Chihaya Aine is a member of the team Zero

Goto Ichiri swung his sword again, nailing Saito Yoshitatsu's right palm to the ground.

In this way, Saito Yoshitatsu's limbs were nailed up by four swords.

Saito Yoshitatsu is now like an animal in a slaughterhouse with its limbs pulled, waiting to be slaughtered.

“I can really give you a lot of money! Yes, that’s right! I can also let you get a high position in the domain! In this way…Aaaaaaaaaaa——!”

"No need, and no interest."

Goto Ichiri's fifth sword stabbed into Saito Yoshitatsu's left calf.

The intense pain turned the rest of Saito Yoshitatsu's words into screams.

"Saito Yoshitatsu, bite your tongue."

As Goto Ichiri spoke, he pulled out the sixth knife.

"I won't let you die too quickly. If you don't grit your teeth and concentrate, you'll pass out. Even if you do pass out, I have a way to wake you up."

Goto Ichiri swung his sword and stabbed the sixth sword into Saito Yoshitatsu's right calf.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh-!"

“Wait… please… spare me… just spare me, I… ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh——!”

“You…hateful slave…Aaaaaaaaaaa——!”

“I… I’m sorry… My tone just now… was so rude… I shouldn’t have spoken to you in that tone… Please… Ahhhhhhhhhhhh——!”

"There's no more room to cut the legs... I can't... Then it's your hands' turn."

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh-!"

"Please... spare me... I really... can give you a lot of money..."

"Arms are really hard to cut... With such a fast speed, there's no room left on your left arm... Never mind, you still have your right arm anyway."

"There's no more vital areas to cut... Looks like it's time to stab your torso. Don't worry, I'll be quick, so you can experience the feeling of being pierced by the blade a few more times before you die. So—grit your teeth."

“Aaaaaaaaaaa…!”

"You're surprisingly still strong... You even have the energy to scream. Oh... I don't think I have any knives left. Wait a moment, I'll go get some more."

“Uh…u ...

"Is there... no more swords..."

Goto Ichiri subconsciously touched the open space next to him.

Didn't touch anything.

All the knives that Goto Ichiri picked up have been used up.

Goto Ichiri picked up the knife twice in total.

I ran out of knife halfway through, so I went to pick it up again.

And now, even the knives I picked up for the second time have been used up.

However, even if there was a knife for Goto Ichiri to use now, he would not be able to use it because: there is almost no good meat left on Saito Yoshitatsu's body for Goto Ichiri to cut.

Goto Ichiri shook his dizzy and heavy head vigorously and looked forward.

In front of him is a large "hedgehog".

This "hedgehog" is composed of Saito Yoshitatsu and hundreds of katanas and wakizashi.

Densely packed katanas and wakizashi pierced Saito Yoshitatsu's body, forming the needles of this "hedgehog".

The number of katanas and wakizashi that were stabbed into Saito Yoshitatsu's body was so large that it made one's scalp tingle.

At first glance, the body covered by the katana and wakizashi is almost invisible.

Even if Goto Ichiri was given another knife now, he would not be able to find a place to cut Saito Yoshitatsu.

At the beginning, Goto Ichiri only attacked those non-vital parts of Saito Yoshitatsu's body that were not fatal.

For example: limbs.

After about the 40th or 50th slash, Goto Ichiri could no longer find a place to strike at the vital parts of Saito Yoshitatsu's body.

In desperation, Goto Ichiri could only start stabbing Saito Yoshitatsu's torso.

Even though the attack on Saito Yoshitatsu's vital points had begun, Saito Yoshitatsu did not die immediately.

It was probably after his torso was stabbed with more than a dozen knives that Saito Yoshitatsu's breath gradually weakened.

Goto Ichiri could no longer remember which blow it was that killed Saito Yoshitatsu.

Because when he started attacking Saito Yoshitatsu's torso, Goto Ichiri already began to feel dizzy and his body heavy.

Goto Ichiri, whose consciousness had already begun to fade, only mechanically repeated the steps of picking up the knife, stabbing it into Saito Yoshitatsu's body, picking up the knife, stabbing it into Saito Yoshitatsu's body...

It wasn't until the sword was used up that Goto Ichiri finally came to his senses...

"Is it...over..."

It was not until this moment that every nerve in Goto Ichiri's body finally relaxed one by one.

After letting out a long sigh, Goto Ichiri, who felt dizzy, leaned back and lay on his back on the grass.

After his nerves relaxed, Goto Ichiri only felt fatigue and pain, which filled every corner of his body bit by bit like a gradually rising tide.

My already dizzy and heavy head became even more dizzy and heavy.

At the same time, Goto Ichiri felt that his vision was slowly becoming blurred and darker.

It wasn't just his vision that was problematic, Goto Ichiri felt there was something wrong with his hearing as well.

She vaguely heard some sounds.

But she couldn't tell whether the bird was near or far away from her.

The voice seemed to ring in her ears, but also seemed to come from far away.

Am I going to...die...?

Goto Ichiri thought this in his heart while touching his left abdomen.

Many parts of my body are painful and hot.

But the left abdominal area is the most painful and spicy!

Touch your left abdomen with your fingers.

Phew.

There was a thin sound, like an object entering water.

Goto Ichiri's fingers went directly into the wound on his left abdomen...

Light energy particles surged out from Goto Ichiri's fingers, and the wound on his abdomen began to visibly improve the moment it came into contact with the light.

In the situation between life and death, Goto Ichiri mastered the ability to use the light power in his body to heal himself without any instruction.

If this scene was seen by Mother of Ultra, she would definitely invite Goto Ichiri to join the Silver Crusaders led by her.

Just when Goto Ichiri had healed his wounds and finally caught his breath, the space around him began to distort, just like the feeling when he first entered Hikari's secret training device.

"So the 100-man kill just now was just an appetizer? Even if we have to fight continuously, at least let me rest for a while..."

As Goto Ichiri was speaking, he discovered that in addition to the external injuries that had just been healed, his mental fatigue was also swept away by a refreshing feeling.

When the surrounding scene completely changed, Goto Ichiri found himself in a long corridor.

Just as Goto Ichiri was steadying the new sword that was refreshed along with the dungeon at his waist, he heard footsteps like a tide coming from the end of the corridor.

And these footsteps like a tide came towards her at an extremely fast speed.

As Goto Ichiri followed the sound and moved his gaze to the end of the corridor on his side, he saw a group of samurai wearing blue haori walking around the corner and appearing at the end of the corridor.

"Tsk!"

Goto Ichiri let out a "tsk" sound mixed with impatience and confusion, then quickly drew the katana from his waist.

"I look just like the delinquents in the alleys I used to take a detour through after school. If Mom, Dad, and Erli knew about this, I wonder if they'd think I was possessed by a ghost."

Goto Ichiri still had time to think about random things in his mind.

"It's a strange face I've never seen before... Are you the companion of the man-killer Battousai?"

"Human-killer Battousai? I don't know that kind of person."

Goto Ichiri was a little surprised that the other party thought he was someone who could kill Battousai's companions.

"You don't seem to know who 'Hitome Battousai' is..." The middle-aged man looked Goto Ichiri up and down several times. "Looking closely... I think I've seen you somewhere before... Who are you? Tell me your name!"

As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking, a young man standing behind him shouted.

"Ju, what's going on?"

"Master Tani Sanjuro! I remember who this person is!"

The young man, called "Ju" by the middle-aged man, took out a large stack of papers from his pocket and began to search through them.

"Master Tani Sanjuro! That's her! This is the wanted poster for this person!"

As Tachibana spoke, he pulled out a piece of paper from the stack and handed it to Tani Sanjuro.

"She is Goto Ichiri, the 'Hundred-Man Executioner' who assassinated the lord of the Izumo domain last year and slaughtered hundreds of his guards!"

"??? If I remember correctly, wasn't it Saito Yoshitatsu from the Mino Domain who killed a hundred people? How can someone dressed like a Shinsengumi be called the executioner of a hundred people?!!!"

Goto Ichiri also knew in his heart that this was probably an identity set up in the training space to give the opponent an incentive to fight to the death with him.

The middle-aged man took the wanted poster handed to him by Tachibana, looked at the wanted poster in his hand, and then looked at Goto Ichiri in front of him.

"...So you are the 'Hundred Man Executioner'."

As the middle-aged man spoke, he returned the wanted poster in his hand to Ju behind him.

"No wonder I always feel like I've seen you somewhere."

"I've taken a look at your wanted poster."

"But since you weren't the thief our Shinsengumi was responsible for, we didn't pay any attention to you."

Goto Ichiri kept a vigilant look at the Shinsengumi members in front of him from beginning to end.

"...The young man just now called you 'Tani Sanjuro-sama'."

Goto Ichiri asked the middle-aged man.

"Are you the captain of the Shinsengumi's 7th division, Tani Sanjuro?"

"Yes, I am Tani Sanjuro."

The middle-aged man responded without hesitation.

"I wonder why the Shinsengumi, who are responsible for guarding Kyoto, are here? They can't be here just to arrest me, right?"

Goto Ichiri's understanding of the Shinsengumi came entirely from the topics he prepared in order to integrate into his classmates.

"Indeed, just as you said, the purpose of our trip here is not to capture you."

"but--"

When Tani Sanjuro said this, he suddenly changed the subject.

"Since we've found you, we can't just let you go."

"It's your bad luck, the executioner of a hundred men."

"I knew it would be like this..." Goto Ichiri curled his lips.

After saying that, Goto Ichiri drew the katana from his waist and assumed a mid-sword stance.

"Throw!" Tani Sanjuro suddenly shouted.

As soon as he finished speaking, several bamboo tube-shaped objects flew out from the Shinsengumi soldiers behind him.

These bamboo tubes drew a beautiful parabola and smashed straight towards Goto Ichiri.

Faced with these bamboo tubes flying towards her, Goto Ichiri was too lazy to even use the "stepping technique". She dodged left and right and avoided all the bamboo tubes flying towards her.