Chapter 38: Part 35
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The next fight had to be seen from the aisle of the arena. Kirishima did a great job! The guy stood until he lost consciousness, for a moment I even thought that he would make a breakthrough in strength and blow Tokoyami away, but no, he endured the attacks advancing towards his opponent and after spending all his strength he just fell down. With all my heart I supported the audience's cheers as the guy was carried off the stage and moved towards the arena.
- And my heart is pounding! - whispered under his breath, putting his hand to his chest. I can defeat Shoji very easily, what's there to defeat, if he was the enemy and the question was him or me, five seconds and the guy would cease to exist, but this is a festival, why not give the guy a chance to show himself?
- Shall we fight? - I put my hands up in a fighting stance. - I hope you don't think I'm trying to humiliate you or anything. You're very strong physically, definitely stronger than me. And this is a good opportunity to test my fighting skills. I'll only use physical attacks and healing. If I attack you with abilities, I'll surrender myself, will you accept such a challenge?
- Good! - Nodded the guy and adopted a fighting stance as well.
- I liked the last fight too, to be honest. - I whispered very quietly and only my opponent and maybe the judge could hear it.
- Me too. - nodded and rushed towards me.
Well, here we go!
- Bam, bam, bam! - Three fists came at my face and the world spun, and I lost my balance and spun, falling to the ground and barely had time to put my hands out so I didn't smash my face into the ground.
- Damn, you almost blew my brains out!
- Hah! - I heard from behind and sharply pushed to the side, I found time to talk! I turned round and saw three more fists smashing into the spot where I'd just been, spun round and kicked the guy's supporting leg, which started him falling. I twisted round, pushing myself off the ground with my hands, and hit Shoji's body with both feet, knocking him to the side.
- You've got a lot of strength! - he praised the guy as he got to his feet. - I thought my brain was going to come out of my ears.
- Khoo, khu,' he slowly stood up, 'you're pretty good, you hit me right in the solar plexus, khu. So I hit you as hard as I could, hoping you'd pass out from the first blow.
- Let's keep going!
This time I went on the offensive. After his attack, I realised he was slower than me, but much stronger. I ducked out of the way of a punch and landed a two-punch to the liver. I dodged a spinning kick and delivered a hook to his already exposed side - his replicants are too fast to close his body from attacking, but I'm not going to lose!
It's been ten minutes of fighting and I'm stumped - he's too tough. Speed is the only advantage I have, but to attack the more vulnerable areas I've had to get hit myself, and if it wasn't for the healing, Shoji would have already beaten me to a pulp. I have to find a way out or I'll lose! I have an idea, but, oh well, I'll lose anyway.
- Ha, ha, ha, looks like that's my last shot! - I lunged forward with my fist, and the guy went on the defensive.
To control the flight I use flames with damage effects, creating them only on the soles and palms of my hands. The repulsive force isn't enough to lift me into the air, but when I become weightless, under the neutral flame, it's enough to fly. Maybe in the future, strengthened, I'll be able to fly on fire power alone, Hoshi can't fly right now, but her dad can, yes the girl only has one side of fire, but hey, I don't believe it's enough to fly, at least slowly. Okay, we're getting off topic, what if I push my arm? And I created a point of flame right on my elbow and increased the damage to maximum, at the same moment I felt a strong pain, but it wasn't me throwing my arm forward, but my arm pulled me forward and came down on the guy.
- Tuh! - There was a thud and the guy was slammed into the arena and I thought I heard a crunch! Did you break his arm? I wasn't expecting that effect, but I think I found a way to enhance myself physically! I created a flame and healed myself and Shoji, I lost by attacking him using my strength, so what can I do, even though I wasn't aiming for the top....
- I give up.
- I give up! - shouted the guy, drowning out my voice.
- The winner of the sixth match of the first round is Kayama Toru! - Midnight shouted before I could say anything.
- Shoji, we had a deal! Such a good fight came out and I lost, why did you do that?
- I couldn't take that spot,' the guy mumbled, scratching the back of his head, 'you didn't fight hard enough already, and you hit me so hard at the end! That was something new for you, wasn't it? Your punches were strong, but not for me, but that last punch blew me away, it was awesome!
- Yeah, thank you! It's because of our fight that I took a step forward, albeit a painful one.
- Keep on winning for me too!
We shook hands to the roar of the crowd and left the arena discussing the fight, with Momo and Mina taking our place.
The girls' fight came out pretty fast, but that made it no less interesting. Mina, as I thought, at the start behaved rather frivolously and tried to throw acid on her opponent, but my deputy immediately counted on it and having created shields, rushed into the attack, trying to push Mina out of the arena. She almost succeeded, but when Mina's body was behind the line and her feet were still on the field, she created acid under her feet and slid right between Momo's legs into the arena and jumped up on her feet and pushed forward the girl who, because of the weight of the shields, didn't have time to turn around and take a stop. Too bad for Momo, she had every chance....
- The final bout of the first round is starting, - Midnight's ringing voice dispelled the boredom of the spectators, after such two fights, the girls' fight looked rather faded, - Let's begin!
The battle between Tsuyu and Ochako, on the other hand, went on for quite a while. The frog girl gave all the spectators a free vertigo at her own expense. She hopped around like she had a straw stuck up her arse and started blowing. Pardon the association, but they teach you a lot of things in an orphanage. But Ochako was beaten like a pear for a very long time and when it seemed that the girl completely lost consciousness, Tsuyu made the mistake of trying to wrap her tongue around her opponent and throw her out of the arena. At that moment, Ochako touched the girl's tongue and, unwinding, launched her into flight.
- Ladies and gentlemen! The fights of the first round are over, which means that very soon the winners will meet in a duel for passage to the next stage! - exclaimed the eighteen plus heroine and whipped her whip to the beat of her words.