The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 277

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 276

Heavenbound (2)

Amaterasu Omikami.

The undisputed supreme deity who has reigned over the Japanese archipelago for a long time.

There is no doubt that she is a great deity with a divine status comparable to the main gods of other mythologies.

To organize her accumulated divine status and face the great deity of the Holy Star Palace for the first time.

The ‘Sun God’ is treated as the supreme deity in every mythology.

So is ‘Ra’ in Egyptian mythology.

As Amaterasu raised her hand with a long index finger, a halo of light gathered in the sky, forming a circle.

Then, concentration and emanation occur in an instant.

From the circular halo of light, long streaks of light poured down toward Meteor Shower.

Radiant Heat Ray.

Its speed is truly like light.

Meteor Shower maximized all his senses and barely reacted.

He swung his sword, knocking down several rays of light, and took a step forward.

At the same time, rapid acceleration occurred.

Meteor Shower, moving as if cutting through time, rotated in front of Amaterasu and swung his sword.

However, this time, Amaterasu was also prepared.

Having already experienced Meteor Shower’s nonsensical speed, she rotated smoothly to avoid the sword.

‘That’s an unusual sword; I might get hurt if I block it unnecessarily.’

Avoiding the sword, she stretched out her bare foot to kick Meteor Shower in the side.

However, he stretched out his empty hand and instead struck Amaterasu’s ankle, changing the direction of the force upwards.

Her foot stretched straight up towards the ceiling instead of Meteor Shower’s side, hitting the sky.

“It’s nothing to brag about, but I’m quite good at grappling too!”

Amaterasu smiled and slammed her foot, which had been stretched towards the sky, straight down.

The foot, slammed down at the speed of light, struck the ground, creating a huge crater.

Shuten-doji [a powerful oni or demon in Japanese folklore], who was watching and drinking, and Meteor Shower, who was wielding his sword in front, were lifted into the air.

Meteor Shower used the highly raised debris as a stepping stone to move quickly.

Amaterasu remained standing on the ground, only looking up at the sky.

‘Something half-hearted won’t work.’

Meteor Shower, who had been moving continuously, increased his speed.

He climbed even higher, and when the already small Amaterasu looked even smaller, he began to descend.

He increased his speed by using the rising debris as a stepping stone again.

Grasping his sword firmly with both hands, he shattered the debris with his leg strength to add acceleration, becoming a streak of red light and falling towards Amaterasu.

“Hmph!”

She gathered halos of light with both hands and shot out a giant pillar of light.

Meteor Shower did not avoid the pillar of light but threw himself straight into it.

He rushed in, wielding his sword, gathering his divine power into the pillar of light.

The intense sunlight would burn even Amaterasu’s earth.

The straight red shooting star created by Meteor Shower collided.

Neither side backed down.

Amaterasu did not feel the need to back down, and Meteor Shower thought that if he could not cut this down, he would not even be qualified to challenge the great deity.

The aura and divine power of Meteor Shower’s life gathered at one point, creating a breakthrough.

‘Here it is.’

The very center of the light.

The place where all flows begin.

The tip of Meteor Shower’s sword, striking that place, split the light.

Falling down, splitting the light to the left and right. From Amaterasu’s position, it just looked like Meteor Shower was engulfed in light.

Shuten-doji, who was watching from the side, couldn’t help but admire.

“Ho…….”

Is that really a human’s sword? A human who has reached a realm where no one can reach, cutting even divine light.

Meteor Shower gradually fell.

Amaterasu noticed the change later.

She hurriedly tried to avoid it, but the tip of his sword was already right in front of her nose.

It was too late to react.

Meteor Shower’s eyes flashed, and the red sword grew huge and approached.

Koo-oong!

The moment he and Amaterasu collided, a huge roar erupted, and dust soared.

The earth vibrated with an enormous amount of impact.

In the dust, Meteor Shower and Amaterasu were looking at each other from a close distance.

As if their bodies were overlapping, Amaterasu was stuck to the floor, and Meteor Shower was looking down at her from above.

Meteor Shower’s sword was stuck a few centimeters away from Amaterasu’s neck.

Realizing that his sword had not pierced Amaterasu’s neck, Meteor Shower immediately tried to change the direction of the sword and cut her neck, but Amaterasu’s foot soared faster than that.

Ppeo-eok!

With a loud noise, Meteor Shower’s body floated slightly in the air, but he endured, sticking his sword into the ground.

Because if it wasn’t now, there would be no chance to cut Amaterasu’s neck.

Amaterasu looked at Meteor Shower and felt that he was serious.

The intense murderous intent emanating from his eyes and sword.

He is sincerely trying to kill her, and he sincerely thinks he can kill her.

Who on earth has ever thought that way?

No one had ever harbored such irreverent thoughts towards Amaterasu.

Even the great yokai [supernatural demons] often succumbed in front of her.

The gods of other countries also did not look at her carelessly.

“You impious bastard!”

“Die.”

Meteor Shower’s sword once again aims for Amaterasu’s nape, moving like a snake.

At the bizarre movement, Amaterasu eventually raised both hands and shouted.

“I lost! I lost! You crazy human! So, how about getting off me?”

Only then did Meteor Shower’s sword stop.

He calmed his anger and got up from his position.

Then, he spat out a bucket of blood that he had been swallowing and wiped his mouth with his sleeve.

“Tuh.”

He spat out all the stagnant blood and looked at Amaterasu and said.

“Shuten-doji, just a drink.”

“Oh, yeah.”

Shuten-doji, who had confirmed that the battle was over, staggered over and handed Meteor Shower a cup filled with alcohol.

He held half of it in his mouth and spat it out, and drank the rest in one gulp.

The hot alcohol warmed his body, and it seemed to calm his upset stomach a little.

“You are really amazing, aren’t you? That Amaterasu Omikami would say the word surrender.”

“…….”

Meteor Shower frowned at Shuten-doji’s compliment.

He should be happy that he won against Japan’s supreme god, but instead, he felt the gap even more.

Amaterasu did not exert her full power.

There’s no way that sloppy tracksuit look is her true form.

So, in other words, Amaterasu appeared in a form that limited her power and beat Shuten-doji to a pulp for two days, driving himself to death.

If he had made even one mistake, he would have been engulfed in Amaterasu’s intense sunlight and burned to death.

If she really intended to kill him, she would have summoned the sun and killed him, even if Takamagahara [the heavenly realm in Japanese mythology] flew away, since she is the sun god.

She would have killed Shuten-doji in an instant instead of playing with him for two days.

“I have a long way to go.”

While he was muttering quietly, Amaterasu approached, dusting off the dirt on her clothes.

On her neck, a long scratch that Meteor Shower had made for the second time remained, and blood was flowing down.

She stopped the wound by cauterizing it with her heat and said with her lips sticking out.

“Shuten, you made a crazy guy your friend. You’re the first guy who really tried to kill me.”

“Haha, it’s the first time I’ve seen Amaterasu so flustered.”

“Where did you come from? Judging by your looks, you’re not Japanese……”

In Amaterasu’s eyes, Meteor Shower was a very foreign existence.

He looked like he was from the neighborhood, but the divine power emanating from his body was not theirs.

A divine power from another world that does not exist anywhere in this world.

“Amaterasu-sama, that’s why this friend came. That, why Susano-o……”

“Ah.”

Amaterasu realized what Shuten-doji was trying to say.

Not long ago, Susano-o [a storm god in Japanese mythology and Amaterasu’s brother] came to brag to her that he thought he would have a useful incarnation.

Susano-o was recognized for his contribution to killing Yamata no Orochi [an eight-headed serpent in Japanese mythology] and obtained the ‘Dragon Slayer Divine Status’.

So, he often talked about wanting to have a dragon as his incarnation, but even in this world, dragons are not common.

Furthermore, Japan has few legends about dragons.

The most famous legend was Yamata no Orochi, but that was also a legend where the dragon dies.

However, if he went to another country, it was a place where even Susano-o could not easily touch.

“So, are you the father of the child that Susano-o has marked as his incarnation?”

“Similar.”

“Hmm.”

After thinking for a moment, Amaterasu opened her mouth.

“Becoming Susano-o’s incarnation is close to an honor. If you say you can become the incarnation of Japan’s Three Noble Children [referring to Amaterasu, Susano-o, and Tsukuyomi], there are plenty of people who would sacrifice their children. Can’t you let the child become Susano-o’s incarnation?”

“I don’t know if you’re saying that right now. What crazy bastard suddenly takes his child and tries to make him his incarnation……”

Meteor Shower looked at Amaterasu with a truly contemptuous expression.

From Amaterasu’s point of view, Susano-o is one of Japan’s Three Noble Children.

If he became his incarnation, he could rise to divine status in an instant, and he could become a stronger incarnation than anyone else.

But he is refusing such an opportunity. She just can’t understand.

“I came all the way to Takamagahara because it seemed like you wouldn’t listen to words. I have the right to fair revenge.”

Even now, Nox would be lying down, unable to get up.

Fighting against the illusions created by Susano-o.

Nox is a strong child, so he won’t give in to such temptations, but leaving him for a long time is not good either.

“…….”

Amaterasu saw through that there was no lie in Meteor Shower’s words.

A father’s heart worrying about his child.

Amaterasu, who was born as a god, is an emotion she has never felt, but she knew what form the emotion he held took.

She also realized that she could no longer block Meteor Shower’s path, as she had already declared her defeat.

She was silent for a while, then opened her mouth.

“…Then I can’t stop you anymore. I can’t open the way to Susano-o, but if you go on your own, on your own feet, I will allow it as much as you want.”

“That’s enough.”

“And kill them moderately. Even if a few dozen people die out of eight million… it won’t even show, but… there’s an atmosphere, isn’t there?”

If the grudges of the spirits killed by Meteor Shower wander around Takamagahara, the atmosphere will be too grim.

It’s supposed to be a sacred realm.

“Do you know how annoying and tiring it is for me to purify and wander around all the grudges that were unjustly killed?”

“How would I know? But isn’t that what you have to do?”

Amaterasu frowned at Meteor Shower’s blunt words.

She had a face that seemed to say, ‘Did I lose to this crazy bastard for nothing?’

Shuten-doji also had a slightly uneasy expression. He had a face that seemed to say, ‘What if Amaterasu gets angry and kills Meteor Shower…’

Meteor Shower returned the glass he was holding to Shuten-doji and sent his life back as well.

‘…Now there’s nothing to hold me back.’

If he finishes a little more preparation, he will head to hunt Susano-o.

The highest place in Takamagahara.

To the land of the Three Noble Children.