Samurai Hearts – Tutorial (11)
Just as Do-hyun had used the brief chaos with the ninja to snatch up a sword,his enemies had not wasted their time either.
They grabbed the fallen Sword Star Kato from the ground and swiftly carried him back.
Do-hyun's attack—biting down on the sword shard and stabbing forward—had pierced not Kato's heart, but his lung.
He hadn't been killed outright.
Which meant his allies would desperately try to save him.
And Do-hyun could not allow that.
Because the only reason he had fought so viciously up until nowwas to kill the Sword Star who had killed his sister.
If my right hand won't work, then I'll use my left.
A reckless, stubborn thought.
But in truth, he had no other option.
With his left hand, Do-hyun lifted Sword Star Kato's sword and pointed it toward the ninja.
Blood dripped from the torn corners of his mouth.His right arm dangled lifelessly from poison.Yet his eyes still burned a bright, ghostly blue.
He looked utterly tragic.
If Samurai Hearts was meant to be a brutal tale of revenge,no character embodied it more perfectly in this moment.
"Kill him! Kill that man!"
The retainer who had dragged back the Sword Star shouted.
The ninja, having barely recovered their stance, seized their blades again and hurled themselves at Do-hyun.
Not only them—the soldiers who'd formed the surrounding barricade now charged as well.
All for one purpose:
To bring him down.
The developers had designed many fail-safes to ensure the player would eventually lose here.
They had never expected anyone to get this far.
Who could possibly defeat Sword Star Kato in his prime,then survive an ambush by ninja immediately afterward?
Only Do-hyun could produce such a scene.
"Fuuuu—"
Biting into his lip, Do-hyun steadied his breathing.
Sword Star Kato was gone from the fight.
Ninja or not, they were ultimately just mobs.Not bosses.
Which meant none of them could withstand his parries.
If that was the case—
Then the possibility of survival existed.
The sword in his hand trembled—not from weakness,but because it was poised to strike in any direction at any moment.
"—!"
The ninja were first to attack.
Five shadows surged toward him in silence,their movements precise and synchronized,filling his front, back, sides—even beneath him.
This was why ninja were terrifying.
Perfect coordinated assault.
The standard tactic in Samurai Hearts was to fight ninja one at a time.When three or more gathered, the recommended strategy was simple: run.
Their group assaults were so perfectthat even master swordsmen often died instantly.
But Do-hyun had no way to escape.
He was already surrounded.Retreat was impossible.
So he chose another method:
Break through all of them head-on.
And he did exactly that.
Just as he had ever since he first started Samurai Hearts.
"Hyup!"
CRUNCH!
With a heavy stomp, he shattered the arm of the ninja striking from below."One."
Almost at the same instant, he swung the sword behind him,knocking aside the ninja blade aimed at his back."Two."
Using the momentum of his stomp, he spun his body in a wide arc,carving a slash from right to left through three more ninja."Three, four, five."
"Guh!" "Kraugh!" "Kuugh!"
The five ninja were scattered across the ground in an instant.
Do-hyun gave them no chance to recover.
He stepped forward again—this time cutting from left to right, killing three more ninja outright.
He couldn't reach the two ninja who had fallen from earlier strikes,but reducing their numbers took priority.
A spray of blood burst like a fountain from the one he cleaved cleanly in half.
Even after cutting down the five-man assault—
Do-hyun had zero time to rest.
"Kill him!"
"Thrust your spears!"
Soldiers had arrived at close range,their spears lunging toward him.
No pause.No breath.Every attack chained to the next.
Facing dozens of spearpoints aimed at him—
Do-hyun gritted his teeth.
"Come…!"
The situation was hopeless—yet he did not yield.
He broke, deflected, stepped, parried, sliced, kicked, tore, struck, pulled, dragged—and cut again.
"Kill!"
"Kill that man!"
Surrounded by endless enemies, Do-hyun cut them down relentlessly.
Dozens became hundreds.
And he was alone.
Of course, killing that many enemies without injury was impossible.
His right arm was torn open by a spear—the poisoned limb unable to react in time.
In exchange, he ripped open the chests of three soldiers.
His left shoulder armor was shredded by countless thrustsuntil it finally snapped off entirely.
His exposed arm was cut repeatedly,blood running freely down to his hand.
In exchange, Do-hyun severed the necks of five more soldiers.
A ninja blade penetrated the armor on his left thigh—
Poison spreading instantly,rendering his left leg almost useless.
In exchange, he pierced the hearts of four enemies.
"A monster… he's a monster!"
"How can he be this strong?!"
Do-hyun did not stop.
When stabbed by a spear, he stabbed back.When cut by a spear, he cut deeper.
At some point, he was barely conscious—fighting like a berserk beast.
If fighting Sword Star Kato had required ultimate focus,then this was pure instinct—nothing but the primal urge to survive.
Even in the chaos of a thousand blades,his talent shone like a blazing star.
Enemy positions, angles of attack—his mind drew the perfect movement automatically,and his body followed.
From within the carnage,a single flow emerged.
Do-hyun's sword danced along that flow—effortless and beautiful in its brutality.
He didn't know how long he fought like that.
Dozens of enemies fell.
And suddenly—
the battlefield grew quiet.
"Hh… haaah… hhah…"
Amidst a carpet of corpses—
Do-hyun stood, barely upright,leaning on his sword,gasping for breath.
The surviving enemies could no longer charge him.
They trembled, recoiling in fear.
Of course, they weren't truly feeling fear.
It was a programmed reaction.
The developers had included a special condition—one they themselves considered impossible to trigger,added almost as a joke:
"Defeat 20 enemies in a single location."
A hidden challenge within Samurai Hearts.
Do-hyun had achieved it.
Hidden Challenge Achieved: [The Samurai of Twenty Kills]!
"A hidden challenge? Condition… kill twenty enemies in one place? Is that even possible?Ah. It IS possible. My brother just did it.So that means to get this challenge, you have to do… that."
I'm not doing that! No— I can't do that!
You expect US to do that?? If that were possible, we'd all be streamers already;
translation, pls :(
Wow, even foreigners are watching now;;;
"Foreigners? The only English I know is 'Hi, my name is Victoria! How are you? I'm fine, thank you!' That's literally it!Huh? What? Why is the viewer count like this? It wasn't this high earlier—"
T***y operator joined the stream
★Kai : WOW! he is real Samurai! he looks like a million dollars!
Holy— it really IS an admin. But what is he even saying? I don't understand English, makes me nauseous
"He looks like a million dollars?" What does that mean?
It means he looks insanely cool. Like ridiculously stylish.
That, I agree with 100%
"I'm really going to die now."
He had killed dozens of enemies—but in exchange, Do-hyun's body was battered and exhausted.
He was only standing because he leaned on his sword like a crutch.
The leg not paralyzed by poison shook violently, ready to collapse at any moment.
And the worst part—
In fighting so many enemies, he'd completely lost sight of his original target, Sword Star Kato.
He had been so busy cutting down those who charged himthat he didn't even notice when Kato disappeared.
Realizing too late that he no longer knew where the Sword Star had gone,Do-hyun scowled faintly.
Sword Star, my ass…
Defeated by someone swinging a sword for the first time in his life—what "Sword Star" was that?
It was almost laughable.
"He's exhausted and wounded! He can be killed! Don't fear him—CHARGE!"
The retainer who had been shouting commands yelled again.
He was urging his soldiers forward,but his voice was thick with terror.
Naturally so.
Do-hyun had defeated the Sword Star, shattered the ninja assault,and stood alone against hundreds of soldiers.
To them, he was nothing short of a monster.
"U-Uwaaaaaa!"
"Kill him! We can do it!"
But soldiers exist to obey orders.
Forcing down their fear, they rushed toward him.
Do-hyun met their gazes head-on.
That was all he could do now—his final act of resistance.
Only his eyes still lit with that cold, blue ghost-fire.
Puk! Pupuk! Pupupuk!
The soldiers closed in and thrust their spears—
and more than a dozen spearpoints pierced Do-hyun's body at once.
"Guh… khaaak!"
He had been stabbed many times before—but never this many, all at the same time.
His body trembled as ten-plus points of steel punched through him,and blood burst violently from his lips.
He couldn't even fall.
Their spears, stabbing from every direction,were the only things physically holding him upright.
So all he could do was stand there—and glare at the enemy.
And the system judged that as defeat.
The predetermined sequence was triggered.
"Truly… a terrifying man."
But the roles had shifted dramatically.
The man standing behind the Sword Star—the retainer—now took over the lines originally meant for Kato.
Reciting the Sword Star's dialogue, he continued:
"Yet in the end, he too perished.Atsuragi Tatsuki. Have you any last words?"
"I have nothing to say to faithless cowards.However…"
Tatsuki turned to Do-hyun.
A warrior who did not fall even in death.
The one who slew the former Sword Star—a true Sword Star in his own right,and the greatest under heaven who had briefly walked this land.
And the man who had served as his warrior.
"For my warrior, the Black Wolf… I shall leave a single verse."
Heaven-high above,what does the world look like below?
Only a lone magnoliablooms faintly in the distance.
Tatsuki recited the poem in a calm voice,then gave a faint, sorrowful smile.
It was the smile of a man who had accepted his doomed fate.
"Sever my head."
The retainer of the Nagamatsu clan spoke sternly.
Through Do-hyun's dimming vision,he saw Tatsuki's lips move.
"Remember this, Black Wolf.If you should awaken once more…"
Tatsuki's words faded—
as pale pink cherry blossom petals swirled through the air.
And through the storm of petals,everything dissolved.
The enemies.The corpses.Tatsuki himself.
The tutorial chapter had come to an end.
"Hey—what about ME? I was there too! You brat! Are you ignoring me just because I got one-shotted?!"
LMAOOOO that line clearly wasn't meant for 2-player mode
It registered ONLY Black Wolf as present lol
They literally treated her like she didn't exist hahahahahaha