Volume 1: Re:Zero -Starting Life as a Samurai Chapter 68: The Death Battle Ends (Part 1)
"What is he doing?"
"have no idea……"
"What a weird posture..."
"Why stick the sword upside down in the ground..."
"Is this some secret sword of Sakakibara Ittoryu?"
"No way... As far as I remember, Sakakibara Ittoryu only has 4 moves, and there's no secret sword..."
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When Ogata thrust the sword in his hand upside down into the ground, it immediately caused puzzled discussions among the nobles in the audience.
Not only the distinguished people in the audience were puzzled by Ogata's strange behavior, but also the masters and disciples of Sakakibara Sword Hall on the easternmost side of the arena were confused by Ogata's strange posture.
"Hey...!" Yuanshan said in a rather impatient tone, "What do you mean by this posture?"
"Tighten your nerves, Toyama." Ogata held the sword stuck in the ground firmly in his right hand, "I will use this stance... to kill you in one breath!"
"Ha." Yuanshan sneered, "Stuck your sword upside down on the ground - how are you going to kill me with this stance?"
"If you can kill me, then do it and see!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Toyama kicked the ground hard with his hind legs, stirring up a rain of broken sand, and pounced towards Ogata.
Looking at the distant mountains rapidly approaching him, Ogata narrowed his eyes slightly.
The force is transmitted from the feet to the waist, and then from the waist to the right hand holding the sword.
Shalala!
Ogata suddenly raised the sword that was stuck upside down on the ground covered with white sandstone.
The rising sword blade stirred up a "fine rain" of white sand and gravel, which spread towards the distant mountains.
Looking at the "white sand and gravel rain" coming towards him, Yuanshan's pupils suddenly shrank, and he subconsciously raised his left hand to cover his face, and his original forward steps were forced to stop.
But Yuanshan's movements were still a beat slow.
Although Yuanshan raised his left hand to protect his face at the fastest speed he could, several grains of sand still hit Yuanshan's eyes, forcing him to close his eyes due to the pain.
"Ogata Yisei! You despicable villain!!"
While roaring, Toyama swung the sword in his right hand wildly to prevent Ogata from getting close to him.
Because his eyes were hit by fine sand, Toyama temporarily lost his eyesight. Before his eyesight recovered, there was nothing else Toyama could do except to keep backing away, keeping a distance from Ogata, and constantly waving the sword in his hand to prevent Ogata from getting close to him.
Just as Yuanshan used his left hand to scrape away the fine sand that had entered his eyes so that he could open his eyes again, a huge force suddenly came from the knife in his right hand.
This huge horizontal force directly pushed away the knife in his right hand, leaving him wide open.
Looking ahead at the distant mountains.
Ogata was seen holding his scabbard in his left hand and still holding his katana in his right hand.
Just now, after Ogata used the raised fine sand to temporarily take away Toyama's eyesight, he quickly drew out the scabbard from his left waist with his left hand, holding the scabbard with his left hand and the knife with his right hand.
This was the stratagem that Ogata had just come up with - to stick the knife upside down in the ground covered with white sand and gravel , to stir up a rain of white sand and gravel, and to temporarily take away the distant mountains' vision.
Then, when the distant mountains are temporarily out of sight, hold the sheath with your left hand.
As for what to do next, it will be much easier.
boom!
With a muffled sound, Ogata used his scabbard to perform the blade reversal of Muga Nito-ryu, blocking Toyama's sword and breaking Toyama's defense.
Ogata's eyes were fixed firmly on Toyama's left armpit.
After using his scabbard to block Toyama's sword, Ogata rushed straight towards Toyama's left armpit.
Ogata's head was almost touching Toyama's body, passing through Toyama's left armpit at height.
As he passed by Toyama, Ogata stabbed Toyama's left abdomen with the knife in his right hand.
From the guard to the tip of the knife, it completely cut across Yuanshan's abdomen, then the whole person passed through Yuanshan's left armpit and ran to a distance of 4 steps behind Yuanshan in one breath.
Ogata's knife directly cut open half of Toyama's abdomen.
Although the distant mountain was not cut in half in one go, it was almost there.
Yuanshan, with only half of the flesh and blood left connecting his upper and lower bodies, was vomiting blood in large mouthfuls.
A large amount of blood flowed out from the huge wound, dyeing the sand and land at the foot of the distant mountains red.
"You... despicable person..."
Yuanshan twisted his twitching head and looked behind him.
As soon as he looked back, he saw a flash of white light.
After using the beheading move on Toyama, Ogata did not relax.
Instead, he quickly approached the distant mountains again.
While getting close, throw away the scabbard in your left hand and hold the knife with both hands.
He gripped his sword tightly with both hands and swung it towards Yuanshan's neck.
Until Toyama died, Ogata didn't think he could relax.
If Toyama had not died completely, then Ogata would help him die.
Yuanshan, who was no longer able to raise his sword to block the attack, could only watch in despair as the white light swept towards his neck...
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Bang.
There was a sound of something landing in the arena, neither light nor heavy.
This is the sound made by Yuanshan's head falling to the ground.
Looking at the distant mountains where the corpses had been separated, Ogata finally felt relieved, let out a long breath, and then slowly came out of the state of "Source Breathing".
After Ogata chopped off Toyama's head, the arena was silent for a long while.
After a while, the sounds of vomiting finally began to be heard one after another.
The way Yuanshan died can no longer be described with the word "tragic".
Half of the waist was cut open and the head was chopped off - many people vomited because they couldn't bear this bloody and cruel scene.
The world had been at peace for a long time, and although the nobles in the audience were almost all old, they had basically never smelled the breath of war, let alone seen such a bloody fight to the death.
Many distinguished people in the audience vomited because they could not bear this cruel scene.
Many disciples from Sakakibara Sword School and Ishikawa Sword School also vomited because they could not endure the disgusting scene.
"Senior Yuanshan!"
“Senior Brother!”
"Toyama-kun!"
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Some disciples of Ishikawa Sword Hall who were trying hard to suppress the urge to vomit howled in pain as they quickly rushed to the arena.
Looking at the disciples of Ishikawa Sword Hall who rushed to the arena, Hanbei's pupils shrank slightly and he said to himself, "Not good."
Then, Hanbei raised his sword and shouted:
"Protect Ogata!"
Afterwards, he rushed to the competition arena first.
The disciples of Sakakibara Sword Hall, led by Mikami and Makino, were stunned for a moment, then quickly realized what Hanbei meant by "protect Ogata", and quickly picked up their swords and rushed to the arena behind Hanbei.
The two groups arrived at the bodies of Ogata and Toyama almost at the same time.
Everyone at Sakakibara Sword Hall protected Ogata firmly in the middle.
The people from Ishikawa Sword Hall were divided into two groups.
A group of people were wailing as they collected the corpses from the distant mountains.
The other group of people had red eyes and were glaring at the people from Sakakibara Sword Hall... or to be more precise, they were glaring at Ogata who was firmly guarded in the middle by the people from Sakakibara Sword Hall.
