My Gang of Swordsmen

Chapter 187: Chapter 97: Overwhelming Victory in the Match! Gained Talents: Cat Form and Memory [5800]_2

Sazanoko bit her rosy lower lip at the sight.

——In that case...

Sazanoko’s beautiful eyes lifted as she glanced at the porcelain bowl on Aoto’s forehead.

A voice echoed repeatedly in Sazanoko’s mind at this moment:

If... we could shatter Mr. Tachibana’s porcelain bowl... then our Little Chiba Sword Dojo would win!

Sazanoko constantly used her peripheral vision to observe the porcelain bowl on Aoto’s forehead, and her gaze gradually became sharp.

Whoosh! The bamboo sword whooshed as Chokata’s attack once again forced Sazanoko to retreat half a step.

Taking advantage of the moment when Sazanoko stepped back and retreated again, Aoto swiftly lifted the blade high, advancing from above towards Sazanoko, striking at the porcelain bowl on Sazanoko’s forehead.

In that fleeting moment, Sazanoko clenched her teeth tightly, then raised the small tachi in her hand.

The sword shadow flashed, bamboo swords clashed, and Sazanoko used a special blocking technique to deflect the bamboo sword that Aoto slashed from above.

In the next instant, Sazanoko stepped forward half a step, rotated the blade of her small tachi in her palm, lifted the sword tip upwards, and then thrust it forward at a sharp angle, aiming directly at the porcelain bowl on Aoto’s forehead!

Sazanoko attempted to secure victory for their Little Chiba Sword Dojo with this strike.

But this beautiful anticipation was shattered by a slanting bamboo sword.

Chokata, seeing through Sazanoko’s intent, executed a motion as fluid as flowing clouds, swiftly like lightning, horizontally swinging the sword and accurately striking Sazanoko’s small tachi’s blade in mid-air, deflecting Sazanoko’s attack for Aoto.

Chokata’s strike was full of power.

Sazanoko’s small tachi was like a bird trying to break free from her grip and soar into the free sky, flying high towards the heavens above, and Sazanoko almost lost her grip on the sword that nearly slipped from her hand.

At this moment, Sazanoko... was best described by the words ”full of openings”.

This fleeting opportunity for an excellent attack clearly reflected in Aoto’s eyes.

Aoto saw the opportunity, took a step forward without hesitation, and raised the blade to strike.

Crack.

The blade hit the porcelain bowl on Sazanoko’s forehead, and it shattered with a response.

[Ding! Talent detected]

[Successfully copied talent: ”Cat Form”]

[Talent introduction: Excellent sense of body balance]

In his mind, shortly after defeating Chiba Shigetarou, the system’s prompt sounded once again in less than a minute.

However, Aoto had no time to carefully listen to what effect this newly acquired ”Cat Form” talent had.

The battle was not over yet.

After the porcelain bowl on her forehead was shattered, Sazanoko stood petrified, standing in place.

Aoto and Chokata swiftly passed on the left and right sides of the now-eliminated Sazanoko, rushing like a whirlwind straight to the ”Main Array” of the Little Chiba Sword Dojo, now wide open with no opponents!

From the audience, another wave of astonished exclamations erupted.

”Ah!” Mukiwa, mesmerized by the scene, instinctively let out an excited shout, ”Mr. Tachibana and his group are about to break into the ’Main Array’ of the Little Chiba Sword Dojo!”

Mukiwa’s loud exclamation was indeed too loud.

Many people around turned their heads, casting puzzled glances at Mukiwa.

Under the puzzled gazes of the crowd, realizing she had done something quite attention-grabbing, Mukiwa’s cheeks immediately flushed a vibrant red.

”I-I’m sorry...”

Muttering an apology at a volume only she could hear, Mukiwa quickly lowered her head and hunched her shoulders, as if wanting to make herself smaller so that the surrounding people wouldn’t see her anymore...

Mukiwa wasn’t even the most excited one watching.

Right next to her, there was a woman even more excited than she was.

”Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!”

Abi was slapping her thighs and letting out excited shouts.

Too excited to utter a complete sentence, she could only continuously shout meaningless ”ah ah ah” sounds in excitement.

Unlike the introverted and shy Mukiwa, Abi remained calm even when many around her gazed at her with puzzled and impatient looks.

”Zhou, Zhouzhu! Are we going to win? Are we going to win?” Abi kept her eyes glued to the stage while tugging at Zhouzhu’s collar.

”Wife, please calm down...” said Zhouzhu, struggling to breathe as Abi tugged him, managing a bitter smile before gesturing towards Kondo’s direction on the stage, ”Whether we win... it’s hard to say, the ’Red and White Battle’ is a game filled with unexpected turns, but it’s safe to say we currently have a good chance of winning.”

”The strength of the Little Chiba Sword Dojo is still formidable.”

”Look, someone has successfully broken free from Yong and the others’ entanglement.”

At this moment, both good and bad news came to Yamanaka.

The good news: after fighting desperately, he finally broke free from Kondo’s entanglement.

The bad news: the timing of him breaking free was really bad... now that Sazanoko had been defeated, Aoto and Chokata had already broken through the joint defense of the Chiba Siblings and were advancing towards the ’Main Array’ of the Little Chiba Sword Dojo.

But Yamanaka didn’t show any sign of discouragement because of this.

At the same time Yamanaka successfully extricated himself from Kondo’s entanglement, someone from the left and right paths of the Little Chiba Sword Dojo respectively also managed to free themselves from the Shiwei Hall’s entanglement.