One Piece: In the Name of the Father

Chapter 81 Seat Qualification Battle II
Matsurize's opponent looked at Matsurize staring at him stubbornly, with that fierce look in his eyes, he was a little scared.

This is also normal for a young man with a lack of integrity. Although he has practiced swordsmanship in the Songbai Dojo since he was a child, he has little experience.

Unlike Matsurize who is so obsessed with swordsmanship, he can't concentrate and concentrate.

As soon as the referee started speaking, Matsu Rize ran towards his opponent. During this process, Matsu Rize still held the wooden knife at his waist and did not stand in front of him.

Matsurizawa didn't think about how to attack the opponent's weakness, Matsurize stepped towards the opponent upright, and when he was three steps away from the opponent, Matsurizawa swung his knife forward.

Matsu Rize's wooden knife hit the opponent's wooden knife defending in front of him. Matsu Rize was very forceful, leading the opponent with the knife, and chopped the opponent in front of him out of the ring, that is, outside the circle drawn with chalk .

Matsurize calmly put his sword back and stood still. After the referee signaled that he had won, he walked out calmly and continued to wait for the start of the second round of competition.

There were originally 32 people participating in the No. 16 venue of Matsurize and the others. Now after a round of competition, there are only [-] people left, including Matsurize.

In the entire small square, the originally crowded crowd relaxed after more than 100 people were eliminated, and after these eliminated people left.

In the first round of the second round, the referee from Court No. [-] was the first to call Matsurizawa.

Matsurize came to the center of the field, looking at the opponent named John in front of him, Matsurize's face couldn't help but get a little dignified.

Matsurize didn't know much about the disciples of the Songbai Dojo, especially the disciples who didn't have seats, but he just happened to know a little about his opponent John in the second round.

John is an old man at the Songbai Dojo. He was a disciple of the Songbai Dojo when the father of the master Yagyu was the master. Generally speaking, at John’s age, he is in his thirties and has no seats. , Either go to the Guards to find a job, or go to do something else.

He is the only person like John who stays in the Songbai Dojo without giving up and wants to seek the position of the 21st disciple.

This is also thanks to the drastic reform of the entire Songbai Dojo after the master Liu Sheng came to power, unlike the original Songbai Dojo, which is just a place for learning swordsmanship.

Otherwise, at John's age and without much achievement, he would have been forced to leave the house long ago.

Although John has never been able to occupy the 21st student seat, Matsurize knows that he should not be underestimated. At least for Matsurize, John's life experience in the competition may be almost as much salt as Matsurize.

Matsu Rize didn't take the initiative to attack this time. Now that he knew that the enemy was experienced, Matsu Rize planned to stay on the defensive first and figure out John's fighting style first.

For so many years, John has never let go of a chance to compete for seat qualifications. Although each time he did not get what he wanted, John can still adjust himself and continue the next challenge.

Matsurizawa looked at his opponent, and he thought that people like John might be the kind of people with limited talents that Ayane mentioned.

Matsurize knew about John's experience a long time ago. Perhaps there is no one in the Songbai Dojo who does not know about John's experience. John is considered a celebrity in the Songbai Dojo.

After Matsurize knew these things about John, he cherished his swordsmanship talent even more.

Matsurize is already an adult, and his swordsmanship can be so advanced because of his rare talent in swordsmanship, or in other words, his talent in practice.

Because Matsurize is not only improving his swordsmanship, but also his boxing skills very quickly.

However, Matsurize's practice of swordsmanship and boxing too late still had an impact.

Matsurizawa had previously learned from the owner of Yagyu that if Matsurizawa could practice from a young age like Ayane, maybe now Matsurizawa would be able to awaken domineering like Ayane.

Today's Matsurizawa, the owner of Yagyu's most optimistic estimate for him, if Matsurizawa can persevere in his practice, it will take at least ten years to reach Ayane's current level.

Matsurize was not intimidated by this moment. To some extent, Matsurize was very similar to his current opponent John, they were the kind of people who could persevere for their own goals.

Seeing that Matsurize did not take the initiative to attack, John did not hesitate, and he immediately launched a stormy attack on Matsurize.

Matsurize resisted it one by one. Matsurize found that John's swordsmanship was simple and unpretentious, but very organized. It was right for him to adopt a passive defense strategy.

Matsurizawa tried to fight back while resisting, but Matsurizawa didn't see any flaws in John at all, so Matsurizawa gave up this idea and continued to resist.

John has experienced many battles, so it’s not enough. Maybe he can’t remember how many failures John has experienced in his life!
The flaws in John's battle cannot be seen by a newcomer like Matsurizawa at all.

However, John has not fulfilled his wish so far. There is a reason why he became one of the 21 disciples.

No matter how superbly John has practiced swordsmanship, this will not change John's physical defects such as not being strong enough, not fast enough.

Matsu Rize quickly discovered this. Matsu Rize felt that if John's strength and speed were stronger, he would have been unable to resist and would have lost.

Matsurize resisted passively for a while, and he decided to start from his own advantage.

Matsurize started to counterattack, and I saw Matsurize's counterattack, opening and closing, just like a beginner.

Matsurize slashed at John with a knife, and Matsurize aimed at John's torso, so that John could not get rid of it easily, and could only compare strength with Matsurize.

Matsurize successfully turned this swordsmanship competition into a competition of strength.

Matsurize succeeded. John's more than ten years of practice was not as powerful as Matsurize's, and John began to retreat steadily.

This has to be said to be very realistic and ironic. John has not slacked off for more than a day in the past ten years, but his physical fitness is not as strong as Matsu Rizawa. You must know that Matsu Rize has practiced late and shortly, and he does not know that John has What kind of mental quality can we continue to persevere.

This time, Matsurize wanted to force John out of the ring just like the first round of competition.

Matsurizawa's victory was imminent, and John's heels were on the touchline.

Matsurize did not relax his vigilance. He knew that John, who had such an extraordinary experience, would definitely not give up. He had to work hard.

Matsurize raised the wooden knife and slashed at John. If the knife hits, then John will withdraw from the ring, and it will be close to ten.

Matsurize also thought that he was sure to win at this time, but now Matsurize has seen what it means not to admit defeat.

John knew his situation, he couldn't retreat anymore, and he would lose if he retreated any more, John put away his wooden knife before he had time to think about it.

Matsurize slashed at John's body with a knife, and John carried it hard, and did not take a step back. This is because Matsurize was afraid of hurting John, so he withdrew a little strength, otherwise John would not be able to resist.

At this time, the wooden knife that John put down showed everyone why he put down the wooden knife, and John slashed at Matsurize who had the middle door wide open.

Matsurize could only back away to avoid John's knife.

Now, John's crisis was resolved, but John took a hard knife. Although it was a wooden knife, it was not so pleasant, especially for John, who had a very low physical strength.

Matsurizawa watched John bend over, panting there, Matsurizawa did not take this opportunity to defeat his opponent.

Seeing John's stupid behavior, Matsurize decided to defeat John in swordsmanship.

Next, after Matsurize waited for John to take a break, the two fought together again.

At this moment, neither of the two is in a state of constant resistance. The two of them are coming and going, and the contestants on the side are all shouting for this swordsmanship competition.

Matsurize wants to compete with John in simple sword skills, and Matsurize must suffer a lot.

John was not polite at all, and took advantage of the loopholes in Matsu Rize's swordsmanship many times to hit Matsu Rize with a knife.

Fortunately, Matsurize was strong, and John's attacks did not cause much damage to him, and Matsurize was still able to resist.

Matsurize did not regret his choice.

An opponent like John deserves Matsurize's stupid decision.

Besides, Matsurize and John have been fighting each other for a while in swordsmanship, and Matsurize feels that his swordsmanship has improved.

The improvement this time is not the improvement of physical strength, but the improvement of pure sword skills.

This is not Matsu Rize's illusion. Now Matsu Rize has been able to attack John in the confrontation, and is no longer so easily attacked by John.

John was also shocked. He has experienced many opponents. In this pine and cypress dojo, he has fought against even the 21 disciples one by one, but no one is as perverted as Matsurize.

The reason why John was shocked was that all the sword skills he had honed over the past ten years were absorbed by Matsurize in just a few strokes.

Now no matter what level it is, Matsurize is not weaker than John.

John jumped back a step, threw the wooden knife in his hand, and raised his hand to the referee.

"You win."

Matsurize was very surprised and didn't understand why John had to admit defeat. You must know that John would rather take the risk of serious injury in order not to lose at the beginning, so he had to persevere.

Many competing disciples around did not understand why John did this.

(End of this chapter)