One Piece: Kaido the Beast Playing House.

Chapter 843: Zoro's Training

"what!"

"No, the force is still too great, try again!"

The morning passed in a flash, and now Zoro was surrounded by torn newspapers. In the whole morning, he had not succeeded once, and could not even see the slightest progress. He had already restrained his strength, but the blade still easily cut through the newspapers. If Jack had not demonstrated his skills just now, he would even think that the other party was playing a trick on him.

"Stop and relax, you're starting to get anxious."

Jack looked at Zoro, who was obviously resentful when he swung the sword, and said that the training of controlling strength is extremely boring and requires patience. It is a kind of training that requires meditation to complete. In addition to the control of the body, the most important thing is to train one's own heart.

"Hu, hu, hu."

It was just swinging the sword, but Zoro felt more tired than after training his strength for the whole morning. Sweat had completely soaked his shirt, making the clothes stick to his body, which was very uncomfortable. But he had no time to care about these things. He just wanted to lie on the ground and rest. This feeling was too strange.

"Tired, huh?"

Jack sat cross-legged on the ground, picked up a bottle of mineral water and threw it to Zoro and asked.

"Yes, I've never been so tired."

Zoro took the mineral water, unscrewed the cap with trembling fingers, drank half of the bottle, and then poured the rest on his head, hoping to cool down.

"You feel tired because you are fighting against yourself. If you just swing the knife, I think you will have no problem swinging it all day long because you are controlling your own strength, which is equivalent to fighting against your own instincts. That's why it feels like this. It's difficult to fight against your own instincts."

Jack didn't expect Zoro to succeed in one day from the beginning. If Zoro could succeed now, Jack would tie Zoro up on the spot and then call Kaido and Lily, because such a peerless genius is so rare that Kaido and Lily can't do it.

"No wonder, I feel like my arm is about to cramp."

Zoro gritted his teeth, looked at his shaking arms and said, this feeling is too weird, every time he swings the sword he doesn't feel satisfied enough, this kind of swing of the sword probably can't even kill a fish, right?
"You haven't understood the true meaning of this training yet. You are actively controlling your strength and fighting against yourself. That's why you feel tired. What you need to do is not to control it, but to turn it into instinct. You need to identify with this from the bottom of your heart, feel the breathing of your body, feel the breathing of every cell, every muscle, and even every hair. Only in this way can you truly control your own strength."

Jack began to explain this feeling as best as he could, although it was indeed difficult and it took Jack a long time to control it, and it took even longer to be able to use it effectively in combat.

"I don't know."

Zoro said in great surprise, he really didn't understand, he couldn't understand these mysterious things. Is it really possible to use a real knife without cutting the newspaper?
"Have you rested?"

At this time, Koshiro came over and asked with a smile.

"Well, take a break. Zoro's mind is in a mess and he's no longer fit to continue training."

Jack nodded. The strength of the man in front of him was very good. Although he was not as good as them, he was also a swordsman. As for not being able to beat Hiyori, it was nothing. After all, before they came out, when Hiyori fought Lily for the last time, Hiyori lasted five minutes in front of Lily who had not transformed. This was something that many people could not do! Even if Lily did not transform, but in terms of swordsmanship alone, she was also the world's number one swordsman. Mihawk in the past could not even last five minutes in front of Lily. At least the current Hiyori has surpassed Mihawk of the same age by a lot.

"Don't be impatient. Besides the physical training, the most important thing in swordsmanship training is to cultivate the mind. To a certain extent, the stronger you are, the more important it is to cultivate the mind."

Koshiro sat down cross-legged and said with a smile, and Jack immediately guessed the purpose of Koshiro's visit. He came to remind Zoro, so Jack did not respond. He wanted to know what Koshiro wanted to say.

"Teacher, is this really possible? If you use a real knife to cut the newspaper, unless the knife is so blunt that it cannot be used, how can it not be cut?"

Zoro looked at Koshiro and said with some complaints. "Really? How about I give it a try?"

Koshiro stood up with a smile and drew out the Wado Ichimonji from his waist. Zoro knew this sword. It was a genuine Daiyebō 21-gong sword, much stronger than his two ordinary knives.

Koshiro picked up a newspaper and threw it into the air. Looking at the falling newspaper, Koshiro slowly clenched the Wado Ichimonji with both hands, and then...

"what!"

"Snapped!"

There was a sound like something was hitting a newspaper, and the newspaper was blown away by Wado Ichimonji without any scratches on it.

"Teacher! You cheated, you slapped it on top!"

Zoro pointed at Koshiro and shouted.

"No, that's not the case. I just chopped it normally. If you don't believe me, I can show you again."

As Koshiro spoke, he picked up a few more newspapers and threw them into the air. Then, there was a crackling sound, and not a single newspaper was torn. This time, Zoro was sure that he was not mistaken. Koshiro did chop at the newspapers, but they did not break.

"How did you do that, Sensei?"

Zoro knew something about Koshiro's strength. He could even cut a newspaper, let alone Koshiro. He could cut it with just a few strokes. If it was silk, he could say that he lacked the skills or the blade was not sharp enough to cut it, but this was newspaper, something that a child could easily tear into pieces.

"Zoro, I didn't want to tell you this so early, but now that you've already started training, I'll tell you directly. Sometimes, the harder it is to cut something, the easier it is to cut something. This is the power of breathing. Everything in the world breathes, even a stone or a piece of steel. As long as you master the opponent's breathing, you can choose to cut it or not at any time. The same goes for steel. There are swordsmen who can cut through iron, and there are many of them."

After saying this, Koshiro stood up and walked towards the gym without stopping for long, as if he had done something insignificant, while Zoro fell into deep thought.

“Can I cut it open? Can I not cut it open? Can I feel the breath of my body? Can I feel the breath of all things?”

Zoro began to think about what Jack and Koshiro said. They both mentioned breathing. If it was his own breathing, he would feel it every day, but that was just the breathing of the nose and lungs, the breathing of the body?

"You have a good teacher."

Jack said as he looked at Koshiro's back.

"Thank you. I think your teacher must be good too."

Zoro hadn't figured out what was going on yet, so he just lowered his head and said something perfunctorily. What he didn't expect was that this one sentence directly hit Jack's sore spot.

"Of course not! Let me tell you! My teacher! My adoptive father! Mr. Kaido is an extremely great man! He is the strongest man in the world! The best man!..."

Jack grabbed Zoro and started talking, but poor Zoro was ruthlessly interrupted just as he began to think. It was also the first time he knew that Jack had such a side to him.

(End of this chapter)