Volume 1: Re:Zero -Starting Life as a Samurai Chapter 58: The State of No Self
A'saki and A'sfuk who were in the kitchen heard the noise and rushed out to check what was going on.
"Ogata -sama," Asaki asked, "what's wrong?"
"...No, nothing." Feeling tired, Ogata rubbed his temples, " Sorry for disturbing you, you guys should continue to do your things."
Asaki and Fuku-chan looked at each other in confusion.
Although they didn't know what had just happened, since Ogata had said "nothing", it was not convenient for them to ask more questions.
After Ogata told them to continue with their own business, the two returned to the kitchen.
After Asaki and the others left, Obe picked up the "Muga Nito-ryu" that he had just thrown away.
Looking at the five Chinese characters on the cover, a bitter smile appeared on Ogata's face.
When he learned that neither his master nor his uncle had been able to comprehend even a single move recorded in this book, Ogata thought that this was a set of swordsmanship that was extremely difficult to practice and learn.
As a result, Ogata finally understood now - it turned out that the reason why his master and uncle could not comprehend a single move recorded in this book was because the book was written too poorly!
Although the author of this book carefully drew detailed pictures to introduce each move of this sword technique.
But these pictures he drew... Ogata didn't think anyone in this world could understand them...
"Master..." With a wry smile still on his face, Ogata sighed in a voice that only he could hear clearly, "Whether you can comprehend the sword skills in this book has nothing to do with your talent for swordsmanship, but everything to do with your reading comprehension ability..."
After expressing his feelings like this, Ogata opened the book again.
I haven’t seen the introduction to the last three sword skills yet.
The last three sword skills are: Cicada Rain, Falling Stars, and State of No Self.
For the two sword skills, Cicada Rain and Starfall, the author of this book drew a large number of pictures to introduce the learning methods.
As expected, Ogata didn't understand a single painting.
However, the introduction to these two sword skills is very interesting.
These two sword skills are both continuous slashing skills.
Cicada Rain is a 7-hit combo, and Starfall is a 13-hit combo.
According to the description in this book, Starfall is an upgraded version of Cicada Rain. These two combo skills have the same characteristics: wielding two swords to continuously slash the enemy, and the rhythm of the slashing is chaotic.
To put it simply - suppose you use this "Cicada Rain" move to attack the enemy, the rhythm of the 7 cuts you make will be messed up.
After all, Ogata is a swordsman.
Of course, you know that if the enemy's attack rhythm is chaotic and the enemy will not be affected by your chaotic attack rhythm, then this enemy will be a very scary opponent.
The enemies slash at your swords with different rhythms.
One cut is faster and one is slower.
Then your own rhythm and posture are likely to be interrupted by the enemy's messy attacks.
Once your rhythm and posture are messed up, you will be in big trouble.
Although these two consecutive slashing techniques seem to be very powerful sword skills based on the introduction, the author of this book very considerately added a few sentences after these two sword skills to warn those who are fortunate enough to read this book of two very important points.
Point 1: These two sword techniques are very difficult to master.
A chaotic attack rhythm can certainly disrupt the enemy's rhythm.
But it can also disrupt your own rhythm.
It is quite difficult to launch such a chaotic attack and ensure that you will not be affected by it.
Point 2: Do not use these two sword skills unless absolutely necessary.
Because the enemy won't just stand there and take your continuous attacks.
Therefore, the conditions for using these two sword skills are very strict.
The author of this book is still quite considerate and lists some conditions under which these two combo skills can be used: when the enemy cannot move or the enemy's movement is restricted, it is the best time to use "Cicada Rain" and "Starfall".
After briefly reading the introduction and detailed illustrations of "Cicada Rain" and "Falling Stars", Ogata turned the page.
He looked at the last sword skill recorded in this book - the state of no self.
This last sword technique recorded in this book does not include any detailed illustrations.
There was only one sentence that was very interesting in Ogata's eyes.
(When I was young, I had a life-and-death duel with a very powerful rival.
He is a ninja from the Shiranui Village, but his powerful close combat ability does not make him look like a ninja at all.
It was a tough battle that is still fresh in my memory.
I was highly focused, not daring to blink or breathe heavily.
If you are a little lax or careless, your life will be taken immediately.
When the battle was at its most intense, I entered a strange state.
It felt like I was floating on a calm lake.
There are no distracting thoughts in my mind.
There were clearly many other things in my field of vision, such as flowers and plants, but I could only sense my knife and my enemy.
It’s not that I can’t perceive other objects in my field of vision, but that I completely ignore them.
At that moment, I finally understood what it meant to truly "focus on one thing".
All that was left in my eyes was the knife in my hand and the enemy in front of me, and there was only one thought in my mind: I must win.
Relying on this strange state, I successfully blinded the ninja's left eye with one sword and won the battle to the death.
Unfortunately, after winning the death battle, this strange state disappeared.
I can't get this strange state out of my mind.
It was thanks to this strange state that I won the battle of life and death.
It was also after this fatal fight that I successfully integrated all the sword techniques I knew and created a new two-sword sword technique.
Because after entering this strange state, the mind will become extremely calm and free of all distractions.
Therefore, I named this strange state the "state of no self."
At the same time, in order to commemorate the "selfless state" that has brought me a huge impact, I named this new two-sword swordsmanship that I created as "selfless two-sword style".
Ever since the fatal battle with the Shiranui ninja, I have been studying this "state of no self".
Studying what to do so that one can freely enter the "state of no self".
"Breath of Origin" is the final product of my research.
"Breathing of Source" is a shortcut to entering the "state of no self".
As long as you can skillfully use the "Origin of Breathing", you can enter the "selfless state" more easily.
Of course - even without using "Original Breathing", you can still enter the "State of No Self".
However, without using the "Origin of Breathing", it will be quite difficult to enter the "selfless state".)
This is the entry with the most text description in the book.
There are no captions on the pictures, just paragraph after paragraph, telling readers how the author of this book accidentally entered into the strange state of "no self" and what the shortcut to enter the "no self" is.
Although Ogata didn't know what it felt like to enter this kind of "selfless state" where the mind was fully focused.
But just from this long description, he instinctively felt that this "state of no self" seemed to be very powerful.
After reading the detailed description of the "state of no self", Ogata silently closed the book in his hand and sighed.
——Although I have finished reading this book, I still can’t understand it at all…
——Whether you can comprehend the various sword techniques described in this book has nothing to do with your swordsmanship talent, but only with your reading comprehension ability...
——It can be seen that the author of this book put a lot of effort into writing it. Except for the Breathing of the Origin and the State of No Self, all other sword skills are explained in detail with pictures.
——But the painting is so ugly... I can’t understand it at all...
——In this way, it is impossible for me to comprehend any sword skills of this Muga Nito-ryu…
Before Ogata could even utter the last syllable of the word "sword skill" in his mind, a strange and lengthy system voice suddenly sounded in his mind:
[Ding! Successfully browsed all the sword techniques of the two-sword sword technique "Muga Two-sword Flow"]
[Successfully extracted the dual swordsmanship - "Nu-Self Dual Swordsmanship"]
[Detect all martial arts styles currently learned by the host...]
[The host has not yet learned the rest of the two-sword sword techniques]
[After learning "Mugu Nidao Liu", you can gain personal experience points and martial arts experience points by defeating and killing enemies with this sword technique]
[The host can spend 1 skill point to unlock the dual swordsmanship - "selfless dual swordsmanship"]
[Do you want to spend 1 skill point to unlock the dual swordsmanship - "Nuguu dual swordsmanship"?]
