43 The Price (1/2)

”Dammit!!! I told you not to mess with her!!!!!”Faust charges towards Roney like a mad bull completely taken over by the anger.

”Beep!!~~~”

*”This same attack again, dammit! I won't be taken down so easily. I cannot be defeated. I'm learning the ancient martial arts  I will never go down by this soul shit.* Faust survived the attack of soul whisper on his sheer will. The same attack couldn't disrupt his soul this time and he could never let that happen again.

”This is called making things hard for me, you little brat.” Roney falls back after saying the words and breathes heavily.

*”This device is eating up my spiritual power so fast!”* Roney suddenly realizes the sacrifice he had to make for the drawbacks of soul whisper.

Roney removes the two physical enhancers, the white crystal stones from his exo-suit. He reaches out to his wrists and rotates the dial on his right in the anticlockwise direction. ”75  Newtons. I'm going to kill you if you don't walk away from here.” Roney warns Faust with a convicted tone.

*”I have removed my body enhancement stones. This should stop them from consuming my spiritual power and all of it goes toward these whispering discs. I'm going to teach him what adulthood really consists of.”* Roney justified  and he stares down at Faust.

*”Breathe in-breathe out. Focus, target the vital points, block and attack, hit and run. First cut off his arms and legs, and then go for his heart”* Faust suddenly becomes calm, resembling still water. He thinks of calculating the attacking way to take down Roney.

Yet, inside his heart, he is scared. He is only a 10 year old kid. He is afraid and his heart just doesn't seem to be in control. It just doesn't settle down, but he tries to act brave in front of the only girl in his life. He wants to protect her. He doesn't want to go down while she is watching.

Faust clenches his fist, but the middle phalanx (middle bone) of his index finger is protruding outwards, more than the rest of his fingers. All the fingers are folded inwardly clenching like a fist. But the index finger is only folded half way, and it looked like he is holding a knife in his knuckles.

Roney and Lucifer are taken over by confusion as to which martial art Faust is using. Faust takes off, hoping to catch up-to speed with Roney and he is doing great keeping up with Roney even when Roney is having the advantage of the exosuit.

Faust pushes him a close hand-hand combat with Roney and moves incredibly fast without letting Roney catch a breathe.

*Thud!!!~~*

As everybody is watching, the right arm of Roney doesn't see to move or even show slightest moment.

Faust has severed the communication between the brain and his right arm. ”Your tendon inside your arm has been cut and the nerves are dead.” Faust smirks and tells to Roney as to how big a mistake he made, of messing with Faust.

Faust landed a hard blow on Roney's arm joint, and the next second, his arm is numb.

”It's not over yet!!” Faust shouts and jumps forward. He repeatedly lands many hits on the Roney's face, his chest.

Roney is scratched and cut wherever Faust made contact. Even his exo suits which are defending him are dislocated and twisted at some parts on his chest.

Faust finally lands another hit. A hard hit in between the elbow and funny bone of Roney's elbow. It was a hard hit on his pressure point. Roney stumbled.

Now, Roney's two arms are numb and lifeless and this creates an opportunity for Faust to end this fight.

Roney could feel he's losing this fight, but he did not want to give up and get beaten up by a kid who's younger than him, he was desperately prideful at this point.

”Captain, let us help you.” Roney's friends shouts from behind.