Soryuin Akemi was the younger sister of Soryuin Shion, the director of Korakuen Girls' Academy. She had been serving as student council president since her first year at school and had won the "Miss Korakuen Girls' Academy" competition for two consecutive years. Although she was somewhat of a serious muscle enthusiast, there was no denying she was a quite popular beautiful girl.
Wealthy, excellent grades, athletic, polite, and kind to others—if someone were to hit on such a beautiful girl, it would be understandable no matter what.
And Sakura Hibiki, who was with her...
—This girl was a landmine.
And not a standard landmine girl, but a very special type even among landmine girls.
After all, while there were many types of landmine girls, there weren't many who could punch a sandbag to pieces when angry like she could.
And those two guys who hit on them had obviously detonated this landmine!
Although it was unclear what exactly they had done, that punch capable of destroying a sandbag had definitely landed on the guy lying on the ground.
He was still alive now, but lying on the ground, completely unconscious.
And his subordinate, even though he had a handgun, instinctively stepped back two steps when drawing his gun before pulling it out.
Although Sakura Hibiki was indeed scared after seeing the gun, the guy with the gun wasn't much better off.
He glanced at his boss lying on the ground and felt a chill in his heart.
You have to know, his boss had some skills in close combat!
Yet such a person was beaten into this state with one punch by this girl in front of him!
This...
He pointed the handgun at Sakura Hibiki.
"—You monster, I..."
He wanted to shoot directly, but when he put his finger on the trigger; when Soryuin Akemi had already blocked in front of Sakura Hibiki; when Sakura Hibiki also reacted and wanted to push Soryuin Akemi away—
His finger on the trigger was grabbed by someone.
This!
When he noticed this, the guy with the handgun finally discovered that somehow a lazy-looking person had appeared beside him.
He was scratching his messy black hair that looked like a bird's nest with one hand, while directly grabbing his finger with the other hand.
He instinctively wanted to say something.
But before he could speak, he felt pain in his finger, and then the handgun was taken by the other party.
"You—"
"Even so, killing someone over something like this is going too far... and if you take your boss to the hospital now, his condition isn't serious, but if you let him keep bleeding like this, there might be big problems."
Ah!
Only then did this guy who looked like a small-time thug react, directly kneeling down and picking up his boss.
Then he also discovered that when his boss had just fainted earlier, he only had a little nosebleed, but now there were traces of blood at the corners of his boss's mouth.
"Boss!"
Seeing him run outside carrying his boss, Mutou Judai's gaze fell on Soryuin Akemi and Sakura Hibiki.
"Just like they went too far, you went too far too... Think of a way to handle that guy's medical expenses later."
"...Yes, I understand. I'm really very sorry."
Sakura Hibiki nodded repeatedly.
She had mainly just started working out recently and had no idea about the force of her punches, so she never expected such a problem would occur.
But since the problem had already happened, even if it was a bit uncomfortable, she wouldn't avoid responsibility.
After hearing her finish speaking, Mutou Judai nodded, then took the gun and walked toward the bar counter.
This matter still needed to be handled by Great Universe Bar.
Fortunately, the problem wasn't too big. If someone had really died, this bar would probably be sealed off until tomorrow, and Erina's plan to compete with Totsuki Resort for sales tomorrow morning would be finished.
After Mutou Judai left, Sakura Hibiki finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Then when she looked at Soryuin Akemi and felt very grateful to this friend she had just met who was willing to help her block bullets, she discovered that her friend was staring at Mutou Judai's back with drool coming out of her mouth.
Ah, this...
She understood very well what kind of person Soryuin Akemi was.
Although when she first met her, Sakura Hibiki thought Soryuin Akemi was someone who would be interested in refreshing handsome guys, but...
Facts had proven to her countless times.
The popular girl of Korakuen Girls' Academy, Soryuin Akemi... was a serious muscle enthusiast!
When she saw Mutou Judai earlier, although she thought he didn't look that refreshing, and instead seemed somewhat slovenly due to his mild dark circles and lazy appearance.
But at least speaking of his face, he was still very handsome.
But she also knew... Soryuin Akemi wasn't someone who would be overly interested in faces.
So...
At this moment, she thought of that guy from her gym who looked like a normal person when dressed but would turn into a muscle-bound man with disproportionate head-to-body ratio when he got serious...
Could it be... so it wouldn't be...
Sakura Hibiki looked at Mutou Judai's back and couldn't help but swallow, calming her emotions.
—Could this guy also be that kind of muscle maniac!?
...
After Mutou Judai handed the gun to the bar counter and Okuya Ken came out to say their side would handle this matter, he returned to Erina's side.
Erina looked Mutou Judai up and down thoroughly, making Mutou Judai somewhat puzzled.
"What's wrong?"
"No... mainly it was the speed you rushed over earlier... I thought you wanting to become a fighter was a joke, but you actually have some real skills?"
Erina had seen Mutou Judai's speed earlier.
Basically, her eyes didn't capture it very clearly, and in the time of one breath, he was already at a relatively distant position.
Her understanding of Kengan was recent, after some problems occurred on Totsuki's side.
So she actually didn't understand fighters in that much detail.
She only knew that the representative fighter Okuya Ken could send seemed to be a newcomer.
But she really didn't know much about that newcomer named Himuro Ryo.
However, since he was a newcomer...
—Then maybe Mutou Judai could really win?
Erina thought this way, while Mutou Judai shrugged after hearing Erina's answer.
He always gave Erina this kind of feeling.
His attitude combined with his lazy appearance made him seem like he didn't care about anything—but actually, after you really got to know him, you would discover that this guy was like a very thick but simply packaged book. The more you read, the more you could understand what kind of person he really was.
Every page turn revealed something new.
Meanwhile, Mutou Judai slowly shifted his gaze to the side.
A man wearing waiter clothes, with silver hair, and looking quite sturdy walked over from this direction.
And his gaze was always focused on Mutou Judai.
"You must be the fighter I'm dealing with this time... Tiger Mutou Judai—both your title and your previous movements show you have some skills..."
Hearing the other party say this, Mutou Judai remembered the information that Erina had been nagging about in his ear earlier, insisting he must know...
"The new fighter recently recruited by Kinokuniya, called Ice Emperor Himuro Ryo..."
After inheriting Jack Hanma's template, Mutou Judai just looked the other party over and roughly understood what kind of person he was.
The other party wasn't just sturdy-looking, and his muscles were full of explosive power!
"That's right, it's me."
Himuro Ryo nodded, then placed a cocktail he had mixed on the table.
"I didn't see what happened earlier, but it almost became a problem—anyway, thank you very much. Preparations for the Kengan match have already begun. It'll probably start in about twenty minutes. Although I'd like to say I'll try to hold back when the time comes, facing you, I probably won't be able to."
"Anyway, I'm just here to notify you. See you later."
Himuro Ryo left these words and then turned and walked away.
Meanwhile, Mutou Judai used the curse skill on a person for the first time.
There were still twenty minutes until it started, so to be safe—he could probably curse the other party now.
Although he did want to experience the feeling of fighting techniques, this was actually his first real fight, so he definitely had to give it his all!
Curse was also his ability—if you don't like it, curse me too~
So Mutou Judai selected curse.
Then, just like when he had activated it before, this instant-cast skill directly landed on Himuro Ryo, and he himself felt nothing.
However, unlike when it landed on food and took effect directly, after landing on Himuro Ryo, Mutou Judai had a vague feeling.
It was asking him to make a choice.
Whether to choose fatal or non-fatal.
Although Mutou Judai personally felt that diseases were generally quite deadly, at this moment he still chose non-fatal.
Then Mutou Judai could see the disease-type abnormal status applied to the other party.
—Full body muscle spasms (duration one hour) [Non-fatal] [Cannot be cured midway]
—Activate now?
After feeling this choice, Mutou Judai slowly postponed the timing...
This status...
Already won!
So...
Mutou Judai leaned back in his chair, listening to Erina with glasses still constantly explaining various things to him, while also pondering such matters...
First time participating in this kind of fighting technique...
Although he felt excited to the point of trembling, would he really find it interesting when actually on stage?
He didn't know.
But since he had insurance, he could play boldly and confidently~