Focused Men

Pablo threw Flashy at the horde of hundred men and Flashy being a burly man made many of those men fall on the ground.

'I am dead.' Flashy knew what would happen now.

"Who the hell did that?"

"I will kill you."

"You bald fcuker!"

A riot began and chaos ensued outside the Ego Reserve.

Pablo stepped back a little and now Flashy wasn't visible. He got lost in the crowd.

"I started a royal rumble. Well, I just need to do my job." Pablo slowly walked towards the fighting zone where more than hundred men were exchanging blows.

'Why aren't they using their Egoes though? They are grown men.' Pablo thought.

"It's not allowed in front of Ego Reserve. To use your Ego, I mean." Cupid answered.

Pablo frowned. "How do you know? I can't believe your words."

Cupid rolled her eyes. "Look at that board. It says using your Ego is prohibited here."

Cupid gestured her finger towards the board and Pablo followed her finger.

But when he looked there, he shook his head.

"I can't see the board because of the people here. You can fly so you saw that. Talk about cheating."

"I can fly because I am an Angel. It's not cheating. Angels don't cheat."

"Sure." Pablo ignored her and carried on his slow walk.

He dodged the punches and kicks of people and since there were so many people, Pablo took some hits but it only grazed him. He was really good at dodging.

'It's a relief they won't use their Ego. Otherwise things would have been bad.'

Pablo kept his eyes all around and whichever punch came in his way, he waved his hand over it.

He held the incoming fists of people just for a second and he did the same with many of them.

Then, after a second, not only a fist but a full fledged Human hopped towards him.

Pablo knew the man so he let him come.

"Bosss!" It was Flashy. He hugged Pablo.

"Why did you do that? These people can kill me. Take me with you!" Flashy cried.

Pablo sighed. He didn't hug Flashy back as well. "You are overreacting."

"Wha-look at this." Flashy showed his face to Pablo.

Pablo saw it and…

"Pfft..." He laughed.

Cupid also saw Flashy's face and she laughed as well. "He looks the same as that time."

"Don't laugh, Boss. I was beaten up badly."

"Yeah. That I can see. But why is it that every time you go to a fight, your eyebrow goes missing?"

Flashy was again missing an eyebrow. He looked the same when Pablo first saw him back in the slums.

"Forget about my eyebrow. Can't you see my swollen cheeks? They hit me black and blue." Flashy said and one more punch landed on his face.

Pablo laughed and ducked down. His hands were moving swiftly though. They never stopped.

"You stay here and try to fight. You can learn something here. At least try to land one good punch on someone. And since you can't use your jumping Ego here, run away when you can't take the beating anymore. That's all."

Pablo gave a quick lesson and turned around. His back was in front of Flashy.

"Don't leave me alone here. I will die." Flashy cried again.

Pablo turned his head behind.

"Remember your siblings. You want to kill them, right? Well, this is a perfect place and time to learn how to kill."

"How can I do that? You can't just throw me in for a practical without giving me theory." Flashy retorted and got a random kick in his face as he fell down on the ground. He lost count of attacks he faced today.

"The man who kicked you just now. Kill him." Pablo said.

"Wha-why? You can't just order killing someone." Cupid complained. She always chimes in whenever Pablo speaks of killing.

"How?" Flashy asked his own question.

Pablo ignored Cupid and answered Flashy.

"See this.."

Pablo roamed his eyes and he found the man who kicked Flashy.

He was wearing boots and Pablo saw something shiny wrapped on his feet.

Pablo leaned forward and held that shining thing.

After that, without any hindrance, Pablo took it out from the man's boot.

Flashy saw all that with wide eyes.

"You are amazing." He said. "You stole the man's dagger without him knowing. You are great, Boss."

Flashy was all praises for Pablo and Pablo examined the dagger he just took.

He nodded and focused on the man again.

"If you just focus on one thing, you will get it." He said and walked towards the man.

"The men who know what they want are focused men. And focused men…"

Pablo reached closer to the man and without any delay, he stabbed the thigh of the man.

"Are dangerous men."

The man screamed but his scream wasn't heard by anyone.

Also, Pablo didn't stop, he repeatedly stabbed the thigh of the man and came down to his leg.

He stabbed the whole right leg of the man and now his hands were covered with blood.

Some blood fell on his clothes as well but it wasn't clearly visible on the black clothes. That's why Pablo liked black clothes.

After stabbing the full right leg of the man, Pablo finally stopped and threw the dagger at Flashy.

Flashy took three tries to catch the dagger.

"Use that and fight. At least, stab some people. And I am sure some soldiers would be coming here so take this as well…"

Pablo threw one more thing towards Flashy and Flashy this time caught it easily.

He saw what it was and his brows shot up.

"You got a bracelet? When? How?" Flashy asked. Pablo threw a space bracelet towards him which Flashy was sure Pablo didn't have before.

"I stole them just now. I created this commotion for that. They must have some money inside them."

"Them? How many did you steal?"

"Nine. I gave one to you so now I have Eight." Pablo revealed and Flashy was out of words. He didn't know Pablo could steal things as well.

"Anyway, you carry on. Try not to die."

Pablo turned around, he wiped the blood of his hands on one of the surrounding men and carefully walked out of the crowd.

Flashy watched Pablo's back until he could no longer see him.

He then stared at the bloodied dagger and stood up.

After that, he took a deep breath.

"I can do this. Come, motherfcukerss!!" He shouted and…

THRAAM!

A fist crashed down on his face and he fell down on the ground again.

"Nope. I am a failure."

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Pablo didn't know what was going on with Flashy and so much time was already wasted, so he instantly went to the first booth he saw.

There were many booths present just outside Ego Reserve and fortunately, because of the chaos, the long queue of people in front of them was no more.

He walked to one such booth and stood in front of the man sitting behind it.

The man was wearing a gray outfit and glasses on his eyes. He had that sour look on his face as he looked at Pablo.

Pablo didn't care about that and looked the man in the eye as well.

Then, without any further delay, he came on point…

"Give me the pass as fast as you can without asking any damn thing."