The Fist Beyond the Limit

I was looking through the hut that belong to Aka. I found a food and other small supplies that I could carry. I also grabbed a bag that I can carry stuff that slung a single strap over the shoulder and hangs at the hip. 

I looked around at the burning crops at the small farm near the hut. 

Enuma was advising which tools that could be good for the trip. "It is good to keep something small and not oversized. Easy to carry and not cumbersome." 

I was dreary and sad. This is bad. I’m a mess now. I was completely defenseless.

Suddenly something was tossed through the trees from the opposite side. 

Enuma warned me. "Hmpf, wake up boy! You underestimate the shadow warriors!" 

The next moment, my body was blown away by quick darting warrior that was wearing a mask. The man struck with his arm; I was clothesline and rolled on to ground.  I regained my stance but appeared too shaken from attack.

The masked man had roared and jumped into attack again. My body wasn’t responding anymore. My back, bones, what happened? Enuma called out "Boy!"

I can’t think with a calm mind. My neck, I can’t execute the usual move. The masked man struck again with a fist. I was hit in the belly, so I couldn’t help spitting out some stomach content.

My eyes are starting to flicker, and I don’t really understand how blood got into my eyes in the first place. Somehow, if I’m left as is, I might die without doing anything.

I’m worn out. I hear the masked man say “Tch. So tough after all.”

The old man was someone from Vin's group, but I did not recognize the voice. 

Then the masked man said, "You deserve death for striking Ham, and hurting his little sister. I will end you brat!" 

I watched that man reach out, probably for my throat to strangle me. I thought about how this man unlike the others intended me harm. 

Dynamic visual acuity is of no use in my current condition. The man moved so slow to the others he fought previously today. 

So, I regained me resolve and countered with a huge strike and a huge roar, “Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!”

With my reared fist, I strike hard and true and delivered my fist just as I practiced in Domain mock battles. I delivered my fist through the masked man with Breakthrough enhancing the attack.

The masked man went limp and faded away. Never to wake up again. The man's neck was broken with just the impact. My feet are trembling so much that I can’t use the feet. 

I don’t have the power to punch anymore. I looked at the body and felt sick. As weariness overcame my body. As I turned to look for place to rest my eyes and let my nausea settle in. 

Enuma said, "This is your first. Do not worry, I doubt that girl will allow others to come for revenge"

My first life-threatening battle. Now that I think about it, I wonder how stupid and reckless it was. But it’s strange.

For the first time in my life, I was proud of myself. I’m somewhat hopeless. Even though I’m my father’s son, I have no talent. Disqualified as the son of a Hero.

A failure who couldn’t live up to everyone’s expectations. I shut my ears to all those words, threw out the foul language to everyone, and ran away from the home I was born and raised in. Yet today I am myself for the first time.

Then I thought about something, “Night?”

When I opened my eyes, it was already night. My head is in pieces! 

My head feels broken inside and out, it’s practically broken.  When I unintentionally tried to massage it, I found that my head was covered with bandages.

Not only the head, but also the fist and the whole body was treated……

A girl called out, “Did you just wake up?”

Under the starry sky, I was laid on a straw covered surface, and when I woke up, there was Vin, cooking something in a pot under a fire.

I asked, “Did you give me treatment?”

While that group that attacked me, it was the young lady that treated me while I slept at the cinders of Aka's destroyed home. She put a lot of ointment on my wounds.

That girl, she treated me a lot of care. I murmured "Vin”

The other guys who attacked, I can’t trust them but that girl. She even kneeled on the ground, asking me for forgiveness, and apologized for the actions of her elder brother and his team. 

I was still shaken; I had ended a man's life and was an ally to Vin.  I asked, “Is it alright to care for my injuries, after what I did?”

Vin worried replied, “No, no, no! Not at all! Definitely not your fault.”

Well, I confessed to being ally of a former demon king soldier, I also fought and defeated many of the Vin's group. But it’s still unclear after all as I was being treated by only Vin.

I did not see any of her other warriors at our makeshift campsite. Blushing at the idea of being alone with a girl. 

She’s a beautiful woman, and a pity about her chest, but she wasn’t that bad. Also, it was my first time having a woman fall in love with me.

Enuma said in my thoughts, “I really are clueless, boy!”

I was surprised by Enuma suddenly being there while I felt alone with Vin. She decided to mention, "Do not worry about the fight between us and the others. Elder brother needs time to heal and will recover. The man who disobeyed the command to retreat got what he deserved."

I saw all the bandages, all the food. I thought about the fact that I actually ended a man's life. I have been rejected as son of the hero, I definitely cannot go back. 

l decided to introduce myself to the girl that still cared for me, despite all the damage I did to her and her brother. I sat up in stack of hay, and I said with remorse and grit. "My name is Terran"

Vin replied, "Nice to meet you Terran, please call me Vin"