The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 262

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – 261

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The Kudan fish farm in Japan existed within a sorcery circle designed with the power of God.

Since ancient times, Japanese Onmyojis [practitioners of Onmyodo, a traditional Japanese esoteric cosmology] and sorcerers had done everything possible to reproduce the birth of Kudan.

Imbuing pregnant cows with resentment and evil energy to give birth to Kudan…

Such experiments finally succeeded, albeit with a slim chance, in modern times.

When the Great Disaster occurred and the distance between gods and humans narrowed, they finally succeeded in artificially creating Kudan to predict the future.

A Kudan born in this way shouted:

-A human disaster that could overturn the country will fly and arrive! Prepare! If you don’t prepare, the archipelago will become a sea of fire and be completely destroyed!

It left a very ominous prophecy.

The Japanese government, upon hearing the prophecy, immediately gathered key figures from each guild to discuss it.

The conclusion they reached was the visit of ‘Yuseongwoo’.

Human disaster meant a human, not a god, and there was no one among humans who could turn the Japanese archipelago into a sea of fire.

Except for one person, Yuseongwoo, whose stock price was rising endlessly and madly.

A name that frequently appeared even in Takamagahara [the heavenly realm in Japanese mythology], the sacred realm of Japan.

He was the only one who could wield the power to cut down divinity with a human body.

They obtained top-secret information that he would arrive in Kyoto via Osaka International Airport and put forward Kamino Koyuki, Japan’s representative S-class Diver and Shinto priestess of Fushimi Inari Shrine.

Although Koyuki was still young, she was a Diver with quick judgment and a wealth of practical experience, which was unusual for her age.

As the favored proxy and priestess of the Fushimi Inari God, she was the perfect representative.

Such Koyuki was now overwhelmed by an indescribable fear.

‘How can such murderous intent flow from a human being?’

Yuseongwoo was just sitting comfortably with a teacup in one hand.

However, the atmosphere emanating from his whole body felt confident that he could cut off your neck at any time.

In reality, he probably could.

It was just a teacup in his hand, but the moment it was held by a Swordmaster, it turned into a weapon.

Even though she hadn’t been cut, she felt as if she had been.

Koyuki unconsciously grabbed her neck.

“The gods must have something to tell you. From the sacred realm of Japan, looking down from up high.”

He was right.

Before Yuseongwoo arrived here, the gods of Takamagahara were in an uproar, fearing a single human.

Their voices were full of worry that their proxy might die.

Koyuki took a breath and slowly pushed back Yuseongwoo’s murderous intent.

Once she could breathe to some extent, she took her hand off her neck and opened her mouth.

Not as a twenty-two-year-old girl, but as a proxy of the Inari God.

“…The sacred realm of Japan, Takamagahara, hopes that you will return home without any problems. And that you won’t cause any trouble.”

“You’re stating the obvious. I just came for sightseeing. You guys dragged me here because you thought it would be noisy if people knew I was entering the country, so I came in quietly.”

Koyuki couldn’t answer Yuseongwoo’s words.

She couldn’t tell whether Yuseongwoo had come to turn Japan into a sea of fire or to go sightseeing.

They were the ones who dragged him away as soon as he got off the plane.

“If you have nothing to say, then switch. Bring the god of this land. I think it would be better to talk to them.”

“Inari-sama… !”

Koyuki stopped there and couldn’t open her mouth any further.

It was because the Inari God had responded to Yuseongwoo’s call.

A fierce wind blew into the wide-open inner room where they sat facing each other.

The door burst open, sunlight poured in, and a clear bell sound rang out.

“… !”

Yuseongwoo felt his senses sharpen.

A god had descended on this spot.

Moreover, it was not in the form of possession but a fragment of the true body.

Slowly turning his head towards the side where the intense divinity was felt, there stood a person with hair the color of ripe rice.

An existence wearing the same white and red priestess robes as Koyuki.

On her head were fox ears symbolizing her, and around her waist was a fox tail swaying.

Koyuki, who witnessed the sight, immediately bowed her head to express her faith.

Conversely, Yuseongwoo stood up. Facing the powerful divine power that had begun to press down on the inner room, he raised his own divine power and strode forward.

Then, looking down with golden eyes, he said.

“You have taken a step from a high place.”

To think she would lead her true body here. He thought she would stop at possession like Cheonun Seonnyeo of the Osaek Mudang Association [a shamanistic organization in Korea].

Since gods and humans have become closer, is she not hesitant to reveal her appearance?

That’s also the case with meeting Persephone in the Abyss this time, and meeting Loki’s clone.

Inari twitched her lips, then raised her head and looked at Yuseongwoo.

Golden eyes that seemed to see through everything held a mysterious light.

-You little brat, you’re doing something quite presumptuous.

Even though she was speaking right in front of him, Inari’s voice seemed to echo throughout the entire shrine.

A tremendous pressure poured down on Yuseongwoo, as if she would not allow anyone to defy the gods.

Koyuki began to tremble at the aftermath alone, and Yuseongwoo narrowed his eyes, proudly enduring the pressure.

‘…A great god is indeed a great god.’

She is a god who has reigned over this land for a long time. An existence that has grown in power by receiving faith from nearly millions of believers for hundreds of years.

Yuseongwoo, who has only just begun to gather divinity, is an opponent he cannot possibly handle.

However, there is an insurmountable line between the two.

This place is Inari’s land, and even if she led her body here, it is only a part of her true form.

Gods cannot directly interfere in the game board, the mortal realm, unless in special cases.

That was something that had already been verified several times, so Yuseongwoo went even bolder.

“I wonder what you would have to pay as a price if you used your power to kill me here.”

His head thumps against Inari’s forehead.

At a distance where their breaths touched, golden eyes and red eyes glared at each other.

“Hmph!”

When Inari put strength into her head and pushed it forward, Yuseongwoo flew backward and crashed into the wall, and a loud cracking sound was heard as a large hole was made in the wall.

Yuseongwoo raised himself from the rubble and raised the corners of his mouth.

Inari, who had escaped from the rubble, was engulfed in golden sparks.

“That’s what happens when you use your strength recklessly. Fox God.”

“Little brat, little brat, little brat…”

Inari Shin muttered a few times, then gave a satisfied smile and said.

“A little brat will do. Koyuki~~!”

Then, she ran to Koyuki, who was still rolling around on the floor, hugged her in her arms, and began to bite her here and there.

“I, Inari-sama…”

“It’s been a while since I’ve hugged you in this body. Koyuki! Have you been well? Our cute priestess.”

Yuseongwoo narrowed his eyes, trying to figure out what was going on, and Inari shouted.

“Little brat! I will forgive this rudeness. You endured one headbutt, so that’s one time. There won’t be a second time!”

“What nonsense are you talking about? Are you talking nonsense because you’re a canine?”

“Blasphemous words! I’m saying this because I have no reason to fight you. I already know what you want to find out.”

“You know? Then why did you bother dragging me to a place like this?”

“I wanted to say not to touch other irrelevant people. The gods of Yaoyorozu [the countless gods of Japanese Shinto] have many factions as there are many of them. Even if they are tied together by the sacred realm called Takamagahara, the factions are all different.”

“Hmm.”

“And little brat, I can smell the fox blood very strongly from you. You must have been the one who cut down and killed Daji? There’s nothing to gain from fighting a guy who has a legend of cutting down and killing a fox god.”

“You can even know that?”

Yuseongwoo had previously cut down and killed Daji, who had reached divinity deep within Cheonmaengseongchae.

Inari Shin shares a certain amount of lore with Daji.

There is also a theory that the Gumiho [nine-tailed fox] Daji, who crossed over to Japan, repented and became a symbol of abundance.

That’s why Inari was reluctant to fight Yuseongwoo.

He wouldn’t necessarily lose, but he was a very annoying enemy since he had cut down a fox god once.

The compatibility of legends could never be ignored.

Yuseongwoo dusted off the dust on his body and walked over.

Inari’s pressure had disappeared at some point, and he was now free to move.

“Then tell me what you know, Inari. A divinity like you must know quite a lot.”

“Hmph! Do you think I’ll just tell you! You’re not even a believer who believes in Inari’s faith, and you’re trying to get it for free?!”

“Shall I have your proxy re-elected? Or should we have a fight?”

It was a blatant threat.

Inari looked at him with a face that said, “What kind of crazy guy is this?”

Koyuki, who was being bitten by her, also looked at him in disbelief.

“I don’t have much time, Inari. It was the same as decided from the moment your proxy brought me here. I can’t go down here without any gain.”

“Y, you crazy bastard…”

Even while being called a crazy bastard by a god, Yuseongwoo silently prepared for battle.

He pulled out Ilsaeng from one hand and simultaneously drew up Aura and divine power with the beating of his heart.

Koyuki hardened her expression at his rapidly spreading power.

‘T, this is a being who is human but not human… Hyeonhyeoninsin [Manifested Human God]…’

It is a power that transcends humans. The difference between a human who serves a god and one who tries to become a god directly is clearly revealed.

Inari threw Koyuki in her arms away, stood up from her seat with a fierce expression, and raised her tail.

“Little brat, do you know where you’re standing…”

“I know it well. Inari. The headquarters of your shrine, where you, a god who takes Mount Inari as your true body, reside.”

“Knowing that, you’re still saying you’re going to fight me!”

“Do you think I’ll lose to just a clone? I was the one who cut down Daji when she reached complete divinity. But that clone is worse than Daji was back then. If it’s now, I can easily cut it down…”

In an instant, Yuseongwoo’s hand stretched out and a flash of light stretched out long.

It was the light of a swordsman who dedicated his life to the sword, which could not be followed with the eyes.

The red light unfolded by Yuseongwoo cut Inari’s hair and even cut off Koyuki’s hair behind it.

It was something that happened in an instant.

In a very fleeting moment, so much so that Inari could not react either.

If he had really aimed for Koyuki’s neck, her head would have been coldly rolling on the floor by now.

He continued.

“I’ll be able to cut down even the proxy behind you. What are you going to do, Inari? If you don’t cooperate, Japan will become a sea of fire. Just like the Kudan monster predicted.”

You guys will have to choose.

Yuseongwoo put strength into the hand holding the sword again.