Love is War

Chapter 81

I need to think of a pattern that will help me to have a clean hit on the head, then I need to aim for the spot that he expects it less for me to hit.

If I am in Shawn’s position right now, then how I will underestimate my opponent in front of me? I need to think more like him right now. Remember Rei, think outside the box.

“Giving up already, chicken?” he said to me trying to provoke me. I need to think of something that calms me. The big question is what calms my mi- a picture of Lyn flashed in my mind again, I closed my eyes tightly, and I heard Shawn’s footsteps and he grazed my chin, that almost knocked me out.

I backed out to get out of his, reach.

“I don’t know that the master has a coward son,” he is starting to get more intense with his comments and Mac did not fail to warn me, that if I want to get stronger then I must overcome this challenge first, also he allowed Shawn to have no limitations with his comment.

I remember a player that has the very same mind set like him, instead of a fighter like him, that player is a gamer, at first, I did not know about him and when he became the champion with his team, I accidentally watched a video, titled how that player teabagged his way to victory.

Teabagging is one of the most toxic acts in tournaments but that player did not care and when the community addressed his actions, he just became more toxic towards his opponents and the community itself and I remember him saying that being toxic is one of his strategies.

In a tournament, there is this intense feeling and the contenders need to be more focused on the fight because one wrong step will take them out in the brackets, and their dream of becoming a champion will be soon left to dust.

So, he explained that his toxic acts, will provoke the enemies that will result to them creating reckless decision that will cost them their victory. Teabagging is not the only act, that he did, he has his own ways to provoke them and destroy their momentum.

And watching that, is the only mind set that I can compare with what Shawn is doing to me right now. I am thankful that I watched that video because if not maybe I am throwing reckless punches to wards him right now and he is laughing at me, for being provoked.

If Lyn is the only way to fight my way out in this challenge, then so be it, if Lyn is the only one that can calm me down. I thought of our moments together, and that made me ignore his comments if that is the only way.

Then just for this moment, I will gladly do so.

Now I know where to hit him first, I went at him as he goes straight at me and I avoided his punch and I accepted his quick follow up on my face and turned my head to the right to reduce the force of his punches.

Now that there is nothing for him to guard my attacks, I know that this is my moment to take my turn. I kicked his crouch as hard as I could, and as expected he did not expect that I will do that unorthodox move to a professional like him.

His eyes turned white because of the pain that he experienced and now both of his hands are on his crouch and I punched Shawn’s face as hard as I can.

“C- coward,” he said before he got completely knocked out. Geez, that was easy. I raised both of my hands to show my victory towards him, and I should say sorry to Nab and Mac when they come out because they dwell in the same body.

“Well, who is kneeling now?” I asked him.

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It took a while for Mac to recover from the pain that I inflicted on him, and now I feel awkward towards him for doing that because... well that was his manliness that I struck... geez.

I need to be more careful next time, but Shawn left me with no choice.

“I am sorry about that,” I told him as he got up.

“No, no, it’s okay you did go against the rules,” he assured me and he is clearly still in pian right now.

“I should be more careful next time,” I told him.

“You should be,” he replied immediately. “I am still planning to build a family that I can call my own,” he added, and that made me feel sorry for doing that to them.

“Sorry,” I apologized again.

“Instead of getting mad at you, I congratulate you on passing the first test,” he told me. “To be honest, we did not expect that you will do that honestly,” he said. “You went beyond our expectations,” he added.

“T- thank you,” I awkwardly said.

“Yeah, and Shawn is not very happy that you did that since he is the one that is looking forward to build a family the most,” he informed me. That was to be expected because I humiliated him. I only scratched my head and awkwardly laugh towards him.

I now realized that if I am in a fight, a street fight, or a gang war, even worst facing her again, I learned that I need to exploit the weakness of my opponent the most, no matter what are their principles towards a fair fight.

Although, she is a woman, and knowing myself I will hesitate, even to touch her body, but I can use weapons right. Exploitation for the win... not guns but close-range weapons, then I need to learn dad’s sword play.

In our original country, where we came from Japan, father is one of the descendants of the samurais, and the tradition was passed on to him. After realizing that I have this condition, father decided that he will break the tradition.

I felt sorry for not reaching his expectations, but he still accepted me as his son. I am grateful for that, and I think that this is the time for me to return the favor to him because I will fulfill his expectation as a great son.

Then that means another schedule in my chart and that means that less play time for me. I sighed upon realizing that and knowing that I have no other choice, but I am decided because this is for my future.

“Let’s start,” Mac told me, and he stood up from his seat and I watched him walk towards a punching bag and I stood up to and followed him. “Now show me how creative you are, and hit this bag, but there is a twist behind this. Imagine, that this punching bag in front of you is a moving opponent, just like in shadow boxing you just don’t only attack your opponent, you also need to dodge and guard your attacks,” he explained to me. “Now imagine that Nab is the one that is in front of you,” he told me.

He already showed me their different fighting styles and before the challenges he made me fight each one of them and I was defeated every tome.

“Without the crouch, this time,” he added and I was reminded by him again.

I am really sorry about that.

“Begin,” he said.

He thought me what shadow boxing is, and I closed my eyes because this the best way that I can visualize Nab in front of me. Unlike Shawn, Nab likes to take the first step in a fight and I avoided his fist, and perseverance is one of the most notable quality of him.

This punching bag in front of me right now is the greatest representation of him right now because no matter how hard I hit this; it will not go down.

After avoiding his punches, I used my right leg to take a big step forward and used my hips to strike his solar plexus from below as I avoid his punches.

When my fist touched his body, I felt satisfied that it was strong enough to send him back. Now I saw him outbalanced, and I don’t need to waste this opportunity and I started with an uppercut and gave him the barrage of punches in different parts of his body so he cannot guard my attacks.

I avoided his attacks when he tried to counter my attacks, and I did not only imagine his fist, I also imagined him kicking and tried to guard it with my sheen, then I countered with a high kick and proceeded to rain down punches on him.

“That’s enough,” Mac told me while he is holding my shoulders right now. Just like what he said I stopped. I opened my eyes and saw the punching bag again, I even forgot that I am fighting a punching bag, because I was so immersed with my own simulation to the fight.