The Hairy Hulk was still trying to destroy the reverse gun and Alex. Alex and Jason ran to the swimming pool hall as the Hairy Hulk followed.

They all entered the swimming pool hall.

‘Okay, here we go.’

’WHAT ARE YOU THINKING OF DOING?’

‘What else? I am going to fight you.’

Alex took a stance.

The Hairy Hulk laughed loudly.

’HAHA!! YOU FIGHT ME!’

‘What’s the matter? Scared?’

The Hairy Hulk was provoked and charged at Alex. Alex greeted the Hairy Hulk’s punch with his kick. He then again kicked him in the chest.

The Hairy Hulk eyes grew red.

He was already mad, but now he was furious. He then jumped and, for the first time, actually kicked Alex, who did not expect it.

‘Wait, you can do t-’

Alex couldn’t guard the kick and went flying to a good distance before hitting the floor.

The Hairy Hulk again ran towards Alex but slipped and landed near the pool, almost about to go in.

Alex had also asked Jason to grab a bottle of liquid hand soap while making the aspirin.

Jason just used the liquid hand soap to lubricate the surface near the pool making the Hairy Hulk slip.

Alex took out Jason’s gun and shot the dart at the Hairy Hulk. The hairy Hulk couldn’t dodge the dart, he immediately punched the water so hard that a wall of water formed.

The final dart hit the wall of water and was deflected.

‘Oh, come on.’

Then suddenly, through the water wall came Alex with the reverse gun in hand. Alex had sprinted while taking out the reverse gun as soon as he saw the water wall form.

Alex was about to inject the reverse serum in the Hairy Hulk, but the Hairy Hulk grabbed Alex’s head with his large hands and smashed it on the ground near the edge of the pool.

Alex slid the reverse gun away from the Hairy Hulk for it to be safe, but the Hairy Hulk was not interested in it anymore.

He sat on top of Alex, gave a sinister smile, and began pounding him.

Alex’s rib broke as he screamed, and the hairy Hulk laughed like a maniac.

’THIS IS WHAT YOU DESERVE’

Blood came out of Alex’s mouth and nose, and he was having a tough time just breathing.

The Hairy Hulk proudly and loudly said,

‘You will never be as strong as me.’

‘I’m…sorry…Hikaru’

Alex coughed blood.

‘I didn’t know… you actually felt this way.’

’IT’S TOO LATE TO APOLOGIZE!!’

The Hairy Hulk was about to end Alex’s life by smashing his head into pieces. He glared Alex with murderous eyes.

Alex returned it with a forced, weak smile.

’WHY ARE YOU SMILING?’

Alex replied in such a low voice that the Hairy Hulk couldn’t hear it.

‘What did you say?’

He wanted to hear an answer, so he knelt down.

‘I said…’

Suddenly Alex’s smile grew more prominent and more intense.

‘Now!! Jason!!’

Suddenly Jason appeared from the inside the pool. He had both tubes in his hands without the stopper.

The Hairy Hulk forgot he was at the edge of the pool.

During the commotion, Jason had hidden inside the pool. Alex made sure the Hairy Hulk only focused on him, making him forgot about Jason.

The Hairy Hulk had his head down, and due to surprise, his mouth had opened up.

He quickly rose up while covering his mouth with his giant hand.

Alex’s smile grew even more intense.

--You don’t have to drink the drug through your mouth to get it in. As long as it gets in the food pipe, it’s all the same, and Hikaru, you forgot that BOTH, the mouth, and the NOSE are connected to the food pipe.

Jason forcefully thrust the tubes up the Hairy Hulk nostrils.

The Hairy Hulk stood up from Alex and was about to get the tubes out, but Alex was not going to let him.

Alex quickly stood up to throw one last weak punch, but it was strong enough to push the tubes further in, and the contents started to pour.

The Hairy Hulk slipped on the lubricated surface, the liquid aspirin was deep in and started to flow.

’IT BURNS!! IT BURNS!!’

The ethanol reacted with nerve cells in the nostril, giving a powerful stinging and burning sensation.

Alex lay down on the ground, silently laughing.

‘This is why I told you to make the solution ethanol.’

‘You are an evil person.’

‘What Hikaru did was unarguably wrong? I wasn’t about to let him go without making him pay a little.’

Finally, the Hairy Hulk rose up, he knew he was drugged, and soon it will take effect. He saw the reverse gun.

Jason realized what he was going to do.

They both raced to get to the reverse gun.

The Hairy Hulk was still faster than Jason and got a split second before Jason could.

He immediately smashed the reverse gun. But to his confusion, it was still there, and there were two of them.

His ears started ringing

The drug effect had already begun.

Usually, aspirin takes a while to take effect, but when you give someone more than 30 tablets at the same time, the result will be instant and extremely strong. *Or the person will die from too much aspirin, whichever comes first.*

He had seen two of them and smashed the wrong one.

Jason grabbed the reverse gun. The Hairy Hulk finally fell down after 5 more seconds and was out of service.

Jason injected the serum, after a minute, the Hairy Hulk transformed back into Hikaru.

Alex was also somewhat healed enough to walk. He slowly walked to Jason and put his hand on his shoulder.

‘See, sometimes you have to take a little risk to make the plan work.’

‘You call this a little?’

‘Well, maybe even I thought I was going to die, but hey, my plan worked, didn’t it?’

‘If you can call this success.’

Jason scoffed.

‘So…now what? About the damage and stuff, I didn’t actually think that part through.’

‘I did.’

Jason took out his cellphone and dialed a number.

‘Yes, it is me. You can begin.’

Within a minute, construction workers popped up from everywhere.

‘WS agents can do anything, even rebuild a destroyed school overnight.’

Alex smiled.

‘I’ll remember that.’

‘The construction work will be completed overnight, and it will be like this never happened.’

‘What about the students, teachers, and Hikaru?’

‘They will continue to live there daily normal life.’

‘How?’

Jason signaled a group of men who then brought a machine.

‘Bring it here.’

‘What is that?’

’A miniature electro memory manipulator, also known as EMM. It can accurately remove and implant memories for up to three days.’

‘That is so awesome.’

‘For Hikaru, the original one is waiting which can accurately remove and implant memories up to 3 months’

‘I didn’t know the world has already made that.’

Jason began walking out of the school.

Alex picked up Hikaru and started to walk out with Jason.

‘The world has not, and it should stay that way.’

‘Can I add some memories into Hikaru?’

Jason coldly refused.

‘No’

‘Come on.’

‘No’

‘Please’

‘Still, no.’

‘You’re mean.’

‘Keep this up, and I’ll wipe out your memory too.’

Meanwhile, form a distance, a man in a lab coat watched Jason and Alex walk out with Hikaru.

A pleasant smile appeared on his face. He then dialed a number on his phone.

‘He passed the test with flying colors. Moving onto the next phase.’

To be continued.