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Chapter 613

Day 127 – Forenoon, Dungeon, 38F

Melodic Rhythm, shatter the enemy’s melodic rhythm, overwrite it with a blasting rhythm of your own, and stomp out the beat to force the flow of battle. Not just shukuchi, but the combined use of footwork and body movement to turn not only distance but timing itself into rhythm.

Crouching low, I shukuchi beneath the sweep of a blade, stepping in as I rise, cutting upward in a reverse diagonal slash. One beat. Kyojitsu’s beatless form has no tell, no charge to read, just a godspeed instant strike. Shukuchi isn’t about erasing the charge, it’s about using it.

Stop and explode, stillness and motion, blurring afterimages into illusions, scattering feints however I please, disrupting with the enemy’s most hated rhythms, stamping them down. Footwork and body control are what I lack, but shukuchi lets me glide forward, vanish away, weaving in a one-sided waltz of chaotic