Chapter 18 Samurai Hearts – For Revenge (4)

“What is this now?”

Dohyun was startled, having carelessly muttered, thinking he wouldn’t be able to speak during the event cutscene.

It seemed he had regained control of his body because the game had paused, causing his mutterings to be blurted out.

“What is it? What’s wrong? Why did a selection window suddenly pop up and even stop the game?!

-What’s going on this time;

-A pause selection already?

Seung-yeon, too, seemed to have regained control of her body, as she rattled off questions and approached Dohyun.

Her face was flushed with excitement as she spoke.

And for good reason.

While Samurai Hearts had quite a few choices, the ones that stopped the game entirely were very special.

Choices made during a pause had a significant impact on the entire game.

By “entire game,” it meant everything from the upcoming story to the eventual ending.

The Samurai Hearts developers had even publicly stated that many endings were yet to be revealed.

In the midst of all this, a new choice appeared that no one had ever seen before.

In other words, this choice could lead to a new ending that hadn’t been seen on any other broadcast!

Moreover, such an important choice appearing right at the beginning of Chapter 1 was unheard of.

“Show me too!”

Seung-yeon shouted in an excited tone.

Dohyun stepped aside, showing her the choices.

Creating a new school and inheriting an existing school.

Two choices with conflicting content.

“No…! Oh my god, what is this? Creating a new school is possible?”

-Whㅋatㅋ amㅋ Iㅋ watㅋchingㅋㅋㅋ

-Creating a school lololololol

-This is insane lololol Legend material lololol

Instead of choosing one of the three existing schools, the unprecedented event of creating an entirely new school!

It was only natural that the viewers were going wild with excitement.

Those who knew the game well were making all sorts of guesses and hypotheses, predicting the future route, while others were busy clipping and chatting.

Seung-yeon didn’t see the chat because she was carefully examining the choices, but she knew what the viewers wanted.

What they were asking for was obvious.

Seung-yeon shouted decisively.

“First one! Let’s definitely go with the first choice! Creating a new school!”

-Let’s go with 111111111111

-Let’s go pave a new route

-This is definitely the first one! Agree?

-Totally agree!

Seung-yeon and the viewers were speaking with a passion that bordered on fanaticism.

Dohyun shrugged.

Since he didn’t really know much about the game, he planned to leave it to his sister whenever something he didn’t understand came up.

And since they so strongly wanted him to choose the first one, he had no choice but to listen.

“So, we just choose the first one?”

“Yes! Definitely the first one!”

“But then it says an event called the Trial of the Three Sword Saints will happen?”

“So what? You don’t think you can win?”

Dohyun shook his head at Seung-yeon’s nonchalant question.

It wasn’t that he didn’t think he could win.

But it wasn’t like he was sure he could win either.

“Then what’s there to think about? First one! Let’s go without looking back!”

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-Let’s go pave a new route

-Definitely the first one Agree?

-Agree

-Agree

Seung-yeon and the viewers insisted with one mind.

Dohyun didn’t really care what he chose anyway.

His hand moved and selected the first option, ‘□ Accept.’

As Dohyun chose the first option, the paused world began to move again.

“Heh, you accept? Good!”

The man wearing a bearskin in front of him grinned, stretching his mouth wide.

A smile that looked vicious despite being a smile.

It was closer to a beast baring its teeth in threat than a smile.

Swish-

He drew the 2-meter-long tachi from his back and roared savagely.

“I am Yatsugyu Kanbei of the Sakyozanhori School. That sword of yours that defeated the Sword Saint. I will see it with my own eyes!”

Dohyun faced him and drew the sword he had hanging at his waist.

It was originally the sword of the Sword Saint Kato, not his own, and only then did the viewers notice and make a fuss.

-????

-?????

-?? Isn’t that the Sword Saint’s?

-lololololololol The Sword Saint got robbed lololololol

-The Sword Saint is going to be broke lololololololol

‘Sword Saint’ has donated ‘10000 won’!

[Hey, give me back my sword]

Of course, the fuss didn’t last long.

The event unfolding before their eyes was more important than making a fuss about Dohyun having the Sword Saint Kato’s sword.

‘Finally, a fight.’

The event cutscene seemed to have only progressed up to the selection, and there was no hindrance to moving his body.

Dohyun, feeling refreshed, drew his sword and took a stance.

At the same time, Kanbei charged.

“UOOOOOO-!”

With a thunderous roar, the tachi was swung, tearing through the wind.

The slash from the overwhelming distance, coming from a huge physique and a long blade, was truly intimidating.

Whoosh-!

It wasn’t the sound of air being cut, but the sound of it being crushed!

An ordinary person’s heart would have been chilled by the ferocity contained in the air-splitting sound.

But Dohyun was no ordinary person.

Dohyun lightly moved his foot in the face of the straightforward slash coming from above.

He moved his body to the right, avoiding Kanbei’s sword.

“You can’t escape!”

Kanbei shouted.

Immediately, surprisingly, Kanbei’s sword bent at a right angle, chasing after Dohyun, who had dodged to the side.

Dohyun realized that he had forcibly twisted the sword’s path with the powerful strength coming from his massive physique.

And that the momentum contained in the sword had not diminished in the slightest, despite that.

‘Should I parry? Should I dodge?’

Even in the face of a sword with the momentum to slice his waist in two with a mere graze, Dohyun remained calm.

After briefly considering how to respond, he made a decision.

‘Dodge.’

His thoughts were fast, and his actions were even faster.

Dohyun kicked off the ground and retreated as if bouncing backward.

Kanbei’s sword slashed through the spot where he had been, by a hair’s breadth.

But the attack was not over.

“You!”

Swoosh!

Kanbei, having forcibly pulled the sword that had passed by him, immediately thrust it at Dohyun, who had retreated.

A lightning-fast thrust.

Even though he had retreated a considerable distance, the tip of the sword aimed at Dohyun without wavering.

The sword Kanbei held was a tachi over 2 meters long.

Simply thrusting forward meant he could reach a distance of over 2 meters.

Clang!

Dohyun did not dodge the sword that flew accurately towards his heart this time.

His swinging sword accurately struck the tip of Kanbei’s sword.

Clang-! With a heavy metallic sound, Kanbei flinched and stopped.

A perfect parry was successfully executed.

Despite the picture-perfect parry, Dohyun frowned.

‘My hand is tingling.’

A heavy vibration had been transmitted to the hand holding the sword.

It was a sensation he had never felt before when parrying an enemy’s sword with a successful parry.

‘Why?’

Dohyun felt a question, but he soon realized.

The unique effect of the swordsmanship.

This heavy impact was the unique effect of the Sakyozanhori School’s swordsmanship.

The Sakyozanhori School had a unique effect that gave the opponent a greater impact when the swordsman attacked.

That was why Dohyun felt an unexpectedly heavy vibration.

“You can’t stop me with just this!”

Kanbei shouted and charged at Dohyun with fierce and violent momentum.

Swoosh-!

Attack after attack, and then another attack.

He advanced and swung his sword without the slightest hesitation, as if he had said.

Kanbei’s swordsmanship was very savage.

He tried to tear the enemy like the claws of a beast hunting for prey.

Nevertheless, he did not give the impression of swinging wildly.

That was because the Sakyozanhori School that Kanbei used was a swordsmanship that added attacks under thorough calculation, so that was how it felt.

However, only masters who had extremely trained in swordsmanship could recognize it, and Seung-yeon was not among them.

To her, the sword that Kanbei wielded was simply brutal.

“The Sakyozanhori School’s swordsmanship seems very brutal. Should I say tenacious? I wonder if it was originally such a swordsmanship. Do you all think so too?”

-Agree Agree It’s so brutal

-Isn’t it almost a die-or-die style lololol

-So that was that kind of swordsmanship. I don’t think it was like that at all when I used it

-I’m learning for the first time that it’s that kind of swordsmanship

-It seems like it’s also because the Sword Saint is using it

Dohyun, who had no way of knowing about the conversation between Seung-yeon and the viewers, was focused on Kanbei’s sword.

‘This is the Sakyozanhori School…’

Dohyun narrowed his eyes in the face of the sword that was slashing at him.

Sakyozanhori School (Sakyozanhori School).

A sword that cuts, mows, kills all, and howls.

Like its extremely ferocious name, the Sakyozanhori School’s sword was very aggressive.

If the Sword Saint Kato’s sword was elegant and refined, Kanbei’s sword was simply violent.

If it had been someone else, they would not have been able to overcome the violence of this sword and would have been torn to shreds in an instant.

Due to the effects of the Sakyozanhori School, the shock accumulating in his hand as he received the sword would have caused him to drop his sword and lose.

Only if it had been someone else.

“Die!”

Slash!

A sword drawing a diagonal line, aiming for Dohyun’s neck.

It was the claws of a beast containing the momentum that would not stop until it killed its opponent.

But no matter how intense it was, it was meaningless if it could not cut the opponent.

‘Violent.’

Dohyun thought in the face of the ferocious swordsmanship.

‘But that’s all it is.’

The headlong aggressiveness is worth learning.

But that was all.

To Dohyun, who had even defeated the Sword Saint Kato, the Sakyozanhori School’s swordsmanship was only worth learning.

Dohyun’s sword, twisting his body, soared up like lightning.

Aiming accurately at Kanbei’s sword surface.

Clang-!

He predicted the sword path and thrust upwards towards the intersecting point, accurately striking the sword surface without an inch of error.

Accurately striking the sword surface in the midst of a fiercely moving slash meant that Dohyun had seen through all of Kanbei’s sword.

This was also truly a feat.

“Kuh?!”

Kanbei paused at the perfect parry.

It was a pause due to the successful parry.

A momentary freeze.

Dohyun, taking another big step forward, slashed Kanbei diagonally.

Clang!

Kanbei, barely recovering, supported the sword’s spine with his other hand, blocking Dohyun’s sword.

But Dohyun’s offensive had only just begun.

As if to repay what he had endured until now, his sword fearlessly bared its teeth at Kanbei.

Clang clang clang clang!

The metallic sound rang out cheerfully.

Kanbei, unable to counterattack against Dohyun’s continuous attacks, retreated mindlessly.

Seung-yeon, who was watching, unknowingly exclaimed “Huh?” in question.

Because Dohyun’s sword now seemed familiar to her for some reason.

A familiarity as if she had seen it somewhere.

And soon she realized the identity of the familiarity she felt from Dohyun’s sword.

“Sakyozanhori School! That’s Sakyozanhori School, right?”

-lololololol Right lololol That’s Sakyozanhori School lololololol

-As expected of Sword Saint lololololol

-I was wondering why he was only blocking lololololol

-The reason I knelt was to gain momentum lololololololol

The viewers went wild again.

Because the question of why Dohyun was only blocking or dodging without counterattacking had been resolved.

They had already seen this scene once before.

In the duel between the Sword Saint Kato and Dohyun, which had become famous as the Sword Saint War.

It was an ability that even the famous streamer Kang Yeon-woo had dismissed as a talent that he himself could not understand.

The bizarre talent of absorbing the opponent’s swordsmanship just by watching it, and adding it to his own swordsmanship.

It was that ability that contributed the most to Dohyun being called a genius.

Of course, he had not fully mastered the Sakyozanhori School, so he could not exert the unique effects of the swordsmanship, but the sword style alone was enough.

“Kuhuk!”

Clang!

Unlike Dohyun, who had endured with ease, Kanbei could not withstand Dohyun’s barrage of attacks.

One of the reasons was that he did not receive the swordsmanship effect because he could not take the offensive himself.

Kanbei, whose posture had finally collapsed, knelt on one knee.

Dohyun, who had raised his sword for a perfect finish, had no choice but to lower his sword.

It was because of Kanbei’s muttering with his head bowed.

“I, lost…”

Because Kanbei had admitted defeat.

Thus, the first match was decided.

‘Next…’