Chapter 57: Meeting paths
The hooded man's visit had hurt Heishiro's pride.
A disarmed man had humiliated him, Heishiro Mitsurugi.
Before that, he had only met a person in his whole life who was worthy of his sword: the ninja he used to meet in all his journeys. Edgar had mentioned her the same day their mother told them that their father was dying.
Inexplicably, that woman's path always met with Heishiro's. He supposed it wasn't so strange if they both used to travel round Japan.
However, now Heishiro's journey would take him far away from Japan.
Heishiro was thinking about all this in his last day at the port, because his sick crewman was about to recover.
He was leaving the bar when he saw something that made him believe that he had drunk too much.
It couldn't be.
At the very moment when he was heading to the door, three women came in through it.
Two of them were blond and looked alike. They were probably sisters. However, Heishiro wasn't concerned about them.
The third woman was, indeed, the ninja he always met: Taki.
- You again? – asked Heishiro when he saw her.
Then she noticed him and was equally surprised.
- Mitsurugi...once more in my way, huh? – she answered smiling.
- Maybe it is you who are always in mine.
- Who is he? – asked one of the blond women.
- He is Heishiro Mitsurugi, a mighty samurai. Always in my way. Sometimes we work together, sometimes we have to fight but…he's always there.
- Perhaps it's as fate would have it. – said Heishiro.
- Perhaps. – replied the ninja.
- Well, aren't you going to introduce me to your friends?
- Oh, course. These are Sophitia and Cassandra. They have come from Greece.
- Greece? What reason could force you to make such a long journey?
- The weather was horrible. – joked Cassandra.
- They came to find me, Mitsurugi. – said Taki. – They want me to help them to find...Soul Calibur.
- Soul Calibur?
- That's what I said.
- What a coincidence!
- Are you looking for Soul Calibur too? – asked Sophitia.
- No. I'm looking for Soul Edge.