Who is doing the action in this sentence?

Question

Sorry for the vague title, not sure what else I could have put there.

I'm reading a light novel at the moment and came across a part where I'm a little unsure on who exactly is doing the action. To set the scene, the main character is being attacked by a bear who knows Chinese martial arts. Here's the excerpt:

クマは大きく息を吸いながら腰を落とし、先ほどと同じく紫色の障気を一息で吐き出すと共に大地を蹴り、高速で距離を詰めてきた。
裏拳。それを俺は裏拳で受ける。ずっしりと体重を乗せた素晴らしい一撃だ。続いて回し蹴り、下段からだんだん上がってくる三段蹴り、肩からぶつかるような体当たり。を流れるように繰り出す。――――かわせねえよ、そんなの。無理無理。あっけなく吹き飛ばされた俺は、少女が隠れていた墓石に当たり、墓石が粉々になる。

This is how I understand this section:

Taking a deep breath the bear lowered his body and while exhaling purple miasma in one breath just like he did before, he kicked himself off the ground and moved towards me at a high speed. A backhand blow, that's what I'll counter with. A magnificent attack where you make full use of your body weight. Then I'll follow that up with a roundhouse kick, a triple kick starting from the bottom and finish it off with a shoulder bash. ―――― No, I can't possibly dodge that bear. Easily blown away I hit the tombstone the girl was hiding behind, the tombstone breaking into pieces in the process.

Notice how I've incorporated を流れるように繰り出す。into the description of the sequence of the attacks.

Am I right in assuming that the backhand blow and the sequence of the attacks described are what the main character intends to carry out? And the part where it says ――――かわせねえよ、そんなの。無理無理。refers back to the bear who is flying towards the main character at high speeds? That is, the bear is doing none of those attacks described in that section, right? I'm a bit unsure on whether the そんなの refers to the bear flying towards the main character at high speeds or the sequence of attacks described just before. The sequence of the attacks sounds martial arts-y so having the bear do those wouldn't seem out of place but the way the section reads doesn't lead me to believe that is the case so I'm a little confused.

Also 上がってくる三段蹴り to me reads like the action was directed towards the main character (seen from his point of view), so maybe it is the bear doing these attacks after all?

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

The sequence of attacks is done by the bear.

As suggested by aguijonazo in the comment, your misreading stems from identifying the two 裏拳. Also the entire scene looks like kind of following typical '格闘ゲーム/格闘マンガ' expression, that might be a source of difficulty too. Yet another difficulty is that the subject changes almost line by line in the 2nd paragraph.

In the first paragraph it is just the bear coming in front of 俺, no attack at this stage. Then the first 裏拳 given by the bear; それを裏拳で受ける, where それ = the bear's 裏拳, so the sentence means I defended with (my own) 裏拳 against the bear's. The subject of 繰り出す is the bear - so all the sequence 回し蹴り to 体当たり is the bear's attack.

Now そんなの generally refers to the attacks made by the bear. Thus かわせねえよ、そんなの means I cannot dodge that.

I guess what the author has in mind is something like 空中コンボ in fighting games. The main character is hit by 回し蹴り and then helplessly kicked up in the air by the bear's three kicks, and finally got tackled and blown away. Never mind if these are physically possible - a real bear wouldn't be able to kick anyway :)

Answer 2

I think the narrator (俺) is only trying to defend himself throughout this scene. 回し蹴り, 三段蹴り and 体当たり are all from the bear, and 俺 is not attacking at all.

くる could have been used (～を繰り出してくる), and the sentence would have been much easier to read with it. But the author seems to have preferred shorter sentences to make them look more dramatic.