Ginkgo, who finally woke up from sleep, followed everyone for a while in a daze, then asked Hayasaka Nao who was leading the way with a map, and expressed her dissatisfaction frankly, "Isn't the mountain road on the left closer? I can rest in the village earlier.
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"The road on the left is not easy to walk on, and the right is flatter." Hayasaka Nao glanced at Imagawa Ujimoto, who had blisters on his feet and looked a little awkward when walking. However, in order to pretend to be a man in front of Ginkgo, he didn't show it.
——But this could not be hidden from Hayasaka Nao, who had served him for many days. However, Hayasaka Nao's eyes betrayed him, and Ginkgo could see through what he was thinking at a glance.
In order to be lazy and walk less, Ginkgo pretended to be contemptuous and asked Imagawa Ujimoto: "People in the city can't walk through the mountain roads?"
Men in love always fall in love at the first moment of excitement. As expected, Imagawa Shimoto shook his head and said, "It's not a big deal. It's good to take a short walk. Just follow the lady's advice."
So, the group of people took a detour to the mountain road on the left. The road was rugged and difficult to navigate, with gravel everywhere. It was quite difficult for Imagawa Shimoto to use a cane. On the other hand, Ginkgo, although wearing a sarong, walked very lightly, which made Imagawa Shimoto
Extremely envious.
They walked around and came to a quite wide mountain stream. There was only a small stone bridge over the stream. In this remote mountain forest, they had not seen any human beings for a long time. But on this bridge, there was a sturdy young man in civilian clothes leaning on it.
. He was dressed quite casually, and his trousers had a few holes in them. Although he was carrying a weapon, it was not a samurai sword on his waist, but two exaggeratedly large swords on his back. Beside him
There was a large backpack with a dozen samurai swords scattered in it.
"Selling knives? In a place like this?" Hayasaka Nao said to herself in confusion.
"I think it's a bit like Musashibo Benkei in the 'Touchi'." Imagawa Ujimoto laughed and joked, "Back then, Musashibo Benkei decided to seize thousands of samurai swords in Kyoto's Touchi. He was guarding the place.
On the Gojo Bridge, the passing samurai had to challenge him to a duel if he wanted to cross the bridge. If he lost, he had to offer his sword. Just when he collected 999 swords, he met the judge Kuro Minamoto Yoshitsune and asked him.
He launched a challenge. However, Judge Kuro was flying on the bridge railings. Although Musashibo Benkei was extremely powerful, he was never able to meet Judge Kuro. In the end, he gave up and became Judge Kuro's most loyal subordinate and will follow him for the rest of his life."
"Haha, then why didn't he throw away one sword first and keep nine hundred and ninety-eight swords to fight Judge Kuro. According to the story, he only loses when he is one sword away, so why can't he?
Did you win Kuro?" Ginkgo also joked with a smile.
"Over there!" The man leaning on the bridge noticed the group of people laughing and laughing by the bridge. He raised his hand and pointed directly at the door and shouted, "If you want to cross the bridge, leave the knife behind. If you don't want to keep the knife, just leave it behind."
Beat me."
"Ah? Is this really Benkei?" Imagawa Shimoto was happy when he heard this, but Nakasugi Torachiyo on the side was eager to step forward, "I'll go meet him."
"Why waste your efforts? You might get injured." Imagawa Ujimoto pulled Nakasugi Tora Chiyo back and started walking to the side, "Let's just take a detour."
"That's right." Gingko found that her way of dealing with people was inexplicably in harmony with Imagawa's Yuan, "It's better to do less than to do more. Why do you want to be quick and cause trouble?"
"I have demolished several other bridges, don't even think about it." The man on the bridge shouted when he saw a group of people preparing to leave.
"It's all a stone bridge, how could it be demolished by one person?" Chiyo Nakasugi sneered and shook her head, "Don't try to bluff people."
The man didn't say much. He pulled out a huge sword from behind and swung it towards the railing of the stone bridge - as casually as if he were picking up food with chopsticks. He didn't even make any forceful movements. But there was a loud noise.
Finally, the stone railing had been smashed into pieces, and the rubble rolled down the mountain stream, splashing water as high as a person.
"Good guy." Imagawa Ujimoto took a breath, startled by the brute strength of the man in front of him, "It seems we really have to take a detour."
"If you want to take a detour to cross the river, you can only go back along the mountain road you came from and make a big circle." The man put the big sword back into the scabbard, raised his hand and pointed at Imagawa Shigen's back.
Yuan looked back at the steep mountain road that he didn't want to think about for even a second, moved his toes and felt the blisters on the soles of his feet, and walked towards the bridge without saying a word. Ginkgo noticed Imagawaji Yuan's little move
, couldn’t help laughing.
"There's really nothing we can do." - "There's really nothing we can do."
Imagawa Ujimoto and Ginkgo said the same mantra at the same time. It was just that the former was complaining and the latter was sarcastic. Imagawa Ujimoto turned around and looked at each other and smiled.
"Hey? Sir, why don't we take a detour?" Ginkgo said sarcastically again.
"No need to go around, it's more convenient to rush in head-on." Imagawa Shimoto was so embarrassed by the ridicule that he could only respond with a dry smile.
"Anyone who blocks the road, please tell me your name." Imagawa Shimoto stopped in front of the bridge and asked the man loudly.
"Ji Liang Weicheng." The man proudly announced his name.
"Kira?" Seeing the other person talking about the former clan of the Imagawa family, Imagawa's Gen suddenly became energetic, "Tosa Kira or Mikawa Kira?"
"Um..." Kira Weicheng obviously hesitated for a moment, as if he was thinking that the place was closer, "Mikawa Kira."
"Is that Tojo Kira, Saijo Kira or Hojo Kira?" Imagawa Ujimoto asked again.
"Hojo Kira." Kira Usei chose the last one.
"There is no such thing as Kira Hojo. He just made it up to deceive you." Imagawa Shimoto heard the words and laughed evilly, "How can there be a samurai who is not worthy of a katana? Mr. Kira is clearly a member of a famous family."
"It's none of your business? Isn't it okay for me to call you Weicheng?" Kira Weicheng was asked impatiently by Imagawa Shimoto, "To fight or not to fight? Can you stop asking? You can tell yourself from the top to the bottom.
Now, besides asking, what else do you do?"
"So you are not a samurai, and you don't need to go through those troublesome red tapes?" Imagawa Ujimoto said with a relaxed smile.
"Samurai shit, I am a warrior, the best berserker in the world." Kira Weicheng couldn't bear it anymore. He stood up as soon as he leaned against the railing, raised his right hand, drew out the giant sword from behind, and fiercely
He said harshly, "Come on!"
Imagawa Ujimoto jumped onto the bridge lightly and was about to announce his name. However, Kira Ujihara was obviously not a samurai and had no habit of exchanging names. He raised his hand and struck hard with his sword. Imagawa Ujimoto did not block it hard and kept his pace.
Suddenly, he turned sideways to avoid the blow. The giant sword struck the stone bridge hard, making a loud noise and cutting a large hole in the hard bridge floor.
"How heavy is this sword..." Nao Hayasaka looked at her in horror from behind, fearing that Imagawa Shimoto might make a mistake.
"Goro, his choice is very wise. There is no room for resistance against an enemy of this strength. There is only one way to dodge." Nakasugi Tora Chiyo touched his chin and nodded slightly in praise. Ginkgo on the side smiled and shook his head, "Follow me.
Look, he just remembered the story about Judge Kuro teasing Musashibo Benkei just now, so he also wanted to 'role play'."
I have to say that Ginkgo understands Imagawajimoto better. At this moment, Imagawajimoto was walking around on the bridge avoiding Kira Usei's attack. He didn't block even once, and he didn't even take the sword out of the scabbard.
.
"Why don't you block?" Ji Liang Weicheng took advantage of the gap between attacks to yell and asked.
"Your sword is so powerful, how can I block it? Besides, why should I waste my energy to block something that I can obviously dodge?" Imagawa Ujihara relied on his footwork and body skills that he had honed over many years of kicking cuju, and acted recklessly.
Ground Dodge - In his daily swordsmanship practice, he also prefers to dodge rather than block.
"Okay, you can hide away, right?" Ji Liang Weicheng snorted coldly, then raised his left hand and pulled out the other giant sword on his back. He took a step forward, roared and swung both swords at the same time.
, with the potential to create something new. The attack range of the two swords was more than twice as large as that of one sword. Imagawa Shimoto could no longer rely on small steps to adjust, so he had to suddenly jump to the side and adjust to the stone lion on the bridge railing.
He dodged the blow. When the two swords fell to the ground, there was another earth-shaking loud noise, and then smoke and dust flew everywhere.
In the flying dust, I saw Kira Usei turning around and charging up his sword to strike. The powerful and heavy blade seemed to tear the air apart, sweeping away the smoke and dust that filled the bridge. Imagawa Shimoto took advantage of his squatting position just now.
With the momentum, he jumped up suddenly. The next moment, he heard an explosion under his feet. The stone lion that was squatting just now had been chopped into pieces by two swords, and the gravel was flying.
As soon as Imagawaji Moto landed on the ground, Kira Usei struck with two swords one after another. Imagawaji Moto suddenly jumped forward and twisted through the two swords with an astonishing movement. He was unscathed - but the giant
The sword energy raised by the sword tore several holes in his clothes. Before he could regain his footing, Kira Usei followed up with two more swords. Imagawa Jimoto suddenly used his strength to do a forward somersault, allowing the opponent to attack again.
Failed.
On the small narrow bridge, no matter how ferocious Kirara Usei's attack was, he was still unable to hit Imagawa Ujimoto - the latter's sword has been safely inserted in the scabbard from the beginning until now, with no intention of pulling it out.
.At this moment, he was standing comfortably on the railing, with his arms folded across his chest, looking leisurely at Kira Weicheng a few steps away.
Kira Usei was a little annoyed by being teased, and he stepped forward regardless, using two swords, one left and one right, to seal all the space for movement - but this style of play undoubtedly left the middle door wide open. If Imagawa's Yuan
Now that he drew his sword and stabbed it directly in the face, Kira Wei could only exchange one life for another. However, Imagawa Ujimoto obviously had no such plan. Instead, he did a backflip and jumped directly off the bridge - but there was no sound of falling into the water.
the sound of.
Ji Liangweicheng didn't know why, but the two giant swords could no longer be held back, and they hit the railings hard, almost cutting off all the railings on the right side of the stone bridge. Countless gravel and dust suddenly rose up. Before Ji Liangwei could wait,
Cheng sheathed his sword, and saw the strong figure flashing in the smoke. Imagawa Jigen grabbed the edge of the bridge with one hand, turned over from under the bridge with amazing core strength, and took advantage of the opportunity to twist his body, raised his foot and volleyed vigorously
, kicking a piece of falling gravel into Kira Weicheng's face.
"Mid." As the gravel flew out, Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was rolling in the air, snapped his fingers in an elegant manner, and pointed his index finger directly at the trajectory of the gravel.
Ji Liang Weicheng couldn't dodge and was kicked in the chest. He took several steps back in embarrassment, and the front of his chest was also hit with a large hole.
"I said, Weicheng, you can't fight like this." Imagawa Shimoto stood firm, choked several times in the smoke, took out a green-edged folding fan and fanned it vigorously, and then looked at the mess.
Shiqiao, "Don't you still expect the 'Knife Hunter' to cross the bridge? If the bridge is damaged, where will you go to rob it?"
"Then how do you think the previous bridges collapsed?" Ji Liang Weicheng stood up and replied angrily, "They all collapsed like this."
"Then, do you want to continue?" Imagawa Ujimoto asked with a smile.
"No need, I know myself and am no match for you." Kira Weicheng put the two swords back into the scabbards on his back and hastily wiped the blood from his forehead.
"Did the world's best berserker actually admit defeat?" Imagawajimoto was really surprised. Originally, Kira Hesei's arrogant attitude made him think that he couldn't do anything good this time unless he exhausted all the opponent's stamina.
"My skills are inferior to those of others. If you lose, you lose. Now you are the second berserker in the world." Kira Weicheng laughed dryly twice, then raised his hand magnanimously and said, "Please pass."
"Now, wait for me. There is no time limit for your permission to cross the bridge, right?" Imagawa Ujimoto confirmed again and again, while walking quickly to the bank of the creek, holding up water and starting to wash himself away from the smoke and dust.
face and arms.
"It's so dirty... This style of play is really annoying..."