Protagonist getting power ups

"Young girl, our brother has liked you for so long but you still don't appreciate it and always try to avoid him."

"Yeah, if it weren't for brother Jisoo's generosity you and your brother wouldn't even be able to live peacefully in this chawl."

"Our brother is the most handsome and stylish man in our chawl. You don't know how many other girls are waiting in line to climb onto his bed. But alas his heart is set on you and you don't even look at him. It even hurts my heart."

Hearing the constant flattery and praise, the spiky haired guy smiled crookedly and showed his yellow teeth.

But Kiara only felt disgusted and turned her eyes away.

"Forget what they said, Kiara. Why don't you accompany me to a drink, we can get to know each other tonight." Jisoo said as he grabbed Kiara's hand, trying to persuade her.

Kiara tried to dodge and move away but how can her petite body and petty strength compare to a well fed grown man. So she just tried to reason with them.

"I_ I can't go with you. I still have to go to work tomorrow morning."

"It's just a drink, I promise it won't take long. Right guys." Jisoo said and his doglegs hurriedly agreed and nodded their heads.

Kiara hesitated as she looked around hoping someone would help her, but only noticed some aunties looking at her with pity and uncles turning their faces away, acting like they didn't see anything.

Feeling helpless she could just curse her luck and blame herself for rushing out without looking around carefully.

Jisoo was the distant nephew of their chawl owner, who doted on him like his own son, so it was clear why none of the other tenants wanted to help her, for fear of angering the owner.

Usually she doesn't step out of her home where she feels relatively safe.

But only today due to that weird phenomenon earlier and then hearing her brother was at the police station she felt worried and rushed out in a hurry.

Seeing her helpless and scared look Jisoo gave a proud smile and moved his hands along her arms, feeling her silky smooth skin. Just that one touch made his body feel a little hotter.

Just the thought of having this beauty moaning and screaming his name under his body, ignited fires in his loins.

Kiara struggled to get out of his grip but failed again. Feeling a mix of shame and fear in her heart, her eyes almost turned misty. Which only made Jisoo even more excited in his advances.

Just when he was about to touch her peach red face and give it a little pinch, an angry shout interrupted his mood.

"Get your dirty hands off her."

Hearing that someone dared to block his fun, Jisoo turned back in anger, his spiky hair moving along his head like weapons ready to stab animals.

If not for his humane appearance his head almost looked like the back of a giant hedgehog.

Jisoo was ready to beat whoever it was, but after seeing that it was this dumb fucker called Kevin, he sneered and signalled his doglegs to put some sense into that guy's brain.

Anyway he himself was feeling quite determined to have his way with this sacred flower today. He didn't want to fight and affect his mood.

"Kevin, you_you're okay?" Kiara, who was feeling scared silent all this time. Hearing the familiar tone forgot all about her predicament and asked about his well-being first.

Ignoring her question, Kevin rushed forward in a hurry trying to pull his sister back.

But as always before getting to the villain, the protagonist had to face the doglegs and minions of that villain.

4 younger brothers and followers of Jisoo pushed Kevin back and stood between them, blocking his path.

"What's the rush, little brother. Come let's go to that tea stall and play carrom with us. Your sister is busy now, don't disturb her."

"Yeah, don't ruin brother Jisoo's mood. Come with us before he gets angry."

One by one the doglegs spoke and started slapping Kevin here and there as if they were friends playing pranks and jokes. One guy even put his hand over his shoulder and started walking away. Dragging his back.

Kevin tried to free himself and push them away, but what greeted him was the increased force of slaps landing on his back and back of his neck.

"Let go of me, I'm warning you for the last time." Kevin said, struggling hard with all his force. But the man with hand over his shoulder, started pressuring him, almost choking his neck, as he dragged him with them. While the other doglegs just pushed him even more from the back.

'Damn it.' Kevin cursed, struggling to get out of his grip and failing constantly. His eyes landed on his sister, who had tears in her eyes and was asking Jisoo to let him go and not fight with him. While Jisoo just kept enjoying her sad and pleading look with an indifferent smile.

Seeing his sister's pitiful appearance, Kevin burst out with a powerful force in anger and managed to free himself.

"Let go of her, you bastard." He shouted, but before he could make a move what greeted him was a kick on his ass that sent him tumbling on the floor. Falling into a pit filled with dirty sewer water.

'Fucking bastards, I'll kill you.' He shouted in anger as he stood up in a hurry, but intense anger and the beatdown only made his breathing heavy. Which in turn only forced him to take a long whiff of that dirty smell which he was covered in now.

"Urghh, ugly bastard. He was already smelling like a dog and now he turned into a pig." The man who grabbed his neck all this time said as he pinched his nose and moved back a little in disgust.

Seeing Kevin getting beaten, Kiara too got a little strength somehow and managed to free herself from Jisoo's hands and came near him.

"You okay? You're not injured anywhere, are you?" Kiara said with an anxious look as she picked a bottle of water from the nearby stall shop and started cleaning his face.

"Let me take a look." She said and looked at his hands which had some minor scratches and small cuts from the sharp pebbles.

Cutting a piece of cloth from her long scarf (dupatta) she wrapped it around his wrists but before she could calm down a little, someone grabbed her hand and pulled her back forcefully.

Turning around she saw Jisoo was glaring at her in anger, while massaging his forehead which had a little bump formed on it. Looking like a horn was about to grow on his hedgehog head.

Only now did she realize she probably pushed him back too much and caught off guard Jisoo too stumbled and hit his head on a nearby iron pole.

"You pair of siblings have quite the courage, don't you?" Jisoo said with his face twisted in anger. His eyes looked red in anger and wet in a tingling sensation of pain. "Just cause I'm talking nicely and trying to impress you daily, you think of me as a joke, don't you?"

"No_it's _ it's not like that." Kiara said in a hurry trying to apologize, as her heart started beating fast in fear and anxiety. "I_ it was a mistake. I didn't_."

But her words didn't have any effect on Jisoo, who seemed to take that hit on his pride and image of ego. How dare someone raise a hand and injure him in his own area. That too, a girl.

"You like tearing your clothes, don't you? Then let me help you, a little too." He said and pulled the long scarf over her shoulder forcefully. While Kiara just held onto it, trying to beg him to let go.

The year old cheap scarf bought with a discount at some lousy stall couldn't last a moment of their struggle and made a tearing sound.

Seeing his sister getting assaulted like this, Kevin felt a rage building up inside him. Like a madman he charged forward to kill this bastard who dared lay his hand on his sister, but reality was often disappointing.

Before he even took a step, a doglegs blocked his legs and he fell down face first on the ground again. Before he could stand up he felt a leg over his back forcing him to stay there. He squirmed and struggled but the weight on his back was like a mountain that he couldn't lift up.

'Damn it. Arghhhh, Bastards.' He screamed and cursed in anger in his heart, but felt nothing but futile efforts.

Seeing Jisoo who successfully pulled his sister's scarf and placed it over his dirty mouth, smelling it with an intoxicated look, Kevin felt his heart burning in anger.

He remembered the beatdown he got from Shiva, then to Ali and his guards and now from these lowlifes and cursed the heavens.

'If only I knew how to fight, I would beat all these bastards down. I won't be so helpless and punish everyone.' He said in anger, and next moment as if a trigger had been pressed. Unfamiliar memories started appearing in his mind. A screen of fog formed in his brain as he saw a grayish figure practicing many exercises and training some kinds of fighting methods alone - punching, kicking, wrestling, karate, judo, krav maga etc etc.

His body started going through some changes, gaining a little muscle and losing all his impurities and healing his injuries.

A surge of pain and current passed through Kevin's body, making him feel stressed, refreshed, tired and satisfied.

And when he finally came back from this roller coaster of a journey, he was a totally different version of himself.

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Author note - Any idea what's the golden finger of this protagonist is? What happened to him all of a sudden?