I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"Ah?" Makino's face turned pale, and he lowered his voice, "My lord, he killed someone for such a reason..."

"Yeah..." Ogata nodded with a wry smile, "It's ridiculous, isn't it?"

Ogata knew that Matsudaira Genuai was a very cruel person.

But it was only heard before, and Ogata has never had a real sense of the brutality of Matsudaira Gennai.

It wasn't until today that he saw Gennai Matsudaira's brutal behavior with his own eyes, that he realized how cruel Gennai Matsudaira is who rules this land and them...

Just because someone accidentally bumped into him, he killed the other person, this is really... too ridiculous...

"Oh..." Makino sighed softly, "Forget it, Senior Ogata, let's not talk about this topic anymore, he is our lord after all, no matter what he has done, the fact that he is our lord Nothing will change."

"No matter what, we can't criticize the lord in private, or speak ill of the lord."

The ethics of ancient China centered on "benevolence".

The ethics of ancient Japan centered on "chu".

This characteristic of ancient Japanese ethics reached its peak in the Edo period.

In the Edo period, the most noble character of the samurai was "loyalty", followed by "martial courage".

Loyalty and innocence, swearing allegiance to your lord regardless of right or wrong—this is the common value of warriors in this era.

Therefore, no matter what the lord has done, all the warriors who are loyal to the lord must not have any complaints, they must swear allegiance to the death, risk their lives to protect the lord, and complete all the orders issued by the lord.

If there is any act of disloyalty to his lord, he will be cast aside by everyone.

Ogata, whose soul comes from the modern earth, naturally scoffed at the values ​​​​of the warriors of this era.

But he really didn't have the leisure to discuss topics related to Matsudaira Gennai.

After sighing lightly together, Xu conveniently answered:

"That's right, let's stop talking about this topic, let's hurry up and practice sword practice."

"Well, well... ah! That's right!"

Makino seemed to have suddenly remembered something, and after saying "ah", he asked Ogata:

"Senior Ogata! I heard that you had a one-on-one fight with Toyama from the Ishikawa Sword Gym a few days ago! Is this true?"

When Makino asked this question, he didn't deliberately lower his volume.

His voice spread throughout most of the dojo.

At this time, several other brothers who were practicing swords in the dojo were attracted by the question raised by Makino Asaokata, and stopped what they were doing one after another, and gathered around Chaoogata and Muye.

Hearing Makino's question, Ogata raised his eyebrows.

"how do you know?"

"'Ogata from the Sakakibara Sword Gym and Toyama from the 'Ishikawa Sword Gym' were singled out a few days ago, and the match was a tie' - this rumor seems to be spreading wildly these days! I only found out today This rumor is over!"

Ogata scratched his hair.

——Who sent this news...

——Is it those senior brothers from Yuanshan...

——It was still the group of onlookers at that time...

Ogata thought for a while, but couldn't figure out who sent the news, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

Although the competition that night was forced to be interrupted at the last minute due to the arrival of the Tongxins, judging from the results, it was indeed a tie.

"Senior Ogata!" Makino asked again, "Is this rumor true?"

"Yes." Ogata hesitated for a while, then nodded, "A few days ago, I did have a match with Yuan Shan from the Ishikawa Sword Gym, and it was indeed a tie with Yuan Shan."

As soon as Ogata's voice fell,

The brothers surrounded by Ogata, headed by Makino, immediately burst into exclamations.

Just when Ogata was taken aback by the exclamations of Makino and the others, Makino asked excitedly:

"Senior Ogata! You are so strong! You can even draw with Toyama from Ishikawa Sword Gym! Isn't Toyama very strong?"

"Yeah." Ogata admitted Yuan Shan's superb swordsmanship openly, "Tou Shan's swordsmanship is very strong, that night I actually competed twice with Yuan Shan, and I lost to Yuan Shan in the first round , It wasn't until the second round that I finally managed to compete evenly with Yuan Shan."

"It's already very strong to be able to draw with that distant mountain in the Ishikawa Sword Gym!"

"Yes, yes! It's already very strong to be on par with that distant mountain!"

"Now it seems that the strongest person in our Sakakibara Sword Gym has become Ogata-kun!"

"I didn't expect... Ogata-kun has become so strong before you know it."

"Ogata-kun, you are really amazing!"

...

The brothers and sisters who surrounded Ogata praised Ogata without hesitation.

Ogata couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed for the exaggerated praise for these feelings of the brothers and sisters.

"Alas..." Makino scratched at the hair on his sideburns, "When will I be able to become as powerful as Ogata-senpai..."

As soon as Makino finished speaking, an old voice suddenly sounded from behind him:

"If you continue to chat in the sword hall like this, then you will never be able to reach the strength of Ogata in your lifetime."

The sudden sound of this old voice startled everyone including Ogata.

Everyone followed the reputation.

An old man who was not too tall was walking slowly towards them with his hands behind his back.

Seeing the old man walking slowly towards them, Ogata and the others stood up quickly, then bowed to the old man, and respectfully said in unison:

"master!"

This old man is none other than the master of Ogata and the others, and the first owner of the Sakakibara Sword Gym—Sakakibara Hanbei.

Hanbei glanced at Makino and the others:

"What are you still doing here? Why don't you go practice swords soon? Or do you think that you already have the strength to be passed on, so you don't need to practice swords anymore?"

"Master! Please forgive me! Let's practice swords immediately!" Makino said loudly first.

After Makino's voice fell, everyone dispersed immediately.

And Ogata was also going to go to the knife stand to take down a wooden knife to practice swords.

However, before Ogata had time to reach the knife holder, he was stopped by Banbei:

"Ogata!"

"Yes!" Ogata echoed loudly.

"You come with me."

Having said that, Hanbei continued to walk towards the outside of the Sakakibara Sword Gym with his hands behind his back.

Although I don't know why Hanbei suddenly called him out, it was after all his master's order and he had to obey, so Ogata could only adjust his clothes, followed closely behind Hanbei, and accompanied him. Hanbei walked out of the Sakakibara Sword Gym together.