No amount of searching could find his laptop; the laptop was truly gone!
"What now?" He thought while gazing empty into his backpack and sweating Perls falling down.
Only about ten minutes later the soccer game was over, Julian had already changed his clothes and ran to his locker, hoping to find it there; with no success.
As he walked out, with his thoughts going back and forth someone tapped his shoulder from behind, it was no other then Fu Chao; he reached out his hand and gave Julian his laptop back.
"Don't worry, I already have downloaded the files, you can have your laptop back; I will call you soon, Hehe…" With that he walked away.
"Sigh…what now? I don't even know where he has downloaded them, he could not just have it on his laptop but theoretically on countless other devices; one thing is weird, why did he not already tell everyone? I don't think that this means anything good, I think it's the opposite!"
He thought and thought about what to do now until it was already the next morning, he was never that scared of a school day ever before.
In school he saw many people talking about a certain website, asking his "friends" They told him "I don't know, it just seems as someone from school made a website with rumors and insults or something similar over students, this person placed stickers with the websites domain and even a QR code that leads to the website, that's why everyone knows this!"
Later on, the school tried to get rid of every sticker, what was hard because everywhere they were!
"So…this is what he did with them…I think; this bastard is going to blackmail me, not just expose, Heh…I am truly fucked up…"
In a short break, going to the toilet, he encountered him again…
"Well, well, I think I don't need to explain anymore what I did with your files, right? But anyways, you want to know why I just not simply exposed you already…the answer is simple; only exposing you would be far too simple and not enough!"
"And now? What are you going to do now?"
"You are going to do some stuff for me, right? Soon an anonymous number will message you, you will notice that it's me, just follow the orders…"
Ding, Dong, Ding.
"Sigh…okay, see you…" He said drained, you could almost sense a little bit of rebellion in his voice.
"What? How do you talk to me! What are you allowing yourself, to talk in such a disrespectful way to me?" Chao didn't really feel disrespected, it was only a way to hold Julian in a cage, if Julian comes away with little rebellion he will slightly try more and more.
"Maybe because you are blackmailing me?"
Chao acted outraged and said, "I am sorry, but I can let you not talk like this to me; your punishment is to…lick my shoe, three times!"
Chao stayed cold as eyes and said it like it normal.
"Are you sick in your head? I am not, for sure!"
Julian tried to say no and no…until he needed to; Chao would've exposed him if he wouldn't …
"T-this bastard!" he couldn't but to think at Ran, Ran also tried to break his ego by choking him out, but what happened now; was far worse.
After the last class he got a message, anonymous call, Chao…
"You probably see this one student there, short, blue eyes, weird clothing style, you surely know who I mean, you are popular and he surely doesn't says no to spend time with you; I want to spend little time with him and before you go, you beat him up, if I would've be you, what I am glad I am not; I would do it somewhere no one could see it (:"
"I hate him!"
"Why do you want this?"
"He is in my class, I asked him for a pencil, he said simply no, even not even an excuse, I could even see he has multiple! But even if there isn't a reason you shouldn't ask that much!"
Julian had no other choice than to do it!
"Hey, I like your style!"
He instantly recognized Julian as being extremely popular and agreed instantly to drink something with him, even though he already had other plans. "Tsk…maybe Chao is right about this guy, how bad of a friend you can be that you cancel your plans?"
Even though he was on a mission he thought he could ask a bit.
"You surely heard about this website with rumors, right? What exactly is that for a website?"
"Äh…I was one of those that scanned the QR code to get there, you want me to show it to you?"
Thirty minutes later…
"I am sorry, but I need to go home now, we have tomorrow a test to write and I want to sleep at least a little bit!"
"Sure, no problem and thanks for inviting me again!"
Now it got to the tricky part.
"Sigh…I kind of trust you, can I show you something before we go?"
"O-okay, thanks…sure, I guess?!"
Not much away from the café they passed dark alley.
"Mercer, where are we going to?"
Julian stood still suddenly and pushed the student in the alley.
The student fell to the ground, Julian stomped at him and even insulted!
"YOU LITTLE ASSHOLE; WHAT KIND OF FRIEND ARE YOU???" And similar, not much time after, he was done, still conscious, not in life threating state, but full of blood.
"If you tell this anyone, you are not making it alive out of it, understood!!!"
Took a photo of him and sent it Chao.
Walking home he didn't even care. "Doesn't matter any ways! So what?!"
"Good, Julian, you did really well, wait for new orders!"
At home he just took a bath to get rid of all the sweat and blood on his fists.
"Ahh, ouch, I didn't think that my fists hurt so bad after all!"
"The question now is, what´s is future plans? Does he want to blackmail me more and more, or are there other plans too?"
Again, the next day Chao searched again for a conservation with Julian.
"Hello, hello, you did good yesterday! But I have again something for you to do, Hehe…today when I wanted to go to the toilet there were some second graders, they bumped into me and insulted me, don't beat them up, frame them as sexual molesters…"
"And wait, I am still going to send you some pictures that you know how they look…"
"What, does he want me to do, sigh…but the question is what an alternative could be…none…"
The same day he was spreading rumors, Julian even got some girls that claim it! Next day he came into school, he saw the ones he spread the rumors; they got beat up and not much after the school heard about the rumors and even girls claiming that…they all got expelled.
"Heh…you did well." A voice from behind said.
"You satisfied finally?"
"A bit more but not fully, Hehe…I think you know now how it's going right? See you little!"
For some reason, the next day it was compete silence, no orders at all. "Is it over maybe? But why so suddenly?"
And then, in the middle of a Friday evening or already night Julian got a long message.
"You need to do something you need to do! There is some third grader asshole that needs a lesson! His name is Yuuma Nao, what…what this guy did is just…doesn't matters, soon there is a party, I heard you know him a bit, you need to take him somewhere, I will send you the location, you just need to bring him there and help me tie him up!!!"
"Uh…okay…"
"DAMN IT, WHAT SHOULD I DO? I CAN'T SIMPLY JUST DO SUCH STUFF TO EVERYONE!"
His heart raced faster than ever, the party is already tomorrow, Yuuma Nao is not just a nobody, he is quite popular, just a little mistake could lead to being exposed!
Julian was shocked to see Chao the next day, they decided to prep before the party started and that Julian knew where to bring Yuuma, but Chao had bruises and injuries all over his body! He didn't dare to ask but he could already think about what happened; but he simply just couldn't imagine him doing something like this!
"Julian, its time soon, I wait here, and you go to the party, stay patient and take your time, if he didn't drink enough alcohol, but this in his drink." He handed Julian something over that looked like some kind of medicine for insomnia, it looked like a very strong one.
"Sigh…thanks, like you said I take my time; so, it can take a few hours…see you…"
"Finally, I can go out of this weird cabin and finally I am away from this guy!"