Board Thread:The World/@comment-44207700-20191106093346/@comment-24728353-20191203234829

This was a battle of iron will, with every punch Ozura released, Tarou replied with a weave and a counter of his own. This was interesting as Ozura was starting to believe this boy was something else, he was special. The fact he was going toe to toe with a veteran of war itself. It was insane and hard to fathom. Regardless, the intensity remained at a peak. Tarou was being ao agile that the fists trying to hit him would be weakened by skinning his actual body. Ozura was getting a bit annoyed, but he commended the boy for his skills. Though when it was Tarou’s turn to hit Ozura, the fists landed perfectly as they hit his ribs. But they barely bruise him as it only minutely swelled up. It was going to take more punches than that to put Ozura down. But here is when Tarou may have made his mistake, with his smaller frame and agile counters, Tarou ducked down leaving after contact and went for another powerful gut punch.

Everything seemed dandy as Tarou had hit the man straight on. The fist sunk into the frame of Ozura, but soon he would feel fingers crawling on the edges of his fist. Upon closer inspection, he would realize Ozura used one of his hands to completely catch Tarou’s punch in mid-movement to his abdomen. Tarou would need to break Ozura’s strength to escape his grasp. (Strength 8). If not Tarou would be confused as to how this happened, Ozura wasted no time and returned to favor with his a gut punch. If Tarou was captured by the hand he wouldn’t be able to escape what was coming. The first punch would be enough to knock some sense into him as saliva would come from his mouth if it landed. It was a powerful gut punch as he had used his dominant right hand this time. Tarou would be in immense pain as shortly after Ozura hit him with another one! The next punch would surely remove all air from his lungs. At this point, Tarou might have been suffering from blurry vision, his body in incredible pain as well. But that wasn’t all, Ozura then followed and said;

“OH?! IS THAT ALL BOY!?”

He quickly followed to punch Tarou in his gut about 5 more times. Each impact as strong as the other. If this was all successful, Tarou would feel his insides on fire, he surely had broken a few bones from this, specifically rib cage bones from the lower section of his ribcage. This would eventually cause Tarou to spit blood from his mouth in a significant volume. After all of this, would Tarou still have the will to continue? If he was beaten down, from his state his peripherals would watch as some people started to break formation to take on Ozura by himself. About 6 men had broken formation as they followed with their weapons held high to kill Ozura. The moment they all closed in, Ozura used his max speed to run back to his ax and engage the new enemies. The moment they closed in on each other, Ozura started to cut them all into ribbons. Blood splattering everywhere as the groans of those he killed echoed the area. The last individual to get close would be cut down with a vicious slash across his chest as the moment he went down, Ozura grabbed his bow and aimed it at the commander of this unit of archers. The moment he grasped it he shot forth and impaled the man directly in his head. This left the rest of the archers in panic as their leader was snuffed from existence. If all this occurred to Tarou, he would witness these cold-hearted actions. It would surely be something to fuel him to fight again!

The moment Zhiro killed the head archer, the others would submit and surrender to them. The most skilled of them was the head archer. If 2 individuals, 3 if you include Hanegaya had reached the back of the archers quarters and killed the head archer, it was safe to say these individuals were monsters of their world. Zhiro would not need to fight anyone else as the Monk known as Shinzo would finish the job-killing the other archers and disabling any traps to return to the main fortress. Before they did leave, Shinzo walked over to the Spear of Hanegaya and collected his other battle-ax as well. He took a deep breath as he whispered in sadness;

“I’m sorry my friend, I will ensure your family lives with no fear.”

He nodded as he turned around and walked over to Zhiro. He looked at the boy and said;

“You are more deserving of this than me, Hanegaya was the one with the idea to follow you. Because of your plan we were able to defeat the archers of the enemy lines. Here.”

He brought the long spear up as its blade was crafted with steel to be exact. Its wooden base was carved from bamboo trees grown in a far outside land. In general, it was perfect for battle, would Zhiro accept this gift to him?

Regardless, they would be out running as they would be on their way back to the Temple. The energy he had would be expelled on any of the remaining archers with the last monk as eventually they would return to base. Just when they did that's when they would notice the situation. (If Tarou) Had still been caught by Ozura and beaten down to a pulp after. They would notice Ozura freshly killing the last of the monks with absolute ease. To be exact 6 were killed in that incident as he continued to walk up the stairs. What would Zhiro and the other monk do? How would they react to Tarou being down? If Tarou was still standing miraculously then they would be witnessing one of the most intense battles of all time with Tarou Versus Ozura of the Kushaku Gang. How would things in general fair out?