He mentally sighed thinking if she used her speed and tried faster kicks and tried to circle him she might have had a chance but he could tell her min... was clouded. He was trying to desperately lite a fire under her with mockery but to no avail. Matt then stepped forward taking the punch Emiko directed at him and grabbed the arm and punched her with his flat palm against her shoulder. As she fell to the mat on one knee he looked down at her before he spoke. ‘I thought you were a lot better. The Jade Empire had made good on their threat to dismantle Franka economically, socially, militarily, and politically.The country was in debt up to its ears, and it hadn’t even had to pay reparations to the Jade Empire yet. Most of the country was without water and electricity. The transportation infrastructure was in ruins. It would take the country decades to rebuild. It might take even longer since there was no money to pay for it.The people of Franka had lost their sense of national. That girl lives in a mansion, has everything anyone could ever want, and treats people like crap. You have to beat her.”“I’ll do my best.”She thought for a moment. “I have an idea. It’s sneaky. It’s mean. It’ll be awesome.”She filled me in. I laughed out loud. She was right, and I was pretty sure it would work. I didn’t think I needed it, but it would be fun.We were called to our tables. Before Jennifer sat down, she stopped at our table and said ‘Hi’ to Becky. Becky said ‘Hi’, her voice. “She did actually”, Suzy replied. “It’s about a job opportunity at a bar you two bought, correct?” “Yes… actually, she requested that we called for the help of you two to try to lift up the place, since we just bought it and we want to make if a good place to go when we open”, the former Army member explained “I think it might fit us. Both of us are currently unemployed and this is something that we were looking for, a different thing to do” “If you two want, we can take you there and you can.