As soon as the monster serpent, Yamata-no-orochi, found out the eight barrels of rice wine, it approached to the shelf and began to drink them in putting each of its eight heads into each of eight barrels on the shelf. In time, since it got drunk and slept like a log, Susanow-no-mikoto drew the sword, Totuka-no-turugi, and cut off the monster serpent splendidly. By the way, when he cut off one of eight tails with his sword, he noticed that the edge of his sword was nicked by something hard. And it was a precious sword, Kusanagi-no-turugi, that he found in the tail of the monster serpent at that time.
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