Chapitre 36: Duel/Bet 4
[Sora POV]
(Flashback)
"Grandpa I don't understand I've been training with the sword for 4 years, but when I do the same moves as you... they don't sound or feel as sharp as the ones you do."
"Let's see how I explain this to you.....Sora remember when you asked us to buy you a guitar from us for weeks? Until we did and then you came back to haunt us for another week because you wanted us to sing a song together....?"
"Do you remember the advice you gave me to do better?.... when..... I sang....."
"You said `Grandpa don't just recite the words of the song out loud, try to remember some memory that the music takes you to and then sing with that memory in your voice' when you said that Sora..... you surprised me."
"To fencing your words can also be applied, of course it is not only to put an emotion behind the sword, but also to know what is the essence of each type of fencing, to understand it not only by knowing its movements, but to know where they come from.
What do they imitate?
What are they based on?
What is the idea behind the movement I am doing?
When you know these questions .... is when you can say that you know the essence or the idea behind the sword movements you are doing.
Are they copying an animal? or maybe they have been inspired by trying to imitate nature?.... there are all kinds of swordsmanship, many incredible, many lost, because the essence behind them is also lost, they all have a teaching, an idea behind them that if you really want to learn how to use correctly you have to understand first".
(End Of Flashback)
When I remembered that conversation with my grandfather when I was 10 years old, they made me think ... what is the fencing I want to copy based on? where is this fencing inspired from? what memory do I have to put in my sword?
The instant I thought those questions as if I knew the answer...I was underwater again when I had Jud in my arms before the truck exploded.... and when it did I relived the strong currents of water pushing us into the depths...
Yes, they were the same to those currents I felt, pushing us with incredible force, into the fierce current...of water.
When I came out of reliving that memory....
I...
THUMP THUMP, BA BOOM, BA BUMP, BA BUMP, THUMP THUMP, BA BOOM, BA BOOM, BA BUMP, BA BOOM
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"I may act rashly, I may be childish even idiotic.... but I'm LIVING the way I want to and doing that with a smile on my mouth, FUCK!!! That's not going to change! old man you're right about one thing, I need the strength to be able to be responsible for what I say as well as being able to protect my loved ones from the consequences of my actions, but..... THAT'S IT!!! I'M NOT GOING TO CHANGE! FUCK YOU OLD MAN..... I'M GONNA BEAT YOU!"
When I said that.....Suddenly two things happened, as if my body was reacting to what I had said to Ojii.
I felt my eyes light up again.... but with nothing behind or emotions weighing me down or holograms helping me, my eyes just lit up...as if....
♪.....♪
When I started to hear music in my head again, when I recognized it..... I was sure Arc agreed with what I had said.... because of the song he had chosen....well the final verse of Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd
♪ Lord knows, I can't change ♪
♪ Lord help me, I can't changeeeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEe♪
♪ Lord, I can't changeeeeeee ♪
♪ Won't you flyyyyyyyy high, FREEEEEEE!!!!! BIRD!!!, ♪
♪ YEAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! ♪
And by the looks of it Arc had not only started to play music because I also felt my body getting...
Heated up at times, turning my skin red for an instant as if my body was burning something like fuel, making me sweat and (pSHHHH) some steam came out, as if they were my body's reaction to whatever ARC had done.
Filling my tired body with energy, but also making it scream in pain, so much so that I had to grit my teeth hard to hold it in, when suddenly the pain in my body disappeared as if it had been turned off with a switch, as if the pain signal in my brain had been cut off.
As if it was a sample of what my body was going through and that I should hurry up because it couldn't hold on much.....
Without wasting any more time I turned to the Old Man while music continued to play in my head, leaving the end of the song.... leaving a guitar solo.... which made ....
To concentrate on the Old Man while, without realizing it, I followed the rhythm of the guitar playing in my head, as if with every movement I made following the rhythm I became more and more concerted, feeling that the more I concentrated the slower the music played....making me hold on to Getsuga tightly.....little by little.... the other things faded away...leaving only Grandpa and the music.
"You're NOT going to cut off our wings OLD MAN!"
I said in reference to the song before launching myself towards Ojii.... while I listening to the soundtrack of the ...
"COME ON OLD MAN TIME TO START ROUND 2" To the soundtrack of the Ruond 2 of our duel
SHHHHHHHHH(deep breath)
[Musashi POV]
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.... I'M GONNA BEAT YOU!
When Sora said that, he had two sudden rappings that I couldn't process at the time....
The first was that Sora's eyes lit up with light blue circle much stronger than the first time in front of us, but there was no change in Sora's determined and defiant look or expression....
And the second was that Sora's skin turned red as if he had a fever all of a sudden, making him sweat heavily, while steam was generated from the boy, as if his body was burning itself like that to draw energy from where it could....
"You're NOT going to cut off our wings OLD MAN!"
He said as he looked at me with sharp eyes as he started..... shaking his head? It seemed like Sora was following the rhythm of music that only he could hear.... making me feel every second that passed as the sense of danger that Sora was emitting.... grew.
"COME ON GRANDPA TIME TO START ROUND 2."
When Sora said that it snapped me out of my astonishment as he took "SHHHHHHHHH" an audible deep breath of air as if preparing to dive underwater.....
Not knowing why, but when I saw that my suspicion was confirmed.....
The kid had done it! He had understood the essence behind the swordsmanship he didn't understand.
Without wasting time Sora ran towards me, jumping into the air with his arms open like a bird opening its wings, only to immediately cross them in the air, with his sword under one of his arms.
The instant I was in his range, Sora grew back his smile as he released the air he had absorbed while releasing his arm with his sword as if they had cut a metaphorical rope that contained his arm, performing a strong horizontal Slash... that can feel as if a powerful current of water followed the cut of Sora's sword..... almost as if he was giving strength to Sora's sword.
"Shit" I was surprised!" getting excited about the cut Sora had made, making me get serious about the force my grandson's attack carried, making me respond with a vertical uncontained slash, making....
SWISHHHH!!!!!!! CLAAAASH!!!!!! HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
Our blades cut through the air as they clashed and generated sparks from the clash... Much stronger and more intense than any we've had so far....
When our blades clashed Sora's horizontal slash against my vertical one, our blades didn't move clashing against each other..... until the illusion of the current following Sora's sword pushed Sora's blade as if it was giving him strength.
That made me see with disbelief as it was my sword that was slowly pulling back towards my face..... making me, unable to believe my eyes, be the loser in strength in the first instant of our collision, making Sora's sword come closer to my face before I finally managed to stop it.
When I finally stopped Sora's sword was close to my face, without realizing it I had formed an exciting smile when I saw Sora doing this kind of fencing, when I stopped Sora's sword I also stopped the illusion generated by the sword movements of this boy.....I stopped it as.... a wave `stopping' against the stones.... Splashing....
Making me feel as if something cold was touching my face, causing Sora to widen his smile and almost making his bright eyes in the shape of a reverse crescent moon as if laughing at me.....
Only to realize that this stubborn, rebellious, impertinent and shameless boy had managed to make a cut with his sword on my cheek making me bleed... And
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....".
How long?
"...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....."
HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE SOMEONE MAKES ME BLEED WITH A SWORD?
"...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
Causing me to get excited and hold nothing back by planting my feet firmly on the ground and putting my strength into my sword countering Sora's sword which didn't hold out giving in, moving away from my face....
While renewing my smile with a more violent one at the challenge that Sora had become.
Sora noticing the force behind my blow knowing that I couldn't resist it any longer.....
he... released the force of his cut, accepting mine, as he kicked back at me that had made it, failing to destabilize me too much, but instead using me as a pivot.
Threwing Sora against the wall of the room with the combined force of absorbing the force of my attack and the force of Sora's kick and propelling himself, adding the two forces together.
But Sora used his kick on me, so he could spin in the air on himself, while propellin.
Making his legs the ones that hit the wall, absorbing all the impact by shrinking his legs as if they were a spring, while squatting close to the wall and ...
He lunged again, propelling himself against the wall, like an arrow shot through a bowstring towards me, with his two hands on his sword held high looking like Sora was going to do a vertical Slash....
When I saw what Sora wanted to do I prepared to receive the blow with my sword that I placed perpendicular to the vertical Slash, that Sora's sword was going to do....
Just for Sora before reaching the range of his sword, started to flip forward as if he wanted to do another spin, and with him, his sword while spinning on himself, generated a spinning slash from which water followed him pushing the cut of the sword making him look like an old water wheel.
Giving me a few instants to appreciate the mysterious movements of Sora's sword that made the one who saw it a stream of water almost creating an illusion behind his sword.
Making me turn my head to see if Aoi was seeing the same thing as me.... only to see the open-mouthed expression Aoi had, because of the way our grandson was fighting...
Seeing Sora in the air spinning with his sword, creating an unprecedented illusion... that made me remember the tales told by the elders of Aoi's family, when we were young, about the stories they told about how one of their ancestors together with his companions long ago saved the world from a great evil using the swordsmanship of the elements..... NO! as it was... Breath.....Yes!, Breathing Styles
Is it real? Is that what this child is doing?
Is he doing that kind of fencing lost in time...?
How can it be, who has taught him?
When I thought that I remembered what Sora has inside his body.... has he reconstructed that kind of swordsmanship? And has Sora been able to copy and bring out the essence of this kind of swordsmanship by seeing it only once?
Making me think about the answer to my question with my experience as a swordsman to fill in the gaps..... coming to the shocking assumption that maybe Sora;
Feeling it from the inside as it was done, and being able to remember the characteristic movements of swordsmanship if he got to understand what the essence is and has a memory with that essence, that he can put behind a sword move....
Maybe, would it look like this?
I thought as I watched in disbelief as the spinning slash approached me...
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
-- Classement
Power Stone 
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