"Guys, what are you doing here… the kid is fighting with the new lieutenant," Mike said, slamming the door open and standing sideways as he gestured toward the grand courtyard, wearing a shocked face.
"Who, Kai?" Oin asked, standing from his seat in shock, dropping his meat, and rushing past Mike, who still stood there gasping and wearing a strange smile on his face.
"Wait for me," Jinx said, running after Mike, who moved from the entrance, closed the door, and joined Oin as they neared the door.
Cheers welcomed twenty-five soldiers, encapsulating them and letting them see what the cheers were all about. Shouts stirred as Kai kept on blocking and dodging Wang's punches that left the metals at the edges of the ring fractured when they landed on it.
Gray stood there, squeezed his eyes as he focused on Kai's movements, and moved toward the ring, noticing a slight mistake that was making him unable to counter back.
"Huh… huh… huh… why can't I counter back?" Kai said, dodging and seeing an opening under Wang's armpit, but got blown away by a kick, throwing him crashing to the ropes of the platform they were on.
He clutched his ribs, trying to help himself up, blood seeping out of his nose, but saw another kick flying in the air and coming after his neck. There, he saw one of the shadows that had been aiding him throughout the fight moving toward Wang's left leg, which stood still, and curling around it. He moved following the movements of the shadow, clutched himself around the leg, and swung himself, spiraling and dragging Wang to the ground.
A loud crashing sound echoed as Wang slammed on the ground, opening his mouth and feeling the pain flowing through his waist to his spine.
Faces turned pale seeing what the kid had done, but some kept on shaking their heads, laughing, and pointing at Kai, who crawled to the ropes, grabbed one, and pulled himself up, sweating heavily. Though he had made Lieutenant Wang fall on his waist and made him shout, he still felt the tension in him increasing as he noticed the black glow on Wang flickering as a bit of reddish glow mixed with the already black one.
'How can a kid slam me down to the extent of making me feel a bone crack in my waist?' Wang thought, cracking his eyes open, jolting up quickly, squeezing his eyes, and clenching his fist, ready to draw another blood from the kid's nose.
"Let him know his place, Lieutenant Wang. Show him you once defeated a dragon and turned its skull into a decoration at the entrance of your house."
Voices rose, followed by clapping sounds that shook the basement of the building and made the entire building tremble slightly.
"Time's up…"
…
The market ladies of the city of Bion, carrying baskets on their heads and walking by the barracks wall, turned toward the walls and back to each other, gossiping about the things they'd been hearing and seeing after the recent rumour of the bandits' operation becoming the yearly topic.
"I heard a three-year-old was recruited into the military and sent to go and kill the people in his village."
"Are you sure of what you're saying? I heard different stories altogether. Wasn't he sent against the monsters? That's what I heard and saw."
"Err… Bella, you and your lies, were you even there to see it?"
"Yeah, I saw them in the white bus they used when heading to the village where the monsters were."
"See… the potato car is coming, let's hurry up and catch it before it stops, else we will end up with nothing like last week."
All four chubby ladies with huge breasts, huge asses, and wearing blue, brown, yellow, and black sleek gowns walked to the van with countless potatoes entering the entrance of the city.
…
"Are you sure of your coordinates? I don't want to cause another massacre this time and disappoint Lord Osai," Denis said, handing a black envelope to a man dressed in a long black suit, covering his head with a hood, and having a white mask on his face.
"Don't disappoint us like you did, causing us lose countless men to that devil among your men," Denis said, tapping on the shoulder of the man and turning to the yellow jeep, starting the engine when he entered, and dashing out of the valley making torn papers spiraled above the dirty ponds on the road as he moved past a trash bin.
The hooded man squeezed the envelope, moved his fingers around it before placing it in his black handbag, and turned in the direction of the black jeep shimmering under the sun's rays.
Opening the door and sitting comfortably in the seat, the man stretched his head back, cracked his neck, and gasped, wrapping his hands around the steering wheel. After ten minutes, the man tilted his head sideways, checking before stepping on the accelerator and dashing out of the valley in the opposite direction, pumping and splashing dirty water on the beggars' tents, wetting them.
Even as he vanished completely, a man with dirty twisted hair erupted from one of the tents, removed the mustache from his mouth and squeezed his eyes, focusing on the direction the black jeep went.
"Conniving with the bandits? Huh…" he said, pulling a smartphone from his pocket, dialing a number with the name Yung, and placing the phone to his ear, waiting for the person to answer the call.
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"Why didn't you tell me that kid wasn't a mere kid?!" Wang said, slamming his hand and splashing some of the hot water he was in onto Gray's face, but Gray didn't respond; he just kept on smiling as he watched Wang go crazy in the water.
"Have you forgotten the information I sent you two years back about recruiting a five-year-old? Would you think I would sacrifice my profession and just recruit a kid, let alone someone even younger than the one who got rejected, even after finding out he was the son of one of the world's richest?" Gray said, throwing a towel to Wang and walking toward the exit door of the large bathroom.