Martial Arts Worlds-Chapter 415: Stronger of the Weak

"A bone knife? Part of her? Are you saying, grandfather…"

Aoi's eyes widened in disbelief, as this was something that even she didn't know about Fiona despite them knowing each other for five years!

"When Fiona was born, she was born with the bone knife inside her body. It was a strange birth defect, and it caused her baby self to suffer from insane pain as that knife's sharp edge slid against her organs.

"The doctors had to immediately remove it from her body, and instead of getting rid of it, her parents kept it as a reminder of that scary, yet special night.

"It doesn't matter if the bone knife is no longer part of her body. It once was, and based on the rules, she is allowed to use it in the match!"

Master Arakawa said.

Fiona twirled the bone knife in her hand, and it was clear that her mastery of the knife was extremely high.

Since she was very young, she had trained in knife fighting with the bone knife, and to her, it was easy because she had a strange connection to the knife.

It was almost like they were connected.

"I see. This is why he chose you to combat me. I wonder why your master wanted this rule to be removed when he had someone like you at his school."

Pema wondered.

"He doesn't want me to accidentally kill someone. I also would rather not do that, but when I swing this knife, bad things can happen."

Fiona said with a brilliant smile, and her hair fluttered in the wind, making her look like a dangerous beauty.

"Hmph!"

Pema dashed forward, her feet splashing against the sand, and then Fiona brought her knife towards her.

She placed her skinsuit arm in the way and blocked the knife while it ran down her arm, but it couldn't penetrate through!

"This skinsuit can block bullets, and it was not going to let a knife get through either!"

Pema shouted and punched Fiona in the face.

SMACK!

Fiona's head snapped back from the force of the blow, and with her nose bleeding, she swung her bone knife, and it scratched across Pema's bouncy chest.

It only left a white scratch line on the black skinsuit she wore, but it was enough to make Pema stumble backward in surprise.

She could almost feel the knife's sharp blade touching her bare skin.

Fiona swung her knife at Pema, but she sidestepped on the sand, and the knife chased after her with a menacing gleam in Fiona's eyes.

However, with the sand leaving behind her footprints, she dodged them all and then whipped her leg at Fiona's wrist.

SMACK!

The bone knife got kicked out of her hand and landed in the sand.

"Got you!"

Pema shouted.

"Yokai Style, Shakunetsu no Oni!"

Fiona suddenly smashed her fist at Pema's face, and timid-looking flames shot out from the front of her fist.

It looked like her face would get burned slightly, but when she pulled back her fist, Pema looked uninjured with some burn marks on her flesh.

However, it didn't seem to affect her even slightly.

"Ghoul Style, Calcitratus Inferus!"

Pema's low kick smashed into Fiona's left knee with a force that sent her crashing to the ground in pain.

"Genu Ascendens!"

Pema thrust her knee into her face, and Fiona's head snapped back with a sickening crunch.

"Ugh…"

With a bleeding face, Fiona started crawling on the sand, reached out to her bone knife, but then Pema stepped on her hand and pushed it further into the sand.

"Bitch… You ruined my makeup. How can I show myself in front of Jun?"

Fiona said and looked up at Pema with a blood-washed face.

"I don't like you calling me bitch. Call me that again and see what happens."

Pema said coldly.

"Hah…"

Fiona chuckled to herself, sneakily grabbed a handful of sand, and tossed it straight at Pema. The sand went into her eyes, and she let out a surprised yell.

"Bitch!"

Fiona kicked backwards and hooked her leg around Pema's ankle before pulling her down to the ground.

Her face got buried in the sand.

Fiona snatched the bone knife from the sand and stabbed it at Pema's back, but it couldn't quite penetrate the skinsuit.

"This is so unfair! It's like you're wearing heavy tank armor!"

She raised her knife and stabbed repeatedly, but it just didn't go through, and she then focused her attention on Pema's head.

The head, hands, and feet were the only things that weren't covered in the skinsuit.

She raised her bone knife and stabbed it towards her nape, but then Pema rolled around, and with sand gone from her eyes, she punched Fiona in the jaw.

THWACK!

"Urgh!"

Fiona's head got snapped to the side, and her eyes shook violently in her head.

"I told you. Don't call me that!"

Pema pushed her off, grabbed the bone knife from Fiona's hand, and pressed it against her throat with force.

"YIELD!"

She shouted.

"Ah…"

Fiona gasped, looked at her rageful eyes, and innocently raised her arms. freewёbnoνel.com

"Alright. My bad, I am sorry. I shouldn't have called you that. I yield, alright?"

"…"

Pema stood up, dropped the bone knife next to her, and walked back to the Ghoul Dojo's area with everyone clapping at her.

They welcomed her back with shoulder and back taps.

"The winner is Pema Dorji—the Ghoul Dojo will take the first point!"

The temple priest said.

At one of the towers of the martial temple, a puck-looking thing was put up for display under Ghoul Dojo's banner.

It had four spots for four pucks, and the first spot was now occupied. The spots under Yokai's banner were still empty.

"I am sorry, master…"

Fiona walked back with shame and a bone knife in her hand. She received a gentle shoulder tap from the master, which made her tear up, and she then sat back down and started wiping the mess off her face.

She didn't want anyone to look at her.

"Coin flip!"

The temple priest said.

Like before, Master Arakawa and Master Sifu walked over to the temple priest, but before they were there, Sifu said to him.

"You really don't think that you have any chance of victory, do you? My other chosen warriors have all defeated Pema. She was just the opener."

"Well. We will see about that. I didn't actually choose Fiona because of her bone knife. I chose her because she was the weakest.

"Your weakest just happened to be stronger than my weakest. It does not matter."

Master Arakawa said in a serious tone.

"…"

Master Sifu narrowed his gaze.