Assault Game!

Really not like in the movies...

The man turned to the ground, but Kiragi wasn't laying where he last saw him.

Instead, he already plunged the bloodied knife he held into the chest of the man.

The man was quick though, he dove back instantly. Then he kicked Kiragi on the shin.

Kiragi knew that having a scuffle was a fool's choice. With the man bleeding profusely, he only had to keep his distance and make some guerilla attacks.

What he did not account for, was the sharpness of the man. In that split second, the man had already processed things and ascertain Kiragi a threat.

He lunged at the fleeing boy and tackled him to the muddy ground.

The man was about 30 to 35 years old, and though he wasn't that buffed up, he had long arms and stout leg muscles. He had the advantage of being stronger than Kiragi, added on to the fact that he knew the environment he used for an ambush better than the youth before him.

He was stronger, faster, and adequately nimble.

His only blunder was flinging his dagger off to gods knows where after the surprise attack from Aeries.

The man had been shocked during that time. He wasn't a war veteran, neither did he experience life in a mafia gang. He had panicked and mistakenly left his dagger.

And now, even with his x2 times the strength, he was against Kiragi and a dagger!

this was the reason he pushed Kiragi towards the soil, to not give him the chance to make any move with that gleaming military knife.

The two of them rolled and hurled, only stopping after crashing to a tree trunk. Kiragi tried getting on top of the fellow, but he wasn't strong enough to free himself from the man's grasp.

“HUFF!”

Rather, the man sat on top of Kiragi after a bit of scuffle and proceeded to strangle him.

“Knife or no knife, I, Still win”

His legs pinned Kiragi's arms to the ground, not giving him the ability to make a comeback.

In this way, Kiragi struggled with breathing and the pain for more than 15 seconds! The white of his eyes threatened to roll over, while his face was completely red.

Then, after four or more seconds, he became limp on the ground. His struggles were all but finished.

“Ha, Huff... By the gods! This f*****g kid did get a number on me. Who the f**k did he think he was? f*****g James bond? bloody hell!” The man added force on Kiragi's neck in anger before he tore his gaze and hand away...

It was then everything changed.

Kiragi remembered a picture post on social media about how not to die when someone wants to murder you with a pillow.

In the pictures, the man slept, and the assassin crept in and put a pillow over his head. It was one of the most silent means to murder someone... Anything that had to do with strangling or blocking the windpipe was.

The assassin pressed the pillow alright, but the man's response was kind of unusual. He struggled for a bit, not too long, and not too short. Before ‘dying’

The assassin released his grip and was about to say ‘job done’, before Voila, the dead man makes a counterattack with his chair.

Kiragi understood that the man shouldn't have killed one too many people, although he did have blood on his hands.

So he wouldn't understand the human anatomy and function, except from flimsy action movies where only one bullet on the abdomen kills.

Kiragi struggled for a bit, but he did not overwork himself to have some oxygen for his aerobic respiration. He needed to do that.

Next, he pretended to have died. The man did think this was enough to kill an adult human since he had never strangled someone before.

And just as he removed his grip from Kiragi's neck, the boy made a counterattack.

Kiragi had to be fast, because after his windpipe was released after such a hard grip, it would surely spasm, causing fits of coughs, and swishing.

So at that moment, he pushed every bit of strength he had to strike at a vital point of the man's body...

He chose the man's neck!

This was a fragile place where every pierce had a probability to kill the man.

Kiragi roared and plunged the dagger into the man's neck, and a *Plush* Sound escaped from the action.

The man hurriedly held his neck, and let out a guttural yell of pain.

He kicked Kiragi forcefully, enough to make the lean boy skip off his feet.

But Kiragi could not afford to lose this golden opportunity. He held tight to man and struck at whatever angle he could.

The man had tried to hold unto something, either Kiragi, his dagger, or anything else around him to try to deter Kiragi, but when he tried, Kiragi had already thought of a solution.

He hurriedly pushed the man to the ground and sat on top of him. And then with an undisguised smirk, he stabbed the man here and there.

“People really don't die as fast as in the movies. *cough, cough*”

The man could not move a muscle, only staring at Kiragi with hatred, pure unrefined hatred!

“Say, boy. How did you know it was an ambush? How did yo, you, fi,” The man struggled with every word, but his eyes still implored Kiragi.

“Huh? Are you a fool or what? Even someone with half a brain would not stoop over to help you, it's an ‘every man for himself’ area around here... Why would I help you?”

“Then!?”

Kiragi had walked over and picked the man’s items right in front of him,

“Well, of course, I was here to reap benefits. I had wanted to kill you”

Clean and straight confession. The only thing he left out, was that he did kill the man.

“So, you, knew...”

“Hahaha! You really are a fool ” Kiragi squat next to the man, “I saw a helpless, injured person in this cut neck place. Sick and shouting for help. I saw someone with a need... But someone that has what I need. What do you think I should do?”

“YOU!!!” The man let out a violent cough and his heartbeat seized. But his eyes held only fury. Fury in the realization.

“Yes, that's right. There are no saints here. If I behold any shaking tree, I'll target it”

At the end of his sentence, Kiragi's eyes bore cold.