#88 - Chapter 88: Super-Strength Soft Fist! I can beat a block of iron into a discus
“Super Strength·Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists.”
Facing Jabra's mysterious Iron Body, Hyuga Tenma's eyes flashed with a hint of mockery. Instead of retreating, he advanced. The moment his hands clenched into fists, powerful chakra erupted from both fists, undergoing a shape transformation to form two ferocious and violent lion heads, enveloping his hands.
Immediately after.
He dashed out, neither dodging nor evading, and with the powerful insight of his Byakugan, he collided head-on with Jabra's fist.
Fist against fist.
Super Strength·Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists VS Iron Body·Heavy Step Wolf.
Bang
When the two pairs of fists, vastly different in size and volume, collided, a majestic, tidal wave-like surge of energy erupted from the center of the two, stirring up rolling sand and dust, spreading to more than ten meters away.
Logically speaking.
With Jabra's strength and the hardness of his Iron Body, even if Kizaru came, without using the Eight Gates, a series of Strong Fist style combos might not be able to break through his defense.
But Hyuga Tenma was different. He used Gentle Fist, and Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists at that. At the moment of contact with the enemy's body, the chakra lions covering his fists would pierce into the opponent's body, devouring their meridians.
Like two lions charging into a flock of sheep, tearing the sheep to death.
Moreover, his Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists were slightly different from those of other Hyuga clan ninjas.
That was because Hyuga Tenma had integrated the Super Strength that Tsunade had taught him into the Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists.
Each fist was both Gentle Fist and Super Strength.
Gentle Fist internally, devouring meridians.
Super Strength externally, breaking tendons and bones.
Therefore, when Hyuga Tenma's fists, like two pouncing lions, slammed into Jabra's fists, the confident smile on his face, which had been brimming with the use of his mysterious Iron Body, instantly froze.
Bang
The moment the fists collided, a thunderous roar exploded, collapsing the sand beneath their feet. Jabra felt as if his fists had been hit by two cannonballs—not cannonballs fired from cannons, but cannonballs thrown by Garp.
The majestic force, like a mountain torrent and tsunami, shook his body, which was sinking into the sand, violently. His two arms, which had originally been clashing fists with Hyuga Tenma, uncontrollably flung open to both sides.
Not only that.
Jabra, whose arms had been flung outwards by the impact, also felt two strange forces. After colliding fists with Hyuga Tenma, they ignored the defense of his Iron Body, drilling into his body and wreaking havoc inside.
Although Haki in the pirate world is not chakra, the human body still has meridians.
Even if there were no meridians, it wouldn't matter. Gentle Fist chakra devours not only human meridians but also acupoints, blood vessels, and organs.
Puchi
Feeling a heart-wrenching pain from his internal organs, Jabra opened his mouth to scream, but what came out was a mouthful of blood mixed with minced meat.
Obviously, all of this was caused by the Gentle Fist chakra that had invaded his body.
Iron Body only makes the outside of the body as hard as iron, but blood vessels, meridians, and internal organs cannot be hardened.
“Super Strength·Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.”
Fist against fist, strength against strength.
After shaking Jabra's arms outwards and leaving his front wide open, Hyuga Tenma's body also paused slightly, but he immediately stepped forward, his hand gestures suddenly changing, and an Eight Trigrams diagram spread out beneath his feet.
After including Jabra in the diagram in front of him, his palms struck out like a whirlwind, turning into countless afterimages, like a storm, enveloping Jabra's entire body.
Like the Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists just now.
His Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms were also slightly different from those of other Hyuga clan Jonin.
He had also integrated Tsunade's Super Strength into the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.
In other words.
One palm Gentle Fist.
One palm Super Strength.
Bang bang bang bang bang bang
Hyuga Tenma's hands were like a string of firecrackers, striking Jabra's body a full thirty-two times in an instant.
Under the Byakugan's penetrating insight.
Each of his palms accurately struck an acupoint on Jabra's body.
Gentle Fist chakra drilled into the opponent's body, like an indestructible chakra blade, piercing through his acupoints.
At the same time.
Each of his palms, when landing on Jabra's body, the chakra condensed in his hands, like ignited gunpowder, burst out with the fierce force of splitting mountains and rocks, leaving a visible palm-sized pit on his body.
Jabra received a full sixty-four palms of this kind of attack, which combined both hardness and softness, externally fierce like artillery fire, and internally insidious like a needle hidden in cotton.
During this process.
The color on his face disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.
His body, twisted like a hemp rope, was beaten back to its original shape by the surging palm force.
Both in front of him and behind him, there were pitted, shocking handprints.
Bang
The moment Hyuga Tenma finished his work, Jabra, who had been half-sunk in the sand, had already risen from the ground, flying horizontally like an arrow released from a bow.
Puchi
In mid-air, Jabra's eyes rolled back, spitting blood, screaming and wailing.
Boom
After flying out dozens of meters and landing, he first smashed the thick beach into pieces, extending dozens of shocking cracks, and then stirred up a tornado of sand and dust, forming a dust column nearly ten meters high.
Not far away, Kalifa, who was hiding among a group of Marines as a backup, originally wanted to seize the opportunity to act, but the explosion of the ten explosive tags earlier had made the scene extremely chaotic.
She didn't have a Byakugan that could see through 360 degrees.
When Kalifa's line of sight chased Hyuga Tenma and locked onto him, Hyuga Tenma had already finished a complete set of Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms on Jabra's body.
Therefore, she could only watch helplessly as Jabra flew upside down like a shell from a cannon, and then landed on the ground.
At the same time.
Kalifa's beautiful eyes under her gold-rimmed glasses widened instantly, almost crying out in surprise.
In her line of sight.
Jabra, who was over two meters tall, was covered in pits and bumps on his front and back, as if he had been trampled by a herd of elephants gone mad, and he looked much flatter.
When prostrate on the ground, he looked like a human-shaped iron pancake spread on the beach.
Obviously.
Even if his physical fitness was as strong as Jabra's CP9, and he had used Iron Body, in front of Hyuga Tenma's set of Super Strength·Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, the so-called Iron Body could only be hammered into an iron pancake.
“Bruno!”
“Jabra!”
Fukuro, who had been blown away by the explosive tags earlier, saw this scene, and his face instantly became extremely ferocious.
He was not Rob Lucci, who would regard the CP9 as comrades.
The reason why he had a tearful expression after seeing the two injured was because once the mission failed, he would not only not be able to be a CP9, but he would not even be able to be a person, and would only be hunted down to death by the World Government.
Two CP9s fell in the blink of an eye, which meant that apart from Kalifa, who was left as a backup, he was the only one left to face Hyuga Tenma directly.
“Tempest Kick!”
Although he was furious and wanted to tear Hyuga Tenma into pieces, Fukuro was, after all, a well-known genius in CP9. Before falling into being a pirate, he still had the qualities that a CP9 should have.
After stabilizing his body and seeing Jabra and the two being seriously injured, his right foot immediately rose from the ground, using powerful leg strength to stir the airflow and kick out a visible vacuum slash, cutting a shocking crack in the beach, directly approaching Hyuga Tenma's back.
