Chapter 106 Father And Son Showdown
Chapter 106 Father And Son Showdown
Hanyu Kurasuke came to a dojo.
The four characters "Hanyu Kendo" are engraved next to the wooden door. The size of the dojo is not very large, with only one and two rooms dedicated to practicing kendo, and the innermost part is a wooden house for living.
Hanyu Kusuke stood outside the gate for a while. This is the place where he grew up. His father was in the front strictly instructing his apprentices to practice. When he was young, he pushed a cart in the back and sold soda drinks to his brothers and sisters. His business acumen was evident at a young age.
At that time, my father was still a master of Japanese kendo, and his disciples and grandsons opened branches all over Japan. I was the carefree young gym owner who only wanted to make money to buy game consoles.
Until that man came and defeated eleven kendo masters including his father. From then on, Japanese kendo plummeted. Everyone said that times had changed and backward swords had been eliminated by airplanes and cannons. After that, my father was depressed all day long and died. My biggest wish now is to revive Hanyu Kenkan.
Hanyu Juro did not expect his useless son to inherit his kendo, and placed all his hopes on his grandson Hanyu Taki.
After the death of Juro Hanyu, Kurasuke Hanyu became the new head of the Hanyu family. The first thing he did after becoming the head of the family was to sell the family gym against all objections. The building of the gym was old and in disrepair. This is also a sunset industry like Kendo, but the land is very valuable.
After becoming rich, Hanyu Kurasuke bought this place back and kept it idle.
kendo? Please, brother, it’s long past the days of the samurai era when a single sword could dominate the world, okay? Money and power are the best swords.
Hanyu Kurasuke walked into the gym.
He paid someone to clean it regularly, so even though the gymnasium was always idle, the environment was clean and tidy.
Kurasuke pushed open the wooden door of the hall. The lights were not turned on in the hall. Under the moonlight, a man wearing a kimono was sitting in the center of the huge dojo, with the long sword he carried aside.
"Why are you here?" Hanyu Taki said coldly without turning around.
"What are you talking about? This place is also your father's and my property." Hanyu Kusuke walked over to his son and sat cross-legged.
"Can you stop acting like a profiteer?" Hanyu Taki said.
"Your father, I don't know how to make money, what can we eat and drink at home? You don't know how difficult life was at that time. The economic crisis. Walking on the street, you can see many people going bankrupt and jumping off buildings. The business of the gym has plummeted, and your mother has given birth again." Sick, I worry about your milk powder money every day when I open my eyes."
In front of his son, Hanyu Kurasuke once again turned into an ordinary middle-aged man.
"I was already five years old at that time, so I didn't need to drink milk powder." Hanyu Taki opened his eyes.
"It's just a metaphor." Hanyu Kusuke took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and put one in his mouth. "Your mother and I's biggest wish is that you can go to a good university..."
"Don't smoke here." Hanyu Taki stopped Hanyu Kamasuke who took out a lighter and was about to light a cigarette.
Hanyu Kurasuke put away the smoke and fire angrily, but kept talking.
"It would be best to be a doctor, lawyer or something, and have two more children, a boy and a girl. Your mother and I had already thought of the names of the grandchildren at that time. It's a pity that you just followed the same path as your grandfather." Hanyu Kurasuke sighed. Sighed.
Hanyu Taki looked at his father beside him and was speechless for a moment.
"Actually, there's nothing wrong with swordsmanship. Just practice it. Anyway, with your father and me, I won't have to worry about money in this life, but you have to join some evil ghosts."
The two had argued about this issue many times, so Hanyu Kurasuke did not wait for Hanyu Taki to answer, and then said: "Okay, okay, okay, you said you are trying to revive your grandfather's swordsmanship, but you and I have more money and power. , they evil ghosts can help you, can I do the same?"
Hanyu Kusuke did not give Hanyu Taki a chance to answer, and continued: "You said that you wanted to learn the authentic Shinto Muken-ryu swordsmanship from Fujiwara Chiba, the old immortal, and the condition was that you join the evil ghosts. "
When Fujiwara Chiba was young, he had been apprenticed to Hanyu Juro's father, and he was regarded as Hanyu Juro's senior brother.
Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped and turned to look at his son, "You are not the only man in the Hanyu family, and the pure Shinto Wu Nian style will not really be passed on to an outsider like Fujiwara Chiba."
"You?" Hanyu Taki frowned.
It wasn't that he looked down on his father. He had never seen his father hold a sword since he was a child. The other people in the sword hall also laughed at the fact that the Hanyu family had a head who only wanted to make money but had no talent.
"I have a private property abroad that no one knows about, a seaside villa. When you open the door, you will see the sea, beach and beauties in bikinis. There are more than a dozen safes in the basement, and countless dollars are stored in each cabinet. I know the specific amount. I don’t remember clearly.” Hanyu Kurasuke changed the topic.
"What are you talking about? Your business has failed and you are going to flee abroad?"
Hanyu Kurasuke smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said, "I hope you can leave Japan."
When Hanyu Taki heard this, his anger surged, and he stood up suddenly.
"Are you asking me to escape? Why do you still have no backbone after all these years! It's just that Principal Long brought Li Yi to Tokyo, and you started planning to escape overseas? In your eyes, the Hanyu family's swordsmanship is Is it so unbearable? You sold the gymnasium just after my grandfather died, and to this day, do you still think that the Hanyu family can’t beat Li Yi in swordsmanship?"
Hanyu Kurasuke ignored his son's anger and asked, "Son, why do you hate Li Yi so much?"
"It's because of him! The Hanyu family declined, and grandpa died with regrets. He came to our Hanyu family to learn swordsmanship. You were so kind to him, but after the final victory, you uttered arrogant words to humiliate grandpa! I was only five years old at that time. Remember this hatred, why can you forget everything about it?"
"You don't know the details of many things because you don't have your own experience. You don't know your grandfather, so you can't believe everything he says. Li Yi and your grandfather have an upright duel. If you are inferior in swordsmanship, you lose. ...As for the decline of the family gym, it involves very complex global economic factors and development factors of the times, and it’s really not Li Yi’s fault.”
"That's why I have to defeat him with my own hands! Yixue's shame." Hanyu Taki picked up the knife on the ground and said like an oath: "If the Shinto Wu Nian Ryu doesn't defeat Li Yi, the Hanyu Dojo will never be restored again. Turn on!"
Hanyu Kurasuke also stood up.
"I understand." He silently walked to the weapon rack aside where the bamboo sword was placed, and randomly took a bamboo sword from it.
"Son, I just said that you are not the only man in the Hanyu family." Hanyu Kurasuke rubbed the bamboo sword in his hand, and then looked at Hanyu Taki quietly, "Leave the affairs of the previous generation to the previous generation. I I will defeat Li Yi."
Hanyu Taki sneered: "You?"
Hanyu Kurasuke shrugged, picked up another bamboo sword with his left hand and threw it to Hanyu Taki.
"There is no point in using a real sword to draw between a father and a son."
Hanyu Taki took the bamboo sword.
"If you lose, just listen to me and go abroad for a while." Hanyu Kusuke said.
"Even if you win, I'll listen to you." Hanyu Taki kicked the sword away and positioned his sword, eager to show his father the results of his years of sword practice.
Both of them stood in the center of the dojo calmly and calmly.
"Come on." Hanyu Kurasuke waved.
Hanyu Taki was dissatisfied. He was a talented boy who became famous at the age of twelve and defeated all the existing swordsman masters in the country at the age of eighteen, but his father still treated him as a child.
The next moment, Hanyu Taki's figure disappeared from the spot. He held the sword and pounced on his opponent like a lion. If an ordinary person faced it with such momentum, he would be suppressed and unable to fight back.
Shinto Muken-ryu is one of the oldest and most representative schools in Japan. Its moves are fast, accurate and ruthless. It is the representative of power in all kendos in Japan. In addition, the strength and speed brought by Hanyu Taki's excellent bloodline make Shinto Muken-ryu more popular. The characteristics of thought flow are brought to the extreme.
He wanted to end this battle in the shortest possible time.
The bamboo sword was about to hit Hanyu Taki. The bamboo sword in Hanyu Taki's hand finally moved. The bamboo swords collided, but they did not resist in an ordinary way. He held the sword and slid it down Hanyu Taki's sword body. At the same time, he The shape presses towards it.
Hanyu Taki was surprised that his father was able to catch the sword quickly. At the same time, he realized the danger and quickly raised his sword to avoid it.
The two of them went back and forth dozens of times, so fast that only afterimages were left.
As the competition became more and more anxious, Hanyu Taki became more and more shocked. Compared with other well-known kendo schools, Shinto Muken-ryu pays more attention to practicality in actual combat, using momentum and strength to overwhelm the opponent. Therefore, the point of force of the sword is very important, but every time my father's seemingly random defense can be accurate, Cut the key position of your own blade to block your own attack.
He gradually exerted the power of the divine blood to the extreme, but he still couldn't dominate in speed and strength.
"You want to win so much that you ignore some key things." Compared with Hanyu Taki, who looked tense, Hanyu Kamasuke seemed more comfortable and could still find time to talk during the fierce duel.
"The essence of Shinto Muken-ryu lies in the cultivation of the state of mind rather than being rigidly focused on swordsmanship."
"Shut up!" Hanyu Taki's sword became fast and slow, weak and strong, hiding the force point of the sword. Coupled with his ghostly pace and attack rhythm, Hanyu Kusuke had to deal with it seriously.
"It's a bit decent."
Hanyu Kurasuke also began to change his moves. The bamboo sword in his hand drew a semicircle, and his momentum was completely different from before, and he took the initiative to attack.
He began to move towards Hanyu Taki step by step with his sword, using simple and unsophisticated moves. When the bamboo swords collided, Hanyu Taki stepped back.
This kind of retreat was humiliating for Hanyu Taki. He understood what his father was doing, but he couldn't resist it.
This was not a duel of strength. When the bamboo swords collided, a powerful force was transmitted from the blade to the hilt, forcing him to retreat.
"The essence of Shinto Muken-ryu is the heart, the indomitable desire to kill."
Hanyu Taki was about to retreat. At the critical moment, Hanyu Kurasuke's sword power weakened. Hanyu Taki saw the opportunity and broke away, allowing him to breathe.
He understood why this flaw appeared. Hanyu Kurasuke's technique worked on everyone but not on himself. How could a father really have murderous intentions towards his son? Naturally, this technique that focused on killing intent and the power of the sword would not work. Use all your power.
In the next battle, Hanyu Taki seemed to be a sparring partner, and Hanyu Kurasuke seemed to be deliberately showing off to his son. His moves were no longer limited to Shinto Muken-ryu, and various ancient sword skills appeared in his hands, and he displayed them vividly and exquisitely. , whenever Hanyu Taki was about to be unable to resist, he would stop his momentum and change his moves again. In the end, he picked up a sword from the weapon rack and used it to the best of his ability.
When Hanyu Kurasuke wields his sword, he still has the same playful look as before. He is simply a master who has mastered all the sword techniques of all kendo schools in the past and present. The name of Sword Master cannot be worthy of him.
In this battle, when Hanyu Kurasuke used the Dexin Ken, Hanyu Taki knew that he had lost.
The two father and son sat on the floor, Hanyu Kusuke was breathing heavily and smoking a cigarette.
"You're not lying, are you?" Hanyu Kurasuke looked at his son. This was the first time he showed his strength in front of his son.
Unexpectedly, Hanyu Taki was even angrier than before.
"You have such strength, why don't you defeat Li Yi and fulfill grandpa's last wish!"
"Li Yi did defeat your grandfather." Hanyu Kusuke puffed out smoke, "But he never really defeated the Hanyu family."
"What?" Hanyu Taki frowned.
Hanyu Kusuke began to tell things that he had never told his son.
"I'm not interested in things like Kendo. When I was a child, I was forced to practice by your grandfather, but it only took three days to fish and two days to dry the net."
"Later, Li Yi came to Japan to exchange swordsmanship and stayed in our house. Li Yi was a young and energetic bastard at the time. He told me that he came to Japan just to prove that China's swordsmanship is the strongest."
"Although I don't like things like kendo, I don't want to see my country being looked down upon, so I often have private duels with him."
"But of course my half-assed swordsmanship at the time was no match for him, so I began to practice secretly and learn swordsmanship from various schools. As the young gym leader of the Hanyu Gym, of course I couldn't blatantly go to other gyms to learn skills. That would be too much. It's embarrassing for your grandpa. I took advantage of accompanying Li Yi to go to various gyms to communicate. I wrote it down and went back to practice secretly."
"Then you learned everything?" Hanyu Taki asked.
"Yes, it's actually not difficult." Hanyu Kurasuke nodded, "In the end, it's just a sword, with only a few moves."
"Gradually, Li Yi and I began to have our own victories and defeats. Until the time before he challenged your grandfather, we were always tied."
Hanyu Taki looked gloomy and asked, "Then why didn't you take action when grandpa was defeated?"
"They are fighting openly and honestly. Do you want me to use wheel fighting to defeat the weak Li Yi like everyone else?"
"If you lose, you lose. There's nothing to say. You don't understand what happened back then. Even when I think about it now, I still think what Li Yi did back then was very satisfying."
"You... how can you be worthy of grandpa? Before he died, he was still thinking about defeating Li Yi."
Hanyu Kusuke shook his head and said: "You were still young at that time, and your grandfather was not as perfect a person as you remember. He is your grandfather and my father. I love him very much, but it does not represent him. Your thoughts and actions are all right.”
"Remember what you promised me, go back and pack your luggage quickly. The new identity documents and air tickets will be delivered to your place tomorrow morning. Don't use your mobile phone or anything else. I will get you a new one tomorrow."
Hanyu Kusuke stood up and patted the cigarette ashes on his body.
"What on earth is going to happen? Even if I wanted to join the demons, you never tried to persuade me in this way!" Hanyu Taki clearly felt that something was wrong with his father.
"That's what I want to advise you. I have called you no matter how many times but you don't answer. I run to find you and you don't know where you are dead. I just send you a message saying that I want you to learn the sword from me. There is no need to go to evil spirits." Everyone, it turns out that you didn’t even reply to me, and when I saw you again, you were already the self-proclaimed head of the evil demon Yusheng family!”
"Tell me, what on earth could make you go to such great lengths just to get me to leave Japan."
"Oh, it's just that little thing about the Night Watch, the Fierce Ghosts, and the Samurai God Society. As a father, of course I'm worried that you're caught up in it. You go out to avoid the limelight first, and when you come back when everything is fine, you can treat it like a trip abroad."
"Aren't you leaving?" Hanyu Taki asked.
Hanyu Kusuke's heart warmed up, and he rubbed his son's hair with pleasure, and said verbosely: "How can I just throw away such a big business here? Besides, I am a serious businessman who does not belong to any divine organization. They have no What's the reason for me? Besides, you and I are rich and powerful in Japan, even the evil demons have to give me three points of respect. The only thing I'm worried about is that you will be affected by that crazy principal in the evil demons, so I will If something happens to you, a single-minded person, if I see your grandfather after my death, he will definitely kill me with a knife. If you really think about your old father, then quickly find a girl to get married and have a child so that I can be your grandfather."
"I know, I know." Hanyu Taki replied impatiently. Every time he talked to his father about something, he would end up being urged to get married and have children.
Hanyu Taki's figure disappeared into the night, leaving Hanyu Kusuke alone to sit quietly on the wooden stairs of the gym, smoking a cigarette, and recalling what had happened here.
His father Juro Hanyu was shattered after losing to Li Yi. He indulged in gambling all day long and wiped out the little money he had left. In order to annex the Hanyu family, the rest of the big business people set up a trap to make his father lose. After paying a large sum of money, debtors blocked the door every day, threatening to use the land deed to pay off the debt if the money was not paid.
kendo? What is the use of kendo in the face of money? The father who hanged himself due to debt, the expensive medical expenses for his wife's serious illness to maintain her life, and the money for her son's milk powder.
Could it be possible that he killed all those who wanted debt? Is it possible to rob it yourself?
The helpless Hanyu Kurasuke sold the gym.
He didn't want to mention these things because he didn't want to damage his grandfather's heroic image in his son's heart.
Within a few years, the original instigators were hanged in their own homes, and the Hanyu Gym was repurchased by Hansuke Kurasuke.
Where does the business genius come from? He is just a puppet controlled by someone. If you accept help from the devil, be prepared to pay a high price.
But the price must not be his son’s life!
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