Legend of the Master by Nakajima Atsushi

Author:Nakajima Atsushi [Atsushi, Nakajima]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

With not a lesson left to absorb from his master, one day, Kisho suddenly had an evil thought.

In those moments alone, he began to consider the reality that any rival he might possess at this point would be none other than Master Hiei himself, and that to become the number one master in the world, he would need to get rid of Hiei at all costs. So, he convened with himself, secretly plotting an attack. One day, he happened upon the master walking alone toward him in the wilderness. Immediately, Kisho decided to act. He pulled an arrow from his quiver and aimed. Hiei, who sensed the presence of another at just that moment, drew an arrow of his own. A volley ensued with each man firing in rapid unison. Each of their arrows connected at the center of the airspace between them and fell remarkably together in pairs. In an act that could only be attributable to their possession of near god-like skills, not a single spec of dirt was disturbed as the arrows hit the ground. Kisho, however, had an advantage. One remaining arrow to Hiei’s none. “I’ve got him,” murmured he, enthusiastically letting that final arrow fly. Hiei instinctively broke off a branch from the wild rose shrub next to him, clasped his hand tightly around the thorn-encrusted end and wielded it, striking the head off the now perilously near arrow. In the end, Kisho realized he would never meet his ambition, and a swell of moral shame suddenly overtook him—one that would have never occurred had he succeeded. Feeling relieved that he escaped danger, and satisfied it was his own skill that saved him, Hiei was able to completely dismiss any hatred for his enemy. The two ran toward each other, met in the middle of the field and embraced. Their tears of affection for one another as teacher and pupil streamed until they could no longer see through their tears. (Now, it is not fair to use today’s moral sense to judge an action such as this. Back then, top chef, Ekiga, roasted and served his own son for his lord, gourmand Duke Huan of the Qi dynasty, who sought a delicacy he had never tasted. And, sixteen-year-old Qin Shi Huangdi, future emperor of the Qin dynasty, the first unified Chinese empire, raped his father’s favorite concubine three times on the same night his father died. Each of these stories are from the same time period).

Despite being consumed by tears and in a tight embrace, Hiei knew it would be dangerous if he allowed his pupil to incubate a similar scheme in the future, so he thought it best to give Kisho a new goal to redirect any latent intent he might possess. Hiei told this dangerous pupil, “I have already passed on everything that should be taught. If you wish to achieve the deepest of mastery, go west. Claw your way up the rugged mountain of Kakuzan until you reach its summit. There, you will find the master named Kanyo that no one, dead or alive, can match.

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