227 – Desperation
In the past, Ivan is famous for being nicknamed Angolmois or Tsar by the general public who watched GOF, but he is the godfather of the Russian Red Mafia. Had the infamous name of
That’s right,
Thunder Emperor Ivan.
Obviously a guru who handles brain energy with positive attributes, the lightning flowing through his body has a unique blue color of yin energy.
Because of these easy-to-understand characteristics, there was even a joke that people from the Mafia organization, who were hostile to him, shuddered when they saw the color blue even when walking down the street.
“Whoa- I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve been sincere.”
If Kim Yoo-seong’s Ki (氣) is specialized in defense, it is indestructible, while Ivan’s Ki (氣) is specialized in attack.
It was literally a battle between spear and shield.
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Ivan, who emits blue lightning all over his body, gave off an atmosphere like a final boss that would only appear at the end of a shonen manga.
Despite the fact that it is definitely a Lubco worldview, it feels like the painting style is different when you are alone.
‘Shall we move slowly?’
Since the time given to me at the time I ate the Ghost Ring was short, I didn’t have time to leisurely watch his transformation.
I waited for Ivan’s transformation until I didn’t swear in the audience, but unlike before, where I fought mainly on counters, I started moving first this time.
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To be honest, it was a choice I had no choice but to make.
Because I had to make the most of the 5-minute time limit for the ghost illusion.
“Suck!”
As soon as he stepped on the advance, his fist extended forward.
Chungchu (衝錐) is one of the basic herbivores of the Palchiquan.
Kotaro Fuma said that if you want to learn Nagi, you should forget all the awkwardly learned miscellaneous skills, but he believed in me and couldn’t let go of Mei Ling’s teachings, who taught me how to do the Eight Kicks.
And in this situation, the sudden use of the eight-character fist was to outwit Ivan, who thought only Hayate knew how to use it.
Boom!!
‘It went in properly!’
Familiar touch felt at the tip of a fist.
Because I was hit in the belly button, which is a vital part, while my physical abilities were greatly increased due to the runaway yang, a strong shock must have been transmitted to the internal organs.
But-
“Is that all?”
Ivan standing in front of me looked down at me as if he was laughing.
“Kuk!”
Contrary to what I thought, I started pouring in continuous attacks as much as I could.
From Kamaitachi, the 1st brother, to Ryunobori, the 7th brother.
Hayate’s seven techniques were poured out at once.
He hacked mercilessly with wind-clad blades, and hit his body, which was no different from a large target, with a whirlwind-clad fist.
But—
“Why! Why! You won’t fall down!”
Despite all the attacks he received defenselessly, Ivan, who was standing still, heard my voice screaming in anger and twisted the corner of his mouth.
“It’s a nano machine. A kid.”
Then he twisted his back and threw out his fist, which was engulfed in blue lightning.
Bang─!!
When I came to my senses, my body was flying through the air.
Clock!
If it weren’t for the battle cages installed to protect the audience, this attack would have resulted in an outing.
As I stood up shaking my dizzy head, Ivan approached me with his clattering footsteps.
He said, raising both hands.
“Last summer, both of my wrists were damaged beyond repair. The condition of my wrists was so serious that even the best doctors in the world shook their heads.”
“…….”
Now that I think about it, it might have been a little too much for me.
I don’t know about other parts, but both wrists must be one of the parts that are as precious as life to a fighter, but I broke them.
Of course, he tried to kill me first, so I think it’s self-defense, but human affairs aren’t as easy as they sound.
Didn’t he actually say that he sharpened his sword to get revenge on me with his mouth?
“…So how did your body recover?”
No matter how much subcultures say that nanomachines are expressed as universal medical devices, that only happened when they were developed.
Now is not the year 2077, and a country that developed a nanomachine in 2017 that has enough performance to restore all broken bone fragments could exist on Earth…
“Because our Russian science power is the best in the world.”
“Oh, yes.”
Since the result is right in front of my eyes, I cannot deny it.
“Anyway, it’s because of the injury, but it’s a nanomachine implanted in the body, so I tried a lot of things. Some of them have very interesting functions.”
Just like this.
After saying that, Ivan tore off the clothes that had become rags from my attack.
“What…!”
I opened my eyes to the unbelievable sight.
That’s also true, because Ivan’s body, which had been beaten so many times by me just before, was as clean as if nothing had happened.
Perhaps he liked my reaction, Ivan smiled and explained.
“Thanks to the ability to harden a part of my body at the desired timing, I have a defensive power comparable to yours, or perhaps even greater, in this hand.”
In other words-
“It is said that the possibility of you defeating me has disappeared at this moment.”
It was truly a wild statement.
In a way, it may be that he is confident in the performance of the nanomachines implanted in his body.
I, who had been counting the time since I ate the demon ring, checked the remaining time on the electronic clock outside the stage.
‘Three minutes from now.’
If it’s long, it’s long, if it’s short, it’s a short time.
I decided to bet everything on these three minutes.
“Whoa-“
Closing your eyes and focusing your mind, the whole body’s yang energy begins to move in the desired direction.
The first condition for Nagi is to feel the wind flowing through your body.
At first, I thought it was quite abstract, but if there is something I realized during my training, it was that wind is the flow of a fluid.
The wind flowing through my body.
In other words, by being conscious of the blood circulation process, I was able to contemplate my own inner world.
‘Perfectly control the wind inside your body! If you do that, you can become twice as strong as you are now!’
Every time the boundary between unconscious and conscious was scattered in endless battles, Fuma Kotaro shouted that and urged me on.
Then my mind, which had become clouded like a lie, became clear, and I was able to regain the control of my body that I had lost for a while.
Perhaps maintaining this state all the time is the domain of Nagi that Fuma Kotaro was talking about.
But in the end, I couldn’t reach that level, so all I could do was imitate the way I am now.
Flash!
As soon as I opened my eyes wide, I started moving my arms.
The technique used is Hayate, just like before.
But it was also Jinlai.
According to Kotaro Fuma’s explanation, gale and trust are one and the same.
It has a different name, but it is said to be a martial art with the same roots.
If fighting with fists is Hayate, then holding a sword is Jinrai.
Then if-
If you imitate a sword with kamaitachi?
I raised both my open palms to an oblique height.
What I’m going to do now is a technique that Fuma-senpai showed me before.
Fuma-ryu Jinrai Type 3
‘Flashlight’
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, lightning for lightning.
Jinrai, a martial art that mimics lightning rather than wind, had a slightly faster attack speed than Ivan.
But that was enough.
Because it is similar to Zeno’s paradox that a rabbit who is said to be ‘slightly fast’ in the world of masters can never catch up with a tortoise.
So-
“Ooooo!!!”
With a shout raised from the depths of his lungs, he swings both hands.
If it doesn’t work once, cut it ten times. If it doesn’t work ten times, cut it a hundred times.
No matter how hard my body is, if I cut that much, I’m sure there will be at least one scratch.
“Keuk! Useless outrage!”
Perhaps the hardness of both arms has been strengthened with nanomachines, Ivan, whose guard is insanely hard, shouted that and immediately attempted a counterattack.
However, with Jinlai’s step, Thunderbolt, I retreated to the rear for a while before he could reach out my hand.
As time passes, the guard starts to open little by little.
Fit! Fit!
Perhaps it has reached its limit, the forearm is starting to hurt.
‘Fast! A little faster!’
With just a little, just a little more time, I felt like I could defeat Ivan in front of me.
But-
Exactly at the point where five minutes had elapsed, the energy that had overflowed in my body began to flow out like an ebb.
‘It’s a waste.’
As Fuma-senpai explained, it wasn’t to the extent that I couldn’t lift a finger like before, but the speed at which my energy drained was beyond my imagination.
‘It feels like I’ve become poisoned.’
The Yanggi, which had been like the sea, had shrunk to the level of a river.
It was obvious that after a while this would become the level of a pond or puddle.
‘If only I had one more minute!’
I would have been able to break through that hard guard and give Ivan a shot.
Belated regrets came over me, but I couldn’t turn back the time that had already passed.
When I stopped my attack and stepped back, Ivan said with an amused twist of his mouth.
“Looks like that strange medicine has lost its effectiveness?”
“Well, what about it?”
I forced a smile and shrugged off his bluff, but as if his seed wasn’t eaten, Ivan loosened the joints in his hands and slowly approached.
“Clean your teeth, kid.”
My The strongest will be a little sick.
Boom!!