Chapter 69: My Lord, Times Have Changed
The Headless Horseman Durahan, who is said to be the messenger of Krurenos, the god of forests and fertility in Celtic mythology, is even believed to be his incarnation.
The god of agriculture has both the godhead of Hades and resurrection, and there are examples of this in the mythology of many civilizations - for example, the god of fertility, Osiris, the god of plants and agriculture in ancient Egypt, became the master of the underworld after death and the eternal king who guides the undead.
Krullenos was of a similar nature, presiding over hunting and agriculture as well as the ritual of death and bloodshed.
Therefore, Li Wu hoped to give this blood-related duel the meaning of "human sacrifice" by arranging the venue, and seduce the wandering Durrahan nearby.
Of course, he didn't really want to sacrifice the Teraya siblings, after all, his purpose was to defeat or capture the Headless Horseman.
After Li Wu announced the start of the duel and retreated to a corner of the factory with Airisa.
This brawl over inheritance rights began.
The short knife and the short knife intertwined with a sharp cold light, bursting out with a sonorous sound. Almost at the same time, the shuriken was thrown at the same time, and before the master could fight, it swirled and collided with golden sparks, and before it could hit the ground, it was blown aside by the strong wind set off by the ninja.
The evenly matched scene lasted only a moment, and Rika Teraya deftly turned her blade to unleash a vertical cut from Teraya Mahiro, and with the help of that force, she struck at her brother's knee.
Teraya stepped back in time to avoid the kick, but his stance was disrupted, and his opponent retracted his leg and immediately unleashed a lightning-fast left hand towards the wide open goal.
The battle between the ninjas of Takeshi couldn't help but compare with the tengu he had encountered before, and despite the different races, they were both of the type that preferred to use martial arts against the enemy.
However, Tengu is more like an orthodox martial artist, and his magical swordsmanship still impresses him to this day, while Rika Teraya is not actually limited to the short sword in her hand, but has a sneaky and varied fighting style.
He relied on the ability of [Pure Eye] to taste and absorb the skills displayed by the two.
The ferocious punch struck Teraya's chest without any fancy, as if the floating scene that only existed in a fighting game was brought to life, and the short ninja was blasted up by a force of force, and his normally expressionless face was distorted.
"Got you!"
As if to vent his pain, he shouted angrily, and without adjusting his posture, he swung his knife directly at Rika Teraya's left hand, which she had time to retract.
The female ninja's clenched fist flipped and opened, revealing the shuriken between her fingers, and her wrist shook slightly, and it ricocheted out like a poisonous snake at close range.
The black flying object slammed into the side of the blade, changing its trajectory, and seizing the moment, Rika Teraya cut into the sword circumference of Teraya Mahiro, and the short knife held in his right hand slammed the hilt of the blade into his wrist from the bottom up.
As a result, a short knife flew out with a spinning and throwing, which seemed to indicate the difference between victory and defeat.
"You've already lost, brother."
Rika Teraya turned a beautiful sword flower, her long ponytail fluttering slightly, she took a deep breath and made a broken heart, pointing the tip of the blade at Teraya Mahiro, who had lost his weapon.
"Is that how they split the winner?"
Erisha asked softly in Li Wu's ear.
"I don't think so." Li Wu shook his head, "If the poker face is about to lose, it's time to enter the hard mouth, he was like this last time, but now he hasn't started to be hard-mouthed, so he should still have to fight." ”
"Li Wu gave others a strange nickname......"
And if they want to divide the winner in this way, it will not achieve the purpose of attracting the Headless Horseman at all.
Teraya Mahiro tugged at the corners of his mouth, revealing a smile that looked a little weird because of his little practice: "I remember my sister, you told me when you were a child that a ninja should fight in every way and use all the power that can be obtained in order to win, otherwise he is not worthy of being a child of the Teraya family?" ”
Hearing this, Arisa and Rika Teraya both changed their faces.
The former was deep in thought, but the latter's reaction was quite strange, more like a red face as if someone had exposed his black history than when his brother accused him of how harsh he was before, and the whole person trembled.
"This attitude, maybe that's the truth."
Li Wu muttered to himself with a strange face.
Teraya continued, "I have now deeply understood the meaning of this sentence, so I won't admit defeat easily! ”
As if by magic, there was suddenly an extra thing in his hand that shimmered with a cold and hard light.
Needless to say, it was a pistol.
Without hesitation, he aimed at his own sister's head and pulled the trigger.
The sound of gunfire echoed in the empty factory building, but the two people watching the battle did not see the gunfire.
Because the white smoke suddenly spread around the sphere that fell at the foot of the Rika Teraya, hiding the two people in the center of the field in the fog.
"It's yours, sister. Is this what you said when you were a kid about ninja and fog concealment? ”
Only vague figures could be seen, holding guns in both hands, guarding the surroundings.
"Not really! Forget what I said back then! This is a ninjutsu smoke bomb. ”
"Is this how the battle between ninjas is?"
Erisha couldn't help but ask.
"It's really a ninja style, compared to swords and slashes." Li Wu said approvingly, "But how did Senior Sister Teraya attack in the smoke? ”
A figure struck the gun-wielding figure from behind, and Teraya seemed to feel something, and suddenly flashed the light of the sword.
"Ninjutsu Protective Mask! Ninjutsu Infrared Camera! ”
Hearing the shouts of Pear Blossom in the terraya, Li Wu looked up at the camera he had glimpsed from the ceiling when he had installed the jack-o'-lantern earlier.
He thought it was a device left by the previous factory owner and had not been removed, but it turned out that she had installed it in advance?
How competitive are these siblings?
In the smoke, there was a continuous sound of limb collisions and gunshots, and Teraya Shinhiro could be heard roaring, "I will defeat you and inherit the name of the Teraya family!" ”
"I don't care about that kind of thing!"
As the battle turned into chaos, the rudimentary ceremonial arena constructed of blood-drenched fake human heads seemed to have been injected with something, and a sense of fullness appeared in the factory, making it feel as if it was in the stomach of a behemoth.
One of the figures was thrown out by the other and fell to the ground.
Rika Teraya stepped out of the slowly fading smoke, raised the gun she had won, and aimed at Teraya Mahiro: "This time the victory and defeat have really been decided." ”
Teraya's clenched his fists quite unwillingly, slammed the concrete floor a few times, and finally squeezed out the words: "I lost." ”
At the moment when the "sacrifices" of this "sacrificial ceremony" decided the winner.
Blood, savagery, the smell that can be described in all such words, came to this place.
The doors of the factory, which had been closed, burst open.