The Black Swan Behind

213 Emma Hilland V.S Calvin Lee

Plan B was something that Emma and Rachel really didn’t want to do. However, they had no other choice.

Rachel nodded and gulped. Fought against her own friends? That must be frustrating.

Instinctively, Emma paired up with Marcel to fight Calvin. And Rachel paired up with Kenny against Ian. It was an unequal fight. But since the goal was a victory, anything would be done.

Calvin lunged at the two of them so quickly. Emma didn’t think she had the heart to hit Calvin. It felt like her legs and hands couldn’t take out the energy when they almost touched him. She just kept dodging away.

Marcel realized that. But he was just silent. It seemed like Black indeed was a good person. On the one hand, Marcel felt guilty for using the man for his benefit. Even indirectly, he had lied to Black.

Rachel threw her fist at Ian’s face. But he managed to avoid it and swiftly got a straight kick from Kenny. He still managed to dodge a little from the attack but to no avail. Kenny’s big feet hit him in the stomach so he almost fell backwards. Fortunately, because he had time to dodge a little, the power from the impact didn’t land completely on his stomach.

‘Tsk! It is not good. They are both too strong. We lost number here,’ Ian thought as he dodged the follow-up attack from Rachel, whose movement was faster than Kenny’s.

After avoiding Rachel, Ian deliberately shifted his body towards Kenny and immediately grabbed him by the collar and slammed him to the floor with a Morote Gari movement which was to catch one of Kenny’s legs and knock him backwards.

“Ha.. You guys won’t be able to hang on. Wait until Troy gets here. We’ll have fun together,” Ian said.

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“Troy?” Marcel mumbled. Oh.. Right. There was still Troy on his way towards them. From Vico’s information earlier, Troy still had men following him. If they were to join here, things would be even more unfavourable.

Marcel knew that in fact, Black would be able to fight Calvin Lee. If in the end, the situation forced them to, Black would not hesitate to do it.

As the fight continued, Marcel approached Emma and said to her, “Black. We have to split up the team again. Can your friend help Kenny find Troy?”

Emma also thought that the three men: Calvin, Ian, and Troy, would be highly troublesome if they had joined here. As much as possible, they have to be separated to make it easier to be defeated.

Then Emma nodded in agreement. By that, Marcel immediately ordered Kenny to go downstairs to find Troy and fight him elsewhere with Rachel.

Ian smiled crookedly as he cracked his collarbones and fingers, “It is fair now,”

Calvin looked at Black who was standing a meter in front of him, “Are you sure going to do this?”

Emma was silent for a moment and then nodded. ‘I’ll take this as practice, Calvin. Am I going to lose to you?’ Emma said to herself before answering in her robotic voice, “We’ll see who’s tougher,”

Black’s answer made Calvin let out a long sigh. There was no smile on his face. But he didn’t look angry either. He realized that Black had been avoiding him since the start. But Calvin understood now. It turned out that what Black wanted was a one-on-one fight. He wanted to measure strength.

Emma learned that Calvin didn’t just master one self-defence technique. If it was in an official sport, it was called MMA or Mixed Martial Art, where all the moves from various types of martial arts were combined.

Honestly, dealing with this was more difficult than facing a person who only mastered one type of martial arts, because the attacks that he would give tend to be rather difficult for Emma to predict.

If Emma had mastered all types of martial arts, then Calvin seemed like a balanced opponent for her. But Emma had to be very careful because she knew that Calvin’s movements were squirrel fast.

Emma started to move, took a few steps forward, and was followed by Calvin. The two of them had their hands ready in front of their faces, ready to take an attack or parry an attack. They kept moving slowly in a circle, facing each other. It was as if there was an invisible ring that became the arena for the two of them to fight.

Emma lost in body posture from Calvin. Her height didn’t even reach Calvin’s shoulders. Therefore, the length of her legs and arms were not the same as his. In one jab, Calvin could touch Emma’s face. But that didn’t apply to Emma. In a situation like this, Emma had to use her legs more. So, she would use Taekwondo.

From Calvin’s stance, Emma could tell that he was going to use Muay Thai and maybe Boxing. Of course, the power of a man was in his arms and that was deadly. Calvin was indeed smart if he chose both martial arts types to fight Emma who was weaker in upper fights.

Apparently, Calvin and Emma had the same fighting principle. Both were more reluctant to attack first. So, Emma would relent this time. She decided to attack first.

Emma threw a straight-forward kick with her right foot into Calvin’s chest.

But Calvin immediately shifted his body to the side with no effort and smiled, “Yop Chagi (Side Kick)? A pleasant opening,” He knew it wasn’t a serious attack.

Emma squinted her eyes as she pulled her foot back quickly, ‘Beautiful accent. Could it be that he is a Korean who understands Taekwondo? Ugh.. This will be a pain in the ass,’ Emma groaned inwardly. Incidentally, her Taekwondo master was brought all the way by his father from South Korea. Her Sa Beom Nim was the best teacher in the country.

Yes, Emma was correct. Calvin indeed had South Korean parents, but he was born in Handway City. However, he still remembered well when his grandmother used to teach a little Taekwondo moves, because in their hometown, his grandfather was a Sa Beom or teacher who opened his own Taekwondo training centre. Even Calvin’s father was actually good at martial arts, but he preferred business.

However, Calvin would use Muay Thai for this fight. Seeing Black’s position which was still quite close to him, Calvin immediately took a step forward and threw a Knee Bar (Knee kick).

Seeing that swift attack, Emma quickly moved sideways and bowed. Her right hand pushed Calvin’s knee, which was still under her stomach, to the outside and her left hand immediately pushed down his upper back hard as she stepped back. Because Calvin stood on with only one leg, he instantly fell forward.

Calvin could see a shadow from the side and when he turned, Black was already floating in the air. Black performed the Webster technique, which was a flip jump to rotate 360 ??degrees like a somersault with her right foot straight forward, so her heel would hit anything that was in front of her with the force of gravity from the spin plus her body weight.

Fortunately, Calvin managed to swiftly roll his body to the side, so that Black’s move did not hit his back.

Emma quickly realized that Calvin could dodge it. Then she immediately shifted her foot so her heel wouldn’t hit the hard floor.

Calvin didn’t expect Black to attack him like that, even when he was still in a fall-down position. It looked like this fight was going to get really serious. Then he quickly turned his body after rolling and resting on both hands with both legs swinging to the side to slide off Black’s feet that had just landed on the floor.

Calvin’s long legs were able to reach Emma’s standing position. Unfortunately, the man’s speed made Emma unable to avoid the slide. And of course, Emma immediately fell to the side. Luckily, she still had time to move both hands and immediately made a sideways movement, so her body didn’t hit the floor.

Emma looked at Calvin with sharp eyes and heavy breathing. The faces of the two of them were deadly serious. Both understood that this fight would be excitedly appealing. So, there should not be a game anymore.

Emma ran straight at Calvin, jumped up, and turned her body backwards 360-degree with her right leg straight towards Calvin’s head. It was a Dolke Chagi or also could be called a Tornado kick.

Even though Emma wanted to scream while launching the attack, just as when she was practising, she didn’t dare to do so because she was afraid if the voice changer device she was wearing wouldn’t be able to cover up her loud screams, so that everyone present would hear a woman’s scream from behind Black’s mask.

Black’s movements were as fast as a squirrel’s. Calvin didn’t have time to move sideways. He just stepped back and parried the kick with both hands. Then he immediately threw Strike Knee as both hands directly grabbed Black’s head and pulled it down.

Emma, ??who sensed danger was coming, immediately used her hands to protect her face from Calvin’s kneeling. She could immediately guess what other moves Calvin would throw at her. As Emma had expected, Calvin immediately followed it by elbowing Emma’s head straight down from the air high.

Had predicted it, Emma swiftly dodged to the side after her palms bounced off Calvin’s knee. Then Emma immediately grabbed Calvin’s neck with her right arm while hanging behind his back. One of her legs wrapped around the outside of Calvin’s leg to weaken his stance. With maximum strength, Emma quickly pulled the slender neck to suffocate him and used all her body weight to knock Calvin backwards while twisting her slippery-eel body.