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Chapter 129
At the Joy Hotel in Skyline City, Adrian was juggling contracts while keeping an eye on the crowd.He’d thought he could slip away once the Snow Beauty Secret launch wound down. Instead, sharp-eyed Freya had hauled him back to play pack mule.Adrian sighed and accepted his fate. The post-event signing frenzy refused to cool; every company head seemed remarkably accommodating. In a short span, he’d stacked up five or six completed contracts.Daisy was over the moon and chose to ignore Adrian’s long-suffering face.He’d lost count of his sighs. He should’ve taken the back exit, not the front. Then Freya wouldn’t have collared him so brazenly to work. No lounging, no slacking, not even a bite to eat—despair lapped at his ankles.Would someone please rescue him from this venue…His phone buzzed, a faint vibration. Adrian, moving at a leisurely crawl, fished it out. Who could possibly be calling now?A message from Ronald Peterson popped up. “Dr. Doyle, help! A few Hinoku bastards are tryi
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In a flash of steel and breath, those who caught Jirō Saionji’s small motion went rigid with dread—too tense even to remember their anger.Quentin Kennedy didn’t retreat. He drove straight into the gleam of the blade.Everyone saw it—he had stepped onto the field with death already accepted. The Hinoku fighters saw it too. They simply intended to kill him.The fist-wind sharpened until it stung the face.Someone cried, “Master Kennedy!” and the cry seemed to snap everyone awake. The Hinoku men weren’t merely breaking decorum—they meant to take a life in plain view.Rage lit the hall in a chain reaction, glare after glare. Jirō Saionji saw—and didn’t so much as blink.“You go too far!”“Master Kennedy—watch yourself!”“Shameless Hinoku cowards!”The world flickered—just a blur of shadow—and a thunderclap rang in their ears. In the next breath, Neil Peterson had hauled Quentin Kennedy back into the safe line.Neil’s face was calm stone as he clapped Quentin’s shoulder. He had recognized
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Archie Nolan’s injuries were severe. Even conscious, he was suffering. Wesley Nolan’s eyes burned red with fury. This made twice now—whether his son’s arm would be ruined was anyone’s guess. A fighter without an arm—how could that not matter?Wesley and Raymond Mitchell rose in the same breath and lunged at Ki Fujiwara with blistering speed.Jirō Saionji had no intention of letting them fight two-on-one. He drew his blade in a single motion and slashed for Raymond. The blade-wind hardened to a cutting gale; Raymond twisted away, but his left shoulder split open beneath a razor of wind, crimson soaking his shirt in a heartbeat.“Their blade-wind is vicious—watch the arcs!”Even as Wesley barked the warning, his fist skimmed for Ki Fujiwara’s face—and in that instant, Ki Fujiwara dropped straight back, hit the ground flat, then snapped upright like a sprung hinge.“Jujutsu—Hinoku jujutsu!”One of the dojo heads shouted the warning.Wesley’s expression froze; he recovered instantly and d
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“Bah! Shameless scum!”Ronald Peterson was seething. How had they run into such a relentless, cling-on cur with a face thicker than a city wall? If you lose, take the loss—but he’d gone and dragged reinforcements back to cause trouble. Hinoku dogs—despicable.J. Ino didn’t even bristle. He laughed, delighted. “Don’t you Novaland folks say a gentleman can wait ten years for revenge? I couldn’t wait a decade, so I brought my brothers along.”Neil Peterson snorted, dripping contempt. “You’re no gentleman, of course you couldn’t. And you crow over petty tricks like these.”“Revenge, is it? The last time you slunk in here to take advantage, the only reason you left breathing was our mercy.”J. Ino’s expression didn’t shift. Instead, the burliest man behind him stepped forward. “J. Ino, which one is the master you mentioned? I’ll grind his bones to dust.”J. Ino skimmed a dismissive gaze over them. “These?”The man frowned, puzzled. “So the real expert isn’t here?”J. Ino nodded and let his
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The instant Neil Peterson saw them clearly, his composure fractured.“Master Griffin? Master Holden? What on earth—”Behind them stood a line of small dojo heads, some barely recognizable through the swelling, others carried in on stretchers.A throb pulsed at Neil’s temples. His instincts screamed that something had gone terribly wrong.“Mr. Peterson, we’ve all been hit by dojo challengers!”“Yes, Mr. Peterson—they didn’t even bother with words. They walked in and started swinging! I stepped up to reason with them, and they said they were here to take revenge on every dojo in Skyline City.”“My nephew was beaten within an inch of his life! He’s in the hospital right now—we don’t even know if he’ll make it!”Dojo challenges? Neil’s first thought was J. Ino. Had that man still not given up his grudge?Ronald took a step back. “Dad, could the one behind this ‘retribution’ be J. Ino?”Father and son were thinking the same thing. But the word “they” made Neil suspect it wasn’t that simple
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Once everything on her end was settled, Daisy rose to seek out Adrian and the others.As for the remaining agents, Daisy trusted that the Hill Group executives were more than capable of handling themselves.Over there, Adrian and Commander Hamilton were chatting animatedly with Mayor Adams—none of them treating the others like outsiders anymore. With the mischievous Lorenzo Watson chiming in—“Master” here, “Master” there—he kept pulling Vincent Wallace and the rest into the conversation until the whole circle was humming.Seeing Daisy free at last, Adrian waved her over. She approached with a bright smile.“Mayor Adams, thank you for making the trip.”“Commander Hamilton, much appreciated…”“Director Thompson, Dean Emerson, many thanks…”“Truly—thank you, everyone…”After she’d thanked them one by one and they’d exchanged a few more pleasantries, she and Adrian escorted them out of the venue together.“You’ve worked hard too.”Daisy had been about to say the same, but Adrian got there
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