After a moment of silence, Miroku opened his mouth, as I dared him to.

"I have been waiting for your arrival.
Me?
To continue to fight until one's last breath is one's destiny. Fighting and dying is life. It is the only way to keep me alive at this very moment.
I don't know, but I'm guessing you're having a blast anyway.
My Lord!


　A moment later, Miroku lunged at me (...).


　...... a-la-la. You've been thinking too much, Asura-kun.


　Miroku has six arms. While rushing forward, he's preparing the Flying Car Battoujutsu, but the problem is - he doesn't know which arm to attack with (・・・・).

　Will he pull out a sword on the left or right side, or will he just swing down with an unannounced sword? The odds are simply one in six. If you respond in a straightforward manner, we are at a disadvantage.

　At first glance, this is an excellent strategy.

　But ......


That's a bad idea.


　Miroku, he's still in a hurry. He is greatly frightened.

　He probably thought he had devised a way to use his six arms effectively, but he didn't think it would backfire.

　This guy, now, isn't he used to fighting in this form?


　I waited for about 0.3 seconds as I stepped back and then began to prepare the Golden General Battling Technique.

　It's a counter skill. If I threw a flying car into this place, even a high status Miroku would not be able to get away with it.

　And he would notice.

''


　He said he can't pull out his sword (...) in time, but he can swing down (・・・・・) in time.

　If you are battling with either of your two front arms, you can't destroy my Kinjo activation. But if you swing down with your back four arms with that momentum, you can just barely crush my Golden General activation.


...... Kukaku!

　On top of that.

　Miroku chickens (...).


　When you have to make a split-second decision just in time or not in time, ...... the rest is a battle of the mind (...).

　It's not just a matter of time before you get to the point where you're in a position to make a bold move. At the critical moment, he would become weak-kneed. It was clear that he was going to be weak at the critical moment.


　So he retreated.

　He will try to partition again.


　...... I'm not going to let that happen.


!

　The moment Miroku's rush stopped and I took a step backwards to get a pause.

　I began to prepare the Dragon King Battoujutsu at the same time as I cancelled the skill.


''Sheesh!'' Miroku makes a face like this. It's not a good look for PvP.

　But the situation worsens mercilessly.

　Miroku had already taken a step back. Furthermore, he's now shifting his center of gravity to take another step back.

　My response to the Dragon King Battou Technique is two choices.
　They can stop their feet and come at me again and use the flying car battoujutsu in storage to crush the Dragon King Battoujutsu before I can activate it. Or do you want to retreat as fast as you can and escape out of the range of the Dragon King Battoujutsu?

　The Dragon King Battoujutsu is an extremely powerful forward attack skill. The more you accumulate it, the more powerful it is, but it's also fairly strong even without accumulating it.

　It takes about 2.2 seconds from the start of preparations to the activation of the skill without accumulating it.

　The 2.2 seconds would be just shy of ...... distance to reach me if I were to regain my retreating stance with a sudden brake and slash at me again.
　But it's also a difficult distance to escape. I'm sure that no matter where you run, you'll still be within the range of the Dragon King Battoujutsu.

　I'm sure you'll be able to find a way out of this.

　So to speak - a dead end.


"............


　......, but this is lukewarm on its own.

　After reading all the way to (...), I can finally say with pride that it's a "world ranker".



-- sweet!


　Miroku cut back at the last minute.

　He immediately cancelled the Flying Car Battoujutsu and used the Guillermo Battoujutsu - the Guillermo Battoujutsu.


　The 《 Katsurama Battoujutsu》 is a large movement + battou skill. In order to omit the process of regaining his stance from backward to forward, using the movement effect of Katsurama to force him to approach, is the last option left to Miroku in this situation (・・・・・・).


　So. What you do is the same as what you usually do in a competitive match.

　In other words, it's an improvised seven system.


　You put your opponent in a situation where he thinks "This is the only way. That's all there is to it.

　All you have to do is to prepare for the decisive move.


Shame.
What--

　The Dragon King Battling Technique isn't my true mission.

　It's a fake to make you feel like I'm trying to jam you up in that moment.


　I knew you were planning to use the Gui Ma Battoujutsu at this moment.

　I had put you in a situation where it was the only way to get you to do it.

　I had already specified your next move a long time ago.


　That's why you can easily let go of your precious Dragon King Battoujutsu in a heartbeat. With the Battoujutsu of the Flying Car Battoujutsu in front of you, you can prepare the Silver General Battoujutsu (・・・・・) later.

　Since I know you'll jump with the Guillermo Battoujutsu next, I have nothing to fear.


''Huh ......!

　Miroku gritted his teeth in the air.

　I can't cancel now. It looks like he's made up his mind that he has no choice but to stab my silver general with his katsura horse at this point.

　I think he bet everything he had there, even though he knew he was going to lose .......


Nice work.

　Until the very end, this guy was the best matchmaker.

　My 《Silver General Battling Technique》 is accumulating and accumulating.


　Isn't it beautiful?　You're not a Kakugyo, a flying car, a Ryoma, or a Ryu-o, you can decide on a silver general.

　Oh, so fleeting. This long game was decided in an instant by a simple silver general.


　This is what the splendid endgame is all about.

　...... Admire at best, Miroku.



'Guh!'

　The 《Katsura Battoujutsu》 cuts through the sky.

　A moment later, as we passed each other, my 《Ginshou Battoujutsu》 slashed Miroku's stomach.

　A critical hit ...... is a done deal. Now, the rest is just a toss-up.

　I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make the most of your time in the world to get the most out of it.


Gah-hoo. ......!


　--Dosari. I hear Miroku fall behind me.


　Horn, silver, and fly. Even though all of them were critical, I only hit Miroku three times with my attacks.

　Since the match is decided by that, 【Battoujutsu】 is still interesting.

　There's nothing else that can surpass this momentary glimmer of light.



''Let me ask you one last question. What is your objective?

　I turn around and talk to the dying Miroku.

　I wanted him to hear some of the reasons for creating the island of the samurai, the summit he kept aiming for.


'The will of ...... samurai, the will of ......'
"Will?

　Miroku begins to speak in a hazy voice.

"I will ...... absorb the ...... will of those who absorbed the ...... will of those who inherited the ...... hot souls of the samurai. ...... succeeds, no. ......

　The will of one who has taken in by [absorption]?

　I mean, that's ......


"Every samurai lives ......in a surplus, lives on ......fighting and continuing to live, that is how ......live... ...and keep fighting until the end, until the ...... their mourning ......!

"...... is why you keep fighting.

The ...... will of all the samurai who have staked their lives on the ...... sword!　I'm ...... grateful that I was ...... able to keep fighting and kept fighting ...... until the end, until the end. I offer you ......!!!


　Spitting out a large amount of blood, Miroku stabbed his sword into the tatami mat and stood up with all his might.

　And then, slowly, hang your head.


I've been waiting for a samurai like you, who can cut down the fate of ......!　Longed for, come true: ......!　There's nothing more to remember: ......!

You're not supposed to be: ......


　Could I have been mistaken?　Yeah, it could be.

　This guy was going around killing and [absorbing] from the samurai he grew up with, using this sword Hachinokuni as a samurai farm, or so I assumed.

　He was [absorbing] the samurai for his own sake, just to make himself stronger, or so I assumed. ......


Are you telling me that you were just mourning for the ...... samurai?

"...... For the sake of that tombstone, my will has been passed down to me, and I will fight to avenge ...... everyone's regrets and grudges, until the day it ends. Continue ......


　...... I see.

　This guy was just [absorbing] from the corpse.


　He didn't rule the island. He was watching over everyone all the time (・・・・).

　For hundreds of years, they had been watching everyone die, and they had inherited the will of those who died in regret.

　The resentment, the bitterness, the bitterness, the everything, this guy carried it all alone.



　-- fighting until death is the only way to live.

　Miroku is the spokesman for all those samurai who died because they loved and couldn't bear the art of battoujutsu--!


In the end, it was a fitting, beautiful match: ...... Second. I'm so glad to have met him ...... whose name I'll never forget, even in death. ......!



　...... He's a hot guy.

　What a, how, how hot man.


　A shame.

　It's a shame.

　It's too good to let him die as it is. ......!



...... Miroku. Your real name is.

My real name is ......?

Your real name is ......!


　Asura.

　Come with me--