Chapter 14: Cowardice

"Ping-kun!" Kondo Yasuzhuang frowned, and pressed Yu Qiuping to the ground, "I am a samurai, and it is the duty of a samurai to protect the people of my family, and I can't escape it." ”

Only then did Yu Qiuping notice that Kondo Yasuzhuang's hands were also constantly trembling.

"I... I haven't killed anyone..."Kondo Yasuo's Adam's apple squirmed heavily and took a deep breath. It seems that the determination has been made.

"Wait for me here." Kondo Yasuso looked at Yu Qiuping's frightened expression, and got up to rush out.

Yu Qiuping grabbed the corner of his clothes, his mouth was no longer speechless, and he couldn't hear the foul language in the house. He just kept shaking and shaking his head.

The corners of Kondo's mouth barely squeezed out a wry smile, and he broke free of his hand, "Sooner or later, I will be killed by you." ”

With that, he leaped open, slammed open the door, and rushed inside.

Yu Qiuping didn't dare to get up to look, just leaned against the wall in a daze, and didn't dare to take a breath. The sound of his heart beating "thump" sounded so loudly that even his eardrums felt pain.

Faintly, he heard an exclamation from inside the room, followed by the sound of a sword sinking into his flesh. After a wail, Yu Qiuping seemed to hear a loud bang when the table was overturned. Then, he seemed to hear the clashing of metal, and the sound of two men chanting. He could tell that one of them was Kondo's. Then, there was another "bang" sound of a sharp weapon sinking into the body.

After that, all shouting suddenly stopped. All that remained was the panicked wails of the hostess, which kept echoing.

Yu Qiuping used up almost every auditory cell to capture the slightest sound.

He heard it

Kondo's gasp.

That's right!

It's his!

Yu Qiuping jumped up suddenly, opened the door, and looked inside.

Kondo gasped for breath and stared at the blood-stained katana in his hand in a somewhat dazed state. Beside him, there were two corpses of the Oda family Ashigaru. The hostess leaned against the wall in confusion, tears falling continuously.

It worked.

Yu Qiuping almost shouted these words.

The front door opened suddenly.

Before Kondo could turn around, a big man rushed in and slammed Kondo into the wall, scattering his katana around the back door. Behind that strong man is not the papaya pattern of the Oda family, but a family pattern that Yu Qiuping has never seen. In the middle of a circle, there are two geese arranged up and down. He seemed to have infinite strength, grabbed Kondo Yasuo by the neck, lifted him up, and pressed him against the wall. Kondo Yasuzhuang desperately tried to pull away the strong man's hand with both hands, but in vain, his legs repeatedly kicked and hit the strong man's armor, but the strong man was unmoved.

"Battle... Fight! Kondo's face was distorted, and blood was already flowing from the corners of his mouth, and he looked hard in the direction of Yu Qiuping, "Don't fight... will die. ”

Yu Qiuping couldn't stop trembling, and it seemed that even maintaining his breathing required extra effort. He blankly picked up the katana on the ground and held it in his hand, but he still couldn't stop shaking.

Suddenly, the hostess on the other side of the corner jumped up like crazy, grabbed a pair of scissors on the table, and rushed towards the strong man. The strong man frowned, let go of a hand holding Kondo Yasuso, and with the other hand, he just waved his hand and punched the hostess to the wall behind him, and his head hit the wall with a loud bang, and blood spurted out of his mouth at once, and he lay on the ground, motionless.

Yu Qiuping trembled even more.

If it was me who rushed up just now, I wouldn't have died.

He was only three meters away from the strong man.

But he couldn't move.

It was as if his body was no longer under his control, and he couldn't take a step out of his legs. All he could feel was the breathing in his mouth, the heartbeat of his eardrums, and the spasmodic shaking and biting cold of his whole body.

"Come on, get on it! If you don't go up, Kangzhuang will die! The voice in his heart kept roaring, "Get moving!" Get moving! Take a step forward! Swing the knife! ”

I'm going to die, I'm going to die.

Blood flowed down the blade to his hand, still warm with it.

"Please, get moving!" Yu Qiuping only felt that his mind was in chaos, and the tremor of his body was difficult to contain, but he couldn't move all of a sudden.

The knife in his hand, unable to grasp it, quietly fell to the ground.

Yu Qiuhei leaned against the door with some despair and looked at Kondo Yasuso.

His eyes were full of helplessness, surprise, and sadness.

Sooner or later, you will be pitted to death.

Kondo's struggles gradually became smaller, and more and more blood flowed from his mouth. Finally, with a leg lift that failed to exert his strength, he tried to pull away the hands of the strong man's hands, and hung down weakly. The strong man let go of his hand and let the familiar body that had accompanied Yu Qiuping for several months fall into a pool of blood.

Kondo Yasuso.

My friend.

He's dead?

I, I'm here. What am I doing?

Why did I watch my friend die.

Why, my body, can't move.

Why do people die?

Over here. Is it hell?

Yu Qiuping's whole body shook like an electric shock, just like when he was a child, he saw a huge wolf dog on the side of the road. It was inherited from the memories of our ancestors, and in ancient times, unarmed humans were afraid of beasts.

He staggered out and ran towards the backyard, towards the fence.

I'm a fast runner, and I've been a champion of athletic running competitions since I was a kid. He's in armor, he can't catch up with me, I can run away! I'm getting out of here! It's all a dream, it doesn't exist!

With a sudden pain in his back, the balance of his body was suddenly lost, and Yu Qiuping fell heavily on the edge of the fence and rolled around.

He tried to get up, but the pain in his lower back made it difficult for him to do so.

Heavy footsteps, in the background, gradually approaching. All at once, it was as if the bell of death was ringing in my heart.

He looked back blankly. I saw a broken rice bowl that fell not far from where he fell. The strong man, carrying the katana he had left behind, walked towards him step by step.

The brawny man raised his knife high and aimed it at Yu Qiuping's head.

Yu Qiuping only felt that his mind was blank, and he couldn't even say words begging for mercy. He closed his eyes. It's like closing your eyes before getting a needle when you were a kid. Close your eyes and it won't hurt.

He heard the screeching sound of a sharp object slicing through the air.

Finished.

However, the knife did not fall. Instead, there seemed to be the sound of feathered arrows hitting a stake.

It wasn't the sound of a knife, it was the sound of an arrow.

He opened his eyes suddenly, and the strong man in front of him had just dodged an arrow from his side.

"Who dares to kill my little brother!" I only heard a loud roar from the side, and another arrow was thrown at Bina Taehyung, and the strong man dodged again, throwing the knife at Asahina Taehyung with his backhand. Pulling the reins on Hinay Taehyung, he took the horse to the side, dodged the throwing knife, turned over and dismounted, and ran in front of Yu Qiuping in three steps and two steps, drawing the knife in his hand, and protecting him firmly behind him. Yu Qiuping suddenly felt a sense of security, his mind began to work again, and his consciousness gradually recovered.

"How's you kid, it's okay." Asahina Taiheng straightened out the array of feathers on his body and tried to say in a relaxed tone. "I saw that the Oda army was coming this way, and I rushed back with great difficulty, but I finally caught up."

"I... It's okay... But..."Yu Qiuping whimpered, "Kangzhuang he... By this man..."

"You sit here and don't move, watch me clean him up! Damn it! Asahi Taehyung's eyes widened in anger, and with a roar of rage, he swung his knife and slashed at the strong man in front of him. The strong man pulled out the katana at his waist, and he also met it head-on without showing weakness, and the two katanas collided in the air, sparks splashed between the lightning and flint. Neither Asahina nor the strong man flinched, each holding a knife in both hands, trying with all his might to press the knife on the other side, and the blades were sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right in the wrestling. Suddenly, the strong man let out a loud shout, quickly drew his katana, and sideways dodged the knife that Ashina Taehyung had slashed by inertia, and turned to look sideways at Ashina Taehyung. His center of gravity had already leaned forward too much to adjust, so he dodged the blow with a forward roll, jumped a few steps into the distance with the force of rolling up, and then turned around to take a position again.

"Good fellow, kind of interesting." He smiled at Hina, waved his sword and danced in the air, and rushed forward to meet him.

"Good body." The brawny man praised in an angry voice, his voice hoarse to the point of almost metallic friction.

The strong man let out a low roar, and stepped forward and slashed down with great force. Instead of retreating, he quickly turned his back in front of him, and caught the blow with a move of Su Qin's back sword. Just when the strong man was surprised why Asahina Taehyung was defending in such a strange posture, Asahina Taehyung then turned around with the force of the opposite katana, unloaded the power of the katana on the opposite side to the side, drew the knife and twisted it in a horizontal batch, and the strong man leaned back sharply, and the general dodged the blow.

"Good guy, this son's nirvana has been dodged by you." Snorted at Hinay Taehyung. He has been practicing this move since he was a child, that is, using an infrequently used back body defense, and killing the enemy with a rotating move. At the age of nineteen, most of the master samurai he courted before the battle were obtained in this way.

Watching Asahina Taehyung fight hard to protect himself in front of him, he remembered Kondo Yasujo fighting desperately. Yu Qiuping suddenly felt that his body was not shaking so much.

"Why, why everyone can fight, everyone can not be afraid of death." Yu Qiuping's heart roared and asked himself, "Are you just sitting here and can't help anything!" ”

"Why don't you dare fight?"

"Are you just afraid of death?"

"Don't you even have the courage to fight?"

"It's just a little carving insect skill, a little hairy boy who has not dried up," the strong man looked at Asahina Taehyung with a hint of anger on his face, "How dare you be so arrogant?" With that, the strong man jumped forward and stabbed Bina Taehyung in the waist and abdomen, and after drawing the knife towards Binai Taehyung, the strong man took advantage of his strength to turn around and slash sideways. Asahina Taehyung was also angry, and he didn't block, and he also leaned back to dodge the side slash, and at the same time slashed at the strong man. The strong man slammed the knife and staggered back a few times with a stagger, accidentally stepped on the broken rice bowl, and slipped directly backwards.