Published: 28th December 2023

Chapter Thirty Two

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He is sent careening over the table.

It makes her so mad that he's had an entire day with her and in that time, who knows what awful things he did to her while she was passed out. All the horrible things he did to Julia were yet to be known too.

"I am going to be the thorn in both your sides. The biggest thorn you two have ever faced. "He promises Nina before attempting to kiss her face. She dodges out of his way and picks up the cello on the floor. It's heavy but she swipes it at Koldan anyway, a shield and weapon in one.

He dodges. "I won't let your love story bloom! The only way you can stop me is to kill me. The previous Nina couldn't do it and I doubt the current Nina can." He spits venomously. "After all, she's a civilian Nina. Isn't she?"

"You really talk too much. We'd never get along. How on earth did you ever get that crazy idea that we'd be a compatible match?!" She mocks, slamming him with the cello as hard as she could. She wants to smack his head in with it, too bad he was tall. She hits him like she's trying to break both the Cello and Koldan.

"I'm an idealist!" He grabs the cello off her and throws it to the side like it's nothing.

"Well I'm a realist." She replies kicking him hard in the nuts. "And I hate deluded idealism."

He screams, holding onto his nuts as if's been crushed. "I wonder if it fills you with pride, knowing that because of you it's hurting so bad." He groans and he begins rubbing himself there to alleviate the pain.

Nina hurries to her handbag to see if her gun is there. It's not. Instead, there's the zip bag of her hair next to a hand drawn picture of a naked blonde woman lying on and covered partially in raspberries. That was his idea of her. Some American Beauty crap. This creepy guy was really just so unoriginal and a chronic copycat as well. Bland as hell. To think he wanted to emulate Jin, who was actually the most interesting man she'd ever met.

And there is no way she'd ever lie down on raspberries, this man was so dumb. How on earth did he think raspberries would hold under anyone's weight? His stupidity isn't cute.

Nina rolls her eyes and rips up the unwanted artwork.

These things replaced her gun.

She's going to have to kill him in another way.

The next thing she knows is he's got her in his arms.

The way he threw the cello, he throws her down on the floor too. Like he was handling something so light. He was about to stomp on her ribs but she rolls out of the way and saves herself.

They battle some more, his blows hit harder than hers and he uses all his body strength this time, to make her hurt all over. Nina's not sure if she could take anymore hits, she needed to make this quick, secure her exit, distract him and use her knife to finish him. She didn't want broken ribs.

Enough of this dance!

She races to the door and tries to unlock it. She's almost there until Koldan grabs her neck with the cello bow and yanks her hard. He makes her look at him. She is shoved against the door. The cello string presses so hard against her neck, almost splitting apart.

"What does he have I don't? What?!"

"That's the difference. He cares for everyone. You only see me as a prize." Nina sneers.

He wages war against the Ice Queen with his Cello Bow, which he likens to a hot rod of iron. Doesn't make a lick of sense but he's blonde and meant to be an idiot. He is a himbo. He's going to make a himbo be Nina's type whether she likes it or not. They can be two dumb blondes.

"I'll kill everyone for you! Just love me back so I'll do everything you say. Spend so much time with me. You'll see, I would even be your dog. Barking whenever you want me to bark and jumping through hoops whenever you want me to. Just love me. Love me dammit!"

She begin to cough and he releases his grip but remains close, he wants to press himself into her so warm body. Stupified, he watches her compose herself again.

"In all the past twenty years, I have never felt more alive than when I'm this close to you!" He says lustfully. His pants tighten.

Nina shoves him away from her, disgusted when she felt something prod on her thigh. Her cutting words would deflate that particular problem. This night would be his worst one.

"It's a shame isn't it. I love him so madly with my entire being and none of that love is for you." Nina coldly tells Koldan or Koldon. Whatever his name was. "Not a drop of that love goes to you, pitiful indeed."

"Even a drop would be insulting. I need everything! Arghhhh!" He screams and slaps her across the face. It throws her on the floor.

Nina winces. Tears sting her eyes.

"Oh god, I'm sorry! Sorry my Goddess! I didn't mean too. I didn't mean too!"

She sits up, doing her best to conserve the rest of her energy.

"You meant to." Nina scoffs. She stays on the floor to think her next plan of action, clearly Koldan was much more physically stronger than her, even when he was pushing 50. She had to take him down in another way.

"Well if you could treat me like I'm the best you have and that only I have a magic effect on you, I'll worship you. I swear!" He crouches down.

"Worship the actual God, thanks." Nina spits out.

OH MY GOD! Why wasn't anything working on Nina? He angrily thinks.

He raises her hand on her again to slap her. Instead the bastard cups her cheek as if he were her lover.

"My sweet love, kiss me….," He leans forward.

"Piss off!" Nina snarls and moves her mouth away. He grabs her chin and makes her look at him. It hurts. She grasps his hand with both of hers, intertwining them and adds some pressure. He thinks it's so romantic.

"You bring out the ugly in me. Just love me dammit! Call me your Alligator, say these sweet things and I will worship you!"

"Piss. Off."

She breaks his hand and all five fingers in one move that he screams like a bitch.

Koldon throws her face out of his grasp and stands up. "Looks like your Loverboy is lost on the ship. I will now go find him and end him. Then I will throw his corpse into the water. You'll never find him." He threatens Nina.

He's about to walk to the door but Nina slips her hidden knife out and stabs him in the ankle. He howls in pain and uses his other foot to try kick Nina away.

She dodges his attack.

With his good hand, he grabs the table and throws it at her.

Jin fought a few men as soon as he got onto the ship which address was given to him through the phonecall. Jin memorized it and wrote it down because it concerned saving Julia. Then he got a video of Nina in captivity, her unconscious body lying down on a bed and a man's hand stroking her cheek lovingly, saying something to her in Russian.

Jin is pissed that it seemed like she was being violated.

It sucked that he didn't know exactly which room Nina is now kept in but he kept trying, cautious of each area around him. He tries to be quiet as possible to avoid getting shot or something causes the Devil to break out and destroy everything.

All this time, he managed to keep his hood up.

"How nice of you to join us. I was in the middle of melting my ice queen." Koldan announces.

"Take me to Nina."

"Takato Nagasawa right?"

Jin doesn't reply.

"I spent an entire day with Nina, touched her, kissed her and she knows what it…," He points to his own crotch, "…feels like, aren't you jealous?"

"Kisama….," Jin hisses, it's a lie but hearing those words makes him sick.

This abusive evil man truly needs is to be humbled.

"Don't get in my way." Jin warns and gets into his stance.

"I've been looking forward to beat your sashimi ass!" Koldan jeers and jumps into his stance. His Krav Maga against whatever this dude knew would be exciting. "Winner gets Nina." Koldan adds.

"How many times did you stick it in her?" Koldan sneers, swiping at Jin.

He doesn't like this blonde man speaking about Nina like that.

The Japanese man hit him with a painful uppercut and a soul shattering punch in the ribs. It's nothing Koldan's ever felt before. There were strange red electricity coming from him that added to the pain.

"What the hell are you man?!" Koldan yelps. "Is this the kind of man, Nina's into?! Beasts? Monsters?!"

Jin's crushing blows and calculated kicks easily brings this tall Russian down. Like a demolished building. In the midst of the fight, Jin notices that one of the man's hand was broken, mangled up and he knew he didn't do that. Must have been Nina. He's happy she managed to give this guy some serious damage. He just hopes she's okay.

The fight is so short and pathetic, Koldan lies there, broken hand, cracked ribs, shattered and bruised. Probably some internal bleeding. He went out so quickly that it destroyed his entire reputation. Bested by Nina's Loverboy. Such a soul crushing truth.

"Where is she?" He demands.

The Russian doesn't answer him. Even defeated, he is not going to make it easy for the two love birds to reunite.

Jin glares down at him.

"Omaewo korosu.…," He mutters, the desire to murder this man so great.

Do it. End his pathetic life. Devil goads.

Jin's never killed a human before but tonight marks the first time he just might.

Battered, Nina uses her strength to get up, get out of the room and come to Jin. She finds her gun in a glass cabinet which is locked. Using the Cello, she breaks into it. Grabbing the gun, she checks and sees it's loaded and then grabs her handbag before heading out. She didn't realise that she was bleeding somewhere and it got on her hand. The evil man threw a table at her which had a glass lining on top. Shattering it upon impact. She was going to pass out but holds off just enough to make it all the way down to where Jin was. She got a view of him and Koldan battling it out.

Her bloody hand touches a white surface for support and a handprint smears on it. She almost buckles. Her wounded forearm stings.

Avoiding falling in to the dark water seemed like a great feat. She's careful to inch away from the railings.

Just a little further.

She calls out to the one man who is worthy of her heart.

Jin appears before her eyes.

She smiles, so happy to see him after so long. He was safe, he was in one piece. Koldan lost to Kazama and that alone, is so satisfying to Nina.

They take their steps towards each other.

Over Jin's shoulder, Nina sees a bloody Koldan rising up behind, a gun aimed for the hooded man. His face swollen and bruised from Jin's punching.

She raises her gun and fires.

Koldan crumples.

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