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and retreated a few steps, nearly falling to the ground.

He dared not attack anymore. He stood there, staring

at me suspiciously and said, “You really know a

thing or two, but you wait and see!” With that, he left.

Objectively, we had come to a draw in that fight.

He was more powerful than I was. If we went on

fighting, I would have lost. I had fought him to a

draw by chance. I was a coward and was not that

brutal. To be honest, I was not willing to fight him.

But he was not reconciled to his failure. He was

determined to get back at me.

He consulted Elephant. She was eager to get

back at me too. She could never forget the slap I

have given her when I escaped from the room of the

dictatorship team and met her and Squint at the

school gate.

They had known since then that sooner or later I

would return to school and had sworn that by that

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