Rebirth of Japan's Sekiro Legacy

Chapter 489 The Death of Matou Zouyan (5000 words)
10 minutes later……

"Squeak..."

The old wooden door was pushed open with a piercing sound.

Arakawa walked through the garden and came to a room that even Matou Tsuruno was not allowed to enter.

There is nothing special here, just some bottled flowers and plants, and beautiful butterflies flying next to them.

Nozomi Arakawa closed his eyes and listened quietly.

After a while, he opened his eyes: "There is a sound of wind in the ground."

Without deliberately looking for a hidden passage, Wedgemaru destroyed everything in the house like a hurricane.After the spell was destroyed, a mottled dark passage appeared.

Following the artificially dug underground passage all the way down, he finally came to the underground cavity of Matou's house.

"I didn't expect you to be able to find this place." Jiantong Zouyan stared at Arakawa, "But just in time, the old man's side is almost ready."

"Ah, it's okay. After all, your son is leading the way."

"Oh? He Ye? He is really a guy who is greedy for life and afraid of death."

"No, no, no, you are the only one who is not qualified to say this, right?" Arakawa Wang said, "In order to pursue immortality, you will not hesitate to kill other people's lives to extend the life of your body, and you have the face to accuse others of being greedy for life and afraid of death. "

"Hehehe, did Kariya tell you that? What about you?" Matou Zangyan said, "It is not a shameful thing to pursue your wishes. There are two kinds of people in this world, those with insufficient ability and those with too much desire. Although both It's all ridiculous, but sometimes only the latter can create miracles! Let me guess, since you have reached a deal with Kariya, you are also a participant in the Holy Grail War, right? Where are your servants?"

"Who knows, it may be on your left, or it may be on your right... No, it may be behind you."

"Boy, your ability to play tricks is not small."

"Hmph, you dare to come here alone. As a master, you really don't have a good brain." Jiantong Zouyan leaned on his crutches and said, "If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't have to delay and deal with you directly in the room. It seems that the old man is still looking up about you."

"Really, you should look at me higher." Nozomi Arakawa smiled and took out a glass bottle.

"What?!" Matou Zangyan's heart suddenly shrank.

"How is it? It sounds familiar, right?" Arakawa said, "Before coming here, I went to your workshop and found this little guy there."

"How is it possible...my workshop took a hundred years to forge! Even assassins can't easily enter!!"

Matou Zouken was furious, crushing the crutch with his withered fingers.

Even his two sons didn't know how to get in, and how long did it take the man in front of him...?
"Let's not talk about how I got in, but after seeing this, you should be able to understand that there is no need for a war between us, right?"

Looking at the bottle, Matou Zouken calmed down.

"I can give Sakura to you, but you have to return what you stole from me."

He said and moved away, revealing Sakura standing behind him.

"I have to check that she is not a fake you made." Nozomi Arakawa made a request.

"Haha, it doesn't matter, I can play with you." Matou Zangyan said, "Go, child, go to that man's side. This is Grandpa's order."

He wasn't worried that Nozomi Arakawa would just run away with Sakura, because it was useless.

As long as the marking worm is still in her body, he can control her.

Sakura seemed to be walking towards Arakawa Wang step by step like a robot that had been ordered.

Nozomi Arakawa pressed Sakura's shoulder: "Sakura, are you alright?"

"Brother... my shoulder... hurts so much."

"I'm sorry I hurt you." Nozomi Arakawa let go of his hand like an electric shock.

"Alright, Sakura, come back."

Under Matou Zouken's call, Sakura returned to him.

"Well, it's her right?"

"That's right, but that's not enough. Take the worm out of her body and remove the restraints in her body, so I'll return the worm to you."

"Then how do you guarantee that you will return that to me after it's done?" Jiantong Zouyan said.

Arakawa was stunned for a moment and held his forehead in distress.

"Old man, it seems that you have lived too long and are confused. You haven't understood the position between us."

In front of Matou Zouken, he took out a fat engraving worm from the bottle.

Immediately afterwards, he raised the wedge ball horizontally, and placed the imprinted worm, which had lost its ability to move, on the blade.

"As long as I shake my hand a little, this worm will break into two pieces. Regardless of my appearance, I still have a good hand with a sword."

"Hmph! Are you not worried about Sakura?"

Matou Zouken pulled Sakura in front of him, and grabbed her slender arm.

"I'll count to three. If you don't take the engraving worm off the knife, I'll tear off this little girl's arm."

Arakawa Wang stared at him indifferently, turned his wrist, and wedge maru turned accordingly.

The imprinted worm was still on the blade, but part of its tail had been cut off, and the blood flowed continuously.

"You made a mistake, Matou Zangyan, he came to beg me for joining forces with Matou Kariya, not me. His life is short, and he feels that he can no longer fight. To win this Holy Grail War, that’s why I came to me. In other words, all I want is Matou Sakura, and I have no interest in insects. And once you hurt Matou Sakura, will that guy Kariya fight with you? It’s hard to say.”

"Hahahaha, Kariya? Desperate with the old man?" Matou Zouken's face twisted, "It's just him? Boy, take care, since you hurt my foundation, then I will use insects to eat this little girl's flesh Body."

"Second cut." Nozomi Arakawa said.

But in fact, before the third word was spoken, Qiao Wan had already completed the second reversal.

So far, the worm has been cut off a quarter of the body.

It twisted in pain, its mouthparts full of fangs were trying to bite the wedge pill.

"Boy! You are so brave!"

A dozen or so worms flowed out of Matou Zouken's body and crawled onto Sakura's arm.

He had obviously prepared a large-scale insect magic, but now he was unable to do it, which made him extremely frustrated.

"Zouken, before you tear off Sakura's arm, let me tell you one thing. Kariya told me that you use someone else's body to renew your life. I happen to have such a person in my memory , her way of extending life is similar to yours, but she does not extend her life through other people, but through a puppet that is exactly the same as human beings."

Arakawa shook his wedge pill provocatively: "Although you two have different methods, the essence is the same. Before transferring your body, you need to store your memory and soul. What did the puppet master do? I don’t know, but since you use insect magic, your soul must be engraved in this big, fat insect, right? Even if you kill Sakura tonight and then kill me desperately, but in that I would definitely destroy the bugs before, so even if you take a new body, the memory and soul will be gone. At that time, will Matou Zangyan still be Matou Zangyan?"

Arakawa stared at him intently: "By that time...are you still alive?"

"Ugh!" Matou Zangyan made a muffled sound in his throat, which was the cry of blood rushing to his throat.

Indeed, what Nozomi Arakawa said hit his nails.

He wants to live, this gradually aging body is withering, and even the wisdom and experience passed down over the years are lost with the collapse of the body... He wants to live, even if he kills all human beings, he wants to live, at all costs!
"Okay! I promise you! Remove the engraving worm from Sakura's body and return her to you!"

In the end, he accepted Nozomi Arakawa's conditions.

You can think of something else about the Holy Grail, but saving your soul is the most important thing now.

"Then... please?" Arakawa tilted his head.

Sakura closed her eyes and lay quietly on the ancient altar of Matou's house.

Matou Zouken took out the engraving worms one after another from her body until the last one.

Arakawa watched the whole removal "operation", until he touched Sakura's body and confirmed it himself, then nodded with confidence.

"How about it?"

"Very well, the engraving worm has indeed disappeared."

Nozomi Arakawa hugged Sakura who was still in a coma.

"Then..." Matou Zouyan stretched out his hand.

"Of course, this is an agreement between us, and I will abide by it."

Arakawa smiled and returned the bottle containing the engraved worm to Matou Zangyan.

However, the next moment, the bottle fell to pieces on the ground.

This is because Matou Zou Inkstone was not held firmly, and the reason why he did not hold it firmly was because he saw the engraved worms that had been cut into countless small pieces.

"Bastard!!" He roared hoarsely, like a crow rising and falling in a cemetery.

He opened his arms, and a large number of imprinted insects flew out of that crooked body.

These are fully evolved bodies. After being strengthened by insect magic, even if there is only one, it only needs to gently bite a wound on the opponent's body, which is enough to kill, and there is no cure.

Facing the overwhelming swarm of insects, flames appeared beside Arakawa Wang.

As soon as the torch was released, the pure fire of glazed glass immediately formed a flame barrier in front of him, and any engraved insects who dared to cross the boundary would be burned to ashes.

"Cough cough cough..." At the same time, Tong Zang Yan began to cough violently, and blood flowed from all his orifices.

His soul and memory are destroyed, and his body will also suffer a fatal blow
"Don't, don't think you won... Boy, I planted the insect mark in Sakura's body. I will share life with the marker, but if I die, then she will die too... This is I have a backup plan, hahahaha..."

"Really?" Nozomi Arakawa said, "But I think Sakura is alright?"

"That's because I'm not dead yet...soon...you'll see it soon..."

Matou Zouken fell to the ground uncontrollably, his whole body began to fester, and the bugs in his body also began to escape in all directions.

Nozomi Arakawa sighed, and came to Matou Zouken.

"Smelly old man, let me tell you one thing, so that you can die clearly." Nozomi Arakawa pointed Wedge Maru at his face, "Do you want to know how I got into your workshop? The answer is this. "

After that, he activated Tomoe's thunder, and the power of thunder and lightning immediately flowed on Kakimaru's blade.

Matou Zouken looked at this strange power of lightning, his face full of disbelief.

This kind of lightning is not natural, nor is it born of pure magic, but another kind of mystery!
"It's beautiful, isn't it? The heretical power of lightning has a miraculous effect on destroying barriers and spells... Do you still remember that I asked to check if Sakura was the real person at the beginning? At that time, I injected it into her body He killed Ba Zhilei, so she cried out in pain."

"That is to say... the spell I set was destroyed from the very beginning?"

"That's right. Although I only injected a little bit of Bazhilei into Sakura's body, it is enough to destroy the spell, especially when the spell is not set up yet. It's just as high... Don't think I don't know how to use magic, but I have a sister who is very good at magic in my family."

Arakawa pressed the wedge ball against Matou Zouken's throat: "Do you have anything else to say?"

"I'm old... I don't want to die..."

"I heard that you have lived for hundreds of years. If people only live for the pursuit of life, what's the point of living? The reason why you can be easily tamed by me is because of your dilapidated body, and even the magic circuit has shrunk. No matter how strong the seal of the Matou family is, so what?" Nozomi Arakawa sighed, "I think you are not even as good as an orthodox magician, they will at least work hard to pursue the root."

"You yellow-haired child... what can you understand? Look at this body, it is decaying every second, and the wisdom accumulated over the years is constantly losing... This pain, this pain of living corruption tastes like you Can you understand it?" Matou Zouken's eyes were blood red, and blood was spreading in the bark-like grooves of his skin, "My wish is not to die, but to live forever, to live...and not to grow old..."

"Enough of you."

With words like a sigh, Nozomi Arakawa slowly pulled out the Immortal Slash.

"I've decided, I won't let you die happily. Since you have already experienced the taste of body corruption, the feeling of the remaining vitality flowing from your palm...Have you tried it?"

The Immortal Slash fell, cutting off Matou Zouken's limbs, and then he pressed the Flaming Machine Gun close to the section.

The high temperature quickly scarred the wound, but the loss of life caused by the undead slash was irreversible.

Sensing that their master was about to die, the insects fled frantically.

Eyes, ears, nose and mouth...wherever there are holes in the body, there are a huge number of bugs drilling out.

Matou Zouken's body quickly deflated, like a deflated balloon.

In the end the bugs were all gone, and all that was left of the guy was a skin, like a battered overcoat that even a homeless man wouldn't want by the trash can.

But even so, he has not died yet, feeling the passing of the little vitality in his body.

"How does it feel like the god of death is approaching? Isn't it very exciting? Then goodbye, Matou Zouken, I hope your vitality is not strong, so that you can suffer less."

After throwing away the most mocking words, Nozomi Arakawa left Matou's house with Sakura in his arms.

……

"Hey, Sakura, wake up, you'll catch a cold if you sleep outside."

The little girl named Sakura heard the call and slowly opened her eyes.

"It's you."

"Well, your grandfather promised to let you go home." Nozomi Arakawa smiled.

"Really?" Sakura suddenly felt a little sour in her heart.

The night wind blew past, making her hug her body tightly involuntarily, and only then did she realize that she was hugged by Nozomi Arakawa.

"elder brother."

"Ok?"

"My body hurts."

"Ah, that's right, let's drink some of this."

Nozomi Arakawa gave a gourd to Sakura: "Don't drink too much, this is not a drink."

Xiao Sakura obediently drank the potion in the wound medicine gourd, and the pain caused by Ba Zhilei's destruction technique was relieved a lot at this moment. Although it would take two months or even longer to heal completely, it was better than being hurt by the dirty inkstone. Casting a curse is much better.

"Brother, where is grandpa?"

"Grandpa is going on a trip to Europe!" Arakawa Wang said, "Don't you remember what happened before?"

"Before..." Sakura tried hard to think back, "Brother, you seem to have come to my room... and then I don't know."

"That may be because you were too tired to fall asleep. During the time you fell asleep, I persuaded your grandfather and he agreed to let you go home. From now on, your name is still Tohsaka Sakura .”

"Tohsaka Sakura...Brother, when can I see my mother?" Sakura asked. At this time, her eyes seemed to be brighter, and they no longer had the lifeless feeling before.

"Tomorrow night, your Uncle Kariya will take you to see your mother, your body is very weak, you need to sleep a little longer, so that your mother won't be worried when she sees you."

Sakura was stunned for a moment, then adjusted the posture she thought was most comfortable in Arakawa Wang's arms, and fell asleep peacefully with a smile on her mouth.

Arakawa looked at Sakura's sleeping face, and then looked at the dark sky.

"In this way, the prerequisites are ready."

(End of this chapter)