Demon Sword Maiden

Book 5: Chapter 129: Lily’s Preliminary Round (part 4)

Although Lily didn’t exchange her plates even once, it was possible to directly win her opponents’ silver and gold plates in the later parts of the competition, which was why she appeared on the ranking list inadvertently.

On this day, the twelfth day of the preliminary round, the rare sunlight was bright. Lily was walking in the streets of Heian-kyō with a parasol. She planned to go to a ring called Okada Pavilion to take a look. The reason she was using an umbrella in the sun was, of course, to prevent tanning. Although Lily wasn’t afraid of tanning with her current strength, too much sun exposure wasn’t conducive to her seductive intent body training that she was doing every day.

Lily soon arrived at Okada Pavilion, which was a ring built inside a large wooden shed with small flags of various colors on all sides.

Lily came early today and saw a man who only had the strength of a middle-stage sword master. He was the first to go on the ring and it seemed that he wanted to try his luck.

As soon as this person went up, a samurai made a challenge and the two fought a seemingly dull battle. A few minutes later, the samurai was hit with a shallow slash on his arm and admitted defeat.

After watching the process, Lily roughly guessed that the two must have made a prior agreement to cheat the bronze plates and sell them for money.

In that case, such people should be in a group of four. Three people would go up and lose so they could earn 150 kan.

However, this trick was not simple. Just after the first match ended, a tall warrior with some vicissitudes stepped forward to challenge. This person’s strength was also that of a middle-stage sword master, so that group of people did not fight for the right to challenge.

Lily felt that this person seemed to be somewhat familiar.

“Hojo Ujizane?”

His tattered clothes, unshaven beard, and disheveled vagrant appearance made Lily almost unable to recognise him. He turned out to be the Hojo Ujizane who helped her when she first arrived in Kamakura!

Lily silently cheered for Ujizane in her heart.

His true strength was similar to the opponent’s, but most Eastern samurai had experienced the vicissitudes of life and death, which gave them a tempered fortitude and sharp sword intent. After a few rounds of fighting, he managed to knock down his opponent.

“Odawara Yunobo wins!” The judge shouted. This was the pseudonym that the Hojo Clan gave to him. In any case, the Hojo Clan had already perished.

Lily was really happy but also a little worried. It seemed that he was only participating in the competition for the first time today, but he must win three consecutive matches in the ring before he could come down.

“I’ll challenge you!” One of the members of the group was anxious. If Ujizane really won, wouldn’t they have been injured for nothing?

However, although Ujizane was only a middle-stage sword master, he was very brave in battle and wasn’t afraid of death, and he actually managed to win two matches in a row!

There were only four people in that group. Now they had lost and were also injured for nothing. They were really angry, but Lily was secretly applauding. Who told you people to violate the way of the samurai and fake a match to cheat money? For such despicable samurai who only knew how to fight and bully the weak, how could they win when matched with a real samurai?

In one more match, Ujizane would be able to exit the ring with three bronze plates, which could be considered great luck for someone of his strength.

However, at this time, a group of people walked into the pavilion. To be precise, they squeezed through the door one by one because this group of people was extremely tall and fat. They were all sumo wrestlers wearing loose-fitting yukatas. The leader of the group was especially tall, measuring more than three meters in height, like a mountain of flesh that exuded a tyrannical aura!

“Peak Permanence Stage expert!” Lily was shocked. The power disparity in this preliminary round was too unfair. Unexpectedly, a peak Permanence Stage powerhouse and a sword master were going to compete on the same stage.

If this person initiated a battle and attacked Ujizane with the intention to kill, he would die without a doubt.

The group of giant sumo wrestlers arrived and the others moved aside in awe.