Becoming a Yakuza Boss from Tokyo

"boom!"

The scorching flames slashed once again forced Long Yan back, but this time Shishio still did not continue to pursue.

Looking at Long Yan who was holding the knife in both hands and posing in a mid-range stance, a hint of doubt flashed in his cold eyes, and then he asked in a deep voice with a little confusion.

"What a weak thrust! Are you looking down on me, Battousai?"

Hearing this, Long Yan couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

The thrust just now was made by him relying on his instinct and using my sword technique.

Although he was not sure what level of swordsmanship the Shishio in front of him had, he was sure that he could not be defeated by his mere level 9 swordsmanship.

A look of disappointment gradually appeared in Zhizhixiong's eyes, and was then replaced by a creepy ghostly aura. Zhizhixiong did not say much, but just made a thrusting motion and spoke in a deep voice.

"I overestimated you. You, wielding this ridiculous weapon, are like a beast whose claws and fangs have been plucked out. Let me put an end to your pathetic and ridiculous life, Battousai-senpai."

It happened in a flash. Just when Shishio uttered the last word, Long Yan felt a flash before his eyes. When he came to his senses again, he found that the scene in front of him had changed and turned back to the previous scene when he was watching the two swordsmen fighting each other in the blazing sea of ​​fire as a "spectator".

"Did I just die?"

Long Yan subconsciously wanted to touch the part of his body where he had just been stabbed, but before his hand could touch his body, the feeling of trance came over him again. The familiar perspective switch made him "possessed" Kenshin Himura again.

A Saint Seiya will not be knocked down by the same move twice!

This time, with the previous painful experience, Long Yan simply rolled sideways to avoid Shishio's flaming slash.

Looking at Long Yan who was standing with a knife in his hand, Shi Zhixiong spoke in a cold and ruthless voice as if he was seeing him for the first time.

"Is this all you can do, Battousai-senpai?"

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PS. Every time the temperature suddenly turns cold or the air pressure drops, I get a headache. I don’t want to take a leave at the beginning of the month, so I’ll try to write the second chapter.

Chapter 100: Great Terror Between Life and Death

"Qiang!"

The sound of swords clashing rang out in the sea of ​​fire, and the strong wind caused by the two intersecting figures seemed to suppress the surrounding flames by half. But only a moment later, one of the shorter figures collapsed to the ground as if all his strength had been drained away in an instant.

"Hahaha......!"

His mind was in a trance and his vision turned away, but this time what appeared in front of Long Yan was the Japanese-style room in the main house of the Kamiya Katsushimryu dojo.

Long Yan, who was breathing heavily, realized at this moment that his back had been wet with sweat since he didn't know when.

His incredulous gaze fell on the reverse-edged knife in his hand.

He didn't understand how Kenshin Himura defeated the monster that was Shishio Makoto.

At that moment, he experienced the feeling of playing Sekiro and Old Man Tamaki in his previous life.

After swallowing the [Empathy Capsule], his mind seemed to be instantly pulled into a time loop, and he kept repeating the battle with Shishio as "Kenshin Himura" until he "died", and then returned to the starting moment again.

He didn't know what kind of changes happened to his body after swallowing the [Empathy Capsule], but what he did know was that if the efficacy of the [Empathy Capsule] was consistent with the description, then in just those short 10 minutes, he was killed by Shishio as many as 8 times.

If a foreigner were to experience this feeling and receive a system prompt after death, this foreigner would probably have learned how to write the word "death".

And this is because Shishio would always say a few words to him every time.

Otherwise, he would probably die more times!

After catching his breath, Long Yan looked at the reverse-blade knife in his hand, his eyes filled with a complicated expression.

What does it feel like when humans experience death?

Cold?

fear?

despair?

Nostalgic?

Confused?

Or just go with the flow?

Perhaps no one in this world can answer this question.

After all, those who can understand that feeling have probably already gone to another world.

But in just those short 10 minutes, Long Yan experienced 8 "real" deaths.

There is a great fear between life and death, which arises from the heart and manifests in the body.

At first, because Shishio's sword was too fast, Long Yan didn't feel anything before the next cycle started, but as he became more and more adapted to Kenshin Himura's body, he gradually felt the horror of death.

Some people may say that Long Yan is just controlling Kenshin Himura's body to fight, just like playing a VR virtual game. At most, the character he controls will die. What's so scary about that?

But what if before you died, you witnessed your own throat being cut by a sharp blade, your chest being pierced by flames, and your chest and abdomen being chopped open, accompanied by extremely real pain?

It was a kind of terror that was difficult to describe, but it continued to torment Long Yan's spirit, and even caused his body in the real world to show a stress response.

However, despite experiencing the fear between life and death, Long Yan did not gain nothing.

After all, the body he used was Kenshin Himura's peak "account" after combining the killing power of the executioner Battousai and the mercy of the reverse-blade sword.

When he died for the eighth time, he was already able to figure out some clues about the Flying Sword Style through some subtle habits of Kenshin Himura's body movements!

Such a discovery undoubtedly made him feel extremely surprised.

In his opinion, Zhi Zhixiong's strength is already strong enough to crush him who is using the [Luo Feng Advanced Swordsmanship Experience Card]. Conservatively estimated, he is a terrifying existence with martial arts and actual combat levels exceeding level 60.

Then, how powerful will Kenshin Himura be after he has mastered the secret of the Flying Sword Style [Soaring Dragon Flash]?

Even in the original plot of "Rurouni Kenshin", Shishio was burned all over his body, which damaged his sweat glands. He finally died of spontaneous combustion due to high body temperature after the duel lasted more than 15 minutes. However, it is undeniable that Kenshin Himura, who was able to fight with him until the last moment, was by no means a weakling!

If he could learn the Hiten-Mountain Sword Style of Kenshin Himura through empathy, combined with his physique far superior to Kenshin Himura, he could definitely be more powerful than Kenshin Himura and Shishio Shin...

Wait a moment.

15 minutes!?

Recalling the details of the battle with Shishio and the fragments that had long been buried deep in my memory.

Long Yan suddenly understood why the [Empathy Capsule] chose to let him experience the real battle between Kenshin Himura and Shishio.

By the way, although the author of "Rurouni Kenshin" Nobuhiro Watsuki believes that Shishio is actually one of his favorite characters, he represents the "culmination of the aesthetics of evil" of the author.

But seriously speaking, Shishio may not be the strongest opponent Kenshin Himura has ever encountered.

After defeating Shishio, Kenshin Himura suffered revenge from his ex-wife's brother Yukishiro Enishi, whom he killed with his own hands. Yukishiro Enishi learned Chinese martial arts and integrated it into Japanese swordsmanship, and mastered his own unique swordsmanship [Tiger Fu Zetsu Style]. He is definitely a more terrifying opponent than Shishio, who can only fight for 15 minutes.

However, the [Empathy Capsule] chose to let him experience the real battle between Kenshin Himura and Shishio.

After Kenshin Himura changed his identity and stopped serving as the executioner, Shishio, whose swordsmanship was comparable to Kenshin Himura's, became the new "shadow killer" of the Meiji government.

However, unlike Kenshin Himura, Shishio's ambition caused the Meiji government to be unwilling to trust him from beginning to end.

After Shishio completed a mission, the Meiji government sent musketeers to kill him and burn his body.

Unfortunately, the reformist government clearly did not understand the importance of finishing off the enemy.

Shishio was shot several times and burned in a fire, but miraculously he did not die. Instead, he became even stronger because of his anger.

However, as mentioned before, his sweat glands were burned and he could not dissipate heat by secreting sweat. He could only maintain a fighting time of 15 minutes. Once that time was exceeded, he would spontaneously combust and die due to the huge amount of heat accumulated in his body.

Presumably, the purpose of the [Empathy Capsule] was to allow Ryuhiko to feel and understand the "heart" of Kenshin Himura and Sakamoto through his battle with Shishio at his peak within the limited time limit of the item, so this battle was chosen.

After figuring out the details, Long Yan did not hesitate and directly called out the system mall to buy another [Empathy Capsule]. After setting the phone to video mode and pointing it at himself, he swallowed the [Empathy Capsule] in his hand again.

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PS. Fortunately, the leave application was useless, NICE!

Chapter 101: Flying Sword Style

"Ha ha ha ha......!"

Blood flowed slowly down his elbow, and his violent breathing seemed to turn his chest into a broken bellows.

How many times has this cycle happened?

Sixth time... or is it seventh?

After swallowing the [Empathy Capsule] for the second time, Ryuhiko once again put himself into the ultimate duel between Kenshin Himura and Shishio.

The only difference from the last time was that even though he was mentally prepared and even though he had experienced "death" more than ten times, Long Yan was not used to death. On the contrary, as the number of deaths continued to increase, his mental state became increasingly sluggish, and even his consciousness was a little hazy, so much so that he could not remember how many cycles he had experienced.

According to his guess, the [Empathy Capsule] is not an item that can be used unlimitedly. In the state of empathy, each of his "deaths" will consume a certain amount of his mental energy and cause his body in the real world to become twice as tired.

"Is this all you can do, Senior?"

Damn it, that sentence again!

After Long Yan, who was holding the knife in both hands, took a deep breath, before he could make any move, Zhizhixiong's cold and ruthless voice echoed again in the sea of ​​fire.

Long Yan couldn't remember how many times Shishio had said this to him.

If he could beat Shizhixiong, he would definitely kill Shizhixiong!

Helplessly, even though he had secretly cursed Shishio in his heart more than a hundred times, this idealistic power could not help him defeat Shishio.

"call......"

Long Yan let out a breath and forced himself to calm down.

Although he could no longer remember how many cycles he had gone through, there was one thing that was gradually engraved into Long Yan's DNA as the number of cycles increased.

Kenshin Himura's fighting habits!

In the battle with Shishio, Ryuhiko had been using my style swordsmanship to resist... no, perhaps it would be more appropriate to say that it was a last-ditch struggle.

But subconsciously, he found that his "body" was slowly correcting some of his bad habits in fighting.

Yes, that's right, it's the body, not the mind.

The more he immersed himself in the battle with Shishio, the more he could feel the subtle "correction" of this body on him.

Faced with Shishio's provocation, he did not say much, but contrary to his usual behavior, he put the reverse-blade sword in his hand into the scabbard, and then made a gesture of drawing the sword and slashing.

"Oh? Draw the sword and slash?

It’s finally getting interesting!”

Zhizhixiong in front of him did not stop Long Yan from sheathing the sword, nor did he take advantage of the moment when Long Yan sheathed the sword to launch a sneak attack. Instead, he made a sound of interest and joy, and then sheathed the Infinite Blade in his hand like Long Yan did.

Sword drawing VS sword drawing!

Fighting the draw sword with the draw sword, Shishio's arrogance drove him to strike the same draw sword posture as Ryuhiko. He actually wanted to compete with "Kenshin Himura" in the strongest draw sword!

Of course, this is Shishio's perspective.

In his opinion, the person fighting against him at this time was just "Battosai" Kenshin Himura. There was no such thing as Ryuhiko or not. The person he wanted to defeat was only Kenshin Himura.

Long Yan didn't know what Shishio was thinking, nor did he want to know.

He simply twisted his upper body and slowly lowered his body until he used his body to completely block the sheathed reverse-blade knife in his hand.

Weird sword-drawing posture.

If Busujima Saeko were here, she would definitely recognize at a glance that the sword moves used by Ryuhiko at this time were completely different from the [I Style·Ikkisen] he used before!

Yes, Long Yan did not continue to use my swordsmanship.

Because he knew that the purpose of his coming to this strange space was not entirely to defeat Shishio, who was like a demon in front of him, but to understand the true meaning of Kenshin Himura's swordsmanship and Hiten Yuken Ryu through empathy.

When he fully comprehends the true meaning of the Flying Sword Style, he will naturally be able to defeat Shishio.

Holding their breath and concentrating, at this moment, in the huge sea of ​​fire, it seemed that only each other was left in the eyes of the two.

The only difference between him and Shishio, whose eyes were filled with murderous intent, was that Long Yan at this moment seemed unusually calm.

At this moment, his mind seemed to replay the dozen or so "life and death" experiences he had experienced like a "revolving lantern". When the "revolving lantern" finished the last "death", Long Yan finally moved.

The two of them, who had gathered their momentum to the peak, seemed to have transformed into a gust of wind in the sea of ​​fire. The powerful force exerted by their feet even broke the wooden floor beneath their feet.

The sword shines coldly when it comes out of its sheath, and it is as fast as a startled wild goose.