Chapter 525 - 177: "Miss Sazanoko, Stand Down. It’s All Right Now!

Chapter 525: Chapter 177: "Miss Sazanoko, Stand Down. It’s All Right Now!

"What...?" Nakamura Tsuki stared blankly at Sazanoko, "Miss Sazanoko, what are you saying! We need to escape together..."

"Ayue!"

Before Nakamura Tsuki could finish her sentence, Sazanoko interrupted her impatiently.

"Stop dithering! It’s so annoying!"

"I am your master, it’s my duty to protect my disciples!"

"My leg can’t move! If we both try to escape together, we’ll both end up dead!"

"Go quickly!"

With that, Sazanoko roughly pushed Nakamura Tsuki behind her, standing with a sword at the ready, facing the pursuers surging towards her like waves crashing onto the shore.

The pursuing team, including the "Hanging Corner Eye Warrior," formed a long line due to differences in their speeds. Leading the group was a towering, burly man.

- Two, four, six... twelve...

Counting the pursuers, Sazanoko’s already grim expression grew even more severe.

If she weren’t injured, Sazanoko was confident she could barely take on twelve samurai with just a wakizashi.

However, her left thigh was injured now... fighting twelve samurai without a leg... No matter how optimistic she was, Sazanoko couldn’t deceive herself into finding anything positive.

Clenching her teeth, Sazanoko spread her legs and assumed a stance. The movement of her left leg sent waves of piercing pain throughout her entire body.

Feeling the pain in her injured leg... unexpectedly, a thought drifted through Sazanoko’s mind:

- If my martial arts were just a bit more refined, then I would have been able to dodge that attack just now...

The next moment, a fragment of a memory buried deep in Sazanoko’s mind flashed quickly before her eyes...

...

(Miss Sazanoko, unless favored by a divine being, no matter how hard a woman practices martial arts, achieving great success is nearly impossible. Let me be blunt, your current skills are too weak, and it’s unlikely you’ll ever get much stronger. The path I’m about to take is undoubtedly a thorny one, and having you with me will be a burden.)

...

- It seems tonight is going to be bleak for me...

An unusual sorrow emerged uncontrollably on Sazanoko’s brow.

If anyone could see Sazanoko’s expression now... they would surely be surprised.

The normally frosty Miss of the Chiba family... now showed a sorrowful expression, as if about to cry, evoking sympathy.

- What a pity... I haven’t yet proven to that bastard that even as a woman, I can be powerful...

Thud, thud, thud!

Footsteps... closing in!

The burly man at the front had already reached Sazanoko and had raised his sword high!

Sazanoko half-closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

With sheer willpower, she suppressed the uncontrollable sorrow surging from her heart, and her eyes flashed sharply once more.

- At least I must fulfill my master’s duty, ensure Ayue escapes safely...!

Sazanoko clenched her teeth, shouted with might, and, with the resolution to "perish together," lunged at the burly man slashing at her.

Just then.

In the very next moment.

From the corner of her eyes, Sazanoko suddenly caught sight of a silver light flashing past her right side.

As a daughter of the samurai family, Sazanoko was all too familiar with this type of silver light.

It was the gleam of a blade!

Sazanoko’s peripheral vision witnessed the unbelievable scene— A silver light leaped high from the rooftop beside her, tracing a beautiful arc mid-air, and fell straight toward the burly man in front of Sazanoko!

The silver light, now a near-straight line, sliced through the burly man’s body, cutting him in half from the left shoulder to the right abdomen!

The burly man widened his eyes, looking in terror at his lower body, now separated from his upper half.

Holding the silver light was a tall figure.

This tall figure and the silver light landed steadily between Sazanoko and the already bisected burly man.

Chargingly heading for the burly man, Sazanoko’s eyes widened in surprise. She wanted to stop her forward motion, but the inertia prevented her from halting in time.

But fortunately— this suddenly appearing tall figure caught her, preventing her from falling.

"Miss Sazanoko, I finally found you."

A familiar male voice...

Sazanoko slightly parted her lips, raised her head, and gazed blankly at the familiar face so close to hers, as if she had lost her soul.

"Miss Sazanoko, step back."

The man released Sazanoko, then turned, holding the tachi still dripping blood, and faced the remaining pursuers.

"It’s all right now."

"Mr. Tachibana...?"

Sazanoko softly uttered the man’s name.

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The author didn’t mean to break off the Chapter, honestly wanted to provide a satisfying 20,000-word Chapter to conclude Aoto’s battle, but alas, failed.

I wrote until 3 am today, my back hurt so much I could barely straighten up... because my body couldn’t take it, I had to stop here for now (crying leopard picture.jpg)

Today’s Chapter is a burst update, compensating for the Chapter I owe to the Silver Alliance member [Handsome I am indeed handsome]. I still owe this reader 9 burst Chapters.

I still owe 11 ten-thousand-word big Chapters.

If you guys don’t give monthly tickets for today’s Chapter, it really would be too much (crying leopard picture.jpg)

Begging for monthly tickets! Begging for recommendation votes!

Currently, this book has 528 monthly tickets. If today’s monthly tickets can reach 630, I’ll continue to burn the midnight oil and offer another 10,000+ word Chapter tomorrow!