A voice came from behind as man’s figure approached the group. He wore one of the masks that were selling at the stalls, which had the face of one of the band’s members.
‘Sorry, buddy, we’re kind of a little busy right now, and we found her first, so beat it.’
One of the men replied and threw a rock at the person to scare him away.
The person grabbed the rock with one hand and instantly threw it back at the man so hard the man fell down 10 meters away from where he was.
The man might have thought a little before throwing the rock if he had read the atmosphere and sensed the murderous aura leaking from the person as he approached the group.
‘Teach that bastard a lesson, guys’
The men were a little hesitant, but since they were all drunk, they ran towards the masked man.
He hit each of them only once but so hard that the sound of bones cracking and breaking could be heard from each hit.
No one was left standing except the last man, Asuna, and the masked person as he got nearer and nearer to the man.
The man in his last attempt took out a knife from his pocket and tried to stab the person in his liver and succeeded.
‘Take this, you cocky bastard.’
The masked man did not move for a moment.
The man thought he had won and expected the person to soon fall dead, but the person simply took out the knife from his liver, showed the knife which was dripping in blood to him, and casually dropped it on the ground as the man watched in disbelief.
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The person sweetly said,
‘Can I ask you a question? From which hand did you touch her?’
The man couldn’t believe what was happening.
‘Was it this hand?’
The person immediately grabbed the man’s right hand with a crushing grip. The man tried to free himself but couldn’t.
‘Or was it this hand?’
He grabbed the man’s left hand. The man realized he screwed up really bad and started apologizing.
‘L-Look buddy, I’m really sorry, this was only a joke, I wasn’t going to do anything with her, I-I swear.’
The person ignored and continued,
‘Or maybe it was….’
The man begged,
‘Please don’t hurt me.’
’BOTH!!!’
He jolted both of the man’s hands intensely, breaking his arms all the way up to his shoulder. The man was in so much pain but couldn’t even give a cry as the person grabbed his throat.
The person appeared to be an angel of death. He stared deep into the man’s eyes.
‘I could end your life right here or continue to torture you for years, but instead, I’m giving you a chance, if I ever see you again or even hear a rumor that you were causing trouble, I’ll make sure you’ll regret that I didn’t kill you tonight, do you understand.’
‘Y...es’
The man gave a whisper and then went unconscious due to fear and lack of air. The person finally let go of the man’s throat.
‘Now, time for the reward.’
The intimidating aura had not yet disappeared.
Asuna was scared stiff that no sound came out of her as she opened her mouth. To Asuna, the masked man was the devil himself.
He rubbed his hands to get ready and got closer to Asuna who couldn’t move an inch due to fear, Asuna was petrified by the deadly aura leaking from the masked man.
Between the person and the drunk men, she couldn’t decide which was better.
He got closer until he was only 3 inches away from Asuna’s face. Finally, he took off his mask and said,
‘Boo!’
With a cute voice. Finally, Asuna’s other senses started working, and she instantly recognized her favorite voice and scent.
‘Alex!!’
She leaped towards Alex and grabbed and hugging him as Alex gently hugged her back.
‘See, this why you should not get separated.’
Asuna started crying, but they were tears of relief and happiness.
‘Hey, I’m sorry. Don’t cry.’
The night ended.
Alex and Asuna took Hikaru to the hospital since he was hurt badly and also told a guy to call an ambulance for the men saying that some drunk men got into a fight and were hurt badly.
To put it in a nutshell, it was a night none of them will ever forget.