Chapter 136: Chapter 136 - Catharsis [2/2]

Astrid continued to yell as she attacked. "If you'd just been a little more thoughtful, I might not have attacked right away!" she yelled while throwing a right hook, which Erik deftly caught and redirected.

At the same time, he raised an eyebrow and responded without losing his grin, "What did you expect me to do? Cry and hug you? Neither of us has ever been very good with emotional stuff."

Fueled by frustration and anger, Astrid threw a powerful left cross aiming directly at Erik's cheek. "Fuck you! I nearly took your damn head off! Some reunion that would have been!"

Erik leaned back, barely dodging her punch, while Astrid continued in a mocking imitation of his voice, "'Hey, Astrid, look, I'm alive! Yay!'" 

Grabbing her extended arm, Erik used her momentum to make her stumble past him, but that didn't stop Astrid's tirade, "Then bam! You end up dead for real because I killed you, and then how am I gonna feel, huh?!"