The Sword Deity in Tokyo

Chapter 78: The Spirit, Sudden Flash

Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio

On Friday evening, Kazuki began his first tutoring lesson with test papers in hand.

For the Furuhashi sisters, Sena Nagayama had taken pains to take into account all aspects. A whiteboard was prepared in the living room, especially for the use of Kazuki to teach.

In the first lesson, Kazuki talked about the contents of the test paper...

He was very experienced in teaching, making complicated topics, easy to understand. Furthermore, to interest the four Furuhashi sisters, he had even analyzed the tutoring schemes of other well known private tutors. Hence, in his opinion, tonight’s lesson seemed okay to him.

However, it was apparent that apart from Furuhashi Natsui, who listened carefully, the rest of them listened for a while before they began daydreaming to the point that he had to call them every few minutes.

Even though Furuhashi Natsui had made up her mind to listen to the lesson, she too began to lose focus gradually after listening for half an hour.

Kazuki was thoughtful. He knew that the standard of knowledge of the Furuhashi sisters was not up to the level of his lesson, even if he made the lesson interesting, it wouldn’t be much use. In the face of incomprehensible knowledge, it would still be confusing, no matter how interesting it was.

On Saturday, he focused his lessons on materials from the sixth grade of elementary school. At this point, all four of them understood. Although they would still doze off in class, sometimes they would also ask a few questions. Of course, most of them were asked by Furuhashi Natsui.

When he returned, he passed them a few test papers again, making Furuhashi Harunaka and the others groan. Obviously, it was very tormenting to do test papers outside of class.

“The test paper this time is for the sixth grade of elementary school, so when you do it this time, do it as a closed-book exam. You’re not allowed to do research, and I’ll give you two days to pass up the test paper to me on Monday evening. On Monday evening, I’ll spot check the questions on the test paper, so it’s clear who did research for it,” said Kazuki lightly. “This time you’ll have to answer all the questions on the test paper even if you don’t understand it! If anyone fails to answer all the questions, I’ll be handing out punishment, and I’m sure neither of you wants to be punished...”

Leaving his statement as such, Kazuki left without waiting for them to ask what kind of punishment it was. Thus, the four of them were left paralyzed on the sofa. Every class was a kind of suffering, whether at school or at home.

On the way home, Kazuki was very relaxed because he already knew how to tutor these four people. He had no longer had the sense of confusion he had earlier on as a first-time tutor. After all, he was getting paid a salary for it, so he would teach the Furuhashi sisters well.

Moreover, the fact that Furuhashi Natsui was more proactive now seemed to him to be a good sign.

When he arrived at the door, he drew an Immobilizing Talisman on the door with reiki. Yet, as soon as he entered, he sensed something strange... He watched the continuous transmission of light that came from within the table, illuminating the dark room.

His calm heart then began to beat faster and faster. Taking a deep breath, Kazuki came to the table to pull open the drawer. Looking at the glowing “The Art of Kendo,” his excitement grew. Previously, he had thought that the fluorescent erosion would be completed by Wednesday. However, he had not expected it to slow down toward the end...

He opened it to page 16, the page that recorded the Yagyu Flying Sword Style. At this moment, the entire page 16 was glowing in fluorescent light. Without even turning on the lights, the cramped room was illuminated.

Kazuki looked in detail and found that there was still a small area that had not been eroded, but he knew it would be soon. Sitting in his chair, he opened “The Art of Kendo” on the table and stared at it intently.

In just five minutes, The Art of Kendo had changed... or rather it was page 16 that had changed.

As fluorescence completely eroded page 16, the page that recorded the Yagyu Flying Sword Style began twisting up quickly. Not even three seconds later, it transformed into a white mass of light about the size of a tang yuan.

The mass of light gradually drifted upward, staying 20 centimeters above “The Art of Kendo” before stopping.

This was the spirit!

Kazuki was so sure that there was no doubt in his heart. Although this mass of light was small, it was indeed a spirit.

“Sure enough... As I guessed.”

When page 16 had begun to change earlier, he had speculated that “The Art of Kendo” would probably ‘incubate’ these Kendo genres one by one in a sequential manner, perhaps because of the scarcity of worldly reiki.

Now, the presence of a spirit about the size of a tang yuan had confirmed his conjecture. Holding back the excitement in his heart, Kazuki slowly extended his hand to touch the spirit before his eyes with his finger.

As soon as he touched it, the spirit in front of him instantly merged into the body of Kazuki...

“As I thought, spirits can be absorbed directly by touch.”

Based on records, a spirit was harmless and acted as a body of information. Each spirit recorded a kind of knowledge.

When Kazuki touched the spirit, streams of information rolled through his mind, appearing in a flash but almost like a burin at work, engraving these streams of knowledge deeply in his mind.

“The Yagyu Flying Sword Style pays attention to speed.”

“No matter how small an object is, as long as it is hard, movement with extreme speed will definitely be able to kill a fragile body. To be able to preempt others with speed means a definite ability to take the initiative...”

“As long as the speed is fast enough and two swords intersect, you will be the survivor... ”

A deep and hoarse voice sounded in his mind with simple words that made Kazuki shake his head, causing the voice to disappear. However, he knew that if he wanted to listen, the voice would appear at any time.

He thought to himself that this voice should be Isshin Yagyu.

When Kazuki finished absorbing the knowledge and experience of the spirit, he could feel a difference in himself. Yet, he could not tell what it was that made him different. As he mulled over it, he picked up the Sun and Moon Sword that lay on the table.

As soon as he grasped the Sun and Moon Sword, Kazuki felt the difference as his breathing slowed down. It seemed that with this slowing down, the workings of his bodily organs had also slowed down, and in the blink of an eye, he felt the whole world slow down.

The next moment, the arms of Kazuki trembled as if nothing had happened, but Kazuki could feel that in just that single moment, he had used up almost a tenth of the reiki within him...

Kazuki looked at the wooden chair in front of him, where it was exactly the same as before, unchanged. Yet when he touched the chair with his hand gently, the whole chair fell to the ground and broke in two with a snap.

That was quick!

Kazuki sighed. At that moment, he had made three moves in total.

Drawing the sword, chopping the chair, and sheathing the sword.

All three movements were performed in under 0.5 seconds and were done silently. Ordinary people would have lost their lives on the spot if they had not seen his movements clearly.

The name of the move was called “Sudden Flash” which was the skill that shot Isshin Yagyu to fame after the creation of the Yagyu Flying Sword Style. Isshin Yagyu had once been an assassin when he was living nomadically to make a living. This was the same tactic that had allowed Isshin Yagyu to assassinate his target successfully every time he walked on the street. He was able to kill his targets unknowingly as they were walking. Even until death, the guards around the targets never knew that it was him who did it.

Furthermore, the exhaustion of reiki allowed Kazuki to know that Isshin Yagyu was undoubtedly a monk.