P S M Chapter 22 : Shakushi

 

As it was said before when Lin Yu saw Kuro decisively fleeing he took its pursuit making the decision to not let the tiger take advantage, so he rushed to the grove firmly behind him and pursued it, and when he saw Kuro was constantly changing positions in the woods, he noticed something was wrong.

It was about the sound, by the way, there was no sound when he moves. Was this a silent step? It seemed that he was going to catch up with Kuro as soon as possible, otherwise, it would be troublesome to him to let the injured tiger out of his sight, he thought uneasily.

Kuro was obviously familiar with the environment of the woods. He often used some gentle slopes, densely vegetated bushes, nearby trees, and other obstacles or blind spots to change directions and gradually widened the distance between the two. If it wasn't for the blood that was caused by the injury to drip on the ground and the branches and leaves from time to time, Lin Yu would have lost him almost a long time ago.

Well, Kuro, who was fleeing in front of him, had actually jumped into a big tree full of vines, jumped into the middle of the canopy, and disappeared among the dense leaves.

"Was he going hiding in a tree? Or was there some trap around this tree? Or was this tree a trap?"

Lin Yu, who thought of this place, had slowed down a little and stopped nearby the big tree.

"Why, the dignified captain of the Black Cat Pirate group, Kuro, thought that hiding in a tree would be safe? If that's the case, it will disappoint me too much!"

Lin Yu carefully watched the surroundings while guarding, while angering him.

"Hehe, miscellaneous fish are miscellaneous fish. They can only use these innocent little tricks, but you seem to know a lot! Is that trash Jango betrayed me?" Kuro's gloomy voice came from the tree.

"Jango, is it the current captain of the Black Cat Pirates? It's a pity that I missed it, otherwise I can still earn more." Lin Yu shook his head with regret.

"Sure enough, how could Jango's trash have the courage to betray me?" Kuro said in a gloomy voice. "Then since that trash didn't betray me, how did you find out about my hideout? Just now you said you can get an extra income when you see Jango. If I'm right, you will be a pirate hunter, a strange pirate hunter."

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's really worthy of being Kuro, it is amazing to analyze my identity from these short sentences, but what are you going to do if you guess my identity?" Lin Yu said with no face while staring playfully at a corner of the canopy.

"Hehe, what should I do? Of course, I will kill you, a nosy pirate hunter. Who has let you know too much?" Before he finished speaking, ten intertwined sharp blades pushed aside the leaves, revealing Kuro's hideout.

At this moment, Lin Yu did not know when Kuro had put on his famous equipment, the "Ten Blade" cat claw. Ten long, narrow, and weird blades, plus a black-clothed, slender and gloomy Kuro, crouched on the branches, hooking up a weird and eerie picture. He was like a black mongoose with sharp claws, squatting on a tree, ready to choose someone to eat.

Black Cat Pirates saw this name, and Kuro now was really seemed to have been changed to a black cat! Sure enough, there was only the wrong name, was there no wrong nickname! Really worthy of the name Black Cat Pirates.

No wonder that Kuro was stopping here, it turned out he was hiding his weapons in this tree. The picture before Lin Yu gave him rich feelings.

Looking at Kuro with the weapons, Lin Yu said with a smile: "It seems that you are very confident now with your weapons, but it just so happens that you want to kill me, and I want to kill you too."

"Hahaha, if you want to kill me, just rely on you kid. It seems that you have forgotten the fear that I brought to the others. If you don't rely on sneak attacks, you can't hurt me or kill me. It depends on whether you have that capability." Kuro's face was full of pride, even if he was injured, he didn't think he would lose to the kid in front of him.

"But don't worry, as the price of hurting me is so high, you won't kill me easily." As he talked, Kuro's eyes suddenly glared, "I will kill you first!"

Before finishing words, Kuro's figure leaped down from the tree, and the ten sharp blades sent a purple light towards Lin Yu. Was this the beginning? Okay, let's see the real effect of the hand. Lin Yu's body turned to the right, and at the moment he was sideways, he lifted the sword and picked it up against Kuro's body, which was in midair pressed his right paws down and blocked the sword.

The violent impact of the metal and the friction brought a harsh sound, and the enormous force generated by the sparks and the crossing claws stagnated Kuro's figure in the air for a moment, then under the enormous power of Lin Yu, he was knocked down.

After being knocked down, Kuro couldn't help but back up a few steps after landing, feeling the huge power from the sword, and instinctively squinted his eyes. It was a huge power.

"But you are too naive to think this will defeat me."

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Realizing that Lin Yu’s power is above him, Kuro didn’t immediately rush to fight him, but rushed into the surrounding bushes, and moved around Lin Yu constantly with the shelter of the tree trunks and bushes.

Suddenly with the sound of high-speed movement around Lin Yu, he disappeared. Then came silent steps. Lin Yu knew of Kuro's plan and didn't panic, carefully feeling the movement around him.

Behind!

Feeling the chill coming from behind, Lin Yu turned his body counterclockwise, and his backhand has slashed the back air and another burst of claws and iron strikes.

After blocking the enemy attack with the sword, Lin Yu had wanted to take advantage of the situation to kick it but saw the five piercing sharp blades in Kuro's other hand, so he had to increase his strength to knock Kuro back. After losing the rear attack by surprise and missed the hit, Kuro flashed into the woods once again. 

In the woods, sparks burst out from time to time, accompanied by the harsh sound of iron after clashing. Lin Yu relied on his keen perception. In the sneak attacks of Kuro from left or right, or from front to back, repeatedly anticipated the enemy's opportunities, causing Kuro to return without success.

After the successive failed assassinations temptations, Kuro's face became more and more gloomy.

If he wasn't for being injured by a sneak attack and feeling that his body is getting weaker and weaker because of the injury and bleeding, he decided to end the fight quickly saying: "Since Silent Step could not kill you, you are cheap. It is your honor to die under my hands."

Withdrawing back again, he spat out the world "Shakushi" coldly and Kuro's body seemed to glow with purple light and then disappeared into the wood, then the sound of the "squeaking" sharp blade cutting things constantly sounded. With the sound, some of the surrounding trees were suddenly chopped into several sections and fell, and some branches and leaves were suddenly cut into a flat surface, and this range was getting closer and closer to Lin Yu. Was it close to the speed of shaving?

Looking instead at the place of the disappearance of the figure of Kuro, Lin Yu closed his eyes not unexpectedly. Since the eyes couldn't see it temporarily, it's up to Kuro to know if he could pass Lin Yu's perception.

"You close your eyes, did you give up? Nosy fellow, you go to your death!"

When Lin Yu had closed his eyes, resounded what the master said in his ears when he was teaching the Fast Wind Sword Technique: "Close your eyes and feel the flow of the wind, and the wind will guide you!"

Does the wind flow?

When Lin Yu had closed his eyes, he had felt the rustling sound of the wind blowing over the trees, the rustling sound of the falling leaves, the whining sound of the wind blowing through the stone cracks, the whirring sound of the wind blowing over the body... All kinds of sounds outline fuzzy 3D graphics in his perception.

At this time, a vague figure flashed in its perception. 

"Got you!"

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