Himura_battousai
Copyright© 2011 by Murasame
Chapter 231: A Man's Back 6--Avalanche
(Fudozawa has assembled his men into an armed, torch-bearing mob.)
Fudozawa: All right, you bastards, the village is up ahead. Make sure they know it's ours! First, we get Kamishimoemon--huh?
(Sanosuke stands alone before them.)
Sanosuke: Hey.
Fudozawa: ... What do you want, street fighter. If you're here to apologize it's too late.
Sanosuke: No. I just settled the fight you hired me for the other day. The tough old guy's lying up the road a ways. But it was nothing. One punch and he went down. That changes things. Know why? That didn't entertain me at all.
Yakuza: What! Say that again! Hold it!
Fudozawa: So he was no good. I see. Then why don't you try me!
(Stripped to the waist, he slams his open hand into a nearby boulder, leaving a handprint in the stone.)
Yakuza: There it is! The oyabun's trick move! The Demon-Killer! Who knows how many faces he's smashed in with that killer technique!
Fudozawa: I've got business to take care of tonight, street fighter, but first I'm gonna make you bleed.
Sanosuke: Ex-sumo wrestler? Not surprising, a big guy like you.
Fudozawa: Shut up! Take this!
Killer Technique Demon Killer!
(His open palm smashes Sanosuke in the face.)
Sanosuke: Yeah?
(He hasn't so much as changed expression.)
Sanosuke: What was that? Not much of a killer technique.
Fudozawa: What?
Sanosuke: Demon-killer? You thought that would work? I've fought an incarnation of a Wisdom King that would crush that demon like a bug.
(He punches Fudozawa in the chest; Fudozawa falls back against the boulder, and rolls to place the boulder between himself and Sanosuke.)
Fudozawa (thinking): What ... is he... ?
Sanosuke: Now the demon-killer is playing tag. Or is this hide and seek?
(He thinks of an earlier boulder, bursting into fragments.)
Sanosuke: I just remembered. That technique I inherited from the Bright King. It's a string of instantaneous impacts that nullify an object's resistance and pulzerize it. Basically.
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