I Entered an Academy in a Ruined Game

Chapter 161 : Kill Jeong Su-hyeon (5)

"Su-hyeon is on that train?"

Squad Leader Song Young-hwan, who had been continuously monitoring the situation since the incident occurred, was greatly surprised by the unexpected news.

"Why on earth?"

"He was on his way back to Seoul after visiting the Sword God's residence on Lee Yu-jin's invitation."

"Hmm. Of all times?"

Song Young-hwan lamented.

"Isn't that a good thing? Su-hyeon was able to buy time admirably against that Little Evil Demon during the Blood Plaza incident, and before that, he even subdued Chu Jinhong of MK-1 alone. Rather, he could protect the citizens from a one-sided massacre......"

"No, this isn't a situation to be optimistic about."

Song Young-hwan denied with a hardened face.

"Of course, I'm the one who evaluates Su-hyeon's skills most highly. But the situation is too unfavorable. Citizens are taken hostage, and he has to face those guys in a narrow train where he can't even escape. This isn't a fight, it should be seen as a lynching."

Moreover, to lose EFAC's top cadet to something like this?

He was overwhelmed by anxiety that the already tangled political situation would take an even more troublesome turn.

"Damn it, we can't even expect reinforcements from outside. This is really bad."

"About this Ma-in called Ko Kyeong-ho. I've heard he's quite strong, but how strong exactly?"

"I haven't faced him directly, but he was already a person of considerable concern before he crossed over to China. If such a guy has tenaciously survived and grown stronger even in the hellish Chinese continent......"

He found it difficult to estimate how strong Ko Kyeong-ho currently was.

"Damn it, if only there were even a slight helper."

It was then, as he muttered in a frustrated voice.

"Squad Leader, newly confirmed information!"

"What is it? Tell me."

"Hunter Kang Woojung is also on that train!"

"Kang Woojung?"

Song Young-hwan made a peculiar expression.

"I don't know if that's fortune or misfortune."

"Is he a famous hunter? I haven't heard of him......"

"It's a name that would be hard to hear unless you're in that industry."

Song Young-hwan said.

"But that guy is a bit suspicious."

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"Take it easy, will you? Why are you all so desperate to catch me?"

Kang Woojung grumbled while swinging his butterfly twin swords, which were thickly covered in blood but without a single tooth missing.

"Why, you ask? Are you asking because you don't know?"

He shrugged at the Ma-in's question.

"How would I know?"

"Don't pretend. You came knowing it all."

"So what?"

"That seal, you have it, don't you?"

At those words.

Kang Woojung's expression completely changed.

"Haha. What nonsense is this?"

"You hid well, Kang Woojung."

The Ma-in smiled slyly.

"Thanks for keeping it safe. Thanks to you, we can recover it easily."

In fact.

The biggest reason they attacked this train wasn't to kill Su-hyeon.

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Bbakak!

Ko Kyeong-ho, who took Su-hyeon's intense right body blow directly, grinned.

"Hahaha! Why don't you hit more!"

Bwoong!

Su-hyeon, who retreated to avoid the large hook coming his way, threw two lead jabs and then perfectly planted a weighted right straight into Ko Kyeong-ho's face.

A textbook one-one-two combination.

Each hit was a definite attack that could shake the opponent's brain and even take their life in one breath.

But.

"Kuhaha, that hit well!"

Su-hyeon frowned at the sight of Ko Kyeong-ho laughing madly and swinging his fist.

Jjaak! Jjaaak!

Two low kicks.

Bbeoook!

And then a right uppercut that he threw while closing the distance with momentum.

Despite taking all those attacks, Ko Kyeong-ho grabbed Su-hyeon's collar.

"Hehe, my brain is shaking. You know how to hit properly."

'This bastard!'

He pulled Su-hyeon in and attempted a clothesline like a pro wrestler, swinging his forearm.

Bbaaak!

Su-hyeon was sent flying backward with his guard as if hit by a car.

"You're quite light! Do you eat properly?"

'Damn it. Tremendous strength.'

Su-hyeon rose to his feet, massaging his forearms that were trembling from the impact.

'I almost fell off the train.'

Su-hyeon sighed at the sight of Ko Kyeong-ho, who seemed to have received no damage despite taking several effective hits.

'Of all things, to meet such an enemy without even a sword.'

The compatibility was bad.

'It's a shock absorption type characteristic. To use an analogy, it seems like the type where MP is depleted first before HP is depleted.'

Moreover, how much mana he had was unclear, as he still looked full of leisure despite continuously being hit by Su-hyeon's strength.

'He's typically the kind who makes the hitter collapse from exhaustion. Unless I just cut him with a blade.'

Moreover, his fighting style of taking hits as if willing to sacrifice flesh to take bone, and persistently pushing forward to eventually counterattack, was different from the offense and defense Su-hyeon had been doing so far.

"Hehehe, confused? I've eaten tons of things that are good for the body. I'm a walking lump of mana, I tell you."

Ko Kyeong-ho approached Su-hyeon with a snicker.

"Does it hurt a lot? Should I have hit lighter? Right?"

That wasn't the only problem.

'This guy isn't just relying on his body to push forward.'

Su-hyeon thought.

'His strength also surpasses mine. Moreover, he's a street fighter type who relies on instinct and physical abilities to fight. Such types are so irregular that it's not easy to identify patterns.'

"How many kids like you, who boast about learning boxing or judo, do you think I've crushed?"

It was as Ko Kyeong-ho said.

'A Ma-in who has survived through countless battles. That itself is proof of his strength. His experience must be higher than even most Instructors.'

A different kind of strength from the Execution Force who hone martial arts for human combat.

This was exactly the kind of Ma-in strength that could only be barely dealt with through diligent martial training.

'Moreover, the environment is also unfavorable to me.'

On the roof of a running train.

Strong winds are blowing, the train body is shaking, and without walls or a ring, falling means the end.

As such, Su-hyeon was constrained from displaying the mobile warfare utilizing speed and motor skills as he usually would.

He couldn't control the distance and use outfighting.

Nor was he having much success with his operation of taking down opponents with precise and powerful attacks following divine evasion defense and counters from middle or close range.

'Knowing that full well, he stubbornly advances with pressure. Simple, but it's the most annoying method for me right now.'

Bwoong!

Su-hyeon, who easily avoided the fist with ducking, planted a front hand hook, short uppercut, and elbow in succession.

But.

"Hehehe, it doesn't even tickle."

Ko Kyeong-ho, who felt neither damage nor pain, grabbed Su-hyeon's collar.

'This bastard, what strength!'

He completely overwhelmed Su-hyeon's lower body strength, core strength, and balance with brute force, applying a full-body throw and slamming Su-hyeon to the ground.

Kwaaaang!

"Heup!"

Su-hyeon, who protected his head by stopping his breath and stiffening his entire body, rolled to the side and got up.

"Oh? You withstood that?"

'Don't lose the flow and keep hitting.'

Su-hyeon, maintaining his distance, landed a one-two straight, left body blow, and then another right straight while retreating, shaking Ko Kyeong-ho's brain violently.

Nevertheless.

Bbakak!

Su-hyeon had to take three steps back from Ko Kyeong-ho's fist, which was like being struck by an iron mace.

'Damn it, even with a Mana Shield and guard up, this happens?'

With his feet tied, evasion wasn't completely free, and defense didn't seem to mean much either?

In a fight where he kept being forced into inconvenience, Su-hyeon's breathing was becoming much rougher than usual.

'Now you're getting a bit impatient.'

Ko Kyeong-ho twisted his mouth at the familiar reaction from his opponent.

"Kukukuk, don't know what to do? Fucking confused?"

Bwoong!

Su-hyeon, who avoided the straight punch that came without setup using slipping, planted a perfect cross counter at the perfect timing.

Bbakak! Bbaaak!

And then a left body blow and right uppercut as he retreated to the side.

'It went in properly.'

A heavy middle kick toward the open body as the chin lifted.

"Hahaha, a kid with no learning ability!"

But Ko Kyeong-ho, who endured the kick by tightening his abdominal muscles, lifted Su-hyeon's popliteal fossa with his forearm and slammed him to the ground.

Kwaaaang!

"Keuhek!"

No matter how much he avoided and hit, in the end, he was grabbed and thrown after being chewed up by endurance.

Su-hyeon felt hopeless at the pattern that had been repeated several times already.

'To think there's such a guy.'

"Huu. Huuuu."

Ko Kyeong-ho, far from launching additional attacks at Su-hyeon who was laboriously getting up and steadying his breathing, spat phlegm on the ground and taunted.

"You, this can't be all, right? I've heard."

"......From whom?"

"Hehehe. Well, who could it be?"

"......Sword of Belphegor?"

"You're a perceptive one."

'They sent a hitman to kill me? Even hijacking a train? Despite how different the situation has become from previous runs.......'

Recalling Kang Woojung, Su-hyeon exhaled a long breath, feeling a strange sense of incongruity.

'Anyway, he probably can't endure indefinitely either. There will come a moment when he can't withstand the accumulated damage.'

Therefore, Su-hyeon decided to pound Ko Kyeong-ho with strikes of even higher output.

'Liberation.'

Doogeun!

With the sound of an intense heartbeat.

"!?"

Su-hyeon's figure disappeared.

Bbeoook!

Ko Kyeong-ho's body bent into a 'ㄱ' shape after being hit in the abdomen.

'This bastard, suddenly got faster?'

Moreover, the amount of mana depleted from one punch was alarming.

Beobeobeobeobeobuk!

Attacks at a speed too fast to be seen pounded Ko Kyeong-ho's body.

"Keueuuuu!"

Ko Kyeong-ho twisted his mouth at the attacks pouring like a Gatling gun.

'Yes, keep hitting!'

As Ko Kyeong-ho firmly locked his guard, Su-hyeon began to furiously pour powerful hooks and straights as if to shatter the guard completely.

Bbaak! Bbaaaak!

Every time Su-hyeon's fist hit his abdomen, there was a sound like a drum bursting, but.

'That's right, a bit bigger. There you go.'

Ko Kyeong-ho simply smiled an unintelligible smile, paying no attention.

And finally.

Bbeeok! Bbeeok!

When Ko Kyeong-ho, who had given up on counterattacking and was only focusing on his guard, unthinkingly made Su-hyeon lower his cover and try to hit with greater rotational force.

Bwoong!

Ko Kyeong-ho, who didn't miss that moment, nimbly avoided Su-hyeon's obvious right hook and landed a counter punch into Su-hyeon's liver.

Bbeooook!

"Keuhek!"

Su-hyeon, who was hit unexpectedly, exhaled empty air and sat down.

"Kuk, keook!"

Su-hyeon's vision spun as he took severe damage.

'Good Lord, to think Liberation is released with just one hit?'

Even considering that durability was weakened as much as output was strengthened.

This was impossible without planting a counter at such an exquisite timing.

A truly high-level counter.

"Did you think I was someone who only fights by getting hit mindlessly?"

You're quite prejudiced, Ko Kyeong-ho said nonchalantly.

"I heard you were a clever kid, but in the end, you're the same. I thought you might be a toy worth playing with for a while."

Ko Kyeong-ho shrugged as if he had seen enough.

"You die now."

Just as he was about to deliver the final blow to Su-hyeon who was sitting.

Bbakak!

Su-hyeon, who sprang up like a spring, stepped hard on his knee with an oblique kick, and then jumped up and landed a flying knee kick on his jaw.

Bbaaak!

However, Ko Kyeong-ho, who felt no pain, tried to grab Su-hyeon.

'I knew it!'

Su-hyeon grabbed his right arm and applied a flying armbar.

'Oh?'

Ko Kyeong-ho tried to slam Su-hyeon before his arm could be broken, but Su-hyeon, sensing the sign, immediately released his posture and jumped off.

'You really don't want to be caught, huh?'

Bwoong!

Su-hyeon, who jumped by stepping on a Mana Shield in the air, pretended to launch another flying knee kick to deceive Ko Kyeong-ho.

'He fell for it.'

Kwajik!

He mercilessly stamped on his crotch with a low blow.

"Kuk!"

Though there was no pain, Ko Kyeong-ho smiled fiercely, feeling a significant amount of mana flowing out from that one hit.

"This bastard, now you're using your head."

As if Su-hyeon had realized how to deal with him, Ko Kyeong-ho's face showed that this was exactly what he had been expecting—Su-hyeon escaping with one move ahead actions, continuously landing effective hits.

"Despite being hit so much that your head must be spinning, your eyes are still alive."

Ko Kyeong-ho nodded.

"Good. Passed. Now it's getting fun."

"......"

Regardless, just as Su-hyeon was about to take his stance again.

"Hey hey, don't you have any other tricks besides that?"

Ko Kyeong-ho said, waving his hand.

"......What do you mean?"

"You originally use a sword, right? Do you get stronger when you hold a sword?"

"Well. I can't necessarily say that."

But.

"In this environment, it's true that it would be better to fight with a sword."

"Haha. That's right."

At Su-hyeon's words, Ko Kyeong-ho, who had been pondering something, suddenly struck the floor with his fist and made a hole.

"Here."

"What are you doing?"

"Go get your sword and come back up."

"......"

'This is another first-time situation.'

Su-hyeon thought.

'He's not a Saiyan giving the lead because the enemy's health is reduced.'

If he had to compare, it felt a bit similar to Battle Maniac Jang Su-il.

'By the way, being on the receiving end of this is really annoying.'

Su-hyeon's blood rose to his head as he directly experienced the toying characteristic of a seasoned player.

"I don't understand your intention. Is it confidence that you'll win regardless? What's your purpose in deliberately creating an unfavorable variable?"

"Because that's more stimulating."

"Stimulation."

"Yes, stimulation."

Ko Kyeong-ho smiled fiercely.

"Do you know how powerful the adrenaline pumped by the brain is at the moment of life and death? When tearing and killing humans, when being chased by a powerful enemy, when successfully executing a perfect plan to rob a train or a ship and escape. My life has been nothing but days spent searching for more stimulation."

"......Are you looking for a place to die?"

"Kuhehe, what idiot in the world would do that? If that were the case, I wouldn't have fled to China avoiding the Execution Force in the first place."

Ko Kyeong-ho dismissed.

"If I die, I can't enjoy this stimulation, so why would I die? Once you die, that's it, so I'll live as I please until then, you know? Just don't try to understand me."

"Indeed. That's sound logic."

"If you understand, stop talking and get your sword. Make it more interesting for me."

"Sure."

Su-hyeon, who nodded, dropped straight down below the ceiling.

'You're dead now.'

Su-hyeon's eyes blazed.