I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"……what?"

Yuan Shan turned his head and looked at Ah Shi beside him with cold eyes.

At this time, Ah Shi also hurriedly added:

"Didn't you have a tie in the competition a few days ago? If the two of you can really face off again in the god sacrifice competition, then are you really sure that you can defeat that Ogata in the god sacrifice competition?"

Boom.

Yuan Shan let go of his hand directly, and let the wine glass in his hand fall on the tatami.

The sound of the wine glass falling to the ground, which was neither light nor heavy, startled Ah Shi.

"Are you...doubting my strength?"

Yuan Shan's face was covered with shadows of displeasure and anger.

"I-I'm not doubting your strength Danna!" Because of anxiety, a little cold sweat began to break out on Ash's face, "You tied with that Ogata in the competition a few days ago, I just... Worrying about you..."

Snapped!

Before Ah Shi finished speaking, Yuan Shan slapped Ah Shi's face directly, and there was a crisp "pa" sound.

Ah Shi, who was kneeling on the ground, was knocked down on the ground. While screaming, he raised his fair hands to cover his half cheek with a bright red palm print, and looked at the sudden outburst just now with teary eyes. The distant mountain that slapped her.

"Do you know what you were talking about just now?!"

Yuan Shan drank violently.

"How dare you doubt my strength just now?"

"A few days ago, the reason why I didn't decide the outcome quickly with Ogata was purely because I didn't expect that Ogata to hide his strength and underestimate him!"

"The next time I have a duel with that Ogata, I won't make this mistake again! As soon as the competition starts, I will try my best!"

"As long as I try my best from the beginning, defeating that Ogata will be an easy task!"

Ah Shi who was knocked to the ground was sobbing.

"Before...you made a promise with your fellow apprentices...that you would definitely win this year's competition..."

"You and your fellow apprentices have also decided on the punishment you will face if you lose the god sacrifice competition..."

"I'm just worried that you will lose the god sacrifice competition..."

As soon as Ah Shi finished speaking, Yuan Shan snorted heavily:

"Your worries are all unnecessary!"

"It's impossible for me to lose the God Sacrifice Competition!"

"That's why the punishment that my brothers and I have decided upon after losing the God Sacrifice Competition will never happen!"

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In the first year of Kanzheng (1789 AD), June 15——

Hirose Domain, Sakakibara Sword House.

In today's Sakakibara Sword Gym, the air is full of tension.

There is no other reason—today is the day when the Sakakibara Sword Gym holds the in-house competition only twice a year.

From a certain point of view, the competition in the gymnasium is an assessment left by Hanbei Sakakibara to his disciples - to test how well the disciples have practiced swords in the past six months.

Those who don't care about rankings are actually only a minority.

All the disciples of Sakakibara Sword Gym are basically at the age of youth.

Most people hope that they can get a good ranking.

Almost all the people were standing on the periphery of the dojo, exercising their muscles and making final preparations.

Emotional convenience is one of the few exceptions.

Ogata finished warming up early, and then sat cross-legged in a corner on the edge of the dojo.

Ogata, who was sitting cross-legged in the corner, was not in a daze.

Instead, he was checking his personal interface.

[Name: Ogata Yishi]

[Level: LV9: 240/800]

[Personal attributes:

Strength: 5

Dexterity: 8

Reflexes: 8

Stamina: 5

Vitality: 5]

[Martial arts genre:

Sakakibara One Sword Style: 5 stages: 260/900]

[Remaining skill points: 0 points]

[Sakakibara Ichidao Style (5 paragraphs):

Stair climbing: primary

Waterfall: Intermediate

Bird Thorn: Advanced

Dragon Tail: Elementary]

Since the competition with Yuanshan until now,

Ogata's experience points did not increase much.

Because the disciples in the sword hall are not very happy to compete with other people these days.

In the past years, there have been many idiots who accidentally injured their bodies when they competed with others on the eve of the competition in the gymnasium.

This is Japan in ancient times. There is no protective gear in the sword hall, and everyone is practicing there with a wooden knife.

Although everyone usually clicks on it during sparring, occasionally they will accidentally miss and hurt someone.

In order to avoid the stupidity of injuring their bodies before the competition in the gymnasium, the disciples of the Sakakibara Sword Gym are not very willing to practice duels with others.

Because there was no one to practice duels, Ogata's experience value naturally increased very slowly.

After all——if he wanted to level up quickly, the only way he could go was to fight people.

Ogata was not particularly interested in the competition in the museum.

Ogata was not very interested in the competition in the gym because he could also compete with his brothers on weekdays.

For Ogata, the big competition in the gym was just a different way to compete with the brothers.

But if you are not interested, you are not interested, but Ogata has no intention of playing negatively.

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...

After a while, their master, Sakakibara Hanbei, stepped into the dojo with slow but powerful steps.

Ogata and the others hurriedly stopped everything they were doing and sat down on the edge of the dojo.

After kneeling on the main seat of the dojo, Hanbei Sakakibara babbled nonsense about "everyone should go all out" before announcing the start of the competition.

The method of competition in the gymnasium is very simple - whenever Hanbei calls the names of two disciples, these two disciples have to immediately stand out and compete.

Winners advance, losers exit.

And quite coincidentally - the first pair of people to play turned out to be Ogata and Makino.

Ogata and Makino walked up to the center of the ashram with wry smiles, holding their respective wooden knives.

"Senior Ogata..." Makino smiled wryly, raised his wooden knife, and settled in the middle, "I didn't expect...my opponent in the first round was actually you..."

"I didn't expect that either." Ogata also slowly settled into a middle stance.

"Recently, when I competed with you Ogata-senpai in the sword competition, I almost never beat you. I may also end up in a disastrous defeat this time."

"But no matter what! I will do my best! At the same time, I also hope that you, Ogata-senpai, will also do your best!"

"No problem!" Ogata said briskly, "I won't make any reservations, I'll just do my best to defeat you."

The two posed in the middle and stalemate with each other for a while.

However--

"Aha--!"

Yuan Shan let out an astonishing shout, then stepped forward and swung his sword towards Ogata.

Now, Ogata's agility and reflexes are 8 points each, and the rest of the attributes remain unchanged at 5 points.

When the attribute value of reflex nerves changed to 8 points, Ogata only felt that Makino's sword was extremely slow.

Ogata's eyes could clearly follow the speed and trajectory of Makino's sword swing.

With a sensitivity of 8, Ogata easily dodged Makino's sword.