Chapter 20 - A BRAWL

Luke who was confused by a sudden yet out of the situation reaction from the youth in front of him, with a puzzled face, turned around to face Hank along with the other henchmen, who had his eyes narrowed, seemingly confused by the young man's behavior.

Hank, however, didn't choose to dwell on finding the reason for the young man's odd behavior, so he just nodded at Luke to proceed with his actions, which was in the favor of the latter's intentions, thus he happily complied in trying to finish this quickly as per his boss's orders from earlier.

Luke then stepped forward and erased the gap between him and Jax in just two leisure yet long strides.

On the flip side, just as he was about to take a grab hold of the youth whom he captured in the same manner earlier, Jax ducked just in time to avoid his claws, but in the next second, even before he could side step his attacker, and while he was still squatting down, a hand came straight for his collar, aiming to seize his chances of moving far from the disgusting human in front of him.

Unfortunately, Jax didn't anticipate such quick reflexes from the burly man, who didn't even need a full second to turn around before attacking his rival.

Right before the hand could touch him, Jax heard the same robotic voice once again, however, now it didn't address him as master anymore, as it called out him directly. It pronounced his very name clearly.

[Jax, you have to side step to your right with your head close to the ground, now!]

Jax didn't have much time to think about the voice as he did what it said, solely following his instincts.

[Now, stand up and walk three steps to your left diagonally.]

Came the same voice again.

What he didn't realize was that Luke who couldn't catch him even after attempting for a second time had pounced on him for a third time, only this time so aggressively that when he failed for the third time, he tripped onto the ground face first so hard that, a loud groan escaped his mouth.

Jax turned around in a flash and the scene of the disgusting man sprawled on the ground on his fours greeted his alert eyes. Jax suddenly felt an urge to laugh at the latter's sorry state, if only he weren't the subject of scrutiny from so many eyes at this moment, he would have doubled over in excitement just from the way Luke was grunting in so much pain.

Meanwhile, every other inmate other than the rougish man had their faces twisted at the sudden turn of events. While Hank's face darkened when Jax successfully evaded Luke's attacks three times consecutively.

Seeing his face which had turned even darker than the bottom of a burnt pot, the other inmates under his wing started gloating at the young man's misfortune.

And Jax who noticed their anticipating expressions, immediately understood their thoughts and when he looked at the main antagonist of this situation, the latter lifted his feet one at a time to approach them.

Jax was prepared to fight him for good, regardless of the outcome, he didn't want to have any regrets for not trying to defending himself.

Hank walked over to the defiant youth leisurely, he didn't even bother to spare a glance at the lustful creep who was groaning in pain as his nose started to bleeding from the impact of his fall.

Luke was covering his nose with one hand while trying so hard to make as little sound as possible, however, because of the stabbing pain in his nostrils he couldn't help but let out muffled groans. It seemed like he didn't want to embrass himself by crying even though he literally saw stars when his nose received such a painful blow.

Meanwhile, Hank side stepped the whimpering mess on the ground and stood in front of Jax within the span of a few seconds.

On the other hand, to everyone's astonishment, Hank lifted his feet and kicked it backward hard, and Luke who was rolling in the dust just behind the former, received a heavy blow in the gut.

The unfortunate man coughed blood as the air left his lungs in rapid breaths. But in the next second, he didn't even dare to breathe heavily when his boss's unhappy comment reached his ears.

"A bunch of trash, don't even know how to deal with a small kid." Hank muttered in his cold voice, which left the fallen man trembling in fear.

However, Hank's entire persona took a U turn as soon as he finished uttering these few words. He was now smiling like the imp that he was as he continued his sentence again.

"Seems like I have to work myself over to achieve the results I want." Hank's voice turned bone chilling to the end of his speech.

He was mad serious about his words.

However, as usual, his words couldn't bring out the expected reaction from the young man in front of him.

He couldn't help but admire Jax for his stubbornness at this point.

However, that unbending stubbornness of his was the very reason what got Hank worked up over all this time. He wasn't used to giving chances to defiant kids who don't know when to stop being arrogant.

He was unreasonably impatient when it came to doing things in his own way. He completely disliked it when people show any attitude in front of him. Another reason why he laid his eyes upon an arrogant young man like Jax, who piqued his interest in their first meeting it self.

Yet, Jax didn't know any better and chose to defy him to the end, which left him no choice but to crush the youth's pride once and for all

Yes, he was determined to show the young man his place and teach him a memorable and unforgettable lesson himself.

With this thought, Hank raised his left hand to grab hold of Jax's not so long brown curls, intending to tug his head down, while aiming his knee straight for the latter's nose.