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BE WEAK SO YOU SHALL BE CONTROLLED.
Hundred of years from now, the Philippines sits at the top - powerfully, technologically, politically, and economically advanced from others - and there isn't a doubt that it is leading the world...
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THE SMIRK ON HIS—my—face was bizarre and wild. I wore that expression many times before but it had never came to this. It had never came to the point where behind those teeth were something: that smile was somehow grotesque and gruesome.
No matter how it shocked me, I just knew it.
I blinked several times. I shook my head. This had to be a hallucination.
Pero kahit ilang pikit at dilat ng mata ang gawin ko ay hindi siya mawala-wala ro'n. Isinara ko ulit ang aking mata at umaasang pagtalikod at pagdilat ko ay wala na siya.
Pero pagkatalikod ko ay may sumuntok sa mukha ko. Sa lakas no'n ay napaatras ako mula sa aking kinatatayuan at iminulat ko ang aking mga mata at nakitang siya ang sumuntok sa 'kin. Napahawak na lang ako sa namumula kong pisngi.
Mula sa 'king bibig ay may nalasahan akong lasang bakal. Hinawakan ko ang aking pisngi at napagtantong ito'y duguan.
"Labanan mo ko, duwag," sabi niya habang nakataas ang dalawang kamay na nakatindig na.
Pinunasan ko ang dugong tumutulo sa bibig ko at agad-agrang tumayo ng tuwid.
"Hindi ako duwag," I spat, enunciating each word, and held my fist up, ready to fight.
"Gano'n?" he snorted. "Bakit wala kang nagawa no'ng mga araw na namatay ang pamilya mo? "
"Wala ka nang pake do'n," I snapped and it only made his smirk even broader. It seemed like he was a wolf looking for his prey's weaknesses and the smile on his lips only told that he had found it.
"Talaga lang, huh?" Napakabilis niya at hindi ko namalayang nasa harap ko na agad siya. Binigyan niya ako ng isang suntok sa aking tiyan na nagpabaluktot sa 'kin. Sinundan niya naman agad ito ng suntok sa mukha at sipa.
I lay on the ground as my vision became blurry and the sky spinned before my eyes.
"Ano? Hindi ka ba lalaban? Wala ka palang kwenta. Tumayo ka d'yan!"
I stood with wobbly legs. I steadied myself and focused my sight to him—to myself—as he began circling. I shook my head, trying to clear my blurry vision of him. Nausea flashed through me as he walked sideways. For some reason, the world was still hazy. I clenched my jaw, blinking, trying to think of ways how to defeat him—of ways how to defeat myself.
Fighting him was like playing Rock, Paper, Scissors against the mirror. No matter what you chose, no one would ever win.
Mag-isip ka Cade kung paano mo malalabanan ang sarili mo. Gamitin mo yang utak mo.
Tumakbo siya patungo sa 'kin sa bilis na hindi ko inaasahan. Sinuntok niya ako at tumama lang ito sa braso ko. Sinutok niya ulit ako at napaatras na lang ako. Habang bumwelo siya ay ako naman ang nagpakawala ng kamao at tinamaan siya sa kaniyang tagiliran.
That made him take a step back. He smirked. "May ibubuga ka rin pala kahit papa'no."
He charged, landing a punch to my forearms as I blocked it. He struck so swiftly that I had to take a step back and another just to evade his raging punches. My arms ached from the powerful impact. Before I could recover, he landed one last punch. It hit my forearms once again but somehow, an outisde force had pushed me meters away from him like the winds had flicked me towards the edge of the rooftop.
Regaining my balance, I stepped forward. In a second, he was several feet away from me, in a second, he was now standing in my front.
In flash of a second he pushed me towards the edge. I dove to the clouds, waiting for the conrete below to shatter my bones.
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