OHMA TOKITA
How unfortunate.
I wish I could have faced you in top condition.
Ohma!
Saving my strength paid off.
Thanks to that and the treatment,
I've got enough strength left for this match.
Which means I can use this move one more time.
This is where the real fight begins!
Possessed by a God?
So you choose to approach death?
VICTORY
There! He used that when he fought that piece of shit, Raian!
RAIAN KURE
Let's see how far it takes him when his body's in that condition.
It's just as I thought.
His right hand's broken.
Of course it is.
He took Agito Kanoh's One-Inch Punch straight on.
It's not like he's invincible.
I've still got a chance!
He's fast!
Tokita has endured one tough match after another!
How does he have so much energy left?!
I bet Kuroki wants to counterattack,
but he can't get in any attacks at all!
What? Kuroki's being pushed back!
Ohma! He really is ridiculously fast!
He's more than just fast.
His persistent, continuous attacks are hard to fight against.
But Tokita should've already reached his limit.
If he can't finish Kuroki off now, he'll be in trouble.
So this is your Possessed by a God?
It's as I expected.
Tokita starts attacking again!
But his attacks keep getting blocked!
That idiot!
What the hell's he doing?
He used that technique way better when he fought against me!
Only Tokita's first knee kick has landed so far!
All his other attacks are getting blocked!
C-Can you believe this?!
Kuroki is swatting down all of Tokita's desperate strikes!
He advances forward!
Kuroki, unfazed by Tokita's onslaught, advances forward!
His demeanor reminds me of a heavy infantry soldier!
And now!
He's shifted into attack mode!
Not accepting defeat, Tokita is hitting back!
M-Master!
Possessed by a God makes him faster.
However, the drawback of Possessed by a God
is that it greatly decreases accuracy.
In other words,
when using Possessed by a God,
he can't employ Niko Style to its fullest extent.
That's my opening.
It's a direct hit from the heel of his palm!
The Devil Lance is coming!
HEAVENLY FIRE FORM PHANTOM STEP
It's a hit!
I won't let you get away.
What?!
IRONBREAKER
What was that movement?
I thought he did a backstep!
No…
Earth Shrinking.
The essence lies in standing on your bones without relying on your muscles.
For this footwork, the user relies on shifting their center of gravity to move.
Its intervals are clearly different from normal footwork.
The opponent succumbs to the illusion that the gap between them has suddenly changed.
This form of footwork bears the same name as the mythical technique.
Yes, this feels right.
Now, I can use Niko Style and Life Advance at the same time!
So that's what's happening.
I'd better not underestimate you, Ohma Tokita.
Huh?! You're going to use Life Advance?
Yeah. Old Man Kuroki knows all the Niko Style tricks.
I've got no choice but to use it to win.
H-Hold on! Wait a minute!
I'm against it!
Your heart's already in bad condition from using Life Advance before.
Y-You'd be committing suicide!
I'll be fine.
Probably.
I noticed after Round Two.
"Probably"?
Ironic, isn't it?
I learned some new things when I lost control.
I only thought of the idea just now, but I think it'll work out.
Huh?!
You'll try it for the first time in the match?!
In my current condition, I can still adjust the output.
If I lower my output,
then my body will take on less stress when I use Niko Style and Life Advance.
Also,
the moves that don't work well with Life Advance…
are now at my disposal!
ADAMANTINE FORM INDESTRUCTIBLE
Go!
Kuroki!
Tokita!
So that's what's going on.
"Your Inner Tactics"? Give me a break.
Hey, Tokita!
If you're going that far, you'd better not lose!
If you lose, I'm going to kill you!
This will probably be Ohma's last match.
Please win, Ohma!
IRON MOMENT, SMASH
Niko, he really is your student after all.
My blood boils!
They're both striking again!
No one's landed a clean hit yet!
Whoa!
A downward right elbow strike!
Did it work?!
PALM STRIKE
PHANTOM STEP
No.
Ohma Tokita's Niko Style is different from the Niko Style I know.
I can do this.
If I suppress my output, I won't have to worry about memory confusion.
I won't be controlled by power, and I can still make precise movements.
I'll be able to use Niko Style without limits.
HEAVENLY FIRE FORM
RAGING FIRE
At this very moment,
Ohma made the two Niko Styles his own!
But even so,
the wall known as Gensai Kuroki was colossally tall.
Ohma!
THE DEVIL LANCE
That was close!
I attacked head-on too much.
In that case…
FLICKERING FLAME
How did he switch directions while going that fast?!
ELBOW STRIKE, BACKFIST
Ohma Tokita.
I wish our paths could have crossed in some other way.
Kuroki's attacks are beginning to land!
But Ohma's speed hasn't changed.
That means… Kuroki has seen through Ohma's movements!
FLOW CONTROL FORM WILLOW
Willow, huh?
I was going to finish you off with all five strikes.
You seem to have deflected the shock with Flow Control.
Your Flow Control Form has surpassed Niko's, even when he was at his peak.
You're a tough opponent, Ohma Tokita.
NIKO STYLE, HEAVENLY FIRE AND WATER AND HEAVEN FORM
FIRE WATER
That was fast!
I'll lift him with my left knee
and drop him with my left elbow!
HAND CHOP
SIX SEIKEN IN A ROW
He used Flow Control to parry the attack.
Kuroki missed his vital points.
But that was still a lot of damage.
Kazuo Yamashita said
there could be some people out there who are stronger than me.
This old man… is definitely one of them.
So what?!
If I give up, it's all over!
Nice, Ohma!
Keep going and break his bones!
That idiot. He's out of time.
H-He's been stabbed by Devil Lance!
Kaiwan style training doesn't stop with your hands and feet.
It trains all your joints over a long, gruesome period of time,
strengthening them to the point that you can use them as spears.
It's basically impossible to break them in an instant.
Tokita breaks the armlock!
His leg is busted!
It'll affect his footwork!
The tide would've turned if Ohma could've broken his arm then.
That's why Ohma took the risk and tried an armlock.
But it turned out horribly. Ohma's even more cornered now.
Damn! Serves me right.
I lost that gamble.
I've got no choice but to increase the output of Life Advance.
But if I do that, I won't be able to use Niko Style anymore.
Huh? He released Life Advance?
Why?! Without Life Advance, he can't defeat Kuroki!
Smart move.
It's the biggest drawback of Possessed by a God.
Because it increases blood circulation,
the level of bleeding also increases with its output.
If you had continued using Possessed by a God,
death from blood loss would be inevitable.
Now that you can't use Possessed by a God anymore,
what's your next move?
How are you going to fight me without Possessed by a God?
Ohma Tokita.
I can tell you've got conviction.
Inner Tactics without conviction is merely violence.
Just like Setsuna Kiryu, who you know very well.
So will you choose to die for your convictions?
In that case, let me be the one to send you to your grave.
Sorry,
but unlike Niko, I'm not that smart.
Save the complicated stuff for after the match.
He springs forth!
What's going on?!
Kuroki's strikes are bending?!
NIKO STYLE FLOW CONTROL FORM FLOWING EDGE
On the day I first met Niko,
he used this move to save my life.
H-He misses again!
Why won't his attacks land?!
My Niko Style
began with Flowing Edge.
If I lose focus for even a second, I'm done for!
My eyes! Is it because of the bleeding?
Shit.
He got me…
What?
What's going on?
What was I… doing again?
Huh?
What's that?
What's he doing?
That guy…
That's right.
I…
Ohma!
I wanted to be strong.
Back then, they would air pro-wrestling on prime-time TV.
I would watch it every week.
I looked up to those powerful wrestlers.
I even used to wish I could be like them.
But I wasn't even tough enough to beat the neighborhood bully.
For me, it was an unrealistic dream.
I wanted to be strong.
I wanted strength that never gave in to unfair violence.
I wanted absolute strength.
When I got to middle school, my school didn't have a wrestling club,
so I knocked on the door of the judo club.
But it was a weak team that always got eliminated in the first round.
I had to face reality.
It was the end of the road for me.
I wasn't able to make my dream come true.
Very few people in this world are able to follow one path to the end.
It could be due to a lack of talent, their family situation,
health problems, their age, or a loss of motivation.
Most people have to give up along the way, for one reason or another.
After losing my dream, I had no choice but to live in reality.
Then one day,
I realized I had completely forgotten about my dream.
But he never gave up.
That day, I knew for sure.
Ohma is the version of myself that I never became,
the version of myself that I wished I could be.
NIKO STYLE SECRET TECHNIQUE DEMON SLAUGHTERER
Match over!
Subtitle translation by: Arisa Nitta
Never forget the battles fought by these passionate fighters.
Their hearts are flooded with emotion as they carry their hopes into the future.
Next episode: "Finale."