Chapter 149
Chapter 149
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 149
Chapter Title: Matchup (1)
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“The fuck did you just say?”
Sosuke’s expression twisted violently.
He, who had been effortlessly creating round water bubbles from his body, scowled as if he’d heard something utterly disgusting.
“Pregnant? What the hell are you talking about, you crazy bastard?”
“You… Are you trying to deny that you’re carrying a child right now?”
“No, I’m asking what kind of bullshit that is.”
“Hah!!!!”
You’re popping out that many eggs and you’re asking what bullshit I’m talking about?
“It’s because of scum like you that irresponsible parents who abandon their children keep appearing!!”
“I told you, I’m not pregnant!!”
“No! You are pregnant right now!!”
“What is this madness?”
“I saw it!!”
“Saw what?! What the hell did you see?!”
Sosuke stared at Oh-jin, dumbfounded.
Never in his life did he imagine he’d encounter someone who would spout such insane nonsense in front of the ‘King of the Seahorses.’
“Have you forgotten, Sosuke? That night… a long, thick tentacle entered you…”
“You crazy son of a bitch!”
Deciding there was no point in talking further, Sosuke fired the round water bubbles he had created toward Oh-jin.
Perhaps because of the baseless nonsense he’d just heard.
For some reason, the flying water bubbles looked like he was throwing actual eggs, filling him with an unbearable sense of disgust.
*Th-th-th-th-th!*
A torrent of water bubbles poured out like a Gatling gun.
Watching Sosuke’s reaction with a snicker, Oh-jin calmly began to move.
Perhaps it was thanks to his fierce battle with Cheon Do-yoon.
Dodging the downpour of water bubbles wasn’t particularly difficult.
‘The image training I did back then is coming in handy again.’
The experience of dodging lasers by using a ‘lie’ that was close to self-hypnosis.
That experience allowed him to evade the hundreds of raining water bubbles.
‘Though, to be honest… I don’t even really need to dodge.’
He moved his feet, hiding a sly smile.
*Pop! Bang!*
The water bubbles that grazed past Oh-jin and hit the floor exploded with a clear sound.
The noise wasn’t very loud, but seeing the floor gouged out as if an excavator had dug into it, their power was not to be underestimated.
“You rat-like bastard…!”
Watching Oh-jin evade the barrage of water bubbles like a ghost, Sosuke spat out a rough curse.
Deciding this wasn’t working, he continued to fire the water bubbles without rest while simultaneously rushing toward Oh-jin.
“You think you can keep running away like that?”
He formed his arms into the shape of swords and swung them at Oh-jin, who was dodging the attacks left and right.
*Crackle!*
A barrier of blue lightning formed in front of Oh-jin.
A sly smile appeared on Sosuke’s lips.
“I told you it was useless!”
*Swish!*
The sword, made of pure ‘water,’ sliced through the lightning barrier.
As if cutting a cake, his sword lightly split the barrier and slashed a long gash across Oh-jin’s chest.
“Keuk!”
Oh-jin tried to dodge the sword quickly, but it was difficult to evade both the pouring water bubbles and the sword at the same time.
The water sword grazed past Oh-jin’s chest.
Flesh split open, and blood poured out.
“Hahaha! This is what you call an unavoidable matchup!”
At a glance, one might assume electricity would have an overwhelming advantage in a fight against water.
But the moment one could create ‘pure water’ with no impurities, that matchup was completely reversed.
Of course, it wasn’t some Pokémon battle where the winner was decided by type advantages.
‘He’s a 7-Star, was it?’
In a situation where there was already a difference in Star level, with the matchup also working against him, there was no way the Lightning Wolf could be his opponent, even if he was an Apostle of Polaris.
“Well! What happened to that arrogant mouth of yours?! Huh?”
“Keuk!”
Water bubbles assaulted him from all sides, with sharp sword strikes piercing through the gaps.
If he used the ‘Stigma of the Hourglass,’ he might be able to dodge, but Oh-jin couldn’t use a Stigma with a limited number of uses continuously and had no choice but to slowly start taking Sosuke’s attacks.
“Keoheok!”
His flesh was cut by sharp sword strikes, and his skin was crushed by water bubbles filled with destructive power.
“Keeeeuk!”
“Why don’t you try spouting some more of that nonsense!”
“Aargh!”
“Stop screaming and say something!”
“D-damn it!”
“Hahaha!”
Watching Oh-jin get beaten one-sidedly without being able to land a single proper counterattack, Sosuke burst into laughter.
A thrilling shiver ran through him as he watched Oh-jin, who had not only thoroughly ruined his plans but also mocked him with an arrogant expression, getting miserably thrashed.
“Don’t even think about dying peacefully.”
Sosuke’s lips twisted into a smirk as he continued his assault, avoiding vital spots.
Whether due to accumulated damage, Oh-jin’s rat-like evasive movements began to slow.
Sosuke continued his attacks, even more tenaciously and viciously.
“I heard you killed that owl bastard and thought you were strong, but you were just riding on your Constellation’s coattails, weren’t you?”
He had thought it was impossible from the moment he heard the news that the Lightning Wolf had killed Cheon Do-yoon.
Now that he was fighting him directly, he was certain.
The only reason the Lightning Wolf could defeat the King of the Owls was purely thanks to the power of the goddess Vega.
“But you won’t be able to receive Vega’s help now, will you!”
He knew well the great restrictions that came with a Constellation’s direct manifestation.
Even a Polaris Constellation could not defy the constraints of the law.
Now, not long after Cheon Do-yoon’s death.
It would be impossible for a Constellation to manifest again and help him.
“D-damn it!”
Oh-jin’s face was a mask of panic, as if he never expected to be pushed back this far.
Seeing that utterly foolish expression, a laugh escaped him on its own.
“Getting your ass kicked like this, and what? You’re gonna take me on alone?”
“Keuk!”
“Hahaha! Right! Just taking a beating like a punching bag is still ‘taking me on,’ I guess!”
He spewed taunts and unleashed an even more furious barrage of attacks.
After relentlessly pushing Oh-jin for about five minutes, Sosuke’s own breathing became slightly ragged.
“Hah, hah.”
He caught his breath and looked at Oh-jin.
Although he had been attacking in a way that would inflict maximum pain while avoiding vital spots, Oh-jin had somehow managed to endure for over five minutes without collapsing.
‘He’s pretty tough, isn’t he?’
It seemed he had dragged this out for too long.
‘It’s time to finish this.’
Sosuke’s eyes gleamed as he took a deep breath.
The Stigma engraved on his left chest glowed with an ominous black light.
*Shwoooooosh!*
A thick water mist flowed out from Sosuke’s body.
“Spread.”
Following the low command, the thick water mist erupting from his body explosively blanketed the surroundings.
It was a scene as if the clouds high in the sky had descended to cover the earth.
This was on a different level from the water mist Mika had used.
A horrific mist that clung to you like a swamp, threatening to drag you down to the bottom of a fathomless abyss.
The devil’s technique, which stole sight, movement, and even breath, ensnared Oh-jin.
“Keoheok! Kuck!! C-can’t! Breathe!!”
Oh-jin could be seen clutching his throat, letting out pained groans.
He looked so terrified that tears were streaming down his pathetic face.
The smile on Sosuke’s lips deepened.
“Now, this is the end.”
If he had his way, he would have made him taste a little more despairing pain, but if he delayed any longer, Sakaki or other members of Kurōshi would surely be after him.
‘Using the elixirs I’ve gathered would make it easy to wipe them all out, but…’
A hidden card displays its true power only when it remains hidden.
If he used his trump card to destroy a mere organization like Kurōshi, it would be difficult to survive the competition between the ‘factions’ later on.
“Die, Vega’s mutt.”
Sosuke’s eyes shone coldly as he spread his arms toward Oh-jin, who was engulfed in the water mist.
*Rumble!*
Tens, hundreds of water bubbles spewing from his body gathered in one place.
The size of the gathered bubbles reached a diameter of over ten meters.
It had become a massive sphere that could no longer be called a ‘bubble.’
‘Now, add rotation.’
A vortex raged within the giant water bubble.
A destructive attack that would suck in and tear apart anyone who so much as touched it.
*Thwump!*
The condensed vortex of water was shot toward Oh-jin, who was trapped in the mist.
*KWADADADADAK!!!*
A deafening roar, unlike anything one would expect from a water bubble hitting something, echoed through the air.
“It’s over.”
Sosuke turned his body as if there was nothing left to see.
Just then,
*Twang!*
Six wires wrapped around his body.
*Bzzzzzzzt!!*
Blue lightning flowed through the wires.
“Keuk!”
Sosuke, who had been about to release his ‘pure water’ state thinking Oh-jin was dead, hurriedly liquefied his entire body.
After barely escaping the wires’ range, he turned his head back toward Oh-jin.
Though he looked like a tattered rag, covered in wounds from head to toe, Oh-jin was still standing.
“You persistent bastard…!”
He didn’t know how he survived that attack, but seeing the guy he thought was dead suddenly launch an assault, a wave of irritation washed over him.
“Die!”
He charged forward fiercely and unleashed his attacks once more.
He might have somehow endured one attack, but that was it.
It was just a matter of whether he died in one hit or two.
*Swish! Swish! Crunch!*
Water splashed everywhere as Sosuke’s attacks relentlessly poured down.
However.
‘Why the hell won’t this bastard die?’
No matter how he thought about it, this was strange.
He must have landed tens, no, hundreds of attacks already.
Why in the world wouldn’t he fall?
“Damn it!”
A rough curse escaped Sosuke’s lips.
“I’ll end you with this.”
He decided to pull out a small part of his hidden trump card.
*Rumble!*
As he swung his arms wide, streams of water formed in the air.
This was different from the water before.
The water, emitting a faint blue light, was an elixir created by melting down kidnapped Awakened.
A small amount of the gushing elixir flowed into Sosuke’s body.
“Hah.”
Sosuke let out a short breath and raised his head.
The fight had started in a basement, but due to the battle between superhumans known as the Awakened, the entire surrounding area had been transformed into a desolate, open lot.
*Swoooooooosh!*
The thick water mist that had settled in the area rose high into the air and began to pour down water.
Like a torrential downpour, the entire area was covered in water.
‘He won’t be able to withstand this.’
Each and every one of these falling raindrops was a fatal attack imbued with the Stigma’s magic.
A disaster that could neither be dodged nor blocked was descending from the sky.
“N-no way.”
At the wondrous sight, Oh-jin let out a cry of astonishment and looked up at the pouring rain.
No.
To be precise, he wasn’t looking at the pouring rain, but at the blue message window floating before his eyes.
A message window that had been there for quite some time.
[The area is filled with the energy of water.]
[The efficiency of the skill <[Water Affinity Lv MAX]> has explosively increased!]
Oh-jin trembled, his face a mask of terror, and shouted.
“H-how can you use a Water Style Jutsu of this magnitude in a place with no water!!!”
The downpour, saturated with the Stigma’s magic, rained down on the fake wounds created by ‘Transformation.’
As the rain fell on him, Oh-jin desperately suppressed the laughter that threatened to burst out.