Dura 5

After completing his transformation, Kaga sank his huge body down and took a squatting stance. Then, using the recoil from knocking his tight fist onto the ground to lift his upper half torso, with the leg power that sank the enormous ring into the earth, he propelled his huge body forward. That figure was just like a cannonball.

「F-Fast! Contender Kaga! He is rushing towards Contender Ouma with a speed one wouldn’t imagine possible with his huge body! How will Contender Ouma handle it!?」

However, Ouma’s response to Kaga’s assault was the same as in the first and second round.

“............”

「──Whaaat!? T-This is!? Contender Ouma! He is neither defending nor dodging! He is walking straight towards Contender Kaga’s assault! He doesn’t seem to be afraid of that arm strength and huge body!」

「That’s some big confidence......However, that’s being reckless.」

 As Yaotome said, Ouma’s response was a foolish decision in anyone’s eyes. He was different from the opponent in the first and second match. Kaga’s offensive power was at a level that even using Crimson Princess, Stella Vermillion’s overwhelming magic power would not be able to stop. A direct hit would not end well. Even so, he did not take up any defense. Kaga felt a strong fury towards Ouma’s response. He was belittling him to the point of not even trying to evade. To that extent. However, that probably could not be helped. He had never once won against Ouma. Being looked down upon was obvious. In that case──

(With this one strike, I will wake you up!)

“UOOoOoOoOOooOOryaaAAA!!!!”

 In an instant, Kaga’s opened palm hit Ouma’s face with all of his arm strength and body weight. At the moment of the impact, the atmosphere shook as if a large truck crashed in a frontal collision, It was undoubtedly a direct hit. Ouma really did not use any defense or evasion against Kaga’s attack. However ── He would obviously not come out unscathed after doing that. Ouma’s body greatly inclined and sank down. And then, Kaga decided he would not let go of the decisive opening created by that overconfidence! In that moment, Kaga saw his chance for victory. Panzer Grizzly executed the prided secret move combining attack and defense in one. Using hundreds of open palm strikes, while warding off the opponent’s attacks, at the same time, showering him with super heavy continuous strikes, That was a new sure-kill technique executed against Ouma with his six arms──── the Hundred Lotus Palm.

“Asura Hundred Lotus Palm ────── ooOoOOOOO!!!!”

「Contender Kaga is dealing a decisive blow to Contender Ouma who has broken his posture! Rush Rush Rush! He is using his steel palm to strike continuously at his opponent with speed that our eyes can’t even catch up wiiiith!」

Receiving that earlier strike squarely, Ouma would not be able to evade the rush. He was completely caught in that storm with the steel palms raining on him. Kaga trembled from the response that his sure-kill technique had hit in the best way possible. He could do it. Ouma’s body was about to collapse on the ring. He could win if he just continued attacking like that! The premonition of victory that he continued to seek in the past five years let his strength explode beyond his limit.

However──

(──............!?)

Kaga’s excited expectation was gradually thinning away. Anxiety welled up to replace that. Why? Even though he was attacking so one-sidedly. Even though all of Kaga’s steel palm strikes had a clean hit on his target. Why did he feel anxious? The reason was exactly because of what was happening. Kaga’s attacks had all hit their target with clear feedbacks.

In spite of that──

(Why won’t he fall!?)

That question was...

“......A technique developed to defeat me............huh.”

Along with the muttering spilled by Ouma, who was taking on his Asura Hundred Lotus Palm, it was resolved. After Ouma’s body had sank at a certain angle, the response coming from Kaga’s hand changed. The image projected in his brain was as if his palm strikes were hitting a rock mountain towering above the skies ── a desperate waste of effort.

(He’s completely, not budging even a tiny bit......!)

Ouma did not budge or tremble at all after receiving those steel palm strikes. That’s right, Ouma’s posture was not broken by Kaga’s palm strikes, He had lowered his posture in order to swing his sword!

“Those five years were meaningless. Renji.”

“!?!?”