“！！！” Hattori felt like his heart was missing half a beat - perhaps he was so immersed in his thoughts that he had even forgotten that the other party had a powerful weapon like a bow and arrow. Of course, considering that you don't know where the other party is, even if you remember it, I'm afraid there is no way to make an effective defense against this blow.

However, did the other party fail to shoot himself in this situation? Or does the other party think that he can react in time, so he made a prediction, and in the end he did not do any evasive behavior, but instead avoided the amount of advance that the other party had left free?

But now, none of that matters - the other side only carried out one shooting attack during the previous attack on Kurama Temple, and according to Conan, the other side seems to have only prepared one arrow, so the opponent's bow and arrow should not have a chance to be used again in a short period of time.

In other words, the other side no longer has the force to make him scrupulous.

"Smack!" Just when Hattori Heiji looked in the direction where the bow and arrow were fired, the man who was hiding had already taken the initiative to stand up.

Unlike the motorcycle helmet he wore before, the man had changed into a Noh mask that represented the old man, and there was only darkness behind the two narrow eye sockets.

"You're waiting for me here, are you planning to surrender?" Hattori Heiji stared at a wooden knife held in each of the man's two hands, and said in a deep voice. "Or do you think this kind of thing can subdue me?"

The man didn't respond, just threw the wooden knife in his left hand in front of Heiji Hattori, who was a little stunned.

"Huh?" Hattori Heiji glanced at the man, and then at the wooden knife lying in front of him, which seemed to have nothing wrong. "You...... Want to fight me with a knife? ”

The man ......didn't respond, but his hands naturally drooped, and the wooden sword he held in his right hand rested on the ground with some weakness.

"Well, since you ask for it, I will fulfill you." Quickly picked up the wooden knife and assumed a posture in actual combat, Hattori looked warily at the man who seemed to be quite relaxed.

However, at this moment, the man turned around, exposed his back to Heiji Hattori, and immediately walked backwards. Hattori was stunned for a moment, gave up his plan to sneak attack from behind, and just followed the man with a wooden knife to that side.

Eventually, they made their way to the edge of the park, where Hattori Heiji could see the buildings in the distance and a nearby railroad track for the Kyoto subway system.

As for why the other party brought himself to this place...... There is unusually little vegetation here, and if you don't take into account the weeds on the ground, the ground is even good enough to be used as a ring.

"Do you want to fight me here?" Heiji Hattori re-put himself on guard and looked at the man who had turned around to face him again.

The man nodded, but he still only held the wooden knife in his hand, and had no intention of lifting it - which meant that the defense of the side without the wooden knife would be quite sluggish, even so slow that he would have a chance to take it in a close confrontation.

[What is this...... It's all flawed......] Hattori Heiji's brow twitched, but he still dealt with it very seriously and attacked it in a very correct way.

When the two sides were five meters apart, the man still did not raise the wooden knife in his hand - in this case, there was still a maximum of about a second before he was hit, and even if he raised the wooden knife now, it was already difficult to prevent Hattori Heiji's charging attack, but the other party still did not react.

[I don't think I'm going to dodge sideways, right? In that case, it will be a big problem......] Hattori Heiji flashed such an idea for a moment, but immediately rejected it - even the evasion action at this distance is already a little too late, plus his attack action is actually a side split, so it is almost impossible to dodge.

[If you can dodge it, then hide it for me!] With this in mind, Hattori Heiji did his best and slashed the wooden knife in his hand hard.

"Smack!" With the crisp sound of collision, Hattori Heiji looked at the point where the blade was pointing, a little stunned.

The man didn't have any flashy dodges or dizzyingly fast knife drawing moves, but only used his wrist wrapped under the driver's suit to block Hattori's hard blow. And the sound made during this collision also surprised Hattori Heiji. But it was only a surprise, because he immediately realized why this was the case.

I'm afraid this person has something like a steel bracer on his wrist, right? Although the Wooden Knife has a fairly fast swing speed and a decent soft attack effect, it has a very limited damage ability if it hits a piece of steel. As long as the opponent catches the impact with a steel bracer, it is basically impossible for this knife to produce any results.

In any case, the current situation is that Hattori Heiji has swung his sword with all his might, and the other party has not yet started to attack.

[Not good, you need to quickly put away your knife and prepare for defense! ] Hattori Heiji was about to put away his knife to organize defense, but the man had already cocked the wooden knife in his hand with a movement of his wrist, and then stabbed the tip of the knife into Hattori's head in a sword-like manner.

"Uhh Although Hattori Heiji had tried his best to dodge, he was still stabbed in the scalp above his forehead with a wooden knife, and a bright red blood streak immediately bloomed on his forehead.

With screams, Hattori staggered backwards, and after a few steps, he barely managed to stabilize his figure.

Before Hattori could react, the man rushed up with a wooden knife again - this time he didn't wait for Hattori Heiji to hit him like before, but launched a stormy attack with an unusually sharp move.

Weird, tricky, and unfamiliar, this is the deepest impression that the man's wooden knife brought to Hattori Heiji. Although Hattori Heiji could barely block every swing of the man, he also had to admit that the opponent's knife path was extremely unexpected, and almost all of the defensive routines he prepared could not work, so he could only passively follow the opponent's train of thought.

And if that's all it takes, every time you resist the opponent's blade, you have to get closer to your body than the last time...... If it continues like this, I'm afraid—

"Smack!" With a surprise attack that was completely different from the previous attack, the man's wooden knife slashed at the wooden knife held by Hattori Heiji from the bottom up, and the wooden knife in Hattori's hand flew out with a single blow.

"Cut!" Grabbing the wrist that was slapped because of the pain, Hattori Heiji looked at the man in front of him with a grim face.

If you talk about kendo attainments alone (kendo uses wooden swords), maybe the other party will be better than you - you are practicing the right way, and the other party's path is much rarer, which means that you don't know the other party's path, but the other party can predict your own reaction and react with restraint.