Chapter 72 - Delinquent Diaries (16)

Ahoy Sea Debris!

I realise that it gets harder to insult you readers with every entry. You don't make a single peep and I didn't know if you've noticed my attempt at offending you. In any case, today is the final entry for the Delinquent Diary Series of my Observational Journal. Allow me to introduce you to Big Bear.

Yes, that's the nickname I decided I was going to give him. His real name sounds cuddly but do not be mistaken, this gentle giant can be deadly when provoked.

Big Bear is normally friendly. He enjoys meeting new people and making friends. Actually, scratch that. It doesn't have to be people. he loves meeting new animals as well. Big Bear is a massive softie when it comes to animals. His motto?

"Humans are the only creatures who will betray their kind. Animals will not. You can trust animals but you can never trust a human like you trust an animal."

That's something really philosophical there but Big Bear broke it down for the simpletons like me. It means that animals are what they are but humans lie all the time. You can count on an animal to love you or hate you, to leave you or eat you but you can never be sure of a human's intentions.

Now that's real food for thought.

there are some quirks that I'd observed about Big Bear while tutoring Dragon. The boy is always complaining about his clothing being too small. however, I doubt that is the case. from the very first time I saw him, I think Big Bear has actually grown bigger. I don't know how this is possible but I'm most certain that the boy has grown larger. His clothes didn't shrink in the wash, they're the wrong material for wash shrinking anyway. However, given the things that Big bear constantly puts in his mouth, I wouldn't be surprised by the growth. It's not a healthy growth upwards either so it worries me. By estimation, Big Bear should be twice as large as Octopus Head in two more months at the rate he is growing unless there is divine intervention. Mind you, Octopus Head is easily twice the size of Joker who is the scrawniest kid in class. that means that Big Bear is about three times as large as Joker. That's a really big boy for you.

When it came to the battle of strengths, I finally managed to satisfy everyone's curiosity. We agreed that during a lunch break, Big Bear and East Dragon will meet at the school field to lift the heaviest object we can find in the school without destroying it.

Casper and I worked hard to find anything that was nearly a hundred kilograms but the closest thing we found was an abandoned gas barrel that was empty and rusted. It had a capacity of 42 gallons when converted to the metric system is roughly 158kg but seeing as it was badly rusted, we could only manage to fill about half of it or slightly more. There was an old dingy machine that measured the weight of the barrel with water in it. It was 78.9kg so we rounded it off to 80kg before the start of the strength battle to know who the strongest delinquent in the class was.

Cue to the moment of truth when East Dragon miserably failed to lift the barrel off the ground but Big Bear easily did so and lifted the thing over his head before dumping water all over himself for a refreshing cool down.

Nobody argued with the results. Big Bear was definitely the champion in strength. East Dragon didn't look too disappointed either. If anything he looked proud. I'm not even going to go into details of what the boys did after that because I don't want to recall the enraged face of the gardener who used the barrel to keep his compost in. Also, I don't think the principal was amused by the water wastage. I know that the boys were obsessed with finding out how much they could lift but repeatedly lifting the barrel and having a 'refreshing shower' isn't the wisest idea.

Apart from strength, Big Bear is actually a social butterfly. He was the school's animal whisperer and knows as many people as Casanova. In fact, it wasn't until Big Bear told Casper about a friend he knew from the Special Class that we understood the extent of his social network.

Casper and I talked a little bit about the dancing twins in our class that Big Bear was friends with and we discovered that Big Bear isn't someone who should be taken lightly. The gentle giant shared that he became friends with the sisters after smacking some poor pervert who was harassing the twins after one of their performances. when Big Bear was angry, he was less like a bear and more like an angry rhinoceros.

If it weren't for the security pulling him back, Big Bear might have sat on the pervert and crushed him to death. It took eight big men from the security to stop him. The best part? Big Bear wasn't completely aware of what he did when he snapped. That makes him a double danger to be around anyone when he snaps because Big Bear simply doesn't remember anything.

Although I am not a psychologist, I can say that this might be a rage blackout episode. Casper and I did some intensive research about this condition but turned up empty-handed. There are many conflicting studies to prove that rage blackouts are real but those that claimed it is a thing, matched with what Big Bear described to us when he had an episode. Big Bear usually have rage blackouts when there was a wave of extreme anger, usually from some kind of emotional trigger, and ends up suddenly realising that he was hurting all over and extremely tired. He wouldn't be able to remember anything that happened at the scene or who he saw.

Unfortunately, neither Casper nor I were doctors. Our best advice would be to not do silly things that would trigger Big Bear. Usually, things that cause him to go into one of the rage blackouts were scenes of injustice. Things like animal torture, bullying, s.e.x.u.a.l outrage and discrimination will make him angry. Extreme cases send him on a rampage.

In any case, this is the end of my Delinquent Diaries series. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Don't forget to leave in the comments below which delinquent you liked the best. The most popular delinquent will get an exclusive journal entry dedicated to the ways of a true misfit.

Until next time, fair winds!

Pirate S.

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