Aki attacks Yarimato and strikes twice in his direction, but Yarimato dodges and comes in from the side, landing a blow that Aki easily blocks it.
Yarimato raises his sword above his head and swings down from above, delivering another blow, which Aki deflects and pushes Yarimato’s sword aside.
Opening up Yarimato, he swings down from above, but Yarimato manages to put his sword right in front of him, blocking the blow.
Aki continues to press down on Yarimato’s sword, confident that a weakling like Yarimato cannot withstand his power, while Yarimato holds on with all his might so that Aki does not crush him and deliver a fatal blow.
Aki smiled as he pressed down on Yarimato’s sword harder and harder.
Yarimato was unable to do anything because of fear, but he began to calm himself down and realized that if he did not overcome this, he would perish and never become a strong swordsman.
Therefore, Yarimato closed his eyes for a couple of seconds, focused on the battle, and when he opened his eyes, he knocked Aki’s sword aside and swung for a strike.
Aki was surprised that Yarimato was not only able to withstand his pressure, but also to break free from it on his own.
Angered, he was not ready to give up either, and gripping his sword more tightly, he swung at Yarimato.
The battle continued, and their speed and the force of their blows became much faster and stronger.
Deftly parrying each other’s blows, they search for an opening in their opponent’s defense to deliver a powerful strike.
Yarimato, understanding his opponent, decides to act and end this battle with a single blow.
Yarimato takes the scabbard from his belt, returns the sword to it, and runs straight towards Aki.
He was surprised that Yarimato had put his sword back in its sheath, but it even made him laugh, and when Yarimato got closer, Aki began to swing his katana to wound his opponent, but Yarimato deftly dodged all his attacks, and after dozens of blows, Aki was furious that he couldn’t hit an enemy who even had his sword in its sheath.
Having exhausted all his strength on these blows, he swung from above straight at Yarimato’s head, and suddenly Yarimato, knowing that Aki was already exhausted, used the Wave Strike technique that he had practiced for so long!
Yarimato parries Aki’s blow and, grabbing his sword with both hands, swings for a powerful blow from above, straight at Aki’s torso.
Since he is completely exposed, nothing will prevent him from delivering a fatal blow.
But just before the blow, Yarimato remembers how Takahashi attacks Yoshi, and remembering this, Yarimato fails and, merely touching Aki’s torso with his sword, Yarimato freezes in fear.
Aki already thought he was going to die and even closed his eyes before the blow, but when he opened his eyes, he saw that Yarimato had only leaned his blade against his torso and the blade had cut through his clothes and slightly touched his skin.
Aki stood there in surprise, not understanding what was happening, and said angrily, “What are you doing? Are you doing me a favor? Or are you so weak that you can’t even strike a blow?”
Aki thought that Yarimato was so weak that he couldn’t even strike a blow, and laughing, he raised his sword above him again, saying, “Well, since you’re so weak, I’ll put you out of your misery, because the strongest live and the weakest die! That’s the truth of life!” This chapter is updated first at NovelPing.
Aki swung at Yarimato, and Yarimato, standing right in front of him with his head down, thought about how he could overcome his fear and strike.
Yarimato: How could this be?
Why couldn’t I strike at the last moment?
This isn’t my first time fighting, and I’ve already delivered blows that cut through the flesh of my enemies, so why couldn’t I do it now?
The whole world seemed to freeze for Yarimato so that he could think through all his problems.
Continuing to stand, Yarimato tried to overcome his fear and accept his fate, in which he would have to kill to protect others.
Yarimato is ready to do this in order to rid the world of constant killing, but in order to win, Yarimato will have to strike these blows, and so he is ready to strike, not for anyone else, but for himself, in order to survive.
Yarimato definitely does not want to die without achieving anything, and so he will fight and kill just to stay alive.
Opening his eyes, Yarimato sees Aki already striking at him, and removing his sword from his torso, Yarimato blocks the blow by raising his blade above himself.
Aki: Why are you resisting?
Die like a weakling and don’t disgrace your life any further!
Aki kicked him into the stomach and stepped back.
Yarimato grabbed his sword with both hands again and looked Aki in the eyes, he said, “Next time, I won’t stop! And that’s why I’m giving you a chance to go back and stay alive.”
Aki laughs when he hears these words from Yarimato and, gripping his sword tighter, says: “You still don’t understand? You are weak, and the weak will die, while the strong will live! That’s why I have no reason to run away, because I am definitely not weak.”
Yarimato: Well, let’s find out who is weak here!
Yarimato declared menacingly.
Aki attacks Yarimato and their blades begin a fierce battle in which only one will return to its sheath, while the other will fall to the ground. You are reading on novelping dot com, the official source.
Aki delivers a series of powerful blows toward Yarimato, and after parrying them all, Yarimato strikes Aki’s sword from above.
Sticking his sword into the ground, Yarimato finds himself to the left of Aki and, swinging from above, Yarimato launches an attack that inflicts a large wound on his opponent’s entire left arm.
Aki, not expecting this, just laughs and says, “That doesn’t prove anything!”
Aki attacks Yarimato again and swings from his right shoulder, but Yarimato, holding his sword from below, sharply attacks from below and, deflecting his sword to the side, Yarimato lightning-fast delivers two attacks to Aki’s torso.
Yarimato strikes the first blow to Aki’s right side and the second to his left chest, leaving deep and long wounds on his body.
These blows were delivered so quickly that Aki did not even have time to understand what had happened before blood gushed from the wound, staining his beautiful snow-white clothes.
Yarimato did not stop there and, like a wave, continued to strike his opponent.
Aki, not understanding what was happening, began to defend himself, but Yarimato was like a torrent, and noticing this, Aki looked at the serious Yarimato with surprised eyes.
Aki: It can’t be!
He’s in the flow?!
I studied this with Suzu for eight years!
I started when he wasn’t even a student yet, and already at this age he’s stronger than me!
Aki was indignant and dissatisfied, and continuing to defend himself, Yarimato knocked his sword aside and opened himself up for another strike.
Aki didn’t understand what was happening to him.
Yarimato strikes Aki’s right leg cutting off half of it.
Yarimato pulls his sword back over his left shoulder and, taking a step to the side, delivers another blow horizontally across Aki’s torso.
Blood begins to gush from his new wounds, but Aki is not satisfied and, continuing to stand on his badly wounded leg, he shouts furiously at Yarimato and, clenching his left hand into a fist, strikes Yarimato in the face.
The blow breaks his nose and forehead in one strike.
The wounds begin to bleed and flood Yarimato’s right eye with blood.
Yarimato did not expect such a blow and, as if stunned by the impact, he does not notice Aki holding the sword in his right hand and striking Yarimato in the stomach with the hilt and his fist.