Chapter 280 The Thousand Academy of Six Swords Museums
Ogata and Amachi were walking side by side along the street, looking for the next pharmacy, when they suddenly noticed a lot of people gathered on the street not far ahead.
With curiosity aroused in their hearts, the two slowly walked towards the crowd in front.
After arriving at the outermost edge of the crowd, Ogata and Atachi saw clearly that these people were gathered outside the gate of a magnificent mansion.
The door of this magnificent mansion was closed, and two men dressed as samurai were guarding the door.
There is a plaque hanging next to the gate with three large Chinese characters written on it.
"Qianxuekan...?"
Ogata read out the three Chinese characters written on the plaque one by one.
"It seems to be a sword hall." Atachi echoed from the side.
Standing in front of Ogata and Atachi, a young man also dressed as a samurai heard what Ogata and Atachi said, turned his head, and looked at Ogata and Atachi with surprised eyes.
"You two, don't you know the Senxakukan in Kyoto?"
"We are foreigners," Amachi said, "and we don't know much about Kyoto."
Seeing that Ogata and Atachi were not natives of Kyoto, the doubt on the young man's face gradually dissipated.
"So you're a foreigner... No wonder you have to know about Senxuekan. You two, do you need me to introduce you to Senxuekan, which is famous in Kyoto?"
Atachi turned his head and asked Ogata with his eyes: "Are you interested in hearing it?"
Ogata nodded after thinking for a while.
"There are countless sword halls in the huge Kyoto," the young man said, "but there are six sword halls in total that are the most powerful."
"We Kyoto people collectively call these six sword halls the 'Six Great Sword Halls'."
"The six major sword halls are - 'Qiang Gakukan' which teaches the Mito Ittō-ryu, 'Nerimakan' which teaches the Katori Shinto-ryu, 'Metaphysics Hall' which teaches the Nakajo-ryu, and 'White Tiger' which teaches the Ono Ittō-ryu
The 'Seigakukan' where professors are taught without leaking out, and the 'Sengakukan' where professors are taught Zhongjuanliu."
The young man spit out a lot of unfamiliar names in one breath.
Although some people were listening carefully, Ogata still didn't remember any of the things about this museum or that museum that the young man mentioned...
Although he did not remember the names of these six major sword halls, Ogata understood one thing - these six major sword halls were all famous and powerful in Kyoto.
"Then what are these people gathering in front of the Qianxueguan?"
"Today is the day Qianxueguan is open!"
The young man replied.
"The current owner of Sengakukan, Mizuno Shinyong, will show the bells of their Sengakukan to outsiders today."
"Everyone came here to watch it, so they gathered here."
Having said this, the young man raised his head and glanced at the sky.
"It should be time to open the museum in a little while."
As soon as the young man finished speaking, the two young samurai who were guarding the gate of Qianxuekan and should be disciples of Qianxuekan shouted in unison:
"It's time! Everyone line up! Don't crowd!"
As soon as these two people said this, everyone gathered in front of the museum - including the young man who had been explaining to Ogata and A-Machi just now - immediately showed excitement.
"...Ah Yi." Ah Ding asked, "Are you interested in seeing what Zhongjuan Liu is like?"
"Zhongjuanliu... I have never seen Zhongjuanliu...ah, maybe I have seen him somewhere but he was killed by me."
Ogata, who was very interested in Zhongmaki Ryu and the six great swordsmanship halls that the young man said were famous in Kyoto just now, nodded to Amachi and slowly walked towards the Sengakukan with the flow of people...
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When Ogata and Atachi followed the flow of people into Sengakukan——
Somewhere in an inconspicuous corner of Qianxueguan.
"Do you understand the steps?"
A samurai with a neatly shaved Tsukiyo head and a somewhat fat figure said this to a samurai in front of him who had long hair and was dirty and looked like a ronin.
After the fat warrior finished speaking, the ronin immediately nodded hurriedly:
"I understand, I understand!" Ronin's face was filled with a flattering smile, "Aren't you just pretending to lose on purpose? Who wouldn't?"
"Then tell me the process." The fat warrior ordered.
"After Mizuno Shinyong-sama defeated the first person, I deliberately pretended to be disdainful and sneered."
"After I sneer, Mizuno Shinyong-sama will ask me to play by name."
"After I came on stage, I deliberately pretended to be defeated by Mizuno Shinyong-sama, and was defeated by Mizuno Shinyong-sama in one fell swoop."
Seeing that the ronin in front of him, whom he randomly found yesterday, had indeed memorized the process clearly, the fat warrior smiled with satisfaction.
"Very good, remember this process! When everything is done, you will be rewarded! Okay, follow me into the library!"
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Ogata and Atachi sat down on the edge of the dojo along with the surrounding spectators who came here to watch Mizuno Shinyong's heroic appearance.
——Dojo...
The air was filled with the not-so-pleasant smell unique to the dojo.
An ordinary person would definitely not like the smell in the dojo.
But Ogata didn't hate it.
Because after smelling this smell, a faint feeling of nostalgia will arise in Ogata's heart.
While looking around at the layout of Sengakukan Dojo, Ogata muttered in a low voice:
"I really miss it..."
Although Ogata's murmuring voice was low, it was still clearly heard by Amachi.
"Ayi, are you missing the dojo where you used to practice swordsmanship?"
"Well... I have... not set foot on any dojo for nearly a year." Ogata nodded lightly, "Time flies so fast... About a year ago, the Sakakihara Kenkan was still there.
, everyone... is still here..."
Speaking of this, Ogata felt as if his throat was slowly blocked by something.
Atachi also saw that Ogata's mood was falling rapidly at this time, so he also shut his mouth and stopped talking about this topic.
At this moment - there was a lot of movement in the dojo ahead.
Ogata and Atachi raised their eyes and looked forward.
I saw a young man in his prime, about 30 to 35 years old, walking through a small door and slowly walking onto the dojo, surrounded by a large group of young people wearing uniform white uniforms.
central.
As soon as this young man arrived at the center of the dojo, he introduced himself to Ogata and other spectators.
It turns out that this young man is the current owner of Senxuekan: Mizuno Shinyong.
Mizuno's self-introduction was very long.
A simple summary of his self-introduction is - praising himself as a Zhongjuan-ryu master, how awesome he is.
And how many years of history his Qianxueguan has, and how powerful it is.
There are also how many disciples he has under his command, and how many talented people his disciples have produced. They are all so powerful.
In the final analysis, he is just praising how awesome he is...
This lengthy self-introduction almost made Ogata fall asleep.
Just after Ogata started to yawn for the third time, Mizuno finally ended his overly informative self-introduction and began to conduct a practical demonstration to show the bell scroll flow to the audience.
Seeing that the only part he wanted to see finally came, Ogata cheered up and subconsciously wanted to cross his hands and reach into his sleeves.
But because the weather is hot now, Ogata has been using cuff tape to tie up both sleeves, so his hands are empty, so he can only fold his hands in front of his chest in frustration.
Mizuno and one of his disciples each held a wooden sword and stood facing each other.
Both of them have similar mid-section postures, and both look very standard in appearance.
After this confrontation for a while, Mizuno was the first to take action.
While Mizuno sent out a powerful kiai, he stepped forward and quickly closed the distance between himself and his disciple.
The next moment after the disciple reached his attack range, Mizuno immediately swung his sword and aimed at the disciple's left shoulder to strike down.
The blade of the wooden sword accurately hit the disciple's left shoulder.
The disciple cried out in pain and fell to the ground.
Mizuno's set of actions just now was very fast.
After knocking this disciple down, exclamations of surprise immediately sounded from the audience.
Listening to the exclamations from the audience, a faint smile appeared on Mizuno's face.
"...Huh?" When the rest of the audience exclaimed, Ogata raised an eyebrow on his face hidden under the Tengu mask.
"Puch..."
At this moment, a sneer that was incompatible with the surrounding atmosphere suddenly sounded.
The sound of this sneer was very small, it was the kind of gentle laughter that even though you had already tried to hold it in, you still couldn't hold it back.
The person who sneered was a samurai dressed as a ronin.
Although the sound of the sneer was very small and the start and end time was very short, it was still heard clearly by almost everyone in the dojo...
The disciples of Qianxueguan all knelt and sat on the left and right sides of the dojo.
After the sneer sounded, a fat Qianxueguan disciple immediately smiled with satisfaction.
After the sneer sounded, Mizuno, who was still wearing a gentle smile, asked the laughing ronin:
"May I ask, my Majesty, what's so funny?"
"I'm sorry..." the ronin responded, "I just felt so disappointed that I laughed. I didn't expect Mizuno Shinyong, the famous master of Senxuekan, to be of this level."
Someone was so vehement and bluntly said that Mizuno Shinyuki was mediocre - the audience's interest was raised one after another.
Even Ogata cast a curious look at this staunch ronin.
"Oh?" The smile on Mizuno's face still maintained the light and breezy color, "Since Shiba can see that my strength is mediocre, then his own strength must be very good, right?"
"Of course!" The ronin raised his head so high that his nostrils almost turned to the sky. "With your level, I can knock you down with just one move!"
"...In that case." Mizuno raised his hand and made a "please" motion towards the knife rest placed at the edge of the dojo, "I wonder if I would be interested in competing with you?"
"Hmph! Are you sure you want to compete? If I knock you down with one move later, you will be very embarrassed."
Mizuno let out a low laugh:
"Then I look forward to you knocking me down with one move."
"Hmph! Then I will compete with you!"
After saying that, Ronin stood up and strode towards the knife rest, and casually took out a wooden knife placed on the knife rest.
When the audience saw this, their faces showed excitement and excitement.
I am excited to see the interesting drama of "the showdown between the master of the sword hall and the provocateur".
This ronin did not adopt the safest mid-level stance, but the most aggressive upper-level stance.
Judging from the posture of holding the sword, it is not difficult to see that this ronin has also practiced swords.
Mizuno, who was standing opposite this ronin, was in the same standard mid-section posture as before.
After the two of them faced each other with swords for a while——
Snapped!
A dull beating sound sounded.
Mizuno stepped forward, quickly closing the distance between himself and the ronin, and then stabbed the ronin accurately in the chest with his upper stance.
"Well..." The ronin, who was in pain, immediately let out a low cry of pain.
After falling to the ground in embarrassment, he clutched his chest and let out a painful groan.
"Since Shisama just said that my strength is not as good as the junior brother Shisama used to practice swordsman with, it seems that your strength is also far inferior to your junior brother."
"Tsk..." Ronin's cheeks instantly turned red from embarrassment and anger.
His lips moved, as if he wanted to say something.
But in the end, he just drank coldly.
Then he got up from the ground and hurried out of the museum as if running away.
When he was about to leave the dojo, the ronin secretly looked at the fat disciple of Qianxuekan who was kneeling on one side of the dojo.
The fat disciple noticed the Ronin's gaze, smiled and nodded at him, and used his movements to say to the Ronin: "Well done."
At this time, a faint look of pride appeared on Ronin's face.
Because the movements of the Ronin and the fat disciple were very small, no one in the audience noticed their small movements.
After the ronin left the dojo with "a face full of sorrow and anger," laughter and curses immediately spread from the audience.
Everyone was laughing at the ronin who had overestimated his abilities and was slapped in the face in the end.
Ogata, who hid his face under the mask, was also laughing at this time.
But he was not laughing at the ronin just now.
But in Xiaoshuiye, Xiaoqian Academy.
"A-Machi."
Ogata turned his head and said to Amachi beside him.
"Let's go, this Qianxueguan is just like this, there's nothing interesting to see."
When Mizuno was fighting with his disciple just now, the speed at which he closed the distance between him and his disciple, as well as the speed at which he swung his sword, were indeed very visually impactful in the eyes of an outsider.
But in Ogata's eyes, it's just - "That's it?"
Mizuno's sword swinging speed and stepping speed just now were enough to fool an outsider, but he couldn't fool Ogata.
It's not that Mizuno's strength is poor, it's just that he's not up to the standard of "strong" in Ogata's eyes.
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Not only that - the person who was responsible for fighting Mizuno just now is also very problematic.
A layman might not be able to tell, but Ogata could see it at a glance - this person's feet were not firmly planted on the ground at all.
The gaze of his eyes was also very distracted, and he did not keep a close eye on the opponent in front of him with the consciousness of "never letting the opponent leave his field of vision".
In short - one look at it and it was clear that he deliberately did not try his best and lost to Mizuno on purpose.
The ronin who was looking for trouble just now is also very problematic.
The same thing happened to the ronin - his feet were not firmly planted on the ground, his eyes were distracted, and he was not concentrating at all.
Ogata guessed that the ronin just now should be the "entrustee" invited by Mizuno and the others.
The two "competitions" between Mizuno, who only had that kind of strength, and the disciple and the ronin who were "entrustees" were just a ridiculous farce in Ogata's eyes.
Ogata, who suddenly lost interest in Sengakukan, had no interest in staying here to watch Mizuno's performance.
Atachi is not good at swordsmanship, so he didn't immediately notice that there was something wrong with Mizuno's two battles just now like Ogata did.
But when Ogata said he wanted to leave, Atachi nodded obediently and prepared to leave Sengakukan with Ogata.
However - before the two of them had time to stand up from the floor, a burst of laughter suddenly sounded from the audience.