Volume 4: The Undead Chapter 229: Crushing
"I noticed that it was particularly noisy here for some reason, so I ran over to take a look. It turned out that you, Ogata-kun, were fighting with someone. Luckily, there are no cannibals wandering around here, otherwise the loud noise you guys made would have attracted a lot of cannibals."
"Tsk...Are you late...Brother Ogata, you're almost done..."
As the two male voices fell, two figures, one tall and one short, stepped out from the darkness and into the area illuminated by the torches.
Most of the prisoners had been killed by Ogata, and the torches in their hands fell to the ground everywhere, so the area around Ogata and Soutarou was still bright.
The owners of these two figures and the two sword lights just now were naturally Mamiya and Makimura.
As for Matsumoto, he followed closely behind Mamiya and Makimura carefully, accepting their protection.
Mamiya glanced at the dead bodies on the ground, and at Soutarou who was looking at him and Makimura with an unpleasant expression, and then asked Ogata in a relaxed tone:
"Ogata-kun, do you need any help?"
"No need." After responding to Mamiya's words without thinking, Ogata raised the katana in his hand high, swung it down hard to shake off the blood on the blade, and then slowly walked towards Soutarou.
“Tsk…” Soutarou, whose face had long turned as black as charcoal, clenched the wakizashi in his hand, spread his legs, and got ready. “You guy…! Who the hell are you?!”
"I've already said it before," Ogata said in a calm tone, "A ronin who happened to appear here by chance."
After saying that, Ogata suddenly accelerated and rushed towards Soutarou in one step.
Ogata swung the katana and wakizashi in his hands at the same time, and two sword lights, one long and one short, enveloped Soutarou.
Ogata's sword was as fast as lightning, but Soutarou's reaction was pretty good and he could barely keep up with Ogata's speed.
He even raised the wakizashi in his hand and rushed towards Ogata's double swords.
clang!
With a loud sound of metal hitting metal, the two swords collided heavily.
"Hmm..." Although Sotaro successfully blocked Ogata's sword, he was not as strong as Ogata, so he staggered back several steps, holding the sword tightly in his hand.
On the other hand, Ogata stood still.
Before Soutarou could fully stand firm, Ogata came in pursuit.
This time, the one who came to chop Sotaro was Ogata's wakizashi.
The wakizashi cut through the air and slashed towards Sotaro. Sotaro's arms were still numb from having taken Ogata's attack just now. But Sotaro couldn't care less now.
He gritted his teeth and relied on brute force to force himself to hold the wakizashi tightly in his hand and block the attack from Ogata with the knife.
This time, Ogata only used a single sword to attack, so the power was not as strong as his previous double-sword attack. Therefore, if Sotaro tried his best, he could still block Ogata's single-sword attack.
However - just as Sotaro pushed away Ogata's wakizashi, the katana in Ogata's right hand came.
The path of the katana is completely different from the path of the wakizashi just now.
Ogata's wakizashi just now slashed from the lower left to the upper right.
Now the katana is slashing from the upper right to the lower left.
The two attacks came from completely different directions, forcing Soutarou to hastily adjust his stance and the direction of the knife in his hand.
He successfully blocked Ogata's katana once again, but before Soutarou could even catch his breath, Ogata's wakizashi came again...
Ogata continued to swing his two swords, launching continuous attacks on Soutarou from all directions.
At first, Soutarou could barely cope with it, but as time passed and his physical strength declined, Soutarou gradually lost his rhythm. Facing Ogata's continuous double-sword slashes, he not only had no strength to fight back, but he was also gradually losing the strength to parry...
Knowing that he would surely fail if he continued like this, Sotaro gritted his teeth and a ruthless look appeared on his face.
He decided to give up this blind defense.
Find the right moment and turn the tide of battle with a single attack.
Soutarou stared at the swords in Ogata's hands, looking for the most suitable battle plan for counterattack.
clang!
After blocking Ogata's katana once again, Soutarou's eyes flashed with cold light.
At this moment, Ogata's katana had just been blocked, and the wakizashi had not yet had the chance to strike at Sotaro - this was the best time to launch a counterattack!
If he delayed any further, he was afraid that he would not have the energy to fend off Ogata's attack. Therefore, Soutarou did not hesitate at all. He stepped firmly on the ground with both feet, transferred the power from his feet to his waist, and then from his waist to his arms. After concentrating all his strength in his arms, he made an extremely sharp straight stab at Ogata's chest!
What Soutarou used was the assassination technique from their Shiranui-ryu ninjutsu.
The knife that Sotaro stabbed was fast and fierce. Years of training in Shiranui-ryu ninjutsu and years of experience in assassinations enabled Sotaro to roughly determine where Ogata's heart was just by looking at it.
So he was absolutely sure that if he could hit Ogata, he would definitely pierce Ogata's heart!
Of course, all this happened under the premise that his knife could pierce Ogata.
Facing the knife stabbing at him by Soutarou, Ogata remained neither panicked nor confused.
Because - Sotaro's stab might seem very fast to outsiders.
But in Ogata's opinion - that's just how it is.
After using the Breathing of the Source, Ogata's reflexes were temporarily raised to 10 points, allowing him to easily see Sotaro's sword movements.
Use the stepping method to nimbly move to Soutarou's right side.
As Ogata dodged, Soutarou's wakizashi naturally missed the target.
Ogata did not give Soutarou a chance to retract his knife.
While Soutarou had not yet retracted his knife and his right arm was still straight, Ogata raised his left wakizashi and directly pierced Soutarou's right forearm.
“Aaaaaaaaaaa——!”
His right forearm was pierced directly from right to left, causing Soutarou to wail in pain.
And in the next moment, Soutarou's wailing escalated.
Because - after piercing Soutarou's right arm with his wakizashi, Ogata simply swung the katana in his right hand and cut off Soutarou's right hand from the elbow.
With a "click" sound , Soutarou's right arm, which was still holding the wakizashi, fell to the ground.
As for Soutarou, he fell to his knees with a look of pain on his face, wailing at the top of his lungs.
The severe pain from his right arm caused Sotaro's body to spasm continuously, and he didn't even have the strength to stand up.
However, even if he could still stand up, it would be meaningless.
After all - even with both arms intact, he was no match for Ogata. How could he possibly turn defeat into victory after Ogata cut off one of his arms?
Ogata glanced at Soutarou, who was crawling on the ground and wailing.
Then he silently shook off the blood on the blades of the two swords in his hands and put the swords back into the sheaths.
"Hmm?" Mamiya, who had been watching the fight from the side, raised his eyebrows, "Ogata-kun, aren't you going to kill him?"
"I originally wanted to kill him directly." Ogata said softly, "But I thought about it - it would be better to leave him to those who were hurt by him to deal with slowly ."
"Compared to me, they should want to cook this guy themselves."
