Chihaya Aine is a member of the team Zero

The moment Goto Ichiri dodged sideways, several arrows brushed past his body.

One of the arrows flew directly past Goto Ichiri's neck.

As it flew past Goto Ichiri's neck, it directly took away a layer of flesh on Goto Ichiri's neck, and blood immediately flowed down the new wound on Goto Ichiri's neck.

"hateful……!"

Goto Ichiri whispered in a voice that only he could hear clearly: "It's an archer...!"

After dodging the arrows shot by the archers, Goto Ichiri did not dare to delay any longer. He used all his strength to knock down the last two warriors who were blocking him. Then he immediately left the place and hid in a dense bush nearby.

After escaping from the spot, Goto Ichiri immediately looked in the direction where the arrow had just come from.

Soon, Goto Ichiri discovered the location of the archers.

A total of five archers squatted on the trunk of a big tree, holding longbows and aiming in the direction of Goto Ichiri.

Goto Ichiri has successfully killed many of Saito Yoshitatsu's guards.

It is certainly a good thing that the number of enemies is reduced.

But the reduction in the number of people actually has both advantages and disadvantages for Goto Ichiri.

If there are too many people, it is difficult to take advantage of the numbers.

In a complex environment like a forest, the advantage of numbers is suppressed to the lowest level.

The length of the arm plus the length of the sword, swinging the sword with your body as the center, just imagine how dangerous it is to stand side by side with someone holding a sword.

If you are not careful, you may accidentally hurt your companions.

Since the battle began, Goto Ichiri has witnessed many idiots who accidentally hurt their companions.

Not only that, the samurai standing in front of Goto Ichiri would sometimes choose to retreat because they were afraid of fighting or to temporarily adjust the distance between themselves and Goto Ichiri.

The people behind did not know that the people in front wanted to retreat. They were dazzled by the high reward offered by Saito Yoshitatsu and just kept pushing forward.

The people in front want to retreat, and the people behind want to squeeze forward, so chaos is inevitable.

At the same time, because there were so many people, it was difficult for archers to aim.

However, as Goto Ichisato continued to kill Saito Yoshitatsu's guards and continuously reduced the number of enemies, these problems were gradually solved.

As the number of people decreased and the crowd became less crowded, the chaos began to subside, and it became easier for Saito Yoshitatsu's guards to cooperate with each other.

Moreover, because of the reduction in the number of people, it became much easier for the archers to aim, and the archers were able to gradually begin to exert their combat power.

No... We have to find a way to get rid of the archers...

Goto Ichiri didn't think that in his current condition, he could fight against enemies that kept appearing from all directions while dealing with the archers' snipers.

After confirming the location of the archers, Goto Ichiri relied on each big tree and jumped from the shade of one big tree to the shade of another big tree.

In this way, moving between obstacles, he approached the archers little by little.

And Goto Ichiri's approach to the archers was destined to be full of hardships.

Because there are still many, many enemies on the ground...

Goto Ichiri did not count exactly how many enemies he had killed.

She roughly estimated that there were about 30 people.

Goto Ichiri has never loved the forest as much as he does now.

It was thanks to this forest that Goto Ichiri had a wide enough and complex enough space to run and look for one-on-one opportunities.

If he were to face off against hundreds of samurai on an endless prairie or desert, Goto Ichiri felt that he might not even be able to kill 10 of them and would be chopped into meat sauce by the enemy.

However... even after killing so many enemies, Goto Ichiri still felt that the enemies around him seemed endless...

No matter how many people are killed, there are always more coming.

Another samurai raised his katana and slashed at Goto Ichiri.

Goto Ichiri originally wanted to use Niten Ichi's stepping technique to dodge the samurai's attack.

However, just as he took half a step to the side with his left foot, Goto Ichiri suddenly stopped in his tracks when he felt a sharp pain from the wound on his left leg.

Unable to dodge, Goto Ichiri could only raise the wakizashi in his left hand and use the blade to counterattack and block the samurai's downward blow.

clang!

Goto Ichiri's left palm was numb from the shock.

At this moment, Goto Ichiri heard several sharp sounds of breaking wind coming towards him again.

Oops!

Goto Ichiri wanted to dodge immediately, but it was too late.

The archers' timing of shooting was really perfect.

He took advantage of the moment when Goto Ichiri was blocking someone's attack and started shooting.

Five arrows cut through the air and flew towards Goto Ichiri.

Four of them were embedded in the ground near Goto Ichiri's feet.

The remaining one shot into Goto Ichiri's left shoulder.

“Hmm!”

The pain from his left shoulder made Goto Ichiri couldn't help but let out a low cry of pain.

"Hahhhhhh!" Goto Ichiri turned the pain into a roar. He exerted force with his left arm to push away the sword on the wakizashi, then swung the katana in his right hand horizontally, cutting open the belly of the samurai in front of him.

The intensity of the battle was so great that Goto Ichiri couldn't even throw away the arrow that had lodged itself in his shoulder.

Just as he killed the warrior in front of him, several more warriors came towards him to kill him.

Goto Ichiri ignored the new enemies coming towards him.

.

She now had only one thought, to quickly get rid of those archers.

He jumped and leaped towards the direction of the archers.

After confirming that the archers squatting on the tree trunks had entered her attack range, Goto Ichiri immediately picked up a large stone on the ground and threw it at them.

Goto Ichiri's strength is very great.

The thrown stone flew straight in the direction of the archers.

However, the big rock thrown by Goto Ichiri did not hit the archers as Goto Ichiri had wished.

The stone thrown by Goto Ichiri passed by an archer's ear and then completely disappeared from Goto Ichiri's sight.

"hateful……!"

Just when Goto Ichiri was about to throw another stone, several warriors rushed over, forcing Goto Ichiri to give up. He quickly used a stepping stone and moved into an area with dense shade on his side, hoping to suppress the archers' shooting accuracy as much as possible under the cover of the dense shade.

Looking at Goto Ichiri, whose breathing was already extremely rapid and whose chest was rising and falling like a bellows, Komaki Genta muttered:

"...Is it finally reaching its limit?"

Goto Ichiri used wakizashi to cut off the samurai's sword-holding right hand in front of him.

The next moment after eliminating the samurai's attack threat, Goto Ichiri stabbed the samurai's chest with the katana in his right hand.

Goto Ichiri originally wanted to throw away the sword and let it remain in the samurai's chest, and then take the sword from this guy and use it for himself.

Suddenly, at this moment, something strange happened.

Before Goto Ichiri could let go of his hand, the samurai showed a ferocious smile and grabbed Goto Ichiri's right hand tightly.

The samurai's desperate control over Goto Ichiri gave other samurai the opportunity to attack.

A samurai who was closest to Goto Ichiri immediately seized this rare opportunity. While shouting, he swung his sword and stabbed Goto Ichiri, whose arm was caught by someone and whose body was temporarily restrained.

The sharp tip of the knife directly pierced Goto Ichiri's right abdomen.

Chain mail is very effective in defending against slashing attacks, but its effectiveness against stabbing attacks is very average.

Although the chain mail on Goto Ichiri's body successfully offset some of the force of the stab, the tip of the knife still penetrated Goto Ichiri's chain mail and stabbed into Goto Ichiri's right abdomen.

Goto Ichiri immediately felt a taste of "iron" in his mouth.

"Damn it!" Goto Ichiri waved his left hand, which was not under control, and used the wakizashi of his left hand to kill both the samurai who stabbed him and the bastard who controlled his arm.

Before Goto Ichiri even had the chance to take a look at the wound on his abdomen, several more samurai arrived and filled the vacancies left by the unlucky guys who had just been killed by Goto Ichiri.

These warriors can be said to become braver as the battle goes on.

Because they all saw that Goto Ichiri was tired.

She is about to die, and I might be able to chop off her head. The surviving warriors thought so and rushed towards Goto Ichiri with even greater excitement.

Another katana slashed towards Goto Ichiri.

And Goto Ichiri had to subconsciously raise the katana in his right hand to block again.

clang!

clang!

Two sharp sounds of metal were heard.

The first sound was the sound of Goto Ichiri's sword colliding with the samurai's sword.

The second sound was the sound of Goto Ichiri's katana breaking.

The intense battle just now left Goto Ichiri with no time to pay attention to the condition of the two swords in her hands.

Therefore, she did not notice that her katana was already full of gaps.

After using the remaining wakizashi to barely kill the samurai in front of him, Goto Ichiri hurriedly tried to snatch the samurai's sword.

At this moment, a samurai accurately seized the opportunity when Goto Ichiri was changing his tachi and stabbed Goto Ichiri with his sword.

"Hmm!" Goto Ichiri only felt that the taste of "iron" in his mouth became stronger.

At the same time, drops of blood began to flow down from the corners of her mouth.

The samurai's sneak attack was successful. The tip of the sword pierced through her haori, kimono, and chain mail, and also made a hole in Goto Ichiri's left abdomen.

The samurai pulled the sword out of Goto Ichiri's abdomen and was about to strike him again when Goto Ichiri, who was enduring the severe pain and had successfully snatched a new sword, killed him with a sword.

Volume 1: Chapter 218 Goto Ichiri vs. One Hundred 3

"Hahaha……"

Before they could even catch their breath, the warriors, blinded by money, rushed forward one after another.

“It really is… endless…!”

Goto Ichiri clenched his teeth so hard that it seemed as if he wanted to break both rows of his teeth.

Gritting his teeth can help Goto Ichiri concentrate his mind and strength, and it can also help Goto Ichiri relieve pain, making the already scarred Goto Ichiri feel a little better.

Although it looks rather strange, the footwork that Chihaya Aine knows is indeed a powerful weapon in battle.

Goto Ichiri has dodged countless attacks by relying on his jumping steps.

Among these dodged attacks, there were some that were fatal and could kill on the spot if hit by just one.

It can be said that if it weren't for the stepping stone, Goto Ichiri might have collapsed long ago.

She used a step to dodge the downward attack from a warrior on her left.

Then she used the katana in her right hand to perform a blade reversal, blocking the slash from a samurai on her right.

"Well……"

However, after blocking the samurai's slashing blow on his right with the katana in his right hand, Goto Ichiri suddenly let out a low cry of pain.

After taking several steps back, he managed to stabilize his body.

The constant pain coming from his right arm made Goto Ichiri almost unable to hold the knife.

"..." Goto Ichiri said to himself, "Isn't it possible to even block a slash of this magnitude?..."

The swordsman's strike just now wasn't particularly powerful.

If he were in his prime, Goto Ichiri would have been confident that he could have taken his blow, and his feet would still be firmly planted on the ground without moving.