The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 296

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 295

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully 295

The Holy War (5)

The entrance to the Special Abyss in the Kanto region was located in Akihabara, the mecca of Japanese otaku [geek/nerd] culture.

The entrance to the Special Abyss had become a kind of landmark.

Especially since it appeared in an area with a high floating population, many people passed by the Special Abyss that day as well.

Suddenly, the Special Abyss rippled, and several people emerged.

The passersby stopped in their tracks, surprised by the unusual sight.

‘Has a guild recently entered to attack the Special Abyss?’ they wondered.

Nothing had been officially announced.

They had never seen people entering, either.

And more than anything, the people who came out of the Abyss were unfamiliar faces.

Except for one person.

“Isn’t that Koyuki?”

“What? The fox shrine maiden? Koyuki of Fushimi Inari [a famous shrine in Kyoto]?”

“It’s really her! It’s Koyuki-chan!”

Koyuki was a famous Diver in Japan.

She was a shrine maiden with a fox motif, and also an S-class Diver, so it was no wonder she was popular.

“Who are the people next to her?”

A tall man who seemed to be leading Koyuki like a subordinate, and two women on either side of her.

They were unfamiliar faces, so they were definitely not Japanese.

As people watched in bewilderment, someone shouted from the crowd.

“That, that’s Yoosungwoo! That’s Yoosungwoo!”

“Yoosungwoo? Who’s that?”

“What, the real Yoosungwoo? The one they call the first SS-class?!”

The evaluation of Yoosungwoo was divided.

Those who knew who he was and those who didn’t mingled together and buzzed with excitement.

Yoosungwoo looked at the crowd and raised his head.

Several black-clad figures fell from the sky, surrounding the four of them, and pushed the civilians back.

Yoosungwoo smirked as he looked at them, exuding a dark aura.

“Did you come to welcome me? But there are too few of you for that.”

“…Please go back.”

“No, I came to see the Emperor. I have no intention of returning until I see his face.”

As Yoosungwoo said that and took a step forward, the black-clad figures in ninja-like attire prostrated themselves on the ground.

It wasn’t their will.

An intangible force was pressing down on them from above.

As Yoosungwoo slowly walked through the prostrated figures, the crowd watching them cleared the way.

“Inari.”

When Yoosungwoo called Inari, the fox that had been clinging to Koyuki scurried over and climbed onto his shoulder.

Then, it raised its front paw and pointed in one direction: the direction of the ‘Imperial Palace (皇居),’ where the Emperor resided.

Not far from Akihabara, the Emperor was there.

As Yoosungwoo moved with a relaxed attitude, someone in the crowd asked.

“Y-Yoosungwoo! Why are you heading to the Imperial Palace?!”

At first, he had no intention of answering, but after a brief thought, he changed his mind.

‘Still, these are civilians, so I should at least make them understand to some extent,’ he thought.

Judging by their current state, they didn’t seem to know what was happening in Kansai.

“The Kanto Emperor led the Divers and invaded Kansai. I have a friendship with the Lord of the Tower in Kansai, so I came here to help for a bit.”

And, the next moment.

The crowd’s smartphones began to ring.

People took out their smartphones and checked the notifications, and soon their faces turned pale.

The invasion of Kansai by Kanto.

They realized that the absurd thing Yoosungwoo had just said was reality.

‘Nagi must have succeeded,’ Yoosungwoo thought.

It was something he had instructed before leaving Kansai, and it seemed to have ended with good timing.

Yoosungwoo began to move forward again. What he had just said was the external reason. There was another purpose besides that.

Amaterasu [Japanese sun goddess] had said:

The moment he achieved the status of a Great Divinity, every move he made would be recorded.

His direction would be determined, becoming either a plus or a minus.

“Let’s go.”

Every time Yoosungwoo took a step, people parted.

Even ordinary people felt the subtle divinity emanating from him.

A sacredness and nobility that could not be felt from humans.

Those things combined to naturally inspire awe in people.

The three people following him were somehow overflowing with confidence.

Normally, they would have been embarrassed by all the people staring at them.

But the gazes of the people now were not of that kind.

How long had they been moving like that? The procession of four had swelled to hundreds, then thousands.

It was because people had begun to follow Yoosungwoo.

When Yoosungwoo, who was at the very front of the procession, stopped, the people also stopped, and when he started moving, they matched his pace.

As they moved forward, several shadows fell from the sky and blocked the front of the procession.

The ones blocking Yoosungwoo were monsters with appearances far removed from humans.

One with the form of a beast, and one standing on two legs but with multiple arms and legs.

In addition, repulsive monsters emitted an ominous aura and stopped the procession.

“These sons of bitches, who do they think they’re blocking……!”

Hong Seohwa drew her sword and stepped forward, but Yoosungwoo pushed her back and said.

“The Emperor sent them. I’ll take care of them.”

Since they were giving him such a welcome, shouldn’t he return the favor?

Yoosungwoo raised the corner of his mouth and lifted his hand.

Without even drawing his sword, he raised his hand like a knife and slashed horizontally.

Precisely at the spot where the monsters’ necks would pass.

No energy was emitted, and Yoosungwoo’s hand simply cut through the air silently.

Then, the next moment, an anomaly occurred. The necks of the monsters, who were about to rush at Yoosungwoo, split and fell to the ground.

The cleanly cut cross-section, as if cut by a sword, was revealed.

The large bodies fell to the ground.

As Yoosungwoo moved his hand again, the bodies of the monsters blocking the road were pushed aside.

Yoosungwoo, who had dealt with the monsters in an instant, said.

“Let’s go.”

The five monsters, who were dealt with in an instant before anyone else could do anything.

Judging by the energy they felt, they were the kind of guys who would come out of a Class 1 or 2 Abyss, but they died in an instant.

Hong Seohwa smiled as she looked at Yoosungwoo’s back, but she also felt complicated.

She thought she was chasing after him diligently, but the gap had widened again tremendously.

‘I need to work harder,’ she resolved.

Hong Seohwa burned with fighting spirit.

Shua-Nel didn’t think much of it.

Koyuki wanted to go home.

***

“Your Majesty! The Five Oni [demons/ogres] have been defeated!”

“How?”

“In a single moment, they were all beheaded and killed without being able to do anything!”

Kozumi’s expression hardened.

The Five Oni he sent were monsters that could easily kill even an S-class Diver when they were together.

But those guys were instantly killed without even being able to do anything, huh?

From Kozumi’s point of view, it was a very embarrassing thing.

It meant that the opponent’s power was beyond imagination.

Kozumi said.

“Gather as much power as possible and kill him. Use everything you can!”

“Understood!”

The subordinate leaves.

Kozumi, left alone, broke another cigarette and got up from his seat.

The monster named Yoosungwoo that he had been reported to by his subordinates.

Kozumi knew that name well too. The Ascension Church’s greatest enemy.

How many bishops of the Ascension Church had died at his hands?

Even those who had completed their ascension and obtained complete divinity had died to Yoosungwoo.

“Foolish bastards. He may be strong, but he’s not an enemy you can’t face.”

Kozumi thought that he, at least, would be different.

They had ruined everything with their hasty plans.

He had been preparing for a long time.

Kozumi turned his head.

He felt that he was right in front of him. If he came out of the Special Abyss, he would have come out of the entrance in Akihabara.

The Imperial Palace where he was was not far from there, and Yoosungwoo did not hide his presence.

Rather, he slowly approached, covering the area with his presence.

As if to make them tremble in fear.

As if to let them know who was being hunted.

“Do you think it will go your way?”

A Joseonjin [Korean] born in a colony.

How dare he revolt against the Emperor of the Great Japanese Empire?

He would be miserably defeated on Japanese soil.

***

“It’s big, but they live here too.”

Yoosungwoo’s procession was endless.

Many people blocked his path.

The army was also dispatched to protect the Emperor, and Divers flocked to him.

However, the armies joined the procession due to Yoosungwoo’s holiness, and the Divers were quickly subdued.

Yoosungwoo was literally like a god descended to the human realm.

Although his power was limited compared to Takamagahara [the heavenly realm in Shinto mythology], which was the divine realm, he was the most unrestricted manifested deity in the human realm right now.

When he stretched out his finger, the gates of the Imperial Palace shattered into thousands of pieces and disappeared.

Along with it, dozens of people popped out from the inside.

“Die!”

“For His Majesty the Emperor!”

“Banzaiiii─!! [a Japanese cheer meaning “ten thousand years”]”

The Imperial Palace’s bodyguards.

Those who had been raised to protect the Emperor wielded their respective weapons and rushed towards Yoosungwoo.

It was clear at a glance that it was a scheme to buy time.

Yoosungwoo decided to play along for a while.

When he stretched out his hand, brilliant red light gathered and took the form of a sword.

It was the first time he had drawn his sword.

When he swung his sword once, dozens of people who were rushing at him were all bounced back.

The bounced people were bewildered.

They had all adjusted their distances with different directions and different weapons.

It was clear that it was a flawless combined attack, but they couldn’t figure out why they had all been bounced back by a single sword.

“Try harder.”

And then Yoosungwoo’s provocation followed.

The energy flowing out of the bodyguards, who accepted it as a provocation towards the Imperial Family, amplified.

It felt as if their will to risk even death from now on was intensely felt.

Yoosungwoo smirked as he looked at them.

“It’s nice to see you guys working hard for a pathetic Emperor. You don’t even know that those guys are the first to die.”

The damage meter, which had been quiet until now, suddenly exploded, and the energy flowing out of the bodyguards amplified.

It felt as if their will to risk even death from now on was intensely felt.

Yoosungwoo smirked as he looked at them.

“Now it’s going to be a little better.”

Originally, anger was the best driving force for humans, wasn’t it?

In the short term.

The bodyguards’ combined attacks became more violent and sharper.

They not only used their physical abilities but also unleashed their abilities to the fullest, dyeing the surroundings in various colors.

Yoosungwoo leisurely moved among them, wielding his sword and reshaping the space.

“Wow, waah…….”

Hong Seohwa exclaimed without realizing it as she watched the scene.

A swordsmanship that anyone who wielded a sword would be captivated by.

The epitome of delicacy that was truly no different from a divine skill (神技) [Shingi, a technique of godlike perfection].

She had seen Yoosungwoo’s sword many times, but what was unfolding before her eyes now was like a play drawn by a god.

The play that Yoosungwoo started ends because of Yoosungwoo.

The bodyguards had already been cut down one by one by Yoosungwoo’s sword, and after a few minutes, there was no one standing.

Blood did not flow out of them, but their breath had definitely stopped.

A technique to kill without cutting.

Hong Seohwa was so curious as to what kind of magic he had performed.

Still holding his sword in his hand, Yoosungwoo moved his feet inside the gate and said.

“Let’s go.”

It was now time to kill the last boss.