After seeing Mutou Judai take Wakatsuki Takeshi's punch directly with his sternum, or rather his solar plexus area, Tokita Ohma, who was watching the match with Yamashita Kazuo in the corner behind the audience seats, widened his eyes in surprise.
"That's Niko Style, Adamantine Kata: Indestructible!"
Although Tokita Ohma hadn't fully recovered his memories yet, this Niko Style police officer was promptly on duty at this moment!
"Why does that Mutou Judai know Niko Style?"
While Tokita Ohma was surprised by what was happening in the arena, Mutou Judai had already collided with Tiger again in the center of the arena.
Soru!
Mutou Judai directly used Soru, appearing in front of Tiger in a flash, then during the rush created by Soru—in just this brief instant, Mutou Judai transferred force from waist to back, back to shoulder, shoulder to arm, arm to fist!
He jumped up entirely, and the moment Wakatsuki Takeshi realized Mutou Judai had disappeared, Mutou Judai had already wound up his fist in front of him, adding the force of half his body plus Soru's speed, his body weight, and finally...
—His palm clenched into a fist during the punching motion, following the force of the punch!
He added his final grip strength to his fist.
This fist combining force, speed, weight, and grip strength struck directly at Wakatsuki Takeshi's face!
Bang—
Wakatsuki Takeshi felt like he'd been hit by a heavy hammer... no, like he'd been struck in the head by a cannonball!
His body instinctively loosened, his entire center of gravity tilted!
But at this moment, Wakatsuki Takeshi's eyes locked onto Mutou Judai. His previously weakened right foot stepped back while directly exerting force to stomp the ground. Using the enormous punching space created by this tilted center of gravity, he directly wound up his left fist and swung it at Mutou Judai's face!
Then...
Crack!
A crisp sound like an old man practicing with a whip in the park exploded in the venue.
When Wakatsuki Takeshi planned to punch Mutou Judai, Mutou Judai also used his previously unmoved left fist to deliver a sonic punch directly to Wakatsuki Takeshi!
But this time Wakatsuki Takeshi was lucky.
The fist he was about to throw happened to block in front of Mutou Judai's sonic punch.
Then the muscles in his left forearm area were smashed with an obvious dent, but Wakatsuki Takeshi reacted amid this sharp pain and hurriedly began retreating while dissipating the force.
Seeing this scene, Tokita Ohma widened his eyes again, even pointing at Mutou Judai in the venue.
"Just now, his movement method was somewhat like Niko Style, Adamantine Kata Fire Heaven Type: Flash Steel Smash!"
The Niko Style police were on duty again!
While he was speaking, the situation inside the venue changed.
Seeing Wakatsuki Takeshi planning to retreat and create distance to reorganize his stance, Mutou Judai naturally couldn't let him go.
But just as Mutou Judai caught up, Wakatsuki Takeshi had already closed in.
—Blast Core!
Wakatsuki Takeshi had appeared to be retreating just now and had indeed shifted his center of gravity backward—so he could deceive Mutou Judai.
But actually, he never planned to retreat. Instead, he contracted his center of gravity, then at the instant Mutou Judai charged forward, he directly aimed at Mutou Judai's head and threw a Blast Core rushing punch!
This superhuman physique with muscle density fifty-two times that of ordinary people contracted all his body's strength at once, then released it in the form of a rushing punch.
And what he hit was Mutou Judai's completely unguarded opening.
Mutou Judai wasn't Hanma Yujiro after all.
Right now he could only tilt his head to avoid the facial centerline and chin, and barely use Tekkai in an instant...
But it was still too forced.
This punch hit solidly, and Mutou Judai was directly punched in the face, his entire body blown away by that tremendous force!
Wakatsuki Takeshi planned to pursue forward at this moment.
However...
The instant he planned to pursue, just a mysterious feeling, but Wakatsuki Takeshi indeed felt it!
That Mutou Judai who was blown away and naturally spread his arms as if completely defenseless gave him an extremely dangerous feeling!
This feeling was like being targeted by a poisonous wasp!
As if he would definitely die if he pursued!
With this moment of hesitation, while he lost the best opportunity to pursue, he also felt sharp pain from his arm!
Hiss—
Because Blast Core was a technique of contracting force and then instantly releasing it.
So during this process, if a cut appeared on his fist or arm—then his force would carry his blood and spray directly out of this cut!
This was exactly the current situation.
He missed that instant opportunity, then he discovered.
He didn't know when, but a deep gash had appeared on his wrist!
And with his Blast Core rushing punch, his blood sprayed directly from the gash!
—When was this gash made!
After noticing this, Wakatsuki Takeshi hurriedly exerted force, trying to use his muscles to squeeze the gash shut.
But unfortunately, the gash on his wrist wasn't the kind of mark that looked like it was cut by a blade, but a nearly triangular opening!
He could only slow the bleeding as much as possible but couldn't stop it!
While he was disrupted by this series of accidents, Mutou Judai slowly got up.
While getting up, he also wiped the corner of his mouth with one hand.
—Used it instinctively.
Right.
The instant Wakatsuki Takeshi's Blast Core punch hit him just now, he couldn't block with his arms in time, and activating Tekkai on his face wasn't very effective. Combined with the forced activation, the defensive effect hadn't maximized before Wakatsuki Takeshi hit him.
So besides avoiding being hit on the facial centerline, Mutou Judai also instinctively used Jack Hanma's signature technique.
—Beast Style!
That is... biting!
Jack Hanma's bite force could easily crush even coconut shells, and after Mutou Judai's Hanma Blood was upgraded, his bite was even better than Jack Hanma's!
So the instant he was hit by the fist just now, Mutou Judai also instinctively bit Wakatsuki Takeshi with Beast Style!
This was why he was bleeding.
And moreover...
"Takeshi, your luck just now was really good~"
Wakatsuki Takeshi looked at Mutou Judai who had gotten up, hadn't lost combat ability, and didn't even show any effects. While ignoring his bleeding wrist and taking a fighting stance, ready for battle, he heard Mutou Judai say such words.
"If you had pursued just now... you'd probably be dead by now~"
Jack Hanma had two ultimate techniques!
First was his Beast Style that emphasized bite force, claiming to revive the weapon—teeth—that ancient humans lost during evolution.
Then there was...
Carved into his bones, not even requiring active activation, automatically triggered by instinct when the time came—the world's strongest middle finger!
That is, when he fought Primitive Man Pickle, even though he had lost consciousness, his body's instinct would still automatically make his two hands slap toward the opponent's head when someone he judged as an enemy approached—with tremendous force while directly inserting his middle fingers into the opponent's ears!
When the user had lost consciousness, it might miss due to height differences, but when conscious, as long as the opponent couldn't make effective defense, it would definitely hit—like a poisonous wasp, a genuine killing move!
"Perhaps..."
Wakatsuki Takeshi didn't refute Mutou Judai.
Because he had indeed felt that feeling of being targeted by a poisonous wasp just now.
So he responded with a sentence, then began using his toes to grip the ground, slowly closing the distance between himself and Mutou Judai.
He indeed couldn't understand how the gash on his hand appeared.
He also didn't know what kind of killing move Mutou Judai was hiding.
But—
If he wanted to defeat Mutou Judai, he had to close the distance with his opponent!
This was the only thing he knew and the only thing he could do!
Because he was a gladiator, not a fighter.
So he didn't care about what principle the opponent's fighting technique operated on. He, or rather he standing here—only needed to think about how to win!
Keep your eyes on victory while on the arena—this was a gladiator!
Mutou Judai also noticed Wakatsuki Takeshi's gaze.
Seeing this gaze, he slowly smiled.
He knew about the opponent approaching.
And the opponent's current condition wasn't good.
Wakatsuki Takeshi's left hand was hit by his sonic punch, so exerting force would be obstructed.
His right hand was bitten by him, so it started bleeding. It wasn't that he couldn't continue exerting force, but after using his right hand to exert force, he couldn't last much longer.
—After all, he was constantly losing blood.
This was also the core reason he was approaching him.
Because he was constantly losing blood, it was impossible to drag this into a prolonged battle with him—he wanted a quick decisive battle.
And moreover...
Mutou Judai looked at Wakatsuki Takeshi's eyes.
He could tell.
Although Wakatsuki Takeshi was indeed focused entirely on victory, even now when his striking techniques and even Blast Core punches couldn't have much effect on the enemy, he still didn't waver in the slightest...
He was too pure as a gladiator, which was one reason. Additionally... he probably still had some moves he hadn't used yet.
However...
Mutou Judai looked at Wakatsuki Takeshi approaching him and smiled while clenching his fist.
"It's over."
With Mutou Judai's words, Wakatsuki Takeshi's pupils contracted.
At this moment, his concentration was highly focused.
He was very clear that his eyes couldn't capture Mutou Judai's speed at all!
So he had to make a judgment.
It was one second... no, less than one second!
Then...
—Now!
The instant Mutou Judai stepped into Soru, Wakatsuki Takeshi directly embraced forward, then the moment Mutou Judai rushed in front of him, he directly let out a roar!
—Ahh!!
Muscles with fifty-two times normal density directly let him withstand the impact brought by Soru and directly embrace Mutou Judai!
Right.
Besides Blast Core, Wakatsuki Takeshi had another technique!
That is, grappling techniques that involved holding the enemy for ground fighting—if you had to say, calling them strangling techniques wouldn't be wrong either!
Wakatsuki Takeshi himself was a master skilled in striking techniques, and grappling techniques were obviously incompatible with his fighting style, even contradictory.
So Takeshi actually wasn't that skilled in grappling.
But...
If his first-class level grappling techniques were combined with the tremendous strength brought by his muscle density that exceeded ordinary people by fifty-two times during strangling, then this move's threat would directly reach the level of a killing technique!
And now Wakatsuki Takeshi planned to use grappling to strangle Mutou Judai!
And he had indeed embraced Mutou Judai!
He embraced Mutou Judai's arms and waist, and made up his mind that he wouldn't let go even if he died!
Then...
He felt a familiar flow of force...
—He felt Mutou Judai was... contracting?
Before Wakatsuki Takeshi could react, his originally locked hands were directly forced open by Mutou Judai!
Mutou Judai raised both hands, while Wakatsuki Takeshi's center of gravity was flattened due to his hands being forced open, and his hands couldn't return to defense in time under Mutou Judai's incredibly powerful force!
Only then did Takeshi react.
The move Mutou Judai just used was...
—Blast Core!
Mutou Judai looked at the dumbfounded Wakatsuki Takeshi and raised the corners of his mouth.
Sorry, after seeing such a simple technique so many times with my Hanma Blood... I've already learned it...
So.
—It's over!
Bang!
Mutou Judai's hands formed fists, simultaneously hitting Wakatsuki Takeshi's head from both sides like pincers.
Wakatsuki Takeshi, whose hands couldn't return to defense at all, was completely unable to defend at this moment!
With Mutou Judai's fists clamping his head and then immediately separating, Wakatsuki Takeshi's consciousness was dissolved under the pincer attack of these two forces.
His legs bent, his entire body knelt on the ground, his upper body collapsed backward, his face toward the sky—he fainted like this.
Seeing such Wakatsuki Takeshi, Mutou Judai also exhaled.
Wakatsuki Takeshi was already very strong.
But.
—The victor was ultimately him!