Chapter 253 Heart of Compassion

When he first confronted Ogata, Kazumi could clearly recognize that Ogata didn't have much experience in fighting people with long weapons.

Whether it is to parry the attack of the long weapon or to dodge the attack of the long weapon, it is very jerky.

However, as the battle continued, Kazumi felt more and more clearly that Ogata was progressing at an extremely fast speed.

Whether it is the way to parry his slash, or the timing of dodging his attack, Ogata has become more and more skilled.

As a result, Ogata was able to get closer to Kazumi more frequently.

From being unable to even get close at the beginning, to now being able to rush in front of Yichun frequently, launching several attacks on Yichun that are enough to injure him-this kind of progress speed makes Yichun feel Fear.

Izumi came up with a terrible idea for no reason: if the fight continues like this, if Ogata gets used to fighting people with long weapons, and if Ogata can't go on like this, the battle situation may gradually change. Cheng Xufang has the upper hand...

Kazun, whose brain has been occupied by this kind of thinking, no longer dared to have any contempt for Ogata, and resorted to all means, and exchanged offense and defense with Ogata.

After repeated struggles, the two gradually fought from a spacious room on the third floor to a narrow corridor outside the room.

In such a narrow corridor, using the open and close moves is courting death.

Therefore, after stepping into this narrow corridor, Kazumi quickly changed his tactics.

Kazun put away his big naginata, used it as a spear, and launched continuous, non-stop stabbing at Ogata.

Taking a deep breath, Ogata stared closely at Kazumi's movements in front of him, using steps to dodge Kazuchun's stabs one by one.

Not only slashing, the power of Yichun's stabbing is also huge.

Ogata, who didn't dare to have any carelessness in his heart, didn't even dare to blink his eyes, and couldn't help slowing down his breathing.

While dodging each of Kazumi's thrusts, Ogata also narrowed his eyes slightly, looking for an opportunity to launch a counterattack.

The positions of Yichun's each stab are different, some positions are higher, and some positions are lower.

At a certain moment, Ogata's eyes suddenly released a chilling light.

Because - Yichun newly launched this stab, the position is very low.

In terms of height, it is only about the same level as Ogata's waist.

Finally, when the time came to counterattack, Ogata raised his right foot without any hesitation, and stepped on the naginata blade that Kazumi had just stabbed out before he had time to retract it.

Ogata did not directly step on the opponent's weapon like he did when he confronted Zarai just now.

Instead, after stepping on Yichun's naginata blade with his right foot, he exerted force with his right foot, using Yijun's naginata blade as a pedal, and jumped towards Yichun in one breath.

Unexpectedly, Ogata would jump over with his naginata as a springboard, Kazumi showed horror, and took a hasty step back, trying to avoid Ogata's sudden attack.

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Although Yichun's reaction is fast enough, the speed of retreat is also fast enough.

But because the distance between the two was not far away, the speed of Ogata who jumped directly towards him was too fast. Although he had already retreated, Ogata's blade still hit him.

There was a "chick" sound as the sharp blade cut through the flesh.

The blade of Ogata's sword cut a hole in Kazumi's chest.

It's a pity - because Kazumi took a step back in time, only the tip of the knife was cut into Kazumi.

The wound left on Yichun's chest was still too shallow. Although the flesh on Yichun's chest was successfully cut, and a large amount of blood spurted out from the wound on Yichun's chest, it did not cause too much damage to Yichun. killing.

After taking a few steps back and pulling away enough distance from Ogata to give him a sense of security, Kazumi dared to glance down and glance at his wound that was constantly bubbling blood.

Looking at the wound on his chest, Yichun's face instantly darkened.

Although the chest injury was not fatal, the impact it had on Kazumi was extremely huge.

Because this means that Ogata can already hurt him...

Reminiscent of Ogata's terrifying speed of progress, cold hairs began to stand up uncontrollably from all over Kazumi's body.

"Come with me if you have the guts!"

Knowing that it is difficult to maximize the power of his naginata in such a narrow corridor, so while shouting like this, Kazumi smashed open the paper sliding door of the next room and rushed into the next room.

Ogata was not even afraid of Izumi's behavior of forcibly changing the battle field to one that was beneficial to him. He followed Izumi without any hesitation, and rushed into the room.

The space in this room is not small, just enough for Kazumi to fully display the power of the naginata in his palm.

On the other hand - this spacious space is also very conducive to Ogata's dodge.

After forcibly picking up Ichijun's "top", Ogata intentionally avoided any collision between his sword and Ichijun's big naginata.

Under Ogata's deliberate protection, the two knives in Ogata's palms, which were already full of gaps, have managed to maintain their shape until now.

As soon as the two rushed into this room, almost all the things that could be broken in this room were shattered within a few breaths.

Either Ogata accidentally smashed it while dodging Kazumi's attack - such as a screen placed in the corner of the room.

Either it was directly chopped into pieces by waving the big naginata in the palm of the hand - such as the small table by the window and the vase on this small table.

Unknowingly, the battlefield between the two shifted to the next room.

The room where the two were originally located was originally connected to the room next door, and the two rooms were only separated by a thin paper sliding door.

Whether it's Ogata or Yichun, every nerve in the body has been tensed at this moment.

Even the frequency of each other's breathing and blinking has been unconsciously lowered.

The two, who had already gone all out, were staring at each other now.

At this moment, both of them had the same idea in their minds - kill the guy in front of them!

However—after smashing through the paper sliding door separating the two rooms and dodging into the next room, a strange sound that didn't match the chilling atmosphere around the two of them suddenly entered their ears.

And this weird voice both attracted the attention of Ogata and Izumi, causing the tense momentum on both of them to be interrupted at the same time.

After the two turned their eyes following the sound, they finally realized what was making the strange sound.

"Child?" Ogata couldn't help but exclaimed.

The voice that attracted the attention of Ogata and Kazumi just now was a low sobbing sound.

And the person who made this sobbing sound was a child who was wrapping himself tightly with a quilt he found somewhere, with only half of his face exposed, hiding in the corner of this room.

From the half of the child's face exposed from the quilt, it is not difficult to see that it is a little girl, about 7 or 8 years old.

When Ogata and Kazumi broke into this room, the little girl stared at them with terrified eyes.

Even though she had steadfastly suppressed it, she couldn't help but let out a low sobbing sound full of fear.

Looking at the little girl hiding in the corner of this room, Ogata immediately figured out what happened.

Probably because Yichun suddenly attacked the third floor and caused panic among the villagers hiding on the third floor. The little girl was confused by the villagers who suddenly panicked and did not escape the third floor with the villagers in time.

By the time he realized that he was about to leave here, A-Machi had already fought with Kazumi.

The sound of clanging and fighting outside the room scared the little girl from going out, so she simply hid in the room.

Ogata didn't know if his reasoning was correct, but Ogata felt that even if it wasn't completely correct, it shouldn't be too far off.

After seeing this little girl, Kazumi, like Ogata, first showed astonishment.

But the look of astonishment only lingered on Yichun's body for a moment.

After a while, a ferocious smile appeared on Yichun's face.

"It's a child...I like children the most."

"The feeling of cutting the blade on a child is the best."

"I just happen to be in an annoyed mood right now, vent your anger on me!"

After saying that, Kazumi swung the big naginata in his hand and slashed at the little girl!

There was a little distance between Kazumi and the little girl.

But this distance is nothing to Kazusumi who has a long arm and holds a large naginata.

As long as he swung his arm, he could easily kill this little girl.

Kazun wasn't worried that Ogata on the opposite side would attack him while he was attacking the little girl.

He had already calculated the distance between him and Ogata, and the distance between him and the little girl - Ogata was too late.

Even if Ogata attacked him while he was attacking the little girl, he would definitely be able to kill the little girl before Ogata's knife hit him, and then calmly cut the knife Take it back to resist Ogata's attack.

The sharp blade sliced ​​through the air and headed straight for his own head—an adult would be terrified to see such a scene, let alone a little girl who is only 7 or 8 years old.

The little girl screamed in fright, and tightened the thin quilt covering her body.

As if this thin quilt is the safest fortress, as long as you hide inside, you will not encounter any danger.

In terms of pure ability, he only needs half a breath to cut the little girl in half.

However——half the time to breathe, a loud noise suddenly exploded.

When Kazun swung his knife and slashed at the little girl, Ogata moved almost at the same time.

Ogata is the same as Kazumi - he also sees that it is useless to attack him now, because of the distance, Kazumi can definitely kill the little girl before his knife can reach him. die, and then continue to wrestle with him.

Therefore, Ogata's goal was not on Yichun from the beginning to the end.

Ogata's target was in front of the little girl.

After stopping between Kazumi and the little girl as fast as he could, Ogata raised the two knives in his hands and greeted the big naginata that Kazuzu had struck.

And the loud noise just now was exactly the sound of Ogata using his two swords to open the blade, and forcibly intercepting Kazumi's big naginata.

Because of Ogata's block, Kazumi's naginata was successfully blocked.

But at the same time——Ogata also paid the price of forcibly stopping Kazumi's slash.

His most severely damaged Wakizashi finally broke in two due to the overwhelming load.

However, Ogata had no expression on the wakizashi that was unfortunately scrapped in his hand.

Without even frowning, he casually threw aside Wakizashi, who only had the hilt and half of the blade left.

With this calm look, it seemed that it was not his own knife that was broken, but someone else's.

It seemed that Wakizashi's fracture didn't hinder his next battle.

After holding the only remaining sword with both hands instead, Ogata said to the little girl behind him who was looking at him with complicated eyes mixed with emotions such as surprise and curiosity, without looking back:

"Little ghost, go out from here and turn left and go straight. You can see a staircase. Follow the stairs to the floor below."

Because the little girl hadn't recovered from the series of shocks just now, after Ogata's words fell, she still looked dazed and didn't move for a long time.

"Hurry up!" Ogata yelled at the little girl behind him in an impatient tone, "If you don't hurry up and do what I say, I'll kill you!"

After being so blatantly threatened by Ogata, the little girl finally recovered from the fright.

Probably frightened by what Ogata said just now, the little girl tightened the quilt on her body, and ran out of the room quickly while crying.

Kazumi didn't go after the girl.

Instead, he looked at Ogata with suspicious eyes.

"You are really strange."

"Is that girl your relative? To save her, you didn't hesitate to let your knife be scrapped because of it."

"No." Ogata responded casually, "That girl is not my relative, and I don't know her at all."

Hearing Ogata's words, the doubtful look on Kazumi's face became more intense.

"I feel more and more strange about you..."

"You, a guy with blood on your hands, are you going to save people?"

"You have killed countless people like me, have you never experienced the thrill of killing?"

Speaking of this, every muscle on Yichun's face tensed up, grinning grinningly.

"When killing human beings... especially those old and weak women and children who are unarmed and powerless, the feeling of being able to bully the weak is as intoxicating as fine wine."

"As an executioner who has killed countless people, have you never experienced this kind of pleasure?"

"Shut up." Ogata's tone was neither salty nor weak, "Don't confuse me with you."

"I never felt that killing people was such a happy thing."

"As you said, I have blood on my hands."

"I can't even remember how many people died at my hands. How many families were broken because of me."

"When I hacked that dog thief in Matsudaira Gennai to pieces, it became my destiny for the rest of my life to be hunted down and killed endlessly by others."

"I am doomed to keep killing people in this life, and the blood stained on my hands will be doomed to increase."

"but--"

Speaking of this, Ogata's eyes gradually shot out with a determined expression, as if there were flames burning in the pupils of the eyes.

"Even if killing people is a destiny that I cannot escape, I will never abandon my compassionate heart no matter what."