The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman 1191

 Chapter 1191

 

Hmm?

Wrath raised one eyebrow as if curious.

What exactly are you planning to do?

As if telling him to at least explain it to him, he curled his round hand slightly.

“That’s…”

Just as Raon was about to tell Wrath what he had been thinking—

“R-Raon….”

Edgar raised his trembling hand and called out to Raon.

“Please, save me….”

He let out a thin breath, saying that if this continued, he might really die.

“You absolutely won’t die, so don’t worry.”

Raon smiled faintly and took Edgar’s hand.

“There’s no way grandfather would strike you with lightning strong enough to kill you. If anything, your muscles probably loosened up, didn’t they?”

Glenn’s lightning looked violent enough to kill Edgar, but in reality, it only caused intense pain.

Because the lightning stimulated his body, his physical condition had actually improved. Unaware of this himself, Edgar was simply making a fuss.

“Huh?”

Edgar blinked and then rotated his shoulders and arms back and forth.

“I-it’s true?”

He gaped, saying that his muscle pain was really gone.

“It still hurts, but my whole body feels completely loosened up!”

Edgar grinned, saying it had been a long time since his body felt this comfortable.

“Right? You should thank grandfather.”

Raon nodded with a gentle smile.

‘Definitely different from master.’

When grandfather attacked Rimmer, he never held back and poured down lightning as if trying to kill him, but since Edgar was his son-in-law, it seemed he had adjusted his strength at least a little.

“Father-in-law!”

Edgar pushed himself up on his trembling legs and bowed deeply to Glenn.

“Thank you for loosening up my stiff body!”

He followed Raon’s words and expressed his gratitude to Glenn right away.

“Hmm.”

Glenn gave a short nod, seemingly having no intention of refusing Edgar’s thanks.
“I thought you were just a mean, grumpy old man, father-in-law, but I was wrong! As expected of the Sword God, you have hidden intentions behind everything you do!”

However, true to his talkative nature, Edgar started rambling unnecessary words and began to lose the points he had barely earned.

“Uh, um, father….”

“Even during meals, you always sat there acting all stiff and self-important by yourself, so I never knew whether the food was going into my mouth or my nose. That must’ve all had a reason too, right?”

Before anyone could stop him, he rattled off more unnecessary words in rapid succession.

“So what was the meaning behind acting so serious at the dining table? Ah! Were you training us so we wouldn’t get indigestion no matter the situation…?”

Edgar, apparently feeling very pleased that Glenn had been thinking of him, kept flapping his mouth without caring about the shock around him.

“Ah….”

As Raon saw the sky folding in on itself and lightning flashing along with the deepening crease between Glenn’s brows, he squeezed his eyes shut.

Kuwaaaaaaang!

“I—Kuaaaaaaah!”

With a deafening roar as if the entire continent were splitting apart, lightning struck once again, and Edgar toppled backward with a tearings scream.

“Please, just stay still….”

Raon roughly tossed the charcoal-black, unconscious Edgar into a corner and sprinkled healing medicine on him.

“Haa, how did I end up with such an idiot….”

Sylvia, who had witnessed everything, let out a deep sigh as if Edgar were pathetic. Still, since he was her husband, she splashed water on his face with the garden watering can.

That guy’s about as dumb as your master, isn’t he?

Wrath let out a hollow laugh, saying it felt like Rimmer had come back to life.

‘I was thinking the same thing.’

Raon chuckled and nodded.

‘That’s why it’s a shame.’

If master and father had met, they probably would have gotten along really well.

Both Rimmer and Edgar were talkative, playful people with plenty of leeway. If they had met, they likely would have become inseparable friends, so it was a little disappointing that it never happened.

No. It’s a good thing they didn’t meet!

Wrath shook his head firmly.

Just looking at that one guy already drives him crazy. If the two of them had met, the King of Essence would’ve descended out of sheer rage.

He frowned, telling him not to talk nonsense.

Enough of that, tell me what you’re planning to do!

Wrath tilted his chin as if asking how Raon intended to face Glenn’s sword.

‘That’s…’

Raon narrowed his eyes as he watched Glenn teaching swordsmanship to Sia.

‘You’ll see later.’

He waved his hand, telling him to watch later.

Aaah….

Wrath grabbed his own head with trembling hands.

This is frustrating! There are two ways to make someone angry, and the first is to start talking and then stop halfway—!

As he burst out in anger and started shouting, Raon brought a finger to his lips.

‘If you just wait a little, you’ll understand.’

Raon smiled and turned his head.

‘Tonight.’

*   *   *

Pweoooook!

Even in the spar that took place after dinner, Raon failed to block Glenn’s twig and tumbled backward.

“Ugh….”

The pain was stronger than he had expected, and a groan escaped him involuntarily. Glenn, too, seemed to sense that Raon’s body was tougher than expected and appeared to be putting more strength into his strikes than before.

Hey….

Wrath narrowed his cold eyes.

You said you’d show something different, but what is this? It’s no different from before! No, if anything, you went down even faster!

He frowned, asking what Raon was even trying to show.

‘This isn’t as easy as I thought.’

Raon gave a thin smile and waved his hand.

‘Looks like directly grasping the sword of the strongest on the continent was too much after all.’

He laughed awkwardly, saying the result was different from what he had expected.

Grasp?

Wrath narrowed his eyes.

Don’t tell me, you actually tried to counter that Nadine bread geezer’s sword just by watching it?

He widened his eyes as if asking whether Raon had really thought that.

‘That’s right.’

Raon nodded calmly.

You have finally gone crazy!

Wrath frowned as if dumbfounded.

If it were a fight of sheer power or physical toughness, maybe, just maybe, but there is absolutely no way you can beat that geezer in a contest of swordsmanship!

He shook his head, saying that with Raon’s current level, it was impossible to grasp Glenn’s sword.

‘No, it’s possible. Analyzing swordsmanship is the foundation of my strength.’

Foundation?

‘That Ring of Fire you always call a cheat, that ring has a special eye that can grasp all martial arts.’

Since reincarnating, Raon had always lived while rotating the Ring of Fire above his heart. Now, the Ring of Fire had become not just a martial art, but an existence as close as a brother.

With nine rings already formed and the tenth about to be created, he believed that the Ring of Fire’s most important trait, the ability to grasp others’ martial arts, could allow him to read Glenn’s sword as well.

However, befitting the continent’s strongest, Glenn’s sword wasn’t something he could respond to after just a few attempts at reading it.

Well, with that cheating ring, it might be possible….

Wrath lowered his eyebrows, as if admitting it wasn’t completely impossible.

“Raon.”

Glenn approached with slow steps and stopped in front of Raon.

“It seems you’ve found a new way to oppose my sword.”

As if he had sensed a change in Raon’s movements through a single spar, he drew a calm smile.

“Good. Try everything you can do while I stay in the annex building.”

Glenn’s smile was calm and unshaken, as if Raon’s efforts wouldn’t change the result, yet it also showed that he welcomed Raon’s attempt to walk a new path.

“Yes. That’s what I intend to do.”

Raon straightened his unwavering gaze, saying he planned to challenge him countless times and be broken again and again.

“Originally, the next spar would be tomorrow morning, but would you like to try just once more now?”

Seeming pleased with his answer, Glenn tilted his chin, suggesting they continue the spar.

“Of course.”

Raon replied firmly and pushed himself up. There was still some pain left, but not enough to interfere with sparring, so he lifted Heavenly Drive.

“Good.”

Glenn wore a gentle smile and raised the twig to aim at Raon's chest. It was just a thin twig, but he felt a chill as if his heart had already been pierced.

“Since it is late, I will go right away.”

He said it was time to play with Sia and thrust the twig straight out.

Woooooong!

Raon resonated the Ring of Fire from the moment Glenn lifted the twig. The nine rings rotated madly, creating a heavy resonance.

Goooooo!

Time slowed, and space was dyed pure white. The light and flow of the entire world were erased, leaving only Glenn and himself.

No, only Glenn’s twig and Heavenly Drive in his hand were moving.

“Precise sword, swift sword, space sword, severing sword?”

Raon bit his lip as he watched Glenn’s twig twist and surge like a salmon swimming upstream. Glenn was thrusting at him with four principles honed to their limits.

‘The opposite of those principles!’

What Raon aimed for wasn’t merely understanding Glenn’s sword, but breaking it, meaning he couldn’t stop at grasping the principles, he had to counter them.

“Chaotic sword, slow sword, heavy sword, soft sword.”

He poured the four countering principles into the forms of the Fangs of Insanity and struck toward Glenn’s twig as it flew in fiercely.

Chiaaaang!

The principles imbued in the silver blade of Heavenly Drive bloomed in harmony, blocking Glenn’s twig.

‘This worked!’

Raon clenched his teeth and tightened his grip.

‘I definitely blocked it!’

Having created a countering form capable of swallowing Glenn’s sword, he believed he could block the twig sufficiently and poured strength into his entire body.

‘I’ll counterattack immediately—hmm?’

But the instant Glenn’s twig touched the blade of Heavenly Drive, Raon sensed that something was wrong.

Kuuuuung!

Glenn’s twig twisted sharply, pierced through Heavenly Drive, and slammed into Raon’s chest.

Pweoooook!

Just like in the first spar, Raon was struck in the chest by the twig and rolled across the ground.

“Guh…!”

A desperate groan escaped him as pain greater than before washed over him.

‘W-What is it?’

I had clearly grasped all of his principles through the Ring of Fire and created a perfect countering form, yet I could not understand why it had failed.

“That was close.”

Glenn walked slowly over and stopped in front of him.

“Perhaps because you are young, your changes are fast.”

He drew a faint smile as he looked at the twig, white steam rising from it.

“You have a face wondering why you lost even though you read my form.”

Glenn narrowed his eyes as he read the confusion in Raon’s gaze.

“Yes. In terms of aura, strength and speed, and even the principles in my sword, I had the advantage, yet I don’t understand why it ended this way.”

Raon nodded, saying it was a result that had completely defied his expectations.

Hmm, that is….

“Shall I tell you?”

Both Wrath and Glenn licked their lips as if they wanted to tell him the answer.

“No.”

Raon revealed eyes that burned quietly as he looked at Wrath and Glenn.

“As I said before, I want to find the answer myself.”

He shook his head firmly, saying he could absolutely not cross the wall with an answer heard from others.

“Is that so.”

Rather than disappointed, Glenn smiled gently, as if impressed.

“Then I suppose I’ll have to wait for your answer.”

Saying they would stop here for today, he returned to where Sia was.

Anyway, you are a stubborn one.

Wrath frowned, saying it wasn’t an answer that could be found easily.

It will take a long time.

Though he clicked his tongue as if displeased, a faint smile formed at the corner of his mouth.

‘No, it won’t take that long.’

Raon rested his chin calmly, as if confident.

What? How would you know that?

Wrath narrowed his brows as if asking what he meant.

‘I think it’s time to turn toward a new path.’

Raon raised his right hand and placed it over his left chest, where his heart throbbed and the nine rings resonated.

‘I need to create the tenth ring.’

 

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