The Goddess Of War

Chapter 151 - Kenichiro Tanaka

Part 3: The Beginning of the Battle

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In a private dojo in Kyoto, Japan.

A young woman walked very carefully over to a middle-aged man who had just finished his training.

It has been 6 months for the middle-aged man to close himself to doing regular exercises to improve his sword techniques.

Since he felt the bitter defeat in the battle for power 11 years ago, Kenichiro Tanaka began to train his sword science again by closing himself for 6 months in each year, for the past 9 years.

Only then could he forget those bitter memories a little.

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Kenichiro handed his katana to the young woman sitting opposite him. He then took the white towel that the woman had brought with her.

After returning the katana back into her sleeve, the young lady approached a small table, then brought it before Kenichiro who was still in a seiza position after finishing his training.

After placing a small table in front of her father, Eiko Tanaka poured warm wine into a small cup and brought it closer to the middle-aged man.

Kenichiro took the cup slowly. He then lifted the cup in his hand and pointed it at a large painting on one of the walls of the room, as if to invite the figure in the painting to a toast.

After Kenichiro bowed deeply while raising the wine cup with both hands up to a position higher than his head, he then finished the contents of the cup in just one gulp.

The quite spacious private dojo was so quiet.

The two people inside were seen doing some activities, but they did so without speaking at all.

Eiko is busy packing her father's katana into a large wooden box, while Kenichiro empties his wine jars.

After a few more hours of silence in his original position, Kenichiro finally got up and went to a building that was right behind his private dojo, to clean himself up inside an onsen.

Meanwhile, after seeing her father go to her private bath, Eiko called out the 6 maids who had been waiting outside the dojo since then to enter and clean the entire floor of the training room.

The location of the private dojo is located in the middle of Arashiyama bamboo forest, which in ancient times was one of the famous attractions in Kyoto.

Ever since Dungeon gates sprung up and monsters invaded humans, this bamboo forest was one of Kyoto's places to hide.

However, when the monsters can sniff their existence, the, many residents also eventually died in this place before the Hunters who had just gained their strength shoulder to shoulder cleared the entire forest of monsters.

Because many deaths occurred in this bamboo forest, eventually this place was made a sacred place by the citizens of Kyoto.

Until finally, 10 years ago, Kenichiro bought the entire bamboo forest area that had been closed from the tourists, then he built a large dojo in the middle of the bamboo forest area for his place to do routine exercises and shut himself off from the outside world.

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Kenichiro just came out of his bath 1 hour later.

Two servants approached Kenichiro and took him to a limousine waiting in front of the dojo.

After being in the vehicle and they had already departed from the place, Kenichiro for the first time opened his mouth and spoke to his daughter.

“Is there any new news?”

“Keisuke Sato-San sends a message repeatedly to invite us to go to Tokyo,” said Eiko in a soft voice.

Eiko is the only child of Kenichiro and is a beautiful princess with a gentle demeanor and also very friendly to everyone, without exception.

Every time Kenichiro does a self-closing to practice, Eiko will replace him as the head of the family and take care of the entire Tanaka family business which he can do very well.

"Repeatedly?"

"Yes, dad. Keisuke Sato-San has been sending messages since two months ago. Keisuke Sato-San has even called me three times."

“Is something happening?”

“Keisuke Sato-San didn't tell, he told me he would tell me when my father was out of closed training."

“Yes, dad. I will contact now.”

Kenichiro nodded his head, then he opened the window beside him to let the fresh air that was produced from the scent of the bamboo forest enter and filled the back room of the limousine that was taking them back to the Tanaka residence.

After sending a message to Keisuke Sato, Eiko returned the phone to her handbag, then she spoke to her father slowly.

“Daddy, can I ask?”

Kenichiro turned back to his daughter, “Sure, what do you want to ask?”

Eiko nodded her head once before speaking, “If I may know, the ready-made painting that was in dad's training room?”

Kenichiro smiled gently at his daughter. This was the first time Eiko asked who the beautiful woman inside the large painting was on display in Kenichiro's practice room.

The painting was painted by the number one Japanese artist, who was only painted from the memories Kenichiro had conveyed to him.

Eiko herself has long had a curiosity about who the woman who became the object of the painting.

Although the painting was only in his father's training room and always looked admired and liked by Kenichiro, but his late mother also seemed very unmindful of his father's adoration of the figure of the woman in the painting.

“She was a goddess who saved father and the world.” Kenichiro said after a long silence, reminiscing about his savior.

Eiko nodded her head again in a slow motion. Her mother also once told her that if it were not for the woman, her father might never have returned from the dungeon break that destroyed almost the entire Asian region, especially the Southeast Asian region, 11 Years ago.

“Is he still alive, dad?”

Kenichiro's relaxed face suddenly changed. Eiko could see the sadness in both of her father's eyes.

Kenichiro looked at Eiko fixedly while shaking his head slowly.

“Dad doesn't know. When we woke up, we were all inside the ruins of a building that they seemed to have arranged so well, to protect us.” Kenichiro took a deep breath before continuing, "Since then, father has never met or seen her again."

Kenichiro is back to the scene. Although he eventually fainted while the woman was fighting with the monstrous figures, he saw how the woman and her companion ended their battle.

At that moment, the woman is seen using her powers to blow up the entire area where all the monsters are located, the, while the man made a sturdy wall of protection that protected the entire land from the total destruction that the woman would bring with her.

It was at that moment that Kenichiro lost his consciousness and the moment he woke up, he saw the entire part of a country flat on the ground. The protector that the man made was only able to hold that the island did not disappear from the face of the Earth, but not with all the buildings and any objects on it.

Only the rubble of the building that protected him and his colleagues is the only piece of property left in the country.

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The limousine they were driving finally entered the Tanaka family area, when the phone inside Eiko's handbag rang.

Seeing who had called her, Eiko immediately received the call after the second ring.

Kenichiro looked back out the window as his daughter received a phone call. The middle-aged man inhaled deeply the scent of cherry blossoms that had just bloomed along the road that would lead them to the large gate of the Tanaka family residence.

However, Kenichiro suddenly coughed as he inhaled wrongly when he accidentally heard the conversation his daughter was having on the phone.

In fact, Kenichiro, who usually carries a calm, immediately asks for a phone from his daughter's hand.

"Keisuke's. It's me." It's me."

《"Tanaka-San..,"》

"Who kidnapped Sato-San?"

There was a pause of a few seconds before Keisuke who was on the other side of the call spoke back.

《"Father has disappeared since five months ago and we don't know yet who kidnapped father. We also found no trace of him at all other than a letter written in the blood of his father, Tanaka-San."》

Kenichiro was silent for a long time. Both of her eyelids twitched a few times, as she recalled her best friend.

"We'll be going to see you soon!"

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