"That's game, victory for me once again!"
For the 15th time in a row, Ryu had beat his adversary at pong.
"How the fuck!?" The man said with a horrified expression on his face.
The person in front of Ryu had a Fu Manchu Mustache, chubby cheeks, long black hair, and a dark gown. Behind him were 5 people from the same gang as him.
"Unlucky, once again, I win!" Ryu exclaimed collecting once again 20 gold coins from the man.
Ryu had amassed a great amount of 70 gold coins from facing this gang member in the gamble game pong.
Pong was a very simple game, it is played on a rectangular table of fewer than 2 meters in which each player has a round disk the size of a hand, a metallic ball, and a metallic goal net on each side of the table. The reason they chose metallic materials was to make the game a bit harder so that people wouldn't be able to put too much power into their shots.
The objective is to score by shooting the ball in the net with the round disk attached to your hand. There is a time limit, and the one that scored the most goals wins.
"You're cheating, how on earth do you always manage to score, you haven't missed once since the beginning!" The man said with his cheeks getting red.
"Sorry, Fu, your just fucking trash you dipshit!" Ryu said with a mischievous smile on his face, "well then, I'm done playing with such a loser, I'm outta here!"
"Wait!" Fu shouted, "If you weren't cheating, you wouldn't mind one of my men inspecting the game to see any cheats would you?"
Fu joined both his hands and had a grin on his face while one of his men was inspecting the game.
They were both on a sandy alleyway, sitting on the corner of the alleyway. The place was quite crowded because there were a lot of shop stands in the area.
"Boss, I found something," the man said presenting a tiny magnetic on the ball, and a magnet on Fu's goal.
Ryu realized how risky the situation was and thought it was time to leave"I think it's time for me to go..."
"Hey Kid come back here, get him now!"
Ryu ran for it followed by four imposing men behind him.
"You wanna play catch? Alright, bet!"
Ryu increased his pace and showed great acrobatic skill jumping over boxes in the way and sliding undercarriages passing by, but he still couldn't lose them.
"Time to teach them who's boss!"
Ryu then entered deep into the market where there are more shop stands and the paths are tighter.
"You can't run forever kid!" One of the chasers shouted.
Ryu suddenly jumped on a wooden rectangular pen and immediately hopped once again to reach the shop stand roof. When he reached the end of the roof, he would jump the small distance to the other roof.
At this point, he was the center of attention in the market and everyone was looking at him as he was pacing roof after roof.
"You follow him on the roof and we'll follow him from down here!"
One of the chasers hopped on the roof and chased Ryu, but he was so heavy that the wooden roof of one of the shop stands was ceded, and he crashed into the shop stand of a butcher.
"... for fucks sake" The chaser mumbled.
"THe fat pig fell from the roof!" One of the chasers said.
"Don't worry, look ahead, we're entering the Central road, with all the guards around there he won't be able to run as he pleases!"
Central street was a large street in which all the carriages and traders passed. There were also the most popular shops in the street including the District's bank. It was crowded with guards because there were many bars in the street as well, and the guards were merciful with troublemakers. Falling under their hands would be more dangerous than falling under Fu's hands.
"HAHA, he's doomed!"
Ryu had realized the same thing as well and knew he was in a delicate situation. He looked for a solution and saw that on the other side of the street, there was Ojin's bakery store.
The distance between the Market entrance and the bakery store was about 15 meters. So this was going to be a delicate jump for him.
"Guess I gotta go for it..."
Ryu increased his pace and at the roof of the last stand he went for a big leap of 15 meters.
The chasers observed the scene with stunned expressions on their face as well as the other observers in the market.
Ryu saw the shop getting closer and he reached his hand out for the roof corner, and barely missed it as his body hit the wall. With his arm strength, he pulled himself up the roof and lay down on the ground for a while.
"That was way too fucking close," Ryu said out of breath.
He stood up and looked down to see the two chasers with menacing looks on their face. They didn't want to shout anything for fear of alerting the guards.
Ryu pointed the middle finger at them and pulled out his tongue at the chasers. He took some distance away from the Central street before hopping down the roof in a small and empty alleyway.
"These dumbasses really thought they could catch me..."
Ryu removed all the dust from his clothes and reached his pocket to check if his gold coins were still there.
"Thank goodness, to think that Fu was so stupid to get fooled by a young teenager..."
Ryu started laughing thinking of how stupid FU was before he felt two hands that grabbed him by his shoulder.
"You think you could run from us huh?"
When he looked behind, he saw the two chasers with furious expressions on their faces.
"Hey guys, it was a nice game of catch, was it!? Still haven't found your other friend yet?" Ryu said in a joking tone.
One of the chasers hardened his fist and grinned, "We're gonna bring you to the boss, but first, you're gonna learn not to mess with the Lotus Dragon gang!"
He threw a punch at Ryu thinking that he was weak and defenseless. What he didn't know was that Ryu controlled qi.
Shortly after Hina and Ryu's discussion about Hina's past, Ryu started developing superhuman capacities and it didn't take long for Hina to understand that Ryu could control qi.
Hina taught Ryu the basics of how to control qi, but Ryu didn't find it useful enough to learn it in more depth because he never envisioned himself encountering a powerful being.
Ryu caught the chaser's fist with his bare hands and started to crush it with his bare hands.
"ARHG!" the chaser shrieked kneeling to the ground because of the pain
"You really thought that weak punch would hurt me?" Ryu smiled and knee strike the chaser straight in the head knocking him out cold.
"You think I was running from you guys because I was scared? Bunch of fools!" Ryu exclaimed with a hostile grin, "the only reason I was running was that I didn't want to get dirty otherwise Hina would be on my ass, but I guess I got no choice anymore!"
"Cut the bullshit!"
One of the chasers rushed to Ryu, "I'll shut you up, you'll see!"
Ryu easily dodged his punches one after another and countered with a punch right in the jaw.
"Easy to talk huh?" Ryu said disappointed in their fighting skills, "let me check if they've got any jewelry on them"
When Ryu was going to search in their pockets, he looked in the sky and realized it was starting to get dark.
"Shit... Hina's gonna kill me!" Ryu said with a horrified expression.
Without searching the chasers, he rushed to get home.
{Meanwhile at the farm}
"Calm down Hina, he surely got busy!" Kyoto said gesturing for Hina to calm down.
In front of him was a teenage girl with golden hair which reached her legs, a dark green tunic, brown pants, and a leather belt. Her chest was slightly above average for her teenage age and she had a perfect waist size. Her skin had a smooth peach beautiful shiny color and her eyes were light blue like a blue ocean. Despite her furious expression, her face still gives off an infernal beauty.
"I bet he's staying playing his stupid pong game," Hina said in a menacing tone, "When he comes back, he's dead meat..."