Chapter 47: Still Love Acting

47.

The salty sea breeze blew through the forest, and the leaves rustled in the air.

"I never thought we would end up like this, brother..." Hibamaru sighed, "In the end, we still can't escape the brothers killing each other..." He raised the water gun and pointed it at Higekiri, "I'm sorry, brother."

"Ah, if you say that, do you think you will definitely win?" Higekiri tilted his head with a smile, "That... Higekiri?"

"It's Higemaru, brother!" Higemaru's defense was broken in a second, tears swirling wildly in his eyes, "Hikekiri is your name!"

"Hmm? That seems to be the case..." Higekiri shrugged nonchalantly, "Well, let's have a showdown, brother."

Without giving Higemaru time to react, Higekiri approached the opponent with extremely fast maneuvers and attacked him with the water gun at the head.

Oh no!

Hibamaru subconsciously raised his hands to block. As expected... my brother is still so powerful. In this case, even if he leaves... I will feel relieved...

He slowly lowered his hands and stopped resisting.

"Checkmate, brother." Higekiri pulled the trigger. A small stream of water gushed out from the muzzle of the gun. The killing power was not great, basically zero. "Oh...?"

"That's strange..." Higekiri raised the water gun to check, "Is it stuck?"

"You ran out of ammunition, Higekiri-dono." Izumi-no-kami Kanesada came out from behind a tree carrying a water gun. "Ah, the brotherly operation of fishing out Higekiri with the Hipemaru was successful." He aimed at Higekiri and smiled. "Thank you for your hard work, Higemaru-dono."

Only then did Higekiri notice that the water tank on his back had been destroyed at some point, and all the "ammunition" stored in the tank had flowed out, soaking the soil at his feet.

"Because I can't do anything to my brother." Hibikimaru turned away and clenched his fists, "Even if we are enemies, I will..."

"I can't attack my brother!"

"That won't do, brother." Higekiri was silent for a while, then smiled and said, "There are no brothers on the battlefield." He quickly rolled into the bushes on the other side and shouted in the direction of Izumi-no-kami Kanesada, "Horikawa, take action!"

"Varied--"

Before Izumi-no-Kami Kanesada could turn around, the small water gun was already at his waist.

"I'm sorry, Kane-san." Kunihiro Horikawa didn't give him a chance to speak and shot directly, "This is the revenge of the Minotaur."

"Damn it..." At the last moment before his death, Izumi-no-Kami Kanesada raised his water gun and attacked Higekiri's position, "I won't lose like this!"

"Huh?"

"Brother!"

Seeing the water rushing towards Higekiri, Hipemaru suddenly threw him to the ground and took the fatal blow for him.

"Brother...brother?"

Higekiri's eyes widened as he had not expected this development. He quickly sat up, with the soaking wet Hipemaru lying in his arms, and he weakly raised his hands.

"Brother...Brother..."

"I'm here, brother." Higekiri held Hipemaru's hand tightly, "Why are you......"

"Brothers fighting each other..." Hibiki smiled miserably, "It's really a nightmare..." The light in his eyes faded a little bit, "Did I protect my brother well this time?"

"Well, you protected me well, that..."

"Brother, do you remember?" He raised his head, a little expectation in his eyes, "My name is..."

"Of course, how could an elder brother forget his younger brother's name?" Higekiri curled his lips, "...Huromidomaru."

"Brother, it's Kneemaru..."

After leaving his last words, Higemaru tilted his head and was eliminated in Higekiri's arms.

"This is complete surrender, Kamikazu-dono." Horikawa Kunihiro picked up the Death Blade's equipment, "There are still three left...right?"

He raised his head and looked in the other direction.

“I wonder if everything is going well in California?”

*

"Hahaha, too slow, too slow, I'm here!" Tsurumaru Kuninaga jumped between the branches, occasionally shooting at the people below, "Is this all you can do? Yamaubakiri and others."

"Tsk." Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi looked at the empty water gun, turned his head and shouted to Yamaubakiri Kunihiro, "Dummy, change the blade."

“…Got it, Honka.”

Yamaubakiri Kunihiro took his place, carefully dodging the water column coming down from Tsurumaru Kuniega.

"Oh, have you changed blades?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga squatted on a branch and looked down. "Hey, Yamaubakiri, it's your turn." He held the red ghost doll and smiled happily. "Changing blades can't stop you from losing."

“…I won’t lose.” Yamaubakiri Kunihiro was silent for a while, then he raised his head, “I won’t lose!”

The hood slipped off Yamaubakiri Kunihiro's head, revealing his dazzling blond hair and determined green eyes: "As... my master's masterpiece, I will win."

He raised his water gun and began to attack Tsurumaru Kuninaga without mercy, with even more momentum than Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi just now.

"Perverts who are harmful to their masters must be completely eliminated!"

"Hey, hey, hey! Didn't I tell you not to bring the things in the book into reality?" Unexpectedly, Yamaubakiri Kunihiro's punishment was so fierce. Tsurumaru Kuninaga jumped onto another tree like a wolf, "Besides, your fetish is not good for the master."

Seeing that Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi, who had loaded up with ammunition, also returned to the battlefield, Tsurumaru Kuninaga was really a little overwhelmed. He shouted at the top of his voice: "Rikuo-no-mori! Are you ready?"

"Isn't this to see if you can hold on for a while?" Rikuoku Mori Yoshiyuki, who had disappeared earlier, walked out from the other side, "Our air-dropped water bombs are ready!"

Behind him was a row of small trebuchets, but the trebuchets were loaded not with stones but with balloons filled with water.

"...You're cheating, right?" Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi felt something was wrong. "Hey, fake guy, seize the opportunity to retreat..."

"Hehe, how can it be considered cheating if I brought the equipment with my own ability?" Lu Ao Shou Ji Xing smiled even more brightly, "I will take your heads!"

Faced with the water ball with a very large attack area, Yamaubakiri Kunihiro directly held Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi under him, covered the latter's upper body with his own white cloth, and endured all the water bullet attacks with one blade alone.

"Hey, you bastard..."

"Shh... don't say anything." Yamaubakiri Kunihiro, who was about to die, lowered his voice, "Before they came to check, Yamaubakiri and his men were already dead."

Rikuoku-no-Mori Yoshiyuki stood there for a while, and when he saw that Yamaubakiri and the others hadn't moved, he called out to the side, "Tsurumaru-san—it looks like they've all been killed."

"Really?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga jumped down from the tree and observed from a distance. Yamaubakiri Kunihiro's clothes and the ground around him were soaked. "Do you want to pick up their equipment? Rikuoku-sama."

"We can do it." Rikuokushou Yoshiyuki scratched his head, "Do you want to refill some ammunition for the other blades?"

"Yamato-no-machi went to fight California one-on-one, right?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga thought, stroking his chin. "Izumi-no-machi and Higanomaru went to fish for Higekiri. I wonder where Horikawa is... Just in case, let's take the equipment of Yamaubakiri and the others."

"Okay, leave it to us."

Rikuoku-mori Yoshiyuki walked towards the "corpse" of Yamaubakiri Kunihiro.

At this moment, Tsurumaru Kuninaga noticed that the "corpse" was shaking slightly. His pupils shrank, and he reached out to Rikuoku-no-Mori Yoshiyuki and shouted, "Rikuoku-no-Mori, be careful!"

"Huh?"

It's too late.

Feeling extremely ashamed for being protected by a fake, Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi pushed away the "corpse" on his body and killed all the blades present with the momentum of a Buddha blocking the Buddha.

"So... No Blade will know what happened just now..." He stood beside the bodies of Rikuoku-no-Mori Yoshiyuki and Tsurumaru Kuninaga, muttering, "Being protected by a puppet..."

Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi's face wrinkled into a frown.

“It’s a bit disgusting.”

When Yamaubakiri Kunihiro heard this, he moved his fingers and looked like he wanted to get up from the ground immediately and fight with Honka.

But he had already "died in battle" and could no longer move, so he pulled the white cloth over his head, so that he would not have to see or feel troubled.

After dealing with the enemy blade, Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi thought for a while. The ghost dolls on the scene were all arranged by Ichimonji Norimune. According to the character and past habits of this blade, the location of the ghost king doll should be...

He looked in a direction.

This time, he won the championship and the most points.

When passing by Yamaubakiri Kunihiro, Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi hesitated for a moment, and finally he stopped and said "thank you" in a very impatient and very low voice.

No matter what, he was indeed protected by Yamaubakiri Kunihiro, otherwise he would not have had the chance to counterattack and kill the opponent's two-edged sword.

But if you want him to acknowledge you as a fake person by relying on this, that’s still a long way to go!

*

Holding your bowl of shaved ice, you listened with great interest as Tsurumaru Kuninaga recounted today's water gun battle.

"And then?" You stuffed a mouthful of shaved ice into your mouth, "Who won in the end? Was it Changyi?"

Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi, who was soaking wet and drying his clothes by the fire, looked even more grim after hearing this.

"Haha..." Yamato Moriyasu felt a little embarrassed, "In the end... it was a draw."

"It's all Rikuo-sama's fault." Kashuu Kiyomitsu glared at Rikuo-sama Yoshiyuki who was roasting sweet potatoes. "The water tank he prepared for everyone exploded after a certain period of time, and in the end all the blades were eliminated together."

"ah……"

Exploding water tank? Such a familiar description... Did you buy something from the system store that was lost in the warehouse? You looked away while biting the spoon. The NPCs didn't tell you about the water gun fight. Unfortunately, you picked the exploding water tank, so you can only...

It's their bad luck.

"The duel between Kiyomitsu and Anting ended without a winner?"

"...Fighting with An Ding is just like fighting with myself." Kashuu Kiyomitsu turned the squid skewer over. "It's like looking in a mirror. How can you tell who's winning?"

Since they are all Okita Souji's swords, does that mean the combat abilities they gain are also from the original owner? If you think about it, this game setting is quite interesting.

"Hey, the squid skewers are ready." Kashuu Kiyomitsu looked at his grilled creation with satisfaction, "Master, look, isn't it grilled cute?"

“I can’t tell,” you answered honestly, “but it smells delicious.”

They are all in a string. No matter whether they are cute or not, what matters most is that they taste good.

Judging from the NPCs' reactions, everyone had a great time today. You showed off the various barbecues in your bowl and patted your stomach in satisfaction. It was good. I'll come back to eat next time.

King fish, what king fish? You come to the beach for the delicious barbecue!

It's a rare opportunity to come to the beach, so everyone decided to set up tents and spend the night there.

After Higemaru set up Genji's tent, he happily lay down in the tent with Higekiri and went to sleep.

Today was a really fun day. The water gun battle was also fun. Although my brother didn't call out his name correctly, Bo Lu was his former name, so if we round it off, my brother remembered his name and didn't call out the wrong one...

As he thought about it, Hibamaru fell into a peaceful sleep.

It was not until midnight that the mint green-haired Tachi suddenly stood up.

Not true.

He was just out on an expedition...

They are not the blades of this Honmaru!!