## Chapter 784 – Kingdom Martial Arts Tournament

“Honestly, that fight this time was alright. You admit it?”
“Yeah, I admit it.”

This time, Winia nodded too. No, beyond that, she just smiled brightly and clung to me.

She seemed quite pleased.

“Yeah, you dumbass. How great is it if you fight coolly like that instead of being a pain in the ass, huh?”

I definitely threw away the Cudbear and chased after him with insane somersaults before landing a kick, but Winia seemed to not care about that since she saw me grab and throw the rapier’s blade at the beginning.

Actually, since I was such a pain in the ass yesterday, anything I did today would feel good.

“I, too, enjoyed it. Especially the roar you let out after winning, it was truly magnificent.”
“Kyahehe, what did you say again? I want a strong one! It was so cool. I thought I was watching a real barbarian warrior, man.”

As soon as I got home, I went into the bath with my wives and talked about the tournament. Is it more about style than impact after all?

“It was intentional directing. Wearing the wolf skin was also on purpose. Doesn’t it just give you a feeling at first glance? Taking off my top and just wearing the skin?”
“Hehehe, Katt has a good body, after all.”

Claudia smiled softly and ran her finger over my chest. Her slender finger brushed against my skin and went between the scars.

“Yeah. So cool… You were so cool, Katt. Katt is the coolest when he roars.”
“Hehehe, ah. Really. I’ll roar even louder tomorrow.”

I am a roaring expert.

“Even more magnificent. I’ll show you a martial arts tournament that transcends martial arts tournaments.”

Tomorrow, Kim Katt will portray the end of the world and the afterlife.

* * *

ㅡWaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!

The familiar roar hits my eardrums. More intensely than yesterday. So much louder than the day before yesterday that it can’t even be compared. Tens of thousands of spectators are squeezing their voices out while looking down at me alone.

“Dejaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!”

I walked around the grand arena, raising my arms and responding to the sound.

The pouring gazes.
The pouring cheers.

ㅡThe current Kim Katt is at his `peak`.

If I win here, it’s the semi-finals.

I don’t care who my opponent is.

I exist to give the audience pleasure.

“A barbarian-born paladin…!!”
“A Mirkesha nomad!! From a tribe that worships the wolf god even there!!!”
“Isn’t that paganism!!!”
“Don’t be ignorant! He was moved by the Verde God and converted!!!”
“I decided to believe in the Verde God from yesterday!!!”

The audience whispers about my origins.

Everyone knows that I’m from a nomadic background. But does that mean they despise me? Maybe they did until the day before yesterday. The culture of discriminating against barbarians exists everywhere in the kingdom.

Of course.

Not anymore.

“Kyaaaaaaaah!! Please look this way!!!”
“He’s so inhuman!!!”
“A cruel and violent barbarian!! But now a paladin!! Ah, so shocking!! His origins, his conversion, his dance! There’s nothing that isn’t shocking!!”
“That paladin seems to have appeared to shock us!!”

Feeling the pouring praise, I stepped onto the arena.

ㅡThump, thump.

My heart beats fast, and the dancer’s soul begins to burn.

“Haa…”

My breath is hot, and my swollen muscles are violent. I want to explode this destructive desire right now. Dancing of death. Dance with all your might, and the decadence that comes after exhausting all your energy.

Is there really no young talent who can withstand it?

“Now! Finally!!! The most shocking paladin in human history has stepped onto the arena!!! There has never been such a paladin, no! Such a person has never existed! He is Kim Katt, a heavenly human who is a paladin and a dancer! A dancer and a paladin!!!!”

ㅡWaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
ㅡWoo-oo-oo-oo-oo!
ㅡHooray-ay-ay!!

No, what kind of introduction is that?
But the audience was enthusiastic even with this kind of introduction.

“But what’s this!!!”

Suddenly, the host changes the atmosphere.

“Today’s paladin’s opponent is!!! The famousㅡ!!!”

What is it? Is today’s opponent someone with a bit of fame? This is the first time they’ve introduced the opponent like this.

“It’s Solgall Ventillaryyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!”

The host shouted out that name with all his might.

ㅡSolgall! Solgall! Solgall!
ㅡSolgall! Solgall! Solgall!
ㅡSolgall! Solgall! Solgall!

Then, such cheers erupted from the audience seats.
At the same time, the heat increases.

…This is certain.
He’s someone with some fame.

“Perhaps the two are similar!!! Let me briefly explain for those who don’t know!!”

I listened carefully to the explanation.
Maybe something good will come out of it.

“Solgall is a warrior who has a solid fan base, consistently ranking high every year with his very characteristic and flashy matches!! His alias is the Warrior of the Rose! His swordsmanship, which is like a beautiful dance, is very deadly and of a high level!!! It seems that many of his fans have come today!!”

A high-level swordsman, huh.

ㅡJump!!

Anyway, as soon as the host’s introduction ended, a man jumped up onto the arena. What fluttered for a moment was his red hair.

I took in his appearance.

ㅡSolgall Ventillary.

A young man with that name.

His chin is deeply split, making him look unique, and his shaggy-cut-like hairstyle gave off an inhuman feeling.

His alias is the Warrior of the Rose?

True to his alias, he was wearing red hair and a uniform-like outfit with flashy colors. His weapon was also a longsword with a red blade.

Is it a rare metal sword?

“The battle between the flamboyant Warrior of the Rose and the heavenly dancer Kim Katt!!! Such a historic big match has never existed before!! Those who came here today are truly lucky!! Now, please introduce yourselves to each other!!”

Anyway, I stood at a suitable distance from him.

Now, we just need to exchange greetings and swords.

I was going to greet him first, but.

“Paladin!!!!”

He took a stance first.

“You are looking down on dance!!!!”

ㅡKuaaaaaaang!!!

He shouted with his arms crossed, with the momentum of a roaring tiger… What? What did this bastard just say?

“…Looking down on dance?”
“That’s right!!! I watched your two matches well!!!! There is no soul in your dance!!!!”

What.

ㅡPachik.

This bastard right now.

“What did you just say.”
“I said there is no soul in your dance, Paladin!!! You may be strong, but you have no respect or belief in dance!!! Therefore, it is not dance!! It’s just an exaggerated action!!!”
“…”

This bastard…

Dares.

Without fear, he’s saying that kind of thing to Kim Katt, the Dance Demon of Love.

“But I have that respect and belief! My dance is more beautiful than anything else! It’s qualitatively different from your cheap dance!! I will prove it right here, right now!!!”

ㅡKuaaaaaaaaaaang!!!

After finishing speaking, he roared again.

“What, what, what is ittttt!!!! Solgall is provoking the paladin!!!”

ㅡKuoong!!!!!

“…Okay. Fine.”

Unable to suppress my anger, I stomped on the floor of the arena with force, erasing the sound.

Daring to say there’s no soul in my dance.

“Anyone can talk big.”

Of course, they can feel that way.

“Until they get their ass kicked.”

But only those who know how to prove it.
Can utter such words.

“Show me.”

I said, staring into his eyes.

“Your `dance`.”

That I would accept your challenge.

“I was going to show you even if you didn’t tell me!!!!”

ㅡThe match begins nowwwwwwwwww!!!!

The match began with his roar.
ㅡSolgall acted first.

“My dance!!!”

ㅡKwaang!

He took a stance and started taking some kind of action, holding his sword up high. Was the beginning a preparatory stance? He grabbed the sword and rotated lightly.

ㅡWhiririk.

He rotates like that.
And rotates again.

ㅡWaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
ㅡIt’s here!! The Sword Dance of the Rose!!!
ㅡSolgall! Solgall! Solgaaaaaaaal!!
ㅡKyaaaaaaaah!! Take meeeeeeeeee!!!
ㅡThe Sword Dance of the Rose has begun!!! A deadly dance of blades that no one can withstand!!

Cheers erupt from the audience.

“The name of the dance is the Sword Dance of the Rose!!!!”

That is.
ㅡIt was a play.

“Look closely at the true dance!!!!”
“…!”

What unfolds is a rose garden.
Its fragrance is the scent of spring flowers.

The flowing sword, like clean water, was as deadly as its beauty, and the added rotation gave a feeling that was not of this world.

ㅡSpinning around and around!!

He constantly rotated, performing an incredibly flashy sword dance. Turning, turning. And turning again. He flew up like a soaring hawk, rotated, landed, and then naturally rotated again, creating a kind of human vortex.

That was truly.

ㅡA bird drinking the audience’s attention.

“Can you see it!!!!”

The guy who was dancing shouted loudly.

“Ah.”

I’m watching closely.
Taking in everything about him.

“I see.”

This bastard also had the soul of an entertainer like me. He was scattering his red hair and performing a pretty stylish dance.

Very fast and beautifully.
Also, elaborately.

ㅡSpinning around and around and around!

He rotates more than a hundred times without a single buffer.

He said he had fame.
He said he had an alias.

“You.”

He fought with that innate sense, stood out in the martial arts tournament, achieved good results, and made fans.

I admit it.

This dance is beautiful.

“Tsuaaaaaaap!!!”

Right then, the flowing rotation transforms into a tyrannical `typhoon`.

ㅡChwajajajajak!!!

The flower garden disappears, and a fierce sword wind blows. Even so, he rotates. If an average bastard gets caught in there, their limbs will be torn apart and they will immediately become minced meat. That was a sword dance, and at the same time, a sword technique that executes absolute defense and counterattack.

It was truly a cyclone of swords.

“Also, the name of this dance is the Storm of the Rose!!!!”

He was murderous.

“No one can break through this!!!”

Because it’s me, I could clearly feel it.

「He had become stronger than before.」

It is presumed that it is a type of secret mana technique that enhances the body and mana while performing the sword dance, temporarily gaining even greater power. Solgall, who is rotating, was getting stronger every moment. As more power is put into the dance, even more beautiful movements are produced.

“This is my `dance`, Paladin!!!”

A confident voice.
I watched his eternally rotating figure and.

ㅡChwahak!

“…Your dance is certainly flashy and beautiful.”

I threw off Garros’s skin.

“But what meaning is there in a dance that cannot subdue the opponent.”
“What? Cannot subdue?”

He was still rotating and shouted.

“Nonsense!! If you get caught in my sword dance, you, who dance without a soul, will fall immediately!!! This Storm of the Rose is invincible! No one can defeat me in this state!!!”
“No.”

That is a false belief.

“You cannot subdue me.”

ㅡKwaang!!!

I immediately slam Vygale into the ground.

“Dance is martial arts!!!!!!!”

And shout to the world!!

“Martial arts is martial arts!!!!!”

The true ideology of danceㅡ!!!

“The technique of subduing the enemy and dance are not different!!! They are just different in direction, but it cannot be denied that they are the same physical act!!!!!!!”

I will educate you in this placeㅡ!!!!

“I will say it here!! It is you, Solgall, who has no soul in your dance!!!”
“Wh-what!!!”

The rotation of the startled guy becomes disordered.

“If you cannot subdue the opponent, it is not dance!! It is just a meaningless action! Solgall!! You cannot subdue me!!!”
“Nonsense!”
“So I will show you!!”

ㅡPaaat!!

I immediately kicked off the ground and soared like a phoenix.

“A dance that subdues the opponentㅡ!!!”

The body that soared high makes me look down on the ground. Solgall was still rotating, but he seemed quite confused and was becoming more and more precarious.

ㅡHwaaaak!!!

What goes up must come down.

No matter how beautifully you fly, if you fall ugly, it is just a degraded version of Icarus.

That way.

It cannot become a perfect dance.

ㅡEven the fall is beautiful.
Dance Demon Kim Katt is always beautiful.

ㅡWhiriririk!!

And so, I fell while rotating beautifully with my head down. No, this is not falling.

「Descent」

It is descending.
And while descending, I stretch both arms above my head.

ㅡChaap!

At that moment of landing. Using only both palms to step on the ground, bending my arms appropriately to gain power like a spring!!

ㅡPaaat!!

“Miyo-o-o-o-o-o-ong!!!”

As I spread my arms and gain jumping power, I spin!! Landing again, I spread both legs wide while stepping on the ground with only both palms and rotate like crazy!!!

ㅡSpinning around and around and around!!!!

Faster than the dance Solgall danced!!! And more powerfully! Transforming into a human tornado, preventing any part of the body except the palms from touching the ground!!!!

“It’s the Heavenly Demon B-boying Dejaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!!”

ㅡOeo-eo-eo-eo-eo!!!
ㅡKyaaaaaaaah!!
ㅡKkeuaaaaaaaak!!!

A different kind of cheer erupted from the audience. All I had shown so far was a windmill. But this is an air track! An air track belonging to the inhuman Heavenly Demon B-boying performed by a superhuman!!

“Oh, what an amazing rotation! To turn upside down like that using only his arms!! But it’s just an exaggerated action without belief or anything! Look, Paladin!! Where is the beauty and meaning in your movements!! It’s just an amazing spinning technique!!”

Solgall was still performing the rotating sword dance and criticizing me.

Ha.

It’s so foolish.
So foolish that.

“Do you really.”

Words don’t even come out.

ㅡSyuu-oong!!

“Think so?”

I remove the palms that were stepping on the ground. Thus, all that remains is rotation. Since the supporting arms have disappeared, all that remains is the future of falling.

ㅡTuk.

“Correcting that wrong idea is.”

But I don’t become like that.

“It’s the introduction to the Heavenly Demon Headspin.”

ㅡSpinning around and around and around!!!

In that state, I land with the 「crown of my head」 and perform a supersonic 「headspin」.

ㅡPachichichichichichichik!!!

Rushing fiercely towards Solgall!!!!!!!

“An irresistible impulse Dejaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!!!”

Go Go!!!

Top Blade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!