228 – Clear Mind
Ivan’s iron fist stuck in his face was extremely painful.
Should I say that I literally woke up?
I swear this was the first time I felt pain this strong since I woke up during Golden Week.
“Cool!”
As the body bounced off like a bullet hit the cage’s bars, black blood gushed out of his throat.
Fortunately, the teeth seemed to be intact, but the fishy taste of iron spread in my mouth.
“Now, what are you going to do? Kim Yoo-seong.”
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Wow!
Leaving his back on the cheers of the audience, Ivan slowly approached while saying that.
It is a step that shows the composure of the strong.
Having been beaten by me for a long time, it’s not like Ivan wasn’t hit at all, but from the outside, it was clearly me who seemed to be in a more serious condition.
Whouk- Whoook- Whoook- Whoook-
In order to catch my yang energy, which is rapidly disappearing due to the side effects of the ghost illusion, I repeated quick and short breathing, grabbed the iron bars, and stood up.
Maybe he got a light concussion from being hit in the jaw, or his vision is dizzy.
I strained my wobbly legs and managed to get myself up, but to be honest, I felt like I was about to collapse at any moment.
As if I wasn’t the only one who thought of this, Ivan standing in front of me grinned.
“Why is that? Aren’t you staggering?”
I checked the yang energy remaining in my body instead of replying to him.
‘About 1/5 of the usual amount left.’
To be honest, this was also a state of being sensitive.
Originally, it would have been exhausted as soon as the effect of the medicine wore off.
‘I probably won’t be able to last even a minute in my current condition.’
There was a high probability that the next attack would be the last.
‘If I had known this would happen, I would have eaten the ghost pill a little later.’
I have regretted it belatedly, but that doesn’t mean I can go back in time and undo the choices I made in the past.
Entering the stage of resignation, I relaxed from my body.
Seeing me like that, Ivan said.
“Yooseong Kim, you are the greatest enemy I have ever met. If I hadn’t met you, I would have been bored until I found the traces of Kotaro Fuma. But thanks to meeting you, I was able to become stronger once again. So, to the glory. You should know that I became the food of Ivan Romanov.”
Befitting a character who would have won the bid as the final boss if this were a fighting manga, Ivan was grotesquely talkative.
If I said “Who asked you?” Here, I could instantly turn off the atmosphere in the hot club, but I figured out the atmosphere and kept my mouth shut.
Because I didn’t want to provoke him and get a stronger finish move.
But despite this wish, Ivan held out his outstretched hands.
“I will also pay my respects to you, and I will end it with the strongest martial arts I know.”
‘Дракон императора’
The Emperor’s Dragon.
The last of the five animals that symbolize the king.
It was a trump card that Ivan had never shown before.
Seeing the brain qi rushing into his hands, realizing that it was nothing serious, I hurriedly began to gather up the remaining qi.
‘If you don’t want to get lost, move!’
Yang-ki, who until just a while ago gave off an atmosphere like burnt ash, suddenly starts to move rapidly in the face of a threat to his life.
I was surprised even myself.
Perhaps the loss of strength from the body as a side effect of the ghost ring may have been a blessing in disguise.
While I was squeezing the qi from inside, Ivan pulled his hands, which had accumulated a huge amount of brain qi, around his waist, as if he was finally ready.
‘Crazy!’
I know that move.
No, it’s rather strange not knowing.
Because it was one of the standard techniques that always appear in fighting games.
Greeting bullets, pulse bullets, or wheezing.
He was roughly called that.
I never thought I would see that technology in real life.
Even in the spectators surrounding the battle cage, I was scared to the point of shutting my mouth, probably sensing the tremendous power I felt in Ivan’s hands.
After a while, Ivan looked at me and said.
“It’s over, boy.”
A huge amount of brain energy gathered in his hand, as if imitating a dragon’s breath, eventually turned into a single shell and flew towards me.
My vision is dyed with dazzling light,
The moment I close my eyes imagining the imminent pain that will soon come –
An inspiration flashed into my head.
***
There is a common saying that people go through a kaleidoscope when it comes time to die.
I didn’t know that I would be the one to go through it, but I couldn’t help but feel the threat to my life in front of Ivan’s relentless attack.
That’s why I closed my eyes without realizing it.
And as a result, I belatedly realized what the windless realm that Fuma Kotaro had so much emphasized.
‘Everywhere is quiet.’
Except for the ‘wind’ circulating through the body, there was no sound from all sides like a lie.
Bondi, the wind blocks even sound.
So, if an unauthorized foreign substance entered the area of no wind, it could be noticed in an instant.
It is like water droplets falling on a calm surface of water.
‘Empty your mind.’
Some advice from Kotaro Fuma suddenly pops into my mind.
And only now do I realize what it really means.
Hayate’s final secret.
“Nagi.”
Quaaa!!
***
The moment Ivan’s heart hit Yuseong Kim directly, Yukika Fuma, who was watching the whole process in the VIP room, jumped up from her seat.
“Yoosung Kim!”
“Calm down, senpai.”
It was Sasha who was next to her who stopped Yukika, who was about to run out of the VIP room at any moment.
“But Kim Yoo-seong!”
“My father is not an idiot either. He must have put circumstances in his hands. No matter how much he is, he’s not the kind of dog who kills people even in an event match like this.”
“But a blow like that would be fatal!”
At that moment, Li Meiling, who had been quietly listening to the story, opened her mouth.
“Don’t make a fuss. Kim Yoo-seong hasn’t lost yet.”
“…Yes?”
The moment Yukika was about to ask what she was talking about, someone suddenly came out of a cloud of black smoke.
“What!”
The identity was Yuseong Kim.
I thought he was hit directly by Ivan’s bullet, but he didn’t fall down.
Embarrassment was felt not only in Yukika, but also in others watching her match.
“How the hell!”
‘Champion’ Lucio jumps up from his seat.
“Ohhh… What a young man for sure.”
Lee Senshun, ‘Invincible in the East’, realized belatedly why his disciple bet on him.
“This must also be God’s grace.”
Even ‘Immortal’ William, who comprehends the situation calmly while making his last name.
The only one who maintained his composure in the chaotic situation was Kotaro Fuma, the ‘Black Yacha’.
“That guy, did he acquire his nagi in this situation?”
“Nagi?”
Sasha was the first to show curiosity at his words.
“What do you mean by that?”
“It’s literally. At the moment of desperation, Yuseong Kim learned Hayate’s final skill, nagi, which he hadn’t mastered so far. Thanks to that, he could stand upright even after taking a direct hit from that attack.”
“Stop talking about what only you know, and explain in an easy way for others to understand.”
As her real daughter, Yukika Fuma looked at herself with her hatchet eyes, Kotaro Fuma scratched her head and said,
“Simply put, nagi is the art of finding a way out.”
“…The art of finding a way out?”
“Based on extreme composure, the skill to somehow find a way to win no matter how unfavorable a situation is is born right away. He’s the guy who makes sure you never lose even if you meet your grandfather.”
“…It looks like something out of a shonen manga.”
“If someone you don’t know sees it, it might be. But nagi is a skill. Not everyone can master it.”
With that said, Fuma Kotaro crossed his arms and looked down at the unfinished fight between Yuseong Kim and Ivan.
“But as it stands, it’s still hopeless. The last piece of the puzzle is missing.”
Hearing that, Li Mei-ling shrugged her shoulders and said.
“I don’t think you need to worry about that.”
“What?”
“Kim Yoo-seong already has the last piece of the puzzle.”
She remembered.
The movements Kim Yu-seong showed earlier.
‘As expected, you didn’t neglect training.’
In that case, it was as if all the puzzles had already been put together.
I just happily wait for the news of victory.
“You’re talking nonsense, young lady.”
When Kotaro Fuma, who did not know English, said that, Meiling Li smiled and said,
“I have a relationship with Kim Yoo-sung in my own way.”
“!!”
“!!”
Sasha Yukikawa was nervous about the sudden appearance of a new rival.
***
Nagi was definitely a fraudulent technique.
I finally understood why Kotaro Fuma had been so obsessed with learning Nagi for about a week.
‘It feels like a third eye has sprouted in my head.’
Even now, the “Wind in the other person’s body”, Which is involved in my realm, was teaching me a lot of information.
Iban’s habits, dominant hand, next move, how to break the opponent’s technique, etc.
To compare it to a game, it was like fighting an enemy with a strategy guide spread out.
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It wasn’t empty words, it was almost a prediction of the future.
I managed to master my skills at the moment when I was almost hit by Ivan’s bullet, and I managed to return from the threshold of death.
“Stupid! You destroyed my rage in an instant!”
Perhaps Ivan was also speechless at such a sight, fighting recklessly with blood vessels standing on his forehead.
It was half an act of venting out anger, but the effect was immediate.
I fiercely pushed Ivan, who was taken aback by the unexpected situation.
It’s not as good as when I took the demon pill, but I made up for my lack of strength with speed.
If you look closely, the current me is the state of integrating the two martial arts of Hayate and Jinrai into one again.
“Kuh! The attack is quite spicy, but it’s useless to counterattack now!”
Certainly, as Ivan said.
In a situation like this, no matter how good I was, I had no choice but to take on the aspect of a war of attrition.
And when it came to that scenario, there was a 99% chance I would lose.
So-
‘It contains everything in one room.’
I decided to deliver the final blow.
Thump!!
He steps forward with his left foot towards the bewildered Ivan, and at the same time his right foot and fist leap forward.
As a result, the twisted waist and arms stretched to the limit are like a spear.
There is no shield in the world that cannot be pierced.
“Fierce Tiger Spear.”
In the next moment, my fist pierced Ivan’s body.