Martial arts is my profession. I hate to see any aspect of it perverted. When the vast improvement in body, mind and spirit that proper training and discipline can bring is destroyed by a debilitating drug, I hurt.

  The demons of the so-called Kung-Fu Temple were indeed hellish. Not because of their ferocity; because of the mockery they made of the philosophy and integrity of all martial art.

  So I had tried to abolish Kill-13, at least in my own area. I allowed no demons in my judo or karate classes, and warned all students against the use of any of the other drugs, including alcohol and nicotine. I don’t smoke or drink myself, and my reasons are not moral but physical: these vices weaken the body.

  I am not much of a public speaker, but I spoke out against Kill-13 wherever I could. Church groups, civic clubs, high schools— they wanted to hear how it was possible to kill a man with one blow, but I gave them warning about the killer drug instead. I hadn’t thought my effort was having much effect, but evidently it had, because it had aroused the demons against me.

  Now those demons had struck back, viciously. Probably half my class was dead or permanently mutilated. Only luck had spared me. The police must have come before the demons could complete their massacre or I would have been dead too.

  If the demons thought they had silenced me or scared me off, they had misjudged their man. After this, I was going to go after the drug full time. I would not rest until I had eliminated Kill-13, and not just from my neighborhood. From the face of the earth.

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