Bab 25: 25 Karma, The Founder Of Tadakomi Bodyguard
'I became the god of magic.'
'The control of my mana extended to the atmosphere, gravity, and even time.'
'As a result, people began calling me an evil god and the universe joined hands to slay me.'
'In retaliation, I annihilated every living being in the universe.'
'Oh, I screwed up again,' thought the woman as she took a mouthful of an apple.
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"O-one point for Competitor Shirasaki!" The judge (I think this is more fitting than the referee?) made a call for Karma.
'Oooh!' the bystander applauded inwardly. Although she was taken by surprise, Kishi was their ace and it was incredible to take even a single point from her, not to mention bare-handed...
No, is it because he is bare-handed that he managed to take a point? some of the people who were watching the match between two thoughts.
"Was that all planned out?" Kishi returned to her starting spot and then touched the spot where Karma's palm pushed in.
The heat remained in the spot, indicating how strong that blow was.
'It hurt,' thought Kishi as she smiled and enjoyed the pain.
This action of Kishi escaped Karma's attention because her face was hard to see due to the helmet guard and he was resting himself from excessive use of focus.
Karma acted normally and nodded, "I thought to take a point from you, I have to strike you outside common sense."
'True, normally on a Kendo Match, one wouldn't duck even lower to dodge a head (Men) strike,' thought Kishi.
"Fighting with you gets me out of tune," Kishi smiled helplessly.
"Same trick won't work twice. I will thrust my sword deeper next time," Kishi said and ended their small talk.
'...' the people watching her speak gulped their saliva, filled with dirty thoughts.
Karma, in contrast, had no experience in that term despite having the knowledge of it so, he failed to instinctively figure out the dirty meaning it could possibly have.
The two faced each other and after a breath moment, Karma began running at great speed. There was no great insight behind Karma's running. Akin to a beast fighting back to not die, Karma ran at his greatest speed.
Kishi on the opposite side was calmly watching Karma, waiting for his arrival at her range.
5cm...
1cm...
'Now!' Kishi widened her eyes and ruthlessly swung her sword down at great speed.
Karma reacted to it and moved his feet up at lightning-fast speed, almost faster than the speed Kishi swung her sword down.
After the pitiful demonstration of the gap between man and woman's physical differences, Karma's leg collided with Kishi's sword.
And taking this action was the beginning of Karma's demise.
'Heavy!!!' thought Karma.
What Karma tried to do was meet a strong force with unstable standing. Under the collision of two forces, Kishi's bamboo sword deflected up while Karma lost his balance.
In an attempt to stabilize himself, Karma put the leg he raised down but the time it took to do so was far too long as Kishi's bamboo sword magnificently stroke his left flank.
Karma exhaled his breath at the sudden pain.
"One point for Kishi!" the judge made her call.
The female bystander began drooling at Karma's exhausted figure as his sweat made the well-toned muscle visible.
It is a girl working hard in Kendo Club. It isn't weird for some of them to be muscle-fetish. Not to mention, Karma had the great look in him after going to the hair salon.
Karma wiped off the sweat on his forehead, 'Ah... So, this is what the center of balance that guy Bruce Lee was so noisy about...'
'I've never figured it out while training but I guess it is pretty important... What should I have done at the moment, then?' Karma rolled his brain at great speed.
'Should I have moved my leg in a crescent motion and pushed the bamboo sword from the side at the same time stably land?'
'No, do I even have the time to do so? Kicking in crescent requires a far bigger motion and is definitely slower than purely raising my leg to meet with her sword...'
'It's the similar sensation when I first had a serious spar with Chloe 4 months ago... It seems like I enjoy the battle, this pain almost feels good...' Karma understood himself further through this battle.
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"One point for Kishi!" The judge made her call again.
The 3rd match between Karma and Kishi was a swift one as it ended with Kishi smacking his head.
Although the 3rd match began with Kishi sending out a side slash and Karma deflected it out with an elbow, Kishi fortified her grip on the sword after learning her lesson from the 1st match.
As a Kendoka with an erected fighting stance, she also had no problem losing balance after her blow was deflected. So, she calmly stepped back and raised her sword once again.
This was the deciding point of the match as it repeated the last scene from 2nd match.
This time though, Karma moved his leg in a crescent motion and failed as the bamboo sword was much faster than his leg.
"Dang, I lack flexibility!" Karma said frustratedly.
Karma knew instinctively. It isn't the problem with the increase in motion. His overall leg speed could overcome Kishi's sword-swinging speed.
But, he felt discomfort when moving his crescent manner. Then, this discomfort led to a great loss in speed, causing now embarrassing situation.
Karma was now, instead of being dejected, smiled, 'this is crazy fun! I think I get the feeling of those guys that get addicted to FPS games now.'
In contrast to his first cold attitude when their 1st match began, Karma now was smiling like a madman. That's right, Karma's Sadomasochist personality has been activated.
'Ah, but it will end at the next match...' somewhere, Karma felt sad.
"Let's end everything at the next match," Karma called out to Kishi, causing her to nod at his sentence. Then, the two waited for the judge's call.
The match has begun once again, for the final time.
Karma... walked.
Displaying the innocent sweet smile on his face that is able to kill countless women, he slowly closed the distance between him.
'Wha-...' his attitude of the rampaging beast from before couldn't be seen anywhere and even Kishi couldn't help but be surprised at this gap.
It was only after 3cm in after Karma entered her attack range that she finally knock out of it.
"H-head!! (Men)" Once Kishi was knocked out of her daze, she attained back the momentum she had before and sent out a down-slash at great speed.
*breath*
Just as the bamboo sword was seen to hit Karma's head, his entire body disappeared like an illusion, akin to the mist being fanned by the wind.
[Silence]
Then, outside the world, in the void, he moved his body sideways, causing the edge of a bamboo blade to brush his shoulder and cut nothing.
Kishi reacted to Karma's disappearance with surprise as she searched for him... even though he was just in front of him.
When he reappeared, Karma was slightly bending his knee at the spot and had his right arm extended while the index and middle fingers were indirectly touching her belly, pointed at it.
"Body! (Do)" Karma propelled his right arm forward, causing Kishi to be blown 4cm back.
[One-Inch Punch]
PERTIMBANGAN PENCIPTA 
R4IN
R4IN Writing an outsider's reaction is the most troublesome.
I don't want the outsider to be endlessly amazed at mc's one-man show like a Chinese Novel but I also want to write their reaction.
It's hard coming up with reactions.