I wonder if that bully honestly thought she would forgive his literal physical abuse of another person just by saying he liked her. Even if she were to suddenly say “yeah, I’m super into guys that beat up people for me without my knowing”, that’d mean she had a pretty shitty personality (and I’m just assuming here, but I would hope he liked her for her kind personality and not just looks), which personally would be a huge turn off. I really just don’t know what was going through his mind or what reality he was living in, where what he was doing (beating up another student that she was obviously at least friends with) was going to get her to start dating him. I just really hope he doesn’t play a role in future chapters or even crosses her mind again (like he did with the confession this chapter). She doesn’t NEED to end up with the mc (though honestly I could see it), but she better not end up falling for that poor excuse for a human being (bully).