The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 289

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 288

Susanoo-no-Mikoto (7)

Evening fell as the sun began to set.

Yuseongwoo found it strange that Takehaya hadn’t returned, especially with the sunset.

After observing him for a few days, Takehaya had been like a model child from a new country, meticulously adhering to his sleep schedule.

As if compelled, he would fall asleep as soon as the sun went down.

Perhaps it was the influence of Amaterasu and Susanoo [two prominent deities in Japanese mythology].

“Hmm.”

Yuseongwoo felt an ominous premonition and decided he had to go look for Takehaya.

To think this would happen on the day he decided to end it all.

He rose from his spot and began to follow Takehaya’s trail.

He had seen which direction Takehaya headed before going to bed.

The ground was damp, leaving clear footprints.

Finding Takehaya wouldn’t be too difficult.

He followed Takehaya’s trail for a while until he arrived at a place with many footprints.

It was the place where he and Susanoo had fought fiercely.

And on those footprints, specifically on Susanoo’s footprints, he found smaller footprints.

“…This is troublesome.”

Takehaya’s footprints were on top of Susanoo’s.

The flow suggested he moved naturally, as if his body remembered.

It seemed certain that something had happened to Takehaya.

“…This way, perhaps.”

There were footprints that looked like someone had fled in a hurry.

Yuseongwoo followed the footprints and, as the sun completely set, discovered a coastal cave where Takehaya’s trail ended.

Takehaya’s trail led into the coastal cave.

“……Hmm.”

After a moment’s hesitation, he stepped inside.

The cave was filled with darkness, with only the sound of small waves echoing.

Yuseongwoo slowly entered the coastal cave.

“Takehaya?”

He felt a small presence inside. It was definitely Takehaya.

He narrowed his eyes, peering into the dark depths of the cave.

There, Takehaya was huddled up, trembling.

He looked as if he had run away from something.

“No, no, no, that’s not it, that’s not me, I’m not…”

He muttered incessantly.

Takehaya’s face was filled with terror, and he looked up at Yuseongwoo, who had approached.

“H-hyung [older brother/close male friend], hyung, h-how do I look? What kind of person am I?”

“Get a grip.”

“A-answer me, please, please…”

Takehaya muttered in a voice filled with fear.

Yuseongwoo tried to approach Takehaya and calm him down, but the situation only worsened.

“No, no, get out of my head… who are you? Who are you? Why are you doing this to me?”

“Calm down, Takehaya!”

“Aaaaaaaah!”

His cries didn’t reach him.

Takehaya clutched his head and trembled, then suddenly darted out of the coastal cave.

Yuseongwoo tried to grab him, but he slipped out of his grasp with a strange gait and quickly disappeared from sight.

“Why is he suddenly like this?”

He could only guess one thing.

The boundary between Takehaya and Susanoo was collapsing.

According to Shuten-doji’s theory, Susanoo was divided into two personalities due to the contract with the goddess Amaterasu.

During the day, he was in the body of ‘Takehaya.’

At night, he was in the body of ‘Susanoo.’

The daytime was when the goddess Amaterasu was active. It was a kind of restriction to prevent Susanoo from harming her during that time.

The problem was that dividing the personality was like dividing the soul.

It meant that the divine power was cut in half.

If that boundary were to collapse, Takehaya and Susanoo would become one, regaining their true divine power as ‘Takehayasusanoo-no-Mikoto.’

Yuseongwoo followed after Takehaya.

Leaving the coastal cave, he saw Takehaya standing on a cliff.

Bathed in the moonlight, Takehaya looked back at Yuseongwoo, who was approaching.

“Hyung, my head hurts. It hurts so much… Someone is rummaging through my head… ….”

“…….”

Yuseongwoo stared at Takehaya.

The divine power emanating from him was growing stronger.

As he thought, the boundary between Takehaya and Susanoo seemed to be collapsing.

The boy’s body was bulging and swelling as if it would burst at any moment.

They looked like monsters trying to break through Takehaya’s small body.

“Hyung, I’m sorry. I wanted to play with you more… ….”

A faint voice.

He could feel what Takehaya wanted so desperately.

But Takehaya couldn’t finish his sentence and fell off the cliff.

And what remained was a bright yellow full moon hanging on the edge of the cliff.

However, the full moon soon disappeared as a tall pillar of water shot up.

Inside the pillar of water, a large man appeared and opened his mouth.

“Ah, finally… I have regained it. I have regained everything I lost!”

Intense divine power.

The god of the sea and storms, with the moon floating on the sea behind him, revealed himself.

In the end, the boundary between Takehaya and Susanoo completely collapsed, and the divided divine powers became one.

Takehayasusanoo-no-Mikoto (建速須佐之男命) [A combined name signifying the unified deity].

Or simply Susanoo (True).

Seeing the guy emitting even greater divine power than the one he faced at night, Yuseongwoo drew his Ilsaeng [his signature sword].

He gripped the red-bladed sword tightly, awakening his own divine power and spreading the throbbing of his heart.

“It has been a long time. The countless years of having my divine power split in two by my sister and having to watch over a foolish being have ended today.”

“What are you talking about? You ended up like that because of your own mistakes… ….”

“Ah, I should tell you. The reason I tried to make a dragon my avatar was for this. If it wasn’t a dragon, it wouldn’t be able to handle my divine power. I was going to use it as a medium for fusion.”

“…….”

The Susanoo that Yuseongwoo fought every night was full of anger.

But Takehayasusanoo… Susanoo (True) in front of him seemed calm.

‘Was Takehaya the one in charge of reason?’

If so, it made sense.

Anyway, Yuseongwoo thought he had chosen a good day.

Susanoo continued.

“But, there’s no need for that anymore. The boundary has weakened because of the fights I had with you every night. Suspicion arose in that foolish mind, and the time to realize it came. Starting from that point, I broke down the boundary and reached my complete form again.”

“I don’t know what nonsense you’re spouting… ….”

This was also what Yuseongwoo wanted. What he had to kill was not ‘Takehaya’ but ‘Susanoo.’

Since that Susanoo had revealed his true form, there couldn’t be a better opponent.

It was time to end his long, long story of going to hell.

Yuseongwoo shouted.

“Shuten-doji! Watch carefully!”

His voice echoed loudly. A voice that would surely reach him, who was hiding while suppressing his presence as much as possible.

“This is the ending your father wanted. Beheading the true Susanoo, not some half-baked Susanoo. You watch too. Remember it clearly. Engrave it in your mind!”

The end of the sea and storms.

This will be a battle that marks the end of an old divine power.

Yuseongwoo took a short breath and amplified his divine power.

The divine power spreading in all directions with the throbbing of his heart swept across the earth, cracking it like a spider web.

Susanoo, who watched the scene, smiled and said.

“So, you haven’t been using your full power until now? This is interesting. To think you could hide that much power against the Three Oni [powerful demons]… ….”

“I just didn’t think it was necessary to use my full power to face a half-wit like you.”

He gathered his divine power, exhaled, and leaped forward.

The leap, as if transcending space, reached Susanoo’s nose in the blink of an eye.

In a fleeting moment, Yuseongwoo muttered.

“So, this time, I’m going all out from the start.”

Ilsaeng (一生) [One Life]

Ilseon (一閃) [One Flash]

A red light flashed as if dividing the world.

The sword, swung like a ray of light, drew a straight line and stretched towards Susanoo’s neck.

A straight red line drawn in the air. A red omen heading towards death.

Yuseongwoo’s sword, revealing its full power for the first time, was aimed at the nape of the divine power he had to kill.

Confusion appeared on Susanoo’s calm face, and he hurriedly drew his sword.

Ameno-habakiri [Susanoo’s sword] hastily intervened in the sword path.

But it was already too late.

“Keuk!”

How much could a sword that wasn’t even properly positioned block?

Yuseongwoo’s sword grazed Ameno-habakiri and slashed Susanoo’s neck.

He couldn’t cut through the bone, but a fountain of blood spurted from his neck.

“You bastard!”

Susanoo’s large foot struck Yuseongwoo’s side, who had passed by after cutting his neck.

He fell into the sea, skipped a few times, and stood up on the surface of the water.

The Ilsaeng in his hand disappeared, and Owol [another sword] revealed itself.

“Let’s go.”

Without hesitation, he immediately scattered his divine power in all directions and built his unique world.

The divine power that spread from him stacked up the world, completing the story contained in Owol.

[Unique World]

[Neptune Ancient Dragon Rhapsody (海王古龍狂想曲)]

What unfolded, tearing through Susanoo’s world, was Owol’s sea.

The sea of the mad ancient dragon, where storms and tsunamis raged more violently than anything else.

“Who dares to try to dominate the sea in front of me!”

Susanoo grabbed his neck and sneered.

He is the god of the sea and storms.

But to confront his world with the sea and storms is foolish.

However, Yuseongwoo stood on the raging sea and slowly raised his sword.

“Not all seas are your seas, are they? What I’m summoning is not the sea of this world.”

Only the concept of the sea is the same.

Owol’s sea is strictly a sea from another world.

A sea where only one dragon reigned, untouched by Susanoo.

Even Susanoo, who possessed the dragon-slaying myth, could not easily defeat it.

“Arise.”

As Yuseongwoo muttered, a huge dragon’s head rose from the sea and stared at Susanoo.

Then, it opened its mouth wide and shot out a high-pressure stream of water.

Susanoo deflected the stream of water with his sword, but the trajectory of the deflected stream suddenly bent and flew back towards Susanoo.

“…Keuk?!”

The high-pressure stream of water poured out of the dragon’s mouth again and again.

Susanoo deflected the returning stream of water several times, but thinking there was no end, he unleashed his divine power and evaporated the stream of water altogether.

Then he turned his head and looked at Yuseongwoo.

“You son of a bitch!”

He was already looking up at Susanoo, having finished preparing to unleash his technique.

Then, he stretched out his fully drawn arm forward and muttered with a sneer.

“You’re late again this time.”

The divine power and aura surrounding Owol swirled and spewed out a straight line that looked like a thick rope in the air.

Five Swords – Pinnacle (五劍ㆍ極) [A powerful sword technique]

Dragon Fang Severing Sea Strike (龍牙斷絶海擊) [The name of the specific attack]

Towards the god of the sea.

He presents a pinnacle thrust that cuts through the sea.

To kill the sea.