Chapter 57 – Martial Arts Exchange (3)

I pulled the galaxy back and moved my feet at the same time.

However, the moment the foot is blown off, the torn snake eyes follow the trajectory as it is.

The moment my toe hits Sa-young’s abdomen, his arm strikes my calf.

“Stop!”

“What are you doing!”

Hoyeon and Namwoong shouted at the same time. I stepped back lightly and raised both hands. Sayoung also burst out laughing and waved his arms over her.

“Dojin, what are you doing….”

“Because that guy is aiming for Eunha first. It’s just a light push.”

“… No matter how it is, what about the first meeting.”

“I apologize. I’m sorry.”

I approached Sayoung and bowed his head. He accepted my apology, perhaps because he knew that even Sa-yeong would not get much benefit from getting angry at this place.

“Hey you… Fun?”

Saying that, Sayoung pointed at my calf. As soon as I realized it, my calves started to throb.

‘It’s fast.’

The moment my feet touched it, his arm flew swiftly and hit my calf. Even if I wasn’t full-powered, it was an incredibly quick reaction.

“That’s right. It’s fun.”

Judging by how he used his arms, it was not a bare-handed martial art. He was a prosecutor like me. Realizing that, I asked for a handshake. Sayoung saw that and accepted my handshake as if it was fun.

Puffed up, puffed up. The strong hand grip unique to a beastman tightened my grip. However, I did not lose and held his hand his tightly.

Haha! Are you here too?”

Seeing my grip strength, Sayoung must have realized that I was a swordsman like him, so he burst into laughter.

Ho-yeon and Nam-woong, watching us in case we might start fighting again, sighed in relief and separated the two of us.

“Stop, let go. Namjoon, I’m sorry. This is my mistake.”

“… No, that’s fine Because it’s true that Sayoung was the first to commit rudeness.”

As a man like him, Nam-woong seemed to understand my feelings of him, and squeezed Sa-young’s hair and lowered his head.

“Ah! No, I was hit first!”

“… Shut up Unless you want to fall into my hands.”

“Heng, so I told you to fix that mess.”

“Hoyang, you… !”

Sa-Young was led into the dojo by Nam-Woong’s hand. Hoyeon ordered a disciple to escort them to the guest room. After the three disappeared, Hoyeon looked back at me and sighed deeply.

“… Good job.”

“… Yes?”

I thought I would hear something, but when I heard Hoyeon’s words, I tilted my head. However, she looked at me as if asking.

“Actually, I want to punch him once I see what he is doing. If you didn’t hit me, I’ll hit you. And that would have made the problem a little bigger.”

“… Isn’t it a problem for humans to beat beasts?”

“I can’t even complain about being beaten by humans. Where do you come from being beaten by a human being, because you are treated as a weakling?”

“Ah.”

It seemed that beastmen were a race dominated by helplessness. You can’t even say you’ve been hit by a human.

“It’s dry now, but… If we were to engage in sparring, even if all limbs were broken, we wouldn’t stop. Can I look forward to it?”

“Don’t worry.”

I burned with anger as I remembered Sa-Young’s unlucky face and what he had done.

Licking Eunha’s cheek, I’ve never done it before.

“Eunha, are you okay?”

“Yes. It’s okay….”

Fortunately, Eunha didn’t take issue with the snake’s tongue touching my cheek of hers. Although it was a bit embarrassing.

“Go in.”

“Yes.”

We followed Hoenn and went inside.

* * *

“Chuck, what is this?”

After being subdued by Nam-woong’s hands, Sa-young entered the dojo’s room and turned his clothes inside out to check the footprints left on her stomach. It must have seemed like a light kick, but it left a bruise.

‘Fuck… Got hit by a human and got bruises?’

It was embarrassing. I can’t even tell you where to go…… If the family in the hometown listens, they will hear that it is a disgrace to the family.

Hmm! Sa-young focused on the bet that was revolving inside his body her and erased the bruises. After a while, after confirming that the bruises had completely disappeared, I tidied up my clothes again.

‘That grip, it was the hand of the person who uses the sword.’

Hoyeon was a master of bare-handed martial arts. The fact that she has a prosecutor under her means that she is a talented person prepared for him.

Haha!”

Burst out laughing Snake people are the best with swords among beastmen. Among them, Sa-young was a prosecutor who competed for the highest rank.

A human swordsman prepared for him? Even if he brought in the Empire’s Royal Knight, he wouldn’t be able to fight him with a sword.

“What are you thinking, that lady? It’s really fun. Well.”

With a rattle, the door opens and Ho-yang appears. Seeing Sa-Young laughing alone, Ho-Yang frowned.

“What? It’s crazy? Laugh and fuck alone.”

“Hoyang. If you keep making a lot of noise, they will eat you up.”

“Is the snake kid crazy? You have to tear off your limbs and crawl like a real snake to come to your senses, right?”

“Try it. Rumors that tigers are the strongest race will disappear today.”

“Chew.”

However, Hoyang did not fight Sayoung. Because she came here at the behest of two people, Hoyeon and Namwoong.

If she leaves for a long time, Nam-woong will come back and punish both her and Sa-young with iron fists. She was the one who got into a fight with her, but she didn’t want to be unfairly disciplined for fighting, so she turned around while blowing her nose as if she wasn’t interested.

“It’s the captain’s call. Come out quickly.”

“Ha, are you running away?”

“If you want to peel off the skin, keep doing it.”

When Ho-yang said that and left her room, Sa-young raised her head and followed her as if she couldn’t help it.

After a while, the place Sa-Young arrived was inside a huge dojo. Hoyeon and Dojin, Eunha and Namwoong, and many other disciples were waiting there.

Sa-young saw her and walked away.

“What’s this? They said it was a martial arts exchange. Can it be revealed as a group like this?”

“… The people here are among my students who have trained for a long time and can be trusted. Don’t worry. Aren’t you the kind of person to leak what you’ve seen, heard, and learned here?”

I wanted to argue that I believed in humans too much, but I wasn’t in the mood for that. Sa-young quietly shut her mouth and glared at Do-jin sitting across from her.

Do-jin also met her eyes with Sa-young, who was glaring at me fiercely. It felt really dirty to see those torn eyes staring at me.

‘Look at something.’

When I glared at Sa-young with such a heart, she glared at her Do-jin as if he would not lose either. For she had never done anything as meaningless as having a snowball fight with a beast. Dojin quietly looked away.

Seeing that, Sa-young was internally happy as if I had won the battle.

“We will start exchanging martial arts from now on.”

When Hoyeon spoke, the disciples responded loudly in response. After the dojo trembled once, Hoenn summoned his apprentice.

“It would be appropriate for us to show you first. Marche. I will show you.”

“All right.”

The man called Marche got up slowly and took her stance. In reality, it was very difficult for her to recreate the hoin tribe’s skills with a human body.

However, he overcame such difficulties and shaved himself off to become a tiger. The regime with calluses like tiger claws proved him.

“Huh!”

Humans cannot deliver sharp blows like tiger claws. That’s why he put only heaviness in his fist.

Hu Quan.

A blow imbued with the monstrous power of a tiger. There was no sharpness, but the heaviness alone was powerful enough.

Paaang!

A fist that pierces the air, a kick, and a martial art that extends both hands at the same time. Even the footsteps attacking the opponent like a tiger.

After the demonstration, the instructor bowed his head in a straight posture. The pupils applauded the master who showed great skills that they could not possibly imitate.

However, the facial expressions of the trio of prisoners who were watching the scene were hardened. Sa-young, who was looking at the instructor pathetically, opened her mouth.

“Hey, Mrs. Hoyeon.”

“…… What?”

“Do you really think you can interact with something like this?”

“What do you want to say?”

“Do sparring. The three of us and the three members you chose. That side could develop even bigger.”

Saying that, Sayoung glered at her Dojin. Speaking of sparring, there were only two people using swords here, Sa-yeong and Do-jin.

In other words, Sa-Young’s goal was Do-Jin. Dojin seemed to know that too, so she looked at Hoyeon with a slight smile.

“Will it be okay? Seeing what happens when Hoyeon-ryu and other beastmen fight, I think it will help students improve their skills.”

“…… Well, good Namwoong?”

“Yeah, nothing bad.”

Since the captains of the two parties decided that, the Dalian was decided without any obstruction. If the match was decided, the next thing to decide was the order.

“Hoyang. You go out first.”
“Yep!”

“Instructor, please make me suffer.”
“…… I will bring you victory.”

The master who had just demonstrated and Ho-yang, Ho-yeon’s younger brother, stepped forward. However, Dojin only looked at the two people’s steps and roughly predicted who would win.

‘The born strong cannot win…… Is this?’

The two immediately exchanged greetings and took a stance. Unlike Hoyang, who is closer to nature, Marche’s posture was artificial.

Hoyeon-ryu is a martial art modeled after the spirit of a tiger. It was close to impossible for a human who was neither a real tiger nor a tiger to perfectly use that martial art.

The instructor who came forward would know that, but he couldn’t back down. He is the master of this dojo, and was the first disciple of Hoenn.

“It’s Eunha.”

“…… Yes?”

“Take a good look.”

“What?”

“The martial arts of that man named Ho-yang over there.”

At the same time, Hoyang ran towards Marche. Sign tax. You can’t stop a tiger once it attacks.

Marche, who knew that well, did not think to stop Hoyang’s rush. She just rushed in as she herself.

Two tigers collide

Kwaaaaang! Get into a power struggle If it was Earth, Marche twice as big would have won, but this is a fantasy world.

Hoyang, who is less than half of her body, has more than three times the strength of the instructor.

“Turn it off!”

Hoyang screams and throws Marche. As soon as he rises into the air, he grabs him by the nape of his neck and presses him down.

“End.”
“Winner, Hoyang.”

Hearing Hoyeon’s words, Hoyang let go of his hand and stood up. Marché did not bother to deny his defeat her. He knew best that if Hoyang had given strength there, his neck would have been broken.

“Saw?”

Do-jin asked Eun-ha. Eunha cautiously shook his head.

“That is the source of the Hoyeon-ryu you are learning about. A martial art designed to be used by the Hoin tribe with brute-like power, different from the Hoenn-ryu modified for human use.”
“…… I don’t know what’s different.”
“You just have to learn slowly.”

Seeing Eunha tilting her head, Dojin slowly raised herself. On the other side, Sayoung naturally stepped forward.

“I am Kim Do-jin, an adventurer who was invited with difficulty.”
“Take good care of me.”
“Haha, adventurer? Aren’t you a prosecutor?”

Sa-young ignored Do-jin and flicked her tongue. As they approached to say hello, Do-jin whispered in Sa-young’s ear her.

“Close your mouth, your breath stinks.”
“You, this bastard…….”

Before Sa-young could get angry, Ho-yeon ordered a yes. The two bowed their heads and greeted each other.

“Start.”

Then, swords collided in the air.