1.33: The zero-seconds kick

All the bandits began to worry.

"M…Motoroshi Boss. You're kidding, right?"

"You have the battle in your favor; WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS AGAIN?!"

Motoroshi turned towards them.

"Again, you say?" They all stepped back. "Firstly, there was no first time. Secondly, I would never put my life at stake for the likes of you guys. And thirdly, I've surrendered. So this battle will be yours to finish."

The bandits all dropped their weapons and began to panic.

"HOW CAN WE BEAT SOMEONE STRONGER THAN YOU??!!"

"COME ON, JUST FINISH HIM ALREADY!!"

"THIS IS THE SAME SHIT HE PULLED THE FIRST TIME!!"

They all began to retaliate, but it did not phase Motoroshi. Chiampa looked straight into his eyes, and all he did was laugh. 

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!! You know, I never understood you at all, Motoroshi. You fight when you want to and stop when you want to. But out of both those choices, you always come out on top! I don't know what you are up to, but I'd like to see this moment myself."

The bandits didn't understand what he meant, but they all calmed down and watched. Motoroshi then turned back to Tedashii. 

"Hey, Tedashii. Why don't you finish me off? With all due respect to your grandfather, a good fist should tribute to him well; Sawashiki, was it?"

Tedashii clenched his fists as he heard him say that. "Never again…"

He charged up his surge. "DON'T YOU EVER SAY HIS NAME EVER AGAIN!!"

He leaped towards Motoroshi. The Blue fist appeared as he was ready to lay the final blow.

~Blue Rose FI-

SLAMM!!!

Tedashii found himself hitting the wall at outlandish speed. He lost consciousness for those few seconds in the air.

"WHAT?! TEDASHII!!" Kate yelled as they were all shocked at what had occurred.

Motoroshi still had his hands in the air and didn't move a muscle. All the bandits were jaw-dropped. They just stared as Motoroshi slowly lowered his arms.

"My, my. It does take a lot of arm strength to stay up like that; I feel sorry for the robbers. How do they remain in that surrendering pose for so long? I ask that often."

"GWAGH!!" Tedashii spat out some blood as he stayed on one knee.

"Oh, Tedashii. You appear to be in such a malicious state. What happened to you?" Motoroshi sarcastically asked.

"…the hell was that?" Tedashii asked.

"Answering a question with another question. Very ironic."

"SHUT UP!!!"

He leaped again towards Motoroshi, but this time, he vanished behind him.

("This time I won't miss from here-")

SLAMM!!!

Tedashii found himself back on the same wall, but it felt twice as lethal this time. He saw the attack was aimed at his empty chest. The wound opened itself again, and Tedashii began losing more blood.

"BLUEG!!"

He held the wound as hard as possible to try and slow down the bleeding.

"I guess you can't read my attack anymore now? I felt intimidated; guess I was wrong."

Tedashii managed to stand up again but couldn't hold a straight face. 

"Well, I think I should come clean to everyone here." They all stopped and listened. "Firstly, I would never surrender to anyone! That's the last thing you can expect from me. Secondly, the life of my subjects means the world to me. So, as long as I'm breathing, you can't lay a finger on them. And thirdly, what you are experiencing now is just a repeat of what I did to you back then."

Tedashii was still lost. 

"As you may have noticed, I am also a wind-type ronin, but in contrast with you, my spiritas dwells mostly in my legs. So this is my prowess. The whole concept of kicking in under zero seconds."

He then took the stance that took him precisely zero seconds to perfect.

"I call this…"

~WIND PROWESS: SHOSHITSU POINT.