Chapter 9: A Heartbreak of Sadness

As Rhima stands up as both her dark blue bandanna and her necklace are burned from Jin's Rage Art to reveal her short hair as the gold locket falls off into the ground, Jin angrily watches to see her standing up and to his horribly surprise, it was really Rhima all along in a disguise.

"No way... It was you... Rhima-san..."

Jin didn't listen to his mother's warnings that it was Rhima whom she had spoken to her personally and he mistook her as a man since he had fell for her deception in her male disguise. He finally reunites with the woman he had seek to see her again.

"Rhima, I'm so glad to see y-." Jin tries to hug her as a reunion. But because of his horrible actions earlier, Rhima was very angry and disdain as she immediately grabs his right arm and makes a quick right punch to his face, knocking him down.

"You're a less-educated asshole, Jin. Guys like you can pummel any women like a sandbag. You almost killed me with your beatings..." Rhima said angrily towards Jin who finally stand up and gains a bruise on his left lip. "The most thing I don't like if guys like you can beat any women and children as well as blowing my cover."

Jin looked at his mother Jun who soon raises her brow while having her arm crossed because of his actions as she allows Rhima to pummel her son for his horrible actions earlier.

"All this time that Miro is really you, Rhima. I never knew it was really you."

"Because of your stupidity, you make my whole life cursed in the real world. I know how powerful you had became but I easily know your weakness because of my real presence." Rhima soon knocks Jin with a heavy knee to his gut which hurts him deeply.

"Rhima, why..." Jin pleads her not to hurt him as she immediately grabs his arm again by punching him through the face.

"This is for ruining my life! For ruining my disguise! Because Kyun-bin had a crush on me, I almost fall for him because I always thought about you within my heart!"

The last punch causing Jin to be knocked down into a pulp. Rhima was exhausted after pummelling him into the ground and Jun watches because it was the worst punishment given to her son after he almost killed her with his own moves. Jin became so saddened and upset and realizing his faults for his actions as he tried to stand up.

"Rhima... I'm so sorry... If I had known it was you from your disguise, I would be so happy. And you made me fall for it."

"There's no sorry for what you've done, Jin. I'll never forgive you for breaking your promise and for cursing me the most when you tried to call me in desperation. I don't know why your girl friends think you're a nice and good person. But deep down, he's a bloody but a less-educated jackass who pointlessly fights against his own family relatives for their betrayal and the man who had started a global war that leads his own devil father to continue this entire mess." Rhima said angrily scolds Jin for his recent actions and soon runs away immediately.

"Rhi-Rhima-san... wait..." Jin tries to stop her from leaving only to get blocked by his mother Jun who knocks him down with a powerful palm strike.

"Leave her alone, Jin. She has the right to leave."

"Mother..." Jin said sadly as he barely stand up while clutching his left cheek and realizing that she almost broke his teeth from her punches as Jun scolds him.

"What is the matter with you, Jin? You're so stupid to think of her as a man that was courted on me. She has been in a disguise all along. She did the right thing to pose as a guy because if she gets involved on us then our story will be altered. The truth is, your father has been targeting her when she had already arrived in our world."

"!"

"We'll wait for the right time to see her, Jin. Just give Rhima some space. You almost killed her from your beatings."

Because of this, Jin became sad and upset and realizing of his own faults. He lowers his head while clutching his left cheek, he emotionally cries for what he had done because of his own temper and stupidity. He soon goes to where Rhima reveals herself by destroying her disguise with his Rage Art, he gets the gold locket and opens to reveal a picture between him and Rhima. He realizes it was the same gold necklace with the locket that he gave her as a gift before he returns back to his own world. Jin emotionally lowers his head in regret upon realizing Rhima's real identity and soon keeps the gold locket.


At the Bonifacio Global City being accompanied by the bomb squad sent from the PNP, Benzon accompanies both Rei and Mariana into finding the location where the bomb was implanted by Jang-geum as they roam around the Bonifacio High Street.

"A lot of mall goers are always around for picnics and walking." Mariana commented until they noticed someone had ran away in fright. Rei looked on his detector and to find out that the bomb was on the other side of this high street.

"The bomb was on the other side. That is why all the people are running away."

They rushed to the other side of the high street and they found the bomb which was left at the alleyside of the store. As soon as most authorities are trying to secure a lot of innocent people within the high street. Benzon gets it while it remains ticking in 20 minutes as he throw upward. Rei uses his Onmiyoji magic by binding the bomb to remain skyward as he gets a powerful stick that forms into an pentagon filled with five Japanese charms as it forms a powerful beam which the bomb explodes skyward resembling fireworks in explosions.

"I never knew you can use that kind of a magic."

"I'm glad I've learned from my dad about this... He must be the reason my family's company was safe because he used this magic." Rei said after dealing the threat.

"Now it is two bombs left. I just hoped Hunyo and the others are already made it."

At Pasig City, it was revealed that both Rick and Rolento had detected the bomb was left behind on a newly build condominium. Rick is able to diffuse the time bomb which Rolento was so stressed because the timer itself was already 15 minutes. Rick is able to diffuse the bomb by cut the right wire which he successfully did as it stop ticking.

"That Korean bastard is smart enough to cause terrorism in the Metro. He should be deported back to Korea for his crimes." Rick said as he gives the diffused bomb to one of the authorities from the bomb squad.

"It was a relief... if that happens then we're all be killed." Rolento said in relief.

Meanwhile Hunyo, Brian and Ibrahim rode a motorboat to infiltrate at the back of the oil fields while the two are disguising themselves as diving crews from the Philippine Coast Guard. They tried to convince the people from the oil fields about the timb bomb and bombing in the oil fields can cause destuction all over Manila once the bomb explode but most employees are not convinced due to its strict authorization. They revealed to wore face mask due to the horrible smell of the Pasig River which was highly contaminated. Ibrahim gave them a makeshift rope so that they can easily climb up through the walls as other ferry boatmen watch them doing their stunts in infiltrating the oil fields. They make way inside the oil fields as Hunyo sees the bomb which was at the left on the top of one of the oil tankers.

"Hunyo, we don't have much time."

"Stop the bomb, hurry."

Hunyo then rushed to which both carried his feet to highly lift to the stairway as Hunyo can lift up to the rails in a quick succession. He soon gets the bomb which was now ticking in 2 minutes. Hunyo immediately climbs through the top of the tanker and throws the bomb immediately with a full force into the Pasig River as the bomb finally exploded which was filled with gooey water from the river because of its high contamination of its river waters as other commuters in the ferry boat tried to avoid the powerful splash from the contaminated river waters by taking inside the boat while others are trying to keep away from getting wet. Hunyo removes the sweat on his face after this and both of them tells him to get down before they can get caught.

"Now that was a real stinky infiltration we're doing Hunyo." Brian commented about their actions which Hunyo grunted in dismay.

"I guess the kids who can swim from this highly contaminated river would get them sick. I think our clothes would get more smelly if we keep staying on the boat."

"Sometimes most people are always taking accidents by falling into the Pasig River. That's why I handpicked the Philippine Coast Guard to aid us instead of the bomb squads. The oil fields in Pandacan is always on the news because it is mostly dangerous when either getting bombed or in flames a lot of people living there would be perished if this happens. I'm glad that both of you had planned to disguise yourselves as divers from the Coast Guard." Ibrahim tells them about the accidents within the Pasig River as well as the oil fields in Pandacan and was glad that they can disguise themselves undetected.


In the middle of the night, Jin was walking off in the forest while looking at the gold locket after his injuries being treated by his mother Jun. He remembers of how Rhima treats him nicely within her hospitality and how they first met awkwardly until they fallen for each other in due time as he thought.

I'm so foolish for myself, I almost killed Rhima with my own bare hands when I thought that her man disguise is courting my mother. How can I forgive myself to her? I don't want to do the same thing with my old friends like both Xiao and Miharu.

When the song "Cold Summer Nights" has been played, Jin realizes that he had already paid a high price in which both Rhima and his mother Jun had beating him down into a pulp. Something he had never experienced these beatings he had endured in the previous tournaments that he had participated in. He remembers the word Rhima was saying about she was almost fallen to another man. Jin was saddened because he had broke Rhima's heart ever since they got separated for six long months. He wanted to repair his relationship with her after their long separation since she was still present in his world as he thought this again.

It is all my fault... that I was the one who damaged our current relationship between us. And now I made things worse by showing my horrible temper and stupidity. But my heart will break if I let her go to someone else.

Flashback:

"Jin, you're still look at those pictures. Is it the same girl that you always crazy in love with?" Xiaoyu pointed out about the pictures of him and Rhima in their various vacation trip all around Asia. "I also had feelings with you too. I tried to look for you all over the place around the world for six more months and I lose hope of finding you. And now that I found you when this chaos is all over."

"Hwoarang had already know what I've done before. If I said this to you, Xiao. I'm sure that you would be crying over me. Both of my uncles had already look after me while you continued to keep searching on where I am." Jin said in a silent tone which Xiaoyu wanted to know more.

"But..."

"I got comatose in a few days after I beat Azazel in its physical form and both of my uncles are looking after me when Heihachi had planned to recapture me using Nina and the Tekken Forces by infiltrating the medical facility at Violet Systems. I already recovered when my uncles had decided to eliminate my father Kazuya since he continued the mess that I had made." Jin finally admits to Xiaoyu about his current condition in the seventh game.

"Jin... why? Why are you telling me this now? You risked yourself to fight that beast and you almost got killed. You're being so selfish..." Xiaoyu cried emotionally which Jin tells her.

"Forgive me, Xiao... I knew some of you would never understand about what I previously did. I did this to rid myself from the Devil Gene but it didn't work and my previous plan went backfired."

Xiaoyu finally removes her tears after learning of his condition and decided to spar with him.

"How about a spar? Sometimes if we can exchange our blows, it will be revealing. I'm glad that you're alive and well, Jin."

"Right, got it."

Flashback over:

Jin can't forget the sparring match with him and Xiaoyu just to maintained their friendship. Therefore, he looked to see a smoke and he had found Rhima who had cooking her own food using a camp fire since she had ran away from him. Rhima looked on the device given to her by Rei on where the location in this forest and realizing that she was at the Yakushima Island which is actually Jin's home and the ancestral home of the Kazama Clan.

"That's weird... when I ended up at the ruins of New York City at the US, how come I ended up in Japan? That explains why Jin can travel in different places because some other places are the stages from the game."

She soon checked on her phone and to realize that Kyun-bin has been contacting her multiple times and noticing it was connected between their world and the World of Tekken. She kneels herself down while crying, blaming herself for fooling him in the first place during their first date when she easily noticed he had a crush on her.

"I'm sorry, Kyun-bin... I fooled you into thinking I've travel all around the globe and I went to this place because it was my mission to restore the link between both worlds and I couldn't do it."

Rhima continues to weep for what she did to Kyun-bin before she travelled to the World of Tekken. Without warning, Jin is standing right behind her which Rhima looked to see him upset as she saw the sadness of his eyes because of what happened earlier and soon says.

"Are you saying about the broken link? And that's why I couldn't seen you for another three months."

"What are you doing here, Jin? I'm still not talking to you." Rhima said coldly towards Jin as both of them confront each other.


Trivia:

*The way Rhima pummels Jin with her punches is taken from the scene "Baliw na Puso (Crazy Heart) from the weekend teleserye, Tadhana where Amy slaps Sherlyn three times for murdering her mother while she continued to have a catfight with her."

*When Rhima quickly punches Jin in the face is how Cheon Seo-jin punches Joo Dan-tae in the infamous 2020 Korean Drama, Penthouse.

*Jin's knockout sounds in Tekken 8 can be heard when he was completely knocked away by his mother Jun with one powerful palm strike.

*When Rick diffuses the bomb is how Connor Cardinal diffuse one of the time bombs during the climax episodes in Los Bastardos.

*When Hunyo quickly throws the bomb from the Pasig River is similar to how the Beast Titan throw rocks on his enemies in Attack on Titan.

*Jin's flashback interaction with Ling Xiaoyu is taken from their unique intro in the game.

*When Rhima confronts Jin at the end of the chapter is how Hitomi discovers Van Fanel is a half-Draconian to show his white wings in the anime, The Vision of Escaflowne.