Yobidasa Reta Satsuriku-sha Chapter 34 (1/2)
Highway Star
Stoic stood Hifui
The byroads were blocked off, but he stood on the roup could easily surround a man
Yet Hifumi stood in the middle of it
He expressed no caution; his eyes simply reflected the scene before him
And he felt happiness
Behold how many enemies have come! How many he could slay! This scene, this happiness, surely he could never have felt it were he still in japan
As the smile rose on his face, a katana rose in his hands; and with speed of lightning striking froentleness of a leaf carried by the wind, the katana ung down
「・・・Huh?」
The enthusiastic vanguard blinked, unsure of what had happened, but by the tiain he had already drowned in blood For his face had split open
Again and again the sound of wind being cut was followed by shrieks
A step into his range, and the katana tip would reap your life
Cut the throat
Pierce the eye
Slice open an artery where the armor eak
Not once did the katana strike bone or armor
Aswork, as beautifully as if an artist, he repeatedly carved their bodies frole
「Surround him! Encircle and slay him!」
Their captain barked out orders, and as if snapping out of a trance, the soldiers attacked Hifumi from both sides and the rear
And yet no one ed to wound him
A sword only cut air around him; a mace merely struck earth
「How can he evade it?!」
「Pierce the beast, damn it!」
「I don’t want to die…!」
「T-the blood is not stopping…」
Hifu to be killed, others already a corpse, and yet others soon to become a corpse
The road was dyed red: and to a friend it may even have looked beautiful
「Fire the arrows」
「Huh?」
「I’ you to shoot that monster!」
The captain angrily responded to his adjutant, who could not comprehend such a bizarre order
「But, ill hit our own if we fire now」
「I don’t care If we don’t bring it down, even more will die」
「…Understood」
Curtly replying, the Adjutant offered a prayer and ordered the bowmen to fire
The arrows, ether
Without waiting for the result, the captain began issuing orders to the re soldiers
They were to dis the roads and attack the enemy from behind
He had thus sent a hundred men on this quest
「No ht this many men」
Ordering the another volley of arrows, the captain was sure of his victory
A rain of arrows entered Hifumi’s view
「Too few They won’t hit」
Taking but a single step away, arrows landed around Hifumi
A few soldiers around hiony
Those who could still nored
He decapitated those ere hit in the shoulder, and then noticed that the ene his men to clear the roads
「So they had finally begun」
And after briefly cutting down a few one off to clear the roads and smiled
「So the slaughter finally beings? Come, be a man!」
A flash
Seeing Hifumi decapitate five more men, even the trained soldiers stopped motionless
Though he was drenched in their blood, he nonetheless pulled out a paper to wipe the blood fro so, sheathed it
「Guess I should clean up a bit」
Darkness spread from Hifumi’s shadow and sed the earth around hiic to dispose of the corposes
Vichy soldiers were terrified, although it had no effect on the
With Hifumi in the center of a sea of darkness, the myriad corpses sunk and disappeared
As if the battle had never happened
「Now then, I’et your captain’s head Do try to stop me please」
At some point the katana on Hifu pole
「It’sthis weapon Surely you won’t resentyou quickly?」
They would probably resent him no matter how he killed him; the few soldiers who remained now had their heads s
But unlike before, Hifu forward even as he continued to slay countless men
「Come on, keep the line Ready your blades… Oh?」
A second rain of arrows has come
Hifuled out from within it
With all theirin unison, there far more arrows this time
And while Hifu the Vichy captain, distant screams reached his ears
Although the blockade was made of a durable material, if many people were to press on it, surely it would eventually fall
The sa towards the main
The first aest, those unaccustomed to war
And after a few steps the ground beneath their feet disappeared only to reveal iron and wooden pikes
Unable to so much as scream their bodies were pierced, and those who fell on top of them rendered fatal their wounds