Yoshi was already getting tired of this duel, so he objected to Takahashi.
Yoshi: How long can you keep your sword in its sheath?
And it’s not even a katana, just a regular hidden blade concealed in a wooden cane.
Takahashi: My blade is curved and used to be a katana, but it’s the same sword, just in a different sheath.
And since you’re tired, I’ll end this fight with one strike, as I said.
Yoshi: So, this wasn’t even a fight for you?
Yoshi asked indignantly.
Takahashi: Think what you want.
Yoshi: Since that’s the case, I’ll show you the technique of my dojo, Kato.
Yoshi returned his sword to its sheath and, holding the sheath on his belt with his left hand and the hilt with his right, Yoshi was ready to attack.
Yoshi: Yarimato!
Yoshi shouted.
Yoshi: Behold the technique invented by your father!
Yarimato suddenly remembered from Yoshi’s stance that his father had already demonstrated it when he killed those two brothers.
Yarimato: Was that my father’s technique?
Takahashi grabbed the scabbard with his left hand, but holding it in front of him, he turned the blade toward Yoshi and, holding the scabbard with a reverse grip, Takahashi grabbed the hilt with his right hand, also holding it with a reverse grip.
Yarimato: What kind of technique is this?
Could it be one of the teacher’s techniques?
Why is he holding the sword in its sheath in front of him and holding the sword with the reverse grip?
Takahashi raised his voice and said firmly, “Yarimato, now I will show you my technique called ‘Tsunami’.”
Yoshi: What kind of technique is that?
Takahashi: No one has ever survived this technique, and besides me, no one else can repeat it.
Yarimato: What?
That’s the most difficult technique of all!
None of Takahashi’s students have mastered it!
Standing in the rain, Takahashi and Yoshi kept their swords in their sheaths, waiting for the moment and determinedly ready to draw their swords.
Suddenly, there was silence, and holding their breath, the decisive moment arrived.
Standing in the rain in deafening silence, a single raindrop touched the puddle.
Hearing this one drop among thousands of others, Takahashi and Yoshi deliver their deadly blows.
Takahashi takes a lightning-fast step and, holding the hilt of his sword with a reverse grip, draws his sword from its sheath and striking with one hand in a reverse grip, he seems to pass through Yoshi and, finding himself behind him, Takahashi cuts off Yoshi’s right arm and slashes his torso from the center of his stomach to his left shoulder blade.
Yoshi doesn’t even have time to draw his sword from its sheath before his right hand, which was holding the sword’s hilt, flies off to the side and his body is cut in two.
Takahashi’s strike was so smooth and precise that, cutting through everything in its path, it seemed to draw a perfect line straight through the bones, muscles, heart, and lungs, separating them perfectly from each other. Get faster updates on g.com.
That is why this technique is called that, because a tsunami can sweep away anything in its path, and the consequences will be terrible.
The Tsunami technique also sweeps away everything in its path, and the consequences can only be deadly.
Takahashi, holding the scabbard in front of him, returns the sword, but this time the blade is pointed towards Takahashi and there is not a single drop of blood on the blade itself.
Blood begins to gush from Yoshi’s severed arm and torso, but despite everything, Yoshi grabs the hilt of the sword with his left hand and, pulling out the sword, turns sideways toward Takahashi and, holding the sword above him, Yoshi realizes that he is already dead and decides to fight to the end. but Takahashi takes a stance and, crouching down, uses a technique called “Wave Strike,” after which Takahashi cuts off Yoshi’s left arm.
Yoshi’s sword and arm fall to the ground, and Yoshi bleeds all over the place.
Falling to his knees with his last ounce of strength, Yoshi says his last words in a hoarse voice due to the blood in his lungs.
Yoshi: Now i see that Yarimato is in good hands.
Yoshi said, looking into Takahashi’s eyes, and then slowly closing his eyes, Yoshi dies at the hands of Takahashi.
The next day, when the rain stopped, Yarimato and Takahashi buried Yoshi near the mountain, as even Takahashi recognized him as one of the strongest, he had ever fought, since anyone who received such a wound would immediately fall to the ground, Yoshio, despite losing an arm and suffering such a huge wound to his entire body, was able to draw his sword and swing it for a strike.
Therefore, Takahashi considered Yoshi a worthy opponent, because it took him two strikes, not one as he had promised.
Yarimato was shocked by his teacher’s technique, and he couldn’t imagine that he would be so frightened by just one attack.
Yarimato was also upset that it was his fault that Yoshi had to die in a battle he was fighting for him.
Although Yarimato did not know Yoshi very well, he had saved his life and was a friend of his father, so Yarimato could not shake the thought that it was because of him that Yoshi had died such a terrible death.
Takahashi saw that Yarimato was very upset, and he didn’t want to repeat his mistakes with Kaminore, so he wanted to talk to him so that he wouldn’t keep these thoughts to himself.
Yarimato and Takahashi sat down at the tea table to talk.
Takahashi: Yarimato, I wanted to talk to you.
It’s been four days since the battle against Yoshi, and since then you’ve become more frightened and upset, as if blaming yourself for everything.
I ask you to discuss this with me and not keep it to yourself.
Yarimato took a deep breath and decided to talk.
He exhaled and said, “Two thoughts are bothering me. The first is Yoshi’s death. I blame myself for Yoshi’s death because he did it all for me, and my father was also willing to risk his life, but in the end, he died such a horrible death. And the second thing that scares me is your Tsunami technique.”
Takahashi heard Yarimato and, exhaling, said: “It’s not your fault that Yoshi died.
Yes, perhaps he only wanted the best for you, but it was his choice, and therefore he died only because of his actions and choices.
The most important thing is what is best for you.
How could you have known where you would be better off if, instead of finding that mountain, you had come to your father’s dojo?
Then maybe Yoshi wouldn’t have had to die by my hands, and your life would have been different.
But whether it would have been better or worse, and whether Yoshi would have died an even worse death, you will never know, and so blaming yourself for what you did not do is pointless and foolish.
The only thing you can do is continue to live and do what you think is necessary. Get faster updates on g.com.
Yarimato: Exactly.
How could I have known what fate would have in store for Yoshi and me if things had turned out differently?
Takahashi: You can’t escape fate.
We will all die, and that is inevitable.
Yarimato: Okay, thank you for helping me with that, but I still can’t get over the Tsunami technique.
At one point, it seemed wonderful because it seemed impossible, but it’s also very scary, as if I saw with my own eyes how the blade cuts through everything in its path, destroying everything it can.
It was as if I saw all of Yoshi’s insides being cut into perfect pieces, and it drives me crazy.
When I saw his torso split open slightly and blood spurting everywhere, it was as if I felt it myself, and I even grabbed my own torso out of fear!
That’s why this horrible image keeps popping up in front of my eyes, even though everything was in shades of gray, but it was as if I saw all the colors again, that’s how vivid it was for me!
Takahashi was surprised by what Yarimato said and asked, “What do you mean, ‘as if I saw all the colors again’?”
Takahashi did not know that Yarimato could not see all colors, and Yarimato had never mentioned it, so it was surprising to the teacher.
Yarimato: Yes, exactly.
I never said anything, but when I lost my parents, due to severe depression and nerves, I lost the ability to see all three important colors, and since then I have not been able to see colors.
Takahashi: You said it was as if you could see right through Yoshi, as if you could see all his organs and everything inside him.
Is that true?
Yarimato wondered why Takahashi was asking such a question.
Yarimato: Well, yes, it was as if I could see through him, and when I saw how your blow cut through everything that came under it, it shocked me, and that’s why I’m terrified of this technique.
Takahashi gathered himself and straightened up, saying in a firm voice: Yarimato, now you will learn the secret of this technique.
Yarimato: The secret?
Is that why no one has been able to master this technique?
Takahashi: To master the Tsunami technique, you need to not only give it your all and use all your strength and precision, but the most important thing in this technique is vision.
From birth, I was born into a gray world.
Yarimato: A gray world?
Takahashi-sensei, you can’t see colors either?
Yarimato asked in surprise.
Takahashi: Yes, that gave me strength, and thanks to that, I learned to see through people.
By concentrating on all parts of my opponent’s body and then gathering all my spiritual energy into this strike, I deliver this deadly blow.
So, what you saw was not a fantasy or anything else.
It was your gift.
That’s why you can become my first student to master the Tsunami technique.
Yarimato was very surprised that his teacher had also been unable to see colors all this time, and he was equally surprised that what at first glance seemed to be a weakness could become a tremendous power that no one else possessed.