“There he is…” Takumi thought. Hyde was just starting his supposed cleaning duties. He was dragging along a cart of cleaning equipment to the boys' bathroom. It was a spacious hallway so he didn’t notice the octopus Nicaen glaring at him. Takumi turned around, closing his eyes as he pressed his head. Memory after memory of the endless torture Hyde and his “friends” did to him resurfaced in his mind. Being stuffed in cramped lockers, the endless stomping over his tentacles, and the dreaded after school beatings…
Takumi opened his eyes, now pooled with his tears for a moment before he wiped