At the commentator's booth.
"Unbelievable, Kiernan still stood up!" Chris Chang shouted. "I don't know how he can still stand with all his injuries, but I gotta admire his willpower!"
"The ending of the fight is near us." Luca Pop excitedly leaned closer to the screen. "I can't wait!"
"You've dislocated your shoulder, and who knows how many broken bones. What can you do?" Johan approached him slowly.
"Yeah, that…" Kiernan looked at his left shoulder and touched it. "Bone Harmony!"
With a twist, the shoulder popped back into place.
Johan stopped with a raised eyebrow. "If you could do that before, why didn't you?"
"Well, because I couldn't." Kiernan rubbed the back of his neck. "I'll show you the power of the new me."
"…" Johan frowned and lunged at him with his arm reeled back into a punching stance.
Kiernan took one step, but then vanished before Johan's fist could make contact with him.
"Where?!" Johan looked around, and at that moment, he saw about eight afterimages, all looking like Kiernan, appear in the air around him.
'This is that technique he used back on the beach!' Johan recognized it. 'However, didn't he break his legs when he did that? Is he now that desperate?'
The crowd was shocked at the sight of all those afterimages.
They all looked real, as if there were now eight Kiernan's at the ring.
"They're just afterimages!" Johan shouted and jumped towards one of the afterimages, about to punch at it.
However, then the afterimages clenched their right hand into a fist and reeled their arms back to strike.
The eight fists landed on Johan. Each of them feeling very real and painful!
"Argh?!" Johan got punched eight times and fell down to the ring in a heap.
When he landed at the ring, he let out a groan of pain and jumped back to his feet.
The afterimages vanished, and only one Kiernan appeared at the ring.
Johan gritted his teeth, lunged himself at Kiernan, and then followed with a roundhouse kick. The roundhouse kick smashed into Kiernan's face and sent him flying.
Tiamut High's bench started to cheer, but then their cheers turned silent as they saw the kicked Kiernan vanish into thin air.
"What the…" Johan's eyes widened in shock.
At that moment, two arms came behind him and wrapped around his neck in a tight chokehold.
"Trap of the Tiger!" Kiernan stood behind Johan, his arms squeezing tight.
'I forgot. Those afterimages are a perfect fake!' Johan cried out while feeling the chokehold tightening around him. 'However, how can that fake be so perfect?'
"Good!" Jin jumped to his feet. "Choke him out!"
"Kiernan!" Ryan and Nath clapped their hands loudly. "Bring it home!"
With a loud scream, Johan elbowed Kiernan in the chest and then slammed his head backwards into Kiernan's face.
The chokehold loosened, and Johan immediately broke free, and when he was free, he immediately kicked backwards, catching Kiernan in the stomach.
Kiernan quickly grabbed the leg and smashed his elbow into the feet's ankle.
"Argh!" Johan jumped away and noticed that his ankle was twisted and throbbing in pain.
It was broken, and he couldn't stand on it without feeling an immense amount of pain!
'Crazy reaction time!' Johan thought. 'At that split second, he grabbed my leg, smashed his elbow at the ankle, breaking it. It wasn't just fast, but extremely skillful!'
Kiernan pounced at him like a lion, and suddenly his hands started twirling like drills. Those spinning hands touched Johan in the shoulder.
"?!" Johan jumped away, but when he turned his gaze to his shoulder, he saw that it was completely rotated in an unnatural position.
"Iron Style, Rock n' Roll!" Kiernan screamed and then turned back to Johan, not stopping his attacks for a moment.
When he reached the attacking range, he unleashed his Reigning Fallow. The random punches kept coming, each one landing with precision and force.
Johan hid himself behind his block, and he couldn't do anything except tank the punches!
"Johan, do something!" Marquise screamed. "Move to offensive, hurry!"
'You think I don't want that, you fool?' Johan gritted his teeth as another punch landed across his face. 'I can barely keep up with blocking!'
A shocking sight was unfolding in front of the shocked crowd.
The legendary Johan Yeager, the new superstar talent of New Rakuya, was struggling to defend himself against the relentless attacks of his opponent!
It was a shocking development!
'This is the full power of Kiernan.' Ryan thought with a gulp. 'To think that he is this powerful. He is capable of pushing Johan to the corner!'
The straight punch landed on Johan's chest and pushed him closer to the edge.
Kiernan then dodged one of Johan's haymaker punches and hook punched him in the rib area.
"Argh!" Johan coughed out blood.
An unbelievable amount of pain assaulted his body.
'How much longer?' Kiernan glanced at the timer.
'I need to hurry. Without the pill, I can't win!' Kiernan gritted his teeth and stepped deep into the attacking range.
The fingers straightened, and then, as if his hand was a spearhead, stabbed deep into Johan's chest.
It was as if he had just been stabbed by a spear!
"Argh!" Johan stumbled back with shaking eyes. 'He stabbed me with his hand? I see. He has truly made his body into a weapon.'
"Patella Breaker!" Kiernan slammed his leg into Johan's knee and shattered the bone into pieces.
As if released from a bow, Kiernan lunged forward and drove his fist deep into Johan's body. The punch sent him flying through the air.
As soon as Johan crashed into the ground, Kiernan stood over him and smashed his fist into his chest at a very specific point.
The entire strength was aimed into a single point in his chest.
"Iron Smash Breaker!"
The ground under Johan cracked and shattered.
"Cough!" Johan coughed out blood, the bruising and swelling becoming more severe by the second.
"Huff…" Kiernan took a deep breath. 'I guess that was enough…'
"AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGH!"
Johan jumped up to his feet and smashed his fist into Kiernan's chest, sending him sliding backwards.
"Urgh!" Kiernan coughed out blood and collapsed on one knee. 'He is still able to stand!'
"Haaa, haaa, haa!" Johan breathed heavily, his clothes messy and his hair very disheveled.
It looked like he had survived a hurricane.
"Johan…" Kara bit her lip and jumped to her feet before screaming with all her might. "You can do it!"
"Come on, Johan!" Yves screamed. "There is no way you will lose!"
"Kiernan!" Jin and the rest of Karuza High screamed.
"One more push; you can do it!" Nathaniel screamed.