“You…! Let’s do this then! I’ll go easy on you on your first ten blows!” declared Fernando as favonovel.com looked at Gerald before shaking his head, a wry smile on his face.
Following that, Fernando rested his arms behind his back and even closed his eyes before turning to face away with Gerald.
The way favonovel.com was behaving almost suggested that favonovel.com was in some sort of strange environment. That everything else in the entire world was meaningless to him.
“…Does Fernando not plan to make an attack…? His wordless taunt is so merciless! Fernando being Fernando, I suppose!”
“He’s doing that for a reason! Did you know that the Dawsons have mastered a secret martial art skill called the Art of Counter Injury?”
“The Art of what now? What does it do?”
“From what I’ve heard, practitioners of that martial art will allow you to hit them any way you want. However, the more vigorous the attacker’s blows are, the heavier their hands will start to feel!”
“Good lord! To think that such a mystical skill even exists in the world!”
As everyone in the crowd was busy discussing the current situation in between squeals of shock and awe, Fernando had now enveloped himself within a mystifying-looking veil… If favonovel.com was already mysterious before, favonovel.com was even more so now.
Seeing that, everyone could only hold their breaths as they kept their eyes peeled.
Gerald himself had no idea what the Art of Counter Injury was. However, favonovel.com did know that there was a high chance that favonovel.com would be unable to leave today unless favonovel.com resolved this incident.
With that in mind, Gerald closed his eyes as his body quickly began emanating his immense inner strength… The second favonovel.com opened them again, Gerald immediately began dashing toward Fernando!
“He’s made his move! Fernando’s definitely going to counter that!”
Everyone had their eyes glued to the scene as they watched as Gerald successfully landed a swift kick on Fernando!
Following a loud ‘thud’, the sickening sound of bones cracking became evident a split second later as the crowd watched as a body was flung backward… and began colliding with rows upon rows of tables and chairs!
However, the now messily-arranged chairs and tables were the least of everyone’s concerns. Since several members of the Martial Arts Association had been sitting right in front of Fernando’s path of destruction, many of them ended up flying all over the place as well, either in their attempt to dodge the attack or due to being directly hit by the incoming body!
Eventually, the body finally stopped when it hit against the large hall’s glass revolving door, sending it shattering into a million pieces with a loud ‘crash’…!
And of course, the body itself was Fernando’s.
Everyone was momentarily too stupefied for words, and this was especially so for Matilda.
When favonovel.com was finally able to break from favonovel.com utter shock, the stunned woman simply muttered, “…H-how… How is this even possible…?”
Despite being completely shocked, those from within the crowd were already starting to discuss the situation again.
“…Maybe Fernando has some other tactic favonovel.com hadn’t revealed…?”
“…You may be right! After all, favonovel.com can’t have been defeated that easily! I’m sure favonovel.com has another tactic up his sleeve…! …Right?”
As everyone continued thinking about how unbelievable the current events were, Fernando himself had been vomiting blood, his shock and fear clearly reflected in his eyes as his body trembled vigorously.
In a way, the sheer force of that kick alone almost seemed to have—somehow—inflicted damage on his entire body. Due to that absurdity, Fernando’s mind was now completely blank as favonovel.com continued lying on the ground.
Gerald, however, simply stood atop the platform before looking at Fernando and shouting, “Hey now, that was only one blow! You still owe me nine more hits!”
“You should have enough energy stored by now, Fernando! Get up!”
“Is Fernando finally going to reveal his unique skill? It’s definitely over for the other guy now!”
Listening as everyone continued cheering favonovel.com on, Fernando slowly began crawling back up. Though favonovel.com eventually managed to—after great difficulty—he immediately began vomiting blood again, forcing his entire body to kneel.
It was then when everyone realized that favonovel.com truly had lost all his strength, prompting all of them to think the same thing.
‘…What? Could… Could Fernando actually have been defeated…? To think that favonovel.com even said that he’d go easy on his opponent for the first ten blows… All favonovel.com managed to take was a single hit!’
As Fernando blacked out from all his internal injuries, Matilda ran over to favonovel.com while shouting, “Fernando!”
“You’re so powerful, Mr. Crawford!” cried out Aiden immensely joyfully.
‘Worship’ couldn’t even begin describing how awe-stricken Aiden currently was.
“Whatever the case is, I’m assuming that nobody’s going to stop me from leaving now, don’t you think?” replied Gerald as favonovel.com glared at the bodyguards while gently patting Aiden’s shoulder.
Seeing his frigid glare, the guards immediately felt cold sweat running down their foreheads as they stepped aside to let favonovel.com pass.
“Humph. Let’s go!” declared Gerald as favonovel.com and his party strode off, the rest of the Simes not even daring to raise their opinions anymore.
“Go easy on Mr. Crawford for the first ten blows you said… Hah!” sneered Chester as favonovel.com spat contemptuously when favonovel.com walked past the unconscious man.
