Chapter 3 – Death Struggle Against Hobgoblins

I stepped in, ducking a miscellaneous kesa-slash, and twisted a left body hook into the right side of the hobgoblin.

If it were a human, it would be a liver strike, a reversible blow, but I don’t know the hobgoblin’s organs. But since it was his side and his muscles were thin, he attacked.

It was hard, and I thought it would hurt my fist. I thought I was going to break my fist, but it didn’t work.

The hobgoblin, unable to use his longsword well in close combat, tried to attack me with his longsword base.

The motion is enormous, and it’s easy to dodge. The speed is fast, but it’s easy to see what’s happening.

He swings his longsword at me like a cleaver, but I keep my posture low and dodge. I put a little hand on his elbow as he struck out and just channeled the force into creating an opening.

With bare hands, it was much scarier to be hit with a handle or something. I struck out and thrust a knee kick into the gaping hobgoblin’s groin.

I felt an unpleasant sensation coming from my knee. It didn’t crush him, but it seemed to have worked. He bent over and delivered a headbutt to the hobgoblin’s face, using every spring in his body.

My head hurts like hell, and my face is too hard. I’m not sure what to do, but I’m going to do it.

Just as a bad push, I kicked up the money again. A hobgoblin scream echoed with a crushing sensation.

“Gyaoooooo”

The hobgoblin held his crotch and moaned in pain.

“Shh.”

With a short exhale, I thrust my right index finger into the hobgoblin’s left eye.

“Gaga ah ah.”

The hobgoblin screams again.

I’ve crushed one of his eyes, which gives me a significant advantage. Just when I thought that the hobgoblin unleashed an unexpected attack.

He threw away his weapon and attacked me with his bare hands. The hobgoblin, having decided that a weapon would hinder a super-close battle where a bare-handed attack could reach him, messily swung his hands.

Perhaps to compensate for the blind spot in one of his eyes, he swung his arms in an excessive amount.

It’s not an apparent attack, but he? It was a self-mutilating attack that even the main gob could not figure out where he was attacking.

A single weapon was used as both arms, and there was no way to read his gaze or preliminary movements. I couldn’t handle Hobgoblin’s attack, which was coming out in a crazy trajectory, and took a blow to my head.

I quickly guarded myself with my shoulder, but I couldn’t prevent it and be blown away.

“Tsuuu”

My ears rang with a keening sound. The view was distorted, and I felt a throbbing pain in my head. Forcing my weak legs to move, I managed to get up.

“Go ah ah, ah, ah, ah ah.”

The wild barrage of hobgoblins attacked me as I got up. I moved my left fist to the right, out of the blind spot, and shifted my axis to avoid it.

Whip the swaying body and receive it while handling the crushed left eye toward the blind spot.

If you’re up against a hobgoblin’s strength, you can’t catch him head-on, even if you’re in a three-sided sun chin or cavalry stand.

You have to pass them by and shift your axis. He circled to his blind spot, desperately fighting off Hobgoblin’s attacks until his body recovered from the damage.

A short time, perhaps. For me, it seemed like an eternity. As I fought off the onslaught of the hobgoblins, I could feel the strength slowly returning to my legs.

If I don’t do something, I’m going to lose my edge. I shifted my defense from simply dodging and letting the hobgoblin’s attacks pass me by to dodging the attacks and pushing in the direction of the hobgoblin to throw me off balance.

While creating an opening, he aimed at Hobgoblin’s knee and applied a low kick. One hit, and I’m done, and Hobgoblin can take as many as he wants. What a fucking game.

It’s a game of nerves, and I’m trying to hit him with low kicks. Since I’m dodging attacks, I have to keep my center of gravity back, so I don’t get much power, but I keep hitting him.

Hobgoblin’s legs are thick and hard. It hurts me a lot to kick him. Hobgoblin’s legs are thick and hard.

In addition to low kicks that knock him off balance, I use a left jab followed by a right hand or a diagonal combination.

He switches to a right jab followed by a left low kick and a low kick from the receiving end.

His jab was aimed at the collapsed eye, aiming to cause pain and accumulate damage. Hobgoblin’s stamina from the empty shots and the damage from the low kicks slowed him down.

Hobgoblin doesn’t like low kicks anymore. Hobgoblin learned that the low kick would come after the jab, and he started to lift his leg to cut off the low kick.

He threw a jab and then a high kick. It was kicking upwards to make him focus on the bottom. It’s one of the typical attack patterns in martial arts.

However, Hobgoblin probably didn’t have any knowledge of martial arts. A high kick with all the spring in his body exploded into Hobgob’s jaw.

Hobgoblin’s body lurched, and he fell forward. The solid feeling in his legs foretold his victory.

At that moment, the head of the falling hobgoblin came close to me. The hobgoblin’s stays on his feet and attacks me with a bite, something he’s never done before.

A kick with all my might had caught me off guard, and I had felt a palpable sense of victory, so I had carelessly forgotten my zanshin and let my guard down for a moment.

I was caught in the gap between my stance and my mind, and my reaction was delayed. Even so, I managed to duck and dodge the bite aimed at my neck.

I deflected the attack from my neck, but I was bitten as hard as I could on my left shoulder.

“Gua ah ah.”

I felt a sharp pain as if a blade had been thrust at me. After that, there was a creaking sound of bones.

The hobgoblin’s bite force was strong enough to shatter my bones, and after the sharp pain, a dull ache hit me. I held up the middle finger of my right hand as I endured the pain.

“F*CK you, asshole.”

I said and stuck my middle finger in Hobgoblin’s ear hole. The hobgoblin’s bite weakened momentarily. But he continued to bite.

The bone in my left shoulder screamed, and a terrible pain shot through me. I push my middle finger in further. I can hear the unpleasant sound of the bitten shoulder and the middle finger being moved in.

I pushed my middle finger into the base. The hobgoblin bites down on me, and I can’t stop myself. The hobgoblin stopped biting and kicked me with a front kick.

My back slammed into the tree, squeezing the air out of my lungs. The agony, the pain in my shoulder, and the damage to my body made me lose consciousness.

If I passed out now, I would die. I managed to move my body and put a mouthful of hot pepper in my mouth. I usually would only take a bite, but I threw the whole bottle in my mouth.

It was so hot and painful that I thought I had poured lava into my mouth. Drool, tears, sweat, and bodily fluids gushed out, awakening my consciousness.

I get up, whipping my body with tears streaming down my face.

My left shoulder, where I was bitten, was bleeding heavily, and I could barely feel it. My right hand’s middle finger had been blown off while sticking it into my ear, so it was broken and pointing in the opposite direction.

His ribs were also sore. Thank God they weren’t broken and stuck in his lungs. The hobgoblin also seemed to have suffered a brain injury and lost his sense of balance.

He can’t seem to walk well and walks toward us, swaying unsteadily. The damage did not break Hobgoblin’s heart.

On the contrary, he became angrier and angrier and glared at me with horrified, bloodshot eyes. I glared back at Hobgob with all the courage I could muster, trying not to be weak-minded.

Hobgoblin approached me with wobbly, unsteady steps. The distance between us was now so close that I was in Hobgob’s range.

Just as the hobgoblin was about to raise his arm and deliver the coup de grace to me, I felt the pain in my ribs. It’s a good thing I’m not the only one who can’t stand the pain in my ribs as I squeeze my chest to release a mist of red liquid.

“Uoooooooo”

The hot pepper juice splashed into Hobgob’s right eye, which was safe. I’m not sure if this is a good idea or not.

Although it was a short distance, it had a run-up and jumped up using the body spring…

“Uoooooooo”

It was a “dry” attack. It was a soul-burning blow that took everything I had. He swung his right knee up and his right elbow down.

I sandwiched the hobgoblin’s head between my knee and elbow. I felt the hobgoblin’s head crumple. I fell to the ground, unable to land, after unleashing a blow that took all my strength.

I tried to sit up, but my fingers were shaking, and I couldn’t move. My vision blurred, and my consciousness began to fade.

Just when I thought I was going to die, I heard a voice.

“Mr. Goblin, where are you, Mr. Goblin?”

I heard the village girl’s voice. I’m here! I tried to say it out loud, but it was impossible.

In my fading consciousness, I saw a humanoid silhouette in the distance. The moment I thought that my consciousness was enveloped in darkness.

Explanation of Terms

Ducking

The name of a defensive technique in boxing in which a fighter bends his upper body to dodge an attack.

Wakari-okari

The beginning of an attack, a preliminary movement, etc.

Kinteki

A man’s vital point in the groin. It refers to the testicles, not the penis.

San Sen San Chin

One of the stances of karate. It is a form of karate with the same name. It was made famous by using this stance by a karate practitioner in “Grappler Zero.”

Kiba-dachi

One of the stances of karate. A perspective in which the legs are twice as wide as the shoulders and the hips are lowered and stepped on. It is a stance that can easily catch the impact of an impact.

Low Kick

In karate, this is called a lower-level turning kick. A kicking technique in which the kicker aims at the opponent’s thigh or knee with their shin.

High Kick

In karate, it is called an upper-level turning kick. In karate, it is a kicking technique that aims at an opponent’s head, chin, neck, etc., with the upper leg, the back of the foot, or the shin.

Zanshin Zanshin

It is a technique to leave your mind intact no matter what condition your opponent is in. It means to be on your guard and to make sure that your opponent is stopped. With the advent of peaceful times, this technique’s interpretation has changed to not letting down one’s guard even after defeating an opponent.