I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

It wasn't until Toyama and the others left completely that Saki and Afu finally dared to step forward and ask Ogata how he was injured.

Ogata opened the left front of his dark blue kimono and looked at his chest.

There was a bruise on his chest right now.

This bruise is exactly the injury he suffered during the first round of competition with Yuan Shan.

Ogata pressed the bruise on his chest—it hurt a little, but the injury was not serious and there was no fracture.

"Ah Fu, help Ogata-sama into the house!" Ah Saki said anxiously to Ah Fu, "I'll go get the medicine."

After leaving these words, Ah Saki quickly walked back to the flowing house.

And Ah Fu obeyed the order obediently, planning to help Ogata into the house.

Ogata's injury was not so serious that he couldn't even walk well, and he didn't need Ah Fu's support.

But this was Ah Fu's kindness after all, and Ogata was too embarrassed to refuse, so he let Ah Fu help him into the wandering house.

Because there were too many accidents tonight, Ah Saki directly announced the closure of business.

After Ogata returned to the empty house with Ah Fu's support, Ah Saki also came back from the inner room with some medicine.

Ah Saki originally wanted to rub the medicine on Ogata herself.

But Ogata refused without hesitation.

After all, it was his chest that was injured, and Ogata would always feel a little embarrassed to ask a widow to apply medicine to his chest.

After politely declining A Saki's request to rub the medicine on him, Ogata took the medicine A Saki handed over and applied the medicine himself.

While applying the ointment to the bruise on his chest, Ogata's thoughts gradually drifted to the memory of the contest with Toyama just now for some reason.

——The competition just now... didn't have any system sound.

- Didn't get any experience points...

——But this is also a matter of course... There is no winner or loser, and of course it is impossible to get any experience points.

——That distant mountain...is really strong...

——I spent 3 skill points and 3 exclusive skill points, only to draw with him...

Ogata had to admit that Yuanshan was really strong, and he deserved to be the strongest existence among the disciples of Ishikawa Sword Gym.

Ogata silently reflected on the two rounds of competition between himself and Toyama just now.

In the two rounds of competition with Toyama just now, the biggest lesson Ogata has learned is that when it is time to use skill points, you must use them!

In the first round of the competition, Ogata should have spent his skill points in time when he discovered that Toyama was not an opponent he could easily deal with.

Looking back now, Ogata is a little scared.

Fortunately, in the first round of competition with Yuan Shan, they used wooden knives instead of real knives.

If he had used a real knife, a big hole would have been poked in his chest.

By the time a big hole was poked in his chest and he still wanted to use skill points, it was already too late.

Ogata said to himself in a decisive tone:

——If you encounter such a strong enemy in the future, you must spend your skill points before the battle begins!

——Spend skill points after the battle starts, it will be too late!

After seriously reflecting on the mistakes he made in the first round of battle, Ogata began to reflect on the second round of battle.

After seriously recalling the second round of battle with Toyama just now, Ogata found that he still made a mistake in the second round of battle.

That is - still stingy with skill points.

If he had spent all 5 skill points and 3 exclusive skill points in one go, he might have defeated Yuan Shan.

But Ogata hesitated when he clicked off these skill points.

"Skill points can't be spent casually, and future skill points will become more and more difficult to obtain, and every skill point can't be wasted" - this concept has been deeply rooted in Ogata's mind.

Because of this, Ogata dared not spend all his skill points.

Only 6 points were used, leaving 2 points.

Although Ogata thought about it carefully now, he realized that even if he had spent all his skill points just now, he might not be able to defeat Yuan Shan.

Yuan Shan's current strength is too strong.

Even if he spends all his skill points, he may not be able to defeat Yuan Shan with full confidence.

"Ugh……"

Ogata sighed softly at a volume that only he could hear, and then said:

"Adding skill points... This kind of thing is far more troublesome than I imagined..."

"If you save it, you may encounter a situation where you can't spend it in time..."

"If you use up the skill points as soon as you have them, you may encounter the situation of 'you will hate less when you use them'..."

"……Um?"

At this moment, an idea suddenly appeared in Ogata's mind.

——Although skill points are very precious, they cannot be used casually.

——But as long as I don’t waste every skill point, wouldn’t it be fine?

——At this stage, the least wasteful way to add skill points should be...to add all of them to personal attributes...

——A person with a strong physique takes advantage of everything in battle.

—— Let the body become stronger first, there should be nothing wrong.

——As long as I add all the skill points to my personal attributes and turn me into a "Superman", then even if my sword skill level is very low, I can easily defeat all opponents...

——No matter how powerful a swordsman is, he should not be able to defeat a superman who can "resist a hundred tripods", right?

——Even if my level of sword skills is very low, if I have the power of "strength against a hundred cauldrons", even if I only know how to slash, I can still easily defeat my opponent...

——In this way, it doesn't matter whether the level of sword skill is high or low...

——As long as my personal attributes are high enough...

"Spend all the skill points on personal attributes and make yourself a 'superman'" - this idea lingered in Ogata's mind, and it has not dissipated for a long time.

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A few days later——

In the first year of Kanzheng (1789 AD), May 20——

Today is a special day for Ogata... no, it should be said that it is a special day for all the treasury officials of the Hirose Clan including Ogata.

Today is the day when the lord of the Hirose Domain and their lord, Matsudaira Gennai, inspects the various warehouses in the domain.

Early in the morning, all the treasury officials put on their robes and took their positions.

The 裃 is the dress of the samurai.

It will only be worn on special events and occasions such as meeting your own lord.

Ogata doesn't like to wear samurai.

The reason why I don't like to wear polo, on the one hand, is because I'm not used to wearing it, and it feels very twisted.

Another reason is because Ogata felt that Li was ugly.

Ogata couldn't appreciate the dress of the samurai.

Ogata felt that the style of the gun was very similar to the battle suits worn by the Saiyans in the famous manga he had read on the modern earth - "Dragon".

There are many warehouses with different functions in the Hirose domain.

There are warehouses dedicated to storing weapons.

There are warehouses dedicated to storing food.

There are warehouses dedicated to storing salt.

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The warehouse officials were also divided into several groups and stationed in each warehouse, so that when Matsudaira Yuanchi inspected each warehouse, someone would come to introduce him to the storage situation of the warehouse.

Ogata was stationed in a warehouse dedicated to storing salt.

In addition to Ogata, the people who were also stationed in the warehouse dedicated to storing salt included four of Ogata's colleagues and one superior in rank above him.

The boss above him is named Inoue.

Ogata's task today is actually very easy.

Among all treasury officers, his rank is the lowest.

Naturally, a small character like him would not be assigned any important tasks.

If Matsudaira Gennai comes, Ogata only needs to kneel on the ground with his four colleagues to welcome Matsudaira Gennai's arrival.

As for various troublesome matters such as leading Matsudaira Gennai to visit the salt warehouse and explaining the various storage conditions of the salt warehouse, Ogata's boss, Inoue, is in charge.