"Come on! I will give you the first hit! All you need to do is hit me in the face hard once, and you will knock me out. Come on! Why don't you try hitting me?"
The senior taunted Rika as he continued to jump from one foot to another. He was mocking Rika to fight him seriously by pretending to know how to fight.
His bluff would have worked against a noob person who knew nothing about protecting oneself. But Rika could see all the openings and flaws in his defense.
'My opponent is not very secure despite moving around this much. Did he never learn how to protect himself?'
Most kids who ended up in the mafia were born into it or had unfortunate circumstances.
Like Rika's, the second group was taught formally, and they knew the importance of self-defense.
It was not uncommon for the people from the first group to learn some self-defense, but no one in this group seemed interested in learning anything new.
