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15 - The Battle of Sabnak and Toshizo

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"Oh, no!"

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　Sabnak's face turns red and he bares his fangs.

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　Sabnak's pride seems to have been hurt when his best-laid plans are turned against him.

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"Every time, you play your tricks on me."

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"Because it's the only way."

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"But I don't think my best men can be killed by a pit. It only bought you time."

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　In fact, Sabnak's high kobolds seem to be alive and well, crawling out of the holes they fell into.

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"I guess so."

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"Idiot. Why don't you just drive a stake into the bottom of the pit?"

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"I knew you had it in you. Well, it's impossible this time because we didn't have time anyway.

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"Hate me for not having more time, and hate me for being so quick."

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"I'll show you that there is a fine line between fast and slow."

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　I'll tell you what to do.

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"Toshizo, you're up!　Now is the time to kick those Kobolds to the curb!"

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　Hearing my order, Hijikata Toshizo came out of the forest behind the castle of Ashtaroth.

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"What the hell?

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　It was the demon king Sabnak who cried out.

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"There was an ambush at this stage of the war!"

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"I knew you would attack us from behind. I left a little something for you."

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"A little something?"

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"Yeah, it's a unit organized around werewolves, which are one of the higher species of beastmen."

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"What, a werewolf?"

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"They don't look like the kind of men you have in your unit. Even High Kobolds are no match for them.

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That's not true. My High Kobolds are the best!

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　That may be true, but it seems that we are dealing with the wrong person.

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　The werewolf pack is relentless in its pursuit of the Kobolds as they try to crawl out of the moat.

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　The number of high Kobolds dwindles rapidly.

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"Oh, no, that's absurd.

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"Not so stupid. It's just as well."

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　There are many reasons why Sabnak's forces, which are supposed to be superior in numbers and overall fighting strength, lose.

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　They were thrown into a pit and confused.

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　They were further attacked in the rear.

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　The werewolf force is strong.

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　And the commanders who lead them are excellent.

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　Hijikata Toshizo. He is indeed called a hero.

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　He commanded the werewolves of many different traits and styles with great skill, and destroyed the Kobolds.

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　His skill was so great that the High Kobolds fell in a flash.

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"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

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　Subnak growls. At this point, he seems to have finally realized his disadvantage.

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　He was forced to change his strategy.

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　It was to be expected.

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　There are two actions that the demon king Sabnak can take now.

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　He can either realize his defeat and withdraw his forces, or he can continue to attack in force and take me down.

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　There are two choices.

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　The situation was so bad that a battle of armies was no longer an option.

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　And I knew what measures Sabnak would take.

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　Or rather, I had narrowed the choice down to one.

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　He would not save face by turning back to his castle at this point.

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　He has been tricked by me, his treasury has been ransacked, and he has lost the war of revenge.

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　No demon will follow Sabnak any longer.

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　If he is not careful, his men will turn on him in his sleep.

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　But that will change if you take my head.

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　Sabnak's men will turn around and admire him and recognize his dignity as king.

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　So Sabnak will have no choice but to take my head.

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　Look into his eyes.

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　The lion king's eyes are the same as a murderer's. He wants my head.

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　At any moment, or rather, at that moment, he attacks.

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　But there was one more thing that Sabnak did not know.

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　There was something else he didn't know about the pit and the ambush soldiers behind the castle of Ashtaroth.

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　The farsightedness he was seeing now was not in real time either.

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　That was five minutes ago.

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　That means those five minutes bought time for my best man, the legendary swordsman, to come to this place.

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　The man stepped in between the Lion King who was about to slash at me, and bravely caught his great sword with his slender blade.

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　Clank!

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　The sound of iron clashing with iron resounds.

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　It was a blow from the Demon King, who possessed a great sword imbued with magical power and tremendous physical strength, but the man known as Hijikata Toshizo took it in stride.

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　With a fearless smile on his face, Toshizo said

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"Our Demon Lord said he would prepare a place for me to die and a battlefield, but I never thought he would prepare such a flashy battlefield right from the start.

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"I told you, I won't bore you once you're under my command."

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"Yeah, like you said, maybe someday I'll get a hundred thousand arrowheads all over my body."

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"I hope that day will come, but it is not today."

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"It's true that I can't face Kondo-san in hell if I lost to a single cat.

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"You treat me like a cat, too!"

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　Sabnak was furious and swung down his second great sword, but the swordsman Toshizo easily dispatched him.

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　His skill as a swordsman is perhaps even more dependable than that of a commander.

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　I thought so.

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　And a man like Hijikata Toshizo values honor above all else.

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　I decided to leave everything to Toshizo, thinking that it would be better to give him the honor of single combat than to make a two-man battle here.

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　When I told him this, Toshizo smiled at me and said, "You really know what you're talking about. He said, "You are indeed a man who knows what he is talking about.

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　Thus, Hijikata Toshizo, a man who used to be a member of a group of manslaughterers called the Shinsengumi,

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　A one-on-one battle with the demon king Sabnak, also known as the Lion King, has begun.

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