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Chapter 11 - Hostage Situation

Crimson blood slowly trickled down Jack's neck and along his arms. Jin's fists were clenched, boiling with rage as he resisted the urge to go and kill the woman. He composed himself and calmed down, asking the woman what she wanted.

Her lips curved up as she slyly replied, her accent heavily resembled that of the Russians in the old world, "I am here to make a deal, if you are to accept, I shall leave and everything will return to normal. Jin hastily nodded his head wanting to get this done and over with as quickly as possible.

The woman locked her gaze upon Jin and continued to explain, "The conditions, I shall leave you alone till the beginning of the competition, as long as you don't attack me. Nor shall we fight till the final battle." A wave of confusion overtook Jin as he blurted out "Wait, that's it? I thought you'd demand more." 

She replied with a simple nod and proceeded to take out a small piece of paper. "One of my abilities allows me to make blood contracts with others. I need you to put a droplet of your blood on it and sign it with a pen."

She said whilst handing Jin the piece of paper alongside a pen. Jin hurriedly took the paper and pen, writing down his name before biting his thumb. A few drops of blood slowly fell onto the paper before spreading like ink. His eyes quickly shot towards her before her hand reached out, taking the paper off of him and doing the same that he had done before taking her leave. 

Jin darted towards his brother, embracing him in a warm hug before speaking in a soft and gentle tone, "It's okay buddy I'm here, nothing can happen to you. I'm sorry I wasn't here before, I promise to always be here for you. I promise." Jack's eye's swelled up before tears ran down like a waterfall, staining and dampening Jin's shirt as he hugged him tightly. 

Jin's boss walked in, putting his hand on Jin's shoulder before telling him that they needed to speak alone for a moment.  He felt a bit bad leaving Jack by himself so he went to the closet, getting his old teddy bear and giving it to Jack.

He then made his way outside before winding his arm back and releasing his stress and anger onto the wall, obliterating it without using an ounce of mana.

Jin looked at his boss, but before he could say a word his boss spoke, "Before you say anything, I just want to let you know that I will help you in any way to make sure you win this competition, and yes I get you're angry. But please think straight right now if you want to get revenge you need to be prepared".

He understood this and thought for a second, then replied, "I want two things. The first is a jacket with our logo on it and the second is-" He paused for a second taking out his Kusarigama and his orb with crackling lightning but then continued, "I want you to combine these two items into one and make a powerful weapon".

He nodded and stated, "You're going to need a weapon to protect yourself while I'm making this, so in the meantime, take this." He handed Jin a Katana with flower petals encircling it.

Jin reached out and took it, before giving a request to his boss, "Can you look after Jack till this competition is over? I wanna get stronger but don't wanna put him in danger." He responded with a slight nod before going into the house to get him.

Jin moved the mana around his body, activating [Body Compression Rank Low F] and began bursting his way through the streets. He wanted to let out his anger and thought looking for trouble makers would be the perfect way. As Jin made his way through the streets, a distant cry of a woman could be heard accompanied by 7 or so men, telling her to be quiet. Jin twisted his entire body and advanced towards the sound.

As he reached his destination he was surprised to see that it was a warehouse with some crates, crates and barrels filled with humans but Jin didn't seem to mind much and instead kicked down the door, rushing at the first person he saw.

He swiftly grabbed him by the collar and threw him into the air before leaping up, focusing all his mana into his right fist and slamming down. His fist slowly cocked backwards before extending rapidly like a spring.

The sheer impact caused a small explosion before sending the man flying, crashing into a few of the barrels. The criminals were instantly alerted by this and turned their heads back, looking towards a tall, dark figure standing in the shadows, slowly making its way towards them.

They had no hesitation and instantly began shooting towards him.The lack of hesitation had caused the death of one of their other lackeys as Jin grabbed him and shielded himself from the bullets, Bullets rained down and soaked into the human meatshield. 

Jin reached to the floor, grabbing a man who seemed to be reloading his gun and punched a hole through his arm before taking the gun off of him. He quickly reloaded the gun before throwing the meat shield aside.

He quickly fired a few shots, two of which hit a pair of criminals straight through the leg and another blasting through another man's head. Two objects soared through the air, a body  and Jin, as he grabbed the necks of the two he shot in the legs, breaking them.

The final two people got close together to keep safe, but this was their biggest mistake as Jin ripped off a chunk of metal from a crate to use a spear. He was about to throw it but he could hear whimpers so he ripped off a larger chunk of metal, revealing a few children inside the crate.

A yell could be heard as Jin ran towards the two of them, stabbing one in the arm, pinning him to the wall and breaking his gun in half. The other man tried to shoot him but a hand reached for him, crushing his skull like a watermelon. 

Jin looked at the man infuriated, "Who the hell is your boss and what group are you a part of." The man spat in his face and smirked, "I'll never tell a loser like you." A child tried to peek out to see if it was safe and all she could see was her tormentor's arm being torn off by a hulking angry man. She quickly ran back and hid inside the crate.

A hand grabbed the man's neck as Jin got close to his ear and whispered, "You've got one more chance or you die here." The man looked at Jin and nodded as he whispered back, "I'd rather die than have to go through my boss." Jin looked at the man before letting out a thunderous roar, his voice resonating throughout the warehouse, "YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND" tearing the man's head off and throwing it aside as if it were trash. Jin quickly notified his boss of this occurrence and a few people were sent to clean up the mess along with helping all the children.

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3 Days Later

Jin's boss approached him saying, "You know, since you didn't use the sword I gave you, just keep it for now but anyways I got the things you wanted". Jin looked in the bag and smirked, making his way to the bathroom to quickly get changed into his new gear. A pair of sandals, some sweatpants, a normal black shirt and a sweatshirt with their logo 'SCARLET SPIDERS'.

He branded a new Kusarigama with the thunder orb on the end instead of the spike ball. His boss looked at him asking,"Are you ready?" He opened his system and said "Yeah, as ready as I'll ever be."

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[Name: Jin Jiyu]

[Age: 17]

[Race: Human]

[Title: None]

[Job: None]

[Level: 3]

[EXP: 23/300]

[HP: 110]

[MP: 150/150]

[Strength: 1.4]

[Agility: 2.0] 

[Endurance: 1.1]

[Intelligence: 1.5] 

[Energy: 1.5] 

[Mana Control: 1.1] 

[Stat Points: 0.0] 

[Skills: Body Compression Low Rank F,Death Left Eye Medium Rank F and Mana Right Eye Low Rank F] 

[Pending Skills: None ]

[Techniques: None] 

[Trait: None]

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