138 – 138. Ryu Tae-hyun vs Mid-winter (2)
A moment of silence in the arena.
Beneath the silence, Ryu Tae-hyeon lightly lowered his hand that had been gripping his shoulder with his smile gone. Then the melted and scorched defensive coat was revealed. The bare skin between them was burning red.
‘…… Hey The power is brutal.’
The size of the fireworks fired was small, but the heat was incomparably hotter than before. It is as if the flames that had been scattered in all directions were compressed into a single point.
‘I think he learned something while sparring with Suho-hyung?’
In his heart, he thought that sparring with An Su-ho would not change much. That’s why I was surprised by the unexpected growth in midwinter. Unlike before, when she recklessly spread her flame wide and hot, now she was ‘using’ her own flame in the right place to win her battle.
-Ssik.
A smile was once again drawn on the lips of Ryu Tae-hyeon, who was happy with his remarkable growth.
Ryu Tae-hyeon was a fighting maniac. Born exceptionally strong as a superman, he always wanted to feel his own strength. That’s why he was always hungry for a fight.
But he didn’t mean that he just liked to hit and run. He was bored with punching someone much weaker than him. The fight he wanted was an equal fight in which he could face everything he had.
A dizzying battle in which tension is unpredictable and tense battles are exchanged in a breathtaking tension.
Only in such a battle, Ryu Tae-hyun was able to feel his own strength and realize that he was alive. To him, the academy ranking match was nothing more than playing house. Even mid-winter, second in the rankings, fell far short of the standards he wanted.
By the way.
In order to overcome himself in the middle of winter, he sharpened his sword only for himself. That too is very sharp. Sharp enough to slash his own throat with certainty.
“…… Okay. This is a fight.”
– Chiyiik!!
Ryu Tae-hyeon roughly tore the burned shoulder part of his coat. Vivid veins sprouted from the half-exposed shoulder muscles.
“Winter is you. Are you really determined to win today?”
-Roar!!
Midwinter didn’t answer. Instead, red flames raged in his hands. That was her answer.
Taehyun Ryu smiled pleasantly as he watched the flames blazing like her fighting spirit. A refreshing laugh that made many women’s hearts pound.
“…… You did a good job introducing Suho hyung. Really.”
However, the next moment, that smile suddenly disappeared and changed into a bloody hard expression. Concentrating all of his body and mind on the battle, he lowered his stance to the point where he was level with the ground.
-Tooquaang!!!
With a violent explosion, it rushed towards Midwinter.
-Per-bu-be-be-be-be-beop-beop!!
Midgeoreum hid behind and fired another bird shot. Dozens of bullets hit Ryu Tae-hyeon’s body. However, the momentum of the rush did not slow down in the slightest.
“Sheesh… !”
Ryu Tae-hyeon narrows the distance in an instant.
To stop him like that, Midwinter slams the ground! Stepped on The next moment a huge wall of fire rose in front of her, separating the two of them.
However.
-Toohwaak!
Ryu Tae-hyeon didn’t care about her flames, and reached her by breaking through the wall of her flames with her fists. The moment his fist with a warlike look was about to pierce Midwinter’s chest.
-Spaang!!
A white flash fired one step ahead of him exploded into Ryu Tae-hyeon’s chest. An AP shot prepared while the field of view was blocked by a wall of fire. A hot burning pain rose from his chest.
-f*ck!!
“Shut up?!”
However, Ryu Tae-hyeon’s fists did not stop. A small grinding sound resounded from the chest of the sunken midwinter.
Midwinter’s body flew dozens of meters and slid on her ground. She rolls several times and bounces back and forth until she manages to kill her momentum and get her stance.
“Heo Eok…… !”
Then Midwinter groaned at the pain that came up all at once. All the air in her lungs had escaped, and she couldn’t even breathe.
Aiming for such a midwinter, Ryu Tae-hyeon runs again. A gap of tens of meters narrows in an instant.
-Roaring!!!
Midwinter hurriedly swung his right arm. The flames, like raging waves, instantly cover half of the stadium with Ryu Tae-hyeon.
However, Taehyung Ryu did not stop. Cutting through the blazing fire, he laughs bitterly.
‘…… I wish I had grown up a bit. It’s just one shot, so it’s like this.’
Ryu Tae-hyun could not be stopped with lukewarm flames that focused only on the range. Rather, the wide-spreading flames are rather helping Ryu Tae-hyeon because they obscure even the sight of midwinter.
This was pointed out by Ahn Su-ho in the previous Dalian. In fact, Ryu Tae-hyeon had counterattacked her a few times before, using the flames of midwinter as a reverse in a similar situation.
That’s why Taehyung Ryu couldn’t hide his bitterness. At last, I thought that Midwinter had grown into a good match for him, but he said he still had a long way to go.
‘Still, it’s amazing how much I’ve grown in such a short amount of time.’
-Quaang!!
He spurred the ground with all his might and soared up. He jumped up in the air scattering sparks and kicked in the direction of the dead of winter.
However.
‘Isn’t it?’
Midwinter was nowhere to be seen where she should be. Where is that? I looked all around, but I couldn’t see the figure of midwinter.
-Furr rrr rrr!
All I can see around me is fireworks. The sound of fire burning in all directions tickled his ears. The moment he landed after losing his goal, he sharpened his senses in all directions.
– Spaang!!!
A sharp flash flashed across his temple. He escaped with a sense like a beast, and followed the trail of the flash.
‘It was inserted diagonally from top to bottom. That means…….’
Forward, backward, left and right. He looked in four directions, then raised his head.
– Boom! Pop! Beopbeopbeobung!
Then he caught the midwinter floating in the air in his eyes. With her two hands shaped like pistols and aiming at herself, she flies precariously through the sky, bursting into flames from her feet.
‘Amazing.’
Ahn Su-ho, who was watching it from the crowd, couldn’t help but admire it.
A while ago. Midwinter’s wide-ranging fireworks were not for attack, but for distraction.
At the moment Ryu Tae-hyeon’s vision and hearing were blocked by the flames, she sprayed sparks under her feet without delay and flew up into the sky. As a result, she was completely out of range of Ryu Tae-hyeon. Even without Ryu Tae-hyun noticing.
If Taehyung Ryu hadn’t dodged the AP shot immediately after, with a monstrous sense, the victory in this ranking match would have been midwinter.
Besides.
“Awesome… …. Winter is flying right now, right?”
As the saying goes, midwinter was ‘floating’ suspended in the air, albeit in a precarious state. Although they had previously demonstrated flight-like leaps with the propulsion of flames, this was the first time they had been shown completely suspended in the air.
Contrary to popular perception, it is a very difficult skill for a person with firepower to fly through the air with flames. Unlike using the propulsion of flames for one-shot leaps, in order to continuously fly, high-powered flames that defy gravity must be released continuously, and even with fine control.
‘Currently, only one flame emperor, Park Cheol, is able to fly freely among domestic firefighters. Of course, the level of midwinter is not as high as Park Chul, but…….’
Flying in the middle of winter was precarious at first sight. I was staggering in the air as if I couldn’t control the output properly.
That said, it is an undeniable fact that she succeeded in ‘flight by ignition ability’, which only the Flame Emperor could do.
“…… Really, if I do well today, midwinter might be able to work?”
Not only Ahn Soo-ho, but anyone with an eye for attention thought that way. Maybe, really, maybe the 1st and 2nd place in the freshman ranking match today might change.
-Jureuk.
And that was also the case with Ryu Tae-hyun, the person involved. Along with a hot burning pain, a trickle of cold sweat ran down his temple.
‘I almost lost without knowing why.’
His face no longer showed the same bitterness as before. Perplexity and tension. A smile once again appears on his lips at the joy and delight seen in the meantime.
-Kiiiiing!!
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Looking down at Ryu Tae-hyeon, the midwinter gathered sparks once again. The flames that filled both arms were concentrated on the fingertips using both arms as gun barrels, and soon fired with the same force as a raging sword.
– Spaang!
-Tooquaang!
Ryu Tae-hyeon kicked the ground as if to face the flash. The floor of the arena splits apart and Ryu Tae-hyeon’s body flies into the air.
– Whirik!
Immediately after taking off the defensive coat, he blocked the white flash with the back of the coat. Chii profit! Throwing away the melted coat with a noise, he stretches out his fist at Midwinter.
-Per-bu-be-be-be-be-beop-beop!!
However, his fist could not reach Midwinter. Midwinter, adding the firepower of the flame for propulsion, rises about 5 meters more. Taehyung Ryu, who hit the empty air, landed on the floor again, licking his lips.
– Boom! Pervert! Perbung!
“Kyaheuk?!”
Immediately after that, the flames spewing out from Midwinter’s feet repeatedly turned on and off irregularly. As she falls under her, she quickly catches her position and manages to keep her flying.
As people expected, midwinter wasn’t used to flying yet. However, that was not the only problem she faced.
“Heo Eok. Huh Eok. Huh Eok. Huh.”
Midwinter breathed heavily and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Beads of sweat were pouring down not only on her forehead, but all over her body. Because she was continuously shooting high-powered flames, her current body temperature easily exceeded 40 degrees.
‘The burden is much worse than I thought. My body can’t stand it if I drag it on for a long time. It has to be done quickly.’
She didn’t have the option of landing on the ground for a moment and then taking off again. Since detailed flight is impossible, if Ryu Tae-hyun attacks at the moment of landing, he cannot avoid it.
-Roaring!!
A flash of white flashed once again at her fingertips. At Ryu Tae-hyeon, who was looking up at her from the floor of her arena, she fired a series of flashes.
– Spaang! Spaang! Spaang!
The trajectory of the compressed flame was like a lightning strike from the sky to the ground. Not only the appearance, but also the speed was as fast as lightning.
-f*ck!!
“Keugh?!”
A ray of flame grazed Ryu Tae-hyeon’s arm, who was completely evasive. Because he had used his defensive coat for defense, the blow pierced his bare skin. He hesitates with a burning pain that is incomparable to that of the past.
‘The attack is stronger than I thought. You can survive even if you get hit with one shot, but this isn’t a real battle, it’s sparring. If I get even one shot, the game will probably end with a doctor stop. If I’m wrong, I might get hit by a blind attack and lose stupidly.’
Taehyun Ryu looked up at the midwinter with a tense face. He, who had never been nervous in a ranking match before, was clearly nervous.
In Ryu Tae-hyeon’s head, a scheme for victory begins to be drawn quickly.
‘That flight condition will put a lot of pressure on Winter. Can’t keep it for long So what about Earth War? No, I don’t know if I’ll last for a surprisingly long time, and I’m at a disadvantage if I go over to the judgment. Running away doesn’t suit my temper in the first place.’
‘Then shall we jump up and attack like before? But even if detailed flight is impossible, it won’t be difficult to avoid my attack once. It was like that a little while ago. Besides, I can’t avoid Winter’s attack while floating in the air.’
‘It’s really hard. At the very least, if the flight height were lowered a bit, we could attack before we could dodge…….’
“!!”
At that moment, an idea flashed through Ryu Tae-hyeon’s mind. He looked down at the arena floor he was stepping on.
A solid sandy bottom. Beneath it is probably a rocky base, whether concrete or rock.
‘This is it!’
While avoiding midwinter’s attack and running through the stadium, he slipped on the ground and applied the brakes. Right after that, he tugged at his shoulders, clenched his fists, and hit the ground with all his might.
-Quaaa!!!!!
Dust rises thickly.
However, it was not good enough to be used as a smoke screen. In mid-winter, when he was floating in the air, Ryu Tae-hyeon’s location was clearly visible.
‘What are you doing all of a sudden?’
Having doubts, Midwinter prepared a new attack. Red sparks began to compress her fingertips.
-Quaaa!!!
Immediately after, the ground shook again with a loud roar. Midwinter, floating in the air, could not feel the ground rumble, but the people in the audience could clearly feel it.
“What? Why are you suddenly hitting the arena floor?”
“A smoke screen with dust…… I don’t think you’re trying to hit me?”
“By the way, one punch is brutal. Look at the cracks on the floor.”
As the saying goes, there was a deep crack drawn on the floor of the arena where Ryu Tae-hyun stood. Lifting his fist from the ground, he looked up at the midwinter.
-Ssik.
A deep smile was soon drawn on his lips. Midwinter, who sensed an unidentified ominous presence in her smile, hurriedly launched an attack.
-Quaaa!!!!
As Ryu Tae-hyeon stepped on the ground violently, the floor of the stadium turned over with a third roar. Large and small rocks rise in the shape of the cracks drawn earlier.
‘Shield? No, that’s…….’
The moment the midwinter stopped, Ryu Tae-hyeon grabbed the biggest rock and threw it.
-Whoa!!
“Hey?!”
Midwinter hurriedly fired fireworks at a rock the size of a house that was flying towards him. However, there is no way that massive rocks can be blocked with massless flames.
-Fever Beobobung!!!
In the end, what she chose was avoidance. As she forcibly raised her power and raised her altitude, a huge rock passed beneath her feet.
But that was just the beginning.
– Huung!! Whoo!! Whoa!!
“This crazy… ….”
Ryu Tae-hyeon started tossing the shattered floor of the arena to Mid-Gyeol. From fist-sized rocks to rocks almost the size of a person. Midwinter urgently tries to escape from the dozens of dialysis baptisms.
However, her flight is still in its infancy. There was no way that a detailed evasion maneuver was possible.
-f*ck!
“Kyaheuk?!”
A stone the size of a watermelon crashed into the midwinter bridge. As a result, the direction of the flame’s propulsion was twisted, and her body trembled dangerously. Dozens of stones flew at her aiming at her.
-f*ck! f*ck! Few!!
The power of dialysis was not that strong. A level that you can endure as long as you want to endure. However, it was not very disturbing to her who maintained her precarious flight. As she staggered through her catapult, she realized that her altitude had fallen considerably.
‘No! I need to raise my altitude right now…… !’
She belatedly thought so, but she was one step too late. Tuuk! With a sound, Taehyung Ryu grabbed her ankle.
“Huh!!”
Ryu Tae-hyeon swung his midwinter body like a club. Her body bounced around and fell to the ground with a bang! Clashed
It was too late to fly again. Midwinter, who thought so, prepared a flame of maximum firepower with a judge’s heart. Ryu Tae-hyeon said that he would not be able to hold on as he is currently off the defensive court.
-f*ck!
However, Ryu Tae-hyeon moved quickly this time as well. He kicked off his right hand, which was gathering sparks, and took a mount position on top of the fallen woman.
“Keugh!!”
Even so, Midgeoreum did not give up and tried to resist, but Ryu Tae-hyeon grabbed his arms helplessly. Aww! When he exerted his strength, the blood didn’t work, and the already white midwinter hand became even paler.
“Kyaaa!!”
“Surrender, winter. You lost.”
“Ah, Niya…… ! I haven’t lost yet!!”
“Let’s face it.”
-Koo woo woo woo woo!
Ryu Tae-hyeon’s grip got stronger. The midwinter beneath him struggles with an expression of pain and glares at him.
“I haven’t lost yet…… !”
-Roar!
Intense fire erupted from both of her hands. Seeing that, Taehyung Ryu clicked his tongue. Although his skills have improved more than before, he said that he still has useless pride that cannot admit defeat.
-f*ck!
“Keheup?!”
Ryu Tae-hyeon quickly hit the pit of midwinter. Her breath choked her and she was about to stiffen, but he grabbed her midwinter by the collar and threw her out of the arena with all her might.
‘No! Posture, posture, re-adjust…….’
Flying through the air, Midwinter thought desperately. However, her body stiffened by her critical strike did not move according to her will.
-Toouk.
In the end, her body fell helplessly outside the arena.
-Stop!
The referee’s cry resounded at that moment.
-Midwinter Student Field! As a result, the winner of this ranking match has been decided as Taehyun Ryu! Green House 1st grade ranking match midterm settlement! Student Ryu Tae-hyun will protect the honored 1st place!!!
Midwinter, who half-raised himself at that cold declaration, fell to his knees powerlessly. With her blank expression on her face, she looked down at her floor without saying a word.
I prepared so hard.
I thought I could win this time.
Nevertheless, this time as well.
I lost again.
That’s off the field too. So stupidly
-Waaa!!!!!
Midwinter clenched her fists as if indignant. However, the stadium was filled with cheers congratulating Ryu Tae-hyun’s victory. As if no one disagreed with this win or loss.
“Why… ….”
In the middle of that fierce shout, the midwinter’s murmurs were helplessly scattered.