I Thought I Was Bullying a Nobody, But He's a Martial Arts Genius - Chapter 34

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Unknown Genius Fighter, Bullied – Episode 34
Hwang Dae-geon smiled through bloodied lips.
His breath came ragged.
But his eyes were alive.
Those eyes raked across Seo Jun.
“You know it too, don’t you?”
Seo Jun kept his guard up, measuring the distance.
Hwang Dae-geon stepped in closer.
“We have something in common.”
Seo Jun’s brow furrowed.
“Stop talking nonsense.”
“Nonsense?”
Hwang Dae-geon laughed, a sharp, bitter sound.
“You and I both — we stay conscious while eating punches.”
Before the words finished.
Hwang Dae-geon exploded forward.
Low.
Brutal.
He drove his arm deep under Seo Jun’s left armpit.
An underhook.
At the same moment, he pressed his head beneath Seo Jun’s chin.
Bang!
Seo Jun’s back slammed into the steel cage.
The cage rattled violently.
“Ugh.”
Hwang Dae-geon didn’t release him.
He drove forward with his chest, driving upward with his shoulder against the jaw.
Seo Jun’s head was forced up.
Breath cut off.
“How’s that?”
Hwang Dae-geon spoke low, near his ear.
“Familiar?”
Seo Jun tried to drive his arm inside the clinch.
But Hwang Dae-geon’s strength was suffocating.
The body that seemed shattered was even tougher up close.
Elbows.
Shoulders.
Head.
Everything became a weapon.
Thwack!
Hwang Dae-geon’s shoulder drove up into Seo Jun’s jaw.
The taste of blood bloomed in his mouth again.
“I knew it the first time you hit me.”
Hwang Dae-geon’s breath hit his face.
Bitter, metallic blood smell.
Sweat.
“That we’re the same kind.”
Seo Jun’s eyes went cold, flickering.
Hwang Dae-geon pressed closer still.
A short punch came up from inside.
Thwack!
It buried itself in Seo Jun’s ribs.
Another shoulder strike.
Dull crack!
The jaw.
Another short hook.
Thwack!
Dirty Boxing.
It had no elegance.
But it was vicious.
His vision narrowed.
His breath stopped.
His arms were pinned.
Do Yoon’s voice erupted from the corner.
“Seo Jun!”
Seo Jun’s eyes shifted toward Do Yoon.
Do Yoon seized the steel cage and shouted.
“It’s his range!”
Hwang Dae-geon laughed.
As if he’d heard every word Do Yoon said.
“Stalling to get your breath back! Break out now!”
Seo Jun dropped his knees.
He formed a frame with his right hand.
He tried to push Hwang Dae-geon’s neck away.
But Hwang Dae-geon bent his elbow first.
A Close Elbow.
From a short distance, it flew toward his jaw.
Whoosh!
Seo Jun’s eyes caught its trajectory.
The elbow rises first.
The shoulder closes.
From right to left.
Seo Jun tilted his head back.
The elbow grazed the tip of his nose.
A gust of blood-stained air passed by.
Hwang Dae-geon’s eyes gleamed.
“See?”
He laughed grotesquely.
“You see it here and slip away too.”
Seo Jun’s jaw tightened.
Hwang Dae-geon whispered lower.
“Just like me.”
For the first time, Seo Jun’s eyes flickered with a raw edge.
Hwang Dae-geon didn’t miss that opening.
“You’re the same. A kid who lived by taking hits. One who avoids eyes, watches only the fist, learned to take less damage.”
He pushed Seo Jun’s jaw with his shoulder again.
“The difference is one thing.”
……
“I chose to be the one who strikes first.”
Hwang Dae-geon’s mouth curled up.
“And you’re still pretending to be good.”
Seo Jun’s hands clenched the steel cage.
Rage surged up.
But it didn’t break him.
He pressed that fury down below his chin.
“I.”
Seo Jun spoke quietly.
Hwang Dae-geon’s laughter hesitated.
Seo Jun’s eyes bored straight ahead into his.
“I don’t bully the weak like you do!”
A short cry.
The smile vanished from Hwang Dae-geon’s face.
In an instant.
The air inside the cage changed.
Seo Jun’s knees dropped lower.
His pinned arm wedged inward.
His eyes bored straight through Hwang Dae-geon’s chest.
Do Yoon’s voice erupted again.
“Yes! Get out of there!”
Hwang Dae-geon bared his teeth.
“Then prove it.”
He drove his shoulder in again.
Hwang Dae-geon pressed Seo Jun against the Steel Cage, laughing.
Blood from his lip ran down his chin.
Even with such a face, he kept talking.
“The strong ruling over the weak—that’s the truth of the world.”
Seo Jun drove his arm inward, searching for an opening.
But Hwang Dae-geon’s shoulder pressed his chin back.
His breath came short and ragged.
“You’re no different.”
Hwang Dae-geon’s voice hit hard.
“You beat all the weak ones to get here, didn’t you?”
Seo Jun’s eyes wavered.
“What?”
“Oh Geon-woo, Ma Do-hyun, and the rest—you laid them all out flat.”
Hwang Dae-geon’s laugh dropped lower.
“Isn’t that what bullying is?”
Seo Jun’s hands faltered.
Just for an instant.
But Hwang Dae-geon had been waiting for it.
His right arm bent.
His elbow rose from inside the Clinch.
Seo Jun’s eyes reacted too late.
‘Too late—’
Crack!
The elbow struck his face.
Perfectly placed.
Right where the previous fight had split the skin.
Impact exploded across the stitches.
Seo Jun’s head snapped to the side.
For a moment, his vision flashed white.
Then something warm ran down.
Drip.
Blood fell onto the Mat.
Drip.
Another drop.
The crowd stirred.
[There’s a Cut! Seo Jun’s old wound has opened again!]
[This is dangerous! That’s the exact spot we were concerned about before the match!]
Hwang Dae-geon released the Clinch.
He stepped back.
The face of a victor.
The match wasn’t over yet.
But he smiled as though it were already decided.
“I’ve won.”
Seo Jun wiped the blood away with the back of his hand.
It kept flowing.
His left vision bloomed red.
Hwang Dae-geon spoke.
“Back then.”
He tapped his own chest with his finger.
“Now too.”
In Team Jwajak’s corner, Do Yoon’s face had gone rigid.
Something close to despair.
“Damn it!”
He gripped the Steel Cage.
“That bastard’s provocation was aimed at this from the start!”
Seo Jun heard Do Yoon’s voice.
But it felt distant.
Blood trickled into his eye.
The world split crimson.
Do Yoon shouted.
“Stay with me!”
His voice cracked raw.
“If the bleeding doesn’t stop, the referee ends it!”
The referee’s gaze fixed on Seo Jun’s face.
He was preparing to stop the match.
Seo Jun drew in a breath.
The smell of blood filled his nostrils.
Red vision.
Flickering lights.
Hwang Dae-geon’s laughter.
All of it overlapped.
Middle School Bathroom.
Wet floor.
Back striking the wall.
Fists driving into his stomach.
A mouth saying there was no money.
And shoes staring down at him from above.
‘Not again……’
Something inside Seo Jun’s chest crumbled.
‘Lose?’
Then Hwang Dae-geon snickered.
He said nothing.
Instead, his finger pointed downward.
The mat.
The ground.
Where he’d been sprawled.
Where Seo Jun had been dragged before.
The bathroom floor.
The provocation was precise.
Merciless.
Seo Jun’s pupils trembled.
In that instant.
Something snapped inside his head.
Snap.
A silent rupture.
The thread of reason.
‘I can’t lose.’
Blood covered his eyes.
Still, Seo Jun saw Hwang Dae-geon.
‘Never.’
His hands clenched into fists.
Inside the wraps, his fingers dug deep.
‘I won’t go back to that floor.’
Hwang Dae-geon opened both arms wide, grinning.
“Why.”
He tilted his chin.
“Will you kneel again?”
Seo Jun’s foot pressed into the mat.
Thud.
Blood dripped from his jaw.
Drip.
His vision burned red.
But Hwang Dae-geon’s face remained clear.
Seo Jun did not raise his guard.
One step.
Forward.
Do Yoon’s face went rigid.
“Seo Jun!”
Seo Jun didn’t hear it.
His eyes were no longer cold.
Fire burned in them.
Hwang Dae-geon’s laughter faltered, just slightly.
Seo Jun spoke low.
“I’m not backing down.”
Seo Jun walked forward.
Thud.
Blood dripped from his chin.
Drop.
His left field of vision was red.
But his feet didn’t stop.
Hwang Dae-geon saw him and bared his teeth.
“That’s it.”
He raised his right hand.
“I’ll rip that eye open again for you.”
Whoosh!
A short, sharp punch drove straight at the wound.
Seo Jun didn’t dodge.
Or rather, he was half a beat too slow.
Thwack!
The Glove grazed the corner of his torn eye.
Blood spray erupted into the air.
Red droplets scattered beneath the lights.
Screams tore from the crowd.
The Referee moved immediately.
“St—”
The moment he stepped forward to stop the match.
Seo Jun’s right hand came first.
Short and heavy.
Thwack!
It slammed into Hwang Dae-geon’s face.
Dae-geon’s head snapped to the side.
“You cocky little—!”
The words never finished.
Seo Jun’s left hand followed through.
Crack!
The jaw.
Right hand again.
Thwack!
Hwang Dae-geon’s feet tangled beneath him.
He staggered but clenched his teeth hard.
“You son of a—!”
Do Yoon slammed the Steel Cage from the corner.
Bang!
“This is your last chance!”
His voice shredded with intensity.
“Finish him, Seo Jun!!”
Seo Jun heard him.
Crystal clear.
He drove deeper in.
He didn’t look at Hwang Dae-geon’s face.
The shoulder.
The chest.
The ribs.
The knees.
He watched the order of collapse.
Hwang Dae-geon threw a desperate right hook.
Whooom!
A massive fist.
A heavy fist.
But too late.
Seo Jun folded inward.
The punch grazed past his ear.
At the same moment, he dropped his level.
His left hand drove up beneath Hwang Dae-geon’s right rib cage.
Heegh!
A Liver Shot.
Hwang Dae-geon’s breath caught hard.
“Ack.”
For the first time, his smile vanished.
His mouth opened.
His eyes widened.
His body began to fold.
Seo Jun did not stop.
The temple.
Crack!
The liver again.
Crack!
Hwang Dae-geon was driven backward.
He hit the Cage.
The Steel Cage shook.
Bang!
Hwang Dae-geon attempted a counter strike.
His arm moved.
But Seo Jun’s eyes were faster than his fist.
Seo Jun saw that punch coming.
Saw it all the way through.
And he struck first.
Crack!
The Counter Strike landed flush on the jaw.
Hwang Dae-geon’s head snapped back.
His legs went slack.
But he was still standing.
Like a dead tree.
Like something monstrous.
Seo Jun stepped closer.
The moment he saw those eyes.
For the first time, something cold crawled up Hwang Dae-geon’s spine.
‘What is this.’
Seo Jun did not speak.
He didn’t even breathe heavily.
He was simply watching.
Eyes that don’t close even when struck.
Eyes that follow the fist all the way through.
But now they were different.
Not the eyes Hwang Dae-geon knew.
Not eyes avoiding a blow.
Not eyes enduring to survive.
Eyes that see to finish.
Eyes that see to devour.
Something rigid settled in Hwang Dae-geon’s throat.
‘I could die.’
That thought struck home.
It was the first time.
Hwang Dae-geon, who laughed while striking others.
Hwang Dae-geon, who laughed even while taking blows.
Inside the Cage, for the first time.
He wanted to step back.
His feet went rigid.
Like a beast.
Like a trapped animal.
“This can’t—”
The words wouldn’t come.
Seo Jun had already moved.
Snap.
His left foot slid outward.
A step stolen from Ryu Jin-hyuk.
Half a step.
But a perfect half step.
Seo Jun’s upper body vanished from Hwang Dae-geon’s sight.
The face that had been there was gone.
The blood-streaked eyes too.
The fists as well.
Everything disappeared in an instant.
Hwang Dae-geon’s eyes couldn’t follow.
‘Where—’
Seo Jun was in his blind spot.
To the left.
Completely open space.
From there, his right arm extended straight.
No wasted motion.
No sweeping arc.
A precise line.
A Straight.
Pinpoint accurate.
Crack!
Hwang Dae-geon’s chin snapped back.
The sound was clean and sharp.
The roar of the crowd cut off.
Hwang Dae-geon’s body went completely still.
His eyes were open.
But there was no focus in them.
Seo Jun withdrew his fist.
He didn’t follow up.
He didn’t check on his opponent.
He simply turned away.
One step.
Two steps.
He walked without hesitation.
The referee froze.
The crowd held its breath.
Hwang Dae-geon saw that retreating back.
Or rather, he thought he did.
‘Turning away from me—’
That was the last thing.
His vision went dark.
Completely black.
Thud!
Hwang Dae-geon’s body crumpled onto the mat.
The referee rushed in belatedly.
“Stop! Stop!”
At that moment.
Axis Korea Stadium erupted.
[It’s over!! Seo Jun!! Seo Jun brings down Hwang Dae-geon!!]
[Walkoff Knockout! A perfect Walkoff Knockout!!]
Seo Jun didn’t look back.
His face streaked with blood.
He walked quietly toward his corner.
He was no longer the child from the basement.

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