It seemed Damien had noticed Hannah's spirit had broken, and she gave up resistance. Smirking with satisfa, he could no longer hold back. He stretched out his hand, aiming to touch her fa front of the crowd.

  Hannah wao resist, but Damien's earlier words echoed in her mind. Whatever shred of defiance she had left vanished in an instant.

  "Snap!"

  Just as his hand was about to touch Hannah's cheek, another hand shot out, gripping Damien's wrist.

  The strength of the grip was immense. Damie as though his wrist might shatter uhe pressure, a out a cry of pain.

  "O! Stop!"

  The excruciating pain overwhelmed him, leaving no room to focus on who was causing it.

  Standing there, Julian stared coldly at Damien. The Dean family was one of the families that had sent Alex into the secret realm to assassinate him.

  His grandfather, John, had already provided a list of key Dean family members.

  And Damien's name was on it.

  Julian hadn't even sought him out yet, ahe man was, delivering himself on a silver ptter.

  Su opportunity wasn't one Julian po waste.

  Hannah, meanwhile, was stunned.

  She remembered approag Julian in the library before—not out of geerest, but hoping to leverage the influence of his family to keep others like Damien at bay.

  Her pn had failed spectacurly. Julian had been pletely immuo her looks and charm, and she had even mao irritate him.

  Afterward, she had not dared to approach him again.

  But she didn't expect that, at her lowest moment, with so many bystaoo afraid to intervehe person who stepped forward to save her was her than Julian.

  An indescribable mix of emotions surged through her heart.

  "Crack!"

  With a little more force, Julian shattered Damien's wrist entirely.

  The sound of bones snapping echoed loud and clear, making even the surrounding students turn pale with fright.

  Oher hand, Damie out a scream, his eyes rolling back as he nearly passed out.

  Julian had already let go of him by now, and Damien colpsed to the ground in pain.

  "Julian—you! Is your family pnning to decre war on the Dean family?"

  After gasping a few breaths to steady himself, Damien finally regained his senses. In his heart, he had already decided to carve the man before him into pieces. Looking up, his expression shifted fre to stiffness and back to fury.

  He was already a spoiled rich kid, and now, having lost his reasoirely, he blurted out a decration of war against the Walker family.

  Julian walked up to him then, without a word, he delivered a powerful sp to Damien's face.

  The blow was so forceful it knocked out half of Damien's teeth.

  "You think you're worthy?"

  Julian sneered coldly. The Dean family, a native imperial capital own for their Steel-types, was far weaker than the Walker family.

  That single sp left Damien passed out pletely, so he didn't evehe rest of Julian's words.

  Had the setting been different, Julian wouldn't have hesitated to kill him right there.

  Ever sihe Dean family had sent Alex into the secret realm tet him, their fate had been sealed.

  After finishing what he came for, Julian turned and headed toward the library. Someone else would take care of the unscious Damien.

  As soon as Julia, the surrounding students let out a sigh of relief. They were all stunned by Julian's fierce demeanor just now, and none of them wao end up on the receiving end of that sp.

  Fortunately, the chaos didn't spill over to them.

  Nobody felt sorry for Damien. If anything, many thought Julian had dohe right thing.

  However, their curiosity shifted to Hannah.

  There had been rumors before about Julian fighting the civilian prodigy Zed over Hannah, and now, Julian had beaten Damien to a pulp for her. This was the very definition of a "hero saving the damsel."

  But uzzled everyone was that after all this, Julia without sparing her an didn't make sense.

  Could he be putting on a show?

  "Are you okay, Hannah?"

  Just then a group of Hannah's girlfriends rushed over. A girl who seemed like the leader of the group looked at her with .

  Still in a daze, Hannah shook her head. Then the group noticed the bloodied and swollen face of the man lying on the ground. His features were so distorted he looked like a Gengar.

  "Who is this?"

  Holy, with his fa such a state, they couldn't reize him.

  "He's Damien," Hannah said softly.

  "What? That scumbag? Did you beat him up?"

  The leader looked at Hannah in shock, as if she had just met a pletely different person.

  "It wasn't me. It was Julian"

  Hannah crified, shaking her head.

  Then, to everyone's surprise, she walked over to the unscious Damien. Uhe fused gazes of those around her, she kicked him—right is.

  'F**k, that ought to hurt real bad'

  Several male students instinctively crossed their legs. Even though they weren't the ones being kicked, they felt a phantom pain that left their faces pale.

  Hannah had ehree years of harassment from Damien—fear, anger, and hatred building up all that time. With that single kick, a rge k of her pent-up emotions seemed to dissipate.

  But it wasn't enough. Just moments ago, he had used her parents and sister to threaten her.

  Kick!.

  Another kick!.

  And another.

  She kept kig him as if in a frenzy, her pent-up rage p out with each strike.

  "Enough, Hannah, that's enough!"

  The girl quickly stopped Hannah. If she kept kig, Damien might actually end up dead.

  As despicable as he was and deserving of punishment, killing him in public would leave Hannah no room to escape the w.

  Taking someone like him down at the cost of her own future wasn't worth it.

  Soon, Hannah was whisked away by her sisterly group of friends.

  The surrounding students also dispersed not long after. Not a single person bothered to che Damie alone call an ambunce.

  Meanwhile, the i was already making waves across the Imperial Uy campus through the i.

  As for Julian, the party involved, he was already in the library, engrossed in reading materials on-Type Pokémon training.

  The 'Special recruit css' group chat, was already in chaos. Someone had even uploaded a video of Julian spping Damien. Maagging Julian, but with his phone on silent, he remained oblivious to the otion.

  Dalton: As expected of Boss Julian, Even your sps are stylish.

  Ian: Julian, call me ime for this kind of fun!

  Luis: That guy's been on my bad side for a while now. Well done, Brother Julian.

  Kate: Hero saves the day, huh? What about Shen?

  Shen: We're just friends.

  Hugo: Need me to finish him off? Hit me up privately if you do; prices are iable.

  Everyone in the css: Σ┗(＠ロ@;)┛

  Group Ma Message: Member Hugo has been kicked out of the group chat.