The Black Swan Behind

69 Not Equal

Quickly, Emma jumped away. Then from her right, Gozu suddenly came with both hands ready to grip her. The girl immediately lowered her back and swung around in a circle to escape from under the man’s big arm.

“Shit! That was close!” Emma mumbled breathlessly. Her stomach, which had been hit earlier, ached again. But Emma managed to hold it. For her, menstrual pain was more painful than this.

‘It’s the time!’ As soon as she escaped behind Gozu’s back, Emma immediately ran as fast as possible to the downstairs which was the location of the offices.

Gozu and Mezu quickly chased after the damn mice, descending to the fourth floor. Their bodies were drenched in sweat because they were overwhelmed by chasing the black helmet who was really as agile as a rat.

“That dwarf really is like a pest. He’s hard to get rid of!” Mezu said as he came down the stairs along with his twin brother.

Gozu stared straight ahead with his jaw clenched, “Immediately destroy him once he gets caught. No more games. We underestimated him too much.”

Mezu nodded, “Right, big bro.”

The twins saw a small black figure standing on a desk with both arms folded in front of his chest at the far end of the office room. Apart from being agile, he was also very annoying. He was mocking them.

An office with forty desks arranged in four rows, with a computer on top of each and a wheeled-office chair on the side. Emma had chosen the perfect battle arena to fight the two raging bulls. They would have a hard time moving there with their huge appearance.

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“Hopefully the insurance can’t cover the damage that will happen in this place,” Emma mumbled while giggling happily. She looked at the two men standing behind the glass wall, watching her with an annoyed face.

“Kung Fu and Taekwondo might come in handy in this place. Looks like I can only aim for the range of their heads.” Emma muttered.

“You think you can run from us, huh, you brat?” Gozu asked in a very deep voice.

“And you think you can catch me, huh? Usually, a big boy has a small brain.” Emma laughed, deliberately provoking them in a condescending tone.

Emma deliberately ignited the emotions of the two men, because people would tend to act rashly if they were controlled by anger. Therefore, patience was one of the determining factors of victory in fighting.

Gozu and Mezu entered the room. Despite their reluctance, they were forced to enter into Emma’s game, because it was impossible to get the little mice out of the room either. Surely, she would be jumping around like a squirrel in this place.

Right as Emma had predicted. Once the two bison went inside, in just a few minutes, the room had turned into a plane crash.

Gozu and Mezu looked like giants trying to catch a grasshopper with their big hands. All the tables had shifted everywhere. The computer monitor fell down with the CPU units scattered on the floor. As Emma had planned, all the objects in the room made it difficult for the twins to make the attacks.

‘Don’t underestimate the feet that are used to dancing ballet. We can jump as high as we can and land like feathers.’ Emma said to herself as she jumped from table to table.

As Emma continued to jump, she gave a long-range kick that targeted the twins’ faces, necks, and the lower back of their heads.

“ARGHHHH!!” Mezu growled, already running out of patience. Then, he picked up the CPU and monitor that were scattered on the floor and threw them against the glass wall until it shattered. After that, he picked up various items in the room, then began to throw them outside to free up space.

“Tsk! This is no good,” Emma muttered. Then, jumped back up when Gozu was about to catch her.

‘I have to end this quickly. But since then, my attacks were kept blocked. Their arms are like shields.’ She continued in his heart.

As soon as Gozu was blocked by a pile of tables that Emma passed easily, she immediately turned to Mezu who was busy throwing tables and chairs out of the room. At that golden opportunity, Emma ran and jumped very high then did a spin in the air to add boost strength to her long kick.

“MEZU, WATCH OUT!!” Gozu shouted.

But when Mezu turned his head, he was already too late because the hard kick directly hit his jaw and ear. Automatically, the big man fell to the side. Even so, he was still conscious, even though it became difficult for him to get up from his slumped position.

Emma quickly turned to Gozu who savagely shifted the big things in front of him to save his brother.

As soon as Mezu was about to get back on his feet, Emma immediately made a spinning kick aiming at the same point that she had kicked before. Then, she gave a follow-up attack in the form of a swing back kick, which was a kickback like a horse after twisting her body. It hit Mezu’s chin to the bottom of his nose.

Emma’s double attack was so fast. It hit Mezu’s two weak spots, even before the man was knocked down by the first kick.

Apparently, Emma’s attack managed to make Mezu knocked down. Emma immediately ran away when Gozu managed to reach his twin brother. Mezu didn’t collapse completely. Maybe, there was still a little bit of consciousness left as he still seemed to be groaning in pain.

“That’s what happens if you clean up the room when you should be fighting.” Said Emma who was already standing behind the pile of tables, in a joking tone.

Gozu growled angrily seeing his brother hurt. Then, he stood up to face the black helmeted figure with both fists tightly clenched, “I will kill you!!”

“Try if you can!” Said Emma.

Actually, Emma was already very overwhelmed. Her strength was exhausted because she had been jumping here and there, throwing kicks and punches that her opponents always managed to block, and trying to escape the two big men’s catch. But, she still had to survive in order to save herself, her two friends, and the ladies who had the same fate as Poppy.

Then, a monitor unit flew towards Emma’s head at full speed. It was thrown so strongly by Gozu. Emma, ??who was caught off guard, reflexed lie down on her stomach. The top of her helmet was scratched from scratching the monitor that was barely able to break Emma’s helmet glass visor.

The tables in front of Emma began to shift fiercely as a sign that Gozu was getting closer. Emma hastily got to her feet to escape. But she was surprised to see a CPU unit flying towards her again.

‘Oh.. So you start to throw things now, huh?’ The girl thought with sweat pouring down her back and head.

Emma had a hard time avoiding Gozu who kept chasing her while occasionally throwing things at her. As soon as Emma was about to jump to another table to avoid Gozu’s catch, it turned out that one of the table’s legs she was standing on had been broken. Which causes the edge of the table to become crooked when stepped on by her. As a result, Emma immediately lost her balance and fell.

Emma groaned in pain as she tried to get up to escape from there. But something very strong grabbed her ankle. She turned to her feet just to find the worst thing that had been in her image since the first. That’s right, Emma was finally caught.

“GET READY TO DIE, FUCKING RATS!”

Gozu dragged Emma’s leg quickly and enfolded her body tightly. Emma gritted her teeth to suppress a scream because Gozu’s strength was so strong. His grip was felt deep into Emma’s bones.

Gozu felt how light the black helmet’s body was. He laughed like a devil by lifting the body high above his head. Then, he raised his left knee into the air.

“D-dammn it!” Emma muttered, finding herself very high up in the air, facing the ceiling. She could peek down to see the position of Gozu’s leg. She knew what the big man would do to her. Yes, he would break Emma’s spine by slamming her back against his concrete-like thigh bone.

Emma gulped hard while thinking hard for a very short time. At the last second, just as Gozu was about to slam her small body, Emma immediately manoeuvred herself by bending her body slightly to the side, then hooking one of her flexible legs around Gozu’s neck. Emma had indeed missed, but because of that, the move that the big man had about to do was failed.

Emma fell with the back of her thigh hitting Gozu’s thighbone. In the second before the impact, Emma still had time to bend her knees slightly, so the impact on her hamstrings wasn’t too hard. Probably, if she was even a split second late, her small thighbone would crack when it collided with Gozu’s hard bone.

Even though she had fallen, Gozu’s hand was still gripping the jacket Emma was wearing, about to pick her up again. Seeing that the situation was not favourable for her, Emma was forced to do something reckless.

Before her back even touched the floor, Emma immediately grabbed Gozu’s wrist as she threw her hips up in the air and hooked her legs around the man’s large neck. With the strength of her legs, Emma twisted her light body up.

Gozu lost his grip, as his wrist was twisted by Emma. That way, Emma was able to escape and was now perched on the back of Gozu’s head with both legs strangling his neck.

“GRAGHHH!!” Gozu growled with his face starting to turn red while trying to free the legs of the black helmet man that was choking his whole neck with a locking technique.

With both hands, Emma tried to hurt Gozu’s eyes. However, she gave up this action because she thought that if the man could catch her hands, then he would pull Emma down easily.

‘D.. dammit! This isn’t going to work..’ Emma thought as she grimaced ??through the pain. She had used all her strength to strangle Gozu, but the big man didn’t faint by that. He instead tried to pull off Emma’s legs with fantastic strength, ‘I have to run away from here.’