Bang!
Jaden's fist violently slammed into Yujiro Hanma's fist!
Yujiro Hanma felt a tremendous force explode on his fist. He had to instantly raise his heel and push his center of gravity forward to barely complete that exchange of punches with Jaden!
Jaden's strength had surpassed his, Yujiro Hanma's!
After just one punch, Yujiro Hanma slightly rotated his shoulder, looking at Jaden in front of him with a smile.
"Kid, it seems you've figured it out this time."
Jaden completely ignored Yujiro Hanma's comment.
At that moment, Yujiro Hanma twisted his waist sideways and swung his arm out wide-concentrating almost all of his back strength-and punched towards Jaden's head from the side!
-Killer God Strike!
Such a move might be ordinary to others, but for a Demon Back fighter like Yujiro Hanma, the power and explosiveness it brought were incomparable.
But...
Jaden didn't even look at Yujiro Hanma's fist. He just slightly shifted his center of gravity and his upper body backward, then twisted his own body!
Yujiro's punch, caught by Observation Haki, grazed past the tip of Jaden's nose, while Jaden's own Killer God Strike, which was virtually identical to Yujiro Hanma's move, was aimed at Yujiro Hanma's jaw due to Jaden's current center of gravity.
Seeing this, Yujiro laughed.
Facing Jaden's attack, he raised both hands over his head!
He slightly straightened his body!
His upper-body clothes tore apart, and his back transformed into that roaring Demon Face!
Jaden's attack had been aimed at his jaw, but now that he raised his head high, Jaden's attack merely scraped across his chest!
It left a deep, bleeding scratch on his chest!
Then, Yujiro Hanma's fists came down from the left and right sides, aiming directly at Jaden's left and right temples!
In response to Yujiro Hanma's attack, Jaden retracted his arms, blocking his body like shields, instantly activating Tekkai (Iron Body), and his arms intercepted Yujiro's two fists.
After this attack ended, Jaden and Yujiro Hanma tacitly raised their right legs. Upon noticing the other's movement, they immediately brought their legs fully forward, colliding their shins!
At this moment, Jaden's advantage in strength manifested again!
Jaden's upper-body clothes also tore open, with only the Kuriboh necklace given to him by Old man Yugi still around his neck.
His back also turned into the Demon Face.
With both of them activating the Demon Back, Jaden's strength immediately overpowered Yujiro Hanma's, forcing Yujiro Hanma to stumble backward!
In this situation, Yujiro Hanma spread his hands, which were pinned by Jaden, and gripped Jaden's shoulders from both sides!
Jaden thought Yujiro Hanma was trying to pull him-but after stabilizing his body, he realized that Yujiro Hanma was not trying to pull him in this state, but rather-pushed him away!
This left the unprepared Jaden also falling backward.
Conversely, after Jaden's balance was broken, Yujiro Hanma immediately put his feet down, planting them like nails into the ground. Even though his upper body was almost falling, his feet remained firmly in their original position. Everything above his knees fell backward, his knees forming a right angle, and his calves and feet completely supported his entire body.
Yujiro Hanma then used the force from his knees to straighten his waist, wearing his characteristic smile.
According to his estimation, Jaden should be sitting on the ground right now.
But as he straightened up, Jaden's fist landed on his face.
-Explosive Core!
Jaden had indeed been pushed backward by Yujiro Hanma just now.
But at this moment, Jaden used the move that Wakatsuki Takeshi had used to ambush him.
That is, tilting the upper body backward, but having the landing foot immediately change the direction of force, using the weight from the backward lean to compress the Explosive Core. Then, like a spring, he countered the opponent's force and instantly threw a Baku Shin punch!
Last time, Wakatsuki Takeshi's move ambushed Jaden.
And this time, Jaden's move ambushed Yujiro Hanma!
The immense force of Jaden, compressed by the Explosive Core, immediately lifted Yujiro Hanma off his feet, sending him flying backward.
Although he managed to curl up in mid-air, quickly performing an aerial roll backward to regain his footing, Yujiro Hanma, after landing, saw Jaden still standing in place, looking at him with a sarcastic expression, and veins bulged on his forehead!
-He was furious!
Although neither Jaden nor Yujiro Hanma had specified any rules, both their initial punches, defenses, and even evasions-their feet had not changed position.
At first, it was unnecessary, but after two exchanges, both of them began to consciously adhere to it.
But in the end, it was Yujiro Hanma who retreated first!
"You actually made me, Yujiro Hanma, retreat!"
With this roar, Yujiro Hanma instantly closed the several steps of distance, and his fist smashed straight toward Jaden's face!
Facing this strike, Jaden raised both hands, protecting his upper body, and slightly bent his waist, compressing his exposed area to the minimum. Then, under Yujiro Hanma's force, he slid backward a certain distance.
Yujiro Hanma immediately chased after him. His hands, raised high above his head, combined with his feet, formed a flurry of attacks-no, a barrage more intense than rain!
Jaden, however, retracted his hands and legs, adopting the Sanchin Stance from Karate, which is said to be able to defend against any attack.
At this moment, the pupils in his eyes began to move irregularly within their sockets!
Moreover, his two eyes were not moving in the same way.
If seen by others, it would easily be described as-an eyes full of wisdom, but in reality, this is also a move that only appears in ancient styles... no, in legends.
-Scatter Eye!
This is a technique that uses flexibly rotating eyes to simultaneously track the opponent's attacks coming from all directions!
Jaden used the Scatter Eye in conjunction with Observation Haki to track Yujiro Hanma's attacks, and then used the Sanchin Stance, occasionally supplemented by Tekkai, to defend.
Such a defensive measure was impenetrable for Yujiro Hanma in the short term.
This allowed Jaden to be continuously pushed by Yujiro Hanma's attacks, from the center of the huge space all the way to its edge.
Finally, Jaden hit the wall.
Seeing this, Yujiro Hanma smiled.
But before he could do anything, his instinct told him that Jaden was giving off an unparalleled sense of danger. This made him instinctively cross his arms.
And then-
Jaden's feet, combined with Soru (Shave), instantly completed a charge. He crossed his arms and slammed directly into Yujiro Hanma's defensive guard like a cannonball!
Bang!
A fierce Riku-Ō (Meat-Explosion) sound burst in Jaden's consciousness!
This was one of Pique's moves.
To put it simply, it concentrates all the body's force into the front and uses an extremely high speed to propel the force of the impact!
However, compared to Pique's simple technique, Jaden upgraded this move by incorporating Soru, Baku Shin, Datsuryoku (Loss of Force), the directional perception of Observation Haki, and Tekkai!
This instantaneously erupting force struck Yujiro Hanma directly.
So even he was constantly pushed back by this move!
Initially, he tried to use his feet on the ground to continuously increase friction and stabilize his body.
But after doing this for only a short time, Yujiro Hanma's feet were lifted off the ground!
The force was simply too immense!
It was like being hit head-on by a missile!
It sent Yujiro Hanma flying from one end of the room to the other!
And it created a huge crater in the wall behind him!
Jaden, having completed all this, regained his footing. Yujiro Hanma's body began to slide down the wall.
It was at this exact moment that Jaden's pupils contracted.
Observation Haki and his instinct started to scream a warning. He quickly managed to cross his arms in defense!
The next second... no, it might not even have been a full second.
Yujiro Hanma's fist landed on his defense!
It sent him flying instantly!
Yujiro Hanma slowly retracted his right hand, which had just struck, ignoring the deep, small crack that had appeared in the wall where his shoulder had been pressing. He simply looked at Jaden, who had dropped his guard and straightened his body, and he smiled.
"...I thought that by using the force provided by the wall, combined with the Killer God Strike, and adding that compressed force attack you used to trick me earlier, I could ambush you, but now it seems that's still not enough~"
"Hmph, but your purity is only this much! A timid kid!"
Yujiro Hanma laughed and walked towards Jaden.
Jaden scoffed and walked back to face him.
"You're the one who keeps talking about 'purity,' but you still chose this method under these circumstances..."
At this point, Jaden finally showed the first smile he had worn during this duel.
"Sure enough, you and I are the same kind of person~"
"We are both purely pursuing strength and victory-relying on instinct or relying on moves... as long as we win, right!"
"Only the victor is entitled to talk about spirit, and only the strong are entitled to talk about purity!"
So...
Jaden and Yujiro Hanma stared at each other.
"Come on, let's continue~!"
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