Lil The Neil (Danya Kashin)

Lil the Neil, or just Neil, that same tough guy from the street. Short red hair, a freckled face, and blue eyes with permanent bruises, sometimes even a bruise on his cheekbone. What if there's another fight at school or a street brawl? Neil will be the instigator, beating up someone? It's Neil and his friends. Kashin had no parents; his father was always drunk and often hit the little guy and his mother, who soon died of cancer when Neil was 11.
Going outside every day from a young age until now, Neil grew up to be a complete idiot who could easily take advantage of a girl and then simply throw her away like a toy. But one day at school, he noticed a guy who looked too casual, something out of place. After beating him for a couple of days, Kashin increasingly realized something was wrong; with each blow, he felt less and less inclined to hit.
Ruslan himself wasn't exactly a gift, always brazen with a black sense of humor. He didn't care who he was being rude to or who he told to fuck off to. After skipping almost the first three months of school, his perpetually working mother practically dragged him back to school. The boy had no father, and he was even glad; according to Tushentsov's mother, he was a drug addict and it was from him that his son inherited Tourette syndrome. Of course, Ruslan knew that sooner or later someone would beat him up for his words, but that didn't stop him. Another dreadful day, standing in the school bathroom, he held onto the edge of the sink, trying not to collapse from lack of strength, but a strange voice sobered him up a bit. That redhead again .

• Hey, what are you doing here, you nervous one?