Role Quotes
Haowar Temple Flame: "What qualifications, tests, recommendation letters, bloodline reports... Sorry, but I only understand one thing: Fists speak for themselves."
Shinonome Gakuen Old Martial Arts Club Training Ground
At noon, the sun was scorching.
Hao Zhan Silie stood in front of the martial arts department with his iron suitcase at his feet and the letter of recommendation in his right hand. He looked ahead without saying a word.
On the training ground, more than a dozen muscular department members were taking turns fighting, and the air was filled with the smell of sweat and blood.
Sirie stepped in, and his voice was like thunder:
"I'm here to enlist in the martial arts department."
A senior member walked over, frowning slightly. "What about the recommendation letter?" "
Lie threw the letter to him and said lightly, "The name on it is mine, but the man is dead." "
"What do you mean?"
The one who wrote the letter is my old self."
There was snickering all around. A topless senior with a tiger's back and a high nose walked out and sneered,
"Yo, a freshman who claims to have died in the past? Did you come to the martial arts club to talk philosophy or looking for a beating?" "
Haozhan Silie's eyes were like knives.
"I'm here to prove that you can break your mouths without protective gear."
The audience was silent for a moment. The senior was furious. He rushed up and slammed a punch into Lie's jaw.
Lie did not retreat.
His body was slightly sideways, his shoulder shook, and with a "click," his fist dislocated.
Then—
"Knock!"
Lie punched his opponent in the abdomen. The force of the punch knocked the opponent three meters away and collapsed the sandbag rack behind him.
There was dead silence.
[Trial Begins: Fracture Ten-Man Battle
The martial arts department head, Gu Tanglin, has appeared. Tall with bronze skin and gray hair, he is draped in a reddish-brown robe. He gazes with interest at Lie.
"Not accepting standard recommendations, attacking superior seniors. The standards for qualified challengers are not met by you."
Lie calmly replied, "Then tell me, what is the way to be 'qualified'?"
Gu Tanglin turned around and calmly uttered four words: "Fracture Ten-Man Battle."
The most brutal initiation test in the martial arts department is consecutive battles against ten regular members, each of whom is allowed to use protective gear and special skills.The challenger cannot use protective gear or receive medical support and must knock out ten people to gain recognition.
"Haha! This is hilarious! This idiot really wants to go for it!"
"He hasn't even finished enrolling, has he?"
Lie rolled his wrists and said softly, "Fracture? Then let me practice on your bones first."
[One Person vs. Ten Warriors]
The first to charge in was the 90-kilogram martial artist, Taizan Akabane, who chose grappling tactics intending to overpower his opponents. Retsu did not dodge, but instead seized his elbow and turned, hearing a clear crack as it broke.The second person was the internal power kicking expert, Araki Shōki, who did not believe in evil. His flying knee was known as the "shield-breaking strike," but Retsu took it directly. Gritting his teeth, he did not retreat. His left fist shook the opponent's chest and forced an uppercut that knocked out three teeth.Everyone lost by the time it reached the third, fourth, and sixth people. By the time it reached the seventh person, Retsu's right fist was already swollen and bloody, yet he still did not back down. The members went from mockery to shock, and the atmosphere in the training ground gradually spiraled out of control.
[Ancient Hall · Attention] Minister Kudo finally stepped forward and looked at the ninth person who had fallen. He no longer hid his admiration."Where did you learn that punch?"
Retsu turned his back and said, "In the streets."
"You're fighting so hard because you want to become a minister?"
"No. I just don't want the two words 'weaker' to stick to me for a day."
Kudo fell silent.Retsu stepped toward the tenth person, the strongest upper-level member: Haruki Kakuin, known as "The Violent Bear of Higashikumo." Within three seconds of the battle starting, Retsu was pushed back three times. Blood was at the corner of his mouth, and his feet were trembling.But he did not fall. He gritted his teeth and charged in. He took a knee strike and suddenly erupted with two fists in rapid succession, a shoulder charge to flip Kakuin, and an elbow strike that broke through. He ended with a heavy punch that landed on Kakuin's jaw. The Violent Bear fell down!
Retsu stood in the center of the arena, covered in blood yet grinning.
"I said I don't need a letter of recommendation—"
"I've knocked on this door with my fists."