I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Stepping in, swiping the sword across—the action is done in one go.

The movement speed is also much faster than the movement speed just now!

Mikami's pupils shrank slightly in shock.

He didn't expect Ogata to move so fast.

He didn't have time to retract the sword that had been raised above his head.

He could only watch helplessly as Ogata's sword struck his abdomen.

Because Mikami was taller than Ogata, cutting off Mikami's chest was a bit too difficult for Ogata.

For Ogata, the best attack position is Mikami's belly.

Sakakibara Ichidou Ryu.

Dragon Tail - the horizontal slash technique in Sakakibara's Ichidou style.

Ogata's sword, like a dragon's tail, swept towards Mikami's belly from left to right.

When the blade of the wooden sword was only one finger away from Mikami's belly, Ogata's sword stopped suddenly.

After taking the sword back with a smile, Ogata bowed to Mikami and said:

"Accepted, Senior Sanshang."

Mikami also recovered from the stunned state just now.

Putting down the sword in his hand, he saluted Ogata with a helpless smile on his face:

"I lost...I didn't expect you, Ogata-kun, to be so fast...It seems that Ogata-kun, you usually hide very deeply."

As soon as Mikami finished speaking, the familiar system voice sounded in Ogata's mind:

【Ding! Use Sakakibara Ichidou Ryuo to defeat the enemy. 】

[Gain 50 personal experience points and 60 experience points for swordsmanship "Sakakibara Ichidou". 】

【Ding! When the experience value is full, Sakakibara’s Ichidou level will increase by 1 stage, and he will gain 2 skill points]

[Current remaining skill points: 2 points]

[Current personal level: LV8 (50/700)]

[Sakakibara Ichikatsu level: 4th stage (20/700)]

——My Sakakibara One-Sword Style has been upgraded! Another skill point! And it's still 2 o'clock!

After the system sound in his mind fell, Ogata couldn't help shouting excitedly in his heart.

——As expected of Senior Mikami, after defeating him, he gained more experience points than Mu Ye and the previous senior brother!

——My judgment is indeed correct... Upgrading my level of martial arts genre is much more cost-effective than improving my personal level!

——When the personal level is raised by 1 level, only 1 skill point can be obtained.

——When the level of the martial arts genre is increased by 1, 2 skill points can be obtained.

——Just now, after my Sakakibara Ichidou style was upgraded from tier 3 to tier 4, I gained 2 skill points.

——It's a pity that the highest level of each martial art genre is only 15th stage...

——It cannot be upgraded infinitely without a cap like a personal level...

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Although Mikami is the strongest among the disciples of Sakakibara Sword Gym, he is not invincible and has never been defeated.

After all, Mikami wasn't strong enough to crush all his seniors.

So in daily sword competitions, Mikami would always lose to others.

It was also because of this that after Ogata defeated Mikami, it only aroused a little amazement from everyone in the museum, and no one felt incredible.

The sword competition between Ogata and Mikami was the last match of today's sword gym sparring.

After Ogata and Mikami finished their sword match, it was already sunset.

After sunset, it is time for the sword gym to close—this is the rule of Sakakihara Gymnasium.

All the disciples lined up, saluted their master Hanbei Sakakibara, took back their sabers, put on their shoes, and went back to their homes.

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Ogata lives in a remote place, so there is no one to go with him, so Ogata can only walk alone on the way home.

When I walked home along the country road with the memory in my mind,

Ogata looked uncontrollably at his left waist frequently.

To be precise, he glanced at the two long and short knives pinned to his left waist.

These two knives are very heavy, and they are quite heavy when hung on the waist.

Looking at the two heavy knives on his left waist, Ogata couldn't help swallowing.

——This is a real knife...

——Unexpectedly, there will be a day when I hang a real knife on my waist and walk swaggeringly on the road...

Before coming to the Edo period, Ogata once heard a sentence somewhere-men basically like to wield swords and swords.

For this sentence, Ogata deeply agrees.

When he thought of having two real knives hanging around his waist—and they were his own family heirloom knives, the excitement burst out of Ogata's body uncontrollably.

Ogata really wanted to pull out his two sabers and have a closer look at them.

But now it is outdoors. Although Ogata is now in the Edo era when samurai were respected, it is still a bit inappropriate to draw a sword outdoors for no reason.

In order to have a quick look at some of his sabers, Ogata hastened his pace home.

Ogata's mother died of dystocia when she gave birth to Ogata.

Ogata's father also died of illness a few years ago.

So Ogata lives alone now.

Ogata's home is just a dilapidated old thatched cottage.

Although the house is small, it is enough for one person.

Opening the door, without even taking off the straw sandals on his feet, Xu Jie rushed into the room in one breath, and took off the two sabers, one long and one short, on his left waist.

These two knives, one long and one short, have their own names.

Longer knives are called Da Dao.

The shorter knife is called Wakizashi.

The sword is the main weapon of the samurai in battle, and the wakizashi is the backup weapon.

Ogata first drew out his sword.

It was dark now, and Ogata did not light the lamp, making the light in the house extremely dim.

But after Ogata pulled his sword out of its sheath, the light in the whole house instantly brightened a lot.

The snow-white blade clearly reflected Ogata's face.

After carefully playing with the knife in his hand, he pulled his wakizashi out of the sheath in a mood.

Both the sword and the wakizasa are well maintained.

The blade is extremely bright.

The blade is also sharpened quite sharply.

These two knives are veritable "family heirloom knives".

The Ogata family has been handed down from generation to generation since the early Edo period.

So these two knives are antiques with a history of more than one hundred years.

After Ogata's father died, these two knives were passed to Ogata's hands.

Although they are said to be "family heirloom knives", in fact these two knives are not "treasures" at all.

It's just 2 ordinary samurai swords, not the kind of sword that can cut iron like mud.

Ever since the opening of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan has been fairly peaceful.

Except for the Battle of Sekigahara in the early Edo period, there was no large-scale war in Japan.

The absence of war means that the samurai sword is useless.

It is precisely because the samurai sword is useless that these two swords of Ogata can be passed down from generation to generation, with a history of more than 100 years.

These two samurai swords have been handed down for so many years, which means that after so many years, these two katanas have not been used much at all.

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After admiring the long and short samurai swords enough, Ooki retracted them all into their sheaths.

Just sheathing the knife—

Goo...

There was a slight rumble in the stomach.

Ogata touched his flat abdomen without a trace of fat, and thought to himself:

——Just now I was just looking at the knife and playing with it...

——Even ignoring things like "my stomach is hungry"...

— let's eat...