Miura, as part of a Noble Family, like most others, they had hoarded a lot of things in the past years.
From gold, property, weapons and even food.
They also have quite a collection of Sword techniques.
While most of them are fakes, there were legit and strong techniques that they have, from being offered by their vassal swordsmen, to looted from enemies or just straight up stealing from others.
Among them, Count Nakamura Mori had a technique he was very proud of getting a hold of!
Wolf Slaying Blade Dance!
An A Rank Sword Technique!!
This technique was from the Kingdom of
Lobera!
A kingdom that sits between Masamune and Kusanagi Kingdom.
It was said that swordsmen from this kingdom had wolves as their squires and even act as a battle pet!
Even though it's a small kingdom, same as Dawn Kingdom, it is an extremely xenophobic one!
It is said that most foreign swordsmen that gets inside that kingdom are dealt with swiftly! No questions asked!
Although it isn't quite sure if that is true, it is still a very hard kingdom to get in into!
And if the Lobera Kingdom ever finds out that a Count of Masamune Kingdom had their proudest technique in their hands, it could lead to a war between the kingdoms!
Still, the count acquired this Technique back when the war was still raging, at one of the battle fronts, his squad was ambushed by kusanagi, and they had fled up north the Panagea River, there they found a team of patrolling swordsmen of the Lobera Kingdom, they made quite a fuss, and they ended up killing them then!
The leader of that team had the scroll of the technique in his treasure pouch.
As the one who killed him, he got the loot, and at that time, maybe they thought he was just a noble and because time wasn't in their side, they just went froward and hid in the forest areas till they went back to where the Kingdom's army was stationed.
It was there that Count Nakamura Mori found one of his loots to be the A rank technique of the Lobera kingdom!
He hid it, and made sure to keep it for himself.
He would then teach it to his son in the future and rise up in the ranks of nobility!
But his first son disappointed him!
He was clearly a bastard son!
Although he found some redemption in his second son which he was so proud of!
And Miura himself studied this technique seriously as he was told of the history of the technique and it's significance to their family!
This was why he was sure that their father would surely give the title of Count towards him!
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*Huuuuuu!!!!
Miura took a deep breath as he stepped back.
"??!!"
Maeda looked at him puzzled, but still readied his katana.
He knew that even though he was learning as they fought, he still don't know if his brother had other tricks up in his sleeves!
*SWOOOSHH!!!
*BAANNGG!!!
As Miura's ki rose, his katana which he held in an Ox guard stance, where he lowere his body a bit, holding the hilt of his katana in both hands near his face, with it's tip pointed at his enemy!
*AWWOOOOO!!!!!
*SWOOOSHH!!!
In Maeda's point of view, he could suddenly hear the howling of a wolf as in front of him, Miura's ki slowly turned in the head of a ferocious gray wolf!
"W-what the hell is that!!"
Maeda was shocked!
This was the first time he saw a high ranked sword technique and high level of ki condensation!
He hadn't had any experience in fighting that much nor had he seen any serious life or death battles in all his lifetime!
Even back when he asked for assistance from the Sword Of Freedom Organization, back then, most fights ended one sidedly, or they had an advantage of numbers or by surprise attacks!
This was the first time he had seen such application of ki and sword technique!
It came as a shock to him.
*SWOOOSHH!!!
He stared at the menacingly rising wolf phantom of ki in the air.
"Ha!
Haha!
HAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!"
Then Maeda laughed.
He laughed so hard he bent his back and his voice became rugged!
Miura frowned at the sight of his laughing elder brother.
"I don't know what you think you're doing, but this time, I Will Kill You Now!"
"Huuuu!!"
Maeda breathed lightly after lauging so hard.
This time, he now had an idea as to how strong a swordsman really could get!
Having seen this technique that his brother was using, he was sure!
Sure that in the future, he could do or surpass such application of ki!
"COME! LET ME FEEL THE POWER OF A HIGHER LEVEL TECHNIQUE!!!!"
Maeda readied his sword in a longpoint guard stance.
*TINNGG!!!
His sword rang out!
*SWOOOSHH!!!
*BAANNGG!!!!
"HAAAAAARRRRGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"
As debris and dust blasted away, Miura shouted as he leapes forward!
Then as he neared halfway between the two of them, he then thrusted forward his katana towards Maeda!
*AAAAAWWWWOOOOOOOO!!!!!
*SWOOOSHH!!!!
Maeda heard a sudden howling of a wolf, as the wolf ki of Miura's technique opened its mouth to rip him open!
"HAAAARRGHHHHH!!!"
Yet, even knowing he doesn't stand a chance, he still charged up his ki into his katana and smiled as he also leaped forward with a slash!
*BAANNGG!!!
*BAAANNNNNNNNGGGG!!
Captain Haruta, his team, and the surrounding enemies were blown away by the blast of the brother's clash!
"!!!"
Haruta and the others looked at the receding dust in worry.
Despite knowing that Miura had the upper hand of that exchange, it doesn't change the fact that an accident could still happpen!
*SWOOOSHH!!!
*Cough! Cough!
As the dust receded, at the small crater of their clash, there was Miura half kneeling on the ground with a broken katana in his hand, as he coughed out loud and with a bit of blood in them!
Meanwhile in front of him, a figure could be seen standing still!
Yet even though he was standing, the eyes of Captain Haruta and his teammates lit up with joy!
*Thud!!!
Then Maeda's body, which now had a huge hole in his left torso, blasting his left arm, ribs and lungs away, fell down with a thud!
*Cough! Cough!
Yet he wasn't dead yet!
Becoming a Master level swordsman made his body extremely durable!
If he could get medical attention right away, he might even survive, but he will only have a single arm and lungs, and could no longer do any strenuous activity!
But that would be if he was allowed to survive!
"Haaahh! Haaahhh!!"
*Tak! Tak!
Miura panted, but he still dragged his battered and tired body towards Maeda.
Clenching the broken katana in his hand!
He was going to end this now, once and for all!
"Cough! Cough! Haha! Cough! Ahahahah!!"
Yet even as he coughed up blood, he still laughed out loud!
*Thud!
Miura knelt as he arrived in front of Maeda.
*Ting!
His katana ringed as he raised it to stab down in his dying eldest brother!
But he still asked.
"Haaahh!! What.. the hell... Haaahhh! Are you laughing about!!!"
"Hahhah cough! Cough! Hahah!"
Maeda laughed still.
Miura frowned.
He was about to question him again but Maeda looked at him even as the light in his eyes were fading!
"Haahh! It... It wasn't me...!"
"What wasn't you?!"
"Haaaah! Hahaha!"
"What wasn't you!? YOU BASTARD!"
"Hahah! They... They.. cough! Cough!"
Miura coughed up vlood but still continued to talk with a smile on his face!
"They... They... Dont need me!... It.. It wasn't me.... This situation.... Or this war!"
"What?! What do you mean??"
Miura was puzzled. What the hell does Maeda mean?!
"What... Haahhh!! What they're after...is .....haaahhh!! That... Zenith Girl! Hahaha-!"
Maeda finally died after laughing in his final moments.
But his words, made Miura, Haruta and his teammates turn cold.
It was no wonder that after that blast earlier the three master level swordsmen, and the other elite level swordsmen ran away.
They didn't attempt to stop Miura from killing Maeda, nor did they attack them when they were down!
And they finally understood that, the Sword Of Freedom Organization created this situation just for Lime!
But Why?!
*End Of Chapter.