The Thousand Mask Warrior

Two Fortresses of Defense

Just now that the javelin was spared, in a blink of an eye Jayaseta had to rewind his body as quickly as possible as Koguro bounces high into the air past his head. Katana was clasped with two hands and while shouting loudly ready to split Jayaseta's skull. The gusts of katana that were a minute away from Jayaseta's head felt a hard punch from behind his mask.

Knowing that two of his attacks failed, Koguro clearly did not want to keep quiet. One swipe divides from the bottom sideways upward, intended to cut off the enemy's chest. This attack was carried out while running fast to cut the distance between himself and Jayaseta.

Be aware that Jayaseta is not a native lash who can be cut off in one to three sabets, Koguro prepared at once three crossed strokes aimed fixed at the top of Jayaseta's body and closed with a slash straight towards the neck to cut off his head.

Presumably, this attack mode could have the enemy's body cut into pieces like fish meat, but Jayaseta managed to dodge all of them without retracting his dao or kris. In fact Jayaseta managed to roll forward and create a fairly close distance while giving Bogem Watu Gunung to Koguro's chest protector.

BRACKET!

Koguro yelled stifled as he felt his ribs crackling due to Jayaseta's fist piercing through his breastplate. While shouting angrily he held his body back from falling down, as this was an early sign of his weakness. Both of his legs opened wide. His left hand whipped out the wakizashi and immediately shot forward attacking. He twisted his body so that both pairs of long and short swords attacked Jayaseta like a cycle. Katana is directed at Jayaseta's neck, wakizashi tries to compress the thigh.

TRANGS!

Jayaseta brushed aside the katana with her unsheathed dao side, while the wakizashi attack avoided Jayaseta by raising her legs high. Not only avoiding the attack by lifting the leg that was the target of the Koguro attack, this leg is also used to flap Koguro's left arm. Not a very dangerous kick but enough to make Koguro horses look good. Soon Keris Kyai Island Lucky slip into Koguro's left waist through the sidelines of his chest protector.

Koguro collapsed on his knees to the ground but his body was still supported by his pair of daishos.

SING!

Jayaseta fell backwards. Blood gushed from his right shoulder. Jayaseta gathers pure air using his inner energy to stop the blood from spouting from the incision. The pain spread to his brain. Luka is the part that cannot be separated from the lunge of a swordsman. Jayaseta tried to ignore it and refocused his mind on the enemy who attacked suddenly.

His opponent this time, Hideyoshi, stood two spears before him.

His body was low, his right leg wide in front and his left leg straight in back. His head slightly lowered, but both eyes stared intently at Jayaseta's eyes through his mask and heart. His right hand held the katana headwaters tucked in his left waist. Not one bit he glanced at the injured Koguro but still tried his hardest not to collapse on his back.

This is the hallmark of a samurai in the Battojutsu style of sword silat.

Samurai who already have a science of kanuragan qualified in these moves kill the enemy in just one or two strokes. It is able to pull the katana from its sheath quickly and directly put it back into its sheath. For this movement, one life was lost. Therefore, a samurai with the sword style Battojutsu will feel expensive to carelessly slap his sword towards the enemy even though the sabetan is a dangerous attack.

For this style, pay attention to the enemy's condition properly and patiently and painstakingly see the enemy's movements will be very profitable by killing the enemy with a fast attack. That's why Jayaseta never saw when Hideyoshi drew his sword because of the rapid movement.

Actually, Battojutsu is a defense from enemy attacks. His dangerous slashes were indeed intended to finish off the enemy in one fell swoop. Therefore, the element of surprise and rapid counterattack is the mainstay of this style. It's just that in Hideyoshi's hands, Battojutsu is transformed into a very dangerous attacking style.

Hideyoshi's eyes were still trying to penetrate Jayaseta's defense from within.

For a Samurai, the set of inner energies as part of their devotion lies not only in the strength of the body and the attacks aimed at damaging and destroying the enemy's body. The power within the Samurai was also trained to influence the soul of the enemy. Making them tremble with a piercing sharp look so that the enemy would have already lost before the sword was unsheathed.

Deep power is also used to predict or guess the enemy's movements as if they can read the enemy's mind. Where the enemy's slash will be directed can already be known to a Samurai with mature deep power. In just less than a count, the enemy had already been cut down before making an attack. This is what Hideyoshi did. This type of inner energy is called ki. Every object on the face of the earth has ki, or pure power and power. The task of a Samurai is to see the forms, features and ki that exist in objects, animals and humans to be used as needed.

In many of these two Samurai fights, both Hideyoshi and Koguro, are able to slash all enemies. Both small claws against their master, the Walanda people, as well as some champions and native warriors of the archipelago. The experience of war was full they went through.

However, Jayaseta is a difference, an exception. Although Hideyoshi felt that the Japanese gods had penetrated into his body, helping him to give a vision of the future, this strange masked warrior did not look straight and move at all.

Just now he saw with his eyes how Koguro was, his comrade for many years in the war while still a Samurai master even to move to devotion to a different master and become a paid ronin like today, never once had he seen Kogurai fall. This masked pederker also turned out to be so shrewd and slippery. Koguro was forced to attack him several times, slashing and smashing him many times. It was Koguro himself who was impaled and temporarily paralyzed at this time.

Hideyoshi moved his legs slowly, sliding both of his legs to the side slowly, very slowly. Almost like floating. His gaze remained on Jayaseta who looked calm without a trace of the look on her face. The mask he was wearing dissipated the energy in Hideyoshi. Although he knew that Jayaseta could see him, he himself could not see what was raging inside Jayaseta. A great loss for him.

Jayaseta grasped the dao in her right hand, but not so tightly. So was Kyai Island's Lucky Kris in his left hand.

Hideyoshi suddenly sped up, spurting both of his legs very quickly straight towards Jayaseta. His right hand was still on the handle of the katana tucked in his left waist, unsheathed. Jayaseta turned her body back one spear and then shifted her body to the side while returning and shaking her dao towards the attacker.

The sharp blade of the dao escaped a single finger segment from Hideyoshi's face. Now even Hideyoshi who somehow already behind Jayaseta. With the distance too short it is impossible for Hideyoshi to draw and shake his words towards Jayaseta. He thrust his shoulder into Jayaseta's back.

BRUK!

Incredibly the resulting consequences of such seemingly simple collisions. The moves of the ronin are very organized and calculated. A Samurai is also equipped with empty-handed moves that are used in certain circumstances where the weapon is not in hand or is not possible to use it. Just like some types of silat nusantara, these empty-handed moves called jujutsu utilize yawara-gi or self-defense properties by using the opponent's strength as self-power. Its compact and planned nature makes the Samurai able to bend the enemy without using excessive force.

Imagine, a Hideyoshi jujutsu coupled with its great inner power. Fortunately Jayaseta also has a science of canuragan that has reached maturity.

In order to avoid himself being plunged by the attack, Jayaseta rolled forward once and instantly set his low horses No Maternya. The horses were adapted to the circumstances and walking naturally it helped Jayaseta to deal with the fast and planned attack of Hideyoshi's Battojutsu style.

“Yaaaaaiishh!!”

Sure enough, while roaring loudly, Hideyoshi slid towards Jayaseta. His katana was quickly drawn. A sideways cut from bottom to top divides the Jayaseta.

THE TRACK!

Jayaseta's white Hanuman mask was cut off leaving a long scratch on it.  Hideyoshi shook his katana back down, targeting Jayaseta's headstone.

TRANGS!

Jayaseta fends off the katana with the side of her daony. The sparks showed just how powerful Hideyoshi's slash was and the energy he unleashed. Jayaseta himself retreated three steps back.

The Hanuman mask was not badly damaged or detached even though it was almost split right in the muzzle. Jayaseta himself was not hurt. But the quick attack showed just how fast and powerful Hideyoshi's sword moves were. Hideyoshi himself returned to his early horses with a katana of one and a half hastanya that had re-entered the sheath. Incredibly fast this Japanese ronin sword game.

Jayaseta is preparing again. But the name is also a fight, there is no time to think too long and concoct everything. Jayaseta brushed off the katana attack which suddenly came from the side. Then he rolled once forward as one more slash was aimed at decapitating his head. The attack came not from Hideyoshi, but from the wounded Koguro.

“Hyaaaarrghh!!” Koguro attacks like a bull wounded with a katana, while Wakizashi stuck on the ground he leaves behind. Jayaseta continued to avoid Koguro's attacks in at least three slashes that threatened to split the stomach and again Jayaseta's neck. His Jurorless streak keeps all Koguro's attacks from escaping. For one last slash that led to the shoulder, Jayaseta instead greeted him.

He devotes his dao to deflect the katana, then submits and plugs his Kyai Lucky Island keris right in *********** Koguro, destroying the Samurai's virility forever.

The one who shouted was not Koguro, but Hideyoshi. The veins on his neck and face poked out. It is certainly shocking and very striking to see his fellow ronin who is waiting for his death.

He glided so fast, as fast as he could to attack Jayaseta. Jayaseta himself after thrusting his dagger immediately released his dao which he had originally grasped. With this free right hand he struck Koguro's body with the Buddha's Palm.

Jayaseta understood that he would be directly attacked by Hideyoshi, that is why by using the Buddha Palm with a large internal energy Koguro's body was thrown towards Hideyoshi who was sliding towards him.

Hideyoshi still had time to hear Koguro's bones crackling before Koguro's dead body was thrown into him, making him stop at his katana.

Behind Koguro's body that was thrown earlier Jayaseta bouncy high utilizing Hideyoshi's weakness that hit Koguro's body. Jayaseta has to finish it. Placing Kyai Lucky Island on Hideyoshi's chest.

THE DAR!!

Hot pews nestled in Jayaseta's hull. Kyai Lucky Island got out of Jayaseta's hands. It bounced and collapsed flat on the ground. Thick smoke came out from the muzzle of the gun in Sebastian de Jaager's left hand. Without showing any visible feelings on his face, Sebastian looked at his tall brother, Deviser de Jaager. His eyes looked like he wanted to say “It's done!”. He also looked at Hideyoshi's still hardened face.