The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 288

Swordsmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 287

Susanoo-no-Mikoto (6)

“That bastard, I’m going to kill you this time for sure!”

Yu Seong-woo began his second battle. As night fell, Takehaya inevitably transformed into Susanoo and charged at him.

This time, Susanoo drew the Ame-no-Habakiri [Heavenly Feather Sword] from the start and rushed in.

He had judged that he couldn’t defeat Yu Seong-woo with simple hand-to-hand combat alone.

‘He does learn, doesn’t he.’

I was worried he might be too stupid and charge in the same way as before.

It was a relief that it was just a needless fear.

The more Susanoo grows, the more I can grow too.

“Kuaaaaaaaah!”

Susanoo screamed and charged.

Ame-no-Habakiri flashed in the moonlight, aiming for Yu Seong-woo’s neck.

Yu Seong-woo gripped Ilsaeng [One Life] tightly and deflected Susanoo’s sword.

Susanoo was already drawing in seawater, displaying swordsmanship that crashed like waves.

But the swordsmanship he had seen so many times was not much of a threat to Yu Seong-woo.

Based on numerous experiences, Yu Seong-woo could decipher most swordsmanship after seeing it only once or twice.

Showing the same swordsmanship to such a Yu Seong-woo multiple times was no different from asking him to analyze it.

“Is that all you can do?”

Yu Seong-woo, having deflected Susanoo’s swordsmanship, gripped Ilsaeng in one hand and drew upon his divine power.

Then, taking a step forward, he swung his sword, and the path he drew in the air was the same as Susanoo’s.

Haeshin Ryu (Sea God Style)

Right Wave

Haeshin Ryu (Sea God Style)

Left Wave

Susanoo’s Right Wave.

Yu Seong-woo’s Left Wave.

Two swordsmanships with the same essence created the same waves, colliding in the center.

The waves shattered and canceled each other out.

It meant that Yu Seong-woo had perfectly imitated Susanoo’s swordsmanship.

“How did you learn my swordsmanship!”

“It’s nothing much. And it seems this swordsmanship is more effective used this way.”

Yu Seong-woo rushed towards the bewildered Susanoo and swung his sword.

At his will, the seawater surged, creating waves.

And what was revealed was an even more powerful swordsmanship than Susanoo used.

Haeshin Ryu

Advancing Wave – Torrent

The waves crashed.

The wave that Yu Seong-woo drew with his sword covered Susanoo and swept him away.

Caught in the wave, Susanoo spat out blood from his entire body, breaking several trees with his back as he flew away.

He barely managed to land and ground his teeth.

Yu Seong-woo said.

“If you want to kill me, show me more, Susanoo.”

Hearing those words, Susanoo finally realized that he couldn’t defeat Yu Seong-woo with techniques.

He desperately realized that he had to overwhelm him with the difference in physical size.

“……!”

Crack.

The sound of Susanoo grinding his teeth echoed clearly, and he began to draw even more seawater onto the island.

Yu Seong-woo smirked as he watched Susanoo’s divine power grow stronger.

To be so easily provoked by such a simple taunt.

“It’s so easy, it’s making me yawn.”

Certainly, Susanoo’s divine power is immense, but his skill in handling it is utterly poor.

Until now, he must have only defeated opponents who could be overcome with sheer divine power alone.

However, that doesn’t mean Susanoo’s techniques themselves are terrible.

To the human eye, they would be nothing short of divine feats.

But to Yu Seong-woo, who had reached the pinnacle of technique, it was just like a child wildly wielding a great power.

The more he fought, the more flaws he saw in him.

“Kuaaaaaaaah! Kuaaaaaaaah!”

Susanoo roared incessantly, swinging his sword.

Seawater gathered on Ame-no-Habakiri, repeatedly rotating, and soon became a giant sword.

He swung the greatsword made of condensed seawater as if to sweep the surface of the earth.

Haeshin Ryu

Earth Current Sword

The sword of sea currents sweeping the earth.

Yu Seong-woo took a short breath and lightly leaped.

Stepping on the droplets of seawater that scattered in all directions, he evaded the sword’s path.

Then, Susanoo pulled back his sword and thrust it towards Yu Seong-woo.

The swirling sword centered on the sword widely spread towards him, erasing any place to escape.

“Wrong choice, Susanoo.”

The divine power contained in the swordsmanship that swept the earth was a powerful technique. Even Yu Seong-woo would be swept away if he faced it head-on.

But if he widened the range to catch him in the air, the intensity would naturally weaken.

“Think a little more before you swing your sword, you dumb storm god.”

Muttering as if teaching, he took a stance in the air.

Drawing Ilsaeng towards him, he gathered his divine power.

A rotating divine power, just like Susanoo’s.

“Come to me, Owol [May].”

The sword he was holding changed from Ilsaeng to Owol.

Susanoo is a god who governs the sea, storms, and war.

The density of Yu Seong-woo’s divine power, which only had stories of wielding a sword, was incomparable.

“But I too have a story of a ruler who dominated the sea.”

Owol was made from the teeth of a dragon.

And not just any dragon, but one that ruled the sea.

Of a veritable monster that stood above all life in the raging storm.

Therefore.

Owol (May) – Dragon Light

Dragon Fang Piercing Sea Strike

The vortex of aura and divine power, converged into a single point, contracted like a spring and then exploded outwards.

A straight line of light crossed the sky.

It pierced through the wall of seawater that Susanoo had erected and accurately pierced through his abdomen.

Susanoo staggered.

But Yu Seong-woo’s attack did not end there.

“Hoo.”

Taking a short breath, he began to descend this time.

Gripping Dragon Light tightly in his hand, he unleashed dozens of stabs, dissolving the seawater, and then rushed towards Susanoo.

“Kuaaaaaaaah!”

However, as if unwilling to be defeated so easily, Susanoo unleashed his divine power.

New flesh instantly sprouted in the pierced abdomen, pushing back the rushing Yu Seong-woo.

Then, he immediately swung Ame-no-Habakiri and kicked off the ground.

Now, he wouldn’t hold back.

He poured all his divine power into the sword and swung it towards Yu Seong-woo.

Yu Seong-woo did not retreat.

He would receive and deflect Susanoo’s sword, but he would not step back.

His body was covered in cuts, but his fighting spirit only burned brighter.

He could feel himself growing each time he received Susanoo’s sword.

“Die! Just die!”

“Just saying it won’t do. You have to move your sword… like this!”

A gap created by swinging the sword wide.

Yu Seong-woo exploited the gap and slashed Susanoo’s side with the sword that had changed to Ilsaeng.

However, Susanoo, not caring about the wound, twisted his body and swung his sword to kill Yu Seong-woo.

“Dieeeeeeeee!”

But Susanoo’s sword did not reach him.

“It’s time.”

The morning sun was rising.

Susanoo’s face distorted as it touched the sunlight, and he soon lost consciousness.

The young man’s body fell forward, and Yu Seong-woo caught him.

Looking down at Susanoo’s shrinking body as he returned to Takehaya, Yu Seong-woo muttered.

“You have talent. Don’t give up.”

I hope you will work harder for me in the future.

***

Yu Seong-woo fought Susanoo every night. During the day, he cooked and ate with Takehaya or recovered his strength.

At night, they fought to the death.

Every day, he changed weapons and faced Susanoo, honing his sword to kill him.

How many days did he spend like that, napping during the day and battling at night?

Yu Seong-woo realized that the time to see the end had come.

The state of Susanoo, whom he had fought the previous night, was strange.

The anger that had been constantly burning had subsided, and now he seemed to want it to end quickly.

“…Hmm, I felt like I could have grasped something if I had a little more time.”

It’s a pity.

That this enjoyable time is ending today.

“What did you say? Hyung? [Older brother/term of endearment]”

“It’s just muttering to myself.”

Yu Seong-woo tore apart the fish he had caught and thought.

He was starting to get tired of fish, and… the strange mushrooms that Takehaya brought were a bit much.

“…Today will be the day I complete the sword.”

“Huh? What did you say?”

“No, go to bed early today.”

At his words, Takehaya tilted his head.

“But Hyung, the weather seems really strange these days. Why does such a big typhoon keep coming every night? Only when I’m sleeping.”

Takehaya, who was eating the well-grilled fish, had his first question.

Every time he woke up, the island’s terrain had changed.

If what Yu Seong-woo said was true, a typhoon came every night…….

“I’m really curious that I never wake up at those times?”

“I’m curious too. Why don’t you wake up?”

Why wouldn’t he wake up?

It must have been because Susanoo had taken control of his body at that time.

Yu Seong-woo, unable to tell him the truth, only chewed on the fish.

“You’ll wake up someday. Won’t you?”

“I, is that so?”

“Yes. And sleep is important, so it’ll be okay. I’m going to get some sleep.”

“Okay. Sleep well.”

As Yu Seong-woo lay down and fell asleep, Takehaya began his exploration again.

This time, he moved to find the changes on the island.

The island changed every time he woke up due to the typhoons that raged every night.

New and enjoyable content for Takehaya to find on the unchanging island.

“Oh, what is this mark? It doesn’t seem like it was made by animals…….”

And the various traces he found in the forest looked like something had swept through.

It was the scene created by Yu Seong-woo and Susanoo fighting, but there was no way for Takehaya to know.

Takehaya discovered several other traces besides that.

“This is…….”

Then he found a trace.

A place where two sets of footprints were messily imprinted.

The ground was muddy due to the moisture, so the footprints remained clearly.

“……?”

Takehaya tilted his head.

Surely there were only himself and Yu Seong-woo on this island, but why were there two different sizes of footprints?

Takehaya placed his foot on one of the footprints.

A footprint larger than his small foot.

He placed one foot on the footprint and the other foot on the other footprint.

Then a strange thing happened.

Before he knew it, he began to move along the footprints.

One step, one step.

Slowly but surely, Takehaya’s movements followed Susanoo’s movements from the night before.

He moved his body, stepping in the same way as if his body remembered it.

“Uh, uh?”

A strange thing even to himself.

Clearly, it was a larger foot than his, and a wider stride, but he didn’t know why it felt so familiar.

As Takehaya fell into a trance and stepped in the same way, he stopped abruptly and looked at the puddle of water below him.

The puddle, created by the typhoon(?) from the night before, was filled with water and reflected the sky.

When he put his face there, his own face came into view.

The face of a beautiful boy.

However, the boy’s face reflected on the mirror-like water soon distorted and turned into the face of a handsome but ferocious-looking young man.

“Heuk!”

Takehaya was startled and fell backward. His face suddenly changed, what was going on?

He groped his face with both hands, but it didn’t seem to have changed.

After calming down a bit, he carefully looked into the water again.

There was still the face of an angry young man.

-What are you doing, you bastard? Why don’t you go and stab that guy in the neck right now?

This time, he even spoke to him.