into the night.
Nakato Endo dreamed again of the afternoon that changed his life.
When the knife went into the man's body, he heard his mother screaming and crying.
The mother rushed over, hugged the dying man, and dragged him desperately, trying to keep him away from Endo.
The people in Endo don't understand, why the mother wants to protect this man who beats and scolds her all day long, and often stays out at night.
But he understands one thing, that is, he is very strong, so strong that he can deprive others of their lives at will.
The last teaching left by the master before his death echoed in the ears of Endo Nakato: "A swordsman needs to step over the dead body of the enemy to grow."
Is the fallen man in front of him an enemy? Yes, obviously, every day when this man came back, he took his anger from the company on his mother, beating and yelling at his mother, "I saved your lost bitch and your wild pup".
Ever since Natoto Endo could remember, this man has never changed his swearing words, and it has always been the same.
In the past, Endo Zhongren practiced swords with his master, and he would come back very late. Most of the time when he returned home, this man had already fallen asleep.
However, since the master passed away, Zhongren Endo was kicked out by the uncle who inherited the dojo.
"Your sword is evil, I can't leave you in our dojo," the uncle who has become the chief teacher of the dojo looked at Endou Zhongren coldly, "I also want to take back the vine that my brother gave you." From now on, rattan patterns are not allowed in your code pattern."
After the uncle finished speaking, the senior brother and the second senior brother rushed up and held Endo Zhongren down, and then the always gentle third senior sister took the scissors and cut off a piece of the coat of arms on Endo Zhongren's Taoist uniform—then It is the part of the rattan pattern that the master gave him.
Nakato Endo cried so heartbreakingly at the time, but now that he thinks about it, he no longer feels distressed at all.
He even discarded the remaining part of the Daimon that was once regarded as a treasure.
The current Endo is a homeless wild dog.
Especially after stabbing the knife into that man's heart, he even lost the last place he could stay.
Endo no longer looked at the woman who had become a stranger because of hysteria, and walked out with a bloody knife.
At that time, he lived on the fourth floor of a six-story apartment building, an entire floor occupied by office workers.
Endo Zhongren opened the door, entered the corridor, and walked forward step by step.
To his left were closed doors.
To his right is the night sky of Tokyo, where the stars are blinded by the neon lights.
Endo walked towards the stairwell step by step. He didn't know where he was going, but only remembered the last words of the master.
A swordsman grows by stepping on the corpse of an enemy.
He needs enemies, he needs corpses.
To become an invincible swordsman.
As for why he became an invincible swordsman, of course it was because he had nothing but this now.
He stepped forward step by step, holding a bloody knife in his hand.
Suddenly, the landlord uncle ran up the stairs with a baseball bat in his hand.
The first thing he did when he went upstairs was to yell: "What's going on? Who's yelling? Don't know what time it is?"
Then the landlord uncle saw Endo Nakato holding a sharp knife.
"Endo? What's wrong with you? Put down the knife! Quick!"
The uncle yelled at Endo Nakato.
— is the enemy!
Endo rushed forward, his sword was quick and ruthless.
But because he didn't consider that the knife in his hand was a kitchen knife at home, and it was too short, so the landlord didn't burp immediately, but covered the wound, and ran away while screaming like a pig, leaving a bright red spot.
Endo Zhongren did not pursue.
This person is so badass that he doesn't even have the qualifications to be an enemy.
Endo moved on, went downstairs, and walked along the road in front of the apartment.
All the people who saw him on the road ran away in panic, and no one was worth fighting.
After walking a few blocks, Nakato Endo saw the police cordon.
The flashing police lights illuminated Endo's face, and the loudspeaker issued a piercing sound of persuasion: "You are surrounded! Put down your weapons immediately! Stop resisting!"
Endo stopped.
Even at night, he could clearly see the weapons in the hands of the policemen.
Behind the blocking line formed by police cars, an armored bus just stopped, and the heavily armed members of the Tokyo Special Mobile Squad got out of the bus one after another.
— This is undoubtedly the enemy.
Nakato Endo clenched the knife in his hand.
If he hacked to death everyone present, he would definitely step into a new realm as a swordsman.
Maybe I can touch the hem of Master's cloak a little bit.
Just when Endo was about to burn himself for the last time, that person appeared.
The man was wearing the kind of windbreaker that the criminal police love most in the criminal police drama, walked out from the police cordon holding an umbrella, and came in front of Endo Nakato.
The headlights of the police car and the flashing police lights shone from behind him, outlining his figure, but the lights were too bright, leaving the man's face in relative darkness.
Only the faint red light from the smoke on the man's mouth illuminated the sparse stubble around his mouth.
It was only then that Endo realized that it was raining.
"Isn't this just a child, thirteen years old? Or fourteen years old? To use a gun to deal with such a child, the big man above is too sensitive." The man's voice came through the rain.
After all, he threw the cigarette on the ground, then changed the umbrella in his left hand to his right, and closed the umbrella.
As he folded the umbrella into a stick and tied it, he continued: "I don't know what happened to you, but I can't let you walk on the street like this, this is my job.
"The pork chop rice in our Metropolitan Police Department is delicious. Many children like it. Do you want a piece?"
Endo Nakato rushed directly to the policeman, this time he considered the length of the knife, he would definitely be able to kill him with one blow...
The next moment, Endo's hand holding the knife was hit by an umbrella, and the power was so powerful that he directly knocked the knife out of his hand—
Endo didn't even see clearly how the policeman made a move, his field of vision was filled with the hem of the windbreaker flying up.
In the blink of an eye, the knife fell to the ground and splashed rainwater on the criminal policeman's leather shoes.
Nakato Endo landed on the ground a few steps away.
He wanted to crawl towards his knife, but the sound of dense footsteps immediately surrounded him, and a pair of big hands pressed Endo's face to the ground from behind, his cheeks pressed against the rain-soaked ground.
"Let go of me!" Endo shouted instinctively.
However, this only had the opposite effect, the hands pressing his head became harder, his cheeks and the ground were more tightly attached, and the mouth was deformed and a small crack was broken, and rainwater mixed with mud poured into his mouth.
At this moment, the voice of the man in the windbreaker came into his ears: "Don't be so heavy-handed, you're just a child. Although you've exercised well, you're still just a child."
No, Endo thought, I am the strongest disciple under the master, I should have won!
I didn't win because—
Endo slowed down everything that happened at that moment in his mind.
In terms of skills alone, he should be the better one, but the detective's speed is much, much faster than Endo expected.
This shouldn't be—because in terms of martial arts, young people will always have an advantage over old people. How could a thirteen-year-old child lose to a fifty-year-old criminal policeman in terms of pure speed
At this moment, Endo understood, this is the unity of mind and skill that Master said. This criminal policeman, like his master, has mastered this mysterious and mysterious martial art.
It is the reason why the master did not give him the exemption to pass it on!
"Before you realize the unity of mind and skill, I won't grant you an exemption, Endo! So you have to work harder." Master once said this!
Nakato Endo glared at the detective, he wanted to get the secret of the unity of mind and skill!
As long as we can defeat this detective in the future, we will be able to understand—
Therefore, Endo remembered what the police called this criminal policeman.
—White Bird Detective.
Later, Endo managed to get his full name:
Akira Shiratori
This was the name of the detective who gave Nakato Endo a crushing defeat that night.
It is also the name of the detective Endo wants to defeat.
At this point, Endo suddenly woke up from his dream.
He sat up and said the name silently.
He will return to Tokyo for the national competition.
Then he wants to kill a guy named Kiryu and Ma—maybe this guy also understands what is called the unity of mind and skill. He wants to torture the secrets from the corpses of Kiryu and Ma, and learn the secrets that the master has never told.
Then, he had to stand in front of the criminal policeman and beat him again.
Then, he will become stronger.
The current Endo Zhongren has nothing but his ever-increasing obsession.
But having this obsession is enough, he has nothing else to ask for.