The Incredible Swordsman

CHAPTER 23-THE TWISTED PLOT

Ryohyō: “Well, let's say they deserved that. They used me because I'm strong and powerful, and they even blackmailed me about the incident of Unkensō… If I'm not doing what they asked for, they will tell the whole world that destroying Unkensō was my plan… So do you think I will allow such a person to still live in this world and step over my head???”

Hitokiri-Kenshi: “I see... You’re pathetic… psychopath… devil… in disguise…”

Ryohyō: “Huh…!!! Just say whatever you want, since tonight is going to be your last day in this world…”

Hitokiri-Kenshi: “I see... You’re pathetic… psychopath… devil… in disguise…”

Ryohyō: “Huh…!!! Just say whatever you want, since tonight is going to be your last day in this world…”

Later on, Ryohyō asks his men to throw Hitokiri-Kenshi off the cliff to let him die. From there, Ryohyō became the only person who owned the highest level of Mukeifūken-ryū. Since then, the name of Hitokiri-Kenshi started to be erased from the mercenary guild even from the pugilist world as he was just a myth or truthly became legend as what they called him previously. From time to time, people started forgetting about him. However, did he really die? Actually, when they threw him off the cliff, he didn’t die but almost. With half a life left, he was saved by someone. A physician that lives alone in a remote place in the forest not far from the hill. Some said this physician was a miracle physician that can cure any sickness, even reconnecting a severed his meridians so that person can still do activities like normal people. However, to learn the martial-arts again, it's not possible anymore. After being unconscious for about 6 months, Hitokiri-Kenshi finally awakened and he started to recover slowly. After a while later, he was able to move again, like walking and doing some light chores to help that physician who saved him from death. Thanks to that physician who helped him reconnect all of his meridians. Now he can do activities again like a normal person even if it takes time. A year later, Hitokiri-Kenshi almost fully recovered, and he asked permission to leave to that physician. Now he returns to his world, but without any more martial-arts. Then he started to live a normal life that he once experienced when he was a kid together with his Shishō, Chōbun. So he started to stay in the middle of the forest as well, to build a small hut to stay there as an animal hunter, just for living. Not only that, he also gave himself a new name so no one can recognize him was once a famous Hitokiri-Kenshi in the pugilist world. He called himself “Towa (Fēi-Yǔ).” After a few months of living a normal life, suddenly he remembered his childhood memories when he lived together with Chōbun. Then once again, he’s planning to visit Chōbun grave so that day he went on. For the record, the Chōbun original grave was buried together with his Shishō, Seimei-Sōshu in the underground tunnel that was left by Chōbun previously. The other grave of Chōbun in the forest was just camouflage. Certainly, Towa already sealed the entrance which was inside Chōbun’s hut earlier that was destroyed by Ryohyō and his accomplices. Actually, Chōbun not only prepared the entrance to that underground tunnel from his room under his bed. He also prepared another exit that came across a cave under a cliff. That’s why at that time, Towa already sealed away the entrance from Chōbun’s room, and only left the exit on that cave under a cliff. So he can only enter from that cave if one day he wants to go visit. Then after Towa got inside to pray at Chōbun’s grave, suddenly he remembered that book, the original Mugen-Keisho that is still there. The book was kept inside another layer of the wall of Seimei-Sōshu’s coffin. He remembered since he can't learn martial-arts anymore and this book also a tragedy that almost cost his life, so he planned to burn it, for real. When he took out the book, suddenly he noticed that there was something there. Something like a small paper of notes behind the book that stick on the wall. He thought to himself, last time when he found this book, he didn’t notice this note. How come it was here now?