After hearing Makino's words, Ogata realized belatedly that everyone in the sword hall, including his master Sakakihara Hanbei, were looking at him with doubts.
And there was already standing in the center of the sword hall a senior brother who was also looking at Ogata with doubtful eyes.
Just now, Ogata had been concentrating on studying the system, so when it was his turn to step forward to compete with swords, he didn't even hear Master Hanbei Sakakihara calling him.
After laughing awkwardly for a few times, Ogata immediately stood up and walked quickly to the sword stand not far away, randomly picked a wooden sword, and then walked quickly to the front of his opponent this time.
His opponent this time is Ogata's senior brother.
Although he is not very familiar with this senior brother, according to the memory in his mind - his senior brother is much better than Makino.
Because he was not very familiar with Ogata, his senior brother did not exchange any greetings with Ogata. He directly put the wooden sword to his left waist and squatted down.
Ogata also followed suit, put the wooden sword to his left waist, and squatted down.
Seeing that both of them were ready for the sword duel, Sakakihara Hanbei directly shouted "Start".
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Ogata and his senior brother both held a mid-level stance.
The so-called middle stance is a type of sword-holding posture in Japanese Kendo.
There are three main knife-holding postures: upper, middle, and lower.
In addition to these three main knife-holding postures, there are also other types of less popular knife-holding postures such as Baxiang and knife-drag.
Different knife-holding postures have different attack characteristics.
The middle stance is to point the sword tip towards the enemy's face. It is the most commonly used sword-holding posture among warriors.
The middle stance is a more versatile knife-holding stance, which can be used for both attack and defense.
The upper posture is to hold the sword high above the head and focus on attacking. However, because the sword is held high above the head, the door of the body is wide open, which is considered a sword-holding posture with weak defense.
In the lower stance, the sword is placed lower and the tip of the sword is pointed near the enemy's knees. It is a defensive stance that is strong in defense and weak in attack.
Switching between different stances according to different combat needs is the basic skill of those great swordsmen.
Ogata is obvious - he can't do this yet.
Currently, he is only good at two stances: upper and middle.
As for other postures except the upper and middle sections, Ogata can really say that he is very weak.
He and his senior brother each held a mid-range stance, confronting each other.
No one took the lead in attacking.
Whoever moves first usually means whoever breaks through first.
Therefore, until you are confident that you can kill the enemy with one blow, no one will make a move. Unless you are a fool.
After confronting the senior brother for a long time, the first person to lose his composure was the senior brother.
The senior brother stepped closer and rushed into Ogata's attack range - and at the same time, Ogata entered his own attack range.
After stepping into the range that was large enough to launch a stab at Ogata, the senior brother directly used the thrust technique of Sakakihara's Ichitou style - bird stab, and stabbed towards Ogata's chest.
Although the senior brother's movements were fast, Ogata's eyes could still catch them.
Snapped!
There was a loud crashing sound of wood.
Ogata blocked his senior brother's thrust with his sword, and quickly took a few steps back to distance himself from his senior brother.
The first round of offense and defense between the two ended in a draw.
——You are truly worthy of being a senior brother...
While Ogata adjusted his breathing, he thought to himself.
——The speed just now was really extraordinary... In terms of strength, this senior brother should be on par with me...
Sakakihara Itto-ryu is a swordsmanship that was created not long ago.
The founder of Sakakihara Itto-ryu is Sakakihara Denichiro, the elder brother of Ogata and others' master, Sakakihara Hanbei.
Denichiro is a great swordsman who knows many styles of swordsmanship.
When he was nearing middle age, Denichiro took the strengths of various schools and developed a brand-new one-sword swordsmanship - Sakakihara Ittō-ryu.
Sakakibara's Itto-ryu is a very simple swordsmanship, because it only has 4 moves in total - Bird Stab, Waterfall, Climbing the Tower, and Dragon's Tail.
Bird Thorn: Thrusting Skill.
Shui Luo: Lower splitting technique.
Climb the stairs: challenge skills.
Dragon Tail: Horizontal slashing technique.
There are no fancy secret skills. Sakakihara Itto-ryu from beginning to end only consists of these 4 extremely practical sword skills with different attack methods.
After Denichiro developed the Sakakibara Itto-ryu, he passed it on to his younger brother, Hanbei.
Shortly after passing the Sakakibara Ito to Hanbei, Denichiro sadly passed away.
In order to carry forward the sword technique that his brother spent almost a lifetime to invent, Hanbei established the "Sakakihara Sword Hall".
He strives to carry forward the young swordsmanship of Sakakihara Itto-ryu.
After that, Origami was extremely fortunate to become one of the first disciples to become Hanbei's sect.
——This senior brother is really strong...
——If you don't want to use some strategies, I'm afraid it will be difficult to defeat this senior brother...
Ogata thought for a moment.
Then he adjusted his sword-holding posture.
Raise the sword in your hand high above your head and adjust the middle posture to the upper posture.
After Ogata changed his sword-holding stance to the upper stance, it aroused exclamations in the sword hall.
Makino, who was sitting on his knees watching the battle, whispered in a low voice that only he could hear clearly:
"Senior is going to use his best skill, 'Shui Luo'..."
The sword technique that Ogata is best at using is the downward slashing technique "Waterfall" - this is not a secret in the Sakakihara Kenkan.
After all, everyone usually competes with each other, and everyone already knows who is good at which sword skills.
After Ogata changed his sword-holding stance to the upper stance, many people in the gym were like Makino—thinking that Ogata would use his best sword skill, "Waterfall", to defeat his opponent.
And Ogata's opponent, his senior brother, also thinks so.
Ogata's senior brother swallowed his saliva and silently prepared to defend against "water fall".
Ogata moved his feet, slowly closing the distance between himself and his senior brother.
The senior brother did not deliberately avoid it, and allowed Ogata to approach, allowing the distance between the two to slowly close.
The next moment the distance between the two of them was so close that their swords could touch each other——
Ogata jumped up slightly, as if he was about to make a powerful and heavy downward slash.
The senior brother who had prepared for defense early raised the sword in his hand at an extremely fast speed, preparing to catch Ogata's sword.
Looking at his senior brother raising his sword, a faint smile appeared on Ogata's face.
--I won.
After saying this to himself in a very determined tone, Ogata exerted force on his waist and abdomen, causing himself to quickly "sink" back to the ground after jumping into the air.
And the senior brother who was deceived by Ogata's fake move just now is still looking like he is raising his sword in defense.
The way senior brother looks now, it can be said that the door is wide open.
The state of the empty door wide open is the easiest state to "die" in a sword fight.
Aiming at his senior brother's chest, Ogata directly used the only thrusting technique in the Sakakibara Itto style - "Bird Thorn".
"Well!"
The senior brother who was stabbed in the chest by the tip of the wooden sword took a few steps back and then fell to the ground.
[Ding! Use Sakakibara Itto style Bird Thorn to defeat the enemy]
[Acquire 30 personal experience points and 40 swordsmanship "Sakakibara Itto-ryu" experience points]
[Ding! When the experience is full, your personal level will be upgraded by 1, and you will gain 1 skill point]