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Akin, who was a member of
the Man-o-war back right from secondary school up to the university knew what
was coming. He stepped backward to balance himself and get ready for whatever
was coming. He wanted to show his capability. Within a twinkle of an eye,
everything turned to chaos and He started punching. He knew he was unbeatable –
at least not by these kids who know nothing about boxing or karate. He did well
in his Taekwondo and Karate classes. So he used that to his advantage. The boys
were surprised to see him fight like that.
They couldn’t believe that one
person can fight off all eight of them. Suddenly, the boys fled and retreated.
Akin was relieved; he thought it was over and was bending down to pick his put
on his shoes, he saw the boys coming back with wood and cutlasses. Akin knew this
has turned to something else. He can handle knife combat – but only in
one-on-one fight and not this type of fight. Moreover, this is more than
knife... this is sword fight! He then said to himself ‘A soldier dies only
once; let’s give this whatever it takes.’ He got himself ready and warned them
not to come any closer. The boys stopped. Tanjigo instructed three of them to
go meet Akin. Two persons holding wood, one person holding cutlass. Akin
thought, ‘this is better... I will go for the one with the cutlass first and
collect his cutlass and scare them aware.’ Suddenly, Akin rushed towards the
guy with cutlass. He gave him rain of blows and they both started struggling
with the cutlass. Meanwhile, the other two boys with woods started hitting Akin
from the back. With anger, Akin snapped off the cutlass from the boy and
simultaneously swung it backwards to wade off the other two boys... Suddenly,
he heard a loud scream; ‘Yeeeeee! O ti pa
mi oooo! My hand oooo!’ Everything stood still. Akin looked back and saw
blood gushing out of one of the boys’ hand. The other boys fled on seeing the
blood. Akin could not believe his eyes. This was the first time he would ever
be involved in fight that led to wounding someone not to talk of him wounding
someone. He look at the cutlass in his hand and saw blood on it. He knew had
had wounded the boy when he swung back the cutlass. He dropped it and bent down
to examine the wounded boy. The boy was crying.
The boy’s right wrist has been cut off from his arm. The wrist was held
dangling by small flesh of the skin and blood was gushing out. Akin could not
run away. He bent down to help the boy stop the bleeding so that he won’t bleed
to death. Akin carried him and rushed to the main street to get a commercial
motorcyclist to help the boy get to the hospital.
It was around 6:45pm
before Akin got back to his home. He washed himself and reached for his pocket
– and then he found out that his wallet was missing. ‘Damn it!’ he hit the wall
with a earth-shaking blow. He thought he had finally escaped the incidence. He
gave a false information down at the hospital. He quickly rushed out of the
house with his torch light down to the scene. He searched everywhere but could
not find the missing wallet. The wallet contains all his information as well as
his picture. He was really angry and bitter about it. He left the scene and
returned home. He has lost the money Shola gave him and now, he’s really
hungry. He went out to his neighbour selling bread and other food stuffs. He
bought bread and margarine on credit. He ate it and slept. (to be continued...)
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