Chapter 1586: Still Say You're Not a Sword Saint? (2/5, please subscribe)

"A blade isn't used that way."

Touma Kazusa felt a little tired.

Ogiso Setsuna really didn't have the slightest bit of combat ability.

That blade came chopping down, her hand was shaking the whole time—do you think that long blade could avoid getting notches?

To use a kitchen knife as an analogy: a clean, decisive single chop through bone, and the knife might be fine.

But if the wielder's hand isn't steady, and the cut isn't clean, even the best bone-chopping cleaver can have its edge snapped off.

Ogiso Setsuna hacked at this one zombie, swinging the blade more than ten times in a row.

The first dozen or so strokes were simply too gruesome to look at; only in the last few did her hand find its rhythm, and the cuts finally became clean.

This kind of swinging—let alone a long blade stamped out on an assembly line, even a blade carefully forged by a renowned smith couldn't withstand such abuse.

"I don't know how!" Ogiso Setsuna said, a little embarrassed. "I'm not Touma-san, the Sword Saint hidden away in 'Class 4-5-3'."

"Sword Saint?" Touma Kazusa was taken aback. "Me?"

Just how many labels had Ogiso Setsuna piled onto her in her heart?

What kind of nonsense Sword Saint is that!

She's just an ordinary pianist!

"Isn't she?"

"Of course not!" Touma Kazusa was speechless. "I only practiced a few days of crowbar. Hand me the blade—I'll teach you one move."

Although she didn't actually know any blade techniques.

But the Four Forms of the Crowbar weren't simply moves—they contained extremely ingenious techniques of delivering force.

"Like this!"

Touma Kazusa raised the blade, then chopped down in one stroke.

The cold gleam flashed like lightning; the hiss was piercing.

In that instant, the edge of the long blade seemed to have broken the sound barrier.

Ogiso Setsuna watched, dazzled and enraptured: "So amazing—and you still say you're not a Sword Saint!"

This kind of terrifying slashing technique—even a Sword Saint invited by a TV station couldn't pull it off.

Recalling the famous Sword Saints who had performed on TV, Ogiso Setsuna compared them with Touma Kazusa, and instantly slapped the label of flashy but useless showmanship onto those renowned masters.

"I told you, I'm not a Sword Saint. Hurry up and learn—once you're done, we'll go fight zombies."

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Ogiso Setsuna didn't argue further. She stepped forward, took the blade, and began practicing under Touma Kazusa's guidance.

"No, hold your hand a little higher!"

"Your waist—pay attention, the way you're doing it will twist your back."

"You have to see yourself as one whole unit, all parts generating force together—only then can you unleash the power of your entire body."

Ogiso Setsuna adjusted her stance at high speed while swinging the long blade, her face miserable: "This is so hard!"

"Hard is right. When has the art of combat ever been simple!"

In half an hour, Ogiso Setsuna finally had some combat ability.

Touma Kazusa muttered inwardly: "Looks like my talent for teaching people is far worse than Dao Lord's. Teaching face-to-face still doesn't compare to Dao Lord's guidance through words."

Ogiso Setsuna let out a breath of relief.

Half an hour—for her, it had stretched on to an unbelievable length.

Touma-san was way too strict.

How could she possibly do what Touma did, and slash out that supersonic blade-light?

Impossible!

Ogiso Setsuna was just an ordinary person—she absolutely couldn't do something like that.

"Let's go. We're going to kill zombies. Be careful—don't let them grab you. According to biohazard movies, getting grabbed means infection."

"Mm."

Ogiso Setsuna's eyes lit up, eager to try.

Having learned one blade technique, she naturally wanted to test the fruits of her cultivation.

Just as she was thinking this, she saw a zombie rush out from ahead.

Touma Kazusa nimbly stepped back: "Ogiso, go!"

Ogiso Setsuna drew a deep breath, her gaze sharpening, and held the long blade at an angle.

The next instant, her foot, arm, and waist all delivered force together.

The cold gleam flashed like lightning, streaking past in an instant.

Crack!

With a light sound, the zombie's neck was sliced through like tofu, its head tumbled to the ground with a heavy thud.

"So amazing!"

"Now I'm a disciple of the Sword Saint too!"

Ogiso Setsuna's eyes shone, her spirits soaring.

This was her first time, since entering the Nightmare Space, killing an enemy entirely on her own!

The joy of this achievement was something outsiders would never understand.

She felt her blood boiling, her heart pounding wildly, her gaze sweeping about as she looked for the next opponent.

Bang!

Just then, a light sound came from the side.

Ogiso Yuina glanced over and saw Touma Kazusa skillfully using a crowbar to kill a zombie, then looking back: "Keep your eyes on all six directions and your ears listening in all eight."

Ogiso Yuina: "Yes, Master!"

Touma Kazusa rolled her eyes: "Let's go."

As the battle continued, Ogiso Yuina's slashing technique grew increasingly proficient, and her efficiency in killing zombies greatly increased...

The tempering of blood and fire is the easiest way to advance one's martial arts.

Swinging a blade in such a highly tense environment is more useful than a hundred or a thousand ordinary cultivation swings.

Between life and death lies great terror.

But this great terror is also the easiest to awaken a person's potential, causing them to leap forward by leaps and bounds.

In the martial arts of the nation, this method of cultivation is called stealing Heaven's secrets.

Martial arts cultivators of the nation often seek out dangerous places to temper their own martial arts.

Under the stimulation of danger, they advance their cultivation.

But where can this kind of cultivation compare to the directness of a biochemical crisis where death looms at every moment?

Chat group.

Su Xiao: "Ogiso's talent isn't bad either. Although she only knows one move right now, I estimate she could already beat every swordsmanship expert in all of Eastern Japan."