界王和 - Self Defense Class

A maniacal laughter rang through the tiny restroom, let loose by Kai in the name of empowerment. Turns out in that stupor before the garden, he had another job lined up right afterward in the park, where he was selected to instruct some interested citizens in the art of self defense. So it seems that there was a punishment for trying to leave this place before you were ready, where you were deluded into thinking you actually left when in reality, the village takes it upon itself to bring you back and to give your time and labor to the village. Was this some influence of Jashin? Or was this just special for him because of Samui? Higher powers by any dreadful name earn his ire just as searing.

”Alright, get your act together. All you have to really do is just toss them around a bit and make sure they don’t die.” Kai pressed his forehead to the mirror, hands gripping on the sink. ”You are not her, you are not going to teach the citizens like how she taught you, and you’re not going to do that weird thing she can do with the kunai. You don’t even know how to do it, what are you even worried about? I don’t have an answer for you, ragdoll, go get out there and tumble.” he took several breaths to try to calm himself down, almost forgetting the reason why he sequestered himself in the first place.

Kai emerged from the bathroom and immediately remembered why he did it. The sun was high in the sky and blazing, a clear blue sky with not a cloud for miles around. Of course the lesson had to take place outside in the park, where the horrid sun could see every move Kai made, and of course he would have to endure the thirst as, for whatever reason, there weren’t even bottled waters. No, this presented itself as one of those days where Kai had to go through some major discomforting shit in order to elevate himself to have better problems in the future. He went to a group of what seemed to be young adults, around the same age as Kai if not older. Five of them, a good odd for Kai to even.

”Alright listen up you lot, welcome,” Kai clapped his hands for emphasis, ”to this week’s Self-Defense training. I’m Kai and I’ll be the one guiding your malformed flesh into a weapon.” His charm was quickly refuted by the growing look of skepticism on their faces. Kai would rebut by dropping into a lowered stance and letting out a series of punches at a speed the students plainly couldn’t keep up with. He followed this with his legs springing into kicks in the air before landing on the ball of his left foot and holding his right arm and leg up as if to block.

”So the goal for us today is to make sure you can throw a punch, throw a kick, how to block, how to talk and how to walk. Let’s get you up here.” he said, pointing at one of the students in the back to come up for a demonstration. A dazed young man with a feminine face lifted his face and widened his eyes as if Kai just woke him up. Kai didn’t see it quite before as he was standing behind another couple of students but when he walked forward he was absolutely stacked with muscle and wore only shorts. What the fuck was a guy like this doing here? ”Good day to you sir, and what’s your name?” Kai asked, the ridiculousness somehow easing Kai.

”Uh, Baki, sir.” said the student. He seemed to be lost in his own head a bit, something Kai understood quite well and would not scold him for.

“Baki, my boy, if these are anything to go by,” Kai pat the muscular shoulders, “I’m pretty sure you could just tell someone to piss their pants and they'd thank you for it.” he said with an exaggerated expression to draw some good humor out of him. He got a quick sputter out of Baki, better than nothing. “See you're a scary boy already so what’re you doing here?

“Ha ha, thanks, but I'm here with my girlfriend.” A young woman waved her hand and gave a wide smile.

“That's just lovely, Baki my boy I'm gonna help you out a bit.” Kai said now wrapping one of his long arms around Baki. “I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say I want to see what these fists can do in action,” Kai was quickly escaping into this interest, this anomaly, anything to keep his mind off the sun. “I want you to strike me in the chest as hard as you can.” Kai took his shoulder off Baki and stepped back a bit to get into position. “Right here.” he pointed at his chest.

Baki simply stood there dumbfounded at the request. “Uh sir, no offense but I'm not sure a direct strike to the heart is condusive to learning self defense.”

“Oh don't worry my boy I'm weird and my heart is on the wrong side of my chest, so just go like normal, I'll be fine.” In Kai's mind he was commanding the tendrils within himself to shift his heart down from his chest entirely and into, well he didn't really know what other organs he had but his heart was there now. Despite his preparation and his assurance, the look of hesitation on Baki’s face was clear, and came from the worry of hurting and innocent man irreparably. But Kai needed something from this and set a look on Baki that stated clearly that they would go no further until Baki complied.

“Alright then, you asked for it.” Baki said with a familiar kind of smirk. Kai was about to embrace the relief of sensation when he stood up tall and primed his chest out for that destructive punch only to receive it to the face.

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