"Let me clarify something." The young man in uniform said with righteous indignation, "It was you all who provoked us first, calling us Vineta merchants. Only then did we give you a beating. And I was pulled into it forcibly—the one charging in first was clearly Andre! He was the one who egged everyone on to fight! In the end, I had to clean toilets for a month."
Aike's lips curled into a smile, the kind that only emerges when reminiscing about the past. "A brawl with no winner can't really be called 'a beating,' can it?"
"Anyway, you students from The Federated Provinces used to bully us Vineta students the most." The young man in uniform couldn't help but laugh, "Ultimately, it took several fights to settle things."
