Diverting your plot

7 - Run Rabbit Run

His eyes settle on you.

He grins.

He dashes towards you. You can hear a shout from the distance, a female voice that speaks with authority yet urgency. She's surely telling you to run away, but her words currently sound like a muffled background sound to you as you freeze on the spot.

The man's hand is reaching for your throat, a smug smile printed in his face. He's sure of himself. Your vision feels blurred and foggy from the fear and adrenaline. Time goes in slow motion for a few seconds, you can see that hand getting closer and closer and closer-

You thank your muscle memory and all those years of training: In that moment, your mind stops thinking and just orders your body to act.

You dunk under the villain's arm last second, leaving him really confused. You were so fast he barely saw you dodge. He turns his head to look behind him, and his eyes widen when he sees that same teenager with a fierce no-bullshit glare ready to hit him with all her force with the grocery bag.

Tonf!

The grocery bag crashes exactly on the villain's forehead, putting him K.O. on the ground.

That deadly weapon you're holding hits the villain's head quite strongly. You're sure Yuga's expensive cheese hit him exactly in the forehead, since the villain now has a huge cheese-shaped red mark and a huge bump that he'll have for weeks.

He's now laying on the ground, groaning loudly and covering his head with his hands. You're staring at him incredulously. Never in your life will you be able to do something like this.

Did you really just pull this off??

The villain in question wanted to take you hostage, although you couldn't have possibly known that. He was being chased by some high-rank heroes and he needed a distraction. When he saw the young girl in the street freeze up, he thought it would be child's play to grab you.

With the adrenaline still pumping in your veins, you notice the man is trying to get up, searching for something attached to his belt.

It's a knife.

Your muscle memory acts again, this time you thank all that training in the self defense course that teaches you how to disarm someone with knives or generally any other sharp weapon.

Before the groaning man on the ground can reach for his weapon, you pin him on the ground with his chest hitting the concrete and his hands behind his back. It was easy, considering the man was still stunned by the hit you gave him with the grocery bag.

You take the sharp knife out of the folder in the belt and toss it far away on the ground. You're panting, slowly calming down as you take deep breaths and keep your grip in the man's wrist firm and tight.

"What the- Hey! Let me go you fucking child!" The villain cursed loudly, clearly not happy at all. His plan didn't work out as intended. You send him an ice-cold glare that makes him shut up momentarily.

Finally, you're able to look around again without your vision feeling foggy.

Yuga's gift, that huge piece of parmesan, is broken in small pieces on the ground. Just what you needed, 900 yen of italian cheese wasted like that on the dusty concrete of a sidewalk outside a grocery store. The bananas are also dented, you won't eat them for sure.

You raise up your eyes a little.

There's a good amount of people staring at you that have just exited the stores but are too scared to get any closer. They're surprised, relieved but also worried. Their eyes are darting between you, the villain pinned on the ground, and a figure that is currently walking towards you, its shadow covering your face.