Chapter 15: Bet

"Hey! What kind of discount is that? 1%? You wanna die?" Shi Fan riled up with the old man's teasing.

"Arent I generous enough to give you a discount?" despite Shi Fan being mad at him he still continued to tease him.

"Aishhh there's no point in continuing this I'm leaving" Shi Fan gave up. It seems that the old man is still adamant about teasing him. He began walking straight to the door.

"Wait, how about a bet?" the old man raised his hand indicating for him to stop.

"A bet? Stop teasing me already old man" Shi Fan's interest is piqued a little. All those shows that he watched where most bets are mostly expensive items given for free when won.

"Yeah, a bet. Just manage to block one of my strikes and I'll give you a 2% discount!" the old man said teasingly then his two fingers formed a letter V.

"Alright that's it I'm killing you." Shi Fan began knuckling his fist not seeing the old man as a respected individual but obviously as a swindler. Despite the strength the aura the man has given from the start it's still not enough for Shi Fan to be afraid and endure being teased.

"Okay stop hahaha I'm just joking at you." Seeing the serious Shi Fan the old man finally stopped laughing. "The conditions are the same. Block one of my attacks or hit me by one of your attacks I'll give you three chances to do so and I'll give you the watch for free. If you lose obviously you have to buy it at the original price. How about it huh?"

"Why? You are such a swindler why bother having a bet if you have the possibility of losing 7000 credits? Isn't that too easy for me?" Shi Fan suspiciously asked.

"Okay then we'll start and..." the old man that is talking suddenly stopped for a moment and he slapped at the stone table beside him for weird reasons. "Goddarn mosquitos".

The old man sitting in the chair looked at Shi Fan again and said. "Who told you I'll lose?"

When Shi Fan heard that he thought he old man is joking until he sees that the chair where the latter sat is completely empty he felt every hair in his body standing. He subconsciously looked at the table where the old man slapped. "It's broken." The table was almost broken. If you don't look at it well the outside appearance looks a little fine but Shi Fan can see that cracks are silently forming by the second. He immediately raised his guard up sensing anything dangerous that will be coming near to him. "It is really goddarn easy. Easy to die." He whispered to himself

Shi Fan kept his guard up for a while until something taped his shoulders twice. "Hey kid what kind of defense is that." the old man then slapped him. After being hit by that slap Shi Fan can feel faint.

"Hey! What kind of shopkeepers slap their customers." Shi Fan rebuked.

"You ain't a customer kid. Buy something I consider you a customer then I might lessen the power of my next slap." the old man smiled keeping both of his hands behind him."You're down one chance kid. Two left."

The old man disappeared again, however, this time Shi Fan is able to predict the movement of the old man to where he is going and when he will hit he suddenly felt confident. However, reality proved him wrong as he is intensely slapped again by the old man while Shi Fan is busy looking above.

"Goddarn old man. Stop it will ya." Shi Fan protested.

"One chance left kid." the voice of the old man lingered around Shi Fan.

"As expected he is very strong." Shi Fan said to himself. Then he slightly assumed a squatting position and then he pushed his right arm forward and his left arm behind him. Shi Fan then calmed down his breathing sensing only himself and the living object moving around him. Closing his eyes he can feel the soft noise made by the old man's steps.

"This kid is good. I wonder who is his teacher." the old man that is busily running around the store complimented his form. If he rushed forward the right hand would immediately react and he might be pulled by the kid the same thing with behind him with the stance he is currently forming it's not strange the old man will catch a punch coming from the right hand if he came from behind. The squatting position managed to maximize his scope of defense which made Shi Fan hard to attack.

"Well, he's still a greenhorn after all. He tapped his right toe twice and he dashed forward in front of Shi Fan. As if within calculations Shi Fan's right hand immediately went to grab the old man's clothes. With his left hand, he parried it, changed his form to a kicking one and as he is about to land kick at Shi Fan. The latter disappeared.

The old man still in his kicking stance found Shi Fan standing beside him with his eyes closed about to perform an elbow attack on his stomach. Not expecting such a counterattack, the old man then intercepted it by facing his body towards Shi Fan and strongly pushed him with both of his hands. With that push he barely managed to dodged that elbow attack. The old man's back then hit the marble cabinet inside the store. The cabinet is already very hard and durable that an ordinary person will surely wince in pain after being thrown to it, however, the old man's eyes never left Shi Fan as if he's looking at some kind of monster. Shi Fan, however, didn't care what the other party is doing as he is still affected by the push made by the old man. The force of his push is so strong that Shi Fan is almost flying.