Chapter 4 – Are You Such a Weakling That You Can Only Throw One Punch? (Yuzuriha’s POV)
Yuzuriha Sakuragi is known in society by the impressive nickname of “Killing Goddess” and is revered by her allies as a goddess of victory, while feared by her enemies as a grim reaper-like entity.
Yuzuriha’s overwhelming beauty and demon-like combat prowess truly deserve such a nickname. Since making her debut on the battlefield at the age of 10 as the eldest daughter of the Sakuragi Duke family, she has wreaked havoc on every battlefield she has set foot on.
By the time Yuzuriha entered the Strongest Royal Female Knight Academy at the age of 15, the number of enemy soldiers she had defeated had already exceeded 100,000.
The combat practical exam in the entrance exam for the Strongest Royal Female Knight Academy is a one-on-one match against a carefully selected senior knight, a tradition that has lasted for hundreds of years since its establishment.
There was a transparent intention that it would be a great embarrassment if the examiner were to be defeated.
Yuzuriha broke that tradition by defeating the senior knight examiner in a one-on-one match. Everyone was surprised and praised Yuzuriha.
She naturally became the student council president from her first year and continued her winning streak in the school’s regular exams. Despite achieving such success, Yuzuriha did not stop training.
Now, having grown even more, she began to seriously think that she might be the strongest in the world. Yet, despite this…
What…? It’s not working?! …O-On the contrary!!
As a greeting, she threw a serious and full-powered punch to the face.
Even knights, not to mention ordinary soldiers, would have their heads blown off and their brains scattered, resulting in instant death from Yuzuriha’s deadly blow.
Its power was such that she was able to break down castle gates with just one punch.
However, she thought that if it was Suzuha’s older brother, he could easily dodge it. But yet…
Not only did he not dodge it, but he also took it directly to the face without taking any damage…!?
In terms of a match, this blow had already decided it.
Yuzuriha’s instincts subconsciously raised the white flag that she would never be a match for the boy in front of her.
Her whole body trembled.
It was the instinct of a human being who, for the first time in their life, encountered an overwhelmingly strong person far above them and was reminded that they were the weak one.
It was finally Yuzuriha’s turn to receive the primal terror of her survival instinct that she had been inflicting on a large number of enemy soldiers and about the same number of allies.
That’s all there was to it.
At the same time, the depths of Yuzuriha’s soul were also aching.
It was the wild instinct of a female that cries out to mate with a stronger, superior male who is far more capable than she is.
—And in that state, Suzuha’s older brother gave Yuzuriha a further push.
“Um… Are we done?”
“Hah—!?”
Suzuha’s older brother merely asked Yuzuriha, who stopped attacking after a single punch, to confirm whether she was done.
But Yuzuriha took it as a clear provocation.
She felt as if he was chiding her, saying, “Are you a weakling that you can only throw one punch?”
Of course, it was a pure misunderstanding.
“O-Of course not!!!”
Yuzuriha attacked like crazy.
High kick, back fist, feint, eye gouge, joint lock…
Each and every one of those strikes was the epitome of Yuzuriha’s life up to that point, the perfect blow that she had been aiming for.
It was a series of soulful blows that seemed to have dragged out beyond Yuzuriha’s dormant full power, thanks to her state of mind reaching the limits.
However…
None of those attacks, not even a single blow, were effective against Suzuha’s older brother—
