Episode 4.10: Dirty Bastard

"Aah...F**k" He inwardly cursed. Number 8, Akira's first round is with number 5, the black forest mad dog, Vladimir Petrov. He squinted his eyes to get "better" access, in any chance his sights are just getting a little bit too blurry.

Akira doesn't plan to face the 'mad dog' at the first fight! It's not like he is scared, but he accidentally witnesses a strange creepy aura from the other when he entered the underground place. Vladimir was trying to search for his room and he noticed Akira's curious grumpy kitty stare.

 As usual, the boy will show off his pierced tongue, annoyingly spat a loud bluek! Akira was startled and unconsciously flinch his shoulders which pulls out a mocking laugh from the other. Akira scowled remembering that taunting laugh. It vexed him and he can't help pursuing his lips in rage. "I can't have a rascal fighting me." He laments a bit too loud.

"Number, 8?... Man, you got some nasty mouth there?" A rough voice question with an annoying accent. His bunch of messy black hair whips to the foe. Akira subconsciously faces him with a bitch face. He is shocked that the said 'mad dog' and his companion are beside him. He has been wearing that cold bitch face for months and giving out free smiles is not an option!

His eyes shifted to the one behind him. The brown hair Soo-ho perks behind his friend's shoulder and waves towards the red-headed boy with a smile. Akira rolled his eyes when the 'mad dog' blocks his sight. He doesn't want to deal with a brainless person or a 'mad dog' for once...

"How about repeating what you just said?" Vlad perils with his blaring red orbs. 'Is he trying to seek "justice"' Akira noticed that Vlad is getting hot-headed with his 'compliment' but he doesn't mind his rudeness. They can think all they want, he won't judge.

Akira shows his teeth and sprint from the chart just to get pulled back at the widescreen. His wrist is glued to the screen so that he can't run away. Akira huffs, still keeping his smug face but the anxiousness forces him to bow or he'll collapse at the mad dog. He fretts once again, disappointed that he can't face straight at the guy's rude cast.

'Oh, Yui... this is not helping.' He rues quietly but the cold facet didn't leave and it pinches a little bit of the enraged dog's "madness".

"I said, say it again to my face...!" Akira scrunches up his nose from Vlad's splattered spits. He keeps his mouth shut. He felt lazy to deal with someone who just knows how to bark like a dog, who doesn't know how to hunt its prey correctly. "Say it! or I'll..."

Do you dare?

"What?" Vlad questions his question. Soo-ho, who have been observing their quarrel awkwardly frowns at his question. In a split second, the two of them are utterly speechless at his next word. Without any hesitation, Akira unlocks his mouth and a bunch of ruthless words hits the jackpot.

"You dare to hear it, anyway...? Are you sure that you won't bark around after I say it? " and with a stolid face, he walks away from the pair ignoring the big pang he just gave them...

Sometimes an empty room can be so loud. Alike now, they are only two people but the room is filled with crackers of laughter. Soo-ho is laughing his butt off from the moment Akira left the room. The fact that Vlad is frozen at the same spot makes him wheezed to the floor. "AHAhahahaHhaha....*CoUgh*...*COugh.*wHeeZe*...KhahAHAHAhaH, Someone really got you, man!"

Vladimir scrunches his nose, finally regaining the bitterness of his words. He stumps out of the chart-room, not saying even a thing towards his friend. The mad dog is sure pissed off! He probably won't forget that a red-headed lowly boy ever exists in this world and one day! Surely one day, he will take that lowly life's head with his two hands! 

 For Vlad, today is the worst day he could have. Even having dinner with his father could not make him this disgusted! 

But how about Soo-Hoo? That wench admitted that this is the best day of his life. Who would have thought that there would be some human that succeeded in shutting the Crown's mad dog? He really doesn't expect such a thing to happen today?  Maybe Akira is an alien that falls from Jupiter, but who knows?

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'Great... You are just great...' Akira palms his face. What is with the horrible timing!? He should have just sprint off right away but he chooses to face the mad dog. His footsteps are getting faster and faster after encountering a glimpse of his locker. "Ugh..." He says after glueing his but to the old bench.

The underground room is an expensive place that was built in 1969, the first appearance of the school. Every 3 years, they modernize it to suit the age. Now, this place is completed with all the necessities needed for living. They even have their own medical centre to ensure any injuries after a fighting event. There are eight rooms for players, three clinics placed at the medical centre, one main room for charts and the main counter, and much more.

Mostly, the rooms for players will have a big TV screen to display battles on the stage and calling out their numbers. The widescreen was placed along the wall, between the beds and the lockers. One room can fix 50 players and every room has a personal secretary that will guide the players up the stage.

Akira bites his thumbnail, trying to forget such an embarrassing moment. He knows that taking a tough opponent might put him in trouble but at the same time, he can find any weakness in Yui's body. Ever since Ava arrives and takes over her body, the only weakness she knows is that this girl suffers from a horrible stage of mental health.

Attention to all participants! The battle will begin in a minute. Please be fully ready in your place...

The announcement was made by a female anchor just beside the main battle stage. This is to ensure that all contestants are in good condition before starting the fierce battle, just to be fair. It won't do if one has a fever and one is not. All contestants must be as healthy as a horse just to get the registration form! And that still doesn't count if you get sick right before the battle start!

Akira's body shook a little after hearing that the battle will start anytime sooner. Maybe out of fear, he is frozen in thought. 'Not this time, Yui... Please...!' He tries to calm the frantic heart. Dub dab dub Dabb, his heart shake and quiver as he hardly suck in the air to fill his choked lung. 'Ava has never in her life feels this way. She is the 'crazy doctor's child'. She is a proud and selfish girl and no one can par her intelligent! And by that mean, no words shall waver her confidence!'

Not this time, temporary she is 'Akira', the male disguise of Yui, the obsessive-minded villainess!

His mind is filled with disgusting thoughts that he keeps smacking his head as if forcefully shirking off a bunch of hurtful laughter out of his head. 'Scram off! ... God Damn it!' Rage started to build up in his esteem but a mouthful of cold-chilly air pours down his throat. That woke him up from the nightmare...

"Are you okay?" the worries from the intruder are strangely visible to him. Akira looks up to a bleach-haired, scraggy boy. The boy is player number twenty-two as it says on the card he is holding. "Ah, another contestant?" Akira question in his heart. The said boy pulls out an inhaler from Akira's mouth. It is his precious life-saving item but for some reason watching the red-haired boy in pain sadden him.

Out of all the contestants, Akira is the only person he can approach. The others are too intimidating for him, more like they treat each other as an enemy. Glaring here, glaring there! It scared him! Substantially, Akira became the only person that is likeable to him.

"Are you ... um... Okay?" He asked again.

"Yeah... I'm fine..." Akira throws his head to the back slicking the bangs out of his sweaty forehead. "I just ... feels a little, anxious..." He admitted which the boy just listens. He knows that feeling so saying anything would not bring any difference.

Seeing the boy still standing there and not reacting. He stares for a moment then waving his hand back and forth. "You... Are you, okay?" He hardens the 'you' in his question. After a while, he pats the smaller boy's head seeing that the boy felt ashamed about staring off the zone. "Thank you for saving me... You don't need to be ... conc-"

"Bb-ByE!" The boy awkwardly blurts out goodbye and sprints off from his side not letting him finish his sentence.

-erned." that boy came like an angel and flew with the wind. 'What a strange boy...' He thought. Akira waved his worry off and pulls out a certain book to fill his time...

'This villainess should learn about her illness some more' His hands holding a book about anxiety and depression. The 'Ava' always has a trick under her sleeves...