'Oh no!'
Just then, as he was trying to alleviate the pain in his head, he felt a strong wave of malevolence coming from the front of the small house adjacent to his.
'Uncle Shibu!'
Kotami stood up and rushed out in the blink of an eye.
Outside he saw a group of 5 burly men and a beat up farmer alongside them, the burly men were holding wooden sticks and rusted knives, beating a malnutritioned adult who was shielding the entrance to his house.
"Shibu! We know you ain't giving us our fair share of rice! Tell me, where are you hiding it!"
The man leading the group, while still striking the defenceless uncle Shibu said.
"Dad! Leave him alone you trashes!"
Mato was trying to move his father away and confront the gang of men, but his father stood unmoved.
"I have to feed my kids, fuck off! you are gonna kill us all at this rate anyway!"
Said uncle Shibu with a firm and resolute tone. The gang leader unrelenting kept kicking and punching him in front of Mato's despairing and resentful eyes.
All of a sudden he was shoved aside by someone and stumbled back.
"Get the fuck away from them or I'm killing you all!"
Kotami was holding the rusted knife he took from one of the minions, who was now lying on the ground with his hands clutching his genitals and foam coming out of his mouth.
"Where the fuck did this kid come from?" Said the gang leader
"Uncle Shibu don't giv'em shit, they will have to walk over my corpse if they want to get our rice from us"
Determined and with a ruthless glint to his eyes, Kotami tried to sound as intimidating as possible. The beaten up farmer who snitched trembled , his expression tinted with guilt, whilst the gang members too were momentarily in a daze seeing the fierceness of Kotami, a gaunt face with a dead cold expression on his still childish face.
"Wtf are you all doing! Shinji, kota surround him!
Matzu, Kai charge in!"
The bunch of bullies, had always oppressed the weak and never met any resistance. They had never killed or were threatened so they hesitated a bit before looking at the leader's furious eyes and steeling themselves up.
"He is just a kid, what the fuck can he even do? Right Matzu?"
Said Kai as Matzu answered affirmatively and they both started charging in.
Kotami seeing them charging in tightened his muscles and opened his eyes wide, his pupils constricting to see as much as he could.
He swung the knife without hesitation.
The wind whooshed as the knife cut the air in a fast but predictable trajectory. Then Kai retreated whilst Matzu dodged and caught his wrist, wrangling the knife off of his hand and gripping as hard as he could.
Kotami grimaced as he was taken down from behind by Kota and Shinji, who then started to punch him whilst straddling on top of him as Matzu and Kai also joined in to the brawl kicking up and down.
"Boss Kano, we got him!"
Said Shinji as he now held Kotami up by the collar of his worn out dirty grey shirt.
The boss, Kano, enraged as someone had dared to challenge him said:
"Now you will see what happens to those who mess with me"
He eyed Kotami with shadenfreude as he made his way towards uncle Shibu and picking up a wooden stick on the ground.
*thud*
He struck uncle Shibu on the head and the shoved him aside. Uncle Shibu falling limply to the dirt.
Mato seeing this, knelt to the ground and clutched his father's face.
"Dad wake up!"
"Ahhh"
Kano delivered a kick to the head of Mato who clutched his head in pain and then made his way towards him.
"Now you will suffer the punishment for taking our stuff."
Kano grinned as he wrapped his hands around Mato's neck.
As Kano started to apply the pressure, the swollen and bleeding, black eyed Kotami with his only wide open blood red eye due to burst capillaries saw this and the dizziness from head injury and aches all over his body, plus his evermore rampaging emotions and already suffering mind from his superpowers, combined together and escalated his already head splitting headache to unbearable levels and his vision started to turn black.
"Arghhhhhhhhhhhh"
All of a sudden Kotami screamed and clutched his head in pain, then…
*bang*
Kano's head exploded and flung his brain matter all over the little house.