Pirate's Swordsman

In an instant, there was a sharp wind sound on the deck.

Sometimes it's on the left, sometimes it's on the right. The sound of wind is continuous, but it's hard to pinpoint the source. Only scratches suddenly left on the boat every once in a while reminded the existence of Crowe, who was unable to see clearly because of his speed.

"Humph, you are indeed quite capable..."

Tado sneered, and the mud on his right arm continued to surge. While he looked around, he whispered to Xia Nuo behind him: "Little guy, if you are here, I can't let you go. How about I send you to Kailar with mud first, so that I can take care of that one... Huh?"

Halfway through his words, he subconsciously glanced back, but at this glance, he was stunned on the spot.

I saw the black-haired boy in front of me, leaning peacefully on his broad back, with his eyelids slightly lowered and silent. His delicate little face was full of concentration and seriousness. If you hadn't seen the quiet smile on the corner of his mouth, With his smile and his hands gently resting on the hilt of the wooden sword, Tado thought the other party had fallen asleep.

"Xia Nuo..."

The breeze blew gently, causing the bangs of the black-haired boy to flutter. At the same time, the thin tips of the boy's ears also twitched slightly in the direction of the wind.

That feeling is very strange, subtle and difficult to describe in words.It's like... using your ears to quietly listen to the movement of the wind and judge Crowe's movements.

"how could it be possible……"

As soon as this thought came up in his mind, Tado smiled and shook his head, denying this speculation. This kind of ability can only be possessed by those strong men deep in the Grand Line. Although the black-haired boy in front of him is good at swordsmanship, in the end he is just a kid of twelve or thirteen years old. How can he master it?

You still have to rely on yourself...

The mud in his hands was rolling. Just as Tado was about to turn his head and use the swamp to seal off the entire cabin, he saw the black-haired boy with lowered eyebrows. At this moment, he suddenly opened his eyes and burst into a frightening wave. The light comes.

"there!"

"What?" Tado was stunned.

He hadn't reacted yet, but the young man didn't care. At this moment, he took a sudden step, and the wooden sword shot out in an instant, slashing in a certain direction!

"Iai, cut steel flash!"

Amidst the low roar, the afterimage of the sword blade flashed in mid-air like the cold light of frost. At the same moment, the air waves raised by the sword tip became more and more astonishing, and finally the wooden sword fell completely. At that moment, it exploded!

laugh!

The air wave swept across like a violent wind and rain, and even the swamp on the ground was blown out of a huge gap. At the position where the wooden sword struck, a painful muffled sound was heard in the originally empty air. Huh, immediately I saw a figure wearing a red coat, stumbling out of the purple smoke that suddenly rose.

Thin threads of blood dripped down from the waist on the right side of the body. Covering his chest with his left hand, Crowe struggled to stand up and looked at Xia Nuo with wide eyes, a look of disbelief on his face. :

"How... how is it possible?"

Tado also looked down in confusion. At this time, the thoughts in his mind were roughly similar to Crowe's.

自己

Just now it was decided that positioning based on sound was impossible. Now Xia Nuo actually knocked Crowe out of the air with a sword. It was a slap in the face in an instant. Wouldn't the scene be so embarrassing...

Immediately, he saw that Lake Toya, which was stagnant in mid-air, was slowly retracted by the black-haired boy's waist, and his delicate little face was slightly raised, and he glanced at Tado, and then with a trace of He retracted with a weird smile and turned to look at Crowe who looked shocked.

"What's wrong with this guy? He uses this method of attacking with high-speed movement. I really think that my three years of wind-control swordsmanship training was in vain..."

Seeing that Crowe was still staring at him, Xia Nuo couldn't help but curled his lips and muttered with some regret, "It's a pity that he dodged it and didn't hit the vital point..."

"Xia Nuo..."

Next to him, after Tado came to his senses, he still couldn't help but said: "Even I couldn't tell the location of this guy just now. How on earth did you find him?"

As a result, he discovered that Xia Nuo did not pay attention to him, but inexplicably struck the air on the right again with his sword. He suddenly became confused: "What are you doing?"

"What?"

Xia Nuo turned around and saw Tado staring at him with a strange expression on his face. He couldn't help scratching his head, "Nothing, just calm down. Uncle, what did you ask just now?"

"Cathering the wind..."

Tado frowned. He didn't understand, but he didn't bother to ask more questions. He just repeated his previous question angrily.

When asked this question, Xia Nuo suddenly felt that he seemed to have gone too far, and he didn't know how to explain it. He thought about it, and finally said with a smile: "Uncle Tado, we have a saying on Andric Island, I don’t know if you’ve heard of it.”

"...What?" Tado was confused for two seconds.

"Watch the sword in your heart and listen to the wind."

Xia Nuo directly threw away Yasuo's lines, then spread his hands, looked at Tado with a tone that was so bad that he deserved to be beaten, and said: "After practicing swordsmanship for so long, if you don't even have this ability, how can you still do it?" Why are you hanging out on the sea, are you right, uncle?"

"You kid... you really deserve a beating. Just say that you newcomers are all monsters. You know that I can't do it, but you still make such a joke."

Tado almost turned his nose in anger and glared at Xia Nuo fiercely, "You haven't become a pirate yet, how can you be like an old fool like Peach?"

Xia Nuo grinned and said nothing more.

In fact, what he said was not a joke. The wind-controlling swordsmanship he practiced was originally a swordsmanship that placed great emphasis on speed and agility. His daily practice focused on hearing in all directions, seeing in all directions, and controlling the surrounding environment. After practicing for a long time, your hearing and vision will naturally be much better than ordinary people.

Especially today, after the wind-control swordsmanship was upgraded to the elementary level, Xia Nuo felt that both the strong wind momentum when he drew his sword and his sensitivity to the surrounding wind sounds had risen to a higher level. Crowe's "spoon" was in the eyes of others. It might have been a headache, but for him, who already had agility as his advantage, it was just a matter of restraint.

"I don't know if I can realize the domineering power of seeing, hearing, color, etc. if I continue to practice like this..."

His eyes fell on Crowe's position again. At this moment, this guy seemed to have seen how difficult he was. He knew that with Tado standing by, he couldn't kill him before leaving. He was already talking to Tado. In the meantime, he quietly retreated back, and was about to climb over the railing and escape from the deck.