Kamiizumi Takane squinted his eyes in contentment, intoxicated by his current fame and people's cheers.
As an upright, young and vigorous human youth, those reverent gazes made him feel like drinking fine wine.
For the vast majority of human beings, the sense of social recognition is something that occupies a strong enough color in the course of life.
It is difficult to define so simply the significance of this kind of thing to human civilization and individual life.
But it is obvious that it has played an important role in the history of mankind.
For Kamiizumi Takane, the current life is exactly what he desires:
The girls looked at him with admiration, and every time he appeared in public, he would cause bursts of screams.
Perhaps for those inheritors of traditional swordsmanship, swordsmanship is something serious and sacred.
But in Kamiizumi Takane's view, those are all old-fashioned ideas that cannot keep up with the trend of the times.
The sword should be happy and light, and what it brings to the wielder should be something more relaxed.
These are the things that the sword-holding hands dripping with sweat should be able to bring.
And those decadent concepts, like the old sword master defeated by his sword, are existences that should gradually fade away from the stage of the times.
This may be related to the era in which he grew up. In this era that he believed joy and suffering coexisted, what he presented was a kind of microcosm of the youth in this era.
Ueizumi Takane believes that what he has gained now is deserved, and he has never looked down upon his sword:
Even after gaining extraordinary strength in swordsmanship through Zongwang, he never gave up practicing hard.
In those lonely and lonely days, only the sweet singing in the headphones can bring the slightest happiness.
For Kamiizumi Takane, practicing swordsmanship is of course painful, when it means a shortcut to happiness.
According to Kamiizumi Takane, pain and joy always require a certain balance.
He tried to rewrite the world's definition of swords in a distorted and unconventional way.
Maybe this is indeed arrogant enough, but if not, why did the sword choose him?
Kamiizumi Takane raised his head high and looked at the sun outside:
It would be sad if young life should not be so wanton...
Kamiizumi Takane waved his sword in the light, arrogance and light and shadow changing on his face...
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"You haven't given up yet?"
Just when Zesla-Ensna was sitting quietly on the beach watching the tide, she heard the nightmarish voice.
That voice sounded with some kind of deep magnetism, but Zesla-Ensna knew very well how profound the evil hidden behind it was...
He, or it, is called "Nothing", which is the legendary evil thing Gula Bidanqi and others call it.
In fact, Zesla Ensna didn't know what the legendary evil thing they were talking about was.
But she knew that they still underestimated her.
Only she understands his evil best...
So she has been refusing Gula Bidanqi's help because she doesn't want to see them return to this dangerous place.
"I know you hate me, but do you want to hear my story?"
Wu, who emerged from the black mist, walked next to Zesla Ensna and said calmly.
He looks like an ordinary human being, but his face is full of various distorted expressions.
It seemed that every piece of skin on his face could be condensed into an evil emotion.
He is the deepest evil, the culmination of all human evil thoughts in this world.
Without waiting for Zesla Ensna's answer, Wu continued:
"A long time ago, I was also a human being."
"I was mediocre at that time. Human society has not changed fundamentally from what it is now. The strong dominate the weak - with force or order."
"I am the dominated, or in human terms, enslaved."
"But there are differences in slavery. I was considered a more stable type of slavery at that time - because I was a slave of the slave master."
"I can no longer remember those repetitive and meaningless cultivation activities. From now on, it seems that it is an extremely inefficient manufacturing process."
"But for the slave owner, it doesn't make any difference. He just needs to extract enough money from the slaves."
"Later I understood the concept of devil, and I thought that devils probably have the cheeks of a slave owner."
"Then, a fool ruined it all..."
Everyone looked at Zesla Ensna. He looked at the blue sea, and the wailing and distorted expression on his face seemed to become more intense!
"I remember that idiot was the son of a certain New City businessman. His stupidity and arrogance are what I still remember."
"Anyway, he ruined everything for me, and then I killed him..."
"I have forgotten how I killed him. Maybe I was already dead at that moment."
"Even the pain I felt at that time, I can't remember clearly now..."
"Anyway, I smashed his head open, and the fact made me very confused: there was no kobold excrement in it, but it was just like us."
"Of course I've seen what's inside our skulls: it's not always safe in the mines."
Wu stretched out his hand. His hand seemed no different from that of an ordinary human being.
But if you look carefully, there are no lines on it, and it is as smooth as an illusion.
"I'm surprised that such a stupid life actually has the same structure as us."
"In fact, after I killed him, I suddenly knew a lot of things, as if my brain had been changed..."
"Maybe I'm not who I am anymore, so I gave up my old name and gave myself a new name: 'Nothing'."
Wu turned his head and looked at Zesla Ensna, his eyes were full of darkness condensed by evil:
"Human beings are born with stupidity and weakness, and only forced control can make them orderly."
"You still don't understand..."
Wu looked at Zesla Ensna, but Zesla Ensna knew that he was not talking to her.
"Are you talking about her?"
"She won't respond to you..."
Zesla-Ensna looked at Wu and said, there was no fear in her eyes, even if death was right in front of her.
"No, you are wrong. If she did not respond, you would not be born..."
The darkness in Wu's eyes shrank, he looked at Zesla Ensna and said.
"I feel the coming destruction, and it doesn't matter: anything alive will be destroyed, but not thoughts."
Wu looked at Zesla Ensna, and some invisible power in his body began to pour into Zesla Ensna:
"Go and feel my pain, and understand the nature of darkness..."
And at this moment, a golden light fell from the sky!
It fell into the sea and stirred up huge waves!
"Ensna!"
An angry female voice came out from the huge waves, and then a golden light penetrated Wu's chest!
But his injuries recovered in an instant. He looked at Gula Bidanqi who was glowing with golden light in the huge waves and said: