The sound of the punch connecting with Kai's jaw was a heavy thud that seemed to echo across the silent helipad.
Kai staggered back, his head snapping to the side as blood immediately began to well in the corner of his mouth.
He was a man driven by a lifetime of arrogance, and even in this broken state, his instinct was to retaliate.
He let out a primal snarl and tried to lung forward, swinging a desperate, shaky fist toward Xavier's face.
But Kai was light-years out of Xavier's league.
Not only was he facing a man who had spent his entire life training for this exact kind of violence, but Kai was also still suffering from the lingering, unhealed injuries he had sustained during Adam and the military raid on his Hideout.
Xavier didn't even have to put effort into the dodge. He stepped lightly to the left, letting Kai's momentum carry him forward into empty air, and then he began the systematic dismantling of the man who had dared to touch his family.
