As soon as Alex returned to the dojo, he first went to the store room and brought back a wooden sword-looking stick.
Alex planned to use a bokken for the first three days and then switch to a katana.
[Note-A bokken is a Japanese wooden sword used for training]
Alex used the first day to refine his basics and perform all breathing stances one by one. Then he decided to give one day each to a stance. He made a list of stances to perform and train on which day.
List of days and stances to perform-
Day 2-Chudan No Kamae
Day3-Gogyo No Seigan No Kamae
Day4-Hasso No Kamae
Day5-Hidari Gedan No Kamae
Day6-Hidari Jodan No Kamae
***
Six days passed by and Alex was getting ready to go to that gang's hideout.
Alex quickly grabbed a katana which was a special katana, which was in the Dango family since the 16th century.
The katana was a curved, single-edged blade with a squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands, its handle was white, and its Koshirae was black.
(Note-Koshirae refers to the ornate mountings of a Japanese sword, used when the sword blade is being worn by its owner)
"I am coming you bastards," Alex thought.
The last time when Alex searched for the gang, he got the address of that gang's hideout, 'South Street near the port, warehouse 8."
Alex stopped a cab and ordered the driver to the gang's hideout. "Sir that place is not safe, many gangs have their hideout at that place, and especially if you are going at night time, it is not safe there, you should go home." The cab driver said.
"I have some unfinished business there. Mind your own business ok!" Alex replied
***
In half an hour, Alex arrived in front of warehouse 8. After reaching his destination he paid the cab driver and get out of the car.
Alex started heading towards the warehouse's entry. A thought came to his mind "I haven't killed a single person in my life, but I have trained to do so, I am not going to show any mercy and kill all of those bastards and avenge sensei,"
When Alex first entered the warehouse, he saw about 18 men drinking, talking, and playing cards. There was a lot of noise in the warehouse, but everybody became quiet when they saw a figure approaching them with a sword in his hand.
According to Alex's plan, Alex will rush at them without giving them time to react.
He followed his plan and rushed to the closest group of 3 men, who were playing cards.
Alex swung his katana forward, striking one of the men in his throat. That man's throat got slit open and he instantly died.
Then Alex moved a bit forward poking the katana into one of the man's guts, he cried in pain and fell to the ground.
The other men watching this scene playing in front of their eyes were confused, "what is happening," was a question in everyone's mind, but none of them wasted any more time and started getting prepared to kill that man who infiltrated their base.
On the other hand, Alex was moving forward to slash the belly of the one man left in the group of three, when the katana slashed the man's belly, Alex wasted no time and slashed that man's throat.
After killing that man Alex noticed that fifteen men were approaching him. Each one of them was armed with something.
The man with a baseball bat in his hand swung the bat aiming for Alex's head. Alex dodged that hit, then Alex attacked that man with his katana where his liver was, slashing it completely.
"Four men down fourteen more to go" Alex muttered.
Three men attacked Alex at once without giving him time to dodge any of the moves, but due to Alex's reflexes, he dodged every attack with precise movement and then counter-attacked them by widely slashing the Katana and killing those three in one hit.
"Surround him now" one man shouted from the group
Men surrounded Alex, leaving no space to escape, everyone attacked Alex at the same time expecting he would surely get hit by one of them, but Alex dodged almost every move.
Almost
They were right, Alex got a hit on his belly with an iron rod and a strike on his left arm with a metal chain, "ghraaaaar" Alex shouted in pain. Not submitting to the pain Alex quickly gained his composure and poked the katana in one of the man's eyes piercing through his head. Retracting the blade from the man's eye he slashed the katana horizontally cutting the throat of the other man.
It was getting hard for Alex to hold the katana with two hands because of the hit he received from the metal chain.
Other men left no time for Alex to react and all of them attacked Alex at once, Alex quickly turned and slashed 4 men with one wide strike, and at the same time Alex's head got struck by a heavy object, and one man hit Alex from behind when he was striking the four men.
When Alex got hit on his head, his head started getting heavier but Alex wasted no time in striking the man who hit him from behind.
After killing that man Alex wasted no time and headed for two men in front of him, he stroked both of them one by one, killing them in one hit.
Now only three men were left and Alex thought "It will be easy now that only three of them are left."
Suddenly one man ran towards a specific place in the warehouse when Alex saw that man running, he understood something was wrong, so he instantly rushed towards the other two men with the katana, with a horizontal strike Alex cut the throat of the man, instantly killing him.
When Alex slashed the other man, that man dodged his attack and was going to counter-attack when the katana was heading in the direction of that man and sliced his neck.
This showed that Alex was two steps ahead of his enemies.
Alex quickly ran in the direction of the man who was left, Alex was about to strike him when suddenly that man took out a revolver and shot Alex 6 times, Alex felt immense pain but he did not stop and slashed the katana horizontally uprooting that man's head from his body.
After killing that last man, Alex fell to the floor and started bleeding out. Alex was smiling, "I avenged you sensei, I am coming to you," Alex whispered.
These were Alex's last words before he passed away.
After months of grieving, a whole lifetime of misery and pain, Alex felt that all his traumas and hatred were fading away.
Alex had never experienced such bliss. In this new form, he felt no negative emotion, he was at peace with his past, and unafraid of his future.
Alex was enjoying a present that he felt could lead to endless possibilities, and there was no right and wrong, success or failure. He would simply be, no strings attached.
That intoxicating feeling lasted until he suddenly woke up, alive and breathing.
All his negative emotions returned, plunging him back into despair. Alex cursed inwardly while trying to focus his eyes. Maybe it was because he passed out for some while due to 6 shots in his body.
"So much for the perfect plan. That idiot cab driver must have rescued me and somehow I survived the journey to the hospital. I am still alive. I still have a brain tumor. I am still alone." But when his eyes finally cleared up, they strongly disagreed with his reasoning.
Giant hands were holding him still while he was puking god knows what, and judging from the breeze on his butt cheeks he was naked.
"I don't know what the heck is going on," He thought "but I bet I am in a deep shit."