Chapter 991 An Empty Tomb
Kuina is still alive? !
Seymour Village is Shimotsuki Village, the most famous Isshin Dojo in the village. At this moment, all the disciples who were practicing swordsmanship stopped what they were doing.
One after another, there were expressions of disbelief, or like seeing a ghost in broad daylight, so complex that it was hard to describe.
"The master's daughter is alive and has defeated Zoro again. Why do I say again?"
"You remember correctly, Zoro has never defeated Kuina in the dojo"!
"Tell the good news to the master quickly."
Shimotsuki Koshiro, wearing black-framed glasses and a bun, has walked out of the house. He can hardly believe that he will see his grown-up daughter one day.
"Is it really you, Kuina? Or is someone pretending to be you..."
People cannot be resurrected after death. No matter how powerful they were during their lifetime, everything will be wiped out after death. No race can overcome death. This is the law of nature.
Koshiro Shimotsuki clearly remembers that after his daughter's death, her father held a memorial service in the village. Relatives and friends viewed Kuina's body and gave her the final dignified farewell.
Enduring the grief and anger, he dug the earth to build the tomb with his own hands, carried Guina's coffin with his own hands, and buried his daughter with his own hands.
After Kuina's death, Shimotsuki Koshiro aged a dozen years overnight. His only child died, and there was one less thing he missed in the world.
If it weren't for the disciples of the dojo who persuaded him to cheer up, and the villagers of Seymour Shiki Village who encouraged him to get over the pain of losing his daughter, Zoro would have to bear the responsibility of his daughter's will and ideals.
Without the above conditions, Shimotsuki Koshiro might become a complete useless person and bring shame to the Shimotsuki family.
It turned out that his daughter had been dead for many years, and the father had just recovered from the pain. Unexpectedly, Kuina would appear in the future images, which brought back Shimotsuki Koshiro's painful memories.
Kuina and Zoro had a duel with real swords, and in the end the daughter defeated her good student. The daughter opened her heart to her good student, and everything was obviously developing in a good direction.
The woman who could defeat Zoro the next day fell down the steps of her house and died!!! Is this reasonable?
It is normal for an ordinary girl to die from falling from a staircase less than ten meters high, but is Gui Na an ordinary girl?
When Zoro was a child, he could defeat ordinary adults with his dual-sword swordsmanship. However, with such skills and physical strength, he was unable to defeat a girl and endure two thousand defeats alone.
Could it be that the stairs of the Shimotsuki family's dojo are the legendary supreme staircase that could kill a strong person like Kuina without even having a chance to resist? Even if she is fragile and has a thin health bar, she shouldn't be so fragile.
But at that time, Kuina died just like that. As her father, Shimotsuki Koshiro, he doubted the cause of his daughter's death before burying her.
He even spent a lot of money to hire a coroner to examine the real cause of Kuina's death. He didn't believe that his daughter, who had been practicing sword since she was a child, was so weak that she died on the spot just by hitting her head on the stairs.
There was no problem with the results of the autopsy, proving that Kuina died from falling. She was not poisoned and had no additional wounds on her body. She only had slight damage to her head, which caused brain damage. It was too late when it was discovered.
Shimotsuki Koshiro told Zoro the result at that time, and the little boy took several days to digest the news. Kuina's sudden death led to the present Zoro.
It was the death of Kuina, the white moonlight, that made Zoro, after completing his training in the dojo, take the white moonlight's sword and Doichimonji, and go out to sea on an adventure with the white moonlight's belief, striving to become the world's greatest swordsman.
Shimotsuki Koshiro wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and adjusted the black-framed glasses on his nose. Now he had a strange idea in his mind. He wanted to dig up his daughter's grave with his own hands to see if Kuina was in there!
The father's love for his dead daughter has made Shimotsuki Koshiro unable to restrain himself. He now only wants to confirm whether there is a body in the grave, so he picks up the shovel leaning against the wall.
The disciples watched their master walk out of the Isshin Dojo, and the direction he left with a shovel looked very familiar to them. They felt that their good master had made some kind of decision!
"Oh no, the master wants to dig up Guina's tomb!"
"Should we help?"
The disciples who were eager to attend the event dropped their wooden swords and hurriedly followed their master. This strange scene attracted the attention of the residents of Ximozhiji Village.
Guina was resurrected in the sky. The old people in the village still remembered this child. The favor of the Shimotsuki clan had not yet been repaid, so they all picked up their tools and prepared to help Shimotsuki Koshiro dig the soil.
Shimotsuki Kosaburo is now too old to walk. This legendary swordsmith forged the Wado Ichimonji and Enma swords with his own hands, leaving one in Wano Country and the other by his side.
The death of his granddaughter Kuina was also a heavy blow to Shimotsuki Kosaburo. If he had not allowed his granddaughter to touch the Wado Ichimonji, perhaps Kuina could have lived a healthy life as an ordinary person.
After getting married and having children, one should take care of the elders and see them to the end of their lives. There would not be a situation where the old send off the young. Shimotsuki Kosaburo called the servants around him and said that he wanted to go to the grave of his granddaughter to see what the situation was.
The servant pushed a wooden wheelchair and brought Shimotsuki Kozaburo to the grave of his granddaughter. "Son, dig faster. Do you want to make me anxious to death?"
They picked up Gui Na's tombstone and placed it on the open ground. Then they worked together with shovels and began to dig the soil one shovel at a time. After more than a dozen men worked hard and sweated, they finally saw the rotten wooden coffin after a few minutes.
Shimotsuki Kosaburo and a villager opened the lid of the coffin with their own hands. Now no one dared to guarantee what was inside, and they could only use their own eyes to see and witness it.
Many years later, Guina's coffin finally saw the light of day again. The coffin lid was completely opened, and in full view of everyone, there was no corpse inside. Only some burial objects, which were small items used by Guina during her lifetime.
"Where is the body! Who moved my granddaughter's grave?"
Shimotsuki Kosaburo opened his dim old eyes, and his bulging blood vessels could be clearly seen through his wrinkled skin. The almost 100-year-old man was extremely angry, and he felt a betrayal he had never felt before.
Shimotsuki Koshiro's face was solemn. He had no interest in continuing to study an empty coffin. He jumped out of the pit and came to his daughter's tombstone.
"Guina, was that a scam from the beginning?"
Thinking about the years he had been immersed in the grief of his daughter's death, Shimotsuki Koshiro felt very regretful and wondered why he didn't use his brains at the time.
Could it be that Gui Na was not dead at that time, but came back to life when she was buried, and was rescued from the tomb, but did not meet her father? Perhaps this is certain.
Was he complaining about his father burying him alive? It wasn't intentional for Shimotsuki Koshiro to do that. He even left his body in the mourning hall for several days. It was impossible for him to fake his death.
As a father, my mind is very confused now. I don’t know which one is true and which one is false.