54- Ethan VS Zora(2)

●Author: Oh my gosh, it's really been a while since the last time I updated a chapter. Sorry for the delay, and I hope you enjoy the chapter.

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*clang*

was another violent impact, but unlike the previous one, Zora was repelled by Ethan at most by one or two steps. But she didn't expect that Ethan had been hiding his power. Zora had gradually adapted to Ethan's power.

But who knows, just when Zora thought the two were going to separate, Ethan suddenly increased his strength, but Zora was not wary of it, and was immediately knocked away.

After a few laps in the air, Zora took control of her body. Before landing, Zora removed the huge force, and stopped after ten steps back.

Zora looked at Ethan ten paces away and said, "Unexpectedly, you hide your strength."

"I don't hide my strength, it's just that I'm getting stronger every day." Ethan smiled.

Zora crosses her two swords across her chest and places the blade in her mouth horizontally behind them. Zora then approaches Ethan at high speed and cuts through by swinging the swords across her chest, resulting in a descending diagonal-crossing slash from both swords while the mouth blade performs a horizontal cut from the left.

"Oni Giri"

'As far as I can remember there is a weakness in this technique.' There is a single brief moment when the three swords are all lined up behind each other. If one can block them at that instant, the entire technique will be rendered useless.

Doing so however, requires an enormous amount of strength, more so than Zora herself or else she will just push through the block and connect anyways.

'I found it.' Ethan's smile widened as he found the weak spot, then he swung his swords and stopped Zora's attack.

"Impossible, how is that possible?" Zora couldn't believe that one of her most powerful attacks was so easily repelled, no matter how hard she tried to push her swords, she couldn't get Ethan's swords out of her way.

In fact, it's not easy for Ethan either, he would use all his physical strength to stop Zora's attack without taking any step back, 'Damn, if I didn't use all my strength I would have been thrown away by this attack. Stopping the attack isn't easy even when you know the weak point. It seemed so easy when Mihawk stopped this attack.'

Kuina watching their fight was shocked when she saw that Ethan stopped Zora's technique without moving, he looked badass standing still while stopping Zora's attack. 'I didn't expect Ethan to be this strong.'

When Zora couldn't break through Ethan's defense she fell back and took a different position. "Let's see if you can stop this technique too."

When he saw that Zora had taken her attack position, he knew what she was going to use, and smiled, "Have you ever heard of swordsmen cutting steel?"

"I've heard about it but I haven't seen anyone who can do it." When she finished speaking, she began her attack.

Zora holds two of her swords at an angle against each other and rotates them rapidly while running towards Ethan to create momentum. she then tried to slicebs up Ethan with full speed and power with all three of her swords at once.

"Santoryu Ogi: Sanzen Sekai"

"Well I guess you'll see today." Ethan grabbed his sword tightly while looking at Zora who was approaching him.

Ethan remained motionless and took an offensive posture; a stance where the two swords are held parallel so that the tips are pointing to his right.

"Two Cutter"

In an instant, Ethan and Zora passed through each other.

*Plop!*

Zora fell to her knees.

Both the swords in her hand is broken and the sword in her mouth fell to the ground.

Zora looked at her body but didn't see any wound 'Impossible I'm sure the sword just hit my body'

'Unbelievable' Kuina who was watching the fight definitely saw that the sharp side of Ethan's sword hit Zora's body.

Ethan walked beside Zora, "Are you confused that your body wasn't cut?"

"When I wish to cut, I can cut through even steel. When I do not wish to cut, the blade will not scratch even paper, a fully mastered Sword becomes one with the Swordsman's Will!!!"

When Zora and Kuina heard what Ethan had to say, they remembered the moment they asked Koushirou if a swordsman could cut steel and how to reach that point of skill.

But Koushirou picked up his sword and a paper and told Zora and Kuina to look at the paper and then threw the paper in the air and swung his sword towards it, the sharp side of the sword touched the paper but the sword did not cut the paper.

At that time Zora and Kuina thought Koushirou was joking with them but now they can remember the words Koushirou said after that.

"Listen to me, Zora Kuina. In this world we live in, there are swordsmen who can't cut anything. But, maybe those same swordsmen can cut anything with the same sword."

"The strongest sword is the one that has the power to protect what you wish to protect and to cut what you wish to cut. A sword that hurts anything it touches, to me is not an absolute sword. Do you understand?"

But Zora and Kuina didn't understand what Koushirou was saying at the time, especially Zora who said to Koushirou, "Sensei, I'll become a swordsman who can cut anything."

Koushirou "....."

Koushirou "Zora... did you hear what I was saying?

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"I understand now." Zora held her sword 'Tetsusaiga' firmly in her right hand and put it back in its sheath. At first she wanted to give up after two of her swords shattered, but now some inspiration came to her and she wanted to try a new technique.

●Note: The name of Zora's sword will be 'Tessaiga' the same as the name of the sword used by Inuyasha. I actually thought of calling it 'Fudōmyōōden' which means 'demon sword'. So what do you think I should choose?

"Let's go on," Zora said slowly, sheathed the sword upright and listening to the "breath" attacks of Ethan, Zora rapidly unsheathes, while passing by Ethan, and then resheathes her sword.

"So what? Do you think you're the only one who can cut steel?" Zora looked back and saw Ethan looking at her in shock and one of his swords had been shattered. It was fortunate that he was fighting with Wado Ichimonji and was able to repel the attack with his use of it.

Otherwise, if he was carrying just ordinary swords, that attack would have smashed both swords and reached his body.

"It's great that you were able to learn to cut steel, but I'll finish the fight here." After Ethan said his words, he disappeared from the spot. Ethan's speed is so fast that Zora couldn't see him and couldn't tell where he was or where he was going.

Zora looked around but couldn't see him anywhere, and suddenly Ethan appeared behind her and put a sword to her neck."I guess I'm the winner."