"Come out now, you damn fucker!!! I will show you hell again!!!!"
Jake screamed while huffing down his breath. The bleeding on his head had taken down his stamina after all this running, yet the fact that he was still stronger than Jason right here was an undeniable fact.
"Fucker! You really made me run all over the place! I thought you could run forever, huh? You're not as clever as you think, Jason. That little stunt with the stone won't save you. You just made things a whole lot worse for yourself. You're in for a world of hurt unless you learn to stay in line today."
As Jake said, he had slowly started to move forward with his eyes fixed on Jason on the ground. He was downright horrified to see Jason shivering from head to toe along with the sweat covering his face, but at the same time, Jake's gaze fell over the other bullies lying on the ground, crawling there while tightly grabbing their bodies and groaning in pain.
"What the..."
A look of shock flashed on his face as he saw their conditions, and immediately, as his gaze moved around the area, he noticed Lucas right there, besides Jason leaning on the bike.
As he noticed that his gaze once again moved over to Jason, who was still scared and nervous, a look of fear was written all over his face.
'... After that wimp started throwing stones, I thought he had suddenly gained some courage to resist, but guess a loser is still a loser, huh?'
A smirk suddenly covered up Jake's face again. Jake clearly seemed to have regained that composure of seeing his victim still act like the animal trained like before. As he turned his gaze towards Lucas, he started to release big words from his mouth.
"Ho~ so you actually called for a big guy for help? You think you are now a big shot, huh? Calling outsiders for help"
"Ho..."
Lucas scoffed as he saw that look on a kid almost a decade younger than him while confidently moving towards him as if he would actually beat him up.
'Are kids these days retarded? Does this kiddo really think he can actually beat up a man almost 8 years older than him?'
Lucas sighed while shaking his head and next moved his gaze towards Jason, and all the brightness and casual chill expression on his face suddenly vanished while he coldly commanded
"Stand up..."
"W-wha -!?"
Jason was obviously confused by Lucas's sudden remark and change of behaviour, but Lucas, on the other hand, maintained that cold composure as he seriously commanded
"Stand up and fight."
"Wha!? You want me to fight!?! This isn't what we made a deal on!? You said my only task is to drag them here!!!"
Jason, although he stood up, didn't seem to be willing to fight as Lucas had instructed; instead, he started to argue. Meanwhile, Jake was slowly moving forward with a smirk on his face, taking all the joy in this commotion.
"There was no deal between us; a deal is something that happens when both parties are doing equal good for each other. What is happening between us is charity; I just happened to find you and decided to help a kid. Now don't push it, and do as I say from now on."
"This is unfair?!!"
Jason retorted with frustration, looking all over his face, but Lucas on the other side was just as cold as ever, as he coldly commented.
"Since when were things fair in your life?"
"...!!!"
Jason had no reply to this question; from the beginning, being victim or not wasn't up to him; his life was fucked by others without any of his own fault.
Parents were divorced without his will; without any proper love from family, as a single child, he was left alone to face the world, and suddenly, a bunch of hounds started to target him. Nothing had been fair from the very beginning.
"You also just want me to see her beaten up after all... So I had been just a toy for the amusement of others from the very beginning."
Darkness clouded his thinking as he saw that cold gaze from Lucas that he had momentarily started to think of as his own hero, but now that cold gaze and the situation he was left to face alone said otherwise.
"Are you done discussing? Very well, then!? Come here on your own wimp; the punches might get a bit less than what I was thinking of before."
Jake was also amused over the situation as he arrived in the middle of that abandoned park area. Jason's eyes had lost hope and light that had started to shine again, only for it to return to that same abyss of despair as he silently started moving towards Jake in front of him.
"Damn geek... Did you gain some courage in a few hours, eh~ did I not tell you before? If only you had drunk that and did as I said in the shopping mall, you wouldn't be facing all the punches today."
As Jake said, Jason was just moving forward like a living corpse, like a zombie dragging his feet with his head lowered towards the ground. Seeing his state, Jake seemed more and more excited, brimming with joy.
'... Yeah... It's always been my fault; I should have just listened today, like every day! I just went on with it! I shouldn't have done it! Life isn't all fairytales! I know this fact the most yet! Yet!? Why did I believe him!? I was crazy! I was acting crazy!!!'
Jason himself had clouded himself with such thoughts; he wasn't in a peak state of hopeless despair in his life, as he just kept moving, heartbroken, and with a heart that literally burned his soul.
"To think you got caught up in the words of a man you never saw before! Are you crazy?! We might have at least kept our word, but now? Fuck you!!!"
Jake scoffed again coldly, and with a loud roar, he immediately went back on his left leg, and with an almost perfect curve, he released a right hook straight towards Jason.
Jason just closed his eyes; he was not at all prepared for this rundown beating, but before the punch could touch his face, a familiar voice commanded his entire body, to the point that the command of that voice became reflexes in Jason's body.
"Step to the left!!!"
It was Lucas's loud voice. The moment Lucas shouted, his voice was so loud and commanding that even Jake releasing the punch flinched for a moment. Meanwhile, Jason suddenly had his eyes widened as he immediately moved his legs towards the left, and as soon as he did, Jake's punch was barely passing by right beside his nose.
'... What...'
Jason and Jake were both amazed as they saw that scenery. Just a step towards the left made Jason out of the rage of Jake's hook punch.
'The hook in boxing is a lateral punch thrown in a semi-circular motion, targeting the opponent's side of the face or body. But the thing is, in the field of boxing, it's extremely easy to guess what move a person is going for next because of the involvement of posture and footwork required before throwing the boxing punches, unless, of course, the person is an elite professional who knows you well or is just too fast and unpredictable to see through... And that makes it extremely easy for the eyes of a veteran to see through all these moves and practically toy with his opponent...'
Lucas grinned under his cold pupils. Jake had momentarily lost his composure and balance, and at the same time, Jason turned back in surprise to see himself dodge on a single command. That was something that he hadn't been able to do even after preparing for hours, but now at this very moment
"..."
He didn't have a word to say after how he had behaved with Lucas before, but Lucas here, on the other hand, didn't seem to be asking for any words of apology; the only thing he wanted to see was
"Results. Give me the damn results, kid."
Lucas grinned from ears to ears like some devil, as his eyes had also shrunk down to those of a beast. That air around him wasn't something that a human has.
Jason was filled with goosebumps as he heard him, and Jake himself flinched with goosebumps, taking a moment to himself to gulp down that saliva down his throat as Jason himself didn't seem any different.
'... I seem to have made a deal with the devil... He can beat this 'Jake' within a few seconds like others, but he wants'me' to fight. I don't know what he wants, but if he wants me to fight, I fight! He wants me to win, and I will win!!! If he wants the results!!! Then I will win!!!'
Jason tightened his fist, and even with his face shivering with sweat and saliva, an undeniable grin was stuck straight to his face as he provoked
"Is that all you've got? I've seen scarier kittens."
"This damn---!!!"
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