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After Noah and the caretakers took the kids and ran out of the orphanage from the backdoor leaving Kageyama behind while not looking back, they found on one of the walls that is surrounding the orphanage a hidden door.
Why is there a hidden door? They don't know and they don't even care. The only thing that they want right now is to run to the closest police station.
They opened the hidden door, then went out of the orphanage, but before they could continue running, they heard a few people's voices who had a flashlight and they were equipped with guns, trying to look for something or someone apparently.
Rina was about to go to them and ask them for help, but Noah stopped her, then whispered to her in the ear, "Don't be rash Rina. I think they are with that creepy old man, because who will use a flashlight while looking for something or someone around an orphanage that was just attacked a few minutes ago, they are even more than 10 armed men and from how it looks, the people with the old man didn't even come after us, so that only means those people are here to make sure we don't run away."
After hearing what Noah said, Rina realized he was right, she just didn't think about it. It's like when you're in a dark tunnel without any speck of light, then you see a small light in the end of the tunnel. You don't think much about it, you just run to the light that could be the end of the tunnel or a train passing from the tunnel that will run over you.
After realizing, she just nodded to Noah, then they began to make it to the police station, but the problem is those men were everywhere around the orphanage, so they can't pass by without alerting them.
Noah pondered for a bit. After a while, some tree trunks and a brick caught his eyes. Then he thought of a plan to distract those men, and told the caretakers and kids about his plan.
'I wish the stealth games I played in my past life will be useful in this kind of situation.' Noah said in his mind while having a nervous smile on his face.
After they have agreed to his plan, Noah carried the brick in his right hand and waited for the right time, after finding an opportunity, he threw it a bit far away, but it's sound was a little high because all the men in the place heard the sound of the brick shattering.
*Crash*
One of the men looked behind him and took out his gun immediately, saying to the others, "I heard something from this direction, maybe they are nearby, be careful and stay alert. Group A come with me." The man looked like the leader of those people, he took all the people on the left side and went to where they heard the sound slowly, while trying to surround the place the sound came from.
Even if they are just a bunch of kids and caretakers, he told the people on the right side or group B to be alert. Maybe they are trying to trick them to let them found the kids while the caretakers go to the police station, or the opposite.
After the people from group A were far enough, Noah threw a tree trunk on the opposite direction. It was a bit far but far enough to let some people from group B hear it.
Then Noah threw a second tree trunk in a different place but close enough to the people who're from group B to hear it.
Everyone took out their guns, then they heard another sound from a different direction. They all tried to look everywhere while they were confused.
"Hey, i think i heard something from that direction." One of the men said while pointing his flashlight on the first direction. "No, it was in that direction." Someone else said while pointing on the third direction. "No dude, it was that direction." The third person said while pointing to a whole different direction from the one they heard the sound come from.
At first they were just arguing a little about the places they heard the sounds from, but after awhile they began fighting and everyone wanted the other people to come with him to the direction he heard the sound from.
When they were busy fighting with each other, the caretakers and kids made their way from behind the men without making any noise.
After awhile, the leader came with the men from group A confused. "Hey! What's wrong with all of this commotion? Lower your voice bricks, or someone will hear us." Said the leader irritated.
One of the people in group B took their attention by doing a little cough. "*Cough* Well, before you came, we heard some noises around us in different directions, so we were talking about what direction we should go to with each other and make sure there isn't anyone around here." He said to the leader trying to summarize what happened.
Some people envied him, because they wanted to take the credit to themselves, but he proceeded to it before any of them. "So you were making all this commotion because of a noise and didn't go to where the the noises came from?" Asked the leader with a calm voice to the man in front of him.
"No sir, we were talking about what direction we should go to, but I told them we should wait for you to come back first." The man said with some pride in his voice.
The leader began to mumble something but no one heard what he said. Then suddenly...
...He punched the man in front of him who told him what happened, and even after the man dropped on the ground, the leader began to kick his head while shouting furiously, "YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT. DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKING BRAIN CELLS, HUH!? Wait for me? Yeah, WAIT WITHOUT DOING ANY FUCKING THING AND LET THEM RUN AWAY, RIGHT!?"
Everyone looked terrified from their leader's rage. Even the man the leader of those people was stomping on have died already, but he continued to trample on his head until he crushed it. A lot of blood splashed on his boots, some parts of his head scattered everywhere.
Even some parts scattered on some of the men there, like an eye, a tooth or the tongue, and some men couldn't take it anymore and began to vomit on the street.
When first they looked at him with envy, now they are looking at him with relief that they weren't in his place, because even imagining that made them want to vomit more.
After the leader calmed down a bit, he looked at the others who withstood the urge to vomit, then said, "Do you know why I did that to him?" He asked calmly while looking at them in the eyes. They were scared to say anything that will make the leader angry again, but they too couldn't just not answer his question, so they shook their head in denial.
The leader's eyes twitched a little in irritation. He didn't even know why he was assigned of showing those newcomers how to do their jobs probably. Even if he doesn't like it, he have to make sure that those bastards don't make any mistakes.
He was so angry and he didn't want to waste his breath on this good for nothing. Until one of them came raising his hand, that caught the leader's attention.
He pointed at the man who was about 20 years old to let him talk. "If I am not wrong sir, they used the sound of the prick to let you go to a different direction, and used some tree trunks or something to distract us so they could run away while we are distracted about what direction we should look into, and the proof of this is that there's some footprints from kids and adults here." Said the man while pointing at some place between the trees with his flashlight.
The leader raised one eyebrow, "What's your name?" Asked the leader while looking to the man in the eyes. "Ren sir, Ren Adler." He answered the leader immediately.
"Ren, remind me after this mission if I forgot to assign you in my team." The leader said while taking his cellphone out of his pocket to make a call apparently. "Understood. Thank you sir." Ren was in a daze for 2 seconds, then he bowed his head and thanked his leader.
But when he looked to the leader he saw him trying to call someone. So he asked confused, "Are going to call someone sir?" The leader looked at him, then said with a little bit of irritation under his voice "Ren, I didn't assign you yet. So don't let me regret my decision."
Ren was surprised with the change of the leader's tone, so he apologized fast. "Sorry sir, it will not happen again."
The leader then focused on the person he was calling. When the person answered his phone, the leader said with a deep voice, "Hey Akira, I want your help."
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After Kageyama tried to take the old man down by catching him from the torso, the old man didn't even budge.
"Trying to catch me from the torso and throw me on the ground, huh? Well, it's not a bad strategy if your opponent wasn't me." The old man said with a mocking smile on his face.
Kageyama tried to put more power to throw the old man, but his left shoulder started to hurt him and he couldn't do it. "Ugh!" He groaned in pain.
The old man noticed that. "What, does your shoulder hurt you? It looks like the injury is not treated yet." Said the old man with mockery, but Kageyama didn't answer him and continued trying.
The old man aimed his two fingers of each hand from each side of Kageyama's body, then started saying, "You know, if you tensed your fingers and put them just under the side of the ribcage and penetrated, it will go in so easily. Like.."
"..This!" The old man penetrated Kageyama exactly under the side of his ribcage with only his fingers while having a sadistic smile on his face.
"Uhhh!" Kageyama groaned more in pain. He felt like someone stabbed him in two different directions at the same time. Well, that was technically what's happened right now.
"What? Is that not painful enough? Then how about four fingers instead of tw ?" The old man then put four fingers from the right and left side, then...stabbed him again.
"AHHHHH!!"
Kageyama couldn't take it anymore and tried to get away from this crazy old man's hold. But before getting away he saw a knee making it's way to his face.
After taking it heads on, Kageyama flew about three meters and fell on the dinning table, breaking it in halves.
He tried to stand up, but every time he loses his balance and fall again. "What, you can't even stand after just one move from this old man? Hah, I think I expected too much from someone who can't even use his left shoulder probably." The old man kept taunting him more to see his limits.
"Ugh!" After groaning a bit, Kageyama stood up again. He looked at the old man trying to found any weakness to strike him from it. 'This old man is no joke. I can't take him down with wrestling alone. I'll try using that.' Thought Kageyama while taking his stance.
"Wrestling again? Did you not notice that this is not a ring, that this is a 'Life or Death' kind of situation? I don't know if I should praise you for your spirit or your foolishness." Said the old man with a disappointed tone while shaking his head.
'He is underestimating me. Now is my chance.' Kageyama decided to make his move while the old man less expected it.
He ran to the old man like a bull trying to do a wrestler's move by taking him from his right leg, but the old man of course expected that, so he took a step behind to let Kageyama lose his balance and fall on the ground, but what happened next made him a little bit interested now.
Kageyama smirked because the old man took the bait. Then stopped his advance and made an uppercut with his left hand.
Even when Kageyama thought that he took the old man off guard with his uppercut, the old man moved his neck to the side with no effort and evaded the punch just a few inches away.
Then the old man struck Kageyama in the face with his elbow. He even broke his nose and some teeth.
"Aghh!" Kageyama took a step back from the strike and tried to balance himself to not fall. "Doing a wrestling move as a faint, then when your opponent was less expecting it you do an uppercut. Not a bad strategy if you asked me." Said the old man to Kageyama with a nonchalant look on his face this time.
"You know, using your fist in a battle is more efficient than only some grappling. Why not try that again, I have learned a 'little bit of martial arts' and can give you some tips by the way and we have all the time in the world. Oh sorry, I forgot that if you took too long my men will capture the little kids and caretakers, and all of your hard work will not have any meaning." The old man continued taunting him.
Kageyama became more and more furious and tried to land some punches on the old man. But the old man evaded every punch with no effort, like he was playing with a little dog or something similar.
The old man then came closer to Kegeyama while saying in a no emotional voice, "First: this is called..."
Two punches made their ways to Kageyama's face. Then he continued "...A one two."
Then Kageyama took two steps back, but then he charged again for a punch. But the old man began talking again. "And second: this is called..." He evaded Kageyama's punch and rotated a 360 degree while his leg made its way to Kageyama's face.
"...A roundhouse kick." He continued, while Kageyama flew five meters and clashed with the wall.
"UGH!"
*Spat*
He even spatted some blood from his mouth. He tried to stand but it was hard for him to just take his breath, so don't even think about standing.
"I think that's your limit, huh? Well you didn't do anything special or even deserves my attention. So you will just die like a meaningless dog, oh no dogs will be offended by that. How about a meaningless ant? Yeah, that's more befitting for someone like you." The old man continued talking and mocking Kageyama.
'A meaningless ant huh? Man this is really humiliating and frustrating. I think I will die soon like this, I can't even move my body. I just wish that Rina and the kids have escaped from those men and went to the police station, at least there they will be safe.' Kageyama thought while remembering Rina who was like a daughter to him, when she was the first one to come and work here and trying to teach him how to read and write, but in the end he gave up because it was too complicated to him.
When he was closing his eyes and about to take his last breath, he heard the old man saying, "Thinking about it, I remember a girl from the caretakers with a nice body, a light brown hair and amber eyes. If I am not wrong her name was..." After pondering a bit he continued with a new sadistic smile. "...Rina, right ?
Kageyama's eyes widened and his hands trembled. "She had a really nice body, she could use for a lot of things to The Shelter. One of them of course is 'relieving' our men a bit, right?" The old man said while making his way to his men and giving Kageyama his back.
"And if we trained her well, she can be a seducing master with her body and..." He continued talking about Rina like she was a pet who he will use to his personal gains.
Rage blinded Kageyama's eyes. He looked at the old man with every bit of bloodlust. 'This piece of shit. I should kill him. No, I WILL KILL HIM.' All Kageyama thought of was to kill the old man in front of him.
Kageyama stood up with difficulty, but in the end he did it. "I will kill you..I will kill you..." Kageyama was muttering while making his way to the old man slowly.
When he arrived behind the old man. He moved his arms to make a headlock on the old man, them he heard the old man him asking with a deep voice. "What did you say? I think your voice is a little bit muffled from your blood."
Kageyama gritted his teeth then shouted. "I SAID I WILL KILL YOU, YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT." He was already going to break the old man's neck, but...
*Stab*
"AGHHHHH." The old man stabbed Kegeyama with his right hand's two fingers into Kageyama's right eye.
And when Kageyama's loosened a bit, the old man got hold of Kageyama's right hand then tackled him.
And when Kageyama fell on his face, the old man said to him with an emotionless kind of tone. "I think one shoulder wasn't enough for you, then how about two?" Then he put his leg on Kageyama's right shoulder. "Sto..stop..you..da..mn..pie..ce..of..shit." No matter what Kageyama said the old man continued until...
*CRACK*
"AHHHHHH."
...He broke Kageyama's right shoulder just like that. Kageyama was screaming in pain and even crying. Yeah crying, even a grown up man will cry if he was beaten to a bulb, broken his shoulder and hearing what apparently will happen to a girl who was like a daughter to him, and can't do anything about it.
Then the old man looked at him and said with clear disappointment on his face and tone. "You are truly a disappointment. I thought you were a little bit unique, that's why that kid was special in the first place and had a lot of potential. But I was wrong, you are nothing."
'That kid?' The first person who came to Kageyama's mind was Noah, but he was too exhausted to even think about it. What's all he wants is for his misery to end, he don't care how, he just want it to end already.
The old man kicked him under his ribcage in the same place that he stabbed him before. "Argh!" He groaned in pain from the kick and the impact of clashing to the wall.
"*Cough cough*" Kageyama coughed blood from his mouth, he was already on the verge of death. He tried to sit comfortable at least when he was dying.
The old man made his way to Kageyama slowly and when he was in front of Kageyama who couldn't even see the old man clearly, only seeing a silhouette, the old man crouched that his face is in front Kageyama's face, and said, "Apparently that is your limit, the limit that you would never be able to cross. But unlike you, the people we make have what it takes to break their own lim..."
*Spat*
Before finishing his talk, Kageyama spatted blood on the old man's face and said with a weak and exhausted voice. "Fu..fuck..you..and..your.. da..damn..shel..."
*STOMP*
This time the old man interrupted Kageyama with stomping on his face again and again and again while saying, "Really the best way to kill an ant is..."
"...with stomping on its face."
While the old man was stomping on Kageyama's face, blood splattered everywhere in the place. "Let me tell you something before you die. I never underestimate my opponent, either if he's a king...or an ant."
But when he stopped to look at him, Kageyama was already dead. "So you have died already huh? *Spit* Even while dying you were nothing but an ant." He spat on Kageyama's dead body then made his way to his men leaving the dead body of Kageyama while cleaning his hands and face with his handkerchief.
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A.N: Okay I have first to say sorry for two reasons, 1: The plot is going too slow and I know that, but I am trying my best to have a acceptable base for the story at least and character development and it will take awhile until the real action begins. 2: I have exams the next two weeks so at best I will be able to upload one chapter per week.
I wish you understand my circumstances, this the first time I try writing a story and it's in English nonetheless while it's not my first language, and that's all.
See ya later.
Enjoy.