Chapter 86 - A Challenge from a Neo Sumo Wrestler (2/2)

A few medical personnel passing by watched Okamoto Takeshi as he left. They were shocked. This fleeshly mountain of a man moved without a hint of slowness nor strain. He walked very quickly, yet not a hint of his footsteps could be heard in this corridor that echoed easily.

“Qin Fen? I’ve never heard this guy’s name before. Can someonne like that be an expert?” Okamoto Takeshi head tilted to the side as he chuckled, “So he’s of Third Company, Second Battlion, Seventy-Fifth Brigade, eh? Seems like its in this direction.”

Okamoto Takeshi strode in large steps as he spoke, quickly disappearing outside the main entrance to the hospital. He rushed straight to the location indicated to him by his data.

After a few days of investigation, Okamoto Takeshi knew that Qin Fen would always secretly disappear for a time every day after military training. He was gone until dusk, upon which he would always take this tiny secluded road back to his living quarters.

Okamoto Takeshi looked at the lighting of the day and saw that it was still a bit early.

He sat openly and imposingly on the ground as he silently waited for Qin Fen to arrive.

With the passing of time, sumo wrestling had long since been on the decline. This fighting style didn’t paint a beautiful scene when used in combat, plus one had to maintain an obese build in order to use it. It was completely contrary to current aesthetics, making it extremely unpopular.

As interest in paleo martial arts and neo martial arts rapidly grew, the already few people who rested their gazes upon sumo wrestling all turned their gazes to neo and paleo martial arts. This quickened the process of the death of the Japanese technique that was sumo wrestling.

In practically over the course of a night, sumo wrestling was pushed to the brink of history. The situation was very awkward. Sumo wrestling was in the same spot where Taekwando once was, nearly dead, when a man appeared in the world of sumo—Hashimoto Nagashiro!

He fused several paleo martial arts with sumo wrestling and fused several neo martial arts with sumo wrestling as well, ultimately creating the modern Neo Sumo. He took the nearly dead, nearly extinct wrestling technique and saved it.

Neo Sumo returned among modern fighting techniques once more, a matter that everybody involved in sumo wrestling celebrated.

However, the current Neo Sumo didn’t tower above upon returning to be one of the world’s modern fighting techniques, nor did huge numbers of people follow it and enjoyed it like with Neo Taekwondo.

Compared to Neo Taekwondo, whose punches and kicks were dazzling sights during fights, the visual enjoyment factor of Neo Sumo was greatly lower. Plus, cultivating in Neo Taekwondo helped sculpt a decent figure, while cultivating in Neo Sumo made one’s body appear heavily out of shape.

In this way, even though the Neo Sumo fighting technique was of considerable strength, the number of people interested in it and the number of people who became practitioners were few.

This practitioner of Neo Sumo had agreed to join the military through normal channels because he sought to get a good placement in the next Military Recruit Tournament. He would use this chance to draw the gazes of several people and popularize Neo Sumo, turning it into one of the mainstream fighting techniques.

There were young experts hiding among the recruits. All of them were originally waiting to show themselves and reveal their strengths only during the selection process.

Then Qin Fen trampled upon the number one young expert of the State of Korea, suddenly springing up out of nowhere. This caused some of the other young experts to choose to blossom earlier than originally planned.

He was the one and only practitioner of Neo Sumo to enter recruit camp. Okamoto Takeshi naturally didn’t want to let this opportunity escape his grasp. After all, just how strong could a recruit from a little island be?

Okamoto Takeshi would defeat him! He would welcome challenges from the young experts of the other fighting styles,stand at the apex, and defeat them one by one. He would bring Neo Sumo to new and great heights!

Okamoto Takeshi suddenly realized that the rays of the sun were growing softer and softer. This only happened when the sun was about to set. He slowly recovered from his contemplation and waited for his opponent, who could appear at any moment.

Qin Fen was utterly tired today. If there was someone who believed that it was a breeze to train in firearms with the Old Second of All Ages Gun King, Qin Fen didn’t mind letting such a person receive the training for himself and see what it was like.

There hadn’t been much shooting in today’s training. Instead, it was assembling guns and altering guns.

As an ordinary solider of the Army, it was already a decent achievement just to be able to strike a target accurately with a gun. Similarly, having great proficiency in dismantling and assembling guns was an outstanding achievement in the field of firearms.

Qin Fen assembled guns in a manner unlike the other recruits. As long as you placed all the components of a gun in front of him, he could assemble it to completion quite quickly.

The Old Second of All Ages Gun King’s Training naturally possessed its own unique aspects.

There were over a thousand gun components before Qin Fen today. The components came from guns that were so small they could only be loaded with a single bullet and from guns that were so large that they required at least two soldiers operate like heavy machine guns. Their special armor piercing bullets could pierced through the oldest models of mobile armors.

Of these weapons, there were many guns whose models were extremely similar to each other. So similar that even if a gun was assembled using the incorrect component, it could still be used.

However, such assembled guns might loose some accuracy when used, due to the flexibility of the material. It was practically impossible to assemble all these guns without making even a sliver of a mistake. For a recruit who just joined the military a month ago, assembling these guns without error in a fixed amount of time was even more of an impossibility.

However, such an impossible task was considered not to be an issue from Gun King’s perspective.

In his words, if Qin Zhan could do it shortly upon entering the military, than so could Qin Fen. This was the most basic of fundamental trainings.

In order to not have Gun King look down on him Qin Fen brought out all his spirit to strive against Gun King.

Qin Fen finished assembling over a thousand guns, and Gun King gave Qin Fen another new task. It was to take the most suitable components from among all these guns and assemble a single firearm with super powerful might.

Only when Qin Fen finished his customized gun did Gun King begin to comment on the key items that Qin Fen needed to improve on when it came to assembling guns. This also included weak points and strong points of Qin Fen’s customized gun and what sort of further modifications could be done for better performance.

Though it was tiresome, Qin Fen really did learn knowledge about firearms that the other recruits could not learn in their lifetimes.