A giant golem sculpture smashed through the sheer gauze curtains, revealing a ferocious visage. Its human-yet-ghostly face bore menacing fangs as its massive body hurtled toward Minamoto Wakasei, looking as though it wanted to stoop down and swallow him whole in a single gulp.
With his back to the colossal statue, Minamoto Wakasei swept the blade of the Juzukiri across the middle of the giant solid wood golem with invisible speed. The arc of light cleaved downward from the sky like a bolt of straight lightning; the golem's massive body, along with the banners wrapped around it, was sliced cleanly in half by this flash, the cross section as flat and smooth as if cut by a machine.
The statue split right down the middle and crashed into the ground on either side of Minamoto Wakasei with a thunderous roar. The floor shook violently, and millennia-old cherry wood shattered into splinters that flew in all directions.
Chapter 302