Chapter 34 - M.D.B 34: Colleen, Left Alone (1/2)

Chapter 34: Colleen, Left Alone

”But...” Coulson hesitated, and then said: ”By then, New York would already be a battlefield, and people would suffer great losses! We're looking at countless possible casualties.”

”Coulson.”

The one-eyed man looked up and said: ”With us already knowing of an evil organization such as the Hand, why do you think we haven't taken action?”

Coulson took a while to think, using all of his recently gathered information and replied! ”Their Five Fingers are really well hidden, so we can't cut the head right now. They also have many branches and fodders, too many for it to many any sense to take them down from the bottom up. I believe these are the reasons?”

”You're missing out on the most important reason! The Five Fingers of the Hand are always scattered across the world! Even if we can cut a finger, the Hand itself would continue to exist.”

As he talked, the one-eyed man raised his right hand gathering his five-fingers slowly into a fist: ”Over the years, I've been looking for an opportunity to take them all out at once. This Iron Fist, Danny Rand, is my best bait!”

”…”

Coulson still couldssx not bear the idea of risking innocent lives, but he just nodded silently.

...

At eleven o'clock that evening, on the second floor of Lee's Chinese restaurant, Saint who was meditating in the quiet room suddenly opened his eyes: ”A strong Ki… this is… Danny Rand? He's back!”

He leaped from the floor, and then after careful sensing he muttered to himself: ”Sure enough, Colleen is with him… but wait, are they fighting?”

Saint's eyes were opened wide opened. Surprised, he rushed out of the quiet room, ignoring the stairs that led to the first floor and directly jumping of the balcony. In mid-air, he adjusted his balance, and landed steadily on the floor. He coped with the impact, and then rushed immediately towards Colleen's Dojo.

Right then, Lorna, who had heard some commotion on the 2nd floor, went up just to find it empty: ”Boss? What happened?”

Of course, she couldn't sense Danny or Colleen from that distance.

In less than half a minute, Saint had reached the Dojo. Downstairs, all doors were closed, so he just stepped on the lower edge of a window, climbed up as if walking on the wall. On the 3rd floor's level, he found a glass non protected window, through which he jumped in, shattering it, and landing into the Dojo shouting: ”Stop!”