Chapter 25 Samurai Hats – For Revenge (11)

“But everyone. It just occurred to me, this setup feels really familiar. My brother fighting and me watching. Is it just me?”

-Total deja vu lol

-Victoria (26) Occupation: Broadcast Caster

-I enjoy Kratos’s streams^^

-Get out of the way;; I can’t see Sword God fighting;;

Dohyun narrowed his eyes.

His concentration heightened.

His mind, dulled from dealing with Seung-yeon, sharpened once more.

Like flipping a switch, just like when he faced the Sword Saint.

“I’ll send you to the afterlife too!”

Gato charged first.

With a thunderous roar, the massive samurai rushed towards Dohyun.

Each time he stepped, the tatami mats on the floor caved in, unable to bear the weight of his armor.

Gato aimed to cleave Dohyun in two vertically.

He swung his sword with brute force, the thick blade falling like lightning.

“Hmph!”

Dohyun didn’t evade, but swung his sword to meet it head-on.

He didn’t care about the disadvantage in position.

There was no reason to be pushed back by so little.

Clang-!

Blade met blade.

A harsh metallic sound echoed, and sparks flew in all directions.

After the clash, Gato stumbled back a couple of steps.

His face, visible below the face guard, twisted fiercely.

He looked like he couldn’t believe he was being pushed back.

Dohyun didn’t miss the opening.

He stepped forward and swung his sword.

Gato’s chest armor cracked with a sharp sound against Dohyun’s blade.

‘The armor’s thicker than I thought.’

Dohyun clicked his tongue.

He had managed to land an attack, but it hadn’t done much damage.

The armor he was wearing was so thick that the wound was too shallow.

But it wasn’t like there was no way to win.

Countless ways to defeat Gato flashed through Dohyun’s mind.

It didn’t seem to matter which one he chose.

Gato, as far as he had seen, wasn’t much of a threat to him.

“Uryaah!”

Gato roared, his stiffness gone.

He gripped his sword with both hands and swung it.

This time, horizontally instead of vertically.

It was an attack that clearly showed his intention to cut Dohyun’s torso in half.

‘I get the intention, but you’re too slow.’

To Dohyun, enhanced by Sword Soul, Gato’s sword was plainly visible.

Should he block, or evade?

After thinking for a moment, he decided not to prolong the fight.

Dohyun swung his sword to meet it.

Clang-!

The blades clashed once more between Dohyun and Gato, creating another heavy metallic sound and a multitude of sparks.

But fundamentally, Dohyun had the advantage in a head-on collision.

Gato didn’t have a parry, but Dohyun, as a player, did.

Gato, hit by a perfect parry, staggered back, his stance broken.

“Haaat!”

Dohyun didn’t miss the blatantly exposed opening.

The trajectory of the following horizontal slash, accompanied by a shout, aimed for Gato’s neck.

Dohyun’s sword had the power to split even the thickest chest armor and wound the flesh beneath.

A thinner helmet was no match for it.

Dohyun’s sword smoothly severed Gato’s head and neck without resistance.

Thud, roll-

Gato’s severed head tumbled across the floor.

Following it, the headless torso fell backward with a heavy thud.

“Some people can’t even last 3 minutes before dying, while others defeat the boss in less than 3 minutes. Viewers, does this make any sense!”

-Talent gap

-Talent

-It’s because you’re…

-Don’t even try to compare yourself to Sword God!

“Ugh, the ‘Make a Person’ project ended as soon as it started! I studied so hard, but I haven’t improved at all… Huh? What’s that?”

Twitch.

Dohyun, who was slowly sheathing his sword, paused.

He felt like Gato’s fallen corpse had moved for a moment.

He narrowed his eyes and stared at the corpse.

He drew his sword again.

He trusted his senses, so he didn’t dismiss the subtle twitch he had just seen as a delusion.

That was the biggest reason he had succeeded in blocking the first attack.

Swoosh-!

Like water bursting from confinement, grotesque tentacles sprouted from Gato’s severed neck.

The black tentacles looked like octopus legs without suction cups.

The thickest and largest of them targeted Dohyun, who had killed its host.

Thud-

Dohyun, who was drawing his sword, managed to deflect the tentacle aimed at him, but the force behind it made him stumble back several steps.

“What is this now?”

Dohyun muttered unconsciously.

It was that bizarre of a sight.

A scene where a dozen tentacles sprouted and writhed from the severed neck.

The tentacles that sprouted from Gato’s neck touched the floor and slowly raised the body.

Four tentacles supported the headless corpse standing upright by gripping the floor, while the remaining tentacles writhed and stirred in the air.

Dohyun didn’t know it, but this was Phase 2 of Honda Gato, the boss of the Nagamatsu armory.

Honda Gato was a vassal warrior of the Nagamatsu Clan.

Naturally, he had deep ties with the ‘darkness’ that was closely associated with the Nagamatsu Clan, and therefore, there was a setting that he had accepted that power.

Phase 2 meant that Honda Gato was unleashing the power he had obtained from the ‘darkness.’

“Gurgle, gurgle.”

Tentacles sprouted from Dohyun’s severed head as well.

Gato’s head used the tentacles sprouting from the severed part to move, and finally returned to the body where it should have been.

However, bizarrely, the head was attached to the chest instead of the original neck.

It seemed that it had stuck there because of the tentacles sprouting from the neck.

With the head attached to the chest, the bizarreness was further amplified.

‘Well, whatever.’

It didn’t matter to Dohyun how bizarre the enemy was.

He had to kill it anyway.

“Gurgle, kill…, grk, …you…, gurgle.”

Of course, even so, he was a little surprised when the head attached to the chest rolled its eyes and looked straight at him and spoke.

Immediately after Gato finished speaking, the tentacles that had been writhing aimlessly in the air suddenly stopped all movement.

It was clear that it was a sign of an attack.

Dohyun tensed his body, and at the same time, one of the tentacles was swung at him.

The tentacle, as thick as a log, came crashing down with an oppressive whooshing sound.

Dohyun didn’t evade, but confronted it head-on.

He gripped the sword hilt tightly with both hands and slashed at the tentacle with all his might.

Slice!

The sword swung by Dohyun and the tentacle collided, and a sharp cutting sound rang out.

Dohyun, unable to withstand the force contained in the tentacle, stumbled back a few steps, but was unharmed, while the tentacle cut by the sword dripped transparent liquid from the split wound.

The result of the head-on collision could be said to be Dohyun’s victory.

What was unusual was that the parry didn’t work, even though he had countered the tentacle.

It seemed that the tentacle was judged to be a body part rather than a weapon.

“Gurgle, with this much…, gurgle. You can’t… kill me…! Gurgle!”

With Gato’s cry, the wound that Dohyun had left on the tentacle slowly healed.

Dohyun frowned.

He clearly thought he had cut it perfectly, but it had only left a wound.

He felt an unknown sense of incongruity.

His thoughts and the actual movements of his body did not match.

Whoosh-!

Gato swung the tentacle again.

The tentacle bent like a whip and targeted Dohyun.

Dohyun, abandoning his distractions, twisted his body.

The tentacle missed by a hair’s breadth, and taking advantage of the gap, his sword sliced the tentacle.

“Grrr!”

Gato let out a bizarre cry and pulled the tentacle.

However, the tentacle already cut by Dohyun was dangling, half-cut.

Dohyun, ignoring the gurgling Gato, clicked his tongue.

He didn’t like the current situation.

‘I was going to cut it off completely.’

The power contained in the tentacle was stronger than he thought, and it was also quite thick, so he couldn’t cut it off.

He had cut it deeper than before, but it didn’t seem to have done much damage, judging from the way it was wriggling without a care.

In the first place, the tentacle was as thick as a log, so that much would be nothing.

However, that was only Dohyun’s thought, and Gato seemed to feel differently.

“Gurgle, you… gurgle. I’ll kill… you!”

Gato, who had let out a roar full of anger, swung the tentacles in succession.

The remaining tentacles, excluding the four tentacles supporting the body, were swung at Dohyun.

Each one was as thick as a log, so the pressure was enormous.

“What’s with the tentacles?! Why tentacles all of a sudden?! Ugh, disgusting.”

-That’s Phase 2 lol

-Suddenly tentacles;

-Tentacles are so annoying; They cut well, but you can’t parry them;

“Phase 2? Ah, this is Phase 2? Tentacles. I would have died here immediately even if I had been alive. But I couldn’t have been alive in the first place!”

-Big picture

-Amazing

-The reason I died early was to avoid dying from tentacles?

-It’s like, if you commit suicide, I’ll kill you

-Victoria’s broadcasting experience is still there

Dohyun’s eyes trembled slightly.

The talent that had once bloomed blossomed completely again in the face of danger.

The infinitely heightened concentration slowed down the virtually created world.

Everything can be seen, and everything can be recognized.

In addition, the body enhanced by Sword Soul greatly expanded the scope of his actions.

He could do anything he wanted.

For example, cutting off the eight tentacles targeting him.

‘I’ll cut them off properly this time.’

The first tentacle falls from above.

The air is shattered by the strong force contained in the tentacle, and a chilling sound echoes.

Dohyun’s response was simple.

Move one step to the side and upward slash.

The blade laid sideways greeted the tentacle as it was, and the tentacle was cut off by the blade that had been rammed by its own force.

Whoosh-

Following it, the second tentacle targeted Dohyun’s side.

This is also easy to deal with.

Dohyun twisted his body and pulled the sword that had been slashed upwards, and cut off the tentacle that had been swung from the side as it was.

Third, fourth, fifth…

Dohyun casually countered the attacks of the tentacles that followed in succession.

Each time after a slash, the cut-off tentacles fall to the floor and wriggle, and transparent blood drips from the remaining parts.

Even the attacks of the sixth and seventh tentacles that followed could not do anything to Dohyun.

“Gurgle, gurgle!”

Gato’s face was distorted beyond recognition by the pain of the tentacles being cut off.

Gato, who had been making a gurgling sound, let out a bizarre roar, “Kyaak!”

The eighth tentacle, which had not yet been cut off, wriggled strangely and stretched straight up to the ceiling.

At the same time, the cut-off tentacles were sucked into the inside of the neck, and the intact eighth, which should now be called the only tentacle, made a cracking sound and became thicker.

It was quite a grotesque scene.

“Die, gurgle. Huh…!”

The tentacle, which had become more than five times thicker, was swung like a whip, targeting Dohyun’s head.

An unprecedentedly heavy sonic boom echoes.

The pressure was like a huge pillar being swung!

Dohyun’s spine tingled at the power that he couldn’t even be sure he could cut properly.

‘I have to strike first.’

Countering an attack of that power is no different from suicide.

Dohyun, who had made up his mind, lowered his posture.

Aiming for Gato’s head.

He gritted his teeth and kicked the ground, giving strength to his thighs as if they were about to burst.

The body enhanced by Sword Soul shot out like a cannonball.

Whoosh-

A chilling sensation as the tentacle brushes past the ends of his hair.

But that also meant that Dohyun had evaded the tentacle’s attack.

Gato, sensing the crisis, tried to avoid the spot with the four tentacles supporting his body, but Dohyun was much faster.

Thwack-!

“Grraaack!”

Dohyun’s outstretched sword pierced Gato’s head and then his heart.

Tears of blood poured from Gato’s eyes, which had been pierced through the forehead.

It was a bizarre and disgusting scene, and Dohyun didn’t want to see such a scene anymore.

“Hmph!”

Dohyun put strength into his arm.

With Gato’s head and heart pierced through, he mercilessly attempted a downward slash.

Gato’s body split open along the blade, and black liquid gushed out between the gaps.

The tentacles that had sprouted from his body convulsed once and then shriveled up like dried squid legs.

That was the same for the tentacles that had been supporting Gato’s body, and soon the corpse split in half collapsed to the floor with a thud.

‘……Is he dead?’

He was quite anxious because he thought he was already dead once and then resurrected.

If resurrection was possible once, it meant it was possible twice.

So Dohyun repeatedly hacked Gato’s corpse with an indifferent face.

So that he could be defeated quickly even if he resurrected again.

He stopped doing that because Seung-yeon, who had resurrected after the boss fight, spoke to him.

“It’s completely dead, so you can stop.”

“Ah, it won’t resurrect again?”

“Viewers say it only resurrects during Phase 2. Anyway, it’s dead, so stop.”

Dohyun nodded and sheathed his sword.

In the meantime, Seung-yeon was preparing to end the broadcast.

She thought it was a good time to end the broadcast since the boss fight was over.

The broadcast time had passed quite a bit.

“Did you enjoy the broadcast today? I was sad today because I realized the limits of my physical abilities. I might cry after turning off the broadcast.”

-Ah, time to end the broadcast;

-No, is it over here?

-She cuts it off perfectly;

-Victoria crying because of the game lol

-Ah, I just came, ah;

Various viewer chats are written.

There were many opinions that it was a pity, but that was always the case.

Seung-yeon, who smiled brightly, skillfully continued to speak.

“Thank you so much for watching my broadcast today. I’ll be back with a more fun broadcast next time. Thank you all for your hard work watching. Bye bye! Brother, say hello!”

“Thank you for your hard work watching the broadcast.”

-Vic-bye!

-K-bye!

That’s how the broadcast ended.

However, Dohyun and Seung-yeon were left alone in the boss room because they hadn’t even turned off the game and completely ended the VR.

Seung-yeon, who had turned off the broadcast-related programs, was about to end the game, but Dohyun, who was thinking about something, called her.

“Sister.”

“Why?”

“Is there any way to get rid of this delay?”

“Delay? What delay?”

At Seung-yeon’s question, Dohyun brought up the story about the sense of incongruity that he had felt before, and that he was feeling strongly now.

During the tutorial, Dohyun had told Seung-yeon that he was disappointed that his body didn’t move as he thought.

At that time, he could just say ‘disappointed’ and move on, but it was different now that his body was enhanced by Sword Soul.

The sense of incongruity had grown as his body had become stronger, so Dohyun was currently feeling that sense of incongruity more strongly than ever.

He should have swung his sword much faster if he had thought about it, but that was impossible.

In fact, that’s why he thought he had perfectly cut the tentacle when fighting Gato, but it had only ended up as a wound.

If he strengthens Sword Soul through Yul in the future, the sense of incongruity will become even greater.

He was thinking of solving it before that.

“Ah, that…”

Seung-yeon, who realized what Dohyun was talking about, exclaimed.

However, Seung-yeon had never felt the sense of incongruity that Dohyun was talking about, so it was impossible to suggest a reasonable solution.

Instead, she decided to introduce Dohyun to someone who might know the solution.

Coincidentally, she had received a rather interesting proposal from that person.

“I know someone who can solve that… that person is a streamer?”

“Ah, really?”

“That person saw you fighting Sword Saint before and asked me to do a broadcast with you once. Would you like to do a broadcast with him to ask him what you’re curious about? You can ask him about anything else you’re curious about.”

“……Should I?”

Dohyun, who was thinking for a moment at Seung-yeon’s suggestion, nodded.

It was a suggestion that wouldn’t be bad for him.

That’s how the next broadcast schedule was set.