I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Osaka, the hotel where Ogata and the others stayed——

With the help of A-Machi, after putting on the kimono, hakama, and haori, and inserting two new knives at the left waist, he turned to A-Machi and A-Zhu and said:

"Then I'll go ahead."

Ogata was used to the feeling of wearing a knife on his left waist. After sending Da Shitian and Da Zizai for repair, Ogata felt extremely uncomfortable, and felt like running naked with his clothes off.

Not only are I not used to it, but I always have a sense of insecurity if I don't wear two knives around my waist.

No one can say something like "emergency".

Maybe during the few days waiting for Da Shitian and Da Zizai to recover, suddenly on a certain day, a lunatic who likes to kill indiscriminately swung a knife at Ogata.

So just to be on the safe side, Ogata bought two new knives from a certain knife shop on the day he sent the saber for repair.

Because it was only intended to be used temporarily, Ogata did not plan to spend a lot of money on expensive knives. The two knives combined cost Ogata 2 taels of gold.

A-Machi, who was kneeling in front of Ogata, nodded and said with a smile:

"Be careful on the road."

Today is the day of the "big test".

Now that he has promised Zhi Zhouhui to attend, Ogata does not intend to break his promise.

The current time is only around 7 o'clock in the morning, and there is still a long time before the start time of the "big test match": 8 o'clock, but Ogata, who does not want to be late for the sake of politeness, has already been helped by A-Machi Put on your clothes and get ready to go.

Feng Mo had already gone out early in the morning, and went to visit his old subordinate, Xian Bingwei, to catch up on the old days.

"Do you two have any plans for this morning?" Ogata asked.

"No plans!" A Zhu said first, "Miss A Ding and I plan to go shopping and walk around places we haven't been to before!"

Ogata nodded: "Then you two can go shopping wherever you want this morning to pass the time."

"I'll go first, and I'll be back after noon today."

After finishing speaking, Ogata waved his hands at A-Machi and the others, and left the room, then left the hotel without stopping, and strode towards the place where the "Great Trial Match" was held this year - the Quanbingkan.

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Osaka, Isshiki Sword Gym, Isshiki Flower's room——

In the clean and tidy room, there is only the sound of combing hair.

Wearing her favorite goose yellow kimono, with a pink sash around her waist, and a pair of cute white tabi socks on her feet, Isshiki is facing the mirror in front of her, combing her hair.

After tidying her waist-length hair, Isshiki began to pull her hair in a slightly jerky way.

She started by combing her hair in what is now the most popular hairstyle: the Shimada bun.

After finishing her hair, Isshiki began to carefully look at herself in the mirror.

He looked at the right half of his face with the Shimada bun, then looked at the left half of his face—finally he pursed his lips, shook his head slightly, and spread out the hair he had just tied.

After loosening her hair, Isshiki wore a new hairstyle: ball bun.

After finishing the new hairstyle, Isshiki repeated the steps just now - after carefully looking at herself in the mirror, she then parted the hair she had just done.

She keeps getting new hairstyles.

Shimada bun, ball bun, Katsuyama bun... She has tried all the hairstyles most commonly used by girls nowadays, but no matter what kind of hairstyle she feels, she is a little dissatisfied.

Eventually, she switched back to her original hairstyle, the now-popular Shimada updo.

After combing her hair, Isshiki opened a small box on the table next to her.

Inside the box are the cosmetics that I borrowed from my mother after learning makeup from my mother the day before yesterday.

As long as Isshika can remember, she has no interest in makeup or anything, and never wears makeup. She has always been without makeup on weekdays.

It was not until the day before yesterday that Isshika came into contact with this skill for the first time after asking her mother for advice.

Although I have worked very hard to learn makeup from my mother in the past 2 days, maybe it is because Isshika's talent in this area is very poor. After 2 full days, Isshika only learned how to apply lip gloss and thrush.

Opening the small shell-shaped box containing lip gloss, and dipping some light red lip gloss with the ring finger and little finger of her right hand, Isshiki followed her mother's teachings and applied her red lips according to her memory.

——It seems that the paint is a bit too colorful... It looks like a wandering girl...

Wipe off, reapply.

——It's a little too light...it's like not painted...

Wipe off again, smear again...

Isshiki wiped her lips repeatedly like this 7 times before she finally got a color that could barely satisfy her.

Wiping off the remaining lip fat on her fingers, Isshiki began to draw her eyebrows.

Compared with the previous hair pulling and lip balm, the thrush went much more smoothly, and the effect Isshika wanted was drawn only once.

Putting down the thrush pen, Isshiki let out a satisfied breath——

"Xiao Hua, are you okay? You've been messing around in the room for nearly half an hour. What are you doing? You're not sleeping in, are you? We're about to leave! If you're sleeping in, get up quickly!"

His father suddenly sounded outside the door: Yishihua's voice startled Yishihua.

Zhizhou is getting old now, so most of the affairs of the sword gym are handed over to Yishihua's father: Yishirushui to take care of it.

The current Rushui is almost the actual owner of the Yise Sword Gym, so he also has to participate in the feast of the "big trial match".

"C-Cause I'm not sleeping late!" Yisehua hurriedly said.

"Since you're not sleeping late, come out quickly! We're leaving!"

After finishing speaking, Yishihua heard the sound of her father's footsteps gradually going away.

After confirming that her father had left, Isshiki turned her gaze back to the mirror in front of her.

Isshiki is usually without makeup, and I am used to it. Looking at myself in the mirror with red lips and eyebrows, I can't help but feel a strange sense of strangeness.

Isshikika's skin is already very fair, the kind that can reflect light under the sun's rays.

Her already very fair skin complemented her red lips with lip balm, making Yishihua at this time exude a completely different beauty from her without makeup.

"Half an hour..."

Yishihua whispered.

"So it's been so long..."

Concentrating on her hair and makeup, she felt that less than a stick of incense had passed.

After confirming that there was nothing wrong with her hair and makeup, Yishihua got up, folded her hands in front of her body, walked out of the room slowly, and walked towards the gate of their Yishijian Gym.

At this time, a lot of people had gathered at the gate of the Yise Sword Gym - Yishihua's grandfather and father, as well as more than ten apprentices who will be brought to participate in the "big test".

Zhizhou and Rushui are now giving lectures to more than a dozen apprentices in front of them, and what they say is nothing more than reminding them to pay attention to politeness later, and not to do anything that will insult their reputation of Yise Sword Gym.

Among these more than ten apprentices, only 3 of them are going to compete with others in the meeting, and the rest are valued by Zhizhou and Rushui. They plan to take them to watch the trial match, see the world, and have a good look at the masters How to wield a sword.

Zhizhou and Rushui's lecture just ended at this time.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a light-yellow figure finally walking slowly towards them, Rushui turned his head away quickly.

After seeing her daughter's current appearance, Ru Shui couldn't help but startled: "Xiao Hua, you...have you put on makeup?"

Her own daughter's make-up appearance - as a father, she saw it for the first time.

"It's just a whim, just painted the lower lips and eyebrows casually." Yishihua said lightly.

The ten or so apprentices who had just finished their training swarmed towards Yisehua.

"Miss Isshiki! Your makeup is so beautiful!"

"Miss Isshiki, this is the first time I've seen you put on makeup?"

"Miss Yishi..."

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Isshika, the granddaughter of the owner of the sword gym, has a beautiful appearance and excellent swordsmanship. She has always had a very high popularity in the Yishi Sword Gym, and is the dream lover of countless apprentices in the gym.

In fact, there are also many apprentices from the Isshiki Sword Academy pursuing Isshika, but so far no suitor has been favored by Isshika.

Facing all the apprentices who came up and praised her, Isshiki only smiled politely, and then said some polite words.

Rushui looked suspiciously at her daughter who suddenly put on makeup.

As for Naoki——he was looking at Isshika not far away with a complicated expression, and his face was thoughtful.

"...Okay, since everyone is here, let's go." Zhi Zhou said softly, "In order not to be late, and... don't make that distinguished guest whom I have managed to invite wait for us for too long."

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In order not to make a farce of "being late without knowing the way", when wandering around Osaka with A-cho and Azuki yesterday, Ogata stopped by the Quanbingkan once and confirmed that Quanbing The location of the museum.

Ogata followed his memory and headed straight for the Quanbingkan, and soon the imposing gate of the Quanbingguan appeared within his field of vision.

The "Great Trial" is only allowed to be watched by relevant people of the Swords Hall.

Since it was not allowed for unrelated people to watch, the All Swords Pavilion did not publicize their feast to the outside world.

Therefore, not many people know that there will be an annual "big test match" in Quanbingkan today.

At this time, there were not many people gathered outside the gate of the Quanbingguan. Only people in twos and threes would stop for a moment, stretch their necks to look into the sword hall, and when they found nothing interesting, they retracted their necks and continued to do what they should do.

Standing at the gate of the Quanbingguan are 4 young men with very good looks.

Ogata thought that these four people were probably responsible for standing at the gate and receiving all visitors, so he walked quickly towards the four people, and then asked them:

"Have the people from One Color Sword Gym come?"

These four youths looked at Ogata with doubts and vigilance.

A young man who looked very honest said directly: "The people of Yishi Sword Gym are still in the future."

"Is that so... Excuse me." Ogata politely bowed to the four people, then walked to the gate of the sword hall, hid in the shade of a tree, and waited for the arrival of Isshiki Naoshu and others .

If you arrived at the Quanbing Hall ahead of schedule on the day of the "Great Trial", please wait outside the hall for a while, and I will take you into the arena when I arrive with my people from the One Color Sword Hall ——This is what Naoshu said to Ogata after he successfully invited him to him before.

According to Naojou, their "big test match" adopted extremely strict rules of entry and exit.

It is allowed to invite VIPs to watch the trial match, but the VIPs must be led into the hall by a sufficient number of people from each sword hall.

They rely on this strict rule to prevent unrelated people from sneaking in.

In other words, Ogata, who is currently alone without Naoshu and the others' leadership, can't enter the museum at all.

Since Zhizhou and the others are not coming yet, Oo conveniently followed Zhizhou's previous instructions and stood quietly by the gate of the pavilion, waiting for Zhizhou and the others to arrive.

——Speaking of which... now seems to be the time when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom...

Ogata raised the edge of the bamboo hat slightly, and looked up at the blue sky above his head.

——It’s been so long since the Edo period... I seem to have never seen a sea of ​​cherry blossoms in full bloom...

It is now mid-April, and Ogata suddenly remembered that it is the time when cherry blossoms are in full bloom all over Japan.

Thinking of cherry blossoms, Xu Fang thought that it had been nearly 2 years since he traveled. Although he had seen cherry blossoms in the past 2 years, he had never seen the kind of endless cherry blossom sea.

Watching all kinds of wonders that have never been seen before - this is Ogata's greatest hobby, and there is no one.

——Let’s see if there is a chance later, let’s take A-machi to see the sea of ​​cherry blossoms together...

"Hey you!"

Just when Ogata was thinking wildly to pass the time, a loud shout from his side interrupted his thoughts.

Ogata followed the sound and looked over - he saw a young samurai with handsome features, but left a young warrior who pulled his appearance to a negative number, striding towards him.

"What are you doing standing here?"

The young samurai then yelled at Ogata roughly.

"If you want to enjoy the cool, give me another place to enjoy the cool!"

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Beiyuan got up before dawn today.

The reason for doing this is nothing else, just to have more time to dress up and dress up.

The hair on the top of the head was shaved smooth, and the hair on the temples was combed neatly, forming a perfect Yuedai head.

The nose hairs in the nose have been carefully cleaned, the boogers have been cleaned out, and the nails of both hands have been trimmed.

Perfect - this is Bei Yuan's only evaluation of his current image.

Since waking up... no, it should be said that since last night, Bei Yuan felt his heart beating wildly, and he was so excited that he couldn't fall asleep.

He can't wait.

I can't wait to show my swordsmanship in front of Isshiki as soon as possible, and the heroic posture of knocking down the enemy with sharp swordsmanship.

He admires Isshika to the point of fanaticism. In order to pursue Isshika, he has carefully investigated Isshika's preferences a long time ago, and strives to make himself a man who Isshika will like.

In order to achieve this goal, Beiyuan established a good relationship with almost all of Isshika's friends, and then asked them one by one for all information related to Isshika.

His hard work was not in vain - last year, he successfully investigated the type Isshiki likes: people with strong swordsmanship.

Yishihua said the same thing when discussing marriage-related issues with many of her friends: I only like people with strong swordsmanship.

Bei Yuan was very excited when he heard this information.

People with strong swordsmanship - isn't that just talking about me? !

He has shown extraordinary talent in swordsmanship since he was a child, and he believes that his swordsmanship level has reached the level of unparalleled among the younger generation in Osaka.

Moreover, he is also handsome, and his family background is also excellent, and he is a good match with Yishihua.

In the whole of Osaka, who else can match Isshiki better than him?

Beiyuan has always been eager to show off his swordsmanship in front of Yishihua.

finally! This opportunity was waiting for him!

This is the "big test match" that is about to start today!

Yisehua has never participated in the "big trial match" before, but for some reason last month, the Yisejian Pavilion released the news last month: Yisehua will definitely come to watch the "big trial match".

For a moment, the admirers of Isshiki, headed by Beiyuan, were all excited and gearing up.

Beiyuan is not the only one who loves Yishihua.

After learning that Yishihua was coming to watch the "big test match", a large number of apprentices began to work hard, trying to win the qualifications to watch or participate in the "big test match".

As for Bei Yuan - after he learned the news that made him ecstatic, he began to train like crazy.

And now, it's finally time to test his hard training... no, it's time to test his long-term efforts to pursue Isshika.

Beiyuan couldn't remember how many times he had come to the gate of the pavilion to check if anyone had come to the Yise Sword Pavilion.

He hoped that he would personally lead the people from Yise Sword Gym in. In this way, it is convenient for him to get close to Yishi Zhizhou and others.

"Have the people from Yise Sword Gym come?" As soon as he arrived at the gate of the gym, Bei Yuan asked the four juniors who were in charge of receiving visitors at the gate.

"Senior brother Beiyuan, not yet." The four juniors hurriedly said respectfully.

"Not yet..." Bei Yuan, with a flash of disappointment in his eyes, was about to return to the museum.

But at this moment - out of the corner of his eye, there was a familiar figure standing by the door of the museum.

"Huh?" Beiyuan frowned, and looked at the warrior wearing a hat and face scarf standing by the gate of the pavilion.

——This guy...Why does he look familiar...Why is this person standing next to the gate of our sword hall?

After thinking for a while, Beiyuan suddenly remembered who this person was.

——Isn’t this the same person who performed knife-drawing skills on the street a few days ago to sell tooth powder?

After recalling who this person was, Bei Yuan immediately looked at the warrior with a naked contempt in his eyes.

What he despises the most is this kind of juggler who uses sword skills to attract attention.

It is because there are too many such people that the reputation of the samurai is ruined and the level of swordsmanship is lowered.

Beiyuan admitted that this person's sword drawing skills are so good, but that's all. Beiyuan can also do the movements that this person was chopping wood at that time, and he can do it better than him.

This kind of clown who uses swordsmanship as a tool for sensationalism is only suitable for continuing to sell tooth powder on the street, and is not qualified to stand by the gate of the Quanbing Pavilion.

With contempt for this warrior with a bamboo hat, Bei Yuan strode towards him and shouted:

"Hey, you! Why are you standing here? If you want to enjoy the shade, go to another place to enjoy the shade!"

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Ogata glanced at his familiar face, but couldn't remember where he had seen Bei Yuan before, and said softly:

"I'm not enjoying the cool, I'm waiting for someone."

"If you are waiting for someone, please stand a little farther away and wait for someone." Bei Yuan continued to say in a strong tone, "You will cause us trouble if you stand here."

"I'm not an idler." After realizing that this person might treat him as a cat or a dog that had nothing to do with the "big test", Ogata explained, "I was invited by Isshiki Naoshu from the Isshiki Sword Gym to meet with Isshiki Everyone in the sword hall came to watch the 'big trial match' together."

"The person I'm waiting for now is Mr. Isshiki..."

Before Ogata finished speaking, Kitahara opened his mouth in an exaggerated manner, and said in a naked mocking tone:

"You? Invited by Mr. Isshiki? You, a person who sells tooth powder by juggling on the street, can tell lies at a level, okay?"

"If a well-known person like Mr. Isshiki wants to invite others to watch the 'Great Trial Match', he will definitely only invite some outstanding people. How could he invite someone like you?"

"You don't even look at your age. Is it possible that a person of your age will be invited by Mr. Isshiki?"

—Tooth powder?

The fog that shrouded Ogata's mind suddenly dissipated.

He finally remembered who this person was.

Isn't this person the same samurai who was standing next to Miura who came to talk to Machi a few days ago?

"I didn't lie." Ogata's tone was a little impatient, "After Mr. Isshiki and the others come, the misunderstanding will be cleared up."

"That's enough, stop talking nonsense." No matter what, Beiyuan couldn't believe that a young person who sold tooth powder on the street a few days ago could receive an invitation from Mr. Isshiki, "Please leave quickly. If possible, I I don't want to do anything rude to you."

As soon as Kitahara's words fell, the four apprentices in charge of receiving visitors who also doubted Ogata's identity surrounded him very well at this moment, and looked at Ogata with vigilant eyes while helping their senior brothers.

Kitahara's arrogant attitude already made Ogata frown.

"I say it one last time—please leave."

The last syllable of Beiyuan's "Please leave" fell, and a shout with a bit of panic and panic exploded from the intersection not far from them:

"Beiyuan! Who do you want to leave!"

Bei Yuan's complexion suddenly changed after this explosive drink.

The person who uttered the shout was Isshiki Naoki with a slightly pale face who was leading the people in the Isshiki Sword Gym towards this direction.

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Naoki now feels that the clothes on his back are wet - wet with cold sweat.

In order not to keep Ogata, who might arrive early, waiting for a long time, Naoshu specially led people to set off early.

Ogata's conjecture about the reason why Naoki invited him to watch the "big test match" is actually completely correct-the reason why Naoki invited Ogata was actually to build a good relationship with Ogata, so as to achieve the "curve fall" "the goal of.

Naoki has already realized that it is useless to keep inviting Ogata to join their "great cause of collapse".

In this case, let's change the method: first establish a good relationship with Ogata, and after the relationship with Ogata becomes close, then invite him to come and sacrifice for the end of the curtain.

In short—whether or not Ogata will agree to end the curtain together in the end, it is not a loss to have a good relationship with Ogata.

Naoki has made up his mind: No matter what, he must get closer to Ogata in today's "big test match".

However... the smug Naoki saw the scene that made him break out in cold sweat as soon as he saw the gate of Quanbingkan——Bei Yuan, whom he knew, was joining forces with four young men who were probably also apprentices of Quanbingguan, and surrounded him. In front of Ogata.

At the same time, I happened to hear Bei Yuan's words: I'll say it one last time, please leave!

Under the impact of various emotions, Zhizhou's brain shut down for a moment.

He felt angry at first—he begged Ogata with the attitude of wanting to kneel on the ground and begged Ogata to come and watch the "big test match", and finally invited Ogata, but Kitahara left there?

After anger, comes fear.

He was afraid that Ogata would leave in anger and let his previous efforts go to waste.

At the same time... I am also afraid that Kitahara, who is so rude to Ogata, will be counterattacked by Ogata...

Isshiki, who was walking behind Naosuke at this time, now also stares into a pair of beautiful eyes, with astonishment and a little... angrily looking at Kitahara who is loudly yelling for Ogata to leave.

Almost without thinking too much, Zhizhou blurted out:

"Beiyuan! Who do you want to leave!"

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"Mr. Isshiki...?" Kitahara looked shocked at Naosuke Isshiki who had strode up to them.

Zhizhou ignored Beiyuan, but first asked Ogata in a panic:

"Mr. Mashima, Kitahara and the others didn't do anything to you, did they?"

What Naoshu used to Ogata was the highest level of honorific.

Beiyuan had never seen Zhizhou treat anyone so respectfully, and now it was his turn to lose his mind.

"...It's okay." After all, it wasn't such a big deal, and in order not to make it difficult for Naosuke, Ogata decided to make the big and small things smaller, "It's just a little misunderstanding."

Ogata briefly introduced what happened just now.

Seeing that the matter was not serious, and Ogata didn't seem to be very angry, Naoshu heaved a sigh of relief.

"Bei Yuan, this person is a distinguished guest of our Yishi Sword Gym! How could you be so rude to him just now!"

Although Ogata didn't seem very angry, Kitahara was so rude to Ogata just now, no matter what, he couldn't let it go like this, and those who should apologize should still apologize.

Bei Yuan was completely dumbfounded now.

He stared blankly at Ogata, then at Isshiki Naoki.

Finally——looked at Isshiki again.

Isshiki is now looking at him as usual with eyes that seem to have no emotion - but in the depths of Isshiki's dark pupils, Kitahara still senses a bit of resentment and displeasure.

Kitahara, who realized that he had caused trouble, quickly bowed 90 degrees to Ogata in order to save his image in the eyes of Isshika and the others:

"I'm very sorry! I was rude just now! Please forgive me!"

At this time, Beiyuan no longer had the arrogant attitude just now.

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Ask for a monthly pass! Begging for a monthly ticket while crying with a headache! (Leopard Head Crying.jpg)

I saw that some book friends guessed it, yes! Isshiki's character prototype is the talented female swordsman at the end of the Edo period: Chiba Sanako!

In my favorite Japanese drama: "Ryoma Biography", my favorite character is this "little Chiba beauty", because Sanako in the drama often wears a light yellow kimono, so this Yishihua in the book always wears light yellow clothes.