((The following is the commentators for the match, babbling like fools.))
"Hello, and welcome fight fans! We're here at the Nippon Budokan, the Martial Arts Hell! Today, over five thousand people have joined us here! The time is five thirty and in half an hour, the choujin Kinnikuman will face the demon Touya. In the time we have spare, we thought
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Suguru's serious attitude was completely gone. His accidental technique has bolstered his confidence into arrogance. Not moving at all, he let the ice blade strike him, expecting it to just turn to water on contact.
Not exactly what actually happened. True, his body heat did melt some of the sword's edge-but it was still extremely sharp. But not only that, Touya's refreezing, and especially the increased power, had drained a lot of heat right out of his body.
"UWAAAH!"
Taking a direct hit, Suguru began to bleed, the hot blood that had been the staple of his defence spilling onto the sword, further melting it before the last of his super high heat drained away. Reacting on instinct, Kinnikuman lashed out his arms to force Touya away, immediately beginning to run on the spot again, with the goal of returning to his previous state. Of course, the pressure of his on the spot stampede caused his wound to bleed faster-but the pain was nothing right now. Kinnikuman couldn't even feel it, all he could feel was his deep desire to defeat Touya, to shatter his techniques and then break his body. It wasn't malicious-Suguru just needed to win, he needed to fight until he couldn't fight anymore. He didn't understand it, and he wasn't trying to either. He was just going to fight.
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Taking the attacks, Kinnikuman fell down onto one knee. Placing a hand over his chest wound, he spent a moment breathing deeply and watching his demonic oppenent.
~I...I can't do that move...Not with him so ready for it...~
Just spending a moment staring, he suddenly felt a hot sensation-the blood on his hand was hot. His half completed running had given him just a little heat.
~But that doesn't mean I can't try something new!~
A smile crept across Suguru's lips as he stood up.
"So you think you've got me beaten? Well, show me that attack from before! Even if I can't beat it the same way, I'll smash through in another way! C'mon, if you think you're strong enough!"
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"Even if I don't know what I can do-"
Tiny cracks appeared in the ice around his feet.
"I will keep on fighting until I've seen what I can do with my own eyes!"
The cracks expanded around his right foot.
"I fight, because there are things that are wrong-"
With a loud snap, his right foot breaks free of the ice.
"-And the only thing I can do is make them right!"
With another snap, the ice around his left foot breaks apart under his massive determination.
"MAYBE I DON'T DESERVE RESPECT! MAYBE I AM A LOSER!"
Once again, tears begin to flow from his eyes, but his totally serious expression remains.
"BUT I WILL GIVE UP EVERYTHING-"
Raising his right hand, the hand covered in his blood, burning hot, Suguru advanced.
"EVERYTHING I HAVE, AND EVERYTHING I DON'T AND EVERYTHING I COULD HAVE-"
Moving again, with that insane speed, that incalculable power, Suguru's left hand, the hand pierced with ice, grabs ahold of Touya's right arm.
"TO CHANGE JUST ONE THING!"
A tiny smile appears on his lips as he wins up his right fist.
"Didn't I promise-I'd punch the teeth out the back of your head if you got in the way of that? HOT BLOODED-"
Suguru let out all his power, all the might he had in his body into one, massive-
"PUNCH!"
His fist hurtling through the air to collide with Touya's head, his burning hot blood, his sheer determination-sure fire, one hit win. If not for the left hand-slippery with ice and blood, the power of the impact was cut down as Touya slipped from his grip to instead fly backwards from the impact.
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"Don't get me wrong!"
Suguru began to perfom his heating up technique once more, but this time, there was a critical difference from before. Whilst earlier, he had lowered his head and swung his arms straight from back to front, he was now keeping his head up and swinging diagonally across his body. The effect was that, unlike before, his guard was not lowered- countering this improved technique was a far more difficult matter. Suguru, naturally, had no idea he was doing it-he was just doing what felt natural.
"I'm going to change everything!"
Now so hot he was glowing, Suguru was sweating profusely.
"ONE THING AT A TIME!"
Not wasting time, Suguru charged forward-planning to once more grab ahold of Touya. He didn't have a plan more concise than that-just grab him, then think of something.
The crowd let out a cry- Touya's power had, even diluted by distance, frozen all the drinks in the arena, solidified the butter on the popcorn and in one case, froze the wig to a bald man's head. The Touya's Girl Army began collecting the ice and placing it in coolers, as souvenirs.
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Touya had slipped from his grasp so fast that he lost track of him-the next thing he knew, he was struck with incredible power. The sweat on his body had frozen instantly, everything from the shoulders down packed in by the ice. And the salt water of sweat, once frozen, is far stronger than that of normal water. It was like wearing a steel straight jacket. If he hadn't only just heated his body to the maximum, it's entirely possible that his flesh would have frozen too.
"Ah...AWAAAHAHAH! I'm STUCK!"
Without that determination he had shown just a minute, Suguru was panicking again. If he had calmed down and focused, he could probably have broken the ice, but as it was, he was simply struggling widly.
~I can't move! I'm not hot enough to melt this! If I can't move, I can't heat up! I'm trapped! This is it! I'm finished!~
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The power of the frozen attacks had spread the ice across Kinnikuman's head and shoulders. He was completely locked away-ice covered him from head to toe.
~This is it. I'm done for. I guess Touya was wrong when he said that there was hope for me. I guess I was wrong when I said there's no such thing as a hopeless situation. Mama, Papa, Meat, I'm sorry, but I can't win!~
Suguru felt a strange sense of relaxation with his acceptance of defeat. All the tension gently faded away from his muscles, his eyes sliding closed under the ice. There was no need to struggle to the finish-to accept he was too weak was far too satisfying.
And yet, something stirred in Kinnikuman. Deep within him, his thoughts that it was okay to surrender here, were overidden by something weak but growing stronger all the time, an instinct to keep moving, to shine a light in the darkest of moments. This power, this burning inner strength, a tiny spark of instinct caused Suguru's intuition to sense something.
~There's...space?~
Suguru's muscles had been tensed when he had been frozen, but now, they were relaxed. The difference the size had left a gap between his icy shell and his flesh.
~I see it. I can see it! I can see it with my muscles-There is no such thing and a no win situation! Even when I give up-I never give up!~
Rapidly flexing and tensing every single muscle in his body, over and over again, Kinnikuman had once again instinctively found a way to leap over a barrier. This time, it was not heat, but sheer force that would break his way out. The referee meanwhile had decided that Kinnikuman's frozen state could be considered being unable to continue, and was counting for a TKO.
"One."
~More!~
"Two."
~Faster!~
"Three."
~More power!~
"Four."
~Even if I'm not strong enough-~
"Five."
~I'll do it with the strength I don't have!~
Cracks spread across the ice-tiny little splinters at first, but soon the entire frozen was filled with canyons and crevices. And with a final push-the ice fell off of Suguru, sliding down his muscles like glaciers. Kinnikuman's body was running almost entirely on automatic now-his thoughts, if he was even having any, simply didn't fit into the picture. All he had was his desire and his body. But, right now-that desire and that body were full of more power than ever before, unstoppable power, infinite power. His eyes blank of anything but that desire, that single need to win, he used the moment of surprise he gained from breaking free of the ice to grab Touya tightly around the waist-and then leapt backwards at a steep angle, driving Touya's head into the canvas, not only with his own weight, but the force of his arms and the momentum of his jump. Only letting go once Touya's head hit the floor, Suguru had angled his body so that his feet had hit the ground. Standing with his back to Touya, he fell to one knee.
"Hah. I think-"
Very gently, Suguru fell to the floor, onto his chest.
"I really was pretty rude after all."
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With just as much a laborious push as Touya, Suguru slowly got to his feet-unlike Touya, his body was showing no signs of exhaustion, but that was only temporary. That inner power of his, that transcended body and mind was pushing him to heights he couldn't manage otherwise, but as he was now, that power could only last a few seconds.
~And I promised to fight until one of us couldn't go on! Hehe...but I'm not gonna struggle wildly. I learnt something...that sometimes it's better to just let go and take the opportunities that are there. I'm gonna do that! I'm gonna just let it all go loose, then pick a good moment.~
Taking a deep breath, Kinnikuman relaxed all his muscles, his eyes closing. Suddenly snapping open again, he tensed up.
~NAH! JUST SMASH HIM!~
Suguru leap backwards, into the once again elastic ropes, stretching them at least seven foot back, using the massive momentum they provided as he hurtled towards Touya to make a Flying Body Attack. It was at this point that Suguru's inner strength ran out-essentially making him a flying limp body.
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The crowd was going mad, screaming for Touya to get up, screaming for Kinnikuman to get up, screaming for someone to get up and just win! The idea of supporting one fighter more than the other was temporarily but totally lost in the fight's magnetic qualities.
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