Calm down, calm down! They’re not worth it. Just leave before anything worse happens…
I breathed in and out then just grabbed my blades and bag, gazing at the others sharply,
“If you need weapons, I will make them for you as long as you pay. No need to be so childish and throw kicks and punches left and right for it. Just pay up, what’s so hard?”
“…”
The others also started feeling ridiculous and I simply shook my head annoyed, turning to leave.
“W-wait up- cough! Y-you… f*****…”
“Want another punch?”
The guy I punched was barely able to stand up while glaring at me like mad. He then got up, his legs shaking, and with a nasty smile he called out,
“You… I heard you got a girlfriend?”
“… Who’s the idiot who fed you this b*******?”
I smiled mockingly but inside I was rather shaken. He then laughed roughly and continued,
“Hahaha~ no, no, you bastard~! This guy here told me that there is a girl that keeps on shaking her ass around you.”
He then pointed at the guy that walked me here, taking a step back after feeling my glare. Seeing this, the leader only smiled more amused, but then my laughter interrupted him from what else he wanted to say, his face remaining baffled.
“So you think you can threaten me with harming that woman? Why don’t you ask that bastard how he was sent flying to the ground after messing with her?”
Everyone then looked at the guy and his face turned red from embarrassment. I continued with a mocking grin, glaring at them like at idiots.
“You’re free to mess with her, I won’t mind. But you better try to see who’s behind her as well. Unlike me, she has a family. Putting aside the fact that her father it’s a black belt in judo, most of her friends and acquaintances are practicing some kind of martial arts, strong enough to take on several other groups like you shitheads together. I don’t need to do s*** as she is already backed by more than what some bumpkin-heads like you lot can handle. If you don’t trust me, feel free to use that dumb dog to ask around in school. They all will tell you the same thing.”
“…”
Hearing this, nobody really felt like doing so anymore and the leader’s confidence also plummeted for a moment, not sure what else to do. I then just turned to leave, only to leave another message behind,
“For the next two months, I won’t be able to do any work for you guys. Blame that idiot there. See ya.”
As I was leaving, the others felt a rather sour taste in their mouths, and the one with a bad feeling about all of this was the guy who brought me here, quickly going after me,
“W-wait, Leon! Oy Roil! Wait up!”
“?!”
After shouting out, he rushed my way and I turned bored, confused about what he wanted. However, while I didn’t suspect anything, the leader took a penknife from his back pocket, opened it then rushed my way with blood-shot eyes.
“ROIL!!!”
“Woah!”
I pushed the schoolmate away from me and quickly stepped back to dodge, the guy slashing in front and cutting my jacket open together with cutting my chest for a bit.
“What the f***? You want to kill me?!”
I shouted shaken and he then roared with a red face at me,
“You f*****! You must be that mad officer’s son, am I right?! Your mom’s dead while your father it’s in prison. He got there because of his dumb vendetta one year ago, did he not?!”
“?!”
I remained baffled after hearing this and felt my face turn pale. I looked better at him and observed how behind his blind rage, a lot of pain and anguish tried to be hidden, a few tears even falling down his face. He rushed at me again and slashed blindly as I quickly dodged and stepped back, the others looking at all of this with pale faces.
“O-oy! Dude!”
“Stop it or you might seriously kill him!”
“Man, watch it!”
However, even his own men couldn’t stop his mad rush, screaming and howling completely insane as he rushed at me while I tried to dodge desperately,
“Out of my way! Let me kill this f*****! You- you bastard! You son of a monster! I’ll end you!”
“…”
I couldn’t say anything as I just dodged and tried not to get hit, never expecting such a thing to happen. He then stopped for a moment to catch his breath, the hit I gave him still giving him a hard time breathing. He glared at me with blood-shot eyes and started talking,
“You! Your monster of a father massacred my friend and his whole f****** family! At first I thought they didn’t answer the door because they might have been away, but when I tried the door, I saw it was unlocked. What greeted me was a disgusting smell of rotten flesh and blood! Do you know what I found there? The entire f****** family completely dead in pools of blood with their throats slit f****** open! Do you have any idea how f****** sickening that is?! And your f****** father did this! ROIL!”
He rushed at me again in a frenzy with his knife forward, but this time I just stood still, my face dark.
“Crazy bastard! Dodge it!”
“He’s f****** mad!”
“Man, stop!”
He listened to nobody and rushed right at me, his knife’s tip aiming for my stomach.
“So your friend died?”
“Huh?”
-POW!-
Losing all reason and no longer in control of myself, I just punched his face in, bloodlust and rage taking over me as I smashed him to the ground with that one fist alone, his body recoiling and jumping after slamming on the hard ground.
“Gakh! Ugh!”
His nose broke while his upper lip was cut in two, blood smearing all over his face while his whole body was trembling from the shock. His knife was with the tip in my stomach, and although blood was coming out, it wasn’t able to penetrate my muscles, creating only a superficial wound. I plucked it out and blood started flowing out but I didn’t care.
“So you said that your friend’s family died? Then you must not be aware of why that happened, right?”
My eyes were just as mad as his, walking to him and lifting him by the hair.
“A-aargh! Agh!”
He squirmed around in pain, then I smashed his face once again, a few teeth being sent flying.
“You must not be aware of how my mother had a miserable death because of people like you lot, right? About how my own life was in peril.”
“S-stoph, pleash…”
His rage disappeared and was replaced by fear, his whole body trembling from the terror he was feeling as if staring at death in the face. Tears fell down because of the numbness and pain from his face, but this didn’t impress me in the slightest. My wide open and mad eyes fell on and I was unable to control my rage, my heart cold while my blood boiling.
“You said you want to go for my girl, right? It is a dog-eat-dog world after all. I do understand why you would do that.”
“N-no, nho!”
I let him go and punched him right at the base of his neck, making him throw up the next second, unable to stand up anymore as dizziness took over.
Once at a karate competition I mistakenly punched a bit higher and landed with my knuckle protections right at the base of the neck and between the collar bones of my adversary. That punch made him throw up instantly, making me aware of the sensibility of that area. Now, it was the perfect spot to hit to teach punks like him a lesson, using it whenever someone crossed the line.
Observing this one-sided massacre, his buddies were standing frozen, afraid of getting in-between us while the guy who was from the same school with me was already on his behind, his face pale.
I grabbed him again by the neck and raised him with the same burning glare but a cold expression as before, my face unchanged throughout the whole session of punishment.
“Mark my words, no matter how mad the world is, I’ll prove it that I can be madder. Be it you, your friends, or your family… if any of you touch what’s mine, I’ll end you all!”
“Sthop.. pleash… dohnt khill meh…”
“!”
I then let him go and remained frozen in place, my face unchanged but inside me there was only chaos.
“How can a human, who is the root of all evil, seek justice? Isn’t that just hypocrisy? Another form of legal evil?”
My uncle’s words resounded in my head then I felt my head throbbing as if snapping. I looked around and what met me were the eyes of fear, terror, and shock from the ones around, reminding me of the very first day when everyone learned of my father’s vendetta. All that pressure, all those gazes, that feeling of fear and insecurity, everything returned in full, making my body tense up.
“Tsk!”
I clicked my tongue annoyed at this and just turned to leave, glancing only one more time at everyone around and saying,
“If any of you comes back to seek revenge, then expect the same end. I’ll be sure to make good examples of you fuckers.”
The others gulped while I left back towards my uncle’s place, my face pale as I stared blankly at the ground. Blood was dripping from my fists and stomach, but I couldn’t feel the pain as my mind was full of chaotic thoughts, unable to make heads or tails out of them.
