Mario wanted to vent out his anger to Patty and he moved with all of his fury on this punch. However, when he saw that Patty wasn't even looking at him, he snickered. Patty was so lazy and lethargic that he didn't even notice that someone was aiming directly for his head.
Mario couldn't wait to see the expression on his face when he got woken up from his lazy stupor. Would he cry? Or would he suddenly turn angry? Mario wanted to see some kind of reaction from Patty, especially one that of anger. He wanted Patty to try and hit him back, and Mario would simply show him the difference between the two of them.
He was a power Teqx user, while Patty was a simple human without any Teqx. And even if he did have a secret power that no one knew, Mario was sure that he would be able to overpower him. This wasn't a simple race where whoever was faster won. This was a real fight, where Mario could fully showcase the power he'd been accumulating through all of those years.
Just as he was about to hit Patty in the face, Mario suddenly saw Patty turn his face towards him and look at him with crystal clear eyes. This stunned Mario.
He felt electricity in his spine and he let out a cold sweat. It felt like he was being looked at by a beast lying in wait.
What the fuck? Why am I thinking like this? Patty is just a weak guy who doesn't even have the strength to walk a few meters.
He didn't know why, but in the millisecond where he was about to hit Patty, he was suddenly feeling fear. It was like his instincts were telling him to run away now before things hadn't gone too far. But he fought it. He overpowered the instinct and let his anger take control of his body.
He didn't know that this would be the biggest mistake of his life–even bigger than joining the Ruobber company internship.
CRACKKKK
Mario felt the impact of the punch. He smiled when he felt the strong force of his powered punch hit Patty directly in the cheeks.
However, there was still that slight smile on Patty's face. Not only that, his head didn't even move a single inch!
But that wasn't possible. If his punch hit correctly, then Patty should have been stunned while his head did a 90-degree turn from the force. Mario even heard a bone break! Patty's cheekbones should be cracked into a thousand pieces by now. But none of that happened.
It was at this point that Mario noticed something wrong. He looked down and saw that he hadn't actually hit Patty in the face. Somehow, Mario's fist was hovering a few inches away from Patty's face. There was this invisible barrier between Mario's fist and Patty's face.
Impossible. He only hit this invisible barrier?! Not only that, it was able to withstand the full force of his punch. And the worst part of it was that…
Mario's fist was bent into an impossible angle! The back of his hand was touching his forearm! And his fingers were mangled into a blood mess, with his middle finger broken to the point where his bone was showing.
As soon as he noticed that, it was like a switch that turned on the pain receptors in his brain. In just one millisecond, he felt the excruciating pain of breaking his whole fist!
And before he could even yelp out in pain, he suddenly felt a tremendous force that covered his entire body. The force was so strong that it could easily overcome Mario's body weight and gravity. Before he knew it, Mario suddenly saw the world tumble without being able to do anything about it.
Mario's body flew through the air, tumbling as it did so, and landed towards the group of paparazzi, journalists, and fans. Chaos erupted as Mario was like a bowling ball that overturned about 30 pins all grouped closely.
And that wasn't all for the unfortunate Mario. In his luck, he landed on Jorn's arms.
Jorn wasn't violently angry when Mario berated him during those times when he was an intern at the Ruobber company. He wasn't that angry when Mario tried to pull him down in the race and sabotage him. In the end, when Jorn showed that he was completely better than Mario in all aspects, Jorn decided to let all of those transgressions go.
He was willing to let Mario go.
However, when he saw that Mario tried to hit his boss, all of his anger came back and he couldn't help but use his very powerful body to hit him directly in the head.
PANG
Mario was deflected again because of Jorn's powerful punch. And unfortunately, Mario landed on one of the journalist's very expensive cameras. This wasn't just a simple handheld camera, but this was one of those things that had extra modifications that, all in all, cost about the same as the camera itself. It was so heavy from all the modifications that it needed a tripod to be used properly.
Mario's body pushed the camera ever so lightly and caused it to land directly on the ground, lenses first.
CRRRACKKK
Everyone took a deep breath when they saw this happen. Everyone knew how expensive those things were, especially since most of these models have a Kore installed in them to supply the ridiculous power requirements it had.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" the reporter shouted out. He immediately tried to pick up the camera from the ground, but he saw the glasses fall into the ground like sand. It was irreparable.
Mario, with his fist broken and his left cheek swelling from Jorn's punch, tried to leave the scene. However, he was still so stunned by everything that happened to him that he wasn't able to fix his internal balance. He stumbled back down and had to use the camera to stabilize himself. Unfortunately, this led him to further damage the thing.
"Do you know how much this costs?!?!?!" the reporter shouted at Mario.
"No…I…it's not…" Mario stumbled again as he tried to get up and leave the scene. Even with his body in a mess, he was still sane enough to think that this incident would leave him in debt for the rest of his life. So, he tried to leave.
When the reporter saw that, he quickly dialed his phone and called the police.
Mario saw this and knew that he couldn't get out of this situation. So, to get out of it, he decided to do the thing he always did. He shifted the blame.
"It's not my fault…he pushed me!" Mario pointed at Patty from across the street. But when he saw the slight devious smile on his face, Mario immediately took back his pointer finger and shifted it towards Jorn. "He! He punched me and I stumbled…It's what caused this accident in the first place!"
Everyone looked towards Patty and saw that he was across the street. There was no way that an unassuming guy would be able to push Mario on the other side of the street.
"It's not my fault! I thought you were going to punch me like you did before," Jorn shrugged. "You shouldn't have stumbled into the camera. You could have gone anywhere else."
After a few seconds of arguing, a police hoverbike immediately came to the scene. Since this was still near the school, there were a lot of police on patrol.
"What seems to be the problem here," the policeman with a mustache asked as he got out of his hoverbike.
The reporter immediately told the officer about what happened. The man thought for a second while massaging his mustache. "I see the problem here."
"According to our rules, those who caused the incident will be the ones responsible for the damages. Because this man damaged the camera, then he will be responsible for the compensation. However. From what I gather, he only stumbled on the camera because this gentleman here punched him."
"Therefore, the two of you will have to bear the compensation fee. Of course, you could not pay the fee, but I'll have to arrest you in jail."
Jorn felt that it was unfair. "But why do I have to pay for it? He's the one who destroyed it!" He was worried because he didn't have money to pay for it.
Mario felt a little bit relieved that he wasn't the only one going to suffer because of it. But of course, he didn't want to pay for it either. He didn't have the money, especially now that the Ruobber company wasn't willing to sponsor him anymore.
"Officer, why do I have to pay? He's the one who punched me! That's assault!"
Jorn and Mario continued to argue in front of the officer, annoying the man. He didn't have time to argue with these students because he had better things to do. It also looked like these students didn't have the means to pay for the damages.
He was just about to arrest both of them when someone suddenly spoke up.
"How much will the repair cost?"
The reporter immediately answered. "It's 100,000 Chains!"
Patty suddenly rolled towards the scene with his massage chair and said, "Oh, just that?"