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One day ago,
Jake and Gerard were standing in a clearance located in the park near Gerard's workplace.
Gerard standing in front of Jake impassively asked, "So, what do you want, Jake?".
Jake with his hands in the pocket stared at Gerard with a smirk.
His expression turned sombre as he replied, "I want Felix Shin to fight me without holding back... That means I have to first take you down."
"I don't know if you have heard of the rankings but it has four Eunjangs in it. Felix Shin, Ben Park, Gray Yeon and you. For some reason, I want Ben Park to be saved for later. Gray Yeon also suffered injuries in the last fight, so he is a no-go too. That's why you are the perfect person to spur Felix Shin into giving his all."
Gerard asked with a livid countenance, "What if I win? Will you stop pestering Felix?"
Jake grabbed his black fedora from the top of his head and put it down on the bench beside him.
He shrugged with a carefree smile and said, "Well, that will never happen... but if somehow, you can win, then I won't bother Felix ever again."
Getting the consent, Gerard promptly kicked straight at Jake.
Jake averted from the kick by turning himself slightly and grabbed Gerard's leg which was in his proximity. He said with a frenzied smile.
"Whoa... You started it."
Gerard pulled back his leg from Jake's grip and followed up with another kick at Jake's head which was dodged again.
However, he continued this blitz of kicks with a reverse sidekick against the ribs of Jake.
*Wham*
It hit the mark but Jake unfazed by the force behind the kick, wedged Gerard's leg between his arm and stomach. He used his free hand to smash his elbow right in Gerard's face.
However, Gerard dodged the blow by leaning backwards. He followed up with a sidekick against Jake's face and supported his body weight with his hands in that second.
When Jake lost his balance due to the force behind Gerard's kick as he clutched his bleeding face, Gerard freed his leg from Jake's grasp and backflipped to create some distance between them.
Gerard did not lose that opening where Jake's vision and senses were distorted.
Gerard followed suit with a flying kick and slammed it right in Jake's face. He extended his other leg to Jake's legs and tried to trip him but...
Jake jumped out of the way and created some distance between them.
He wiped the blood off his face and said, "I didn't think that you were this strong. Looks like I might have to show you my all, huh?"
At that particular moment when Jake uttered those words, Gerard felt a chill run down his back. Felix also had the same atmosphere around him when he was angry. However, Jake's ambience felt less terrifying.
Then, Jake charged toward Gerard with a hysterical smile and a barrage of attacks landed on Gerard.
Gerard tried to retaliate against Jake in several ways by remembering all the tricks Felix had instructed him.
Some of them worked but they were unable to perturb Jake physically as well as mentally.
Jake was on a rampage against Gerard with a tenebrous visage.
*Whack*
*Pow*
*Smack*
Soon, Gerard was on the ground, coughing up blood and trying to minimize the damage as well as pain as much as possible.
After some amount of time, which might have as well been an eternity for Gerard, Jake stopped his attacks.
He stood there for a few seconds as his eyes cleared up from insanity, and then he walked back to the bench.
He grabbed his black fedora, wore it back on his head and remarked, "I hope it is enough to get the message across to Felix Shin."
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(Present Day)
"So, let me get this straight, Jake came to your workplace and beat the hell out of you to rile up Felix into giving his all?"
Gerard tried to lessen the seriousness in the atmosphere as he replied, " He didn't ambush me or gang up on me. We both agreed to fight. It's no big deal. I don't want you to fight him, Felix..."
"Pfft... Hahahahahaha." Felix said while laughing, "Gerard, you dumbass. You should train more. If you had trained with us, then you might have won against Jake easily!"
All of them had slightly uneasy expressions on seeing Felix laid back.
Felix waved his hand and said with a carefree expression, "Anyway, you don't need to think much about it. I will handle it when he comes to fight me directly. I have to go home to train for today's quota because I overslept in the morning. See you guys, tomorrow!"
Felix grabbed his bag and turned back towards the door. His eyes turned caliginous as he picked up his pace and dashed towards the street after reaching the ground floor.
He stopped a taxi and asked the taxi driver pleasantly, "Excuse me, can you drop me at Daehyeon High School?"
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Sometime later,
Felix Shin was standing in front of Daehyeon High School.
He looked at the lavish and colourful school shortly, then dashed through its gate.
He reached the reception and asked the receptionist courteously, "Excuse me, ma'am. Can you inform me about the class of Jake Ji?"
She asked sceptically, "Who are you? You don't look like from our school at all."
"Yes ma'am. I am from a different school. This is a personal issue. But one of his friends asked me for a favour to meet Jake and tell him something."
"Oh, then it's fine. So, You are just here to help your friend. Let me just check... He's in Class I-7. You can go upstairs to the first floor and the second class on the right is of Jake Ji."
"Thank you, ma'am. Have a nice day!"
Felix followed the directions that the receptionist had given and reached the class. He looked around but didn't find even a single shade of orange hair.
He went in front of the person in the first seat of the first row and asked, "Can you tell me where Jake Ji is?"
The student started hesitating and fidgeting around. He tried to reply, " Uh, I don't kn-"
But Felix interrupted before he could say anything, "The Union has asked me to contact Jake. You wanna be the person who delayed the work of The Union?"
Sweat dropped at his back at the mention of Union and he hastily answered, "T-They usually hang around in the c-clearing at the back of the school."
"Good! I will surely inform Donald Na about how you helped me, so you will be given leeway from bullying in the streets."
However, that student heard what he wanted to hear...
After Felix left, he gratefully bowed and thanked him.
He also had a smile on his face with relief as well as excitement in his eyes.
Relief at being saved from the bullying...
Excitement at being able to use The Union's name as much as he wants... (Delusional)
However, after some pondering on this topic, he realized that he had not informed the name of the 'person from the Union'.
But he pushed that thought to the back of his mind, as he presumed The Union to just circulate his picture between its members. (Once Again Delusional).
Felix ran towards the place he was told without having any idea about the fallacies he had placed in the student's head.
When Felix reached the clearing, he saw the trio of Jake, Dean and Timothy chatting and sitting on a bench.
As Felix approached them, Jake and Dean could not see him as their back was turned, however, Timothy had a pale face on seeing Felix nearing them. He tried to notify the two of them, but Felix arrived there earlier...
He grabbed Jake's shoulders with his two hands and whispered in his ears, "Hello, Jake..."
Jake nearly jumped out of his skin and his mind went into overdrive. But upon realizing who it was, he punched behind him as swiftly as possible.
Felix jumped back and formed some distance between them. He said in a sardonic tone, " Whoa, Whoa... Easy there. Why don't you calm down?"
Jake asked with a slightly pallid face, "Why are you here?"
"What? Didn't you beat up Gerard to fight with me? Or maybe you expected me to not trouble you and let you come fight me at your pace? Do I look like a bloody nincompoop?"
Hit straight with the facts, Jake asked warily, " Where do you want to fight then?"
"Uh... We have to fight somewhere private, right? What if some teacher comes and sees me beating you up?"
Waving off the obvious insult, Jake talked with his other two friends and then informed me, " There is a place down the street. We can fight there."
When Dean and Timothy started to go away, Felix gestured for them to stop and said," Hey! Wait, where are you guys going?"
Jake replied in their stead," They are going so I can have a fair match with you."
"Oh, you don't need to worry about that. They can watch our fight. It is good to have an audience."
Dean and Timothy were confused about what to do when Jake signalled to them that it was fine to come.
Felix followed the trio in an insouciant way and reached the destination in a matter of minutes.
It was an empty clearing surrounded by buildings from three sides. The fourth side had an alley which we went through to reach this location.
Both Felix and Jake stood in front of each other. Dean and Timothy were standing in a corner, anticipating this fight.
While Jake readied in a stance, Felix had a lackadaisical expression as he said, "Do you know that urges are a thing that most people can't control? Most people give in to their urges and commit to things they shouldn't do... Ever since I saw you, I had this sudden urge, I don't know how to explain it but I really tried to control it...
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to, so you will have to be beaten up at the expense of my urge."
Felix cracked his knuckles and smiled at Jake with a dark glint in his eyes. Both Jake Ji as well as his two friends were confused but Jake prepared his stance.
However, the thing that was to follow was something that any amount of preparation couldn't handle.
Felix triggered his first ability and dashed toward Jake with his full capacity.
A gut punch was landed straight on the torso of Jake. This was followed by smashing his elbow right in Jake's face.
As he was falling to the ground, Jake supported his body with his hands and counterattacked with a backward kick uniquely.
Felix averted that hit and kicked him in the stomach, barreling Jake away.
Jake flipped his body and brushed away the blows. He attacked Felix with his special flying punch but as Jake was coming down, Felix dodged out of the way and kicked him in the back, ultimately smashing him against hard concrete on the ground.
Felix did not lose this opportunity and landed several blows on Jake. This resulted in Jake not being able to recover from the injuries and lying on the ground defenselessly.
Felix continued the onslaught of strikes in rage at Jake.
" You..."
*Whack*
"Shouldn't..."
*Pow*
"Have..."
*Wallop*
"Come..."
*Bang*
"Near..."
*Bam*
"My..."
*Wham*
"Friend..."
Felix stopped his hits for a moment, leaving Jake teetering on the verge of losing consciousness. He looked at the two spectating people, both of them scared to death. Felix sped toward them and grabbed them by their neck.
He dragged both of them in front of Jake and said, "You hurt my friends right, then we should have an equivalent exchange, shouldn't we?"
Saying that he threw both of them right next to Jake.
What followed them was a brutal butchery, just like how a pig is butchered defenselessly. The only difference was pigs were slaughtered with a knife whereas only bare fists were used here.
After some amount of time, Felix stopped and looked at them who had already fainted on the ground. They had blood stains and several bruises on their body.
Felix grabbed one of their mobiles and called for an ambulance. He wiped the blood from his uniform and exited the clearing.
When he was going back the way he came, he saw his friends looking at something. They saw him so he had no choice but to greet them, "Hey! What are you guys doing here?".
" What? We were searching for you! You must have beaten Jake Ji, right?"
"How can you say that? Look at me, I am totally clean!"
"You should have wiped your face then dumbass."
Felix touched his face and felt the texture of dried blood on his face. He chuckled and said," Ok, you got me..."
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(End of the Chapter)
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