Chương 9: From a Noble Clan
*** Moments before the younger one being chased by the armed men ***
[In a small shop of fruits and other goods]
Billy and the others decided to look around for the things they needed to buy.
Different fruits and goods are displayed on the front of the shop.
Maya decided to put down Shams and go around the shop to check if what they needed are available.
Even they know Shams can handle himself and can walk on his own, Maya instructed Billy to look after Shams while she check inside if there are things she needed for herself.
The shop owner took a liking on Shams, "What an adorable kid? Walking already and going to town so young."
When the shop owner was about to pinch Shams adorable cheeks, he replied to him.
"Thanks! You are adorable too!" Shams casually replied to the owner.
A gasp of surprise from the owner after hearing Shams talk. He could not believe that a young toddler would talk fluently.
If walking like an adult was not enough already but hearing the toddler talk as if he has been talking in his entire life was astonishing to witness.
"I apologize sir, we had the same expression too when we found out he could talk fluently." Billy explained to the owner before following Shams.
While walking around and looking around the displayed fruits, Shams reached for an apple and intended to take a bite.
Before he did, Shams rubbed the apple on his toddler shirt and took a bite.
'Hmmm… Tasty!' he discreetly tasted the apple and put it back to the stand.
Shams further contemplated to himself, 'Oh, let me just put it here and tell Maya to pay it since I took a bite already.'
After placing it back to the display stand, he went immediately to Maya to tell her to pay for the apple.
But what transpired next was beyond anyone's expectation…
Billy was too preoccupied checking on the mango beside the apple section. He was unaware of that Shams took a bite on an apple.
As he was checking on the mangoes, a stack of mango toppled down on the side of apple section.
The owner intended to arrange the stack of mangoes after it got disarrayed towards the apple.
One by one he took it back to its original position. And then the apple bitten by Shams was discovered by the owner.
He looked around and saw the chubby Billy checking on the other fruits.
"You fat boy! Pay for this apple that you ate. You even threw it without finishing it completely." The shop owner accused Billy just because he was standing right next to that area and due to his appearance.
Insulted by the accusation of the owner, Billy refused to pay for something that he never touched. He even incited that the owner is selling a bitten apple.
"How dare you accuse me, sir? I didn't know that someone can be too desperate in earning money that would resort into selling a bitten apple for a price." Loudly expressed by Billy.
Trying to get attention from other passing customers, "Come to think of it! You would even dare make a customer pay something that did not even touch at all but just because I am young, it is easier for you to make me pay for something I should not even pay."
Customers started to whisper around and look at the shop owner with a sense of disbelief that the owner would stoop that level.
Right before it gets out of hand, Maya appeared and tried to mediate between the two.
Shams was not able to tell Maya what he intended to tell her because he got caught up at the sight of the woman ... from a noble clan.
This woman was the same woman they saw earlier. She was the one who was maltreating her servant.
It made Shams remember how much he could not stand abusive individuals and those who use their status as a justification in the way they treat others.
Way back in his previous life, Shams was too weak and in a disadvantaged position where others kept treating him poorly. He would always try to keep his head down and disengage from any fight because he could not afford to get in trouble with authorities.
He believed that life was too unfair for the poor and weak. Because they are always on the losing side.
But Shams want to end this kind of unfairness.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
This was an intention that Shams want to execute.
'But how can I make her feel embarrassed in front of the people?' Shams pondered for a possible way.
His eyes went wide open as he thought of something plausible.
…
…
When the woman from a noble clan started to check at the same shop as Maya and the others were.
A tray of eggs from a top-shelf is slowly moving towards the mark which Shams targeted to drop with the use of a long sturdy stick.
"Excuse me! Who is the owner of this fruit shop?" the woman demanded for the attention she seeks for.
As soon as the owner went to look for the woman who called for his attention,
Suddenly Maya remembered Shams,
"Where is little Ryoku?" Maya asked Billy.
"I don't know!"
Both of them looked around and saw the woman from a noble clan get hit by the tray of eggs that just fell on her.
"Arrrgghh!!" screamed by the woman.
People and other bystanders laughed at the sight of her covered with eggs and broken shells.
Fingers being pointed at her and different eyes filled with disgust of the scene of her with the eggs.
Infuriated by what happened to her, she saw a glimpse of Shams running from the corner dropping the long stick that was used in pushing the tray of eggs to fall on her.
…
"Get that kid!!" pointing towards Shams who is moving towards Maya and Billy.
The armed men accompanying her immediately followed her command.
They immediately went after for Shams.
Though, Shams ran towards Maya and Billy.
Clueless as they are, Maya just picked up Shams who just jumped on her arms.
"Hey there, little Ryoku! What's wrong?" Maya asked.
"Just run!" Shams' reply to Maya.
"Huh?"
Both, Maya and Billy, started to run when armed men were fast approaching to their direction.
*** Back to Present ***
A shop of charcoal was nearby.
The moment they reached the area, Billy easily took down the barrels of charcoal to distract the armed men pursuing them.
It amused Shams that Billy easily carried a barrel larger than him and threw it like it was so light.
Crowds of people are starting to even block the gap between the armed men and the young disciples of Master Wushu.
Among the crowd was Reema who was clueless that the younger ones are being chased. She is too immersed in checking the list to buy.
"Hmm... What would I buy next?"
Minutes after from running non-stop…
They finally halted into an alley where no one was around.
-Panting-
-Panting-
"Little Ryoku, what trouble did you got us into?" Maya asked Shams while catching her breath.
Only silence was Shams' reply.
…
"You are a trouble maker, aren't you?" Billy remarked which he was aiming at Shams.
…
Again, another silence from Shams.
…
"There you are! You little brats!" one of the armed men exclaimed.
"It was a wrong move for kids like you to mess with someone from a Noble Clan." Said by another armed man who is about to release his own sword from its scabbard.
Billy and Maya's eyes started to become desperate.
"Billy…" a signal that Maya was trying to give out to her friend.
'Woah! Woah! ... I didn't know these two can be fierce and brave' Shams looked at the two fellow disciples of Master Wushu.
"Little Ryoku, will you stay here and do not move okay?" Maya tells Shams.
A sudden shift in Maya and Billy's eyes.
"Now, we can do it here. Away from people's eyes!" Maya declared.
The armed men mocked at the scene of the two young disciples of Master Wushu standing in a fighting stance.
Wind surrounding the armed men and breezed with some traces of dust along with it.
-Swoosh!-
In a blink of eye, one of the armed men was knocked out by a quick strike from Maya.
Hitting one of the armed men by the neck so fast without being detected.
"WOOOAHH!!!" Shams fascinated by the unbelievable scene.
He did not expect that his fellow young disciples could move so fast and has tremendous strength.
Other armed men got knocked out by the second after the other.
"Hey, leave some for me!" Billy expressed his annoyance towards Maya, "Do not be greedy!"
Billy carried the heavy large metal garbage container and threw it towards the one last remaining armed man.
Quickly as it was, Maya and Billy easily knocked out their opponents.
"Such a shame! They are so weak cultivators. No training at all. They relied too much on the sharpness of their swords." Maya's sharp assessment of the men they just knocked out.
"I even expected more since they are bodyguards of that woman." Airing his own disappointment.
…
…
"Who said you are better cultivators? And whose permission gave you to go all out?" a familiar voice joined the scene.
Together Billy and Maya gulped in fear.
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