The surrounding air began to solidify as if it suddenly had an entity.
Ogata and Nanabahara stood facing each other in their respective postures.
A leaf suddenly fell from a branch above Ogata.
This leaf fell down boringly.
Slowly, slowly floated to Ogata's head.
Just when this leaf was about to fall on Ogata's hair...
Snap!
Ogata stepped back with his hind foot and rushed towards Nanabahara.
The strong wind brought by Ogata when he rushed forward blew the fallen leaf directly into the sky, turning it into a black spot, and then disappeared completely.
Ogata and Nanabahara started to move almost at the same time.
As the two people rushed toward each other, the knives in their hands turned into two rays of cold light and struck at each other.
clang!
“Drink ahhhhhhhh——!”*2
Ogata's and Nanabahara's swords collided heavily, and the two of them roared so loudly that they wanted to make their throats hoarse.
The two swords collided, separated, collided again, and separated again.
Even though he had just fought with hundreds of samurai, and his physical strength and strength were no longer at their peak, Ogata did not fall behind in the slightest. He received or dodged every attack of Nanabahara without giving up, and launched a fierce battle against Nanabahara.
The attack must be violently counterattacked.
Sakakihara Ittōryu·Bird Thorn!
Ogata's sword turned into a stream of light and poured towards Nanabahara's head.
With the blessing of the "selfless state", all of Ogata's martial arts skills were temporarily improved by one level.
The three skills of Bird Stab, Blade Counterattack, and Flow have been directly upgraded from "Advanced" to "Master Level".
In the past, Ogata also speculated that the conditions for advancing from advanced to master level were so stringent, so the power of master level martial arts should be far higher than that of advanced martial arts.
Now it seems that it is indeed the case.
Ogata didn't even know how to use words to describe the gap between the two.
It's a world of difference - this is the only suitable adjective Ogata can think of.
Qi Yuan tilted his head and barely managed to avoid the stream of light.
But the stream of light still grazed Qiyuan's left cheek, leaving a huge gash on Qiyuan's left cheek. The half of Qiyuan's face was immediately covered with blood.
Almost at the next moment, Qi Yuan launched a counterattack, lifting the sword in his hand from bottom to top.
clang!
Although "Flower" cannot be used because there is no wakizashi available, Ogata can still use the three moves of "Source's Breath", "Blade Counter", and "Step" in Muga Rado-ryu.
Ogata quickly retracted the thrust sword and blocked Nanabahara's raised sword with his "blade counterattack". Nanabahara retreated a few steps and distanced himself from Ogata.
There was such a big wound on his face, and blood covered half of his face, and dripped down his chin "gurgling", but Qiyuan seemed to be unaware of the pain, his face was expressionless, and he didn't even notice.
There was no intention of wiping the blood off his face.
"Ogata Yisei, your current state is indeed very strange."
"Logically speaking, after suffering so many injuries and having just fought with more than a hundred warriors, you shouldn't be able to have any strength anymore."
"But now you not only still have some energy left, but you are also very energetic."
"If you enter this strange state when you are in full physical condition, I may not be your opponent. Not only am I not your opponent? I may not even be able to defeat your three moves."
"It's really a pity."
Regarding what Nanabahara said just now? Ogata disagreed: "Even if my current physical condition is not good, I can still kill you!"
"Then go ahead and give it a try."
Having said that, Nanabahara once again clenched the katana in his right hand and took the middle stance.
It's just that... when he re-arranged his mid-section posture, Qin Yuan twisted his left wrist unnaturally.
Is it because Nanabahara's movements are very subtle? So if you don't look carefully, you won't be able to notice the small movement of Nanabahara's left wrist.
After resetting his stance, Nanahara did not confront Ogata for too long. He stepped directly with his back foot and turned into an arrow from the string, heading towards Ogata.
Ogata tightened his grip on the knife in his hand and stared at Nanabahara, preparing for a new round of attacks from Nanabahara.
At this moment - when Nanabahara was only 4 steps away from Ogata? Nanabahara suddenly let go of his left hand that was holding the lower end of the sword's handle.
He pointed his left palm at Ogata, and then unnaturally shook his left wrist.
A small black shadow immediately flew out from Nanabahara's sleeves and shot toward Ogata.
It flew straight towards Ogata's eyebrows.
After the tiny black shadow flew from his sleeve, a faint look of pride appeared on Qi Yuan's face, which was originally expressionless.
While maintaining a proud look on his face, Nanabahara tightened his grip on the knife in his hand. Preparing to slash Ogata directly after this small black shadow hit his eyebrows, he added another knife to Ogata, and the result was complete.
Ogata's life.
However, the proud look on his face didn't last long before it disappeared.
Because - when this small black shadow was about to hit Ogata's eyebrows, Ogata suddenly raised the sword in his hand and placed the blade between the small black shadow and his own eyebrows.
clang.
The sound of gold and iron sounded.
This small black shadow was bounced away by Ogata's suddenly raised blade.
Then? Ogata pushed the knife in his hand forward and slashed towards Nanabahara, who was only a few feet away from him.
This sudden change could only make Nanabaru give up his plan of "repairing the sword with a horizontal slash" and hurriedly changed his moves to block Ogata's slash. Then he quickly retreated a few steps and distanced himself from Ogata again.
.
"Knowing that you have a hidden weapon, do you think I will be successfully attacked by you?"
While Ogata spoke in a disdainful tone, he glanced at the "tiny black shadow" that was now lying quietly at his feet.
The true identity of this "tiny black shadow" is a sharp arrow no longer as long as an adult's tail finger.
"Tsk..." Qi Yuan made a "tsk" sound with a look of annoyance.
Then he turned his head slightly and glanced at the bodies of Ichiro and others in the distance.
"It seems...the corpses of those people exposed the fact that I possess hidden weapons..."
"I really didn't expect it," Ogata said softly, "Nanahara, who has the title of 'the best swordsman in Hirose Domain', is actually a good user of concealed weapons."
"Hidden weapons are such useful things. Why don't I use them?" Qi Yuan took it for granted, "In a life-and-death fight, victory is everything. As long as I can win in a death fight, I can use any tricks.
come out."
"You're pretty well-hidden. I've never heard of you possessing a hidden weapon."
"Because everyone who has seen me use this hidden weapon is dead!"
call--!
Another strong wind blew.
As soon as Nanabaru finished speaking, he kicked off his back foot again and swung his sword towards Ogata to kill him.