Chapter 47: Chapter 47: Meeting Family and Friends (Part 7)
Don had his back against the entrance of the hotel while his four attackers stood in a semicircle, blocking his path.
"Listen, just give us your bags and you\'re not going to get hurt," the only girl among the four attackers spoke out, trying to sound friendly. However, Don couldn\'t bring himself to relax. His body was simply acting out of this heightened sense, which he couldn\'t control at all.
After the girl made her suggestion, she saw that Don had gone silent and tried to use this as an opportunity to lunge forward and grab the bags while yelling to her friends, "Now! Grab him"
The woman practically dived for the bags, but unfortunately for her, Don\'s sight followed her motion. As she got close, he reacted on reflex and struck her hard in the face, causing a minor fracture as blood sprinkled from her nose. This reaction from Don caused one of the three guys to hesitate, whereas the other two continued to attack.
One acted smartly and immediately grabbed the hand with which Don was holding the knife. The other guy, however, proceeded to try and throw a punch. Don ducked his head to dodge, causing the man to not only miss but also strike his friend on the side of his head.
*Argh!!*
They both groaned in discomfort as they collided. Without even needing to think, Don instinctively slipped his hand from the man\'s grip the moment it loosened ever so slightly during the collision.
Then, before they could regain their stances, he kicked the one closest to him in the back, causing him to fall to the ground on top of his friend, who stood close due to the prior collision.
But in order to do this, Don had turned away from two of his enemies, and they, of course, took action. After getting hit in the face with Don\'s knee, the athletic girl\'s face contorted in anger as she brought her hand to her nose for a moment before removing it and finding it stained with blood.
At the same time, the guy who had paused because of the first attack finally saw an opportunity as Don dispatched his two friends.
"You fucker!" he yelled out, raising a fist to hit Don from the side. The girl, who was already in a crouched position, lunged forward again, this time going after Don\'s leg.
The moment Don heard the guy yell at him, he instinctively turned his head at an alarming speed and raised his fist to try and attack back. However, in the corner of his eye, he saw the girl lunging for his legs.
Don felt more danger from below and immediately knew he needed to counter. Once again, he ducked instinctively while simultaneously throwing another knee, this one striking the girl in the jaw. *Bam!*, Just as the male who was trying to punch Don collided with the rough wooden surface of the hotel\'s entrance door, his bones creaked upon collision, and he immediately groaned in pain. *Fuck!*
The girl was pushed further back, her nose looking even more bloodied as much of it now ran down from her nose to her mouth and even staining a good portion of her top.
With all his attackers in disadvantaged positions, Don used the opportunity to try and take out one of them immediately. The easiest target was the girl in front of him, who now had both her hands on her face as she groaned in immense pain.
She was forced to open her eyes when she heard some shuffling coming from in front of her. The moment she dropped her hands to try and see what was happening and maybe try to get away, she only saw the heel of a shoe just a few inches away from her face.
"Hu-." Before she could even blink, it struck her with the full force of an adult young man behind it. *Crack!* A loud crack of bone could be heard as the girl bounced back before her head violently collided with the concrete just on the edge of the sidewalk.
"Damnit!" the girl named Roxy yelled out in both surprise and worry. Her shrill call caused the three guys, who were all in the midst of trying to get up, to turn their heads in her direction. Only the one with tattoos was smart enough to turn toward Don once again.
Seizing the moment, Don chose the guy closest to him, who was holding his hand after punching the door.
"Jim, watch out!" shouted the tattooed guy. Before his warning could reach his friend, Don landed a clean right uppercut before launching a powerful left jab, striking his defenseless attacker right in the face.
The creaking of bone resonated from both Don\'s fist and the face of the man he struck. The man\'s body got pushed back, and his head collided with the metallic edge of the building\'s wall right next to the door.
The tattooed guy, now bashfully standing up and running toward Don, aimed to tackle him hard. Don immediately felt great danger from this particular attack and dodged. The space around him was far too narrow, so in a strange form of counterattack, Don took one step forward before jumping into the air right as the man looked close to grabbing him.
Then, while still in the air with his legs sprung up, he forced them down as his body descended due to gravity. Keeping his legs together for more power, Don struck the man on the neck. Though he had been aiming for the head, thankfully, this was more than enough.
Given the force with which the man was struck, his body was immediately forced to collide with the concrete sidewalk below, landing not only with vicious force but with additional blunt force as Don\'s feet were still on the man\'s neck.
As Don landed from his jump, this moment of defense left him open, and the third of the three guys attacked in a rowdy manner, having picked up the knife that was dropped in the earlier chaos.
Don immediately heard the shuffling toward him, but it was too sudden to dodge. The steps came from his left-hand side, so he leaned back in an attempt to dodge. However, his attacker didn\'t continue striking in that motion, adapting quickly and changing the direction of the blade.
Left with no choice, Don raised his hands and caught the blade with both, feeling its sharp edge tearing into the flesh of his left palm. His attacker tried to push the blade forward, and Don tried to fight back, but he was losing this battle of strength.
In desperation, Don used his knee to strike the man in the groin, an action his attacker wasn\'t prepared for at all. *AH!*
The man\'s body instinctively reacted by moving away from Don and bringing both hands toward his crotch. By doing this, however, he left himself wide open, and Don attacked, jumping forward and using his knee to strike the man on the side of his face.
The attacker fell to the ground hard and groaned in pain, but before he could even stand, Don already began running forward. One step, two steps, before raising one leg as if he were about to kick a football.
With a powerful swing, he struck the man right below his jaw, causing a sickening clack of his teeth to resonate as his body crumpled to the ground.
Don wasn\'t done and continued to glance around all sides of him as if he still had multiple attackers. It was only then that he noticed they were all laying motionless on the ground, with the exception of the girl who had stopped before the attack.
Don immediately turned to face her, but before he could react, the sound of police sirens wailed near the scene.