tired of waiting, who knew what she might do.
The group made their way to the school gate in a grand procession.
They saw many students gathered at the entrance, reluctant to leave.
Seeing Makoto and the others approaching, they quickly cleared a path.
"Woof! Woof woof!"
When Kotonoha saw the scene everyone was watching, she was stunned.
There, on all fours, were Kato Otome, Obuchi Minami, Koizumi Natsumi, and Mori Kumi… the group of four who used to bully her regularly. They were crawling on their hands and knees, heads raised, barking like dogs. Occasionally, they would lift a leg, mimicking a male dog urinating.
Fortunately, Shuchi'in Academy's skirts were long enough to prevent any exposure.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
A girl who looked about six years old sat on Kato Otome's back, laughing heartily.
"Na, Nayuta, d-don't do this, okay?"
Kokoro tugged at Nayuta's arm beside her, but she couldn't stop her.
"Nayuta, what are you doing now?"
Makoto said helplessly.
But Kokoro, who had been at odds with Makoto this morning, surprisingly stepped forward to defend Nayuta.
"O, Onii-chan, it's not Nayuta's fault. I-It's my fault..."
"Huh?"
Kokoro then recounted what had happened to everyone.
Kokoro and Nayuta had come to Shuchi'in Academy right after school to wait for Makoto and Kotonoha to finish.
However, they ran into Kato Otome and her three followers.
After class today, they had passed by Class 1-F and seen Kotonoha standing beside Makoto.
Although she wasn't acting as close as the other women, anyone who wasn't blind could see she was with him.
This infuriated the group of four, who had once taken pleasure in bullying this 'princess'.
Adding to that, they had heard that Ito Makotou had died of a sudden heart attack, and Kato Otome couldn't help but complain.
"That damn woman. What does she have besides big tits and a pretty face? First she seduced Makotou, and now that he's dead, she's latched onto Makoto!"
Kato Otome led the three out of the school, her mouth firing off complaints like a machine gun.
She felt this woman was created by God just to spite her.
Not only had she stolen her former crush, but now that Ito Makotou was dead, she had immediately latched onto the strongest man in the world.
And on top of that, she was the daughter of a conglomerate.
Damn, how could her life be so good?
One could only say Kato Otome was quite something. Why didn't she go pick a fight with Kaguya or Chika?
Oh, right… because she knew they would actually kill her.
"If you ask me, Nishikawa Makoto's taste isn't that great either. He can actually fall for a woman who has nothing going for her except her chest."
Koizumi Natsumi chimed in.
"Hey hey, keep it down. Don't let Ishigami Yu hear you."
Obuchi Minami quickly reminded her.
After all, everyone knew that whenever someone insulted Makoto at school, Yu would randomly spawn nearby.
Koizumi Natsumi said defiantly, "Didn't you just see him still in the classroom? What, does he have dog ears that can hear from that far?"
"Who has bad taste?"
Suddenly, a young girl's voice was heard. The four turned to look and saw a girl of exceptional beauty, clearly destined to be a stunner, with a tear mole under her left eyelid, sitting atop the main gate of Shuchi'in Academy, legs crossed, looking down at them.
"Who are you?"
The four were used to being arrogant and snapped back instinctively.
"My sister is not a big-breasted girl!"
At that moment, another little girl stepped forward, shouting indignantly.
Seeing a face that was ninety percent similar to Kotonoha's, Kato Otome and the others immediately guessed her identity.
Thinking of Kotonoha's timid, easily bullied nature, Obuchi Minami and the others naturally didn't take Kokoro seriously either. They sneered, "What is she, if not a big-breasted girl? Waving those huge things around to seduce men."
Koizumi Natsumi also taunted, "She's as cheap as a bitch. If you don't want to end up like her, you'd better stay away."
Kokoro was only in elementary school. Even though she wasn't as weak as her sister, she couldn't match Kato Otome and her gang's skill in verbal abuse.
She was so angry her eyes welled up with tears.
Nayuta, sitting atop the gate, clicked her tongue.
'My follower is the only one I can bully. Who do you think you are?'
'Besides, these bitches just insulted Makoto, didn't they?'
Thinking this, Nayuta's expression gradually became dangerous. If Aki or the others were here, they would definitely be reminded of Makima.
"You like bitches so much? How about you become bitches yourselves?"
Kato Otome and the four looked up instinctively, meeting Nayuta's strange golden, concentric-circle eyes.
"Say, 'I am a dog'."
Nayuta sneered.
And then things turned out like this.
"Woof! Woof woof!"
The group of four was still barking incessantly.
After hearing the whole story, Makoto nodded. "Yeah, they deserve it."
"Hee hee hee!"
Nayuta, praised, put her hands on her hips and looked proud. She pointed at the four dogs and asked, "What should we do with them next? Take them to the bathroom to eat shit, or make them mate in public like dogs?"
Everyone around, whether it was Erina, Alice, Hiratsuka, and other players who had returned from the other world, or ordinary people like Chika, Kitagawa Marin, Kobayashi Rindo, were stunned. (T/N: Changing Hiratsuka Shizuka to use her surname instead from now on since there's another person with Shizuka name in this chapter.)
They could see that this strikingly beautiful elementary school girl was also clearly a superpowered individual.
Haruno, standing on the periphery, speculated that she was probably a Genjutsu user like her sister.
But what frightened her was how ruthless this girl was. She could casually suggest things like eating shit or mating in public.
Shirogane Miyuki, Kuga Terunori, and others who had not yet been chosen by the Reincarnation Game silently gulped.
While the former was a bit extreme, they wouldn't mind seeing the latter.
"It's boring if you do it."
Makoto scooped Nayuta up and looked at Kotonoha.
"What do you think? I remember they bullied you for quite a few years, right? Want to take this chance to get rid of them?"
Hearing this, everyone was startled at first, but then, considering what he had done before, it didn't seem strange.
"I, I..."
Kotonoha was also startled.
Although she had also spent over a decade in the Chainsaw Man World, she had always followed the others and remained a wallflower. She hadn't experienced any major events, so her personality hadn't changed much from before the transmigration.
If anything, only her androphobia had lessened somewhat.
"Not doing it?"
Makoto couldn't help but show a hint of disappointment.
To be honest, not having Kotonoha kill Ito Makotou herself had always been a small regret of his.
At the very least, she should be the one to get rid of these bitches like Kato Otome, right?
Seeing the disappointment in Makoto's eyes, Kotonoha's heart tightened.
She didn't want to see such an expression on his face, especially if she was the cause of it.
With that thought, Kotonoha clenched her fists, took out a small paper cutter from her school bag… the kind used in handicraft class.
'Whoa, was she really going to do it?'
Chika, Kuga, and the others were dumbfounded.
'That quiet-looking girl had that much courage?'
Kotonoha was breathing heavily, constantly encouraging herself in her heart.
'Ju, just as long as it's something Makoto wants me to do, I, I, I will definitely...'
"Ah, wait a minute."
Just as she had made up her mind and was about to do it, Makoto suddenly stopped her.
Hiratsuka, Haruno, and the others in the crowd were startled.
'Whoa, was I dreaming?'
'Makoto actually stopped someone from killing?'
Makoto took the cutter from Kotonoha's hand and said, "What can you do with a little knife like this? I have something more fun."
With that, Makoto took Kotonoha's hand and walked back towards the school building, calling out over his shoulder, "Keep an eye on them. Don't let the dogs run away."
"Yes! Chainsaw-sama!"
Beam immediately responded.
Yu turned red with frustration, 'Damn it, I was beaten to it again!'
A short while later, in the Shuchi'in Academy nurse's office.
The school nurse, Marikawa Shizuka put on her mask and gloves, picked up a scalpel, and said with an air of innocence, "This is my first time doing a heart transplant at school. Is it okay?"
Kotonoha, lying on the operating table, nodded. "Ju, just as long as Makoto wants me to, I, I'll do it."
"Alright then..."
Since the patient had said so, Shizuka didn't say anything more and began to unbutton the surgical gown on Kotonoha.
"Oh oh! Impressive. You might catch up to me someday."
Seeing Shizuka's figure, which seemed to press against her face when she bent over, Kotonoha's cheeks flushed.
'Ca, can I really become that big?'
But thinking about her mother's figure, which was no less, and perhaps even greater than Shizuka's, Kotonoha thought it was quite possible.
'Wo, would Makoto like that?'