“I appreciate it, Park Jinsung. Sincerely so.”
“Hahahah! We won!! [Weight Increase by 20 Times!!]”
Ahn Sungho did not bother to avoid it and let Yuk Dongho grab his shoulder.
Ahn Sungho’s original weight times 20,
The weight of the clothes Ahn Sungho is wearing times 20,
The weight of Yuk Dongho’s arm pressing down on the shoulder times 20.
Crack!
A large crack appeared on the floor Ahn Sungho was standing on.
“Hi, hiik?!”
“I said it before. I’ve been thinking about it over and over and over again.”
“Hiik?! Why won’t he fall… This, this is nonsensical!!”
Yuk Dongho, flustered, pressed down on Ahn Sungho’s shoulder out of the blue.
Crunch!
But the floor crumbled a bit more, yet Ahn Sungho’s firm stance remained unchanged.
“My body weight is approximately 85 kilograms.”
“Hiik! It’s normal to fall! I don’t understand why you’re not falling!”
“I always carry combat clothes and combat boots weighing 2 kilograms each. In the alley, I wore a 10-kilogram ring on each arm, shoulder, and ankle, and also wore 20-kilogram weight rings on my abdomen and both thighs.”
“You should fallllllll!!”
Crack!
Ahn Sungho clenched his fists with force.
“In total, that’s about 210 kilograms. If you amplify the weight with your Edeya, it amounts to roughly 4 tons.”
“Hi, hiik! You can’t fuss over 4 tons! I need more…!”
Ahn Sungho fluttered his combat shirt and then unlocked the ring on his waist.
Boom!
The ring that had expanded to 400 kilograms shattered the ground before returning to 20 kilograms.
“Hiik….”
“I pondered over and over. Would I have won if I hadn’t worn the weight rings? Or if my condition had been better?”
“Hiik! You should! Hiik! Fall!”
Yuk Dongho pressed down on Ahn Sungho in step, but Ahn Sungho did not budge at all.
“The truth is, no matter how much I pondered, there was only one answer.”
[Definitely Catch You]
It’s possible to train beyond the limits granted to humans.
“Hiik… This is nonsensical…. How can a person…”
“Whether it was my condition, weight rings, whatever, simply overcoming your Edeya would have solved the issue. It’s just that I hadn’t stepped into such a strong domain yet.”
“Could it be that you mean…?! No! That’s impossible! Even for Ahn Sungho, some things are impossible!!”
“I have lifted and smashed rocks. I just need to be able to lift it for a moment.”
[Definitely Catch You]
Only when throwing an object, ignore a certain amount of the object’s weight (up to four times one’s own weight).
Ahn Sungho began to slowly lift Yuk Dongho.
“If you knew how much I weigh, you couldn’t do this!!”
“Was there about a week left until the main training? It was questionable how much could be achieved in such a short time.”
“[Weight Increase by 20 Times!] [Weight Increase by 20 Tiiiiimes!!]”
“But in the end, I did it. This is the result.”
“Hi, hihihik! Hiiiiik…!!”
Ahn Sungho managed to lift Yuk Dongho completely for a moment.
Currently, Ahn Sungho’s weight is approximately 4 tons.
With the effect of Definitely Catch You, a total of 16 tons can be ignored.
Screeeech, Boooooooom!!!
Yuk Dongho, having become 20 times heavier, plunged to the ground with a giant roar as big as his own body.
“Hyaaak……!!”
It was a perfect smash with no room for correction. As natural as water flowing from top to bottom. However, the smash was so fast that no one actually managed to see it properly.
“Hiieer…”
Yuk Dongho, barely alive, was bleeding from all openings: eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. It was so hard to move that he could only be satisfied with shivering his eyeballs.
Click, clack, clickety-clack!
Ahn Sungho’s joints creaked and screamed.
“Hmm.”
Even for Ahn Sungho, Yuk Dongho, increased by 20 times, was quite a heavy burden.
His left ankle and right thigh muscle faced severe cracks, and the right shoulder used to lift Yuk Dongho had caved in.
“Still, I won.”
Ahn Sungho lifted his other hand high.
The counter against Ahn Sungho.
Complete overcome.
“Huhu.”
Ahn Sungho looked at the helicam and smirked. It was the ultimate smile that dismissed all controversies until then.
Dozens of helicams, attracted by the loud noise, captured Ahn Sungho’s stylish smile.
Penetration up to 998.
Yuk Dongho, turned into a complete mess, collapsed.
The once-defeated strongest of the battalion had once again subdued the enemy head-on.
Purely with strength and effort, he broke through the worst compatibility.
“Ah, aah…? What kind of messed-up situation is this?”
Kang Jinno, arriving late, gathered all the wrinkles he could on his face in dismay.
The highlight wasn’t over yet.
One of 998’s wings was badly torn, but the other remained intact.
Buzz!
Helicams capturing the unexpected bonanza flew around joyfully. Their dizzying flights seemed to carry their owners’ delight.
“Kang Jinno… Were you sent by Park Jinsung too?”
“Pa, Park Jinsung?! Eeeek! He, he’s not here, right?! He’s not here, right?! Huh?!”
Kang Jinno hastily looked around and then sighed as if wishing the ground would swallow him.
“There are many rolling in on their own accord. It’s a day full of luck in many ways.”
“Ahn Sungho! You sawdust, you bastard!! Hurry up and bow! Hurry up and do it…!! Where the hell is Park Jinsung doing what?!”
“Park Jinsung? He’s the second member of our great HT.”
“Aaang?! What nonsense is that, again!”
“…That wound must have been made by Park Jinsung.”
Seeing his own thigh, Kang Jinno turned away as if embarrassed.
“Haha! And you, sawdust, also got wrecked fighting Hik, didn’t you?!”
“Indeed, it was heavy. There won’t be anything heavier than Yuk Dongho to lift in the future.”
“I’ll thoroughly destroy you, combining what happened to Hik! I’m the type to break more fiercely when the opponent is injured…!”
“No. Your thigh seems to be more severely damaged. So.”
Snap!!
“Ah, aah…? Are you crazy, sawdust…? Uh, uuh?!”
Ahn Sungho himself destroyed his already torn right thigh muscle. The femur broke cleanly, causing a dark bruise to form.
“Hmm. I think this is similar enough. This is sincere.”
“Ha! This is a humiliation! Too shameful!!”
It was humiliating enough to have fled from Park Jinsung, but watching Ahn Sungho self-harm as a form of consideration was also disgraceful.
“Now that the balance is even, I’ll also start doing my best from now on.”
“Aaaaang?! Stop messing around! Only my thigh is damaged, but your entire body is…!”
Boom! Boom!
Ahn Sungho released the weight rings from his wrists.
“Do you remember that alley? I haven’t forgotten it for a moment.”
“What, what.”
“I was wearing the weight rings even then. I admit I was foolish. It was undeniable arrogance and pride.”
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
He removed everything he was wearing on his ankles and shoulders. With his body lightened, Ahn Sungho straightened up as if it was nothing.
Even Kang Jinno, with only one thigh ruined, couldn’t maintain his balance and staggered. But Ahn Sungho maintained a firm stance even with a cracked ankle.
“Surely, with those weight rings, you fought Hik.”
“The battle with Yuk Dongho was merely a test from the front. So don’t worry too much. This time, I’ll truly give it my all.”
“Aaaaaah! Crazy! You crazy bastard!! You’re all crazy!! Why are there so many crazies in Haeun Battalion!!”
“Hmm. I hear that often.”
Ahn Sungho limped towards Kang Jinno.
“You know, from middle school? If you come to me, you’ll be beaten to death!! Aang?!”
“It’s completely different from back then.”
“Don’t come, you bastard!”
Overwhelmed by Ahn Sungho, Kang Jinno’s face turned pale.
“Here I go.”
“Don’t comeeeee!!”
In any case, what remained in Kang Jinno was only rage. He used even the embarrassment of being cornered as fuel for his anger.
[Abandoned Anger]
Stage 1 Irritation → Stage 4 Madness
Like a solid sublimating into smoke, Stage 1 rage instantly elevated to Stage 4 madness.
Initially, except for the thigh torn up by Park Jinsung, Kang Jinno was in perfect condition. Gathering a year’s worth of expected growth, he attacked Ahn Sungho, who was rising from below.
“Kihihihik! Dieeeeeee!!”
“[Definitely Catch You.]”
“Ugh!!”
Caught by the scruff by Ahn Sungho, Kang Jinno choked, unable to shake him off.
“Too easy. You’re much easier than Yuk Dongho.”
Even the mirage of pure rage was futile. Unable to push back against Ahn Sungho, the returning champion. Meanwhile, only Ahn Sungho’s combat uniform fluttered like a mirage, while he remained in a solid unmovable stance.
“Kihih?!”
“Even selling your body to madness, this is all you’ve got. Hmm. It seems you were stronger back in middle school.”
Boom!
Ahn Sungho slammed Kang Jinno into the ground.
With one foot, even with a broken ankle, he threw Kang Jinno, who couldn’t muster any resistance and collapsed.
“Going further.”
Ahn Sungho wasn’t satisfied with just one attempt and repeatedly slammed Kang Jinno into the ground.
“Kihi!!”
Boom!
“Kihieek!!”
Boom!
“Kihiaaah! Tha-that’s enough!!”
Boom!
Stage 4 madness quickly downgraded to Stage 1 irritation. The duration of the madness was embarrassingly short to even be called madness.
“Is it over already, Kang Jinno.”
Ahn Sungho brought Kang Jinno and his Edeya down to his feet with sheer physical power alone. He simply overpowered Kang Jinno with strength and smashing techniques.
The performance shown by Ahn Sungho was clearly beyond human limits.
No matter how much “Definitely Catch You” extended the limits of the body, one must break through those limits again to grow.
“If you give me a minute, I get better, and if you give me an hour, I become even more amazing. After giving me three years since middle school, you can never beat me.”
The humiliation from the past alley encounter elevated Ahn Sungho to a higher dimension once again.
Endless training, mechanical effort, more stimulating training.
Even now, when his body became a returning point, it was as good as a training session that became an experience for Ahn Sungho.
“Ahhh. Sawdust, to think you could do this….”
“Want to try more?”
“Kha. Cough, cough.”
The ground was indented only where Kang Jinno was smashed down. It became a crater, coolly hollowed out, with its height lower than the surrounding ground with the button.
“Now that I see, I think I understand why you were tagging along with Yuk Dongho.”
“Cough! Cough! Ah, aang…?”
“After finishing your studies abroad and returning to Korea, you actually didn’t have the confidence to beat me like before. Am I wrong?”
“Shut up…! What do you know, cough.”
“If I’m wrong, there’s nothing to be done. Then let me imprint it thoroughly on you now.”
“Wait, just wait, just a moment, just a moment.”
“I felt the need for education. Make you regret your loose talk.”
“No! Really, just a…!!”
Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
Ahn Sungho swung Kang Jinno around as if he was tossing a doll.
Smashing him to the left, then to the right, and even straight on.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
With every collision with the ground, at least one of Kang Jinno’s bones broke.
“Stop, please! Please please please pleaseee!! You’re right! I didn’t have the confidence to win, so I messed with Yuk Dongho and 998…!”
“Hmm. It’s already too late. Once started, education never stops.”
“Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”
Boom!! Crackle, crackle
Kang Jinno’s white teeth joyously flew through the air.
“Cough, gurgle. Ugh, uh, ugh…”
Kang Jinno had to collide with the ground three more times before his teeth fell back onto his face.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
He had to collide with the ground three more times.
—
At the same time.
West Sea of South Korea.
“…What’s that?”
The Chief Combat Advisor of South Korea furrowed his brows at an unidentified object.
Being bound by all sorts of international laws, it was impossible for Lee Shin to act rashly. However, as it was a matter concerning the national defense of South Korea, he arrived at the location quite urgently.
“Hah, this is really something.”
It was an unexpected surprise, making Lee Shin press his temples firmly.
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