Torture

"Yeah, What about me?"

Ikki smiled wryly at Noah's words, hearing the tone of his voice Ikki could tell that Noah was feeling… bored.

It was fairly obvious who was going to lose in this fight, however Ikki wasn't someone who was going to give up without at least putting up a fight.

"I can't believe it, you're too strong, but… I won't admit defeat!" Ikki said seriously, without the slightest bit of hesitation, he went forward and immediately, attempted to punch Noah with his left hand!

He went all out, because he knew if he didn't, he would surely lose!

Noah was dodging Ikki's barrage of high speed punches. Even without using his new eye powers, Noah was able to dodge his punches with ease. In all honesty, to him, Ikki's punches were slower than snail's pace.

But of course in reality it was very fast, so fast that Kōzō could barely see Ikki's fist move. Ikki started to sweat heavily as he kept attacking Noah.

He couldn't even hit him once! This fact was really frustrating for him!

Noah decided to end this, he used the same move that ripped Ikki's uniform.

Ikki saw this incoming attack and shouted in his mind 'I can't dodge this!'

Ding!

Noah stopped his attack, his hand was about to reach Ikki's shoulder as the alarm clock rang.

He took his hand away from Ikki's shoulder, and said.

"The time for round 1 ends huh?...too bad." Noah slowly went toward the corner of the chalk made ring.

While Ikki was stunned, he spoke. "Why did you stop your attack?"

"Hmm? Do you really need to ask? Since this is a 'Match' I am bound by the rules, aren't I? If I broke them wouldn't I be disqualified?" Noah answered.

Hearing his answer, Ikki was dumbfounded for a moment, then he started to laugh.

"Ahahaha! You're right! This is a 'Match' however you don't have to follow it you know? You could have won already." He smiled as he looked at Noah.

Noah gave him a blank look, and replied. "Well, I have my reasons, but I'll tell you one of them. It's very obvious actually, I'm someone who respects rules and regulations and breaking them leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth."

While Noah said those words, the comment box exploded.

"Well said UP! Respect + 1!"

"Respect + 2!"

"Respect + 3!"

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After a minute of break it was time for round 2.

Noah and Ikki simultaneously walked towards the center of the ring, while the only audience excluding the live stream viewers, was feeling extremely anxious.

Kōzō gulped audibly, he didn't want to admit it but the outcome was obvious, Ikki was bound to lose in this round.

At the ring, Ikki formed his usual boxing stance, however Noah suddenly raised his right hand and spoke.

"Wait a minute, before we start I'm going to ask you a question."

"Sure, go on. What is it?"

"Your right hand is injured isn't it?."

Hearing that from Noah, Ikki froze and smiled bitterly, instead of pretending he spoke.

"You knew?"

"No I didn't but your answer made it obvious." Noah lied, he was aware of his injuries from the very start, however he had to pretend that he noticed that something was wrong with Ikki's right hand.

"I… you… sigh* Yeah... I've been injured for a long time now, though the doctors fixed my dislocated bones, I still can't move my right arm, they also said I should forget about using this arm anymore… So you see, I didn't really quit boxing because I wanted to! It's because I couldn't box anymore!" Ikki said with a bitter expression.

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"What a man! Another respect!"

"This man has the spirit of an athlete! I admire this kind of person!"

"Oh my gosh, I pity him now… can't he get his arm healed?"

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"Well, what can I say? Except… WHAT THE FUCK!"

"WTF!"

"WH4T TH3 FU3K!"

"POOR MY ASS! THAT'S LITERALLY 10,000$! IF YOU'RE A BEGGAR THEN EVERYBODY HERE IS WORSE THAN A BEGGAR, YOU PRETENTIOUS SHIT!!"

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Seeing this on the screen in front of Noah, he was a little surprised so far this is the highest gift that he got! However it didn't last long, and he spoke.

"That's a pity.. however what if there is a way to fix your injured arm?"

"Huh? You're not joking right?" Ikki asked in disbelief.

Noah's apathetic expression slowly turned into a slight smile, and he replied. "What do you think?"

Hearing that from Noah, Ikki suddenly got excited! As he interacted with Noah he could tell that Noah wasn't a guy who would joke like that and that he was telling the truth.

He couldn't help but be hopeful, he spoke. "Please! If you know a way to fix my right arm tell me!"

"About that… I will…

Ikki smiled brightly at Noah's response. His eyes were filled with hope and dreams of his future boxing career but it was short lived as he heard Noah's next words...

but before that, let's finish this match!" Noah suddenly appeared in front of Ikki and before he could react, he got hit with an uppercut to the chin by Noah.

As a result, he got knocked out and fainted directly.

Noah spoke to his viewers.

"Believe it or not I'm being gentle here."

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"Bullshit! If that's what you call gentle, then what do you think hard is?!"

"That's right! How is that gentle!"

"Refund! Gimme refund!"

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Seeing these comments, Noah just shrugged what he said was the truth, his methods could be treated as gentle compared to the fighters of this world.

He already held back as much as he could. Noah shifted his attention towards Kōzō who was sweating profusely.

"Do you mind carrying your friend?"

"Huh?"

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Ikki slowly opened his eyes, he saw an unfamiliar ceiling, after a moment of confusion, he touched his chin by instinct.

He could feel the pain and soreness emanating from his chin as he finally recalled what had happened!

He was punched on the chin and he directly fainted!

But more importantly... where was this place?

While he was thinking, he suddenly heard a voice.

"Oh? You're finally awake? That's good."

Ikki looked at the person who spoke those words, it was a middle aged man that was wearing an outfit for Judo users.

"Who are you? Where am I?"

"I'm Kōetsuji Akisame, as for where, you're at my clinic, rather than that I heard from my student that you want to fix your right arm to move it again."

Ikki froze for a moment, but he suddenly got excited.

"Y-yes! Do you perhaps have a way to fix it?"

"Haha, of course I do. It's actually pretty easy to fix."

"E-easy?"

Akisame nodded, "Yes, it's easy to fix, then shall I begin the treatment?"

Ikki replied. "Right now? Okay, please start."

"Naturally." Without Ikki realizing, Akisames' eyes went bright and he started his tort.. ahem- 'treatment'.

Crack~!

"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

Thus the treatment (torture) began.

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Inside one of the houses of Ryōzanpaku,

Noah temporarily stopped his movement, which made Shigure confused.

"N..oah?"

He didn't reply to her question and shifted his attention towards the direction of the scream, he mumbled emotionlessly. "Akisame-sensei started his 'treatment' huh…"

Then without a word, he restarted his training with Shigure, not minding the soul-shivering screams of Ikki.

( -END- )