Chapter Twenty-Nine
The remaining three of the Ten Precepts were walking towards Qujiang City, and on a hill, they could already see the appearance of Qujiang City. The leader, who covered his face with a cloak, suddenly looked behind him, and his companions behind him were puzzled and asked, "What's wrong?"
The leader was silent, confirming one thing in his mind. Finally, he confirmed that it was correct, and let out a sigh: "Falsely, he is dead." ”
Between the two castles of Qujiang and Edo, Yanagi threw the demon sword at Qujiang Castle and fought alone against Killing and Falsehood. He discovers that there is a time loophole in the spell that uses language to control the opponent's nerves, and uses this loophole to find an opportunity to attack. However, Kill was still alive after his hands were cut off, and while Yanagi drew his knife and rushed towards Yuyan, he also stabbed the knife in his hand into Yanagi's stomach.
In the clearing, a warm wind blew, and Yanagi Otome lay on the ground unconscious. Not far from her, the different postures of Yagyu Juro, Killing, and Lie have already indicated the final outcome of this battle.
If you want to speak, but you can't get the voice out of your throat, it's a false statement. He seemed to speak, but it was like water in his throat, and finally the water overflowed from his mouth. It wasn't water, it was that his throat had been cut by Yanagi, and blood was flowing backwards down his trachea. He blocked the wound on his neck with his hand, but the trachea was cut, and it was useless to stop the bleeding. He looked at Yagyu Juro with a fierce look, and he couldn't get the words out of his mouth with a sentence of "I want you to die!" Physically exhausted, his face was red, and he first knelt on the ground, trying to fight with death, but he was unable to return to heaven after all. He muttered, his forehead hit the ground, and he collapsed in a pool of blood.
On the other side, Yanagi staggered back. He had a puncture in his stomach and was bleeding profusely. Throw away the scabbard of your left hand and cover the wound, but it won't last long. Killing looked at his red-dyed blade, looked down at the lying words that fell at his feet, and said to the corpse of the false words: "I've always wanted to tell you, it's really useless to just talk and not do it. Kill shook off the blood from the blade, leaving a trail of blood on the ground, and then walked slowly towards Yanagi.
"Is it going to be over?" "Yanagi knew he couldn't go back to the sky, and plunged his knife into the ground to support his body. Before he died, he wished he could do something more. He looked back at his sister who had fallen unconscious on the ground, and at his father, Yanagi Jubei, who was far away outside Edo Castle and whose fate was uncertain, he sighed and slowly removed his left hand that was covering the wound, waiting there for the killing to come to him.
"You are a good samurai, Yagyu Juro. My father once fought against Yagyu Jubei and was defeated by his sword. So my father transformed me into this, and from the moment I was born, he put metal into my body that could fuse with my body. From the time I was born, I lived with pain and resentment imposed on me by others. It's a pity that I haven't had a chance to fight against Yagyu Shibei since I became a precept, but I can tell from your realm that you have already surpassed him. Have you ever thought the same way I did, what are you living for?"
Liu Sheng was surprised, but he didn't expect that Kill didn't immediately ask for his life in front of him, but talked to him about the past.
"Yes, that's why I left Laiguo and went to the mainland to explore, just to know the highest level of swordsmanship. ”
"Hehe, is the purpose of your life to pursue a faster sword? It seems like an ordinary ideal, but to me it is such a luxury. Since I became an adult, I have killed my father and sat in the position of the Ten Commandments, but I don't know why I lived. I don't understand why my father put all his resentment on me for his own selfish desires, and I have never experienced what a real family should be like since I was a child. Because I have blades all over my body, no one can touch me casually, and I have no friends. Gradually, I didn't want to kill Yanagi Shibei anymore, anyway, my father was dead, and I didn't need to give up my life for a dead person. Later, the daimyo also died, and there was no need for our Ten Precepts to exist. Until the evil god told the world that he could absorb everyone's resentment and desires and create a carefree world, and there would be no more people like me. I never thought that that the ideal world could come until there was a real God, and that delusion could come true. If you come here to stop the evil gods, you are trying to stop the bright future of hundreds of thousands of people in Laiguo, and I must kill you. I also respect you, you have shocked me with your sword and ideals, do you have any last words?"
Kill put the knife on Liu Sheng's neck, listening to Kill tell his story, Liu Sheng had a relaxed expression on his face after hearing this: "You are wrong, the future can only be achieved by relying on people's continuous hard work, what the Protoss has created is just an illusory world, and what you said will not come in the future." It's useless to say more, I only have one request. My sister didn't actually die, her body was occupied by the demon sword, and her soul was collected by Shinaki Abe into the soul gathering bag. I hope you don't hurt her body after I die, that's my only last wish. ”
Kill looked at Yanagi Otome, and then he understood why the demonic energy on that woman's body had disappeared, and it seemed that the youkai had broken away from the body and been transferred by Yanagi. However, there are still precepts ahead, and no one will appear on this path after killing Yanagi. The evil gods took away their troubles and pains, and many of these people who were controlled by the evil gods were actually like the Ten Commandments, willingly going to the trouble for the evil gods, believing that they would never be able to build a better world by their own abilities, and only the evil gods would give people the final chapter.
He raised his arm, the blade held high above his head, glowing metallicly in the sunlight. Liu Sheng looked up at the blade on Kill's arm, and recalled the scene when he duel with Yan Qinghou and Zhao Yige in the past.
"When I thought that I hadn't defeated those two people yet, and I hadn't reached the strongest realm of swordsmanship, I was really unwilling to die like this. Yanagi closed his eyes, ready for death. He closed his eyes, and could see the faint glow of the sun in his dark hours, and then the light dimmed again, and he thought to himself, it must be that the killing knife is about to fall. But he waited for a while, and suddenly he heard the sound of a fight, and something was wrong. He opened his eyes and found that two youkai were entangled with killing, and the figures of those two youkai were so familiar. When the two monsters could see their faces, Yanagi realized that these two monsters were the Shikijin released by Shinaki Abe in front of the cave where the demon sword was buried: a boy and a girl.
"Why are you here?" asked Yanagi.
The boy said while fighting, "Oh, Abe-sama asked us to come out and say that the king of the demon clan is not in Kyushu but in Fuchun Mountain. ”
As soon as the boy said this, Liu Sheng was shocked: The demon king is in Kyoto! So isn't the demon sword getting farther and farther away from Kyoto?
Yanagi was excited, and the wound bled more, because of the loss of blood, Yanagi finally collapsed to the ground. The boy shouted to the virgin, "Sister, don't let that man die. Also, Abe-sama gave you the soul of that woman, so hurry up and return her soul. ”
The virgin broke away from the battle with the killing, came to Yanagi's side, looked at his wound and said, "Oh, the wound is very deep, and the intestines are all pierced. I'll use my feathers to stop the bleeding first, and then I'll let Firefly or Zashiki Boy heal you. With that, the virgin took off her feather and put it on Yanagi's wound, stopping the bleeding. Later, the virgin came to Yagyu Otome's side and opened the soul gathering bag, allowing Yagyu Otome's soul to return to her body.
Otome woke up, as if she had a long dream, but she didn't remember what happened in the dream, and the memory was still stuck in the room where she entered the demon knife that day, and gave her body to the demon knife, and after she stood up, she saw Yagyu Juro who fell not far away at first sight, and immediately ran to his side. Yanagi Otome hadn't spoken yet, and Yanagi Juro preempted her and said: "Leave me alone, the demon knife was thrown in the direction of Kyushu by me, and with my skills, it shouldn't have been thrown to Edo, you hurry up, take the demon knife to Fuchun Mountain in Kyoto, and hand it over to Yan Toru, the king of the demon clan." Only he can defeat the evil god with the demon sword. ”
Before Otome could joke about what was happening, Seisi knocked the boy away in the middle of a fight with the boy, and the boy rushed to help. Otome thought to herself that even if she left, Juro would most likely be killed. She had the impression that the man with blades all over her body had said that he had defeated the killing of the last Ten Commandments. After losing and being removed from the castle tower, he had a son with a woman, and he raised his son to be a devil with blades all over his body, and then used his life to help his son return to the ten commandments of the castle tower. The man who had no mercy and only killed could not let him get near and continue to hurt his brother. Otome pulled out her sword and instead of rushing to Kyushu as Yagyu Juro had ordered, she was going to fight a decisive battle.
Otome smiled and said to Yagyu Juro, "As an older sister, of course you have to protect your younger brother." You are my only brother, I will protect Laiguo, and I will also protect my brother!" After speaking, he drew his sword and rushed to kill.
Outside Edo Castle, in the woods, trees are full of bullet holes left by bullets. Yagyu Jubei had been hiding from the firecrackers in front of him, and almost all the trees around him had been destroyed. He leaned against a rock, and the sound of gunfire could be heard from the rock behind him. Yagyu Jubei thought that this rock could slightly resist the opponent's attack, but after the second shot rang out, the second bullet passed through the path of the first bullet, pierced the rock, and hit Jubei's calf. The Ten Guards lost their center of gravity and fell to the ground. Just when he thought his life was near, it rained in the sky!
The rain was absolutely unusual, as it was only a few kilometers around Jubei, and the sky was still clear in Edo Castle and beyond. The observer hiding in the shadows also sensed that something was wrong. He immediately put away the firebolt, which would not be able to ignite if it was soaked in water. He put the fire hammer into his cloak, and sensed demonic energy in the rain.
A woman with a paper fan in her hand, drenched all over, walked towards Yagyu Shibei.
Jubei had never seen that woman before, her hand clenched to the hilt of her sword, ready for battle at any moment. As she got closer, the woman said, "Don't be nervous, Lord Abe asked us to help." Yagyu Jubei had an expression of disbelief on his face, unable to believe that Abe Shinaki was a man with so many followers of youkai. At this moment, a large bird flew in the gloomy sky, and that bird was unusual, and it was obvious that it was also a youkai.
"That's Gu Huoniao, my friend. My name is Rain Girl, and my rain can slow you down, so you'd better go under my umbrella. And also...... Don't touch my body. ”
On the top of the mountain in the distance, Guan Mu is wearing a cloak and preparing to find a cave to hide. He felt that the faint demonic energy in the rain was dulling his body, and if he continued to stay in the rain, he would probably drown in the rain. At this moment a bird flew in the air and seemed to be coming towards him. After the rain girl's rain dripped on the body of the watchman, the rain also knew the location of the bird and told him his location. Gu Yu flew straight to the place where the rain girl found it.
The eyes that were not in the right situation immediately ran under a tree. At this time, the rain is not too heavy, and the leaves can barely shelter the rain. He took out a firearm from under the tree, lit the fuse, and pointed the muzzle of the gun at the bird. With the sound of a gunshot, Yanagi Shibei, who was hiding under the umbrella of the rain girl in the distance, was startled, and he didn't know what the result of this shot was. The rain girl, who was holding an umbrella beside him and her face was covered with rain, said, "Don't be nervous, this shot didn't hit." ”
The final scene returns to the hill in front of Qujiang City, where the three Ten Precepts still stand.
The man behind him said to the chief, "Shall we not go into the city?"
"No, someone will come out. It seems that the Koga ninja did not have any effect on the group of people from the open sea. Let me draw a lot for today's fortune. The leader took out a holder in his bosom and shook it in his hand. After shaking for a while, a stick falls out of the holder. The leader picked up the sticks on the ground and glanced at the writings on them, as if the result was as he expected.
The person behind didn't know what the result of this lottery was, so they asked him what it was. The chief did not speak, but showed them the lot. The two people in the back took the sign in his hand, and there were two words written on it, "big murderer".