“Hum, I’m pretty sure it goes like this…”
“…What are you doing? Another performance full of useless moves? How can you not get tired of that? How about you stop trying to become a magic knight and become a clown? Haha!”
Yuugo stood in place, seemingly warming up his achilles tendons by moving his legs back and forth, and these weird moves made Marcos laugh at him loudly.
Yuugo ignored Marcos, instead feeling thankful that his opponent was being careless and not moving, as he continued his strange movements and tried to picture things in his head.
“Clench my fist, pull my arm, and then…”
Yuugo clenched his fist, pulled his right arm back, and twisted his body a little.
Then he pictured magic energy concentrating in his right hand, felt strength rushing into it, and smiled under his helmet.
“All right! Now I take this and… Do this!!”
“Ah…?”
Concentrate, contract, and contract again while concentrating.
Yuugo felt the magic energy pouring into his fist, and once he decided it was enough, he attacked.
He pulled his left arm back, stepped forward with intensity, and lunged his right arm towards Marcos.
As he put out his right fist like a karate thrust, almost like his arms were connected to a pulley, the magic energy concentrated was released into his opponent like a huge bullet.
“What!? No way!? Uoooooh!!”
Marcos was caught completely off guard, and although he tried to protect himself with his Giga scissors, he could not block the magic energy bullet heading towards him.
The crimson magic energy hit the armor in Marcos’ left arm, and its momentum pushed him back. And as his body hung in the air, the magic bullet exploded, sending a screaming Marcos flying back.
The perfectly executed attack left the audience flabbergasted, and even Phi was at a loss for words.
“Ooh, it worked. I practiced yesterday, but I didn’t expect it to go so well…”
Whispered Yuugo as he glanced at the crowd, surprised by how the popular special move among heroes, that was collecting energy in one’s fist and releasing it as a bullet of light, worked beyond his expectations.
He just copied the movements of heroes that used similar techniques and tried it, but it actually worked well.
He was a little worried about Marcos, but more emotional about using the same technique as the heroes he looked up to, and he thanked them in his head.
‘Thank you Ryu○, I○a. As a display of my gratitude, I will call this move Dragon Fang Blaster…!’
Truthfully, the blow only hit so cleanly because Marcos’ guard was completely down. If he used it normally, Yuugo would be stopped in the time it took for him to unleash the magic bullet. But that was something to correct going forward.
Anyway, Yuugo’s preemptive attack worked, and he was waiting with caution for Marcos to retaliate. However…?
“Ah, gugah, gu, eh… N-no way, I, like this… Gufuh.”
“M-Mister Marcos!!”
“…Oh? Uh…?”
Marcos fell flat on the ground, and fainted as his followers rushed towards him. As Yuugo saw this sight, he could not help but let out a foolish sounding voice.
Marcos was clearly not fit to fight anymore, and the crowd was also completely quiet, as they also never saw this one-hit KO coming.
Yuugo stood in the center of the duel arena, which was now quiet as a wake. He turned with awkward movements to his only ally, and asked him a question.
“P-Phi? Hum, did I… Overdo it?”
“Hum… It’s kind of an unexpected result, but…”
“Ah, I knew it. I see, so I really did go too far…”
Yuugo thought to himself that he should not have gone for a special move right from the start, and it would have been more exciting if there was a regular fight first, and then he used it. It was breaking that convention that landed him in that situation.
He thought to himself that maybe, he did not understand the aesthetics of heroes either, but at least he managed to beat back the cowards who messed with him.
He grabbed Phi, and quickly left that place behind them, while reflecting on how he should fight.
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Reference time:
Yugo is actually thanking Ryuki and Ixa for this. and that move he named is a shout to their moves:
Ixa – Broken Fang
Ryuki – Strike Vent
Both moves use knuckle/fist weapons that shoot out fire.
RA-I-SI-NG U-P!
Excelent work as always!