Martial Arts Worlds

"A shocking development!" Chris Chang shouted. "Yves surrendered!"

At the crowd, Nathaniel frowned and asked. "Coach, why would they do that?"

"Hmm…" Jin frowned. "I think it is for a show."

"For a show?"

"Millions of people are here to watch one person fight—Johan Yeager—and if Yves wanted, he could've won the match single-handedly.

"But that will leave many people unsatisfied.

"Thus, Tiamut High will show all of the member's strength before showing the main character—Johan Yeager."

"You think Kara will also surrender after her match?" Nathaniel asked.

"Definitely," Jin said.

"That's risky." Timothy said and nudged his classes. "What if Johan accidentally loses? It is possible. He might, who knows, fall off the ring!"

"It is the pride of the strongest." Kiernan said. "Everyone knows they're a stronger team. They plan on showing why they're strongest as well."

…

At the ring.

'Thank god I don't have to face that monster.' Dennis thought with a relieved look. 'I didn't really want to get all my ribs broken!'

Kara reached the ring and stretched her hands out with a smile plastered across her beautiful face.

'She is the user of Tiamut Style's soft style.' Dennis thought. 'Opposite of hard style, she will mostly dodge and evade attacks.'

"The second fight is between Kara Rousseau and Dennis Howlman!" The referee's voice boomed across the stadium.

The crowd cheered loudly.

"Are the both fighters ready?!"

"I am!" Dennis shouted.

"Yep~" Kara responded with a confident smile.

The referee brought his arm down.

"FIGH—"

Before the T was uttered, Kara blitzed across the ring, and high-kicked Dennis in the face.

He didn't have time to reach.

The kick sent him flying across the ring, and he barely stopped at the edge, but his head was hanging down off the ring.

"Fast!" Chris Chang shouted from the commentator's booth.

'What crazy speed.' The referee thought and jumped off the ring.

At the crowd, Ryan narrowed his eyes.

"Kiernan, how would you deal with that?" Nathaniel asked with a sly smile.

Ryan also looked over. He wondered whether Kiernan had the answer to that as well.

Kiernan crossed his arms and said. "Kara's speed is different from Ryan."

"How's so?"

"First of all, Kara is faster." Kiernan shrugged his shoulders. "It's because of the rank difference. If Ryan were Martial Fighter, I believe he would be faster, but at the current moment, she is faster."

"Can you defeat Kara the same way you did with Ryan?" Timothy asked.

"No," Kiernan said. "Kara has greater control of her speed. She is also clearly able to deaccelerate much faster."

"What do you mean?" Jin asked. "I thought Kara used Ryan's Super Jump to close the distance and kick Dennis in the face?"

"No." Ryan shook his head. "Kara crossed the distance by running. She was able to come to an almost complete stop as soon as she wanted to, and when she did, she immediately kicked Dennis in the face."

"Doesn't that reduce her power?" Jin asked. "Ryan's Super Acceleration and Super Jump are so powerful because of the momentum that he gathers from his speed."

"That's right." Kiernan said. "She doesn't want to use the power from the momentum because it makes her predictable. I guess that's what they taught her at Tiamut High."

"Now, how would you deal with her?" Jin asked.

"Because she has to stop before throwing her attack, there is a fraction of a second where she is vulnerable." Kiernan said. "However, that's when things get tricky."

"How so?"

"What if Kara suddenly uses the momentum of her speed to throw an attack?" Kiernan asked. "It would make her very unpredictable. If she manages to land even a single punch with momentum behind it, I would lose."

"Oh, that's right!" Jin caressed his chin. "How tricky!"

"The speed is also your weakness." Ryan said. "Could it be that Kara is the weakness of your martial arts?"

Kiernan's eyebrow twitched, as if he were annoyed by that comment.

"Of course not!" He said. "My martial arts is not that shallow."

"…" Ryan narrowed his eyes.

For a moment, Ryan felt like he was starting to finally get understanding of Kiernan's true skill level, but after hearing his words, it again felt like he was barely touching the surface.

…

"Cough!" Dennis jumped back to his feet and slammed his fists at the ring before standing back up.

'That speed took me by surprise, but no longer!'

Kara bounced on her toes with a small smile playing on her lips.

'Y'know, I learned fighting at sea!' Dennis licked his lips, and his footwork changed.

With few random steps, his body started to look like it was falling back and forth. It made him look like a drunken sailor.

"It's Sea Steps!" Marc grinned. "The fishermen of Easton have to sail through the dangerous waters of the World Sea. To be able to walk on the deck of a ship that is constantly moving requires a unique skill set.

"They call it the Sea Steps, and Dennis learned it from his father!"

"Oh? I think I've heard about this." Kara looked excited, and then she charged forward but came to a sudden stop in front of Dennis.

Then she kicked her leg up and whipped her leg towards him.

With the Sea Steps, Dennis' upper body moved randomly down and happened to evade Kara's dangerous kick.

"Oh?" Kara exclaimed in surprise.

"Fishermen Style, Great Whale Hunt!" Dennis harpooned his hand forward towards Kara.

It was the same technique that Nico used, but he was foolish. It was never going to work against his extremely trained body.

However, Kara was different.

While she had been training her body, in the end, she had a female physique that made her physically weaker. It was an undeniable fact.

Thus, she was not going to be able to tank attacks like Yves was!

The hand came flying straight at her, but as it was about to pierce through her, her back arched backwards, and the hand flew over her head harmlessly.

"?!" Dennis looked down at Kara, who dodged the attack with insane flexibility that seemed out of this world.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

With a smile, she grabbed Dennis' arm and wrapped her legs around his torso, flipping him over onto the ground with surprising ease.

She moved into a mounting position and pinned him so that he couldn't move at all.