Chapter 2.4

"Gah, stop flirting you two! Let's just go home," Alina placed herself between the two, interrupting their little moment and Emily broke away with a start, a hand on her chest. Jason, on the other hand, grinned at Alina for a brief moment before it vanished. Without moving his head, his eyes moved to another direction.

"No, please don't take him away, he's the perfect eye candy!" whimpered Asami while Michelle, once again, nodded to agree with her.

As Alina turned to her friends and started arguing again, Jason grimaced before turning to look at something behind him, his eyes narrowing as he placed a hand on Alina's shoulder

"Alina, escort everyone back into the school entrance. Now," he demanded and, as he spoke, his voice became rough and authoritative.

Alina, sensing something wrong, quickly turned to look at Asami and Michelle before all three nodded. With a loud voice, they started warning others to return back to the entrance. The nearby schoolgirls listened to them without disobeying, having heard Jason's command for themselves. A large group of thugs could be seen approaching the school, armed with metal pipes and knives. One of them stepped forward, his right arm in a sling.

"There! That's the bitch! And … fuck! That's the guy who crippled me!" he shouted aggressively, his left finger pointing at a visibly pale Emily, then at Jason.

Oh, wonderful. A mess he made but what does this have to do with Emily? thought Alina as she tried to guide more students back into the school entrance. And where in the hell are the teachers when you need 'em?

Jason stepped forward, conveniently protecting Emily behind him with his back as he spoke coldly, "I don't like being pointed at. Do I need to break your other hand too?"

"Bastard! You broke my wrist and nearly ripped my elbow off! I dare you to break my arm! As if you can get me with all my bros behind me."

Jason looked at crippled man for a moment before taking a step forward. Almost instantaneously he disappeared from everyone's view before appearing again, this time in front of the crippled man. In one smooth motion, he grabbed the finger that was still pointing and twisted it upwards in an angular manner. A sickening crunch sound was heard clearly by everyone before the crippled man started screaming.

"Asshole!" another thug nearby shouted. "You think we don't exist or something?!"

"I did warn him though, but he dared me. I'd be a pussy if I didn't follow through," replied Jason apathetically, though some goading could be heard in his voice laced with amusement.

With a shout, several thugs pounced towards Jason, their weapons raised to strike him. Jason allowed the strikes to hit him while nearby schoolgirls shrieked in horror. A few students prepared a spell on their SEC devices but hesitated to fire, worried they would hit Jason. However, in the next moment, they became stunned when they saw what happened.

The weapons slammed into Jason but shattered into pieces while he remained unharmed. Then, faster than the eye could see, Jason broke a thug's arm and took his broken knife, throwing it at another thug nearby who was preparing to cast a spell. He then started punching and kicking every enemy near him, and each attack sent them flying or crashing onto the ground.

Alina, seeing him surrounded, gritted her teeth before electrifying herself and charging at the enemy. Kicking an opponent who was trying to sneak up on Jason, Alina elbowed another and finished him off with a knee to the head. She then aligned herself behind Jason. Back to back, both siblings seemed to smile at the same time as they inclined their heads towards each other and this literally created a scene that was only seen in anime and comics.

"Thought I told you to get the kids away, kid," said Jason with a wry smile.

"Aw c'mon, I wouldn't wanna miss all the fun," replied Alina, a combative smirk on her face.

"Your funeral."

"Already had one."

Jason charged at the thugs surrounding him while Alina did the same.

As they fought, a rubber bullet hit a thug that was trying to separate the two squarely in the jaw; Michelle had her gun pointed out, smoke coming out of the barrel. Activating her SEC, Michelle's spell changed her gun to a fully automatic pistol. She charged in and emptied her entire clip in a second, accurately shooting multiple targets near her.

As Alina stunned the thugs and Michelle knocked them out, Jason continued his crippling spree, breaking or dislocating the limbs and ribs of any thug he got his hand on. A well-placed kick to the side of the knee, grabbing an oncoming fist and smashing the elbow with an uppercut, or simply blocking an attack and twisting the shoulders, Jason made an artwork of crippling the gangsters.

As he crouched and fragmentized a man's knee with a punch, Alina ran up and used his back as boost. She jumped into the air and elbowed a man as she landed, shattering his collarbone while Michelle vaulted backwards over Jason's back to fire at a densely knitted group of gangsters, taking them all down with a burst of rubber bullets.