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by Neal Stephenson
About 103 pages (30,808 words)
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Chapter 11 Summary

Hiro turns away from the young hackers gawking at what happened to Da5id. Hiro continues walking, but is stopped by a man wearing a kimono. Hiro acts polite towards the man, but the man sees Hiro's swords and infers that he does not really know what to do with them. Hiro tells the man that he owns swords exactly like these in real life, and that his father won the swords from a Nipponese officer in single combat. The man challenges Hiro, and they draw their swords. Hiro sees that the man has some skill, but it's very orderly, like in fencing, rather than dueling to the death. Hiro slices through the man's legs, causing him to fall to the floor. Hiro cuts the head off of the man's avatar. Somewhere,.....

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