At Ease

"Do you think you have a choice?" the policeman spat with contempt. The other man stood up. Cracking his bones with a twist, he stood behind Ethan in a threatening way, his grin and dark gaze seemed to be menacing. They were ready to attack him at once. 

"You want to beat me and imprison me until I sign on that page right?" he asked with a grin as if they were going to offer him a treasure, making them frown. "But what made you think that I would sit here and accept it?" 

The man behind him fiercely stretched his hand to grab Ethan's hair so that he could slam it on the table. But before he could do that, Ethan moved with the speed a normal human could never use and stood on the other side.

The policeman frowned as he did not see Ethan moving. He glared at him with narrowed eyes.

"Your tricks would not work here," he warned as he came for Ethan, his hands clenched into a fist, Ethan kept moving backward with a playful smile on his face.

The policemen thought that he was finally scared and smirked but just when Ethan stopped in front of the wall and he attacked, Ethan disappeared again. His hands landed on the strong wall.

"Bang" 

Then he felt a strange pressure on his head and his head was slammed into the wall too, shaking him to the core. 

He spasmed for a while and then fell on the ground, unconscious at once while his head was covered with blood. But the other policemen did not see Ethan moving. 

That scared him further, and with his eyes widened, he stood up from his seat. The chair screeched the ground and fell on the ground with the amount of force he had used.

Instinctively, he took out the gun and aimed at Ethan.

"Stop right there or I will shoot you in self-defense!" he warned in an alarmed voice. His eyes were still not sure how they missed Ethan attacking but his comrade was already on the ground bleeding.

This man was not as ordinary as they had been told. 

"So, you have the right to kill in self-defense?'' There was an eerie look on his face that could scare anyone. As if Ethan was possessed by demons, he walked toward the policemen slowly.

"You think I am just threatening you?" the man screamed and did not wait for the reply as he pressed the trigger. But Ethan had already jumped on the other side and the bullet reached for the wall and made a hole in it.

The policeman frowned and blinked as he had never seen anyone running faster than the police gun. But for Ethan, it was not faster. He had seen the bullet moving slowly with his eyes and had moved easily.

Ethan laughed with a new thrill in his eyes. He had thought it was just an essence, but he could do wonders with this kind of power!

"Now that you have shot first?" he asked with the tilt of his head, his eyes gleaming with dark light that broke the policemen in cold sweat. "I will be the one taking self-defense. Right?" he grinned and the policemen aimed at Ethan again.

But before he could shoot again, Ethan held his hand and twisted them badly. The policeman's arm violently trembled and the gun immediately fell onto the ground!

His arm was so numb that he could not feel it anymore. 

"What did you do to me?" he shouted out loud and when Ethan did not pay any attention to them but went to check the papers they had brought, he gritted his teeth.

"Ha! Do you think you can leave unscathed just because you have attacked us? You have offended a strong underworld mafia lord. Do you know the Stealth Vipers were known to be the third strongest in the whole country? They can wipe all your family with the snap of their fingers." he warned only for Ethan to click his tongue and look at him as if he was a fool.

"Yet they chose you to deal with me?" he shook his head with disapproval and contempt. "Either they overestimate you or they underestimate me," he spoke in a cold voice as he walked slowly toward the men.

This made the policemen panic, he had already lost his one arm and his friend was still unconscious, losing a lot of blood. This man! He was a monster, a demon. A human could not be this strong.

Ethan walked closer and kicked him on his stomach. The man screamed and his whole body spasmed. He curled into a ball to cover his stomach but the pain was unbearable. Tears come to his eyes at once.

He wanted to shout again at Ethan, but this time when their eyes met, he could not speak so casually. He was afraid of Ethan now.

Ethan noticed the expressions in the policemen's eyes. He knew fear too well because he had faced it for a long time. He crouched on the ground so that he could meet the eyes of the policemen. 

He forwarded the papers again toward him. 

"Sign this and I will leave you alive." leave you alive! If the policemen had been threatened like that in the past, he would have laughed and then punched the man. But this was… he gulped and tried to concentrate on the pages.

It was the last page they brought out of formality. They were never going to use it.

"If I sign those papers, I will be doomed." he shook his head hard with fear. But Ethan just smiled and shook his head helplessly as if he was dealing with a child.

"Perhaps, you would be doomed if you sign these papers, but you will have the chance to run away before they know about it. But if you did not sign these papers,..." he did not speak further but the threat could not be any more clearer.

The policemen gulped. He wanted to threaten Ethan that he could not beat someone in the police station but for some reason, he knew it would not work.

As if Ethan had read his mind, the young boy laughed. His laughter was soothing like a spring breeze. If only it had been a different scene,

"No one would believe that I have beaten you so easily. And since you have brought me to a room with a tampered camera, you can not blame me here even if I kill both of you." the man shuddered at once. 

They brought him into an investigation room after tampering with the camera so that no one could complain against them if they beat Ethan to death. But who would have thought that their trick would fall on them? 

Worse! How did Ethan know that the camera was tempered?

"Pen! Will you give me the pen?" At that moment, he knew what he needed to do. He nodded his head and asked for a pen. Ethan smiled with a look of approval that slowly relaxed the policemen. He signed the papers at once.

Ethan stood up with a nod. "Now that we are done here, I hope you will not come looking for me again?" when he saw the confusion in the eyes of the policemen, he sighed, "Or do you want me to tell them." the man shook his head at once. Forgetting that he was still in pain.

"No! Not at all. I do not know who you are and we have never met. If someone asks, I will tell them that I have fallen from the chair and I do not know what happened to him." he pointed at the other policemen.

Ethan nodded with a look of satisfaction and left the room. A few policemen looked at him when he left but none stopped him to ask questions. Since it was visiting time, they all took him as a visitor. Who would believe that a criminal was moving so freely? 

The policeman sighed as he still could not move. He could have called for help. But then, the department would know that they have taken bribes for an underworld group. Their future would be at stake. 

Ethan left the police station with ease. Just as he left, a black car stopped in front of the police station, a man in dark clothes spoke in a cold voice devoid of any emotion, 

"Go bring Ethan here this instant."