"You're dating Yamada Inori?"

"Oh, has the rumour mill made it official?" he replies lightly, but now that he's paying attention he's noticed Hōji standing nearby, her arms crossed, sporting a venomous glare. And a couple of other kids seem to be paying undue attention to this while a lot of others are standing back. Tōkan does not like where this is going at all. He stops walking.

"He fucked us up, and he's been doing that forever. He got Narishi and Takuo a while ago, too—"

"You know, giving me a list of classmates that my boyfriend beat up for being rapists isn't about to make me feel particularly moved to compassion."

"You think you're so much better than us, don't you?" says Hōji. "Even while you're doing the same thing, just grabbing a hot piece of omega ass—"

Tōkan squeezes his hands into fists and is about to say something—

—when Subaru interrupts her and says, "Boyfriend. B o y f r i e n d. He literally just said. Tōkan isn't just using Yamada, they have a relationship. Had that crossed your mind? That two people might like each other and respect each other and want more than just sex?"

"Seriously, Kageyama? He left you for that delinquent and you're still defending him?" she says, with an incredulous and condescending tone.

"Well some of us have the maturity to deal with our relationships and emotions in rational, productive ways."

"Everyone thought you were gonna get over that stupid stick up your ass about omegas when you grew up—"

"Do you have a point?" Tōkan interrupts with an annoyed sigh. "Was it really that hard to believe that I meant it when I said that rape is bad? Rape. Is. Bad."

"Rape this, rape that, you've fucked Yamada and you know damn well that omegas in heat like him just want to be stuffed by alpha cock and this bitching is just them feeling ashamed of being such sluts—"

"You did not just call an entire fucking sex sluts—"

"He's not wrong, though," says someone else—Takuo, that's who, Tōkan recognises him. "It's just basic biology. We're alphas! We are meant to be strong and assertive and to lead others and omegas are just horny all the time and want to be bred—"

"Are we going to get to the part where you guys are so mad at me you try to beat me up? I'm getting tired of this."

"Fuck you, Tōkan," says Hōji. "That's what I mean, you just talk like you're above all that, well guess what, you're not! You're just trying to play politics, the Kokonoe heir is so modern, he's on the side of the oppressed, never mind that thing in the sports room, never mind everyone you beat up. You're an alpha, Kokonoe, you're one of us, no matter how much you like to pretend you're not. You're just better at pulling strings and hiding it, 'dating' Yamada my ass you just figured out how to make it look like you're not betraying your principles, you sanctimonious asshole."

"I may be a sanctimonious asshole but at least I'm not raping middle schoolers—"

Okay he's been waiting outside far too long now. And he doesn't tend to pay much attention but the volume of people leaving school today seemed somewhat less than usual? Maybe something happened.

Also he's been waiting outside far too long and wants to go find his boyfriend. So he swings his pipe up to rest it over a shoulder and stalks into Kokonoe High.

At the end of the day they are alphas, so the scene Inori sees when he walks towards the commotion he spotted in the distance is a fight.

Well, kind of a fight.

Subaru's not very good at fighting at all and is being held in a headlock by someone. Meanwhile Tōkan is being held by two people and rather severely punched by a third.

...well that seems like Tuesday.

And he's not at all in heat so he thinks these people are about to get to know exactly why he's called the Shikiri demon.

The crowd that had been watching and not helping at all and taking pictures and videos also do not interfere when the demon appears and singlehandedly kicks the asses of six different people. At least he broke enough of a sweat that they can say he's probably mostly human.

"You're pathetic, Kokonoe," says Hōji from where she's on the ground nursing a big enough bruise on the side of her torso she'll probably not be able to wear a bikini for a while. "Can't even take it like an alpha without your little boyfriend saving you—"

"Oh, now he's my boyfriend?" Tōkan says with forced casualness from where he and Subaru are leaning against a wall and nursing their own wounds.

"You're the ones who got beaten up by an omega so why don't you shut the fuck up and leave before I decide I want seconds?"

...that is actually scary enough that even the bystanders decide they have very important business elsewhere all at once. The kids who were participating in the fight throw Tōkan, Subaru, and Inori dirty looks and say even dirtier things under their breaths but also skedaddle.

Once everyone is far enough away that no sucker punches are likely to be forthcoming he strides over (...maybe more like limps over) to Inori to pull his mask down and him into a kiss.