Chapter 347 10 days and 20 skill points [Happy New Year! ]
Ogata's arrangement for himself these days is to work hard to level up during the day and have a good rest at night to build up enough strength and energy for the next day.
So he originally planned to take a short rest after dinner and then go to Atachi's room.
Anyway, he had time, so Ogata decided to follow the others to see Genichi's so-called new work after dinner.
After quickly finishing today's dinner, Genichi led Ogata and others straight to his room.
Genichi's room is located in the deepest part of the temple.
After entering Genichi's room, Ogata glanced around subconsciously.
Genichi's room is smaller than Ogata imagined, and it is also much cleaner than Ogata imagined.
Ogata originally thought that for a careless and informal person like Genichi, the room would definitely be a mess.
But unexpectedly, Yuan Yi's room was surprisingly clean and tidy. Although it was not spotless, it was still clean and refreshing.
"You guys sit down first." Yuan Yi pointed to the tatami in the center of the room, "I'm going to make some tea."
As soon as Yuan Yi finished speaking, Mamiya immediately spoke up:
"Mr. Genda, let me go make the tea or something."
"No, no, no." Yuan Yi waved his hand, "I can still do such a small thing as making tea."
After Genichi and Mamiya argued about it for a while, Mamiya finally convinced Genichi - Genichi stayed in the room with Ogata and others, while Mamiya went to make tea.
Ogata casually sat cross-legged on the tatami in the center of the room. While waiting for Mamiya to come back after making tea, he looked around Genichi's room boredly.
As his eyes swept around the room aimlessly, Ogata suddenly discovered a large pile of unknown objects piled in the corner of the room.
This large pile of unknown objects was piled as high as a hill and wrapped in a thick cloth.
Because it was wrapped in thick cloth, Ogata couldn't see clearly what was under the thick cloth.
"Master Minamoto, what is this?" Ogata asked Minamoto while raising his hand and pointing to the large pile of unknown objects wrapped in thick cloth placed in the corner of the room.
"Oh, that. That's my study material."
"Study textbook?" Ogao looked confused.
With a meaningful smile on his face, Genichi walked slowly to the side of the large pile of things, and then pulled off the thick cloth covering it.
The thick step was torn off, and Ogata was finally able to see clearly what this pile of things was - a large pile of ukiyo-e.
No, to be precise...it should be a lot of ukiyo-e paintings...
Looking at the pile of pictures of this era as high as a hill, Ogata asked in surprise:
"Genichi-san...how many ukiyo-e paintings have you collected?"
"218 paintings. I spent a lot of money to buy these things." Yuan Yi said an extremely accurate number, "I just told you, right? I have been obsessed with painting men and women over the years.
Ukiyoe of things.”
"Because I also wanted to try painting ukiyo-e, which specifically depicts things between men and women. So I bought a lot of this type of ukiyo-e to copy and learn."
After that, Genichi picked up the dozen ukiyo-e paintings placed on the top of this "hill" and handed these dozen ukiyo-e paintings to Ogata.
"These are new paintings that I asked Asai to buy for me after arriving in Kyoto."
"Come, Ogata-kun, let me lend it to you."
"The newly purchased paintings this time are all by Utagawa Harunobu."
"Utagawa Harunobu is one of my favorite ukiyo-e artists. He is extremely good at painting ukiyo-e that specifically depicts things between men and women."
"After reading these newly purchased paintings last night, I became very excited and painted my new work."
"It took me a lot of effort to find this painter named Utagawa Harunobu." Asai said suddenly at the side.
"It turns out that this is what you entrusted Asai to buy, Genichi..." Ogata looked at the large pile of yellow pictures next to Genichi with a speechless expression.
Yesterday afternoon when we arrived at the foot of the mountain at the Calabash House base, when Lin and her gang were discussing how to distribute their pile of luggage, Makimura once asked whose luggage a certain cloth bag belonged to.
At that time, Asai quickly admitted that the cloth bag was his and that he had bought it for Genichi.
While saying this, Asai winked at Makimura. After seeing the look Asai gave, Makimura immediately showed a look of understanding and stopped asking any more questions about the cloth bag.
Ogata noticed the eye contact between Makimura and Asai at that time.
At that time, Ogata was still curious about the meaning of the looks given by Asai and Makimura.
And now the case is solved...
Ogata looked at Makimura, Asai, and Shimada beside him:
"Do you all know about this collection of Genichi-san?"
Makimura nodded:
"We all know that Mr. Yuanyi likes painting, and has become obsessed with it over the years, and has begun to learn to paint this kind of pillow painting. Not only do we know these things, my lord also knows it."
As soon as Makimura finished speaking, Asai on the side added:
"My lord, she doesn't care much about Mr. Yuan Yi's personal affairs, so I just let him buy and paint these pillow paintings."
After listening to Makimura and Asai's explanations, Ogata silently admired the dozen ukiyo-e paintings that Genichi had just handed him and took a rough look at them.
This kind of ukiyo-e that specifically depicts things between men and women has a special nickname - pillow-e.
Pillow painting is considered to be the largest and most eye-catching subject in the art of ukiyo-e.
In the modern Japanese art circles of later generations, there is even a saying: without looking at pillow paintings, it is impossible to talk about ukiyo-e.
"...The painting skills are really good." After roughly flipping through the dozen or so paintings in his hand, Ogata said casually.
"These paintings are all by Utagawa Harunobu." Genichi introduced, "Utagawa Harunobu is very good at painting women. He is my very favorite painter."
Even a person like Ogata, who knows nothing about painting, can see that the quality of these paintings is very high, and the painters who painted these paintings must have very high painting skills.
Although his painting skills are superb and the characters he painted are full of flesh and blood, Ogata didn't feel anything after reading these paintings.
Being born on modern earth, he really cannot appreciate the ukiyo-e painting style of the Edo period...
Although he knew that in the eyes of other men of this era, the painting in his hand was an astringent picture that would make people's blood boil after reading it, Ogata really couldn't appreciate it no matter how he looked at it.
After Ogata read the dozen or so Shibu pictures that Genichi lent him just now, Mamiya just finished making tea and returned to the room carrying a tea tray with 6 cups of tea.
After everyone had a cup of tea, Yuan Yi took out a booklet from nowhere.
Looking at the booklet in Genichi's hand, Shimada said doubtfully:
"Master Yuan Yi, is that book your new work?"
"Yes." Yuan Yi nodded vigorously with a faint look of pride on his face.
Seeing the source nodded, everyone including Ogata looked curious.
The booklet in Yuan Yi's hand has a intact cover. Unless the cover is opened, the contents inside cannot be seen at all.
Ogata originally thought that Genichi would take out a painting, but to his surprise, Genichi actually took out a booklet.
"Genichi-san." Makimura glanced at the book in Genichi's hand, "It seems... you have drawn a lot of paintings and they can be bound into a book."
"No, no, no." As soon as Makimura finished speaking, Genichi shook his head, "Makimura-kun, don't underestimate this booklet in my hand."
"This book in my hand may be a major innovation in the world of ukiyo-e."
"You should all know that today's Ukiyo-e paintings tell a story."
Genichi raised his hand and pointed at the large stack of ukiyo-e paintings stacked in the corner of the room.
"After viewing the dozen new ukiyo-e paintings I commissioned Asai to buy last night, I suddenly had a sudden idea!"
"The pillow paintings on the market now all use one painting to tell a story, so why don't I try to use a dozen paintings to tell a story?"
After Genichi finished speaking, Mamiya took the lead in raising his eyebrows and asked:
"That is to say...Genichi-san, do you plan to draw pillow paintings in the form of comic strips?"
"That's right!" Yuan Yi nodded vigorously and shook the booklet in his hand.
Ogata couldn't help but cast a strange look at Genichi.
There is a saying - Yuan Yi's plan to draw pillow paintings in the form of comic strips is indeed a very good innovation.
In the words of modern earth, when other painters of this era were painting single pictures, Genichi had already thought of painting a book...
"Come! Let me show you my new work!" Genichi handed the booklet in his hand to Ogata who was nearest him.
As soon as Ogata took the booklet from Genichi, Mamiya and others immediately gathered around.
It can be seen that Mamiya and others are also very interested in Genichi's innovation of "drawing pillow paintings in the form of comic books".
Ogata is also very curious now.
I want to see what this book drawn by Genichi looks like.
——Since Genichi said that he has been studying and studying for so many years since he became obsessed with pillow painting over the years, the things he draws should be more or less presentable...
——What exactly does this book drawn by Gendai look like...?
With such an uneasy feeling, Ogata opened the first page of this booklet...
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Ogata saw several aliens that barely had human shapes.
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Ogata, with an expressionless face, turned page after page of the book drawn by Genichi himself in his hand.
Mamiya and others also gathered behind Ogata, expressionlessly looking at the book that Ogata was turning over.
After turning the last page and closing the book completely, Genichi immediately asked Ogata and others:
"How? How?"
"...I'm hard." Ogata said.
"Oh? Am I that good at painting?"
"I mean my fist is hard." Ogata added.
Although it may be rude to say so.
But Ogata sincerely feels that he can draw better than Minamoto Isesen even if he draws with his feet...
Ogata originally thought that Mamiya and others must have the same feelings as him.
Unexpectedly, Mamiya, who was sitting next to Ogata, said seriously:
"Well... Mr. Gendai, your painting skills have improved a lot compared to last time."
As soon as Mamiya finished speaking, Makimura on the side also nodded:
"Well, it's indeed a lot better."
After Makimura nodded, Asai and Shimada also agreed one after another.
After quietly listening to these thoughts of Mamiya and others, Ogata urgently wanted a mirror.
I want to use this mirror to see how wonderful my current expression is...
——This also means that your painting skills have improved a lot? So how bad was Gendai's painting before?!
Mamiya seemed to see what Ogata was thinking at this time, so he leaned in Ogata's ear and whispered to Ogata at a volume that only he and Ogata could hear clearly:
"Do you still remember the 'Secret Book of Mugo Nito-ryu' that Gendai-san drew by himself? The pillow paintings that Gendai-san painted before are similar to the pictures he used to draw in 'Mugo-nito-ryu'."
Hearing what Mamiya said, Ogata was stunned for a moment, and then quickly opened the booklet in his hand again.
Looking at the vaguely human figures above, Ogata nodded seriously:
"Well... my painting skills have indeed improved a lot."
——Compared with the stick figures I drew before...
Ogata added this sentence silently in his heart.
"Genichi-san." Shimada suddenly asked, "Although your painting skills have improved a lot, I don't quite understand what story your series of paintings are telling..."
"Actually, the story is also very simple."
Genichi moved his body next to Ogata, who was holding the booklet.
After Genichi came over, Ogata cooperated and turned back to the first page.
"This woman's name is A Guang."
Yuan Yi raised his hand and pointed at one of the characters in the painting.
"This man's name is Hidejiro, and he is Aguang's husband."
"The man standing next to Hidejiro is named Rengoro."
"The general story is that Hidejiro and Hikari had termites in their home, so they asked Rengoro to come and remove termites from their home."
"When Rengoro came to remove termites, Hidejiro happened to be not at home."
"Then Ren Wulang fell in love with Aguang's beauty who was alone at home."
"And Aguang also fell in love with Ren Wulang, who was more heroic than her husband."
"So the two of them..."
"Stop, stop, stop!" Before Yuan Yi finished speaking, Makimura's face was full of black lines, as if he couldn't listen, "Why is this such a disgusting story!"
"I adapted this based on a real incident." Yuan Yi said seriously, "I went to a nearby town to buy wine a while ago. After buying the wine, I stopped by an izakaya to have a few drinks. I went from the izakaya to
I heard this story from the drinkers."
"This is a true story."
"I don't have any talent for making up stories, so I just used this story."
"The stories I drew in this booklet are all true except for the names of the people."
"So what happened to the story in the end?" Shimada, with a bit of excitement on his face, asked Genichi in an eager tone.
"I heard that the man finally forgave his wife."
"Master Genda." Asai, who had been silent since just now, suddenly stretched out his finger and pointed at the drawing on the booklet, "You can try to draw the back of the woman's neck to be more exposed in the future."
"Oh?" Yuan Yi raised his eyebrows, "Asai, do you like the back of a woman's neck?"
"Yeah." Asai looked serious and nodded seriously, "I like it best."
"Asai, your preferences are really ordinary." Makimura said casually.
Different eras have different aesthetics.
Men in the Edo period generally believed that the back of a woman's neck was the most attractive part.
Therefore, those traveling girls and geishas will deliberately open their necklines very wide and tilt them backwards to expose their entire necks.
Therefore, Makimura's comment about Asai just now was not wrong. Asai's preference is indeed quite common and common in this era.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Makimura finished speaking, Asai asked Makimura in displeasure:
"Makimura, don't you like the back of a woman's neck?"
Makimura shrugged: "Compared to women with fair necks, I prefer women with good-looking posture."
"Ah? What do you mean?" Shimada looked confused.
"To put it simply, I like women who stand elegantly."
"What is this?" Asai frowned, "Makimura, your preferences are really strange."
"I don't call it weird," Makimura said, "I call it extraordinary."
"Stop putting gold on your face." Asai let out a somewhat mocking laugh.
"Actually, in my eyes, it's strange for someone like you, Asai, to have a special liking for the back of a woman's neck." Makimura said.
"That's because you don't know how to appreciate it!" Asai said angrily, "Hey, Shimada, you must be like me and think that the most attractive part of a woman's body is the back of her neck, right?"
"Huh?" Shimada was confused when he was dragged into this topic for no reason.
After Asai brought Shimada into this topic, Makimura, Ogata and others focused their attention on Shimada.
Seeing that he seemed unable to escape this topic, Shimada hesitated for a moment and then said hesitantly:
"Compared to the back of the neck... I still prefer women with pretty faces... Hey! Why are you all looking at me like this!"
"...It turns out that Shimada, your preferences are the most common... Then - Mamiya, it's your turn, what kind of woman do you like?"
"Why did the topic suddenly bring up the preference for women..." Although he sighed in a helpless tone, Mamiya still raised his right hand and gently pinched his chin, thinking seriously.
"Hmm...I prefer older women. Older women have a sense of stability, and I like steady people."
"Older woman?" Ogata asked, "How old exactly?"
"Hmm...the kind who are over 30 years old."
"... Mamiya, do you know that the only book I have read completely is "Three Kingdoms" by Tang Tu." Makimura said seriously, "Your preferences are exactly the same as Cao Mengde in "Three Kingdoms"."
"Have you ever read "Three Kingdoms" seriously?" Asai said angrily, "Cao Mengde doesn't like older women. Cao Mengde likes married women."
After complaining about Makimura like this, Asai turned his attention to Ogata.
Not only Asai turned his attention to Ogata, but everyone present turned their attention to Ogata.
Even if they didn't say anything, Ogata knew what they were planning to do.
"...It's really troublesome." Ogata sighed in a low voice with a volume that only he could hear clearly, and then let out a long sigh.
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About half an hour later——
In Ogata's room——
Ogata was lying on his bed, resting his left hand on the back of his head, silently recovering his strength.
The cabinet that Ogata used as his bed had been repaired by Mamiya this afternoon.
Tonight we were just going to look at Genichi's new paintings together.
But the topic is getting more and more crooked for some reason.
In the end, it completely turned into an "XP System Seminar Conference"...
Moreover, the conference lasted for a very long time, and it was only just now that it finally ended, and Ogata was finally able to return to his room.
Thanks to this conference, Ogata was able to learn about the strange XP of Mamiya and his gang...
In the middle of the conference, Mamiya and the others turned their attention to Ogata, planning to let Ogata reveal his XP.
Ogata, who was not very interested in this topic, finally said casually, "I like tall women," and fooled Mamiya and others.
"Where are these paintings going to be placed..."
Ogata, who was lying on the bed, raised his right hand and handed the paintings he had been holding in his right hand to his face.
These paintings were gifts given to them by Yuan Yi when the conference just ended.
Genichi said it was a thank you gift for them taking the time to look at his new work.
Ogata and the others each received several pillow paintings from Genichi...
After all, this was a gift from Genichi to him, and Ogata was embarrassed not to accept it, so he brought back the pillow paintings that Genichi had given him.
There were four pillow paintings that Minamoto gave to Ogata.
Looking at the four pillow paintings in his hand, Ogata couldn't help but smile bitterly, not knowing what to do with these four pillow paintings.
First of all - he doesn't need these 4 pillow paintings.
Secondly - he felt that Omachi would be very unhappy to see that he actually collected pillow paintings...
——Forget it... I'll think about what to do with these four pillow paintings later... Now let's go to Omachi's place...
Ogata always remembered the agreement he made with Amachi during the day: he would go to Amachi's room tonight.
Just as Ogata was about to leave for Omachi's room, he suddenly heard the sound of walking outside the door.
Ogata heard it instantly - it was the sound of Amachi's footsteps!
Atachi's footsteps are very light, so he is very easy to recognize.
Hearing the sound of Amachi's footsteps, Ogata's pupils shrank suddenly.
Ogata looked at the four pillow paintings in his hand, and then looked at the door. An anxious look appeared on Ogata's face uncontrollably.
Because Omachi's footsteps were about to arrive at his door, Ogata was so anxious that he only had time to hurriedly put these pillow paintings under the quilt, and then covered them with the quilt.
As soon as Ogata hid these pillow paintings, Omachi's voice sounded outside the door:
As soon as Ogata finished speaking, Omachi opened the door of Ogata's room behind the door.
"Why are you here?" Ogata asked.
The implication of Ogata's words is: Didn't you agree that I will go to your room tonight?
"I'm here to show you this! Look! This is the unicorn I just caught! It's the first time I've seen such a big unicorn!"
Having said that, Amachi, who had a child-like mischievous smile on his face, walked towards Ogata, raised his right hand, and showed Ogata what he was holding in his right hand.
In his right hand, Omachi held a very large unicorn.
This one-horned fairy is indeed very big, almost as big as A-machi's palm.
"Yeah." Ogata nodded, "It's indeed very big."
"I really want to catch another one of the same size and let these two have a duel..." A-Ting suddenly stopped before he could finish his words.
Because she suddenly discovered that the quilt on Ogata's bed seemed to be covering something.
"Is this...a painting?"
According to Atachi's visual inspection, the thing exposed outside the quilt seems to be the corner of some painting.
As Asachi said this, he raised his hand and grabbed the corner of the painting exposed outside the quilt.
After pinching the corner of the painting exposed outside the quilt with his fingers, A-Machi realized that there was not just one painting, but four paintings.
A-Machi didn't notice - after she discovered the four paintings hidden under the quilt, Ogata's expression suddenly changed, and he quickly raised his hand, seemingly intending to snatch the four paintings back from A-Machi's hands.
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It's a pity that Ogata is still a step too late.
As soon as he stretched out his hand, Amachi quickly pulled the four paintings out of the quilt.
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"...oh~~"
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After pulling out these four pillow paintings, A-Machi made a strange "ooh" sound without any emotion.
I was in a hurry when I hid the paintings just now, so I didn't have time to hide the four pillow paintings, so the corners were exposed.
Hearing A-Machi's "Ouch", Ogata buried his head low and did not dare to look at A-Machi's expression. Cold sweat began to break out on his forehead.
"I didn't expect you, Ayi, would still collect such things..."
Amachi's words still contained no emotion...
The cold sweat on Ogata's forehead became more intense...
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10 days later——
"Yes, Shimada, that's it."
Ogata swung his sword to block Shimada's stabbing sword, and said loudly to Shimada.
"Adjust your center of gravity! Remember to adjust your center of gravity at any time!"
"Yes!" Shimada responded loudly, while adjusting his somewhat messy breathing again, and then swung his sword towards Ogata again.
Snap, snap!
The sound of the wooden knife hitting each other was heard twice in succession.
After blocking Shimada's two slashes again, Ogata moved the wooden sword in his hand forward, and the tip of the sword accurately touched Shimada's chin.
"We lost again..." Although Shimada said this, he did not show any frustration on his face, "Ogata-sama, you are really strong... In the past ten days, I have never
I have never defeated you... It would be great if I could be half as powerful as you in the future."
"Why set the goal so low?" Ogata said angrily, "If you have to set a goal, why not just set a bigger goal."
"Being half as powerful as you - this is a big goal for me." Shimada responded to Ogata in a joking tone.
After the two chatted for a while, Ogata raised the wooden sword in his hand again.
"Shimada, do you still have physical strength?"
"certainly!"
"Then - let's continue!"
Just when the two were about to resume their stance and start a new round of sparring—
"Hey! You two! Give us a little pause!"
It's Mamiya's voice.
Ogata and Shimada turned their heads following the sound and saw Mamiya slowly walking towards them.
"Mamiya, what's wrong?" Ogata knew that there must be a reason why Mamiya suddenly stopped his and Shimada's sparring.
"My lord, he is back." Mamiya Yan answered Ogata's question concisely and concisely, "She is summoning us to the Buddhist hall now."
"Has Miss Kinoshita finally come back..." Ogata muttered softly and slowly put down the wooden sword in his hand, "Okay, Shimada and I will be there soon."
"Well. Then I will go ahead and inform Makimura and Asai that the two lords are back. Ogata-kun, can you please go and inform Miss Atachi of the news that the lord is back?
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"Yeah, no problem." Ogata nodded.
After Mamiya turned around and left, Ogata turned his head and looked at Shimada beside him.
"Shimada, I'm going to bring Omachi here, you go to the Buddhist hall first."
"okay!"
After Shimada also left, Ogata was in no hurry to leave.
Instead, he opened his own personal system interface first.
In the past 10 days, Ogata has maintained a perfect life rhythm of sparring with Shimada during the day to level up, and taking a good rest at night to build up his mental and physical strength for the second day.
Although Shimada is a samurai who only knows level A and does not know any swordsmanship, in terms of hard power, he is far stronger than ordinary samurai, and he can be regarded as a highly skilled warrior.
Therefore, without defeating Shimada even once, the experience points gained are very considerable.
In addition, Shimada's physical strength is quite sufficient, and he is also thick-skinned and thick-skinned, allowing Ogata to fight Shimada many times in a day.
The personal level has been upgraded by 3 levels, from level 29 to level 32. The Sakakihara one-sword style and the Wuga two-sword style have each been upgraded by 1 level, from 10th and 9th level to 11th and 10th level respectively. The Shiranui style ninjutsu has been upgraded from 4th level.
It is 6 segments.
Including the 6 exclusive skill points gained after reaching the 10th level of Wuga Nitō-ryu, and the 3 exclusive skill points gained after reaching the 5th level of Shiranui-ryu Ninjutsu, Ogata gained a total of 20 skill points in the past 10 days.
point.
Above, this is the result obtained by leveling up without any slack in these 10 days.
And 18 of these 20 skill points were spent by Ogata early on.
After the Wuwo Sword Style was upgraded to the 10th stage, the 6 exclusive skill points and 2 skill points obtained were directly used by Ogata to upgrade the Breath of the Source to the highest level - "Grandmaster Level".
The other 10 points among these 20 points were used to increase strength from 12 points to 14 points, increase agility from 11 points to 12 points, upgrade Shiranui-ryu Jujutsu to "advanced", and upgrade Shiranui-ryu Stealth Jutsu.
Upgrade to "Intermediate" and upgrade circulation to "Master".
When the strength and agility were increased to 14 points and 12 points respectively, all the conditions for upgrading the flow to "master level" were finally completed.
After impatiently upgrading the flow to the "Master Level", the difficulty of using the Mugo Two Swords Style to compete with Shimada naturally changed from "easy" to "very easy"...
After spending all 18 of the 20 skill points, Ogata still had 2 skill points left.
Ogata is still considering where to use these two skill points.