Chapter 45 - 9: Great Kansei Purge 3: Brutal fighting

"Yes, Lord Housen!"

They shouted before they jumped off the ship.

"Tatsugorou! Jirocho! Everyone! Run away!!!!"

Tatsugorou, Jirocho and the members of Joui stopped for a moment, hearing Haruto's deafening scream from the ship in sky.

Everyone was surprised for a moment before Tatsugorou said

"Everybody stand down! Haruto wouldn't stop us from continuing the fight if we wasn't in great danger."

Although reticent, they gritted their teeth and began to move away from the space port, but at the same time a group of men carrying umbrellas started chasing them.

On the ship only Haruto and the man named Hosen remained, they looked at each other for a moment before rushing the next second towards each other.

Hosen kicked him towards his right ribs, he leaned slightly to the left to dodge the close blow, then used his left Katana to cut Hosen's neck and used his right Katana to stab his chest.

But like a beast Hosen bit his left Katana, breaking it to pieces before attack him with a palm blow, hitting his belly with violancy, cancelling out his second attack.

"Ouch!" Haruro spat out a sip of blood and took 13 steps backwards, but without taking a break, he threw his broken Katana towards Hosen, who easily deviated it with his right arm, then he took advantage of this short moment to draw his third Katana and threw it in the air before rushing towards Hosen.

Hosen having just deflected the broken Katana quickly put himself in a defensive position, at the same time Haruto held his first Katana with both hands, a whitish aura escaped from his body and slowly infused itself into his Katana, then he do a horizontal slash at approximately 20cm from Hosen.

A sharp, raging wind came out of his blade and headed towards Housen.

15cm...10cm..7cm...4cm...

At the moment when the wind blade was less than 2 centimetres from him, Housen backed violently backwards, then quickly took the giant umbrella behind his back and hit the wind blade with it.

But during that tiny moment when all these actions took place, Haruto left his field of view for half a second, but when he look Haruto's direction, Haruto disappeared.

Maybe it was the countless days he spent on the battlefields or his intuition as a fighter but he jumped abruptly to the left, avoiding by a few millimeters that a Katana thrown from the sky pierce his throat, but even with his demonic reflexes, he could not dodge Haruto's attack, who was coming down towards him.

*Chak* *Puch*

Haruto's Katana deeply sliced Housen's chest, which released a geyser of blood., then drew his fourth sword and launched a lightning attack towards Housen's heart.

But even before he finished his second attack a powerful elbow struck his head, smashing him against the ground.

*Bang*

His eyesight blurred, blood dripped from his nose, but he took advantage of the force of the blow and rolled to the ground before getting back on his feet.

Then he and Housen looked at each other, eye to eye, Housen removed his clothes top, revealing a muscular body with no scars apart from the wound Haruto had just inflicted on him.

"I really didn't expect to have such an exciting fight, what's your name."

"Haruto." Said he as he drew his last sword.

"Haruto...Haruto! It means "spring man" in your language if I am not mistaken, my name is Housen, Housen of the Yato tribe, our 7th division has been paid handsomely by your country to exterminate you and your companions who try to save it, ironic! Don't you think so?"

He said as he put himself in an offensive position while tightening his grip on his umbrella.

"Glowing in the dark before it fades away, you're like fireflies, dim light of yours! Offering your own life in exchange for hate a ungrateful country, Is that your so-called "Bushido"?"

"You don't understand anything!" Said Haruto with a firm look as the white aura around his body spilled over violently.

"I'm not fighting for a country or a cause or anything, I don't have any goals in this life and I've never had goals in my life, all I want is to stand up for what I care about and what I believe in, I do what I want when I want."

Then his aura increase again, reached its power peak.

"Hohoho I see, I understand." Said Housen, rushing towards him.

"You're a perfect selfish man!!!!"

Then Haruto also ran towards Housen at full speed.

*Pak* *Pak* *Pak* *Pak* 

Their silhouettes collided again and again, slash, punch, kick, upercut, elbow.

The intensity of the confrontation increased with every second.

*Crack*

Then under this ocean of blow, Haruto's last Katana broke.

"It's over for you a samurai without a sword is like a lion without teeth!" Shouted Housen, punching towards Haruto.

"My fists are enough to defeat you old geezer!!!!" Haruto shouted before threw a punch at Housen.

*PANG* 

They hit their faces and they both retreated before rushing at each other again.

Haruto bent his right leg and launch a kick him with all his strength, Housen used his umbrella to block him, but under the power of the blow his umbrella broke.

He then threw his umbrella at Haruto and then gave him several dozen punches in less than a second, Haruto dodged the umbrella, bending slightly to the left before countering Housen's punchs.

Housen and Haruto both threw double punche blocking each other's attack.

*Bang* 

The power of the shock was such that the main deck broke, causing them to fall inside the ship.

*Pak* *Pak* *Pak*

But while they were in freefall, the infernal exchange of blows continued.

"HARUTO!!!"

"HOSSEN!!!"