As they ran quickly towards Noah, the 9 looked at each other again and everyone nodded. After that they split up into teams, one with four men and three girls and the other a pair of two men.
The seven went straight for Noah, while the others tried to pass straight in the direction of Sophia. Noah quickly looked back when the two men passed him and came close to Sophia, but when he turned around, a man came towards him, and moving his arm quickly towards Noah he punched him.
'Shit, like that…'
Even without seeing the man attacking him Noah easily dodged the punch just by moving a little to the right, and as he dodged the punch Noah quickly swatted the man and kicked him in the direction of the other two who were close to Sophia .
"What a…"
"Thump!"
"Run!"
Noah shouted after hitting the two men who had passed him.
"What, but ..."
He spoke to Sophia while wondering if she should really go, or stay there and try to help in some way.
Seeing that she was hesitant Noah thought 'You are a really good person ... but ...' as he gave a small smile as he grabbed the foot of a man who was kicking him on the left side and kicking his belly sending him away afterwards of having dropped it on the floor.
Noah knew that hesitant like that Sophia was not going to leave, and she also realized afterwards that most people left, that those nine were clearly stronger than she was, so she staying there would be suicide, and knowing that Noah screamed "Come on ! Or are you going to be able to help me with something? " while he narrowly avoided the punch of a woman who was attacking him several times quickly.
After hearing that, a tear streamed down Sophia's face, because she was feeling useless at the time, and she ran when she turned quickly, and in the meantime that tear fell slowly towards the floor.
Seeing her run at a glance Noah thought 'I hope she will forgive me for what I said, but it would be really very difficult to deal with these people at the same time that I have to protect her. … And how good that I learned to fight before, if not… 'while punching the man who was running straight towards him.
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Even after he reached the age of Noah, or Ji Hoon was still controlled by his parents, but now he had a little more free time and money since if he didn't go out with any friends from college, people would find it in least weird.
However Ji Hoon had no friends in college, so he had to find something to do with that free time and money, something in which he could release the anger that he always kept in store for him, and that thing was Wu Shu .
When Ji Hoon started practicing Kung Fu (Wu Shu) he started it only with the purpose of discounting all the anger that he kept inside him, and even without being the initial purpose, over time he became more and more better in Kung Fu, better to the point that there was almost nobody in the place where he trained, who would be able to beat him in melee.
Ji Hoon's teacher tried to make him learn to fight with the bat as well, but Ji Hoon was not interested in that, he just wanted to take out his anger while fighting with someone, but it would be of no use if he won the fight very easy.
So after 5 months of training in that place, there was no longer any reason for Ji Hoon to stay there, everyone in that place was being defeated too quickly, so he decided to talk to the teacher that he would leave and when he was going to the teacher's room one of the eight new students who had entered that day said "Hey you there, come here for us to exchange teachings."
Upon hearing this, all the students who had been there for over a month knew that that boy had made a mistake saying that, but Ji Hoon just ignored him and continued walking towards the professor's office.
"Look, he's afraid of a newbie!"
Exclaimed the boy.
After this boy said that, everyone else started laughing at Ji Hoon while they called him fearful. Ji Hoon then sighed, and slowly started to take off the backpack on his back as he walked towards the mat that was just behind him.
"Shit, did he take it? … Go and call the teacher. "
He whispered to one of the students who had been training there for a while, while sending the student who was on his side to go and call the teacher.
"Remember that whatever happens on that mat, it will be your fault, and only yours."
Ji Hoon spoke while folding the sleeves of the white dress shirt he was wearing.
The boy got on the mat, and stood in the cat's posture putting most of his weight on his back leg while supporting a small percentage of his weight on the sole of his front foot, while also keeping his two legs slightly flexed.
She raised her hands in the tiger's position, holding her right hand at shoulder level, with the palm facing the elbow pointing down. His other hand was just below his right wrist, with his forearm parallel to the floor. And right after that he opened the fingers of both hands and then folded them like claws.
'Look, maybe this could be interesting.'
Ji Hoon thought as he watched the boy enter his fighting position and gave a slight smile.
After he finished entering his position, the boy looked at Ji Hoon, who was in a sloppy position and asked, "What is it? Give up?"
Ji Hoon sighed and said, "Come on, I think this is fine." while he raised only one of his hands to the right, and turned the other back.
Seeing that person who does not seem to be so much older than him, acting in that arrogant way in front of him, the boy was so irritated that he immediately went after Ji Hoon, striking him with his back arm.
Ji Hoon deflected that blow easily thus forcing the boy to return to his defensive position, but before the boy managed to do that, Ji Hoon gave a straight kick to his chest, a kick that made the boy go back a little and feel a great pain in your chest.
The boy was raising his right hand to ask them to stop, but Ji Hoon didn't give it time and quickly tripped the boy up causing him to fall on his back on the floor.
"No, sto ..."
Before the boy could speak, Ji Hoon went over to him and dealt several blows while standing over his body. The boy could not do anything, could not fight back, could not escape, could not do anything but look terrified at that smile that Ji Hoon gave while beating him.
"Stop!!"