620 Doujigiri (1/2)

Seiji's excitement from battling started melding together with the tension of his ability's time limit. He was now concentrating with great intensity, which seemingly caused him to surpass his limits and enter a wondrous mental state.

This condition was difficult to describe. Seiji felt like he had never achieved this state before, yet it also seemed familiar. He felt like he was greatly restrained, yet also completely free. Everything felt so far away but also so close by.

Under the blood moon's illumination, Seiji stepped forward while grasping on to his longsword. Energy welled up within him as he faced the furiously roaring demon…

Reality seemed ethereal to him, yet this ethereal vision was reality. His past life, current life, past memories, future expectations, family, friends, acquaintances, a gray world, countless murmurs, and a white flash all passed by him…

”Hold your sword well and look in front of you.” A voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

This voice… was Light-chan?

”You can do it. You only need one swing of your sword.”

'Is that you, Minamoto no Raiko?”

”Human power is quite weak. The physical body has upper limits. No matter how much a human pushes their physical body, it's still difficult to fight against vicious and evil demons and gods. However, human souls possess endless possibilities. Although the soul's power stems from the physical body, it can far exceed the physical body's power…”

'If that's you, you should at least say something like long time no see.'

”…The source of demons… human spirit… physical body's support… sword's soul…”

'What are you saying? I don't understand… What's going on, Light-chan? Are you trying to teach me something?'

”As long as... you'll definitely be able to... absolutely kill...”

'Hey hey, if you're trying to teach me some technique, you should speak clearer. How am I supposed to learn if you speak so unclearly? Still, it's wonderful that I get to speak to you again. Although I don't know why you're suddenly able to talk to me and even teach me a technique, thank you. I feel like I've learned something.'

Seiji truly thanked the heroic spirit as he firmly grasped his new understanding and made it into his own strength.

*Grahhh!!!!* The vicious Shutendoji pounced towards him once again.

Seiji didn't even attempt to dodge. Instead, he tossed away his shield and held his longsword with both hands. He even closed his eyes.

Miyuki was astonished to see this.

For an instant, she felt like she saw a tall samurai's figure overlap with Seiji.

That legendary sword which cut off the Demon King Shutendoji's head in a single blow was...

”Doujigiri”!!!

*Shing…*

Seiji's sword flashed and rang out with a surprisingly gentle sound.

He didn't slice, chop, or cleave. He simply cut.

His sword cut quite gently.

It cut as gently as the falling snow.

Miyuki Sakuraku witnessed something unbelievable!

The Demon King was clearly in his vicious beast form while charging at the youth. The youth also swung his sword directly from the front. Yet the next instant, the Demon King's corpse was sent flying! Its head was cleanly cut off!!

This was something that appeared completely illogical. It was as awkward as if a movie was missing a few critical seconds of an action scene. It gave Miyuki quite an uncomfortable feeling.

Just how did Seiji cut and swing to create to create such an effect? Miyuki didn't understand at all!

Either the laws of physics were distorted, or the concept of space itself was distorted.

Miyuki believed that the latter was more likely.

That was because she had previously witnessed sword techniques that were capable of distorting space itself. That had the same effect of her not being able to understand what happened despite seeing everything clearly.

This was a top-level martial arts technique! It reached the peak of spiritual ability boosted martial arts!!

Why was he capable of using such a sword technique?

Miyuki was incredibly curious. She previously thought that his curse power was Seigo Harano… no, Seiji Haruta's strongest ability in his arsenal. She never expected that he had something even more powerful…

[You have received teaching from a heroic spirit and defeated a powerful vicious demon. You have now learned the self-realized techniques [Doujigiri] and [Martial arts technique – Shadow Cut]]!

Seiji received a system notification and immediately wanted to check it out. However, now it was inconvenient to do so.

After killing the Demon King Shutendoji, Seiji felt his body heating up with a dense warmness. He could feel his Spiritual Power increasing at a tangible pace!

As expected of a high-level dungeon. He improved in Spiritual Power more than during his previous two trips to Spirit Worlds combined.

Still, the higher-level game player received even more benefits… Seiji witnessed Miyuki absorbing the Demon King Shutendoji's thick blood-red mist.