The dragon was just as glorious and ferocious in flight as a bald eagle diving through the air to claim its prey!
“Uwaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!”
Wataru did not fear his attack in the slightest! In fact, he ran even faster so as to meet the dragon even quicker! His running speed went—unbelievably!—all the way up to four hundred kilometers per hour! He was a veritable human steam train! With all of a steam train’s horsepower, speed, and overwhelming force!! It was no exaggeration to say that he was running faster than could ever be imagined to be possible for a human!!
You’re so—so fast!!
The dragon’s eyes flew open wide with surprise as he tracked Wataru picking up impossible speed towards him! But he was not intimidated by the fighting teen’s incredible velocity!!
His talons caught the light of the moon and gleamed most dangerously! Their sharp tips were aimed straight down!
My claws shall feast upon your flesh, Wataru!!
The dragon’s claws were just about to shred Wataru to pieces!
“HAA!!!!!”
The instant before the dragon’s talons were about to touch Wataru, he leapt to his left with all the explosive speed and power of dynamite! As he flew past the dragon, he punched right hooks at the beast’s right shoulder at the speed of 300,000 kilometers per second!!
This was a lethal technique that could only be used when the user was in Exploding Bloodrush: Main Event Edition! This particular attack was called Hot-Blooded Lightspeed Fists*!!!
(*Hot-Blooded Lightspeed Fists: One of the secret techniques of the Exploding Blood Style passed through the generations. Just as it sounds, the user throws right hook punches at the speed of light, a rather simple attack. But humans are physical creatures, and punching at the speed of light has consequences. Bones and muscle must surely dissolve when forced to move at the speed of light. But when a practitioner is in Exploding Bloodrush: Main Event Edition, and has released all the hot-blooded energy in their body, the story is very different: their body can withstand moving at the speed of light. This technique, by the way, is a direct measure of the amount of hot-blooded energy within one’s body: the more energy one has, the faster one can unleash their attacks. With enough energy, one could, theoretically, punch faster than the speed of light... [10])
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Wataru’s punches successfully slammed into the dragon’s right shoulder, right on target, and utterly destroyed it!!
What......What power......!
With this one attack, Wataru had shattered the bones of the dragon’s right shoulder, rendering the beast completely unable to move his right arm whatsoever! Even so, the dragon still pressed his attack!
We’re not done! Not just yet!!
With a boom the dragon flared his wings and took to the skies!
“Hmph, if that’s what it’ll take!!”
Wataru was pumped full of adrenaline and relishing every moment of this vicious battle to the death as the thrill of a lifetime!!
“Come and get me, dragon!” he yelled with all his might, glaring up at the beast above him! The dragon flared his wings once more!
BOOOOOOOM!!!
The fierce winds blown by his wings kicked dust up into the air all around Wataru!
“Ngh!”
The winds blew into his face with all the raging force of a typhoon! Wataru crouched low to the ground and flexed his muscles as he strained to keep himself on the ground!!
I’ve still got more!!
The dragon beat his wings again and again, each time causing a small tornado that lifted up clumps of sand and sent them flying across the sky! They rode the wind, lost momentum, and then came crashing down onto Wataru! Dear Readers, you may think that falling sand may not be painful, or even itchy! I must impress upon you, however, that the force of impact is quite different inside a sandstorm! The sand that the dragon was pelting Wataru with through these raging winds was as forceful as ammunition from a shotgun!!
Wataru thrust his feet into the ground below him so that he might not get blown away! He closed his eyes against the onslaught, but even still, slowly but surely, the sand was wearing on his endurance!!
At this rate...You shall be rendered unconscious, human, as long as I keep you locked inside this prison of a sandstorm!
The voice of the dragon reverberated inside Wataru’s head as he desperately tried to resist being blown over!
“Ha! You think I can’t stand something like this...? I’ll show you...... HA!!!!!”
Wataru shouted as he leapt straight up into the air, rising to an astonishing five hundred meters high! For reference, Tokyo Tower is only three hundred and thirty-three meters tall! Wataru had clearly gone beyond the ken of mere humankind!!
For a moment, he was higher in the sky than the dragon himself, and had broken free from the eye of the sandstorm!!
Just what we’d expect from our Wataru! An explosive display of force as he gets himself out of a near-death situation!!
How? How can you, a human without wings, fly into the air like that!?!?
“It’s because every day is gym day for me!”
How absurd......!
The dragon ground his teeth, or rather, his fangs, and again beat his proud wings, soaring up at Wataru! The dragon could no longer use his right arm to attack, so he opened his maw wide as he sought to clamp down on Wataru with lethal force! His fangs were sharper than a shark’s, with a jaw stronger than that of an alligator! Not even Wataru, in his Exploding Blood: Main Event Edition state, would be able to withstand a bite from that maw without gaining a scratch or two!!
But Wataru looked not at all fazed as he cracked his right hand like a whip! He landed a direct blow on the front of the dragon’s snout!!
!?
A sharp pain raced down the dragon’s nerves! Wataru, wasting not a moment of this opportunity, jumped higher into the air and landed on the dragon’s snout, staring his opponent in the eyes! Then, clenching his fists so that they were hard as steel, he reared back—and slammed his fists right into the hard scales of the dragon’s forehead!!
“PNCH!!!!!”