Chihiro’s Sharingan-like Vision READS Hiruhiko’s Unreadable Swordsmanship! Kagurabachi Chapter 68 Spoilers!!

In the previous Kagurabachi chapter, Hiruhiko slays the hotel manager Yojiro and sends out dozens of gangsters to force Chihiro and Iori out, allowing him to get Chihiro for himself.

Kagurabachi Chapter 68 is titled, “Transformation”

This chapter has 19 pages.

Editor’s note: “The Hishaku, Hiruhiko arrives..”

“Volume 6 releasing on March 4th!!! The Cover is to be released very soon..! Stay tuned!” 

The chapter continues where we left off when Chihiro reunites with Hiruhiko on the elevator.

Chihiro has now confirmed that the gangsters that were bribed to kill Chihiro and Iori were sent by Hiruhiko.

Hiruhiko would explain how he had the information on the gangs by “wracking up the info from Yojiro’s cranium”, which is also another way for him to brag about how he cut Yojiro’s head as well.

Hiruhiko tells Chihiro that moe of the guests will come up and also looks at Hiruhiko, thanking her for being born as Samura’s weakpoint.

After Hiruhiko says this, Hiruhiko slashes Yojiro’s decapitated head in half but Chihiro blocks the sword.

Seeing the severed head cut in half, Iori cries in panic.

Oh boy, more trauma for this already distressed girl.

Hiruhiko says that Chihiro is a problem as it makes the Hishaku clean up after Samura, who is on his way to kill all the Blade Wielders.

The Hishaku intend to kidnap Iori while Samura himself does not know Iori is his daughter.

Recalling Iori’s desire for a normal life, Chihiro tells Hiruhiko that Iori has nothing to do with the Masumi (with murderers like Chihiro and Samura) and so he cuts off the elevator wires and makes them drop from the 25th floor all the way down while Iori watches.

However, Iori is surrounded by goons, making her press the elevator button and out of the elevator comes Rou, who calls her inside.

We then see Rou leave the elevator and the door closes. The door opens again and we see everyone dead.

Rejoining Iori, the two head for the elevator as it goes up to the roof now that the ritual preparations are ready.

Iori asks how the sealing will be done and wonders if she will even return to life considering that her teacher was killed by Kuguri earlier, in Chapter 62: “Iori” but Rou assures her that all of today’s events will be hazy.

Iori blames herself for everything but Rou scolds her, saying that she is wrong and that the Hishaku must be punished and if anyone is to blame, it is the Masumi.

Rou admits that because they are shinobi, they were never taught the idea of emotion and so underestimated how strong the bond between father and daughter would be, hence why the seal Rou placed was incomplete.

However, now that Rou has talked to both Iori and Chihiro and understood their circumstances, he is confident that he can seal Iori’s memories, down to the root of consciousness, therefore a more binding and permanent seal that Iori will never worry about breaking.

What is missing in the ritual is a key, which Rou explains is something within a lantern that powers the sorcery barriers in the hotel that turn off sorcery.

With the key, the seal will be large-scale.

Rou also reveals that he had an agreement with the now-deceased hotel manager Yojiro to borrow the power of the key but with Yojiro dead on the lobby and Chihiro heading for the ground floor, that means Chihiro might be able to retrieve the key.

Meanwhile inside the elevator, Chihiro and Hiruhiko clash and they fall to the first floor, resulting in the elevator door being destroyed.

Exiting the elevator by himself, Chihiro notes that each slash from Hiruhiko contains genryoku embedded yet it feels like he is barely using his sword.

This shows that although there is a sorcery barrier, people can still use genryoku.

A hotel employee, the one from the previous chapter, passes the lantern key to Chihiro as he has a flashback of witnessing Yojiro losing his left arm after he (and the employee) underestimated Hiruhiko’s unpolished sword style.

Scoffing Hiruhiko’s label of “student of freedom”, the employee recalls Yojiro’s teachings, having honed his swordsmanship for 7 years and yet he was not able to take on Yojiro himself

Yojiro once told him that there is no such thing as a genius in the world of swordsmanship and the most important thing is not speed in training but the accumulated rewards from steady effort.

In the end, this mindset, similar to Kuguri, got Yojiro killed as the employee realized that no one, not even Yojiro, could see through Hiruhiko’s swordsmanship.

After the flashback ends, Hiruhiko emerges from the destroyed elevator and rushes towards Chihiro.

The narrator explains the concept of “invisible swordsmanship” and mentions how Chihiro’s watchful eyes, which were inherited from Kunishige as mentioned in Chapter 65: “Mimicry”, saw the facade behind Hiruhiko’s “freestyle” “invisible” swordsmanship. Right hand, left hand. An overhand grip, or the underhand grip. This free-switching back and forth in the heat of the moment causes the average receiver to completely lose sight of the enemy’s sword. 

In an amazing double-page, Chihiro dodges the sword and Chihiro prepares the iai slash, with the kanji for “kill” in white on him, which results in Chihiro reaching Hiruhiko, though the Hishaku protects himself with genryoku while Hiruhiko’s own strike was stopped by Chihiro’s sheathe.

Hiruhiko is surprised that Chihiro managed to counter but also how close Chihiro was to killing him, on top of delivering an even faster strike than him.

Hiruhiko is delighted in Chihiro’s bloodlust.

Chihiro is still discontent with his use of the White-Purity style, saying he can still go faster.

He recalls how Samura is closing in on the other Blade Wielders, which pushes Chihiro to speedrun his growth as a swordsman.

So Chihiro resolves to kill Hiruhiko and deliver the key to the Masumi on the top floor.

Meanwhile, Rou asks Iori if she has made her decision.

Iori thinks about it carefully, that if she returns to school, Samura Seiichi’s daughter ceases to exist, yet she refuses for that truth to disappear, also recalling that Samura has forgotten her too.

Since Samura is busy and has not thought of her, Iori realizes how lonely she actually felt without her father as she will always have that gaping hole in her heart even if she does return to her normal, peaceful life.

Now Iori makes a decision.

Will she return to a lie and life without Samura or to reject the sealing?

Editor’s note: “The young girl, has decided..!”

Author’s comment: “Just a little while ago, I bought myself a Batman, Batcycle AND a Bat-bot Figure”)”

Kagurabachi Chapter 69 will be released on February 24, 2025.

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