Chapter 24 Samurai Hearts – For Revenge (10)

“How was it, Master?! Did I get any better?”

Whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, Seung-yeon had managed to seize victory once again.

It was a victory earned after grappling with a soldier, tumbling across the floor, and finally sawing at his neck with her sword.

She scrambled to her feet, panting, and asked Dohyun with a confident air.

Dohyun was speechless at the unfounded confidence on Seung-yeon’s face.

‘Is she serious?’

Is she asking because she thinks she’s improved since the last fight?

Seung-yeon’s attitude was so assured that he couldn’t tell if she was serious or just teasing him.

-Sword Saint is flustered lololololol

-Never underestimate Victoria again

-Hey, Victoria is ‘real’…

The viewers chuckled as they watched Dohyun, who couldn’t even answer.

Among them, the Seung-yeon stans who had been watching her streams for a long time had already expected this.

The physical prowess Seung-yeon had shown them so far had given them that much faith.

“Well… Let’s try again, Noona. It’s still the first time, so it’ll be like that. You’ll get better if you keep doing it, right? You definitely will.”

In the end, Dohyun chose to give her another chance.

Come to think of it, she had only fought once since hearing his advice.

If she kept fighting, she might accept what he said and gradually improve.

The viewers laughed at Dohyun, saying he was running the happy circuit, but he decided to think that way, even if he had to force himself.

And.

“Iyaaa!”

“Die!”

In the continuous battle.

“This time for sure!”

“Filthy intruder!”

With Seung-yeon showing no change at all.

“I won’t let you live!”

“Kyaa!”

Dohyun, who was watching, gradually lost hope.

‘This isn’t going to work.’

Only after taking down six groups of soldiers did Dohyun admit it.

He had no choice but to admit it.

‘Noona can never improve with verbal advice.’

Seung-yeon’s terrible physical abilities.

He doubted if she was even the same species as him, and he wondered if her skills would ever improve.

No matter how many times he repeated and explained the same things, Seung-yeon didn’t change, like a rock.

She clearly remembered everything he had said, but she just couldn’t internalize it.

‘I have to step in and show her.’

But Dohyun didn’t give up, even though he acknowledged Seung-yeon’s cursed physical abilities.

If words didn’t work, he could just teach her by example.

If he showed her a demonstration that was perfectly tailored to her level, wouldn’t something change?

With that thought, Dohyun found a new group of soldiers, quickly took down three of them, and then suddenly jumped between Seung-yeon and the soldiers, who were about to start fighting.

“What? What’s wrong? No, what’s wrong, Master?”

“I’m going to change the method a little. I’ll show you first, so watch carefully and follow along. Got it, Noona?”

“Ah, if it’s that, then yes. I will.”

-The final boss is finally stepping in himself…

-You can really see how frustrated he is lololololol

-Just watching makes me breathless…!

-I wonder if she can learn by watching lolololol

Dohyun looked at the enemy soldier who was pointing a spear at him.

He could see three or four ways to take him down right away, and he was confident that he could do it.

But it wasn’t him who was standing here now, but Seung-yeon, who needed to fix her problems, even if only a little.

Dohyun took a deep breath and adopted the middle stance that Seung-yeon often took before a fight.

A moment of confrontation.

The soldier moved first.

“Die, intruder!”

Watching the spear tip thrust straight at him, Dohyun slowly lowered his sword.

The sword, moving at a noticeably slower speed than usual, struck the spear in a reasonably accurate manner.

Clang!

There was no perfect parry judgment.

Because he was deliberately aiming for success only.

A success occurred due to the correction effect, and the soldier hesitated, revealing a slight opening.

That alone was more than enough to make the attack a success.

Taking a big step forward, he thrust the sword that had struck the spear shaft straight in.

The soldier hurriedly tried to regain his posture and dodge, but it was already too late.

The blade that grazed the soldier’s left arm left a large wound there.

As soon as the attack succeeded, Dohyun retreated without hesitation.

‘Parry, slash, and then retreat. Honestly, you can do this much, right?’

After the first attack succeeded, Dohyun continued the battle in the same pattern.

Parry the spear when it’s thrust, then move forward and thrust or slash.

After that, he secured his safety by creating distance with a quick retreat.

As this was repeated, the soldier’s body became more wounded and blood flowed, making him more sluggish.

And finally.

Thwack!

“Ugh…”

Dohyun’s sword was deeply embedded in the chest of the enemy soldier who failed to dodge in time.

The soldier, whose heart was pierced by the cold blade, let out a short death cry and collapsed.

Not a bad victory.

At least not to the point of being called a terrible fight.

Dohyun, who slowly sheathed his sword, looked at Seung-yeon.

“Did you see properly?”

“I saw it clearly, Master!”

“Then you can do the same, right? It’s not difficult. Parry, slash, and then step back.”

“Hmm… I think I can probably do it.”

Dohyun became uneasy at the ambiguous answer.

He had shown her the demonstration tailored to her level as much as possible, but she gave such an uncertain answer.

But soon he calmed himself down.

In any case, he couldn’t be sure of anything until he tried it.

So they went on to find another group of soldiers.

They had fought five times and had come quite deep into the armory, so it wasn’t difficult to encounter new groups of soldiers.

The deeper they went, the more soldiers were wandering around.

The newly started battle followed a similar process to the previous six.

That meant Dohyun had cut down three soldiers before Seung-yeon even started fighting.

After the 3-on-1 battle that now felt like a simple task, Dohyun turned his gaze to Seung-yeon.

It was the moment when a soldier was about to thrust a spear at Seung-yeon.

“Iyaa!”

With a shout, Seung-yeon swung her sword.

Clang- The spear and sword collided, making a metallic sound.

“Wow…”

Dohyun exclaimed in admiration.

He couldn’t help but do so.

Anyone would have done the same if they saw the sight of the soldier thrusting a spear, Seung-yeon striking it down, and then being stabbed in the thigh by the spear whose trajectory had been twisted.

It was truly a scene that could only elicit admiration.

-Self-harm swordsmanship lololololol

-Now all she has to do is threaten and she’ll be extorting money through self-harm lololololol

-She’s making it work like this lolololol

-Look at the younger brother’s expression lolololol

-Swordsmanship I never imagined – ㅇㄱ

A situation where her mobility was limited from the start by being hit in the thigh by a spear.

Still, Seung-yeon managed to overcome it.

Dohyun, who was about to step in if necessary, put his sword back in after seeing Seung-yeon finally stab the soldier in the armpit with her sword.

The phrase ‘a pyrrhic victory’ suddenly came to Dohyun’s mind.

It was a word that fit the current situation very well.

“I think I got the hang of it after doing it once, so I think I can do better next time!”

Seung-yeon said as she sprayed a recovery potion on her spear-pierced thigh to heal it.

Dohyun nodded silently.

But even after that, and even after that, the results didn’t get any better.

Sometimes it even got worse.

Dohyun had saved her from being driven to the brink of death by a soldier.

Despite fighting several times, Seung-yeon was still struggling against a single mob soldier, and winning was mostly due to luck.

Watching all of that, Dohyun could feel what Seung-yeon meant by ‘spicy’ to the bone.

‘Why can’t you do this?’

He was grinding his teeth at the question that was rising from within.

Only now did Dohyun understand the comment Seung-yeon had made when she started the stream.

It was truly a stream that made you grind your teeth.

It was also a stream that made the viewers feel frustrated.

If that was the case for the people who were just watching, how would Dohyun, who was teaching her directly, feel?

After several more battles, when they finally reached the center of the armory, in front of the boss room, Dohyun finally made up his mind.

He had to say it.

“Noona.”

“Yeah, why?”

Dohyun declared firmly.

“Let’s give up on the making-a-person project.”

“What? What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“From what I’ve seen, this is an impossible project. Clinging to an unattainable goal is a futile effort.”

-lololololololol

-Younger brother declares he’s cutting ties lololololol

-Victoria coin plummets lololololol

-He’s beating her with facts lololololol

-The sibling chemistry is amazing lololololol

“Impossible! That’s too harsh!”

“Listen, Noona. You’re a spicy content creator, right? But there’s no reason to train your physical abilities now. Just abandon your weaknesses since they can’t be helped! Focus on making the most of your strengths. At least, that’s what I think.”

Seung-yeon protested timidly.

On the other hand, Dohyun replied with a very strict, solemn, and serious expression.

In fact, he was a little angry.

Just a little.

-He’s using an unblockable move lololololol

-I agree

-Victoria’s characteristic) inversely proportional to physical ability

-Look at how much he’s talking because he’s desperate lolololol How serious is he lolololol

This time, Seung-yeon didn’t argue back.

Because she herself was feeling, ‘Isn’t this honestly too much?’

No matter how much Dohyun taught and showed her, she hadn’t internalized anything so far.

The first few battles might have been like that, but the fact that there was no improvement at all in the battles that followed meant something obvious, didn’t it?

If you weren’t an idiot, you could easily guess that there was no hope.

“Then let’s do this.”

Dohyun proposed that they check whether she had properly learned what he had taught her so far.

The method was to survive alone against the boss for 3 minutes.

The condition was that he would acknowledge her even if she just endured without having to inflict any damage.

After hesitating for a while, Seung-yeon eventually accepted the condition he offered.

It was her last chance.

After exchanging their opinions, the two entered the boss room.

“Who is it?”

Immediately after entering the boss room, a heavy voice flew in.

Dohyun didn’t answer and looked around the room.

In the spacious boss room, only one samurai was sitting with his back turned.

He was completely armed with samurai-specific armor, and his size was almost comparable to Khanbei of the Three Sword Saints.

The heavy aura that could be felt even from his back made you involuntarily say that he was indeed a boss.

The samurai slowly got up.

The armor rubbed against each other, making a clanging sound each time he moved.

“An intruder, is it? Well, that’s fine. What’s the point of talking to someone who’s going to die anyway.”

The samurai, who muttered quietly, drew the sword from his waist.

It was a sword with an impressive blade that looked two or three times thicker than a normal sword.

The samurai’s eyes, visible below the face guard, shone sharply.

“I am Honda Kato, a vassal warrior of the Nagamatsu Clan. If you are asked in the afterlife who killed you, answer me!”

Kato shouted and charged.

Dohyun winked at Seung-yeon and then slipped back.

Seung-yeon stood in front of the onrushing Kato like a mantis in front of a cartwheel.

Clang!

A heavy metallic sound echoed.

Seung-yeon had managed to parry Kato’s first attack.

But her luck ended there.

Kato, who had paused for a moment after being parried, roared wildly and swung his thick-bladed sword like crazy.

Clang clang clang!

“Kyaa!”

Seung-yeon managed to block the first three attacks, but she eventually dropped her sword and knelt down due to the continuous attacks.

Kato’s merciless blow was inflicted on the fallen Seung-yeon.

Seung-yeon sprayed blood and fell to the side.

It was a defeat that didn’t even last 1 minute, let alone 3 minutes.

“A weakling.”

Kato, who muttered a short impression in front of Seung-yeon’s corpse, pointed his sword at Dohyun.

As if it was his turn next.

Dohyun faced him with a calm expression and drew his sword.

Seung-yeon had died again in front of his eyes, but unlike before, there was no anger.

This was partly because he had become so accustomed to virtual reality, and also because of the conversation he had with Seung-yeon after the last stream.

After the stream ended, Seung-yeon had said to Dohyun in a serious tone.

“Virtual reality is just virtual reality, and it can never become reality, so don’t get too immersed in it.”

She also giggled, saying that if he got so angry every time she died, he would develop intermittent explosive disorder.

She also talked about how if he got so angry when an acquaintance died in virtual reality, he would later be clipped as an over-immersed person, but that didn’t matter.

‘If you think about it calmly, she’s right. There’s no reason to get angry when someone dies in virtual reality.’

So Dohyun didn’t get angry.

The person who died would be gleefully laughing with the viewers.

He faced Kato and held up his sword, remaining calm to the end.

Before the battle, Sword Soul was activated, and explosive power surged within him, and the overflowing current of power was emitted outward.