The Black Swan Behind (Beauty of Fire)

Chapter 272

272 Stuck

For Emma, ??beating Jay wasn’t as easy as she thought. After giving the first attack, it turned out that Jay was not that easy to knock out. With the large number of Dragger members who interfered in their fight, it was difficult for her to make the perfect attack technique.

Even though the members of the Beast Empire had been defeated, that didn’t mean they would disappear immediately like in a video game. The men who had bounced back from their slump began to join the battle arena to help their ally, who was Dragger’s group.

Therefore, the gap in the number of group members was getting bigger. Thus, the Black Swan team and Calvin Lee began to feel overwhelmed. They needed the arrival of Troy and Ian’s group as soon as possible.

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On the other hand, Nicko Coffey had heard the news that there was an attack on the Beast Empire’s main warehouse. Therefore, all members of Jita Kyoei were heading to the warehouse.

Since Nicko was at Jita Kyoei’s headquarters, he went to the main warehouse immediately. He knew that the distance between each warehouse from the three warehouses belonging to the Beast Empire was quite far, that it took time for Troy and Ian’s team to be able to reach the main warehouse.

Riding his motorbike, Nicko arrived at the Beast Empire’s main warehouse. Even before he reached the gate, he could already hear the noises from behind the high wall. He saw two large black buses parked in front of the warehouse gate.

“How men did they bring to have to take two buses like that?” Nicko mumbled.

He knew that this would not be as easy as he thought. One bus could carry up to forty people. If it was two buses, there might be eighty men in total. And they were not ordinary men, but members of the Dragger group who were renowned for their strength.

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After parking his motorbike, Nicko rushed inside the gate and found a great mess inside. It was a sight he had not seen for the past three years.

Having just stepped into the battle arena, Nicko in no time received an attack from a Dragger man. Quickly, he was dragged into the big fight.

While fighting various incoming attacks, Nicko saw a Black member who seemed overwhelmed to fight four men at once. The man’s body looked thin and short like most of the other members of the Black group.

As soon as he finished slamming the last man who came up to him, Nicko saw the figure of the little man running towards the side of the building with six men chasing him.

“Ain’t good,” Nicko muttered as he continued to watch the man while fighting off the attacks that were coming back at him.

Quickly, Nicko finished off the opponents who were ganging up on him. Then when he saw an opportunity to escape, he immediately ran as fast as possible to catch up to the Black man who was in trouble.

Nicko ran behind the large building. With a sigh, he looked everywhere for a group of men who were chasing one man earlier.

Then he heard a faint noise and immediately followed it. The noises took him to the other side of the back of the building where there was a lot of wreckage.

One little man was busy fighting five men who attacked him repeatedly, while the other was already lying unconscious. Without thinking, Nicko entered the fight to help the Black man.

“Oh.. Thank God!” Britney muttered when she saw help coming. She thought she would die in this place.

Nicko jumped into the middle of the two men who were in front of Britney. Then he did a split kick that hit the two Draggers in the chest, sending them flying sideways.

“Nice!” Britney said. She just realized that the man who had come to help her was Nicko Coffey, a member of the Judo club on campus, who was a friend of Troy Roner.

Then an attack came from beside Britney. She noticed it, and immediately dodged by lowering her body down.

After that, she threw her fists from the bottom up, as she stood up straight again. The blow was aimed quickly and precisely at the lower chin of her enemy. Thanks to the blow, the enemy had fainted now.

“Feel it, coward...” Britney said with a lopsided smile.

“WATCH OUT!!”

Nicko’s exclamation took Britney by surprise. Everything happened so fast. In those seconds, she saw a panicked Nicko running towards her. At the same time, Britney felt a dark shadow and something very large weighing on her back.

“God!” Britney moaned as she pulled her sense that seemed to fly away when she fell into a prone position. “W-what is this?” she felt something very heavy pressed down her entire back.

“Hey! Wake up. Help me lift this!” Nicko said breathlessly.

“Ahh.. Gosh!” Britney was surprised when she realized that she was on top of Nicko’s body.

The girl looked left and right, seeing Nicko’s hands holding the plank that was weighing on her back.

What happened a few seconds ago was,

As soon as Britney knocked the enemy with her proud fist, it turned out that another man was hiding behind her.

Unknowingly, Britney had her back to the wall which had several pieces of junk leaning; one of them was a large wooden door.

The enemy, who was cornered by the two men chose to use objects around him to knock down his opponent. The man pushed down the door that was standing behind Britney.

Nicko, who had just beaten a man who was attacking him, noticed the danger that was about to befall his ally members.

But because he was standing too far away, he didn’t have time to hold the door, and ended up placing himself in front of Black for the least, preventing the weight of the big door from completely weighing on the little man’s back.

“H-how did you get here?!” Britney asked with big blinking eyes. Her face was very close to Nicko’s because they were stuck to each other, face to face.

“D-damn it! Instead of asking that, quickly help me lift this! It’s so heavy!” Nicko complained with both hands holding the weight of the large wooden door.

Britney immediately gathered her sanity back. She was almost carried to their awkward condition and position. But she remembered that now, she was a Black member who was known to be a man. Quickly, her focus shifted to the door that was crushing on her aching back.

“Th-this is so heavy, my God...” Britney complained with a grimace on her face as she tried to lift her back up.

Then she placed her palms on the ground beside Nicko’s body, and pressed all the muscles of her back, chest, and arms as if in a Push-Up position. But she was not strong at all to lift the door.

“Your arms are freaking weak! What kind of man are you?! You should train your arm strength!” Nicko said.

Britney just looked at the man with an annoyed face. She was not a man, but a woman. She was weak in upper body strength because she was a female, who was superior in exerting lower body muscle strength.

Instead of feeling annoyed over the misunderstanding between the two of them, Britney chose to rack her brain to think about how she could get out of this position.

Maybe if Nicko was alone with the door, he could push it up. But at this time, Nicko’s body was being weighed down by another body. Therefore, it was impossible for him to escape from under the door.

After thinking for a bit, Britney finally got the idea. “Can you stretch your arms?”

“You know this door is heavy, don’t you?” Nicko asked.

Britney nodded. “But if you can give me some space, I can get away from this position,” she explained breathlessly because she was also trying to hold the weight of the door with both hands to lighten up Nicko’s burden.

Nicko realized that it was a pretty good plan. The man who was weighing on him had a small body. However, he was stuck in the middle. If Nicko could give him room to move, he could slip out.

Then Nicko took a deep breath. Then, “Ugh!!”

“Good! Just a little more!” Britney said while moving her body down to get past Nicko’s arms that were pushing the door.

Nicko put all the strength in the arm muscles that he got from various exercises at the club and the GYM. Even though it was just a door, it was so heavy because it was made of solid wood.

With great difficulty, all of Nicko’s veins popped out as he tried to straighten his arms. After feeling the space was quite big, Britney immediately escaped.

As soon as she managed to stand up and look around to find that there was no one around, she quickly grabbed the door, and pulled it while pushing it aside to help Nicko escape.