Chapter 290: Time to get serious (1/2)

When his instructor Valentina challenged him, Ben narrowed his eyes as he stood up to face her. Using his body language reading ability, he realized from her stern posture that this was a serious challenge. Thus, he planned to take it seriously.

”Let's grapple.” Her face became sharp as she entered a standup grappling stance. Despite wearing a girly pink gi, she radiated an aura of an experienced warrior.

Ben found it difficult to take her seriously when he heard her nasally Portuguese accent which he found super sexy, but did his best.

Meanwhile, Fariq and all the other students in the gym were watching with rapt attention. They'd noticed the unusual strained atmosphere as Ben and Valentina faced off. It was like a wild west shootout. So as the two stared at each other, waiting for an opportunity, neither one willing to make a careless first move, this only further increased the tension with every passing second. At any moment, the air between them could ignite, bursting from a spark into a blazing flame. They only needed a chance, a signal.

*Clunk!*

As something hit the mats, both Ben and Valentina looked down. Near Ben's leg, there, was a metal weight… It had dropped from inside his green gi pants…striking the ground with a heavy impact.

”What the hell is that?” She pointed to it.

His eyes flashing, Ben snorted. ”It's time to get serious…so I took off my ankle weights I wore for training. Prepare to be defeated.”

However, Valentina grimaced. ”Ankle weights? Then why'd they drop from your groin?”

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Ben gulped. 'She's good…' It's true he'd been wearing weights for training but they were the type that hung off his penis to lengthen it.

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It still upset him that he didn't get a second dick dan pill and was doing his best for a homemade solution…

Yet, now it led to this misunderstanding. Even here though, Ben knew how to resolve it with a few simple words. ”I have long ankles.”

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”Enough bullshit!” Valentina lunged at him!

'Tch, why couldn't my moment be cool like Rock Lee's?' However, Ben soon focused on his instructor, knowing he needed to get serious as she attacked him.

Their current position was standup grappling. Although BJJ practitioners often started on their knees during practice, they sometimes fought from standing positions too, to mimic how fights began in real life. From there, they'd combine Judo and wrestling techniques to perform takedowns on their opponents, bringing them to the ground. Once down, the BJJ fighters would have the edge in grappling. As such, they'd use their skills to secure a submission, or if it was within an MMA match or street fight, to land strikes from above.

During the prior weeks, Ben also became adept at some of these moves. So at the moment, although he wasn't as technical as Valentina, he was ready. Hence, as she threw herself at him recklessly due to suffering his terrible excuse…he saw an opportunity to counter!

While Valentina grasped onto his arm and gi, her weight leaning into him, Ben grabbed her as well. Yet, instead of fighting her, he exploited her momentum to pull her backward! Using her force against her, his butt soon hit the mat, and as he rounded his back and rolled on it, he put his feet on Valentina's hips, and lifted her off the ground!

Eyes bulging, her grip loosened as she realized she wasn't in control of her body! But that wasn't the end!

Utilizing the force of her momentum and his roll, Ben added even more power, by using his legs, to kick upwards! Letting go of her and sending her flying! He'd thrown her over him!

Smirking, he watched in slow motion as Valentina flew. Except his smirk soon morphed into a frown, because wasn't she flying a little high? She almost hit the 10-foot ceiling!

As she whizzed by it though, her feet missing it by a narrow margin, Ben's face relaxed. Yet, Valentina's didn't, because the world was spinning!

He'd thrown her into an unintentional front flip! And since she was no longer rising, that meant, she could only fall back down! From ten feet up into the ground!

*BANG!*

*Bang*

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Laying down, Ben looked up at the spot where Valentina landed. Her back hit the ground so hard that she even bounced once like an anime character…

He was speechless, having forgotten how strong he was… Now, the evidence was right in front of him though. Valentina laid there, unmoving, as the entire gym was aghast, staring at her body…or was it a corpse?

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