Conan: The Mechanic

"!!!" Hattori Heiji felt that his heartbeat had missed half a beat—perhaps he was so absorbed in thinking that he had even forgotten that the other party had a powerful weapon like a bow and arrow. Of course, considering that he didn't know where the opponent was, even if he remembered, he probably wouldn't be able to make an effective defense against this attack.

However, was the opponent unable to shoot himself in this situation? Or did the other party think that he could respond in time, so he made a pre-judgment, and in the end, he did not do any evasive behavior, but instead avoided the other party's free advance?

But now, these are not important - when they were attacked at Kurama Temple before, the other party only carried out a shooting attack, and according to Conan, the other party seems to have only prepared one arrow, so the other party's bow and arrows in a short period of time. There should be no chance to use it again.

In other words, the opponent no longer has the force that makes him scruples.

"Crack!" Just as Hattori Heiji looked in the direction the bow and arrow were shooting, the man who was hiding had already taken the initiative to stand up.

Different from the motorcycle helmet he wore before, the man had put on a Noh mask representing the old man, and there was only darkness behind the two long and narrow eye sockets.

"You're waiting for me here, are you planning to surrender?" Hattori said solemnly, staring at the wooden knife held in each of the man's two hands. "Or, do you think this kind of thing can subdue me?"

The man didn't respond, just threw the wooden sword in his left hand in front of Hattori Heiji, who was a little surprised.

"Ah?" Hattori Heiji glanced at the man, and then at the wooden sword lying in front of him that seemed to have nothing wrong. "You... want to fight with me with a knife?"

"..." The man didn't respond, but his hands drooped down naturally, and the wooden sword held in his right hand slid on the ground somewhat weakly.

"Okay, since you asked me like that, I'll do it for you." He quickly picked up the wooden sword and assumed a posture in actual combat. Hattori looked at the man who seemed to be quite relaxed vigilantly.

However, at this moment, the man turned around, exposed his back to Hattori Heiji, and then walked back. Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, gave up the plan to attack from behind, and just followed the man with the wooden knife.

Eventually, they came to the edge of the park—a fence where Hattori could see the buildings in the distance and a track for the Kyoto subway system just a short distance away.

As for why the other party brought him to this place... The vegetation here is unusually small. If you don't consider the weeds on the ground, the ground conditions are already good enough to be used as a ring.

"Do you want to have a showdown with me here?" Hattori Heiji regained his defensive posture and looked at the man who turned to face him again.

The man nodded, but still only held the wooden knife in his hand, and had no intention of raising it at all—this meant that the defense on the side that did not hold the wooden knife would be quite sluggish, and even if it was so sluggish, there was a complete chance of attacking it. The degree of victory in close range confrontation.

[What's the matter... all of them are flaws...] Hattori Heiji's brows twitched, but he still responded very seriously and attacked in a very correct way.

When the distance between the two sides was five meters, the man still did not raise the wooden sword in his hand - in this case, he was still about a second away from being hit. The other party still did not respond.

[Shouldn't you be planning to dodge sideways? In that case, the trouble will be big...] Hattori Heiji flashed such an idea for a moment, but immediately rejected it—even the evasion action at this distance is a bit too late, and his attack action is actually a sideways action. It is almost impossible to dodge and dodge.

[If you can dodge it, then dodge it for me! 】With this thought in mind, Hattori Heiji did his best to slash down the wooden sword in his hand.

"Crack!" With the crisp sound of collision, Hattori Heiji looked at the point where the blade was pointing with a bit of astonishment.

The man didn't have any flashy dodging moves or dizzying knife-drawing moves, but just blocked Hattori Heiji's blow with his wrist wrapped under the driver's suit. And the sound of this collision also surprised Hattori Heiji. But it was only a surprise, because he immediately realized why this happened.

I'm afraid this person has something like a steel bracer on his wrist, right? Although the wooden knife has a very fast swing speed and a good soft attack effect, its destructive ability is quite limited if it hits steel products. As long as the opponent uses the steel bracer to catch the impact, it is basically impossible for this knife to produce any results.

In any case, the current situation is that Hattori Heiji has already swung out his sword with all his strength, but the opponent has not yet started to attack.

[Not good, you need to quickly close the knife and prepare for defense! ] Hattori Heiji was about to close the knife to organize defense, but the man had already raised the wooden knife in his hand through the movement of his wrist~www.readwn.com~ and then stabbed the tip of the knife into Hattori Heiji's head in the same way as a sword.

"Ugh!" Although Hattori Heiji tried his best to dodge, he was still pierced by the wooden knife on the scalp above his forehead, and a bright red bloodstain immediately bloomed on his forehead.

Along with the screams, Hattori Heiji staggered back, and after a few steps he barely managed to stabilize his body.

Before Hattori Heiji could react, the man charged up again with a wooden knife - this time, instead of waiting for Hattori Heiji to strike as before, he launched a storm-like attack with an unusually sharp move.

Weird, cunning, and unfamiliar, this is the deepest impression that the man's wooden sword brought to Hattori Heiji. Although Hattori Heiji can barely block every slash of the man, he also has to admit that the opponent's knife path is extremely unexpected. Almost all of the defensive routines he prepared can't work, and he can only passively follow the opponent's thinking. Walk.

And if it's just like this, then every time I resist the opponent's blade, I will be closer to my body than the last time... If it continues like this, I'm afraid——

"Crack!" Following a raid that was completely different from the previous attack, the man's wooden knife slashed from the bottom to the top of the wooden knife that Hattori Heiji was holding, and he slashed the wooden knife in Hattori Heiji's hand and flew out.

"Cut!" He grabbed the wrist that was photographed because of the pain, and Heiji looked at the man in front of him with a stern expression.

If you only talk about kendo accomplishments (kendo uses wooden swords), maybe the other party will be stronger than you - you are practicing the famous and right way, and the other party's ways are much rarer, which means that you don't know the other party's ways. , but the other party can predict their own reactions and respond with restraint.