Chapter 594 Thirty layers of super-charged bullets!
I have killed many people,
Killed many monsters,
But,
I have never tried to cut "myself".
In front of Oda Mai.
It is a pure black space.
Underfoot is a black water lake without any waves.
Stepping on the lake, Oda Mai can neither sink nor cause too much water. Walking slowly, circles of black ripples appear behind Oda Mai.
As far as the eye can see, about a hundred meters away, a black-haired girl wearing a white dress quietly steps on the black water lake, becoming the only pure white in the black. It seems that the girl's existence is like a muddy lake.
The indestructible white lotus.
But the irony is that Oda Mai knows very well that that "white lotus" is the most evil being in the entire trial and should be killed.
Cut her to death and everything should be over.
You can go back.
"Cough cough cough."
Oda Mai opened her mouth and coughed up a large mouthful of blood.
It adds a touch of bright red to this pure black space.
But when she was coughing up blood, Oda Mai's mind flashed to that shelter in the snowy mountains, with the heavy snow in the sky, and the crystal clear flowers. The scene that flashed through her mind made Oda Mai's mouth corners slightly raised, as if
Laughing.
A dark-skinned figure stood opposite Oda Mai.
Face to face.
That figure was wearing a samurai uniform from Japan that was exactly the same as what Mai Oda remembered. The black color blended into the background. The facial features were almost indistinguishable from those of Mai Oda, except that the skin was a bit darker.
In the hands of another Oda Mai, she held two swords, one long and one short, in a posture familiar to Oda Mai, as tall and motionless as Mount Fuji.
Not long ago.
Oda Mai fought with the opponent.
She was covered in scars.
Oda Mai didn't touch even a single hair of the opponent's head.
She is obviously familiar with every move used by the opponent, but the effect exerted by the opponent is a level higher than that of Oda Mai. In addition, Oda Mai now only has one arm and cannot
Perform her best "two days first class".
yes.
That is obviously the most familiar and standard "two-day first-class" posture that she is most familiar with.
But why can't I kill her?
Unscientific.
Oda Mai felt doubtful.
The brutal knife marks were so deep that the bones were visible. Oda Mai's health was approaching the edge of danger.
But none of this was taken seriously by Oda Mai.
There was only one thought left in her mind.
An innocent thought, very much like childhood thoughts.
——Kick her to death, then chop to death the BOSS behind, and call it a day.
【You are too weak.】
【You are too weak.】
【Your knife can cut through everything.】
【Yeah?】
【Why do you keep cutting?】
【I am not at all confused.】
【I am moving forward bravely.】
【I give up my life and forget about death.】
【Nine mountains and eight seas, there is no such thing as self. 】
【But,】
【I keep cutting myself.】
Strange sounds have been whispering in Oda Mai's ears from the beginning.
Her only remaining right arm held a strange knife.
She was very familiar with this knife.
It was a knife made by her master when she started her apprenticeship.
——[Sakura Mai Ichimonji].
However, the master's knife was stained with something.
Not pure anymore.
Oda Mai originally wanted to change it to [Onimaru Kunitsuna], which is a family heirloom sword. But there was no way.
[Sakura Mai Ichimonji] The densely packed eyeballs on the handle of the knife and the outstretched pseudopods pierced deeply into Oda Mai’s skin and flesh, unable to be separated or cut. After arriving at this place, I don’t know
When did [Sakura Mai Ichimonji] and Oda Mai's hands "grow" together.
"It's so noisy."
Small murmurs seemed to come from the knife.
It seems to come from the depths of my mind.
"It's so noisy."
Oda Mai gritted her teeth and took a step forward.
Ripples rippled out.
Her body was lying very low, very low, very low.
It is said that the lower a swordsman lies down when making a move, the more powerful the move will be.
Her sword was very low and very fast.
But the opponent, "Black Oda Mai", is faster, higher and stronger than her.
"Two heavens' first-class secrets, all the ten directions will be destroyed."
The familiar secret was unleashed from the opponent's hands. It was also the first time for Oda Mai to taste her own ultimate move.
laugh!
The sharp cross-shaped sword light came from a distance as soon as Oda Mai started to move, and struck Oda Mai fiercely.
From the chest to the back.
Oda Mai's body seemed to be torn in half, and with a "PIA" sound, more than a dozen fountains of blood spurted out from the cross-shaped wound on her chest. If there was an audience for this weird duel at this time, then no matter who it was,
Everyone would subconsciously feel that such an exaggerated amount of bleeding would definitely mean death.
【Lost.】
Oda Mai had no expression on her face, and with a flash of sword light, she knelt limply on the ground, and these two words flashed before her eyes.
【die?】
After a while.
Another word flashed before her eyes, as well as a question mark.
...she didn't believe it.
She didn't believe she would die.
Never believed it.
But the revolving door has started to float.
She once heard that once you get out of the revolving door, death is not far away.
What to do.
The past, the present, the past, bit by bit, her life flashed quickly before her eyes.
"..."
The scene finally freezes in front of Mai Oda's eyes.
At this moment, Oda Mai felt like she was floating in front of a revolving door.
She chose one of the scenes and walked in.
It was a garden full of cherry blossom trees.
"Little Mai Oda", who is several years younger than the current Mai Oda, is practicing swordsmanship.
Yes, it seems that in her life, besides knives, she has knives.
An old man with gray hair and neatly dressed clothes squatted down with a smile on his face, eating grapes and spitting out grape skins.
"spit."
"spit."
"spit."
The sound of spitting out grape skins was connected with the sound of Ko Oda dancing with his knife through the air.
"Xiao Wu, your knife is wrong."
Xiao Oda Mai had no expression on her face and slowly typed a question mark.
She felt that what the master said was wrong.
The master smiled and took Mai Oda's sword.
"Now, Wu, do you know? There are two types of strongest swords in the world: swords with no distractions, and swords with distractions."
"What's the meaning."
Oda Mai has a flat mouth.
When she was a child, she subconsciously didn't believe whatever her master said.
Because in her impression, Master always likes to lie. She doesn’t know why.
Later Oda Mai knew why.
Because the master, in the year when the satellite fell, suddenly turned into a strange creature called an "apostle". From that day on, the master became fond of lying, telling lies constantly, and was extremely insidious.
"Look, master, let me show you."
The master raised the knife and swung it gently.
Swish.
The knife seemed to tremble in an ordinary way.
The falling cherry blossoms were cut in half.
Wow!
The next second, a cherry blossom tree not far away broke diagonally, and the fracture was as smooth as a mirror.
The master cut off the cherry blossom tree with a single stroke, his expression a bit proud: "Look, in the eyes of the master, there is no difference between cherry blossoms and cherry blossom trees. In the master's hand, in his eyes, and in his heart, there is only this knife. So, master
It's so easy to chop down cherry blossom trees. This is a knife that is focused on nothing."
"A knife with no distractions can cut through all things."
Xiao Oda Mai was not convinced, so she snatched the knife from her master's hand.
"Batou style·a flash."
Swish.
Another tree also suffered.
"I can chop, too."
"..."
The master finally snatched the knife back.
The tree Oda Mai cut down just now seemed to have been planted the year before last when the spring was warm and the flowers were blooming, which made her feel a little sad.
If I had known better, I would not have used the cherry blossom tree in the yard as an example. The cherry blossom tree is obviously innocent.
"Anyway,"
The master gives another example.
have no choice.
Or we can only use cherry blossom trees.
After all, it’s not good to give up halfway when you’ve already started.
"Look,"
The master raised his knife again and pointed towards another thriving cherry blossom tree.
Xiao Oda Mai was hesitant to speak, but in the end she didn't say anything more and wanted to see what the master wanted to do.
Swish.
The master's wrist flicked again.
At that time, Xiao Oda Mai felt that there seemed to be something different when the master made this cut.
But at that time, little Oda Mai didn't have time to notice the difference between the two swords.
Crash--
The tree fell again.
But this time, none of the cherry blossoms falling along the way were disturbed by the sword energy. Even the falling speed of five centimeters per second did not change. It felt like a master's knife, which was quietly touched.
The cherry blossoms finally cut down the tree.
"This is the knife with a distracted mind." The master said while closing his eyes: "For the first time, in the master's eyes, hands, and heart, there is no difference between cherry blossoms and cherry blossom trees. They are both existences that can be cut.
So the master is not distracted. But the second time, master... By the way, do you see any difference?"
When he was about to tell the answer, the master suddenly woke up. He was teaching people now, not pretending, so he randomly asked the test questions.
"Cherry blossoms."
Oda Mai said calmly.
"That's right." The master softly praised Oda Mai's high understanding, sheathed the long sword, and said with a slight smile: "The second time, the master had cherry blossoms in his heart, hands, and eyes. So in order to protect the cherry blossoms, the master
In order to become Sakura's sword, I cut a sword that is faster than a sword that is not focused on anything else. This is a sword that is focused on something else."
"..."
"A knife with a distracted mind can cut off what I want to cut, but it can also cut off what I don't want to cut."
"..."
Oda Mai looked at the broken cherry blossom tree and fell into a long silence.
"understand?"
"master."
"Um?"
"That tree."
"What's wrong?"
"I planted it with my own hands for my birthday last year."
"..."
…
That year.
Oda Mai didn't understand what a sword with "something else in mind" meant.
At that time, she only noticed that there was a slight difference when the master cut the two swords, but Oda Mai could not see the difference or see through it.
But now,
At this moment, her time seemed to freeze. In the flash of lightning in her life, Oda Mai "entered" that scene again. She stared at her master's face carefully and finally understood.
turn out to be,
When the master cut out the knife that said "Heart is distracted",
Laughing.
The master made this cut with a smile.
"I have other things on my mind."
Kuro Oda Mai walked towards him step by step.
Behind Kuro Mai Oda, Gayageumimi stared at Mai Oda, who was covered in blood and kneeling on the lake, with a sly smile on her lips.
Looking at Mai Kuro Oda walking towards her, she seemed to see her former self.
Regardless of everything, move forward without any distractions.
This is her "obsession".
Cut off the obsession of all things.
Because her obsession is too strong, "she" is so strong.
The only way to kill this faker is to transcend your own obsession.
But what can surpass one's own obsession?
"Then... just change your obsession."
A familiar smiling face appeared in my mind.
Oda Mai stood up again in a pool of blood.
After a while, she——
Smile slightly.
Da da da.
Oda Mai's light footsteps were like dancing on the lake, and she walked past her other self with a smile.