Bella was careful, yet she still didn’t make it onto her flight on time due to an expected delay.
“Seriously!” she slumped in her seat, a look of exasperation on her face.
Not wanting to sit and wait but unfamiliar with the area, she had nowhere else to go.
After some thought, she wandered the airport shops and bought a small gift for the father she had never met.
Although Forks is a tiny town of just three thousand people, making it one of the smallest in the country, her father holds the position of sheriff, which isn’t just an ordinary citizen’s role.
Her predecessor might not have utilized this, but Bella understood its importance. At worst, strengthening relationships could not harm.
“Forty, fifty, a hundred, a hundred and ten,” she counted the dollars in her wallet.
It was March 2000, and she only had cash without mobile payments or a credit card set up by her predecessor.
As she walked and counted her money, a girl listening to music on her headphones approached from the opposite direction. Neither saw the other coming, and they collided unexpectedly.
With a thud, Bella, who was taller, hit her chin directly on the girl’s forehead.
“Ouch!” she staggered back two steps, her chin numb, her head buzzing as she steadied herself against a wall to prevent a fall.
The opposite girl was just as chaotic and, setting aside any concerns about appearances, crouched down, rubbing her forehead, clearly having been battered.
“Sorry, so sorry.”
“I’m so sorry!”
Bella and the girl both apologized at the same time.
Bella was not watching where she was going and, being a stranger here, didn’t want to cause any trouble. Her apology was sincere.
The impact had scattered Bella’s wallet, and with various tens and fives in bills flying around, it seemed like she had a lot of money. The girl felt very bad about it.
Both kept apologizing as the girl’s family quickly came over to help Bella gather her money.
A middle-aged man even asked if she needed to go to the hospital.
Unlike Bella, an only child, the girl came from a typical American family of five—a couple with their two sons and one daughter. The girl who collided with Bella seemed to be the sister, with a young man who appeared to be her brother nearby and a little boy holding a toy box, exuding a mischievous air, clearly the younger brother.
But this girl was gorgeous!
Even Bella had to admit the other’s attractiveness.
The girl’s eyes seemed naturally enchanting, her features picturesque, her lips slightly upturned, radiating collagen and grace. She appeared younger than Bella by a year or two.
The girl, clearly shaken by the collision, subtly rubbed her forehead and looked up, also taken aback by Bella’s appearance.
Delicate facial features and fair and tender skin that moisturized itself naturally.
Her lips were lush, and even without makeup, Bella’s beauty reached a height difficult for ordinary people to match, although her predecessor’s pale complexion slightly marred this beauty.
Natural beauties are rare, and two colliding at zero distance are rarer.
“I’m sorry.”
“I should apologize; I wasn’t watching where I was going.”
There was no need to make acquaintances from such a brief encounter. Preoccupied with her concerns, Bella politely bid farewell to the family of five.
“There! I see them, catch them!” a loud shout erupted nearby. Bella and the family turned to see four imposing figures—three men and one woman—charging them from two different corridor exits.
Bella noticed the family seemed frozen and was a bit dizzy. What was happening? Were these robbers? And so boldly in broad daylight at the airport?
The husband instinctively reached for his phone to call the police, but the four were already upon them by then.
The leader, a man with dark hair and a menacing face, reached out with a hand as large as a fan towards Bella’s shoulder.
Was he targeting her?
As the enemy approached, she wouldn’t just surrender. Knowing she was in a world akin to Marvel’s, where vigilance was paramount, she had prepared pepper spray.
She sprayed half the can into the dark-haired man’s eyes, followed by a swift and decisive knee strike to his groin.
Tall and with long legs, she had been ready for this moment—steady, accurate, and ruthless, devoid of emotion!
The dark-haired man couldn’t withstand such an assault, collapsing to the ground, rolling in pain as he covered his groin.
Bella had taken down the dark-haired man, but another thin man charged at her before she could speak.
Without surprise, Bella was just an ordinary person with no martial training, no mystical powers imparted by a master, and no earth-shattering superpowers. Fortunately, the mother of the family seemed quite formidable, apparently trained in combat sports.
She stepped in front of Bella, caught the thin man’s fist, and with a swift turn and a strong twist of her back, executed a beautiful over-the-shoulder throw, taking him down.
In a flash, the two men approaching from the western corridor were also taken down.
Knowing the dangers of this world, Bella was mentally prepared for anything. Even if aliens appeared, she wouldn’t be surprised.
Each member of the family reacted differently.
The husband seemed hesitant, watching his wife defeat the attackers without saying a word.
The pretty young girl who had bumped into Bella was visibly excited, biting her lip with an eager look.
The young man, presumably her brother, seemed shell-shocked, while the little brother was frightened.
The family, together with Bella, had the numerical advantage, and being in an airport, people were already starting to notice.
The man and woman who had approached from the eastern corridor found themselves in a difficult position. After a moment’s hesitation, the woman signaled to her companion. While he distracted everyone, she circled and targeted the naughty little brother behind Bella!
“I got it! Let’s split!” The fierce-looking woman snatched the toy car from the little boy’s hands and ran without looking back.
Bella was stunned!
All this commotion for a child’s toy car at the airport? She couldn’t understand these American tactics!
Not to mention, the man she had kicked so fiercely had a hidden handgun.
Even with the chaotic state of security in America, it wasn’t common for people to carry guns around every day.
Something was off here!
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