Fear of Death, is Also One Kind of Power!

Flower Capital, Orochi Castle.

"Where is the Lord Protector?" Kurozumi Orochi walked around the palace with anxiety, "With Kaido-sama's speed, shouldn't he be able to get here soon?"

"Could it be that I have not done something well enough to make Kaido-sama angry?" Kurozumi Orochi said, "Could it be that Kaido-sama wants a better collaborator?"

"Collaborator? I think it's the puppet that's right!" Orochi Oniwabanshu muttered with their heads bowed.

"Shogun Orochi-sama, don't worry." Kyoshiro smiled and comforted, " Kaido-sama should be delayed on the road, it will not take long to arrive."

"After all, it's hard to find an obedient collaborator like you!"

Kurozumi Orochi did not hear the sarcasm at all and nodded one after another, "Yes, Kaido-sama will not give up on me."

Just then, a harsh chopping blow flew in.

Kyoshiro quickly blocked in front of Kurozumi Orochi and swept the flying slash right off the ground.

Then the dome cracked open.

The palace fell to the sides.

Kurozumi Orochi, who looked like he was scared out of his wits, reacted and shouted, "Someone! Assassins, there are assassins!"

"Don't waste your efforts." A large group of people came from outside, with the leader, Kawamatsu, having a hard time hiding the pleasure in his heart again. "Except for a few of them, you have no one willing to work for you at all inside this palace where the fleeing ones flee and the surrendering ones surrender."

Saying that, someone else in the crowd shouted, "Shogun Orochi, hurry up and surrender to the army of Her Majesty!"

"You, how dare you traitors have the face to speak!" Kurozumi Orochi was so angry that his fingers were trembling.

"What about you guys, Fukurokuju, Kyoshiro, are you still going to continue to follow him?" Kawamatsu asked.

Kurozumi Orochi looked nervously to the side, lest the two of them also defect.

"As a samurai, how can one turn his back on his lord?" Kyoshiro said with deep meaning.

Fukurokuju also followed and said, "It's you guys who don't lose sight of the situation, have you forgotten how terrible Kaido-sama is?"

"Well said! Kyoshiro, Fukurokuju, when this time is over I will definitely make you a daimyo!" Kurozumi Orochi said with great joy.

"Enough of this nonsense, hurry up and send them on their way!" Ashura Doji said impatiently, then walked straight towards Kurozumi Orochi.

"The bandit leader of Mt. Atama Thieves? Let me come and be your opponent!" Kyoshiro laughed lightly and blocked his way forward.

"It doesn't matter."

Ashura Doji hit a jumping slash at Kyoshiro with a speed that was extremely inconsistent with his stature.

It was a light and elegant fat man.

However, Kyoshiro was even faster than him.

The two men crossed paths and stood with their backs to each other.

"What ruthless swordsmanship." Ashura Doji touched the blood marks on his face, which were the traces of being grazed by the sword blade.

"Your reaction is not slow, I thought, this knife can cut off your head, now with the defense, it is much more difficult to do!" Kyoshiro sighed.

"To have this kind of killing intent for someone like me who has never seen it before, is this a swordsmanship that specializes in killing people?"

"Swordsmanship is the skill of killing people, and any sword technique that can't kill people is naturally a waste."

The moment the words fell, the two turned around near the same time and fought together again.

Most of the Wano Country's swordsmanship is about speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness, and these two are using all three elements to their limits.

To the casual observer, one can only see two residual shadows constantly exchanging blows.

After a dozen consecutive collisions like this, Ashura Doji was already at an absolute disadvantage.

"This powerful swordsmanship, where the hell did this guy come from? No, if this continues, I will definitely lose." Ashura Doji thought for a while, said in a deep voice, "The battle over there should already started as well."

"If they didn't want to simply watch the two of us perform, of course they would have started long ago." Kyoshiro said with a smile.

"According to our plan, Shinobu will lead the others to stop Orochi Oniwabanshu, while Kawamatsu and Kikunojo will perform the beheading of Kurozumi Orochi."

"So what?"

Seeing Kyoshiro looked like he didn't care, Ashura's half-hitching eyelids couldn't help but twitch twice, "You're not worried at all that Kurozumi Orochi will be killed?"

"I think you may have gotten a little bit wrong."

"Huh?"

Kyoshiro smiled and said, "Kurozumi Orochi is indeed timid selfish cowardly, but this and his lack of strength are two different things, really think of him as a waste of good luck to eat that fruit, it would be a big mistake!"

"Are you kidding? How can someone with that kind of personality become a strong person?" Ashura couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

"Fear of death, is also a kind of motivation!" The corners of the mouth of Kyoshiro picked up, slight smile, "It is because of the fear of death, he will be that eager to obtain the power of Yamata no Orochi."

"That is a monster with eight heads and eight tails, unless you can cut off all his heads and tails, otherwise, you cannot kill him."

"What?"

"Ahhh!"

The miserable screams of Kawamatsu came so that Ashura's mind also could not help but lose its trance for a moment.

Is it true what these squints said?

"Leader of the mountain bandits, you're lost in thought!"

"No good!"

Ashura instantly alerted, but it was too late, as a sword flashed and the fat body directly threw out.

Meanwhile, behind the palace;

A puddle of yellowish blood on the ground and two ugly heads rolled aside.

On the opposite side of the room were Hiyori, Kawamatsu, and Kikunojo, who almost completely wrecked.

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts!" The six-headed, eight-tailed serpent shook its appalling body, and its six giant mouths roared nearly simultaneously, "How dare you traitors harm my noble body, absolutely unforgivable!"

Kawamatsu one hand on the half-broken blade, looking at the crazy roar, but the fleshy wound buds continued to worsen the monster, gnashing his teeth bleeding, "Obviously have come this far, how can we fail in the least should fail?"

"Kawamatsu-kun, it's my fault." The beautiful samurai Kikunojo took a deep breath and said, "Although I knew that Orochi was an ability user, I never thought that someone like him could be so powerful."

"With such a big mistake, it was our intelligence that went wrong."

"Now is not the time to pursue responsibility, Kikunojo, you quickly take Her Highness Hiyori and leave, I will hold your back." Kawamatsu stood up again with steely eyes.

"The person who stays behind to break the line should be me ..."

"Oh, none of you few will run away." The tall figure of Kyoshiro appeared in the sight of several people, "Offenses against the Shogun have to be repaid with life, this is the golden rule of the Wano Country!"

"Kyoshiro! What are you doing here?" Kawamatsu looked to the samurai who kept coming from behind Yamata no Orochi, "Where is Ashura-sama?"

"Since I appeared here, isn't the result obvious enough? Of course it's ... dead!" Kyoshiro said with a smirk.

"What? You bastard!" Kawamatsu shouted in anger.

"Well done, Kyoshiro, truly worthy of being my most trusted subordinate ..."

Snort!

When Orochi said, turning his head incredulously, a sword impaled on his body, and the person who grabbed it was his most trusted subordinate, Dozing Kyoshiro.

"My power is ... dissipating! Is this the ... Kairoseki?"

"Shogun-sama is so smart!"

"Are you going to ... betray me even you shameless villain? Where is your ... love as a samurai?"

"Shogun Orochi-sama, I've never been submitted to you! After all, you did a lot of work in facilitating the matter of my father's death!"

"Your ... father?"

"Do you remember that name, Shogun Orochi? Used to serve the Kozuki clan with you ... Denjiro!"

Published in Qidian, July 02, 2019