The Black Swan Behind

66 Flyweight V.S Light Heavyweight

“From where you are headed to, I think I can guess what you’re after,” Said the jet black-haired man, “So.. could you explain, what is your aim of targeting our server?” he stood right in front of Roger’s face.

Kei Matsumoto. A man with a very beautiful face. He often put a sweet smile on his face. But according to the popular gossip, that smile was a devilish smile ready to dip its victim into boiling lead. He was a monster in an angel costume!

And now, Roger could feel it firsthand. That smile that was supposed to look dazzling even made the hairs on his neck shudder. It was as if that man could do all kinds of bad things beyond Roger’s imagination.

Roger glanced at his bat which was some distance away from him because it accidentally slipped from his grip when he fell earlier.

Kei could see where the two bright blue eyes were rolling. He smiled again, “You think your bat will be useful? I think I saw you’ve been just like a burden that kept bothering your friend downstairs.”

Roger choked, “T-the CCTV..”

“Haha.. Did you just think about it now?”

Roger gritted his teeth. How stupid he could forget the CCTV they should have avoided in the first place.

“Hmm.. Talking about CCTV.. Well.. That useless thing turned out to be quite entertaining too. But you know? I actually don’t need it to just know two rats are making a fuss in my place.” Said Kei. Then, he looked ahead.

.....

Roger frowned, then looked back to see what caught Kei’s attention. That’s Donny Gruge.

“He almost beat all of our men.” The man said as soon as his foot stepped on the last step.

Kei folded his arms across his chest, “Even the new members from the martial arts studio?”

Donny nodded in approval. The twenty men they had just recruited from several martial arts studios were defeated by the black-helmeted man with ease. As if the man’s body was a container for all martial arts techniques. He fought one martial art technique with the opposite technique. In addition to his great strength and stamina, he also seemed to have a very shrewd brain.

“One against.. Um.. Eighty, maybe? Quite interesting,” Kei muttered. Then, he returned his focus to the guy still sitting on the floor in front of him. “Rather than that, we should accept an explanation from this weakling.”

Then, Kei stepped back to sit on the stair. He didn’t want to get his hands dirty by touching a rat like that weak guy. Taking care of this rough thing would only be a waste of energy. Because Kei preferred to work with his brain rather than his muscles. He always made other people do the physical work for him.

Donny nodded once and then walked quickly to Roger. Seeing that, Roger immediately got up to run away from his spot. He planned to take his baseball bat to fight Donny, but he, who was already injured from the start, quickly lost to the man.

A kick landed on the side of Roger’s outer thigh. He immediately fell back before he managed to grab his bat. Donny grabbed the collar of his jacket to make him sit up.

Roger looked at Donny with hatred. This guy was the one who ruined Poppy’s life. He didn’t know what the guy was doing to force Poppy into this kind of job. Roger was sure Donny knew that his girlfriend had often been harassed by his friends. But he did nothing, leaving her to suffer and cry alone. Because of what? Because Donny didn’t have any feelings for Poppy. He was just a devil-hearted man who liked to take advantage of women.

Quickly, Roger grabbed Donny’s wrist which was still by his collar and pulled him down with full force. Donny immediately fell forward, while Roger quickly hit the back of his head. Roger didn’t care anymore. What he wanted was to kill Donny with his own two hands. Even though he actually knew, Donny was a strong guy who also mastered several martial arts techniques.

Roger’s punch had just a little effect on Donny because he didn’t hit properly. He didn’t really understand the fatal points to hit on the human body. He was just a loser with a weak body, who was determined to fight to save the girl he loved.

Donny smiled furiously. Then, he quickly headbutt Roger’s chest, pushed the guy to fall backwards and lifted him up with a simple wrestling-like locking technique, “You think you can attack me, huh?” he laughed.

Roger tried to fight back, but he was powerless because Donny’s strength was very strong, “No!” he screamed as one of Donny’s hands pointed at his ski mask.

And..

“Wha-?” Donny’s face looked very surprised. He even let go of the body of the poor guy who was under his own body.

“What’s the matter, Donny? You know him?” Kei asked, who had been watching the scene while sometimes yawning sleepily. Even, once in a while, he glanced at the clock hanging on the wall, worried about his sleeping hours that might be messy after this. Kei was a man who had an orderly lifestyle.

Donny frowned with a face that wanted to laugh. Roger got up again and shifted to lean against the wall behind him. His face was no longer covered.

With a big smile, Donny answered Kei, “I don’t really know him. But I know someone who knows him very well.” Then, he took his cell phone out of his pocket.

***

‘Damn! Why are they keep coming? Didn’t he say only fifty men? Did I hear wrong?’ Emma thought with a sweaty face.

Emma fought fiercely amidst the bodies scattered lying on the floor. Those were the men she had defeated. Emma started to feel very troubled when several men with very young faces appeared. They were very adept at using martial arts techniques.

From their attacks, Emma knew that they were no ordinary street fighters. Some master Judo, Jiu-Jitsu, and Wrestling techniques. Fortunately, Emma also mastered all the martial arts, so that the men’s attack techniques did not surprise her.

Emma’s anxiety instantly faded when she found that there were no more additional men entering the battle arena. It seemed that all the members in this building have been exhausted.

‘All I need to do is to finish off these four bastards. They are pretty strong, indeed.’ Emma thought as she stared at the four men who looked like the high school boys. Each of them mastered their martial technique. Of all the members of this group, it was the four men that Emma thought were the strongest.

Although the four men had abilities that were enough to impress Emma, ??it wouldn’t be difficult for Emma to knock them out.

The four of them attacked Emma together. As usual, Emma was able to dodge nimbly. She was excellent in avoiding attacks that rely a lot on Grappling and Boxing techniques. Within minutes, Emma had managed to incapacitate two men.

While dealing with the two remaining men, Emma saw two ordinary men passing through her floor heading upstairs. In their midst, there was a girl who was struggling from the arms clutches of the two men. That girl was Poppy. She got caught somehow.

Emma cursed herself for not having time to see where Poppy had run off to at that time or at least protecting her until she really managed to escape from this hell building.

Suddenly, an attack came right at Emma’s face. Her collar was almost managed grabbed by the man. But quickly Emma put both hands to twist, and twisted the man’s hand. Then, as soon as the man lost this stand, Emma immediately attacked the back of his head until the man passed out.

BUGH!!

Emma fell on her back when the last man caught the back of her thigh and did a headbutt at Emma’s upper stomach to knock her down. Emma didn’t notice the sudden follow-up attack less than a second after the man she had just hit fell.

‘D-Double leg takedown..? Damn wrestlers!’ Emma muttered grinning in pain.

The man with straight hair had pushed down Emma’s legs up to her waist with his much larger body.

“Caught ya, finally!” shouted the man. After trying to catch Emma who was very slippery like an eel, he finally managed to demonstrate the technique he had learned in the wrestling studio.

It was true. Since the beginning of the fighting with dozens of men, Emma had not been caught at all. Not even a single meaningful blow managed to hit her body. Emma managed to block and avoid all of the attacks because Emma was used to using Kung Fu techniques that often flow the opponent’s attacks to other directions.

Besides not consuming too much energy, this move was also very useful in gang fights like this. Because Emma actually flowed a punch from the person who attacked her, to his friend who was also about to attack Emma from the other side. That way, instead of hitting Emma, ??they ended up hitting their own friend.

But things would become very troublesome when Emma was finally got caught. With a physical condition that was smaller and skinnier than her opponent, Emma was weaker in battles that rely on weight. If in fighting and self-defence sports, for examples such as MMA, Boxing, Wrestling, and others, the fighters would be divided by weight class, so the fight would be fair, but that did not apply in the fight outside the ring. Here, even a kitten had to face against an adult wolf if the odds were up. And there would be no mercy there.

“Damn it! Even your body is as light as a girl’s! You dwarf! I will destroy you!” The man above Emma’s body insulted her.

The man put his big arms around Emma’s neck and squeezed her tightly. Emma’s face turned red from choking. Her brain had to spin fast before she passed out from running out of oxygen.

‘The helmet! Right!’ Emma thought.

With the remaining strength, Emma immediately put her hands on the man’s back head above her and quickly pulled it down firmly.