Night.

Nakato Endo dreams of that life-changing afternoon again.

As the knife plunged into the man's body, he heard his mother screaming and wailing.

The mother rushed over, hugged the dying man, and dragged him desperately to keep him away from Endo.

Endo Nakato didn't understand, didn't understand why his mother wanted to protect this man who beat and scolded her all day long, and often didn't return home at night.

But he understands one thing, and that is that he is strong, strong enough to take the lives of others at will.

The last teachings left by the master before his death echoed in the ears of Nakato Endo: "A swordsman needs to step over the corpses of his enemies in order to grow." ”

Is the man who fell in front of him an enemy? Yes, apparently, every day when this man comes back, he takes the anger he received in the company on his mother, beating and scolding "I saved your stumbling and your wild boy".

Since Endo Nakato can remember, this man has not changed his scolding words, it will always be this set, and Endo Nakato's ears are about to hear the cocoon.

In the past, Endo Nakato practiced swords at the master's place, and he came back very late, and most of the time when he came home, the man had already slept.

But since the death of the master, Endo Nakato was driven out by the uncle who inherited the dojo.

"Your sword has an evil spirit, I can't leave you in our dojo," Uncle Shi, who had become the chief teacher of the dojo, looked at Endo Nakato coldly, "I still have to take back the rattan pattern that my brother gave you, and from now on, you are not allowed to have rattan patterns in your dai pattern." ”

After the senior uncle finished speaking, the senior brother and the second senior brother rushed up and held down the Endo Nakato, and then the third senior sister, who had always been gentle, took the scissors and cut off a piece of the coat of arms on the Endo Nakato - that was the part of the rattan pattern that the master gave him.

Endo Chuto cried heartbreakingly at the time, but now that he thinks about it, he doesn't feel distressed at all.

He even discarded the rest of the Dai Crest that he once regarded as a treasure.

The current Endo Nakato is a homeless wild dog.

Especially after stabbing the knife into the man's heart, he lost even the last place where he could land.

Endo stopped looking at the woman who had become a stranger because of hysteria, and walked out with a bloody knife.

At the time, he lived on the fourth floor of a six-story apartment building, and the entire floor was populated by office workers.

Endo opened the door, entered the hallway, and walked forward step by step.

To his left was a closed door.

To his right is the night sky of Tokyo, which is illuminated by neon lights.

Endo Nakato walked towards the stairwell step by step, he didn't know where he was going, he only remembered the master's last words.

A swordsman must step on the corpse of an enemy in order to grow.

He needs enemies, he needs corpses.

In order to become an invincible swordsman.

As for why he became an invincible swordsman, it was of course because he now had nothing but this.

He walked forward step by step, holding the bloody knife in his hand.

Suddenly, the landlord ran up the stairs with a baseball bat in his hand.

The first thing he did when he went upstairs was shouted, "What's going on? Who's shouting? Don't know what time it is? ”

Then the landlord saw Endo Chuto with a sharp blade in his hand.

"Endo? What happened to you? Put the knife down! Fast! ”

The uncle yelled at Endo.

- It's the enemy!

Endo rushed forward, and the knife was quick and accurate.

But because he didn't take into account that the knife in his hand was a kitchen knife at home, it was too short, so the landlord didn't burp immediately, but covered his wound and fled while making a pig-killing cry, leaving a bright red floor.

Endo Nakato did not pursue.

This person is too vegetable, and he doesn't even have the qualifications to be an enemy.

Endo continued to move on, going downstairs and walking along the road in front of the apartment.

All those who saw him on the road fled in panic, and none of them were worth fighting.

After walking a few blocks, Endo saw the police blockade.

The flashing police lights illuminated Endo's face, and the loudspeaker let out a piercing voice of persuasion: "You have been surrounded!" Lay down your arms now! Stop resisting! ”

Nakato Endo stopped.

Even at night, he could clearly see the weapons in the hands of the police.

Behind the line of police cars, an armored bus had just stopped, and heavily armed members of the Tokyo Special Task Force got out of the car.

- This is undoubtedly the enemy.

Endo clenched the knife in his hand.

If you hack everyone present to death, you will definitely step into a new realm as a swordsman.

Maybe you can touch the hem of Master's cloak a little.

Just as Endo was about to burn himself one last time, the man appeared.

The man was wearing the kind of trench coat that the criminal police officers liked most in the criminal police drama, and walked out of the police cordon with an umbrella, until he came to Endo Chuto.

The headlights of the police car and the flashing lights of the police car shone from behind him, outlining his figure, but the lights were too dazzling, and the man's face was in relative darkness.

Only the faint red glow of the smoke from the man's mouth illuminated the stubble around his mouth.

It was only then that Endo Nakato realized that it was raining.

"Isn't this just a kid, thirteen? Or fourteen? To use a gun to deal with such a child, the big man above is too nervous. The man's voice came through the rain curtain.

With that, he threw the cigarette on the ground, then switched the umbrella in his left hand to his right hand and put it away.

He folded the umbrella into a stick and tied it to him as he continued: "I don't know what happened to you, but I can't let you walk down the street like this, it's my job.

"The pork chop rice in our Metropolitan Police Department is delicious, and many children like it, do you want one?"

Endo Nakato rushed directly to the criminal police, this time he considered the length of the knife, and he would definitely be able to kill him with one blow......

The next moment, Endo's hand holding the knife was hit by an umbrella, and the power was so great that he directly knocked his knife out of his hand-

Endo didn't even see how the detective was going to make a move, his vision was crowded with the hem of a flying trench coat.

Between the lightning and flint, the knife fell to the ground, splashing rain and falling on the leather shoes of the criminal policeman.

Endo landed on the ground a few steps away.

He tried to crawl towards his knife, and then the sound of dense footsteps immediately surrounded him, and a pair of large hands pressed Endo's face to the ground from behind, his cheeks pressed against the rain-soaked ground.

"Let go of me!" Endo shouted instinctively.

However, this only had the opposite effect, and the hand pressing his head harder, his cheeks pressed tighter against the ground, and his mouth was deformed and cracked a small slit, mixed with muddy rain poured into his mouth.

At this time, the voice of the man in the trench coat penetrated into his ears: "Don't be so heavy-handed, it's just a child, although you exercise well, it's just a child." ”

No, Endo thought to himself, I am the strongest disciple under the Master's seat, and I should have won!

I didn't win because—

Endo's mind slowed down everything that had just happened in that moment.

In terms of pure skills, it should be that his side is better, and the criminal police are just much faster than Endo expected.

This shouldn't be - because in martial arts, the young will always have an advantage over the old, how can a thirteen-year-old child lose to a criminal policeman who looks like he is fifty years old in sheer speed?

At this moment, Endo Nakato understood, this is what the master said about the integration of heart and technology. This criminal policeman, like the master, has mastered this mysterious and mysterious martial arts.

It's the reason why Master didn't give him the waiver!

"I won't give you permission until you comprehend the integration of mind and technique, Endo! So I have to work hard. "Master once said that!

Endo Nakato glared at the detective, he wanted to get the secret of the integration of heart and technology!

As long as you can defeat this criminal policeman in the future, you will definitely be able to understand-

So, Endo remembered what the police called him.

- Detective Shiratori.

Later, Endo managed to get his full name:

Akira Shiratori

This is the name of the detective who gave the Endo Nakato fiasco that night.

It is also the name of the criminal policeman that Endo Nakato wants to defeat.

At this point, Endo suddenly woke up from his dream.

He sat up and silently recited the name.

In the national competition, he is returning to Tokyo.

Then he wants to kill a guy named Kiryu and Ma - maybe this guy also understands what it means to be a combination of heart and mind, and he wants to torture the secret from the corpses of Kiryu and Ma, and learn the mystery that Master has never told.

Then, he was going to stand in front of the detective and fight again.

Then, he gets stronger.

The current Endo Nakato has nothing but the obsession of getting stronger.

But with this obsession, it is enough, he has nothing else to ask for.