Chapter 70: One Stroke Beheading.
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"What is that...?"
Gyokko stood on the outskirts of the village, he stared at the golden thunder that erupted on the street in the middle, his tone somewhat doubtful:
"A human...?"
The humans in his memory, couldn't withstand Hantengu's lightning.
But now...
Gyokko's eyes, which were long in his mouth, reflected the stiff figures of Sekido and Karaku being bombarded by thunder.
——?
Just as Gyokko was lost in thought.
Clang!
The crisp sound of iron chains colliding rang out!
Whoosh!
On the side, a huge shadow suddenly flashed by.
A huge impact force suddenly came from the right half of Gyokko's body, a powerful force poured into Gyokko's body.
"Puh-wah!" He was caught off guard and took a solid hit, a mouthful of salty blood sprayed out of his mouth.
What is it?!
Gyokko's eyes widened in an instant, he looked terrified to the side, his body quickly turned and jumped away from the position he was just standing.
The right side of his body was directly cut off by more than half!
Blood flowed out along the wound, flowing on the ground.
Across from Gyokko.
"Namu..."
Huff——! Huff——!
A huge meteor hammer connected by a chain was constantly swinging.
"Namu Amida Butsu." Himejima Gyomei swung the chain in his hand, he retracted the meteor hammer stained with blood, and kept swinging it.
The other hand, however, was holding the other end of the chain —— a broad axe.
He had already retrieved his own Nichirin from the village chief.
"...Did I almost kill him?" Himejima looked at Gyokko, whose neck was only connected by a thread.
His pale eyes looked at the street in the Swordsmith Village where the thunder erupted, and clear tears welled up in his eyes.
"Ah... ah..." he muttered: "Kamado-san..."
"Thank you for the time you bought."
Creak...
Himejima's arm muscles tensed up, he slightly bent his body, and there was another Nichirin Sword tied around his waist —— this was for Tanjuro.
Just as he was confronting Gyokko.
"Himejima!"
Tanjuro's shout suddenly came from the side.
He was holding the red-hot Kusabimaru, and was running towards this side at a fast pace!
He shouted loudly:
"The main body is running towards you!!"
Whoosh——!
Himejima Gyomei was slightly stunned, he quickly sensed his surroundings, but couldn't find any trace of a "demon" other than Gyokko.
On the contrary,
——He discovered Tanjuro behind him.
The two demons, stiffened by the lightning strike, had already reacted.
Sekido, who had just released the lightning, was now devouring Karaku next to him!
The two demons quickly merged, their appearance gradually becoming younger.
In a breath, they had become one.
Transformed into a young-looking demon, with black "hate" character drums on his back.
"Watch out behind!" Himejima clenched the chain in his hand, and the swinging meteor hammer suddenly stopped.
Hantengu has six personalities.
At this moment, he had extinguished four of the red dots on his head by himself.
The fifth personalities——［Zohakuten］
"That guy won't split anymore!"
"Attack his head!"
Seeing this, Tanjuro shouted at Himejima, he naturally also noticed the Zohakuteny behind him, but he didn't have time to deal with it.
——A small-bodied old man, hunched over like a mouse, was fleeing in front of him at a very fast speed.
"Keeeeeeeek!!"
Hantengu's body was lowly howling while running towards the forest.
In Tanjuro's field of vision.
The transparent world allowed him to lock onto the neck of the body, in his eyes, the body smaller than the endurance point was like a moving red dot.
After the sword was forged red by the high temperature of the lightning, he chose to directly chop the long-hidden body.
Step!
Just as Tanjuro was chasing the main body, and the main body was about to enter Himejima's sensing range.
"Keeeeeeeek!" The body with the word "fear" engraved on its tongue suddenly turned and ran in the other direction.
At the same time, the Zohakuten behind Tanjuro also took action.
"Evil people, only bullies the weak." Zohakuten slowly stood up, his youthful face was full of terrifying lines belonging to the demon:
"It's unpleasant!"
Saying that, he was about to raise his hand and slap the drum behind him.
But a huge shadow was faster than his hand-raising movement.
[Stone Breathing·Second Form·Upper Smash——Tenmen Kudaki]
Clang!
With a crisp sound of stepping on the chain, the huge meteor hammer slammed down from the top of Zohakuten with the force of swinging!
Plop!
In just an instant, Zohakuten's skull had disappeared.
Slap!
"Don't think about moving forward."
Himejima pulled the chain, swinging the meteor hammer at a super long distance.
At the same time, he was also paying attention to Tanjuro's movements.
Suddenly.
A figure appeared near Tanjuro.
"...You dare to be distracted?"
Gyokko raised his fist, and instantly appeared next to Tanjuro who was chasing the body.
His face was gloomy, and the injuries on his body were healed in an instant——this is a demon, as long as it is not a fatal injury, it can continue to recover.
Although he didn't know what was going on with Hantengu, he was forced into this desperate situation by a weak human.
When he clenched his fist and punched Tanjuro with all his strength.
Tanjuro, who was paying attention to the body, suddenly glanced back.
The red-hot Kusabimaru in his hand quickly raised.
Want to block?
Gyokko sneered in his heart——his divine hand can turn everything it touches into fish!
The next moment.
The moment when the fist and sword intersected.
Dang!
Bright sparks were born from the friction between the fish scales and Kusabimaru.
The imagined sword turning into a slippery fish did not happen.
"——What?!"
In Gyokko's gradually astonished expression, his full punch was bounced off by Kusabimaru, and the huge reaction force made his body involuntarily lean back.
Unsteady, Gyokko's expression gradually became horrified.
Step!
Tanjuro twisted his steps violently and stood firm.
In the dark red pupils, Gyokko's exaggerated figure was reflected.
The flow of time seemed to slow down for a moment.
Above Gyokko's head, was a stance bar that filled up in an instant.
——A bright red assassination point appeared on Gyokko's neck.
Click.
Kusabimaru clenched.
Twisting his body, he slashed horizontally with force!
Whoosh!
It should be an ultimate sword light.
Plop!
"Ah?"
Gyokko's astonished head flew high under the moonlight.
It rolled down on the ground, his face still had an incredulous expression, he murmured:
"What... what's going on?!"
After blinking his eyes and realizing that he had been beheaded, Gyokko began to shout frantically:
"No, no no no! This shouldn't be!!"
Whoosh!
Tanjuro instinctively swung the Kusabimaru in his hand, although the blood on the red-hot Bright Red Sword had already evaporated.
He glanced at the dissipating Gyokko, and then ignored him.
He didn't kill Gyokko with one stroke before.
Just because he didn't have a Nichirin Sword.
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Meanwhile.
In the forest nearby.
Rengoku Shinjuro, with two children, and Tadaichiro and a few others, arrived late.
"Hey... brother, did you see it?"
Muichiro was in a daze, looking at Tanjuro's running figure, he pointed and looked at him with longing eyes:
"Just now, that one slash."
That moment of sword light was imprinted in his mind.
"So... so powerful!"
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