Whoosh!

The long blade snipped in half then flew high into the air before falling onto the middle of the stage.

Thud!

A piece of blade as big as a human embedded into a crack between the stone flooring. Simultaneously, a scream similar to an animal’s howl echoed.

“Kuwuaahhhhhhh!”

Paku, the one-eyed orc, wobbled and fell onto the floor with a thump. Black-red blood gushed out from his body and a small pool of blood quickly formed on the floor. Near the pool of blood, a leg, which was cut from under the knee, was rolling around.

In the time it took to breathe a couple of times, Karuta had smashed apart Paku’s weapon and cut off his leg with the combat axe.

“…..!”

People looked at the bloodied battleground in shock. Some of the weak-hearted ladies fell with their hands on their foreheads.

“Kurrrrrr….!”

Despite the severe leg injury, Paku tried to stand up using his broken blade as a makeshift crutch. He lived up to the reputation of his race, which was known as a race born to battle.

Karuta held his steel rod on his shoulder and slowly walked towards Paku. The bloodstained battle axe pointed towards Paku’s head.

“Kukue! Pretty good for an orc who only rolls around in mud. Paku lost.”

“Karuta knows Karuta is pretty good. In accordance...