Volume 1 Chapter 39 (1/1)

“This is love, nobody could fully understand itThis is love, you fell in with no reason”

Sakura was singing a song froe under a winter sakura tree on the Kurokawa Mountain Stage When she turned back, she found Harunobu’s shadoas ahed as she scattered the white petals The flowers fluttered to the ground like snow

Following the arold, she truly did enjoy a life of freedom But she couldn’t persuade herself to relax about her relationshi+p with Harunobu, as if she were as besotted as the lyrics she’d just sung If not because theplan was so complicated and the whole project occupied all his ti the only woman in the mountain, he wouldn’t be able to not touch her now

The dark of night secretly descended, swathing all the landscape in and around the mountain like a piece of chiffon Harunobu didn’t co very hard as the leader of the state She hoped he slept well every night That was the only wish she had for hio to his bedrooht

WhizzA cold wind blew against her back, and a slim dark shado past her ears Shestruck by the shadow Then she realized it was a feathered arrow

Yae of the dark to kill her?

She had no need to doubt Besides Kansuke, nobody would use this method to “contact” her She rolled up the hems of her skirt and sleeves, took out a stick from the bamboo fence in front of her, and quickly ran into the vast woods to chase after him

Before she could call out the na for her in the forest Sakura was surprised to find that the uess hoerful his arms would be She bet he could easily pick up a boulder as tall as a man The man’s face was covered with a black cloth, and his exposed eyes looked fierce

“Girl, you’ve co voice of the man shocked her She stepped back a little She ot where Seeing thethere like a steady mountain, with his feet wide apart and arrew confused

Didn’t he say he wanted to take her life just now? Then as he just standing there, still as a statue?

Was he going to keep standing there without attacking her? If so, why did he say he wanted to kill her? Sakura raised the stick transversely in front of her chest While she was confused by the man’s action, she suddenly noticed that the man had no weapon But, based on his stance, he wasn’t a ninja

An idea occurred to her, and she swung her stick up toward the man Just as the stick aled directions and used the stick as a spear to hit the man’s lower body The man yelled “Ah!” with astonishments

Here’s the opportunity!

Sakura was not sure if the man was a ninja His posture just noas to bait her into attacking first She heard frorandpa once that in the ancient japanese sword arts, there was a kind of art that coether, called Iaido The practitioners always used different gestures of defense first If the opponent attacked first, they would defend with this gesture, and meanwhile, they made the best use of tian to attack, they would give the opponent a deadly hit The only way to defeat the the first irl would break his Iaido But as a strong ive up immediately So he lifted his arms and walked closer Sakura was amazed by his intention The ood that he was running toward her

She stood there quietly, using her fist to punch his stomach quickly, and then retreated ie with his sumo movement, but Sakura was also very careful Theher bamboo stick could not be overlooked When her fist reached the th, his abdo with pain after impact

damn it! Do you want to force ht that the ive up when he knew she’d discovered his shortcos But the man was like a soldier in the battlefield—he tried his best to kill Soon, they’d clashed dozens of ti up fallen leaves that whirled into the air The shadows cast by the stars a the trees were broken by theirfroo, and his movements became more and more powerful In the tussle, her face was hit by the ht hand, which was hard and thick

She couldn’t tolerate it anyoes for the face in a fight? Do you want to disfigure ht foot; her body swerved to the left side and she jabbed the ht fist struck the left side of his ribs

The h, so he didn’t move to avoid the attack Instead, he used his fist to defend against hers But he didn’t guess that her move was a feint, and her foot had already kicked hith and his big body fell down