Chapter 27
TRIGGER WARNING: For those who may have had negative experiences with drugs
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Gyun was not stupid, if he did not have the advantage in a confrontation he would make one and that was what he was in the process of doing.
He wasn't scared of fighting Sungmin and his pair of friends but he was more worried of the potential danger of the knives, it didn't take much power for a knife to break the skin and numbers would matter.
He needed to restrict the angles they could attack him from, though he had only been living in the area for a few months he'd made a habit of knowing the streets within a 2 block radius of his home.
Though it was dark out and it was late at night, the streets were illuminated with streetlights and bathed in the neon lights of the advertisement and billboards.
As he ran down the street he turned onto a different street that had a few people walking along the sidewalk, he glanced around behind him Sungmin was close behind with the pair of men accompanying Sungmin trailing behind.
Looking back in front of him, he nearly ran into a random couple who were walking the streets, he rolled to his right off the man's shoulder.
Turning to cross the street Gyun ran across a busy road narrowly and avoided a car by rolling over the windshield, and while it briefly knocked the wind out of him he scrambled to his feet.
The cars honked as their drivers protested at the reckless behavior.
Luckily Gyun achieved his goal as only Sungmin crossed immediately as one of the druggie's hesitated to cross the road while the other recklessly sprinted across.
A loud honk from car accompanied the image of the man being hit by a car sending him flying over the windshield and falling to the pavement motionless.
Gyun paused for a moment to look at his pursuers, he could hear Sungmin's breathing which was heavy but his eyes were still filled with hate.
His hair was clumping together and wet with sweat, but he still lunged forward but instead of leading with a strike.
He reached for Gyun's legs, attempting a takedown, but the movement was slow and sloppy from Sungmin's exhaustion, and Gyun easily moved out of the way and shoved Sungmin to the ground.
Before bolting away once again from the now busy road and as some drivers got out of the cars to help the man who'd been hit by a car while chasing Gyun.
"FUCK!" Sungmin punched the concrete sidewalk with his fist causing an intense shot of pain to shoot throughout his whole arm.
But he didn't even feel it, as he desperately scrambled to his feet, chasing after the man who'd humiliated him time and time again.
Gyun dashed through various streets and alleys with Sungmin desperately trying to keep up, as Sungmin was chasing after Gyun. He began to notice that every time he'd lose sight of Gyun , he would always see him around the corner. It was strange because he was sure the kid wasn't even sweating when he'd tried to take him down at the road crossing.
But he shoved those thoughts to the back of his mind as Gyun once again sped up a bit and turned into another alley.
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After another minute or two of running Gyun slowed down to a stop, he waited for a few moments and caught his breath he looked around the alley, and. confirmed that there were no cameras nearby. Just as Sungmin appeared sliding around the corner entering the dark secluded alley Gyun led him to.
There was spittle at the corners of Sungmin's mouth and a wild look in his eye as he panted heavily, leaning over supporting himself with his hands on his knee's trying to catch his breath. "Haaa....Haaa.....where do you.....ha... think your go.....ing you ... piece of garbage"
The sight reminded Gyun of a hunting dog on a hunt, but he didn't give Sungmin anytime to rest. As he shuffled forward, with his hands down before throwing a fast front kick, Sungmin managed to avoid with a desperate roll.
Gyun tried to approach Sungmin again as he was on the ground, Gyun threw another casual soccer kick at Sungmin's head.
Sungmin scrambled backwards, feeling the wind as the kick passed by his face, he breathed out as he stood back up but Gyun didn't let him as he lunged forward with a side kick to Sungmin's stomach knocking him back onto the ground and knocking the air out of his lungs.
Sungmin struggled to breathe, he'd been hit hundreds of time, no thousands over the course of his long career as a professional kickboxer. But he never felt so outclassed in his life, he slowly tried to stand up as he locked his eyes on Gyun, but Gyun never made a move he stood there swaying slowly from side to side.
It was terrifying, Sungmin felt fear and the sweat running down his back turned cold, he felt like he could actually die here.
-But I rolled toward the dead end of the alley when I avoided that second kick, damn! -
"Hey wa-wai-wait why don't we talk this out theres no reason for this to escalate, I-I'm just drunk it was all just a mistake! Why don't we call this settled with this I'm cool now! I'm sober, see!"
Sungmin slapped himself in the face, "We're fine right?"
But Gyun didn't answer he simply continued swaying side to side with his side facing Sungmin while staring emptily at him.
There was no expression on his face but he gave off the feeling of disgust and annoyance.
Sungmin cursed as he realized he wasn't going to get an answer, "Fuck! So you really aren't going to let it go! Fuck I didn't want to do this!" he reached into is pocket.
But Gyun lunged forward,
"Shit!" Sungmin used his over hand to try and punch Gyun with a wild hook, but Gyun ducked under it and hit Sungmin with his own punch in the side.
"Urgh" Sungmin bent over from the pain as he pulled his hand out of his pocket flipping out his knife but Gyun moved to his back and grabbing his wrist.
Gyun disarmed Sungmin, knocking the knife down as Gyun wrapped his arm around Sungmin's neck and using his other arm to press Sungmin's head into his arm, applying a rear naked choke.
Wrapping his legs around Sungmin, Sungmin squirmed trying to pry Gyun's arm away from his neck.
He tried fighting it but eventually tapped but instead of a loosening his grip Gyun tightened it, he heard a chuckle "you didn't actually think I'd let you go did you?"
Sungmin desperately thrashed around but Gyun had firmly sunk the choke deep, after a few more seconds he stopped moving but Gyun waited 10 seconds more to make sure he was unconscious.
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Sungmin felt his consciousness returned, the ground was cold and hard, he rolled his head to the side as he heard something
-what am I doing here?-
"Fuck!" he bolted up as his memory flooded back,
"Don't move"
Sungmin's whole body tensed up as he heard the cold voice that despite only hearing a few times was ingrained in his head.
Gyun was sitting across from Sungmin sitting against the alley wall, he reached in his pocket and pulled out a pair of small pill bottles, and rattled it around.
Sungmin's eyes widened, as he desperately felt through his jacket pocket,
"prescription oxycodone , and quite a bit of it, but they're both prescribed to 2 different people, interesting.... are you dealing Sungmin?"
Though the tone was neutral Sungmin felt unnerved with Gyun saying his name for the first time, he tried denying first.
"No" Immediately after answering Sungmin regretted answering, even he could tell he was lying.
Gyun stood up, "Don't lie Sungmin" he looked down at Gyun coldly with his hands in his pockets as he pocketed the pill bottles
Sungmin looked away as he stood up,"Yeah"
Gyun clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction, "Now that I think about it you don't know my name"
Sungmin shook his head, "yeah I don't so we're cool right"
"Then i don't have to feel bad about this"
"About wh-Urggh"
Grabbing Sungmin's neck from behind again and pulling him to the ground, Gyun popped open the pill bottle as he used on hand to open Sungmin's mouth forcefully, Sungmin tried to spit up but Gyun held his mouth shut and pinched his nose with his other hand while holding him in place with is legs.
Sungmin furiously tried hit Gyun's hands away, but Gyun's grip remained, noticing that it wasn't working he tried to hit Gyun.
But Gyun was holding on his back with his legs. Trying to squirm away for a minute or two before he eventually swallowed the pills over the course of a few swallows, gasping for breath as Gyun loosened his grip slightly.
Feeling Gyun's grip loosen he tried to slip out of his grip to throw back up the pills, but Gyun simply let go of his face and wrapped his arms around Sungmin's neck in a rear naked choke again.
"Feuck" Sungmin cursed but it sounded muffled from being choked, "don't worry you'll wake up during the fun part, you better enjoy it while it lasts."
-YOU CRAZY BASTARD,THERE WAS AT LEAST 20 PILLS IN THAT BOTTLE JUST A FEW CAN KILL ME!-
Feeling his consciousness begin to fade, Sungmin clawed desperately at Gyun's hand but Gyun didn't even make a sound despite the damage, rather he squeezed harder.
Gyun whispered into his ear as he struggled, "Nobody will question your death, just another junkie overdosing in some alley in the middle of nowhere. Your 12 minutes to the nearest hospital, but after that many pills you'd be lucky if you can even stand up. I'll tell you what will happen from here on, you'll die in this wet damp alley and I'll go home and sleep and see your death on the news and then I'll go on with my day. Because that's all you mean to me, your nothing who will die in some small alley."
Sungmin had tears rolling down his eyes as he passed out, but Gyun held him there for a few more seconds before standing up.
-He'll be out for about a few minutes and the oxycodone will hit in maybe 10 minutes, you won't make it to the hospital in time-
Gyun pulled out Sungmin's phone, and unlocked it using his finger, he quickly changed the password as he walked away.
Leaving an unconscious Sungmin laying in an alley corner, as he pulled up his hood and picked up the knife wiping it down and putting it in his pocket.
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Author's note- I know drugs can take longer to kick in then a few minutes especially if ingested orally but in this case I'm stretching reality to allow the story to progress. Also I'm thinking of changing the novels name to something more catchy, I feel the title is too basic and doesn't have any character. Any suggestions? I do have a few ideas, for example perhaps something like 'We Die Young' it sounds a bit dramatic but fits the self destructiveness of the story. Or ' Martial God 2039' which is a bit more simple, if you have any better suggestions please tell me.
BTW how do you like the cover art, its AI generated from Gencraft if you want to know