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The door to the fighting area was closed shut with a bang!, startling Kaede.
'What's going on? Are they really going to start a battle royale?' thought Kaede as she turned to look at every fighter who were already preparing to fight.
A suffocating pressure covered the entire room, any normal person would be scared. Kaede on the other hand was used to being a spectator in fights, some being gruesome. So seeing something like this didn't scare her at all.
Sora smiled and knew that the interesting part was just beginning already. It didn't take long before a voice belonging to the captain of the ship came through the speakers. His voice came in loud and clear, making even the fighters who didn't want to listen to pay attention.
The man explained everything about the fighters having to fight amongst each other to reach 5 people remaining. Very soon after his explanation, everyone began fighting amongst themselves.
Sora only stood behind Ohma, looking around with an interested look. He didn't take action at all since it would just be bullying.
Most of the fighters here weren't even masters, only a small group of people were Masters. Ohma was nearing Grandmaster, but with his battle hungry personality and no way to calm himself down, he won't be reaching that stage until after 10-20 years.
Sora's technically already a Legendary Master, fighting with these people would be as simple as killing an ant. Even without reaching Great Perfection in Nirvanic Taichi Art, his mid Legendary Master strength was already amazing.
A strength of 50 ox was no joke at all.
His understanding and proficiency in Martial Arts was already all at max. The only thing Sora could do now was strengthen his Will and refine his Myriad Intent Qi.
Without warning, two men jumped from behind Ohma, sending down two punches at him. Their fists were rapid, but Ohma reacted quickly as if knowing that it was about to happen.
Turning around, Ohma performed a redirectional technique, making the fists of the two men hit each other. He hands slightly guided the fists of the two men as he crouched his way out of the collision course.
Not soon after defeating those two men, more people began making their way to Ohma.
Seeing as how Ohma was now occupied with fighting, Sora stood next to Kaede. Kaede was looking for a chance to tell Ohma to protect her since she had been locked inside the room because he had prevented her from leaving the room.
"I'm Suoh Steelworks' fighter, Kamiyama Sora."
"I am Akiyama Kaede, Yamashita Trading Co.'s secretary," she said with a small bow. Her worry about possibly being hit faded as she looked at Sora's soothing cute/handsome face and smelled his nice scent of nature and life.
The blonde beauty looked at Sora for a hot second before blinking her pretty eyes quickly, "Did you just say you are a fighter?"
"Yes!" said Sora as he beamed a smile to the woman.
Kaede looked at Sora for seconds before saying, "There's no way, right? I mean, you're only 16... 17..."
Giving a wry smile, Sora said, "Let me prove it to you."
Sora didn't mind people not knowing if he was truly a fighter or not, but he wanted to continue the talk with Kaede and have her become interested in him. If not, how will he get her to agree to go on a date.
With a quick step, Sora walked away from Kaede before she could say anything. Sora didn't stop with just one step before appearing before three muscular men about to fight amongst each other.
Sora lifted his hand in a saluting manner, "Hello men. Today I am putting on a nice-"
Before Sora could finish talking, one of the men sent out a quick punch to Sora. They didn't even bother paying attention to his words or anything since they had seen the person have a small build, quickly putting Sora beneath their eyes.
None even noticed Sora's young looks, they only cared to reach the last top 5 standing people.
Slap!
Sora stopped the fist with a single finger before slapping the man, making him fall unconscious. Sora didn't even give the man a chance to realize his fist was stopped by a single finger before being slapped unconscious.
"Let me finish next time," said Sora with cold eyes.
Sora took a quick step forward and only used a finger this time to take down the other two men. With a light tap to their foreheads, Sora made them slump down onto the floor. Five seconds hadn't even passed when Sora had first said 'Hello...'.
He looked at the men slumped on the floor before sighing and scratching the back of his head.
'I wanted to give Kaede a nice performance, but these guys didn't even bother listening,' thought Sora as he looked at the three men lying on the ground. He shook his head and was about to return to Kaede before hearing the sound of a man jumping through the air with great power behind each launch.
Boom!
"Ah!"
"Ugh!"
"Pah.."
Many men were knocked away by a well-built muscular black man with short black hair, a thick black moustache and noticeably gleaming smile. He has a jovial animated facial expression, wearing dark pants held up by bridges and a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up, finishing his outfit with a bowtie.
This man is Jerry Tyson, he practices the Xing Yi Quan.
Xing Yi Quan is a martial art that focuses on the different styles of animals, bringing out their ferociousness, brutality, or even agility or strength. However, Jerry Tyson's style didn't come from animals, rather the weapons of mankind.
Jerry Tyson believed animals were weak since they were, in the end, taken down by humans and their weapons. So that's when Jerry began thinking of a style related to the modern weapons.
Now with the style created, the move most commonly used by him, was the SCUD Missile.
A powerfully quick charging attack that can knock back anything in its way. Jerry holds his hands in fists in front of him as he launches himself, and he is able to maintain high speeds and turn on a dime, meaning that even if it is dodged he can change course instantly as his whole body works together to manoeuvre at top speed.
In addition, anyone that attempts to attack him from the side also ends up violently knocked back due to the incredible momentum he possesses.
When Sora had seen this martial art before, it kind of inspired him to make some moves himself. Although instead of making a move for every single type of weapon, Sora just made some simple ones.
Like the Bullet Finger, Artillery Fist, Cannon Head… all rather simple but deadly. Especially Bullet Finger which can pierce any defense as long as the finger is strong enough.
After knocking down a few men, Jerry stopped and started air thrusting with his hips. A wide smile on his face as he yelled, "YESSS!!!"
Sora just wryly smiled as he listened to the man's words. After he finished yelling, he turned to look at Sora with an excited glint before placing his fists before his head.
Boom!
The man launched himself at Sora, his fists knocking back any person that crossed his path. Some even ended up with broken bones after being knocked back by Jerry Tyson.
Smiling, Sora waited for the man to appear before him before raising a single finger and stopping him without using any strength. Yin force was truly extraordinary.
"What..." Jerry looked at Sora with shock, completely surprised at his inability to knock back Sora.
"That's an amazing technique you made there, but there's still too many flaws," said Sora before putting down his finger and slamming down his palm on Jerry's back, sending him crashing into the ground.
"Ugh..."
Jerry groaned as he hit the ground hard, shock still present on his face despite being knocked out.
Sora smiled and walked back to Kaede, easily walking past a blonde man that joined Ohma in fighting against some people.
"So, believe me now?" asked Sora as he looked at the shocked Kaede's face.
She looked at Sora with wide eyes, not knowing what to say. Her mouth was in an 'O' shape after seeing him stop Jerry with just a single finger. Kaede couldn't even begin to imagine the amount of strength Sora could possibly have.
'I should tell Nogi-san about Kamiyama,' thought Kaede with shock. 'This man might be above Hatsumi's level.'
Sora noticed Kaede's silence and knew what she was thinking seeing those wary eyes of hers. Chuckling at the woman's thoughts, Sora just focused back on Tokita and the blonde man fighting the rest.
'Should I help?' thought Sora after seeing a large amount of people racing to Ohma and the blonde man. 'Nah, they got this in the bag.'
After a couple of minutes, only 6 people were left standing, that included Sora and excluded Kaede.
Once Kaede got over her initial shock and her wary thoughts, both Sora and Kaede began talking once more whilst Ohma and Rihito fought.
"So you lost your arm in a fight a couple days ago?" asked Kaede with wide eyes as she looked at the draping sleeve from Sora's tang suit robe.
"Yes. The man who took my arm was really brutal," said Sora, completely leaving out the part where he was going to kill him but instead gave Japan an earthquake.
The only reason Sora had never killed Yuujiro was only for Baki's sake. Since Baki wanted to get revenge for the many things Yuujiro had tormented him with, Sora didn't feel right to take Yuujiro's life before Baki could do something about it. In the end, Sora left Yuujiro alone so that Baki could defeat him himself.
Only after Baki defeats Yuujiro would Sora make a move and end Yuujiro's life.
'Since that man had crippled Emi, the man deserves being crippled. However, after taking my arm, such luxuries aren't up for him anymore,' mumbled Sora as he looked at his right shoulder.
"Hey you!" yelled the blonde man as he walked up to Sora. His eyes occasionally glanced at Kaede, quickly making Sora know that the man was smitten by the woman a couple of minutes ago.
'Is he going to try to fight me just because I was talking with her?' thought Sora with a rather annoyed look.
Sora always disliked the people who would jump to conclusions and would end up making millions of scenarios in their heads, thinking they are true.
"What?" Sora turned to look at Rihito with a lively expression, no hint of malice anywhere.
"There are too many people still standing, fight with me," said Rihito as he strutted over to Sora with utmost confidence.
Sora furrowed his eyebrows at the man's words. Although the man didn't mention anything about Kaede, his gaze revealed everything about what he wanted to do.
"Why not fight one of the other four?" asked Sora with a small smile, pointing to the four people behind Rihito, Ohma included.
"Because I'm already here," said Rihito unblinkingly.
With a weird look, Sora just lifted his hand and snapped his fingers before having Rihito fall unconscious right before him.
This man has such thick skin, not bashful one bit.
Sora sighed and was about to continue talking with Kaede before noticing everyone's shocked looks. The looks were more noticeable on those up behind the glass as they stared at Sora with wide eyes.
"How did he knock him out?!"
"Arg!! My bet! My 20 million dollar bet!!"
"Are they playing at a moment like this? This has to be scripted, right? To entertain us after the fight..."
"Kengan Association has not prepared an event like this," said a woman who looked at the scene below with a dumb look on her face. She was naturally surprised as well by what had happened below, but she still had to give an explanation to everyone wondering what was happening.
However, the one most shocked about the situation was not the Kengan Association workers or Kaede, but Mihono who was looking at Sora with wide eyes. She would have never thought that Sora could just so simply knock out someone by just snapping his fingers.
If he could do that this whole time, why didn't he do it before in the Kengan Matches?
Mihono just couldn't figure out why Sora would do such a thing until just now.
Sora glanced at all the fighters in the area before giving a subtle nod, approving of the skills of everyone here.
They were all either at the peak of Master or nearing it, something not normally found considering the young age of the people before Sora.
"We should talk more often," said Sora to Kaede amidst the shock and quietness.