Sitting comfortably in one of the couches was a handsome, tall, and muscular man with a full head of red hair and grey stripes around his temples.
On his arms were two beautiful service girls who pressed their bodies against his. The girl on the left arm fed him grapes and other assortments of fruits while the girl on his right arm helped him wash it down with a glass of wine.
He was being pampered like a king by both vixens but instead of paying attention to them, his eyes were fixed on something else. He was watching what was taking place at the bar.
{"What a peculiar dance routine. If I wasn't wiser, I'd have thought that it was a fight, but violence is against the rules, is it not?"} he said in Meratti, observing the strange exchange between Avery and Vox.
Since nobody was able to touch the other all through the short-lived brawl, the other guests who had been watching since Vox's antics drew their attention didn't think that what was happening before their eyes was a serious fight.
The consensus for a majority of them was that it was a strange dance routine, done to compliment the music performance on stage.
After all, how could someone of Avery's stature manage to evade all of Vox's attacks? That made no sense and could only be possible if everything was previously rehearsed.
Just then, the service girl by the right of the intrigued red-haired guest gently placed her hand on his jaw, fingertips sinking into his salt and pepper beard then pulling until he faced her and saw her look of annoyance and dissatisfaction.
{"Come on, Mr. Chauey. You've stopped paying attention to what I've been doing for the past couple of minutes. Do you find me boring all of a sudden?"} asked the service girl, looking and sounding desperate.
By the gentleman's left side, the other service girl did the same thing as the first. She placed her hand on his jaw and pulled so he'd look at her.
{"That's right, Mr. Rendrick. I've been holding up your grapes for over a minute now, waiting for when you'd take another bite but your attention seems to be somewhere else"} she complained then looked at the bar and saw Mosey and Kove walk up to Avery and push Mikie and Graham off of him.
She frowned with disgust after seeing the scene.
{"Don't tell me those ruffians interest you more than me, Mr. Rendrick"} She looked at him straight in the eyes, grabbed her breasts with her free hand, and showed how supple they were while also taking a bite of the grape in a very seductive manner.
The service girl by Rendrick's right wasn't going to sit back to lose to her colleague. She placed her hand on his chest and started running it down his stubble chest hair, got past his chiseled abs, and stopped at his pelvis region, eluding that she was ready to go even lower.
After listening and seeing everything both girls had to say and were doing to regain his attention, Rendrick grunted.
He looked at the bar where he saw Avery and the rest getting into fighting stances and he furrowed his eyebrows at the seriousness of the scene.
{'Ruffians huh? I would have sworn that they were dancers but that doesn't seem to be the case. I guess that just shows how prolific a fighter that young man is'} Rendrick thought.
Both service girls who saw that his attention was still on Avery and the rest grumbled exasperatedly.
{"Mr. Chauey"}, {Mr. Rendrick"} Both girls said at the same time.
Rendrick chuckled, leaned back into the couch as he spread his arms wider, and pulled both girls, who had created some distance since they started complaining, in closer.
{"Don't worry ladies, I was just intrigued by that youngster from the advanced city but I'm all yours now. Feel free to do whatever you want with me"} Rendrick grinned and both girls became happy again.
He stuffed his hands into their clothes and grabbed their breasts which caused both girls to blush and cross their legs.
Just then, Rendrick snuck a glance at Avery's footwear, groaned, and thought {'I didn't know a new pair had been made already. Guess I better hurry up with taking care of my other businesses and go back there. Gotta be ahead of distribution for those new designs and anything else those guys are developing—'}
{"Here you go, Mr. Rendrick. Say ahh"} said the service girl by Rendrick's left as she tried to feed him a diced apple and he opened his mouth to eat it.
Back at the bar, Avery, Mosey, and Kove were all ready to defend themselves and also deliver a monumental beating of their own.
"I would have loved to deal with the oaf you spilled the drink on, but I know when a fight belongs to someone else. Give him hell, pug—" Mosey said but was cut off by the Vox, Kief, and Fez's sudden charge toward them.
Mikie and Graham also charged at them but they targeted Kove who was fully facing them.
"He's coming pug, make sure you—" Mosey said as Vox charged at Avery but it was a feint.
Once he got closer, he shifted gears and veered toward Mosey, grabbed him, and lifted him into the air.
"You motherfucker!" Mosey said, looking down at Vox who was grinning from ear to ear.
Vox had wrapped his arms around Mosey's entire torso, including his arms, which prevented him from being able to free himself or fight back. He was trapped and was being moved around like a rag doll.
/"You cavemen like to drink, right? Well, here you go. Enjoy as much alcohol as you'd like!"\ Vox said then turned towards the bar and flung Mosey at it, causing Avery, who was a second too late to get to him, to fail to stop him.
"What the hell!" Shieve yelled, flailing with widened eyes when he saw Mosey flying towards him.
He tried to dodge but, unfortunately, his nonathletic body couldn't move out of the way in time.
All he could manage to do was lean sideways before his left chest and shoulder were hit by a portion of Mosey's body as he flew over the counter and landed on the floor, inches away from slamming into the shelf of bottles.
Shieve fell off his chair and sprained his right arm as he landed on the floor.
On the other hand, Mosey's body slamming on the floor very close to the shelf caused the bottles to shake vigorously, especially the ones at the bottom layer.
Thankfully, Mosey stopped himself from rolling forward after landing, or else he would have slammed into the shelf and caused the bottles of alcohol to fall and shatter all over him.
That would have not only caused injury to his body but they would have incurred expenses that couldn't be paid with the amount of squarez Centshuu currently had.
He grabbed all the shaking bottles one by one and stopped them before they fell.
Scared about being pulled into the battle even more than he already had, Shieve crawled a few feet away from the counter then stood up and ran from the scene.
"That bastard" Mosey smacked his tongue.
From his current position, Mosey heard Vox laughing which infuriated him.
He grabbed one of the bottles from the bottom of the shelf and stood up with it.
The moment Mosey faced the fight, his attention was stolen by Avery and how good of a fighter he was. Unlike before, he actually fought back instead of dodging and evading attacks.
Mosey paying attention to Avery also made Vox turn to Avery and frown at what he saw.
Avery, who was in a battle with Kief and Fez, was easily outclassing them.
Fez attacked with a horizontal punch aimed at Avery's jaw but Avery easily dodged it with a quick side step that took him towards Kief who wanted to attack as well but sadly he was too slow.
Avery slapped the hand Kief had wanted to attack him with, killing the attack before it could even start.
For his attack, he punched Kief in both ribs and then punched his stomach, causing Kief to grab his stomach in pain and drop to his knees, feeling like he was about to throw up.
Fez, who thought Avery was distracted after handling Kief so efficiently, tried to attack an opening he thought he had seen. Sadly, he messed with the wrong guy.
Avery saw his attack coming from a mile away and he too sprung into action.
He quickly turned to Fez and closed the gap between them. He kept his left foot in front of his right, twisted his torso to the right, and leaned back a bit. This move made Fez's right hand which was supposed to deliver a heavy blow to Avery's chest, run in front of Avery's diaphragm and stomach.
Avery's level of speed and flexibility was so surprising that Fez was taken aback by exactly how he evaded his attack.
Now, taking advantage of the opening, Avery who was still in his contorted stance swung a curved uppercut with his left hand that went through Fez's armpit and landed on Fez's chin.
The attack caused Fez to bite his tongue, fly back, and land on his back, no longer having the energy or motivation to get back up.
Seeing all this, Vox's eyes widened with shock and fear, wondering how anyone who looked like Avery could be that good at fighting.
Avery wasn't fighting like Kove who barely managed to keep Graham and Mikie at bay. Rather, he skillfully incapacitated both opponents within seconds.
Just then, Mikie, who was able to get through Kove's barrier, went straight for Avery.
His target was Avery's back and he was going to kick it to hopefully break Avery's spine. Unfortunately, just as he got close enough to attack, Mosey threw the bottle in his hand at him and the bottle smashed into his chest, nullifying his surprise attack.
/"Ahh!"\ Mikie yelled and fell to the ground.
A few seconds later, Graham too was overpowered and taken down by Kove who took advantage of Mikie escaping their two versus-one fight.
Infuriated that all his friends had been dealt with, Vox started to huff. He reached for his pocket, about to pull out something when suddenly everyone heard.
/"What the hell is going on here?!"\
Everyone stopped and looked in the direction of where they heard the voice come from.
"Centshuu," Avery said after seeing Centshuu, Ripply, Shieve, and an angry Bell standing a few feet away from them.