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I was just trying to lightly hit him, but I must have accidentally put too much force into it because the blond guy’s face turned to the side and he fell down.

Feeling a bit flustered, I took this opportunity to leave the blond guy behind and started running towards the store with all my might.

“Damn it… come here, you crazy bastard!”

Yeah, no matter what you shout, I can’t hear anything right now. I don’t want to waste my energy by opening my mouth for no reason.

‘Let’s see how far you can run with those fancy shoes you’re wearing!’

Should I run to the meat section first? There were a lot of meat on sale today, so there should be a lot of people gathered there~

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“Pant pant…”

It feels like I ran very excitedly for a long time, screaming from exhaustion. Of course, that means I have no more strength to run, so further escape was impossible.

Feeling like my stamina was running out, I left the large mart and entered a deserted alley, sitting down with both legs crossed and leaning against the wall, looking at the yellow crazy dog that was still chasing me.

Although I caused quite a commotion inside the store, I didn’t collide with anyone or damage any store products… well, it’s still a nuisance. Come to think of it, I was quite tense because black-suited men were stepping on my heels in every direction I ran.

But those men who followed me without directly catching me… those men disappeared. While pondering what those men were, our blond guy who had been persistently chasing me also seemed quite exhausted, panting heavily and spitting saliva on the ground while glaring at me.

“Puh! This crazy bitch is all bark and no bite… but can’t run away anymore, right? Ha! Today is your doomsday, Ju Eun-hye!”

As I wiped my disheveled hair, the blond guy, who looked truly crazy, put down the sports bag he was carrying and unzipped it to take out its contents.

“A… gloves?”

The familiar silhouette of the red object was a boxing glove that I had seen a lot before I became Ju Eun-hye, and had been beaten on my body until I was sick of it.

As I briefly recalled the past, the blond guy laughed heartily while looking at me in this state.

“Do you remember the sandbag torture? Hahaha! Although I couldn’t do it for long at school because I had to watch out for the teachers, today, let’s have a go without any restraints, you son of a bitch.”

It seems like this woman is thinking that I was scared recalling the incident that happened during Ju Eun-hye’s school days. With the glove on his right hand, the blond guy approached me and started throwing punches with all his might.

Seeing that he was completely defenseless from his raised hand to his face, I could gauge the blond guy’s skill to some extent, so I leaned my body to the left to dodge the punch coming towards my face and crawled towards the sports bag that the blond guy had put down.

“Haha, is this your way of avoiding it!?”

“Pfft!”

It was a bit embarrassing to crawl around in a dirty alley, but seeing the blond guy fall in a more awkward position than me, I couldn’t help but start laughing uncontrollably. It was becoming difficult to hold back my laughter.

“Don’t laugh, you bastard… what are you doing right now?”

Straightening up and grimacing, the blond guy looked puzzled as he saw what I had taken out of the sports bag.

– Zzip!

Maybe it’s because it’s a velcro type, but it’s really comfortable to wear, but once I put it on, it feels loose compared to the strap type, which makes me feel disappointed.

However, as I thought about playing for the first time in a while, I could feel my heart racing and my shoulders relaxing, stepping in place.

“What are you doing? You’re planning to have a match with me, right? Where should we do it?”

Even though I only had a glove on my left hand, it was enough. As I extended my right arm towards the blonde and flicked my fingers, provoking her, she immediately started to react.

“This crazy b*tch really wants to fight, huh?!”

The blonde, with a very excited expression, extended her gloved right arm towards me.

But her movements were too exaggerated. At least she should raise her guard or something. Even if I tell her, she probably won’t easily accept it, right?

– Bang!

Leaning slightly to the left, I dodged her punch and delivered a left jab to the blonde’s face, the sound of impact ringing out as her posture crumbled.

“…Did you just hit me?”

“You didn’t even realize you got hit? Of course, I hit you. Right in your face~”

“I’m really going to kill you, you b*stard!!”

Once again, the blonde’s fist came flying towards me, but I easily dodged or countered with a jab before her punch could land.

– Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Although the impact was minimal, with each strike to her face, the blonde staggered back, attempting to throw punches multiple times but unable to properly retaliate in her excited state. Moreover, she seemed quite exhausted.

As I continued to grimace and deliver jabs, gradually increasing my strength, I suddenly remembered what the blonde had mentioned about the sandbag torture. The large female student restraining Ju Eun-hye from behind while the blonde, with a glove on her right hand, mercilessly attacked Ju Eun-hye’s abdomen…

Ju Eun-hye pleaded with tears, eventually showing blood, but this girl instead laughed heartily and said,

“If you show any signs of it, I’ll let you off the hook, you loser~”

…Thinking about it makes me furious, doesn’t it?

– Pwack!

While focusing on delivering weak jabs, suddenly a surge of energy shot up, and I put power into my back foot, slightly twisting my waist to land a straight punch.

Due to the weight behind it, the horizontally extended left straight hit the blonde’s nose, causing blood to flow.

However, the blonde, still dazed from the continuous strikes to her face, staggered, seemingly unaware that she was bleeding from her broken nose.

“You seem to enjoy getting hit, huh? Hey~ Aren’t you more suited to being a sandbag?”

“F*ck… F*ck…”

“Did you even bring a mouthguard? Do you know I could shatter all your teeth?”

“Don’t just stand there… I’m going to kill you…”

This blonde seems to still be out of it. Pushing her with my right shoulder, she slammed her back against the wall.

Since I’ve started this sandbag torture… I just need to give back as much as Ju Eun-hye received, right?

“Alright then, let’s start the sandbag torture you mentioned.”

– Bang! Bang! Pow! Bang! Bang! Pow!

With a smile involuntarily forming on my face, I adjusted my stance and continued to land one-two jabs and straight punches on the blonde’s face.

I had no intention of going easy on her, focusing my attacks on her face rather than her stomach, causing her head to jerk back each time, the sound of her head hitting the wall ringing out. She will probably suffer much more.

“Sob…!!”

Without any mercy, the blonde who spat blood from his mouth finally lost his balance as the straight punch landed on his face, causing his body to lean forward as his legs gave out.

However, as I continued to strike with only my left hand, my right hand grew quite bored, so I decided not to finish it just yet. I bent down and gathered all my strength in my right hand, delivering a powerful body blow towards the blonde’s abdomen.

– Thud!

As the blonde expelled the blood from his mouth and his body slumped into an upright position, all the strength seemed to drain from his body.

Slowly raising my fist, the blonde, leaning against the wall, slumped down, his nose and mouth stained with blood, his swollen eyes losing focus as he struggled to breathe.

I had only intended to beat him to the point of not dying, so our blonde friend was in a pitiful state, but I felt no sense of guilt or remorse for what I had done.

“Perhaps this will bring some relief to Joo Eun-hye as well…”

Although I seemed to have become the one who avenged her, I felt a sense of satisfaction and threw the glove I had taken off towards the head of the unconscious blonde.

“Did I use this well? But next time, get something better~ The fit is terrible, seriously.”

It was a strange sparring session that didn’t allow for a clean hit, but there had never been a perfect victory like today. Feeling good about the perfect judgment thanks to our blonde friend, I walked away to escape into a quiet alley.

I felt relieved that there were no witnesses to all of this. But just as I thought that, as I stretched and walked out of the alley, I realized that many eyes were focused on me as if they had been waiting for me.

“…”

The source of those stares were the men who had been following me from the large mart earlier. They glared at me with widened eyes, capturing my figure in their pupils.

Could it be that they have been watching me beat that woman? I thought they had disappeared because there was no reaction, but they had continued to follow me…

“Oh, right! Even if these men report me to the police, there’s no evidence that I assaulted that woman, right? They wouldn’t just believe the words of a few people and throw me in jail, would they?”

But if these men had recorded a video or if there were surveillance cameras I hadn’t found… What should I do?

“…Excuse me!!”

This won’t do. For now, I need to run and see what happens!