The gentle smile on Inaba's face when he said goodbye to Tsukimi was exactly the same as it was back then.
Chapter 79 080 Curse
Under the cover of night, Nakano Park is shrouded in a silent atmosphere. The night wind blows through the woods, rustling, and the dark branches of the trees also sway.
Inaba in Tsukimi was walking along the forest path with his sword bag on his back. He came to a relatively open forest and stopped.
There were rustling sounds in the bushes behind him, and a big black dog emerged.
This is a big black dog more than half a meter tall. It is skinny and has a very obvious skeleton in its body. Its black fur is knotted with hard lumps of dirt, and it looks like an ordinary stray dog.
The big black dog stuck out its scarlet tongue, licked its sharp canine teeth, and spoke in human language:
"Little girl, you seem to have discovered me in advance? If so, why didn't you flee to a crowded place, and deliberately lead me to a deserted park?"
“Don’t get others involved.”
Inaba Tsukimi reached down to his collar and pulled out a white scale that was strung on a necklace.
"I'm looking for a monster with white scales, you know?"
"Although the smell is so faint that it can't be detected, the shape and color..."
The big black dog twitched its nose and laughed: "What a coincidence! The teacher sent me to invite you to be his guest. You will be able to 'see' him soon."
The big black dog flashed, leaving an afterimage, and pounced in front of Tsukimi Inaba.
"It's just your head though!"
The black dog's upper and lower jaws opened, splitting from the corners of its mouth to its chest, revealing a mouthparts full of sharp teeth like a lamprey.
"Kakaka!"
At the critical moment, Tsukimi Inaba poked the long sword bag in his hand into the monster's mouth, and the monster's long jaw closed, making a harsh sound of metal friction.
The sword bag was bitten open, revealing a bundle of samurai swords with sheaths inside. Tsukimi Inaba took advantage of the situation and pulled out a wild sword that was nearly one and a half meters long.
With a clang, other sheathed samurai swords fell to the ground.
Inaba Tsukiri's slender arms held up a nodachi that was almost as tall as her. The blade had cloud patterns swallowing water and the edge of the blade flashed a sharp cold light. She took a standard upper-level posture like in a textbook.
"Interesting, just play with you."
The big black dog stood up, and the claws of its two front paws twisted and deformed into five fingers similar to human hands. Its body also swelled up and turned into a two-meter-tall werewolf monster.
The pupil of Tsukimi Inaba's left eye was still empty and out of focus. She rushed forward expressionlessly and launched a violent slashing attack.
The cassock slash, the reverse cassock slash, the reverse wind, the continuous slashing like flowing water, cut many wounds on the black dog monster's body, and it seemed that the black dog monster was temporarily suppressed.
But this is just an illusion.
Tsukimi Inaba's last sword strike directly slashed into the monster's shoulder. She frowned slightly and wanted to draw her sword and retreat, but the blade did not move at all!
"It doesn't hurt. The samurai game ends here."
The black dog monster used one claw to tightly grasp the wild sword that had cut into his shoulder, and raised the other claw. A line of air was twisted and refracted, condensing into a one-meter-long translucent wind blade.
"To put it bluntly, a human sword is just a tangible blade. Anything tangible can be blocked, but an intangible blade cannot be blocked."
With a flick of his finger, he threw out the wind blade, directly splitting Tsukimi Inaba in two!
But this was only the afterimage of Inaba in Tsukimi. The wind blade pierced through the afterimage of Inaba in Tsukimi and cut a huge tree behind her that was so thick that two people could hug it in half.
Not only that, in the woods behind this big tree, there were continuous sounds of tree trunks groaning and falling down. It was unknown how many trees had been cut down.
"You actually dodged it?!"
The speed and strength of this female cub have already reached the limit of human beings, or even surpassed it, but even so, it is impossible to avoid its wind blade.
Among the organization's monster graduates, Inukai's monster attack speed is also the fastest.
The black dog monster's nose twitched a few times, and it raised its head to look at Tsukimi Inaba who was standing on the tree trunk.
The left shoulder of Tsukimi Inaba was cut by the wind blade just now, revealing a trace of blood. It was just a superficial wound, but the black school uniform was also cut, revealing the slender white neck.
There were two black spots on the left side of the back of his neck that looked like the teeth of a poisonous snake. When Inaba turned his face to the side, he saw that his left face was covered with black snake-shaped curse marks.
"This evil aura, is it the teacher's spell? I've also seen the teacher's human experiments. It is said that the purpose is to transform humans into monsters, but humans who are hit by this spell will die on the spot with their bodies festering. How can a human survive?" There was shock in the black dog monster's eyes.
"This female cub is very special. No wonder the teacher wants us to retrieve her. But why does he not care whether she lives or dies, but only needs to bring back her head?"
There was no sign of any movement from Tsukimi Inaba. The next moment she disappeared from the tree branch, and appeared on the ground as if she had teleported, picking up two wild swords.
So fast!
The black dog monster bared its teeth. The smell the girl was emitting actually made it feel a little threatened.
Fortunately, it wasn't just Inukai who came on this mission. There was also Tokito. If he was lurking in the dark, waiting for the right moment to attack...
Inaba in Tsukimi held a wild sword under his ribs, then pulled out another wild sword in his hand and threw it to the right without even looking at it.
A mere Nodachi, like an arrow, cut through the air with a bang, and most of the blade was embedded in the tree trunk.
"what--!"
A large amount of blood flowed along the blade and onto the jaw, dripping continuously.
The air twisted and refracted, and a chameleon-like monster gradually emerged, with a wild sword piercing its abdomen and nailed to the tree!
"Damn it, human, how did you find Tokito?"
Shi Tou, who was skilled in the art of invisibility, had been hiding in the blind spot of the right eye of the female cub who was wearing an eyepatch. How could he be pulled out so easily?
"From the beginning, I saw it clearly. There were two, nauseating smells."
The snake-shaped black curse mark on Tsukimi Inaba's face kept twisting and had already spread across her nose to the right side of her face, but she remained neither sad nor happy and spoke coldly.
"It hurts! It hurts! Captain Inukai, help me."
The chameleon monster struggled hard, but the wild sword penetrated deep into the tree, and the tip of the sword came out from behind the tree, nailing it firmly to the tree, causing it to scream in pain.
"Tokito, you useless piece of shit, stop yelling. Wait until I finish dealing with this human cub, then I'll come and rescue you."
It's a bit tricky.
Inukai no longer maintained the werewolf posture that he had used for play, but instead got on all fours and transformed himself into a wild dog again, protecting his soft belly.
Not only that, its body also swelled up little by little, turning into a giant wolf with a shoulder height of nearly two meters and a front to back length of five to six meters.
The giant wolf had a ferocious look on its face, drooling from its teeth. It opened its bloody mouth wide enough to swallow a living person in one gulp, and said viciously:
"I didn't expect that it would take real effort to deal with a mere human."
Chapter 80 Yun Yao
"Ouch——!"
The giant wolf looked up at the moon which was already too dim to be seen clearly and let out a long, creepy howl.
Then it stomped its four legs heavily on the ground and jumped into the air. Its entire huge body began to spin, and it swooped down from top to bottom like a tornado.
"Tooth Dragon Roll!"
Tsukimi Riinhata moved like a rabbit and leaped up and dodged past.
A ditch more than one meter deep and ten meters long was drilled directly into the ground!
"It's useless. I've memorized your scent. The rotation will only get faster and faster. My tooth tornado can even blow through a building. If a human is even slightly touched, they will be minced into pieces."
Before he could finish his words, the tornado turned around in the air and rushed towards Tsukimi Inaba.
The black curse mark on his face had already covered Tsukimi Inaba's right cheek. He could only barely dodge it this time. The wild sword in his hand slashed towards the tornado, but as soon as the blade touched the outside tornado, it was torn into pieces, breaking into pieces.
The knuckles of Inaba's sword-holding hands in Tsukimi were cracked, and his arms were torn apart due to the powerful rotational impact. His left arm was also fractured, with white bone streaks exposed at the joint wounds. Bright red blood was gushing out, and this arm was already disabled.
"I almost minced you into minced meat on a whim, but the teacher asked me to bring your head back intact."
Inukai released the dragon tornado state he had been in, and the two-meter-tall giant wolf looked down at the petite girl.
"Human swordsmanship, to put it bluntly, is only for dealing with enemies who are also humans. Once you become a behemoth like this, your swordsmanship that you are so proud of will be useless. Besides, now you can't even swing the sword with your hands, right?"
Blood began to gush out of Tsukimi Inaba's mouth and nose again, exposing his transparent white skin. There were black snake-shaped curse marks on his face, and there were bloody cuts on his arms.
It was like a porcelain doll that was accidentally swept off the table. Although it had not been shattered into pieces, its surface was already full of cracks and would fall into pieces with the slightest touch.
"It's painful, isn't it? You'll be relieved soon. I will swallow you from the neck down into my stomach."
The giant wolf tilted its head and opened its mouth as wide as it could. It looked more like a dislocated snake's mouth than a wolf's mouth, with each of its sharp fangs covered with a green halo.
"I am a swordsman of the Yakuman-shikan-ryu."
Tsukimi Inaba picked up a sheathed nodachi from the ground, stuck the nodachi on the ground to support his shaky body, and stood up.
Then he gripped the scabbard tightly with his only remaining right hand, placed the Nodachi at an angle on his waist, and assumed an Iai starting stance.
The length of an ordinary samurai sword is only about meters, while the Nodachi is meters long, and it is more difficult to draw the sword out of its sheath using the Iai sword.
Even a tall adult male swordsman would not choose a Nodachi for Iai, let alone a petite woman.
However, the longer the weapon, the faster the blade will reach the opponent. If one is skilled enough to use the Nodachi for Iai, the power and speed will reach incredible levels.
With only one hand left, he couldn't even draw his sword. He said this when he was about to die. Did he want to die as a swordsman? Humans are so boring.
"Is this your last words? What a pity, the teacher no longer allows us to watch swordplay movies!"
The giant wolf opened its mouth wide, ready to pounce and swallow Tsukimi Inaba's body into its mouth.
"Click", the crisp sound of a sword being drawn.
In an instant, a moonlight-like sword energy flashed across the giant wolf's body. The giant wolf rushed forward a few steps before standing still in a daze.
The sword energy flew through the air dozens of meters away, and a small concrete house in Nakano Park began to shift along an invisible line from the middle to the bottom, and the upper part began to slide downwards under the action of gravity.
The giant wolf's body split into two from the snout and collapsed with a loud bang. The eyes in the two heads that fell to the ground were still flashing with doubt.
what is that?
"This is Yun Yao, the Iai of the Yakumaru Jikanryu."
The black curse marks on Inaba's face in Tsukimi have blended together, dyeing his entire skin grayish white, with only his lips a strange azure blue.
Her originally thick black hair turned silver, and her petite body became taller and fuller. She was over meters tall, and an arm nearly two meters long grew out from her left neck.
The third arm held a one-and-a-half-meter-long wild sword, and the previous fierce Iai sword was slashed out from here.
The Iaijutsu of Yamaru Jiken-ryu, Yun Yao, is praised as being able to cut as soon as it is pulled out. Nakamura Hanjiro, a famous master of the school, is said to be able to cut off a drop of water from the eaves three times before it hits the ground.
The pill appeared from Yun Yao, a famous master of the Xuanliu class, at a speed so fast that ordinary people could not catch it with the naked eye.
The Yun Yao used by Tsukimi Inaba under the blessing of the curse seal has reached an extraordinary level. It can be called a magic sword, surpassing all the swordsmen and sword masters throughout the ages.
With a clang, the wild sword fell to the ground.
Inaba's transformation in Tsukimi did not last too long, in just less than a second, the third arm retracted, his skin and hair color returned to their original state, and the curse marks on his face all retreated to the back of his neck.
"cough!"
Inaba's body in Tsukimi fell heavily to the ground, and this time, not only his mouth and nose, but all over his body was bleeding.
"It seems... it's a draw... I smell... your death too..."
The monster's vitality was truly terrifying. Even after being split in half, its internal organs exposed to the air were still wriggling, and for a moment, it was not completely dead.
It looks like that's the end of it.
This power cursed by a monster used to cause extreme pain in all parts of the body as if being stabbed by a knife, and the person had to take medicine to fall asleep.
But now even my little finger has no feeling at all, and it’s not cold, numb and stiff, but rather a bit like the lazy and comfortable feeling when I was held in my mother’s arms when I was a child.
Maybe it's a last gasp?
Inaba in Tsukimi lay peacefully on the grass, his empty left eye looking up at the sky.
Three years ago, I should have died in the attack with my parents, but in the end, I was the only one who survived.
Although he started learning kendo in the name of revenge and shamelessly lingered on, in the end he didn't even get to see his enemy. It was a real failure.
However, she has purchased a small plot of land in the Huguo Temple Cemetery, next to her parents' tombstones. It is quiet there at night, a perfect place to fall asleep, and you can also see cherry blossoms in the spring.
Oh, by the way, the cherry blossoms at the Huguo Temple Cemetery had not yet completely withered last night...
I fantasized that I could last until the flowers withered, but in the end I was the one who died earlier...
There is also a suicide note. I put the suicide note in my shoulder bag. It should be in Uchiha's hands now. I hope he can find it as soon as possible.
