"It's murder time, you damn fish."
All the fishmen lost their cool after looking at the full piece, Sasaki, and attacked him without a second thought.
This time, Sasaki was punched in the face, but he stood firm and sliced the hand that attacked him off.
"Aah! It hurts, human! "
"You must kill me, and if you fail, you will perish! Oh, I can't be killed."
"Hehehe"
Sasaki sliced the fishman's throat, and blood splattered all over his face, but it was less repulsive and distressing to him this time.
"Too noisy!"
The fishmen all took a few steps back, and every time Sasaki took a step forward, they took a step back.
A shark-like Fishman charged in front of him, squarely in front of Sasaki.
"Fishman Karate: Punch!"
When the shark punched the air, the surrounding things began to move. After a few seconds, Sasaki was struck by a blow that struck him from the inside out.
"Cough!"
Sasaki coughed up blood and dropped, but gradually got to his feet as he healed.
"That was Fishman Karate; it's good, but not good enough to finish people like me."
The shark man popped a vein and began attacking him with Fishman Karate.
"Fishman Karate: Punch!"
"Fishman karate!"
"Fishman Karate!"
The Fishman became even more anxious when Sasaki continued to rise despite receiving straight hits from Fishman Karate.
"What are all of us fishermen frightened of? He may be able to stand, but he is frail. We'll bind him and take him to our boss."
After hearing Shark Dude's remarks, all the Fishman spirits sprang up and charged at him at once.
"Avenge our fallen comrade! He must suffer!"
"I'm not going to be merciful to you, you humans!"
Sasaki was taken aback when he witnessed the hatred for humanity up close. He had seen it in anime, but it was a very different sensation in real life.
*Baam*
*Pierce*
* slash*
*Punch*
Sasaki couldn't count how many times he was thrashed; he kept regenerating while they thrashed him for six hours.
'Goddammit, even if my entire prior life was combined when I got trashed, I wouldn't have gotten as beaten up as I am right now.'
'My body hurts; all the tortures in human history pale in comparison.'
*Pierce*
"You fishes, how long do you plan on keeping going?"
Sasaki had his finger severed, and his face was covered with blood-filled eyes instead of tears, but he never screamed once.
"How come you won't beg me to spare you?" "After all, you did to us."
Sasaki's body was bloody red and uninjured after all that battering, yet he refused to surrender nor beg.
Sasaki sneered at the Shark Fishman and locked his gaze on him.
"I suppose I've had enough of it for the time being."
The Shark Fishman dude didn't get it, and he had meant to take him to his boss after beating him into submission, but he was unable to do so.
As his face was smashed by a boulder, he kicked Sasaki in the face, crushing his chin and shattering his teeth.
*Huff*
*Huff*
"Human, what are you even talking about, Human?"
"After all the torture, it appears that I have an excess of cursed energy at my disposal."
"Huh!"
Sasaki made a wolf-like handsign, and his two diving dogs emerged right behind the three remaining fishmen.
*Howl*
*Howl*
A chill ran down the fishmen's spine when they heard the wolf howl from behind them. They turned to look behind them and their heads edged up.
Now it was only him and Shark Dude, along with his Shikigami.
Sasaki had just bathed in blood and endured crazy tortures by which he couldn't even cry.
"I'll bring you down myself. I must repay the favor that you have just bestowed upon me."
The Shark man was afraid and swung his punch at Sasaki's face, but Sasaki caught it with his bare hands this time.
"I believe I improved. I took a punch."
The Shark guy swung his arm once more, this time right for Sasaki's guts.
He managed to hit him but he remained unfazed, not going down but looking him eye to eye.
"After all you've shown me, your fist no longer has the power it once did."
*Punch*
*Baam*
Sasaki got a punch on his punch, followed by a high kick.
*Howl*
*Howl*
The divine dogs wanted to attack the shark dude but got stopped by Sasaki.
*Tch*
"It's now my turn. Let's see how long you can hold out."
*Baam*
Sasaki kicked the shark guy in the stomach hard, pushing him back two steps.
"I still don't have a powerful enough body to inflict proper damage."
The shark guy threw another blow, this time aimed at Sasaki's head.
*Baam*
Sasaki responded with a punch of his own. Their hands were crossed.
Sasaki leaped to his feet and threw a high knee to the shark's chin, knocking him down for the first time.
"It appears as the tides of battle have shifted."
The shark attempted to stand up but was stomped on the ground.
Sasaki launched a punch, but the Shark guy caught it with a firm hold. He threw another blow, but it was again caught.
Shark Dude grabbed both of his hands.
Sasaki leaped into the air and performed a 360-degree turn. His hands became twisted, with bones and muscles ripped apart.
While in midair, Sasaki kicked him in the neck with all the force he could gather on his leg, breaking his neck bones and severing his muscles.
*Huff*
*Cough*
Shark was now on the ground, spitting blood from his mouth and struggling to breathe while staring at Sasaki.
Sasaki's hands recovered at an astonishing rate, almost miraculously.
Sasaki sat on the ground next to the shark guy and began to speak to him.
"You know, I was approximately eight years old when I was a kid."
"I used to have a bully who used to beat me up a lot. I would scream and cry and even if I asked him to spare me as much as I could, he never did. I never mentioned anything about this at home or school. I was scared that It will make things worse."
"It started when I was six years old. It was mild at first, but because I never resisted, only begged, they gradually increased the torment."
"They never went for the obvious sections; they beat me in surprising spots."
"It was at its peak when I was eight years old, and I attempted suicide because I couldn't endure that insane pain, being eight years old and all."
"I climbed to the top of the school building and jumped off; sadly, I lived that day, but I suffered amnesia and forgot everything about being bullied."
"Even before I had recovered my memories, the investigation was closed. I returned to school after I had recovered."
"It started with one, and by the time I was eight, there were seven, and the seven bullies who were so brutal acted like buddies with me after I returned to school, and I thought of them as my friends."
"They asked me to a shady-looking building after a week of being buddies with them. It was an abandoned building that had been empty for years."
"I walked in without a second thought, and it all started over again. They evidently wanted to force me to commit suicide and let me die so they could experience what it was like to be the cause of someone else's death. Total pieces of trash."
"They wanted me to die and plotted to kill and torture me until I committed suicide once more."
"For an entire day, I was tortured. I'm not sure what kind of drugs they used, but my senses were so heightened that even pinching felt like being stabbed."
"That day I regained my memory, and that was the day I screamed and begged them the most in my life, and that was also the very day I stopped screaming and begging. I couldn't stop crying since it was my body's natural response to excruciating pain."
"I realized that day that resistance was futile!"
"They thrashed me so badly that I can't even begin to describe it, and the suffering was unbearable. I desperately wanted to die!"
"I don't want to remember the other portions; they're only useless to dead fish anyway."
"I don't want to remember the other portions; they're only useless to dead fish anyway." "It is the reason that I don't scream in pain and never beg for my life."
Sasaki rose from the ground, leaving the Fishman to suffer and perish.
"Why was I telling him this? It's no longer useful, and I'm not going back there."
"And now that I think about it, I'm a fish like them."