Volume 1: Re:Zero -Starting Life as a Samurai Chapter 40: Attack on Sakakibara Sword Hall (Part 2)
Yuanshan's own weight, plus his own arm strength - one can imagine how powerful Yuanshan's chop was.
Even Mikami, after blocking Yuanshan's downward blow, couldn't help but feel his arm going numb, and he almost couldn't hold the sword steadily.
Even though his downward strike was blocked, Yuanshan was not discouraged.
The next moment his feet touched the ground again, Toyama thrust the sword in his hand forward and stabbed it towards Mikami's chest.
Snapped!
The sound of wooden swords colliding exploded.
San Shang cut off Yuanshan's sword with one sword, causing Yuanshan's straight thrust to deviate from its original trajectory. He then retreated several steps and put some distance between himself and Yuanshan again.
After Mikami blocked his attack again, a look of surprise finally appeared on Toyama's face.
"I can't believe it... Compared to last year, your strength has increased so much. In last year's festival competition, you couldn't even block a single attack from me, but now you can block two of my killing attacks in a row. Mikami, I underestimated you."
"Not only will I block all your moves," Mikami said solemnly, "I will also defeat you!"
"Ha!" Yuanshan gave his signature sneer, "Then you can give it a try."
After saying this, Yuanshan crossed his feet, slowly raised his sword, and assumed an upper stance.
In the upper stance, because the sword is held high, the waist is in an unprotected state.
Therefore, the upper stance is the least suitable for defense among all stances, and it is also the one that is most likely to be exploited by the enemy.
However - even though Toyama assumed the most vulnerable upper-level stance, Mikami still could not find any loopholes in Toyama that he could exploit.
Mikami's years of experience in sword fighting have taught him that if he rashly rushes into Yuanshan's attack range, he will definitely lose miserably!
Therefore, Mikami always kept himself out of Yuanshan's attack range and did not dare to step into Yuanshan's attack range rashly.
At the same time, he kept moving his steps and changing his position, hoping to find loopholes in the distant mountains.
But the result disappointed Mikami.
No matter how many times Mikami circled Yuanshan, he couldn't find any loopholes in Yuanshan.
"What's wrong? Mikami?"
A strong hint of sarcasm reappeared in Yuanshan's tone.
"Don't you want to defeat me?"
"You can't defeat me even if you keep spinning in circles like this."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Mikami yelled impatiently, "I will defeat you soon!"
"Hmph, I'm very busy. I don't have time to keep going around in circles with you. If you don't come over, I'll go over!"
Along with the sound of the distant mountains came the sound of his footsteps.
The next moment after he said this, Yuanshan stepped forward. In less than two breaths, Yuanshan was in a position where his sword could hit Mikami.
Without any hesitation, Yuanshan swung the raised sword down heavily.
Snapped!
Mikami blocked Toyama's attack again.
The attack was blocked by Mikami again, but Toyama remained neither anxious nor annoyed.
He calmly turned the position of the wooden sword in his hand, then swung the sword towards the side of Mikami's face as he just stood still.
Yuanshan's chopped blow was far superior to all his previous attacks in terms of speed and power!
Mikami, who had not expected that Toyama's slashing speed could be so fast, widened his eyes and wanted to immediately raise his sword to block Toyama's attack.
But his movements couldn't keep up at all.
Even if Mikami had expected Toyama's attack speed to be so fast, it would be of no use.
Because even if you expect it, if your body can't keep up with the speed, you still can't avoid or block it.
Toyama's wooden sword hit Mikami's face accurately, and then knocked Mikami to the ground with one blow.
If Toyama had used a real sword, Mikami would have definitely lost his head.
Looking at Mikami, who was lying on the ground with a red and swollen face and groaning in pain, Toyama said indifferently:
"When practicing swordsmanship, you should not only hone your sword skills, but also remember to hone your body."
"If you don't have the physical strength and speed, even if you master the sword skills, it will still be useless."
"Mikami, the reason you lost to me is not because you didn't practice your sword skills well."
"It's just because your physical fitness is not as good as mine."
After coldly leaving this "teaching" to Mikami, Yuanshan turned his head and looked at his fellow disciples beside him who had already finished their battles.
Because they were outnumbered, except for 6 people who were slightly injured, no one else was injured.
The disciples of Sakakibara Sword Hall were now all lying on the ground, covering various parts of their bodies and groaning in pain.
"Search everywhere! " Yuanshan ordered, "Remember! Ogata Issei doesn't shave his hair with a topknot! Go find someone who doesn't shave his hair with a topknot!"
"yes!"
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Toyama and others searched the Sakakibara Sword Hall thoroughly, but did not find even a single samurai who did not have a shaved head.
Seeing this, Yuanshan said "tsk" impatiently.
"Is it true that Ogata is not at Sakakibara Sword Hall..."
When Toyama was worried about not finding Ogata, a junior fellow student standing next to Toyama asked Toyama hesitantly:
"That... Senior Yuanshan."
"What's wrong?" Yuanshan asked impatiently.
"Why... did we come to find that Ogata Issei? And... is it really okay for us to humiliate Sakakibara Kenkan like this? Isn't it too..."
Of all the people in Ishikawa Sword Hall, the only ones who knew why Toyama came to find Ogata were Itagaki and Toyama himself.
His wife was having an affair - this was such a shameful thing that Yuanshan certainly didn't have the nerve to publicize it.
Until now, Itagaki is the only one who knows that Toyama's wife is having an affair with Ogata.
He didn't intend to tell everyone that his wife was having an affair with Ogata - so Toyama naturally wouldn't tell his fellow apprentices directly: he wanted to teach Ogata, the .
He just told his fellow apprentices that he had a big conflict with Ogata and hoped that they could lend him a helping hand.
Although no one understands what the conflict is between Toyama and Ogata, Toyama has a very high reputation in Ishikawa Sword Hall and is respected by everyone.
So even though they were confused, the disciples of Ishikawa Sword Gym still followed Toyama and headed to Sakakibara Sword Gym in a mighty manner.
After defeating 12 disciples of Sakakibara Sword Hall, led by Mikami, some people came to their senses.
Those who woke up began to realize that they seemed to have... gone a little too far.
He broke into Sakakibara Sword Gym without permission and injured all the disciples of Sakakibara Sword Gym who were present. He then searched the Sakakibara Sword Gym inside and out without permission.
This series of events is already a humiliation to Sakakibara Kenden.
And it was such a humiliation that he stepped on someone's face directly...
