Chapter 11 Samurai Hearts – Tutorial (11)

Just as Dohyun bought time to pick up his sword through a brief scuffle with the Ninjas, his opponent didn’t waste any time either.

He snatched the fallen Sword Saint Kato from the floor and quickly took him back.

Dohyun stabbed not Sword Saint Kato’s heart, but his lungs, with the fragment of the blade he held in his mouth.

Since he couldn’t kill him instantly, they would try to save Sword Saint Kato at all costs.

Dohyun couldn’t allow that to happen.

The reason he had fought so desperately until now was to kill Sword Saint Kato, who had killed his sister.

‘If my right hand doesn’t work, I can use my left hand.’

An endlessly selfish and reckless thought.

But there was no other way to do it.

Dohyun, holding Sword Saint Kato’s sword with his left hand, raised it and aimed it at the Ninjas.

Blood flowing from his torn mouth, his right arm drooping from the poison, yet his eyes shining with a fierce blue light.

His appearance was simply desperate.

If Samurai Hearts was a desperate revenge story, it was hard to imagine anyone more fitting.

“Kill him! Kill that bastard!”

The man who had snatched Sword Saint Kato, the target of the sword, shouted.

The Ninjas, who had barely regained their composure, grabbed their Ninja swords again at the man’s command and lunged at Dohyun.

Not only that, but the troops surrounding them, forming a barrier, also rushed towards Dohyun.

Only to defeat him.

The game developers had set up numerous devices to defeat the player, but they probably never imagined that anyone would actually make it this far.

Who would dare to defeat Sword Saint Kato in his prime, and then survive the subsequent surprise attack by the Ninjas?

All of this was a spectacle that only Dohyun could show.

“Hoo-“

Dohyun, biting his lip, took a breath.

Sword Saint Kato was gone anyway.

Whether they were Ninjas or whatever, they were just mobs, not bosses.

That meant no one could withstand his parries.

If so, there was enough possibility.

The sword in Dohyun’s hand wavered erratically.

It wasn’t wavering because his hand was losing strength, but a preparatory movement that could extend in any direction he wanted at any time.

“······!”

The Ninjas were the first to rush in.

Still uttering silent shouts, five black shadows occupied Dohyun’s four sides and slashed their Ninja swords.

Front, back, sides, even below!

One of the reasons why Ninjas were scary was this.

Perfect teamwork!

The standard way to deal with Ninjas in Samurai Hearts was to defeat them individually, and the most recommended method when three or more gathered was to run away.

That’s how difficult it was to deal with a group of Ninjas.

Their teamwork was so elaborate that even masters of swordsmanship could easily lose their lives.

But now Dohyun was in a position where he couldn’t use any of those methods.

He was already surrounded, and escape was impossible.

So the method he chose was to smash them all head-on.

And he did.

Just like he had been doing throughout Samurai Hearts.

“Hup!”

Crack!

With a strong step, he crushes the arm of the Ninja who was aiming below with a stomp. ‘One.’

Almost simultaneously, he moves the sword behind his body and knocks away the Ninja sword of the Ninja who was aiming at him from behind with the tip of his sword. ‘Two.’

Gathering momentum from the stomp, he rotates his body, and with the help of centrifugal force, he makes a single stroke from right to left. ‘Three, four, five.’

“Ugh!””Kuh-ack!””Kugh!”

With the gracefully connected swordsmanship, five Ninjas fell to the floor at once.

Dohyun didn’t give them time to recover.

Taking another step, this time he slashed three Ninjas with a single stroke from left to right.

He couldn’t kill the Ninja who had his arm crushed and was rolling on the floor, or the Ninja behind him, but he had to reduce the numbers first.

The Ninja who was cut down with a swish- gushed blood like a fountain and died.

Even though he had blocked the combined attack of five Ninjas, Dohyun had no time to rest.

“Kill him!”

“Stab him with spears!”

Because the soldiers who had arrived nearby were thrusting their spears at him.

A continuous attack that didn’t give him even a moment to breathe.

Dohyun gritted his teeth in the face of dozens of spear blades aiming at him.

“Come···!”

Despite the bleak situation, he never gave up.

He broke, parried, stepped on, deflected, cut, dropped, tore, struck, grabbed, pulled, and cut again.

“Kill!”

“Kill him!”

Dohyun cut through the enemy soldiers who were constantly swarming in.

The enemy soldiers numbered hundreds, surpassing dozens.

And he was alone.

Of course, it was impossible to defeat the enemy soldiers without taking any damage.

First, his right arm was torn by a spear blade.

Because it was poisoned and didn’t move as Dohyun wanted, it was exposed to the enemy’s attack without defense.

Instead, Dohyun tore through the chests of three enemy soldiers.

The left shoulder armor, which had been stabbed countless times by spear blades, became tattered and soon fell off with a clatter.

The arm protected by the armor was cut by a spear blade, dripping blood.

Instead, Dohyun cut off the necks of five enemy soldiers.

A Ninja sword pierced through the armor protecting his left thigh.

The poison spread instantly, and even his left leg became unable to move.

Instead, Dohyun stabbed the hearts of four enemy soldiers.

“Monster, he’s a monster!”

“How can he be so strong?”

Dohyun never stopped.

If he was stabbed by a spear, he stabbed with his sword.

If he was cut by a spear, he cut with his sword.

At some point, he almost lost his mind and slashed wildly.

If the moment he faced Sword Saint Kato was the limit of his concentration, now he simply entrusted himself to his surging fighting instinct.

Even in the chaotic situation, his talent shone brilliantly.

Depending on the position of the enemies and the direction of the attacks, the optimal movement was automatically drawn in his head, and his body followed it.

One flow found in the midst of fierce battle.

Dohyun’s sword danced gracefully without resisting that flow.

How long had he fought like that?

After dozens of enemies died, the battle momentarily subsided.

“Hah, hah, hah······!”

Among dozens of corpses.

Dohyun, who barely stood by sticking his sword into the floor, breathed roughly.

The enemy soldiers could no longer rush in and were hesitating in fear.

Of course, it didn’t actually mean they felt that emotion.

It was only because they had achieved the conditions set by the developers of Samurai Hearts that they were showing a reaction of trembling in fear.

The condition that even the developers had put in thinking, ‘Is it even possible?’ while also thinking, ‘Maybe?’ was ‘Defeat twenty enemy soldiers in one place.’

And that was also a hidden challenge within Samurai Hearts.

Hidden Challenge [Samurai of Twenty Kills] achieved!

‘Hidden challenge achieved? The condition is······ Twenty kills in one place? Is that possible? Ah, it is possible. My brother just did it. Then to do this challenge, you have to do that.’

-I won’t do it! No, I can’t!

-You’re telling me to do that now? If that was possible, I would have been streaming it;

-translation, pls 🙁

-Wow, even foreigners are watching lol

‘Foreigners? The only English I know is Hi, my name is Victoria! How are you? I’m fine, thank you! What? Huh! Why is the number of viewers like this? It wasn’t this many just a moment ago?’

-Trikey operator came lol

-★Kai : WOW! he is real Samurai! he looks like a million dollars!

-Wow, it’s the real operator. But what is he saying? I can’t understand it because the English makes me nauseous

-He looks like a million dollars? What is that?

-It means he’s cool. It means he’s as stylish as a million dollars

-I totally agree with that

‘I’m really going to die now.’

He had killed dozens of enemies, but Dohyun was also wounded and exhausted as a price for killing them.

Just standing now was only possible by leaning on the sword.

The legs that were not paralyzed by the poison were trembling as if they would give way at any moment.

One unfortunate thing was that he had missed Sword Saint Kato, who was the original target, while dealing with countless enemy soldiers.

He didn’t even realize that he had disappeared while fighting against the constantly swarming enemies.

Dohyun pouted when he belatedly realized that he could no longer find Sword Saint Kato.

‘Sword Saint my ass······.’

He had been defeated by someone who had wielded a sword for the first time today and ran away, so what was he a Sword Saint?

It wasn’t even funny.

“He’s exhausted and wounded! We can kill him! Don’t be afraid and charge!”

The man who was giving orders from behind shouted.

It was a voice encouraging the soldiers, but deep fear was clearly underlying it.

It was a natural reaction.

A monster who defeated Sword Saint Kato, broke through the combined attack of the Ninjas, and faced hundreds of soldiers alone!

Dohyun was such an existence to them.

“U, uaaaaa!”

“Kill him! We can do it!”

But soldiers are beings who have no choice but to follow orders.

They forcibly shook off their fear and rushed towards Dohyun.

Dohyun stared straight at them.

Because that was the last resistance he could do now.

Only his eyes shone with a blue light in his blood-soaked face.

Thud! Thud thud! Thud thud thud!

The soldiers, who had closed the distance again, thrust at him all at once, and a dozen spear blades pierced Dohyun’s entire body.

“Kuh··· Heok!”

He had been stabbed by spears quite a few times while fighting until now, but this was the first time he had been stabbed so simultaneously.

Dohyun shuddered at the sensation of a dozen spears piercing his body and spat out blood roughly.

It was impossible even to fall.

Because the spears that had stabbed from all directions were forcibly supporting him.

So he just stood still and stared at the enemy soldiers.

In fact, there was nothing else he could do now.

And the system judged that as Dohyun’s defeat.

The scheduled event proceeded.

“He was truly a terrifying man.”

However, its composition was greatly changed.

The person standing behind him took the place of the role that Sword Saint would have originally been in.

The man continued, speaking Sword Saint’s lines instead.

“But in the end, he also died. Atsuragi Tatsuki. Do you have any last words?”

“I have nothing to say to faithless and vile men. But······.”

Tatsuki looked at Dohyun.

A warrior who would not fall even in death.

The true Sword Saint who defeated the previous Sword Saint, and the greatest under heaven who was here for a while.

And the one who was his warrior.

“For my warrior, Black Wolf, I will leave behind a single verse of poetry.”

Ascending to the end of the sky

What is the world seen from above?

Only a single magnolia faintly bloomed.

Tatsuki, who recited the poem in a calm voice, gave a sad smile.

It was the smile of someone who had accepted and resigned himself to the fate that would befall him.

“Cut off his head.”

The man of the Nagamatsu Clan said firmly.

In Dohyun’s fading vision, he saw Tatsuki mumbling.

“Remember, Black Wolf. If you awaken again······.”

Tatsuki’s words were slurred, and light pink cherry blossom petals scattered in all directions.

Everything disappeared as if fading away among the countless cherry blossom petals.

The enemy soldiers, the corpses, and even Tatsuki.

It was the end of the tutorial chapter.

‘Wait, what about me? I was there too?! Hey, you bad kid! Are you ignoring me now because I was one-shotted!’

-lololololol that line is for 2-player mode, isn’t it lololololol

-Black Wolf became 1-player lololololol

-He’s being treated like he doesn’t exist lololololol