Love is War

Chapter 42

We are looking at each other right now, I am pissed and he is teasing me which I don’t like. The urge of me landing a hit on him is getting greater and greater the more I look at him.

Then I have to plan something unexpected, I must imagine that I am inside a VR game, a game that almost looks real that I can feel the pain that I receive each time I receive an attack from my enemy, and also, I need to think of myself as the Anonymous, from that competition, calm and collective.

Nab is the final boss, that I am facing right now and I need to defeat him in order to advance in the 2nd round. This RPG game that I engaged into is a hardcore game meant for pros and I am one of those pros. I am a proud gamer and I can easily defeat any game. I will...

I opened my eyes as soon as I finished preparing my mind on fighting him and now, I can visualize that everything here right now is a game, I can see my health bar from the top right corner and long red health bar as his health points and my goal is to defeat the boss which is Nab.

Just like in fighting simulator games, I need to perform some combos that will decrease his health bar to zero and that’s my main goal right now.

So here he is underestimating me, or so I believe, but at least in my perspective, his expression shows me that he is underestimating me. Then this will be my main source of motivation to defeat me and my power-up bar is rising that will give me an ultimate move, which I can use.

At least one direct hit on the face, hard enough to hurt him will satisfy me and to stop that thinking of his from me. I hate the character that he is showing to me right now, just like your typical hated villain in a game series or any films. That’s what I am feeling right now.

He taunted me, telling me that I should try to land a hit on him, it’s like he has a mind reading ability, but he will fret not anymore because that is what I am planning to do. I charged at him throwing consecutive straight jabs combo towards him. As expected of this hardcore game’s boss, it evaded my attacks with ease and blocking a direct hit.

I am aware that this is not simple and I will not give up until I fall on this ring. When I landed a hit on his arms which he used to block my attack, I tried swinging my body to do a hard left hook to his vulnerable spot.

I am sure that he knows that I am not a south paw, but jokes on him because I can do things easily with both hands. I can write with ease with my left and right hand. My eyes widened for a moment when he ducked and jump away from me.

His eyes right now are telling me that I will not land a hit on him, not even for a million years. I must calm down; I am sure that this is what he wanted. He wants me to lose my temper and go berserk. I read enough novels and watched too many animes, to know what being blinded by anger can do.

I don’t want to regret my actions, sooner or later that’s why I need to be extra careful with my actions.

I charged at him again while he backs off and he did not mention any restrictions and rules in this fight before we started, and that basically means that this fight right now, is a free style battle meaning that I can use any moves that I want. Even an unorthodox style, if that means that I can strike him down.

Considering the physics in this life and physics in game, I bend my knees to accumulate some strength in my legs and I spring onto him with my jump and while in mid-air I twisted my body, using the momentum to punch him hard and hopefully that will break his guard.

I felt my fist landed on his blocking arms again and this time I felt some resistance on him and that made my hopes up because that means that I am applying pressure on him right now. I put some force into my punch while I am briefly suspended on the air, but he pushed me back causing me to roll over and the ropes that surrounded the ring caught me, preventing me to go out of bounds.

I looked at him and he smiled again, tch, not enough force, then I’ll kick him because kicks are naturally stronger than punches but is harder to execute any attacks from it except for simple kicking unless if that someone has a great balance, enough to execute complicated attacks.

Then I used my springiness to jump mid air and used my other foot to turn myself and execute a powerful kick just like what I did with my twisting punch earlier. I felt that he is putting pressure again and this time he is trying to push me away but as usual he overpowered me which is not great.

I stumbled again and I am feeling that my body is aching right now, but I need to endure it. There is no blood coming out, and that means that I can still go on, because if I go crazy then that is a certain defeat for me.

“Overcome your fear,” he said challenging me again. “You will become a strong warrior once you completed that trial that you set up for yourself,” he added but I am confused on what he is saying right now.

“Are you kidding me?” I spoke. “Don’t let me think in a middle of the battle you cunning fox,” I added and instead of being insulted he just smiled towards me.

“That’s good,” that’s what he said before he threw the first punch towards me for the first-time ion this match. It is hard for me to admit but I underestimated his speed just a little bit and he almost hit me in the face. The part that I am protecting the most.

Fortunately, I avoided the attack and for the first time while facing him I smiled, because I maybe triggered something inside his head to attack me. He is playing mind games on me in the middle of a battle then I will do the same thing to him.

While avoiding his punch, I tried to counter attack him and he avoided it with ease which surprised me yet again. Just how flexible is this guy. He is a champion but I don’t know that he is this versatile, since I don’t watch fighting matches, or if I am then I don’t concentrate a much about the fight. Because that’s just two men fighting for such a belt that they cannot use. How useful and senseless right?

I tried to do a chop attack on his back, when he completely exposed it to me but he catches it with his other hand. Then he pulled me, and I am forces because he overpowered me, and suddenly, it hurts. He grappled me and a locked position right now.

I wanted to scream help because of the pain that I am feeling inside me, but my pride won’t allow it as it does no promote masculinity. Such sexist society.

I tried to tap the floor because of the immense pain that I am experiencing right now, but he cannot see it or the referee. I have no choice left. Only me and there are no nearby friends to ask for help. So, I forced my exposed arm to push the grapple on me.

I first pushed his arms that seems to be the main foundation of this move, and if I successfully move his hand away from me. With sheer force, I tried to lift his hands locked in my left arm. That restricted the movement to the most part of my body.

“How you like that kid?” he asked me while he continues to grapple me.

“It’s great,” I said struggling, and I still continue to push him away, but his strength is greater than mine. I almost tapped on the floor boar to show him that I will surrender in this match but I was reminded by myself to not do that, as a scientific idea came into my mind, so I can be released from the whole situation without exerting so much force.

Then I’ll do that, I pressed on the joint of his arm and his muscles are thick and I didn’t think that this will be an easy one for me so I must exert additional effort and this seems to be effective as the pressure that he puts on my body are getting lesser and lesser.

“How about this?” he released me but he quickly grabbed on me, but I won’t let him do that again, so I slapped his hand away and I backed off as far as I could. He is scarier when he is in offensive right now and I still can’t land a clear hit on him.

Getting closer to him is not an option anymore and I am on the defensive now that will really challenge my reflexes and awareness on his movements. Then I will do my best today.

Overcoming this trial means a lot to me, and overcoming my t6rauma at the same time. I put my defensive stance on and I will face him head on without fear in my eyes.