Chapter 9 Seeing the injustice on the road, drawing a knife to help
Another of Ogata's experiments was declared a success.
Ogata came to the sword hall today mainly to do two experiments related to the system.
The first experiment: Test whether you can gain experience points without defeating or killing the enemy, but just practicing the sword alone.
The second experiment: Can you gain experience points by defeating enemies repeatedly?
Now, Ogata's two experiments have been completed and both were declared successful.
Yesterday, Ogata had already defeated Makino once.
And after defeating Makino again today, you can still gain experience points.
This shows that even if you defeat the enemy repeatedly, you can still gain experience points.
Both experiments were declared successful, which made Ogata feel very good.
Ogata stretched the muscles of his right arm and smiled at Makino:
"Okay, Makino, let's have some fun today."
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Today, Ogata competed with Makino three times and won three times.
I gained 60 personal experience points from Makino and 60 experience points from Sakakibara's Itto-ryu.
Currently, Ogata's personal level is: LV8 (110/700).
The level of Sakakihara Itto-ryu is: 4th Dan (90/700)
Ogata originally wanted to have a fourth sword duel with Makino, but Makino, who had already fought three times in a row, no longer had the strength or energy to compete with Ogata anymore.
Seeing that Makino said this, Ogata had no choice but to give up the sword duel with Makino.
Today, Ogata and his master, Hanbei Sakakihara, did not come to the sword hall to guide them in sword practice.
This is actually the norm at Sakakihara Sword Hall. Hanbei does not come to the sword hall in person every day to guide them in sword competition.
Just like today - Hanbei didn't come, Ogata and the others were working hard on their own from beginning to end.
Makino was no longer able to compete with Ogata, and Ogata was just a little tired now.
After all, Ogata had already practiced swordsmanship on his own for a long time before starting three sword duels with Makino.
Now that his physical condition was a little bad, and the purpose of today's experiment had been achieved, Ou simply stopped today's practice, took back his saber, put on his straw sandals, and embarked on his way home.
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Compared with yesterday, Ogata returned home much later.
It was completely dark outside, and it was impossible to walk without a lantern.
There are always a large number of lanterns for disciples to use in the Sakakibara sword hall. Everyone in the sword hall can use them at will and only need to put them back to their original places after use.
Ogata held the lantern in his right hand, and his left hand rested casually on the saber at his waist.
Gu~~
My stomach makes an embarrassing sound.
"very hungry……"
Ogata put down his left hand on his saber and gently covered his belly with his left hand.
Before time travel, Ogata lived a life of eating meat, eggs and rice casually.
Ogata, who has long been accustomed to that kind of life, naturally feels extremely uncomfortable with the current life where he can only eat gruel every day.
From yesterday to now, Ogata has spent exactly one day in this era.
In just one day, Xu had enough of this difficult environment.
——I really want to eat something good...
This idea just emerged from Ogata's mind, and Ogata felt that his idea was a bit funny.
It is actually not difficult at all to eat something good.
The hard part is where to get the money to eat well.
With a meager salary of 50 dan, Ogata dared not eat anything except gruel.
So in the final analysis, Ogata's only problem in life right now is - no money.
As long as you have money, everything is easy to talk about.
"Money..."
Ogata muttered.
"Where can I get the money from..."
Where do you want to go from now on? It’s okay to think about this kind of thing later.
But "how to make yourself a little richer and improve your quality of life" - this problem is a real and urgent problem...
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Ogata thought hard for a while and realized that if he wanted to make his life a little more luxurious now, the only way was to take advantage of his free time to engage in a side job.
Help the merchants work, do some small business, or do something else...
Just when Ogata was worrying about money, he suddenly heard a strange sound coming from ahead.
After frowning slightly, Ogata quickened his pace and ran forward.
In front, there are four middle-aged men dressed as farmers.
These four middle-aged men dressed as farmers exuded a strong smell of alcohol.
From a distance away, Ogata was smelled by the stench of alcohol on these four people.
At this time, these four middle-aged men were surrounding a pretty woman and saying some very obscene words.
The pretty lady clasped her shoulders and hands tightly in front of her chest, and looked at the four middle-aged men with a look of fear, who were laughing lewdly and saying some obscene words.
These four drunkards also touched and touched the woman from time to time, which scared her to the point where her whole body was trembling slightly.
Ogata could understand what happened just by looking with his eyes.
These four middle-aged men dressed as farmers must have drunk too much, until they were unconscious and molesting good women in the street.
This place is relatively remote and few people pass by. If you just sit back and do nothing, the woman might be in danger.
--no solution anymore……
After secretly saying this in his mind, Ogata held the sword at his waist and walked slowly towards the four drunkards who were molesting his natal women in the street.
"Hey, you guys, get out of here quickly!"
Ogata's words immediately attracted the attraction of the four drunkards, and also attracted the attraction of the woman.
Seeing someone finally coming, the woman's eyes immediately burst with hope and excitement, and she shouted to Ogata:
"Master Samurai, please save me!"
After hearing Ogata's words "Get out of here quickly", one of the drunkards not only did not leave here obediently, but also shouted inarticulately:
"None of your business! Get out of my way."
Ogata silently turned the lantern held in his right hand slightly to the left, illuminating the two sabers on his waist.
"See this?"
Ogata said in a calm tone.
"Get out of here quickly, otherwise - I may make you suffer a little bit."
Ogata originally thought that after he showed the katana at his waist, the four drunkards would be scared and retreat.
But who would have thought that these four drunkards were not afraid, and instead spoke in an even more arrogant tone:
"So what if I'm a samurai! I'm not even afraid of the shogun, but I'm afraid of you!"
"That's right!"
"Get out of here! Otherwise we will give you a little pain!"
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Listening quietly to the arrogance of these four drunken men, Ogata sighed helplessly.
I thought to myself:
——It’s true that drunkenness makes people cowardly...
If they were awake, these four strong men would have been frightened and fled after seeing the two sabers on Ogata's waist.
In the Edo period, peasants did not have the courage to confront the samurai, who were the ruling class and had the right to bear swords.
But the problem is - these four guys are not awake now.
They were supposed to run away, but instead they were talking nonsense.
Seeing that words could no longer make this guy leave here obediently, Ogata silently handed the lantern to his left hand.
Then he used his free right hand to slowly pull out the knife inserted in his left waist.
Under the light of the lantern, the blade of the knife reflected a dazzling light.
He took a mid-level stance and pointed the tip of the knife at the four drunkards who still hadn't woken up after seeing Ogata draw the knife.
——Unexpectedly, on the second day after arriving in the Edo period, I started to use real swords...