Indefinite Note Chapter 33

<Summary of previous chapters>

After judging that Nishida had taken significant damage from the long-airtime throw, he was allowed to escape and tag out, and Okushima entered the ring. He faced Tsurui with Nishida's headband tied around his head. Okushima successfully closed the distance in an instant with movements familiar to pro-wrestling fans and displayed a stance from the ancient martial art of Koppo. Tsurui was confused by the stance he saw up close, as it was far too different from what he knew from competitive fighting games.

Chapter 1 <pp. 1-5> can be found here
Chapter 32 <pp. 156-160> can be found here

Chapter 33 <pp. 161-165>

They glared at each other for a while, but Tsurui, reaching his limit, broke the no-punch-to-the-face rule and unleashed a right straight. Strikes to the body or areas other than the face are fine, but
in pro-wrestling, punching the face is generally prohibited. Open-handed slaps are fine.

Therefore, in pro-wrestling rules, there are no punching attacks from a mount position like in mixed martial arts. If there were, the wrestlers would likely be required to wear gloves. Of course, there are exceptions.

Tsurui thought that since the attack was from such close range, Okushima would use a backstep to create distance. However, he simply tilted his upper body diagonally and dodged it easily. Even though he had accurately read the trajectory of the punch, it was unbelievable that he had responded without moving his feet and without using his arms to defend at all.

He knew a little about boxing movements, but since these were different, he wondered if he was a monster with no sense of fear. In contrast, for Okushima, it was just a display of 'dodging' that had been instantly triggered by movements ingrained through training.

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Okushima, while watching the movement of his opponent's fully extended right straight returning, brought his upper body back and then delivered a knee strike known as a 'sashi' to Tsurui's right thigh.
It is a move rarely seen in combat sports matches (where attacks to the abdomen and head are common), so he likes to use it.

“Alright!”
“Ugh!”
Tsurui was mentally fraying from seeing a series of moves he had never seen before, and he was losing his concentration.

Moreover, although he had resistance on the side of his thigh, he never expected an attack to the front, so his arm guard had dropped below his face. At that moment, Okushima unleashed the palm strike he had been aiming for with his left hand. Unlike a slap, he delivered a 'jiki'—a direct strike—to Tsurui's right cheek, transmitting the movement from his lower body.

Since it also caught his chin, he suffered a concussion and suddenly lost the strength in his legs. Tsurui managed to avoid a knockdown by instinctively hooking his left arm onto the top rope as he was about to fall.

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He would have preferred to grab the rope, but he didn't have the composure, so he considers it a passing grade for a split-second decision. He recognized that his action was a desperate resistance, knowing that if he fell here, he would be admitting defeat; in reality, he was able to prevent himself from falling to the mat by hooking it with the elbow joint of his left arm.

“Whew!”
Okushima whistled without using words.
“Are you serious?”
In the direction of Tsurui's gaze, he could see Nishida entering the ring.

Seeing the teamwork of signaling the timing to recover even from behind his back right in front of him, he felt intense jealousy. The level was so high that his brain couldn't keep up with the processing. He thought he understood soccer combination plays and basketball no-look passes.

But he couldn't help but ask himself if it was really possible to do this so easily in pro-wrestling, and with someone of the same generation, but Kurosaki's consciousness finally returned. Okushima successfully lifted Nishida, who had passed him and stood still in front of him with his back turned, onto his shoulders.

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At this point, it was impossible to predict what would happen, but for Okushima and Kurosaki, who had rented and watched videos of various pro-wrestling organizations, it was a familiar sight. However, they had never seen teammates giving each other a shoulder ride during a match, so they couldn't understand what was happening.

From there, Okushima began to tilt his back forward. While supporting Nishida's weight on his back so he wouldn't fall, he slid his body backward, and by crossing and fixing his own arms under Nishida's armpits, he ended up in a posture with both legs sticking out.

"This time it's our two-platoon attack. I'll call it..."
"Double Cannon Train! Hyaaa!"
Starting with Nishida, Okushima shouted the name of the move.
"That's a move I've never seen before."

"I can tell there's respect behind it, but will it actually work?"
After the conversation with Tsurui, Kurosaki stood up on the apron. While grabbing the ropes, he glared at them to show he had recovered. Since he looked like he was saying 'bring it on,' Okushima charged in without hesitation.

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"Bend your right knee and get ready!"
With momentum built up, Okushima gave the instruction to Nishida, who instantly folded his right leg to create a stance where he could attack with his knee. In a tag-team performance, a relationship where one doesn't question the other's instructions is directly linked to the precision of the move.

It would have been easy to run away, but Kurosaki chose to take the hit. Because he loves professional wrestling and aims to be a pro wrestler, the option to dodge didn't exist.
The sole of Nishida's left foot caught Kurosaki's chin, successfully bringing him down. The amazing thing about this move was that it proved Okushima's steering technique, which predicted the angle and ensured a solid hit, was also extraordinary.

Moreover, his right knee hit Tsurui's left shoulder a beat later, which could only be described as insane.
Of course, to avoid the impact of hitting the wire ropes, Tsurui had moved slightly to the right and used the corner post cushion to minimize the damage, a decision he made in that short amount of time.

It was an action driven by the single-minded desire to avoid a serious injury that would cause the match to be canceled after they had worked so hard to build up the excitement.

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Chapter 33 <Pages 161-165>

Chapter 34 <Pages 166-170> is here
Chapter 1 <Pages 1-5> is here