Chapter 3

On the other side of the street, his gaze falls on the entrance to a bar, guarded by a muscular man with crossed arms. On either side of the entrance are pictures of scantily clad women.

He looks up and sees the streetlamp cable, which on his side leads to a mast, while on the opposite side it is attached to the facade above the bar entrance.

He climbs the mast...

...and swings along the cable by his hands.

After passing the lamp behind him, the cable doesn’t want to break.

So he pulls a knife and cuts through the cable.

He swings down toward the bouncer and shouts, “Watch out!”

The bouncer is completely surprised when he sees the warrior rushing at him.

With knees drawn up, the warrior rams into the bouncer...

...so that both fall into the entrance.

While the warrior gets up, the bouncer remains lying down. The warrior thinks: ‘Why didn’t he dodge?’

He feels the pulse at the bouncer’s neck and thinks: ‘He’s alive.’

Then he goes down the stairs...

...and enters a spacious bar with a long counter, where a single guest is sitting. Of the many small tables, only the one to the left in front of the counter guest is occupied by two men and two women, all well dressed. In the background, four men are playing billiards.

The warrior moves toward the counter, so that the alcoholic sits to his right and the group to his left. Behind the counter stands the nervous bartender.

Alcoholic: "Who let you in?"

Bartender hisses: "Be quiet!"

Warrior grinning: "It was the momentum."

Alcoholic: "Man, you’re stupid, man."

Bartender hisses: "Be quiet already!"

Bartender, sweating, to the warrior: "What can I get for you, sir?"

Alcoholic: "By praying, you serve the Lord."

Warrior to bartender: "Tell me, what kind of war is going on in this city?"

Alcoholic to himself: "Man, he’s stupid, man."

The group looks at the warrior with a mix of amusement and disgust.

Bartender: "Excuse me, sir, but the gene war is over. We have peace in Natural City."

Warrior: "But I constantly see fighting. Who is fighting whom? I can’t see it."

Alcoholic: "Everyone is fighting everyone."

Warrior: "So every person is surrounded by enemies?"

Alcoholic: "You got it, man. You’re not so stupid after all, man."

Warrior: "Then you are my enemy?"

Alcoholic: "Only if you’re looking for trouble, man."

Warrior: "I never look for trouble."

Alcoholic: "Then you’re my friend." To the bartender: "Hey you, give us two more."

The bartender slides two filled shot glasses to them.

Warrior: "How can you be my friend when everyone here is fighting everyone?"

Alcoholic: "You know, you can also team up and fight together against the rest."

Warrior: "So you want to team up with me?"

Alcoholic, raising his glass: "I don’t team up with anyone anymore. I’ve stopped fighting." Second bubble: "Drink!"

He and the warrior drink.

The warrior spits out the schnapps, coughing. The alcoholic looks surprised. The group laughs. The bartender is horrified.

Warrior: "Are you trying to poison me?"

Alcoholic: "That’s alcohol, man. Aren’t you a man?" In a second speech bubble to himself: "Man, he’s stupid, man."

The warrior notices the laughing group with the pretty women...

...and puts on his broad grin.

Warrior to the woman closest to him: "Do you want to have sex with me?"

Abruptly, the group’s laughter dies. Their faces turn stone cold.

Woman: "I don’t want to have sex with a stinking pig who likes to wallow in filth."

Warrior grinning: "Pigs taste good."

Alcoholic: "Man, he’s stupid, man."

Between the warrior and the next woman sits a burly man. The warrior grins at the woman: "Do you want to have sex with a pig?"

The man shoots up angrily: "She’s my girlfriend. Leave her alone."

Warrior grinning: "How can a woman belong to you? Did you catch her?"

Man, forcing a smile: "Ah, I see, you want to mess with me."

Warrior grinning: "No, I’d rather hold this woman in my arms."

The man quickly swings his right hand...

...and drives his fist into the warrior’s stomach.

The warrior absorbs the blow with his steel-hard abs and grins, completely unfazed: "You don’t seem like much of a threat to me."

The man is surprised.

Then he forcefully drives his knee between the warrior’s legs.

The warrior keeps grinning and stands firm. The man is stunned.

Man: "Why do you want sex if you don’t have a dick?"

Warrior grinning: "I pull it in when I don’t need it."

The man sits back down and says to the group: "It’s no use. The guy’s made of steel."

Woman: "So you cowards just want to watch the pig rape us!"

In the background, the sweating bartender speaks into a communicator: "Hello security, we have trouble."