章 87: I Just Had A Feeling

"Ergh.." Rachael has been locked by Heath. She can't breathe when Heath strangles her neck with his arm around her neck. Her face and both side of her body have been beaten up pretty bad, judging by the pain she had to deal with.

She frowned and grind her jaw each time she has been hit. She tries to calm herself. Right now she can't move recklessly like before. Somehow, a memory of her and her grandfather rose up in her mind.

"Hey, Rei..what are you doing here?" An old man around his late sixties standing on the frame door looking at her which is now in the boys' changing room.

Actually, it was a soldier locker room. Where they used to change clothes and training in the room attached beside it. Rachael was just teenager back then. She often went there to his father's base and train with the elite troops.

Most of her father's subordinate treat her like a little sister. Different from her brother who gets special training at her grandfather's island. He was trained by the number one deadly assassin in the world. Even now, her grandfather still holds the rank.

Her family consists of full complex people. Her grandfather is ex-assassin, while her father is a secret agent and now the general who control underworld activities in the region. Her mother is a great doctor. Her brother? He is now the President of a big name airlines company. His name also is on one of the registries of people who are unbeatable. Following her grandfather step.

While she? She still struggles with her studies and she intending to joining her father's elite squad in the future.

"Dada! When did you come here?" She runs to her grandfather and gives him a welcoming hug.

"Haha..just now. Aren't you supposed at your school?"

"Hehe..please dada..don't tell papa about this." She clasps both of her palms together and pleads her grandpa with her puppy eyes.

"Aih…you is a girl. Why're you so brave to mingle with these boys?" the old man's heart feel a bit worried to see his granddaughter were in this kind of place where it full of boys and she look like she often coming here.

"They're good lad, dada. It's all your fault. Why didn't you train me?" She pouts a bit.

"If I train you, your mother won't get a good night sleep every night and my son will show me his gloomy face. We don't want that, aren't we?" He tries to console Rachael by patting her hair.

Hold his wrinkled hand, Rachael smile a bit. "Then...How about if we have a match today? I've been training for a whole year, maybe you can point out my flaw, dada?"

"Ohh..my dear..my back pain is killing me and I'm old now...I can't fight.." He pretends to be sick and weak.

"Aww…come on now, dada. Even though you're old, you so tough and don't even look like you have suffered back pain. Come on." She pulls his hand into the dojo room beside the locker room.

All of the soldier in the dojo room immediately clear out the hall and sit at the corner of the hall making a human circle ring.

"Alright, alright. You can hit me as much as you want. I'll point out your flaw from the attack." He surrenders when he sees most of the boys quite excited to see him coming here.

"Aww..no fun dada..just attack me with your fist. I'll be able to learn as well." She took off her shirt and left her with her black sports bra and legging pants. Ready in a standby position.

"Oooh dear..if I do that, your dad surely will kill me later. So, let stick with the minimal attack from me okay?" He smiles at her and signals her to start anytime.

"O-kay." She starts her first move to punch his grandpa's face.

All her grandpa do is dodge and pointing her flaw in movement. With that, all the boys can see the movement clearly and learn from it. Until ten minutes later, Rachael starts attacking him with more aggressively.

And that is when her grandfather locked her movement with his arm wrapped around her neck, while his leg locks hers. Her hand also has been pulling back by her grandpa where he can break it easily.

"Now, show me how you gonna survive in this situation, Rei." He whispers to her ear making Rachael grit her jaw.

She tries to wriggle her body and move her legs, but none of it able to waver her grandfather's grip.

"I give you a clue. Hit the crucial point. The closer that person to you, the better."

She dunks her head a bit, inhales and uses his back of her head to headbutt her grandfather's face.

Bam!

The sudden headbutt makes her grandfather's hand which wrapped on her neck loos a bit and that is when she used the opportunity to pull her hand and smack her elbow on his rib.

Buk!

"Ow. That's hurt."

With the little opening for her, she uses her legs to lock her grandfather's head and flip her body before tackle down her grandfather on the floor.

Bam!

"Ow..ow..my head. My head is spinning right now." Her grandfather touches his head a bit. When she's a bit distracted he turns the table back.

Thud!

It was fast as lightning. She could not catch up with his speed at all. In a blink of eyes, he had tackled her down.

This time, she was on the floor and can't move her arm at all. "So, dear Rei..a lesson you must remember till' you die is, don't get distracted by your enemy. Got it?"

Pouting, she nods her head. "Yeah yeah..I'll remember."

"Good girl. Now.." He loosens the grip and extended his hand to offer her granddaughter a help.

"Dad! What are you doing?" Rachael's father suddenly pops up from the door. He was clearly shocked.

"Uh.." He standing up together with Rachael and scratch his back of his head. All the boys from earlier immediately scram out of the room leaving only the three of them.

"Papa.." Rachael fixing her messy hair. She could feel the intensely cold air in that room.

…

A bead of tear suddenly fell from her eye.

"You want to admit defeat now?" Heath whispering close to her.

She lowered her head a bit and focus the strength on her back of her head. Yup, she gonna do just like what she does to her grandfather years ago. Headbutting the head of the combat department.

Bam! Blood running down from Heath's nose and without any delay, Rachael smack his rib behind her two times with her sharp elbow. This is when his arm which is wrapped around her neck loos and Rachael turn her body around to face him.

"Ack..!" He tries to block her attack on the rib, but the third punch is not on his ribs, but down to his private area.

Thud!

"Fuck!" Heath curses a bit. The hit she used this time really put him into great pain.

Rachael swiftly pushes him down on the ground before she sits on his body and rising up her spear, pointing the spear blade on his throat.

Smirking, Heath laugh softly and said. "You know, it's not nice for a girl to touch a men's private part." Even though he said it casually, but it still sounds so cold to Rachael's ear.

"If I use my magic back then, you're long dead. But for a combatant test like this..you're quite fit." He pushes the edge of the spear and sits up a bit.

"So, how long are you gonna sit on my body?" He looks at her which is still shocked since first he opens his mouth until now. His eyes trail down on her body before he looks back on her face.

"Hey."

…

At the bench row, Zoro felt so antsy when he sees how brutal this guy is beating Rachael, even though she is a woman. He has faith in her, but seeing how she was beaten up, even his tough heart could feel the prickling pain inside. It's nearly killing him.

When he thought that Rachael will admit defeat, he clenches his fist. If only he could help her right now. But he also knows his place, he can't interfere with their battle and as a teacher, he can't kill any of his students, right?

When Rachael come back with the attack, he overjoyed it on the bench row together with Ning Zhi. Not until when Rachael sit on top of him.

Oh…there he goes some weird yet familiar feeling arose in his heart. Yes..it is the same feeling like jealousy. The same feeling he used to feel, but only for a different woman back then.

He thought he won't feel that feeling again. But, guess he was wrong. A few minutes pass and he could no longer sit there and watch her sitting on other men's body.

He went to the ring and hold both of Rachael's shoulder. "Rach. Hey.."

Like she was just wake up from a dream, she looks up at Zoro behind her. Slowly she stands up and hugs him. Her tears stream down on her cheek. A slow sob could be heard by a few of them.

"What's wrong?" Zoro caresses on her hair gently.

"I just had a feeling, that my dada…he..he's dead."