Tokyo: Starting from staying with my mother’s best friend

Chapter 48 Becoming a master at a young age
"brush!"

The bamboo knife slashed down with a sound of breaking through the air.

This seemingly ordinary sword made Ionuma Isao aware of the huge danger.

He flew back.

The sword in Ryota Kato's hand slashed across the front of his kimono.

The bamboo knife, which had no sharpness at all, had a sharp blade-like effect, instantly cutting the boy's clothes and leaving a bloody mark on his skin.

Like the previous times, the bloodstain was just a thin line at first.

But then, it became as big as a soybean and oozed out one by one.

With seven or eight such wounds, Iinuma Isao's whole body was stained red with blood, which looked very scary.

"A Xun!"

Huacheng Xingzi was so frightened that her face turned pale.

"They're all skin injuries, nothing to worry about!" Ionuma Isao took the time to talk to her, then quickly turned his attention back to Ryota Kato, "Continue!"

Kato Ryota held the knife and said coldly: "If it was a real knife, you would be dead!"

If it were a real sword, I would have hypnotized you long ago... Ionuma Isao smiled, his body secreting adrenaline crazily, and he felt more and more excited.

He stepped on it with the sole of his foot and rushed forward again.

"boom!"

The two knives collided in the air.

"You guys are definitely not as strong as me!" Ionuma Isao shouted, while pressing down his hands hard.

"Your power is indeed beyond my expectation!" Kato Ryota lifted it up to resist the boy's downward pressure, "But where is your sword's heart? Why can't I feel it? Use your mental skills. Come out! Otherwise, you will never be able to defeat me with just brute strength!"

Ionuma Isao continued to apply pressure on his wrist while shouting: "See if you can push me to my limit!"

Along with the roar, his eight points of strength pushed down Ryota Kato's bamboo sword little by little.

Kato Ryota's strength is between six and seven points.

Compared with ordinary people, it is already very powerful.

But compared to the 15-year-old Ionuma Isao, he is still slightly inferior.

The bamboo sword was pressed down bit by bit, and soon it reached the shoulder. Kato Ryota was forced to kneel down on one knee, holding the sword on his shoulder and kneeling on his knees to resist the force exerted by the boy.

He frowned slightly.

Then, with his other leg, he quickly attacked the boy's lower body with a sweeping kick.

Ionuma Isao was forced to jump up and shouted in the air: "You guy, you are so shameless!"

"Young man, we are in a life-and-death fight, not a sword showdown, and I never told you we were just sword showdowns!" Ryota Kato yelled back, and at the same time quickly pressed on, "Young man, I'll give you a piece of advice - Never believe in the benevolence and righteousness of people in the extreme!"

While giving life advice, Kato Ryota rushed forward and launched a violent and intensive attack on the boy like a storm.

In the blink of an eye, the weapons clashed dozens of times, and Iinuma Isao was beaten back steadily.

But he was still waiting for an opportunity to counterattack.

Growing up under the guidance of his mother, he always kept two things in mind.

One: Offense is the best defense.

Two: If you hesitate, you will lose.

During the offensive and defensive battle, Kato Ryota found a gap and kicked Iinuma Inuma's wide-open chest with a side kick.

Ionuma Isao, who was about to strike with the sword in both hands, hurriedly held the sword in his right hand and held it in front of his chest with his left hand.

"Oh!"

The force of this kick was so strong that he fell to the ground and then slid out, breaking the sliding door of the tea room.

"A Xun!"

Huacheng Xingzi screamed and ran over quickly.

"No, I'm fine..." Iinuma Isao climbed up from the courtyard and looked at the old aunt who had lost her beauty: "Next time, use less floor wax, otherwise it will be too slippery."

"Huh? Oh, oh oh..."

Huacheng Xingzi looked like she understood, but didn't fully understand.

In the tea room, Kato Ryota came out and said coldly: "If you don't try your best, you will lose."

"You haven't won yet, stop talking nonsense!" Ionuma Isao jumped onto the corridor, and then made an Iai starting move.

"You still dare to use Iai?" Kato Ryota was a little hard to understand, but he didn't think too much and rushed forward.

Ionuma Isao held the sword, found the right moment, and pulled it out directly with Iai Slash.

The blade went straight to Kato Ryota's waist.

But his figure suddenly disappeared.

Ionuma Isao immediately realized that the other party had used his true skills.Master level movement skills, really powerful...

Just a second after his opponent disappeared, Ionuma Isao immediately felt the sound of breaking wind in the air on his left side. He quickly turned sideways and charged forward...

But there was nothing in front of him.

"you are too naive!"

Kato Ryota's voice sounded behind him.

It turned out to be a slap in the face!
Iinuma Ishun just turned around and took a blocking posture.

Kato Ryota stabbed him in the lower abdomen, causing him to retreat repeatedly, holding his lower abdomen and retching several times.

"The master's sword is really powerful..." the young man said with a twisted face.

Kato Ryota frowned and said nothing.

It was obvious that although the boy was completely covered in blood at this time, the fighting spirit in his eyes had not faded at all.

In this 15-and-a-half-year-old boy, he felt an unprecedented pure and flawless aura, as if he was not facing a person, but the pure and pure cross-section of a famous sword passed down from generation to generation.

"Hey, Kato-san!" Ionuma Isao suddenly asked, "Do you think I'm much stronger than I was at the beginning?"

His voice became clearer and louder, full of confident youthful spirit.

Kato Ryota nodded silently.

"now it's right!"

Ionuma Isao smiled with satisfaction.

The system panel shows that the current swordsmanship skill has become proficient at LV8, which is only two levels away from the master level.

Fighting with masters really benefited a lot... Although my mother was also a master, every time he and she competed, they would always get bored and enjoy the fight together. There was never a serious fight from beginning to end.

"But you still can't beat me!" Ryota Kato said.

The young man's eyes were as bright as fire.

"You will be killed by me!" Kato Ryota continued, "Everything you protect will be taken away by me! Including her——"

After speaking, the knife in his hand pointed at Huacheng Xingzi.

In fact, defeating the boy directly was the best option, but he didn't do that.

The young man wanted a powerful opponent, so he stimulated him with words, allowing him to wipe away the frustration caused by being imprisoned, and finally entered the realm of a master.

This approach deserves his respect.

His sword was full of murderous intentions, and his practice direction turned to the path of Shura.

Although Shura Dao focuses on killing, it only likes to achieve hearty victory in the ultimate head-to-head fight. It would rather die at the hands of a strong enemy than a speculative victory.

So now it's his turn to buff the boy.

"You are indeed very strong and talented, but you are only one person after all!" Ryota Kato said in a deep voice, his eyes as sharp as swords, "The Red Snapper Team you are going to face has hundreds of members; they are in the government The relationship can be traced back to the direct line of the governor of Tokyo, and they can also invite masters from the ancient swordsmanship family to come out. All of this combined is far more than you, a young man, can handle! "

After hearing this, Huacheng Xingzi was silent.

Kato Ryota continued: "The Huacheng family will be embezzled, and the female relatives of the Huacheng family will be insulted. None of this is a fact that you, a 15-year-old boy, can change!"

Yes.

How can one person fight against power...

He was still young and vigorous that year, and he felt that resisting was what he should do, so he was sentenced to five years.

In prison, he calmed down.

After coming out, he chose to remain indifferent when he met the person he had loved when he was young and ignorant.

He feels mature.

He didn't think he could stand up to the powerful alone, so he stopped trying.

...how tragically mature.

Kato Ryota took several deep breaths, looked at the young man in front of him, and said solemnly: "If you insist on fighting against power, I promise with my own life that I will help you protect them after you die. That's all." That’s all…”

"No, Kato-san, you are wrong! Even if the person I want to protect is against the whole world, I will not hesitate to draw a sword against him!" Iinuma Isao held his head high and looked directly at him, "I will definitely Will win! Not just tonight, but tomorrow night, the night after, every night—"

His pure and fiery gaze was like an unsheathed sword.

This intense and meaningless gaze is like a dragon, like a real dragon!
Suddenly, cherry blossoms fell.

Obviously there is no wind!
Kato Ryota looked at the young man who had entered a state of trance with surprise.

There was no movement in the air, but pink cherry blossom petals continued to float into the room from outside.

The cherry blossoms danced around the boy like a swimming dragon...

Suddenly, Kato Ryota's pupils shrank.

He had a strong premonition that he was about to witness the birth of a master!

(End of this chapter)