I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

After listening to the self-introduction of the owner of the gourd house—that is, Kinoshita Rin, Ogata couldn't help but look up and down Kinoshita Rin several times again with his complicated eyes.

"...Gamiya...why is your lord a woman..."

"Oh? It turns out that the famous executioner Yidao Zhai is the kind of person who discriminates against women and thinks that women are not qualified to wear swords and control others?"

Lin's tone was obviously displeased.

The surrounding atmosphere also became tense instantly after Lin's words.

Realizing that he might have misunderstood Lin, Ogata said quickly:

"No, I'm not discriminating against women. I'm simply surprised that it didn't match expectations."

"I always thought that the owner of the gourd house who could control the four people in the palace was a strong man with five big and three thick..."

"I never said that our protagonist is a man." Mamiya continued in a half-joking tone.

Rin stabbed Ogata with her faintly curious eyes.

"The series of things that Kuro and Mihachi encountered on Butterfly Island, as well as... your matter, I just heard from Kuro and the others."

"What a surprise."

"I didn't expect that there are still people in this world who can comprehend the selfless two-sword style by relying on Uncle's broken cheat book."

Ogata heard Mamiya and the others introduce the relationship between their lord and Genichi Kinoshita.

Kinoshita Genichi is Lin's grandfather's elder brother.

So the uncle Lin mentioned just now is naturally Kinoshita Genichi.

"It's a pity that Uncle is sleeping now, so he can't come to see you, the "apprentice" who has never been masked before, in time."

"One hour ago, when I finished going out to practice and returned to the gourd house, when I learned from Jiulang that I had an additional junior brother, I really had the guts to know that my father had an illegitimate child and that I had a half-brother. Brother's feeling."

Hearing Lin's inexplicable joyful metaphor, Ogata couldn't help but smile.

Ogata didn't expect—Kinoshita Rin exuding a icy aura all over her body,

He even said such inexplicable jokes.

After looking at Ogata several times again, Lin suddenly changed into an extremely serious tone:

"Although from a certain point of view, you can be regarded as my younger brother, but I don't want to recognize you as my younger brother, nor do I want to recognize you as a disciple of our Wuwu Dual Swordsmanship."

Ogata raised his eyebrows.

As for the faces of the four in the palace, their expressions also changed slightly at this time.

"Don't you want to recognize me as your disciple of Wuwo Erdao Style...can you tell me the reason?" Ogata crossed his hands into his sleeves on both sides.

"Because I think you're just a thief who stole our Kinoshita family's swordsmanship—what do you think of that reason?"

Hearing Lin's words, Ogata's face also began to show displeasure.

"Miss Kinoshita, what you said just now is biased?"

"It was your uncle who gave me the secret book of Wuwu Erdao Style to my teacher. I have mastered Wuwo Erjian Style through this cheat book given by your uncle openly-how can I steal it?"

"Besides—whether I count as a disciple of your Wuwu Dual Swords Style, it should not be your decision, but your uncle's decision?"

"You're wrong." Lin still had a frosty face, "I'm the one who has the final say. 2 years ago, Bogong passed on to me, and now I'm the second-generation sect of Wuwo Erdao Style."

"I think you can be regarded as a disciple of our Wuwu Dual Swordsmanship, and you are."

"I don't think you are a disciple of our No-self Two Swords Style, but you are not."

"I think you stole the swordsmanship of our Kinoshita family, you are a thief."

Ogata's face was already full of strong impatience at this time.

"Miss Lin... are you looking for trouble with me?"

"You're overthinking. I'm just stating a fact."

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"In that case—Miss Lin, let me state a fact."

Ogata changed into a mocking tone.

"I, a thief, may be even more accomplished in Wuwu Dual Swords than you, the orthodox direct descendant?"

Since Lin didn't give Ogata a good face, then Ogata stopped being polite, and he didn't give Lin any good looks, and directly mocked her.

Jian Gong and the others kneeling on both sides were already anxious at this moment.

Even a fool can feel that the atmosphere between Ogata and Lin is now tense.

"Senior Asai..." Shimada whispered to Asai beside him, "My lord, what's wrong...why is she so angry...you keep saying very rude things to Master Ogata..."

"How do I know?" Asai replied angrily.

All four of Mamiya racked their brains to think of ways to ease the tense atmosphere between Ogata and Rin.

But before they figured out a way, Lin frowned slightly after receiving Ogata's ridicule.

Then—

"Then let me see your level."

"How do you want to know?"

"There is nothing that can show the level of swordsmanship better than actual combat, right?"

"So that's the case, then——I will let you see it as I wish."

Ogata is not at all interested in such things as "recognized by Lin as a disciple of the Wugo dual swords style" or "recognized by Lin as his junior". These so-called "names" are not worth mentioning in Ogata's eyes.

The reason why he took up the challenge was purely because he wanted to teach this guy who had been inexplicably hostile to him since just now.

Seeing that Ogata agreed, Lin nodded slightly, turned her head to Shimada and said:

"Shimada."

"exist!"

"Go get 3 wooden knives. 2 knives and 1 wakizashi."

"yes!"

...

...

Shimada moved quickly.

After a while, he followed Lin's instructions and came back with three knives.

Ogata waved the wooden wakizashi in his left hand and the wooden sword in his right hand.

After confirming that there were no problems with the weight and center of gravity, Ogata looked at Shimada in front of him who had already set up a mid-section stance.

Ogata thought it was Lin who fought him in person, but it turned out not to be the case.

The sparring partner Lin picked for Ogata was Shimada.

Lin still knelt and sat under the thousand-tenth calabash and horse seal, while Mamiya and the others stood far away, leaving enough space for Ogata and Shimada.

"So you didn't fight me?" Ogata asked Lin, who was kneeling under the horse seal, while playing with the knife in his hand.

"People who can't be defeated by Rokuro in a row are not qualified to let me draw my sword."

"Is that so...then—Shimada, I'm going."

"Come on!" Shimada gripped the already tight knife even tighter.

After clenching the two knives in his hands, Ogata took a deep breath, and then slowly made the opening gesture of "Wuwu Two Swords Style".

At the moment when the "Nugo Two Swords Style" was set up, Ogata also switched his breathing to "the breath of the source".

【Ding! Using "Breath of Source", temporarily increase the reflex nerve by 2 points]

[Current reflex nerve value: 11 points]

Looking at Ogata's chest rising and falling in a familiar rhythm, Lin's gaze was fixed, and she whispered in a volume that only she could hear clearly:

"It's really the breath of the source... and... the level is not low..."

Looking at Shimada in front of him in a standard mid-section posture, Ogata suddenly thought:

——This seems to be the first battle I have fought since I was poisoned by the immortality poison...

The trauma and exhaustion left on Butterfly Island have all recovered.

After recovering from trauma and exhaustion, Ogata finally felt clearly that the increase in physical function brought about by the immortal poison in his body was real.

It is not a temporary increase, it seems to be a permanent increase from the current situation.

His strength, agility, reflexes and other abilities have really been comprehensively improved.

Let's take advantage of this battle with Shimada to test the specific level of the body after gaining the boost - just as this idea came to Ogata's mind, Shimada in front of him gave out a rather imposing aura. Ogata launched an attack.

Looking at the blade of the wooden knife coming towards him, Ogata frowned slightly.

Every attack of Shimada has both momentum and power-it's a pity that every move of his was dodged by Ogata with a step, or blocked directly with a counterattack.

While resolving each of Shimada's moves one by one, Ogata's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

Snapped!

After using Wakizashi with his left hand to hold Shimada's horizontal cut again, Ogata whispered to Shimada:

"Haven't you learned any fencing?"

Shimada's expression now... It's as if the lie he told was exposed by someone.

Pushing away Ogata's knife, and taking a few steps back to widen the distance between him and Ogata, he responded softly:

"...That's right. I'm not a student of any school."

After Shimada swung the sword at him for the first time, Ooman felt a strange feeling.

It wasn't until he flashed past and received Shimada's moves that Ogata finally figured out what was causing the strange feeling—every move Shimada made was a normal horizontal slash or vertical slash, not one of them. A school of sword skills.

In the language of modern Earth, Shimada's situation is that he can only level A, but not use skills.

"You seem to know how to chop horizontally and vertically?" Ogata asked.

"Yeah." Shimada smiled wryly, "After all, I haven't learned any sword skills, so I don't know any sword skills, so I only know the two moves of horizontal chop and vertical chop."

Speaking of this, Shimada paused.

Then he said to Ogata in a firm tone:

"Although I don't know any sword skills, my strength is still very strong, please don't underestimate me."

Shimada seems to have misunderstood that Ogata's two questions just now were mocking him for not knowing swordsmanship.

After hearing Shimada's words, Ogata shook his head:

"I won't underestimate you. It's better to say——I admire you very much."

"It is admirable to be able to achieve such strength without knowing swordsmanship."

Ogata's words were sincere, not flattering Shimada.

Although Shimada only knows how to cut horizontally and vertically, it can be seen that Shimada must have painstakingly honed the two moves he only knows.

Whether it is power, speed, or precision, they are all amazing.

After an ordinary samurai faced Shimada, he really wasn't necessarily an opponent of this samurai who didn't know any sword skills.

When dodging and parrying Shimada's attack just now, Ogata was actually observing Shimada's strength.

And now——Ogata also had a rough assessment of Shimada's strength: he was not yet his opponent, Ogata Itsuki.

After tightening the two wooden knives in his hand, Ogata took the initiative to rush towards Shimada!

Snapped!

Ogata's Wakizashi collided with Shimada's sword.

The two knives separated immediately after they collided heavily in mid-air.

Ogata did not stop his offensive.

After Wakizawa was caught, he immediately swung the sword in his right hand and slashed at Shimada.

Ogata swung his two knives alternately in this way, and launched a continuous onslaught on Shimada.

And Shimada also tensed every nerve in his body, concentrating on defending every slash of Ogata.

Because of being so focused, Shimada even slowed down his breathing involuntarily.

While Shimada was concentrating on defending every slash of Ogata...

"Well……!"

Shimada suddenly let out an exclamation.

Shimada didn't notice because he was totally focused on defending Ogata's slash - Ogata stretched out his foot and hooked his foot abruptly just now.

This move used by Ogata is a move specially used in Shiranuijutsu to destroy the center of gravity of the enemy's body - hook foot.

The reason why Shimada has been launching continuous slashes is to let Shimada focus on defending against his slashes, while ignoring the protection of the lower body.

Because the stability of the bottom plate was destroyed by Ogata, Shimada's posture has a huge flaw due to the instability of the bottom plate.

Ogata, who had been waiting for this opening for a long time, swung his sword and slashed at Shimada's left shoulder without any hesitation.

After all, this was just a discussion, not a life-and-death duel, so Ogata did not aim at Shimada's face, but at his left shoulder.

With his lower body losing stability, Shimada gritted his teeth and waved the knife in his hand, intending to fight hard to see if he could parry Ogata's knife.

And Shimada's last effort is doomed to be useless - because Ogata still holds a wakizashi in his left hand.

Ogata raised Wakizashi in his left hand, and blocked Shimada's wooden sword that was going to block his attack.

The last hope of defense was shattered, and Ogata's sword hit Shimada's left shoulder accurately.

Although Ogata pulled back his strength, no matter how hard he pulled back, if the wooden knife was cut on someone's body, the cut person would not feel any better.

The features on Shimada's face immediately twisted together in pain and he fell to the ground.

【Ding! Defeat the enemy by using Wuwu Two Swords Flow·Flow]

[Gain 80 points of personal experience, 80 points of experience in swordsmanship "Nugo Two Swords Style", 20 points of Shiranui Ninjutsu]

[Current personal level Wuwo two swords level: Shiranui Ninjutsu level: You lose. Ogata pointed the tip of the wooden knife at the nose of Shimada, who was slumped on the ground.

"Master Ogata..." Shimada rubbed his still aching left shoulder, "You are too treacherous... you even stretched out your foot to hook mine..."

"Shengrokuro!" Lin's voice sounded suddenly.

Lin's voice was filled with a touch of dissatisfaction.

"Do not make excuses."

"The reason why you were defeated just now was because your practice was not enough."

"Forgetting to protect your lower body in battle - this is evidence of insufficient practice"

"Give me a good reflection."

"Yes..."\u003c/div\u003e