The Beautiful Swordsman Came with a Barbecue

"Dad, who are you talking about winning? Why does everyone say it's this man?"

In the other courtyard of Koshiro's house, Koshiro looked at his daughter, who was actually holding two knives in a decent manner at this time. He couldn't help being funny, but when he heard the question from Kuina, Koshiro said:

"Because people don't believe that the number one swordsman in the world is a woman, especially... those men who have mastered power.

Only at this time, they will spontaneously unite and fight for common gains and losses. "

Kuina didn't understand. She raised her head and looked at her father who was holding her grandfather's pipe. She was a little puzzled and asked, "What about you? Father?"

Koshiro turned the cigarette rod in his hand, as if he was thinking about it unconsciously, and after a while, he said:

"It doesn't matter what I think. On the contrary, I want to ask you a question. Do you want the pinnacle of swordsmanship, or the pinnacle of swordsmen?"

"ah?"

Kuina was a little puzzled, and asked, "Is there any difference? To be number one among swordsmen, isn't it the same as standing at the pinnacle of swordsmanship?"

"Haha~" Koshiro laughed and said, "There is no answer to swordsmanship, only human beings have the answer. For example."

Koshiro said, looked at the newspaper, and said: "Everyone is wrong, because everyone thinks that the two are fighting a duel, but in fact...the two are just proving themselves.

If you are asking who won the duel between the two swordsmen, the answer is that both sides will suffer.

If what you want to ask is the self-certification of those two people in the way of swordsmanship, then they both won.

No matter who is more injured, no matter who can recover faster, they have not defeated each other after all. If what they want is an ugly victory, then they would have won it long ago.

But neither of them won in the end, and they were even severely injured by their opponents to the point of death. From this point of view, both of them were losers. "

"What about the way of the sword?"

Kuina looked up at her father, and Koshiro smiled and said, "On the way of the sword, neither of them lost. Do you still remember the sword power I told you about?"

"It's your 'sword gesture' that can't even cut paper??"

Seeing Kuina's strange expression, Koshiro's eyes twitched. Sure enough, his daughter still couldn't understand, but he still nodded and said, "You can also say that, but everyone's sword moves are different. of.

But there will be similar sword moves, because they are all on the same path of swordsmanship, for example, these two, their sword moves are 'invincible'!

If they didn't lose this time, their sword power would remain invincible, and maybe even become more invincible.

Not winning is the result of a duel between two swordsmen, and not losing is the result of two swordsmen. "

Kuina frowned, she still didn't understand, in her view now, if she doesn't win, she loses, if she doesn't lose, she wins, just like her "duel" with Sauron, she always wins Same.

Koshiro reached out and rubbed Kuina's head, and said: "Guina, no one will win forever, you can win a duel, you can win a duel for a year, or even win a lifetime.

But there will always be someone who will catch up, even if it is not in this era, as a swordsman, winning will only be temporary.

Only undefeated in kendo will last forever, because the spirit will never die!

If you only want to win as a swordsman, then you won't win for long, even if you duel with Sauron, you may not be able to win forever. "

"I can beat him all the time, and I keep beating him, why can't I win?"

Kuina's original thoughtfulness disappeared, and she was upset when she mentioned that annoying boy. Koshiro withdrew his hand and asked, "Do you think the duel between you and Sauron is fair?"

"What's unfair?"

"Do you dare to stop and wait for him for five years?"

"Why? Why five years?"

"You are two years older than him, and you also learned swords three years earlier than his age. Do you still feel that defeating him is something to be proud of?"

Hearing Koshiro's words, Kuina said aggrievedly: "But... I'm not stronger than him because I'm older, I still"

"So, there will be no fairness in a duel. If you care about you, you will lose."

"Didn't you say so?"

"Hahaha~"

"What are you laughing at?"

"I just remembered that I said that before, and your grandfather taught me the same way. Of course, I was already a loser at that time."

Koshiro stopped and looked at Kuina. He knew that, in fact, Kuina, like him back then, was not like the two swordsmen in the news, who could go on forever with only enthusiasm.

Before hearing the shout of the sword, Koshiro had been experiencing failure, and because of this, he could see what was easier than others, and what failure was.

At the same time, he also understood more clearly what his father said at the time was a lesson but actually an explanation.

"Father, how long before I can find Lieutenant General Skyler?"

"There are still six years left before the agreement? Why, don't you want to stay in the dojo?"

"No, I just want to know how many years it will take for Sauron to be defeated by me!"

The girl was very confident, and Koshiro just nodded, not very happy. Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, picked up a long knife from the side, and said, "You can take this knife."

"This is He Daoyi's text? Isn't it always at Grandpa's house?"

Kuina took the text from Kazuichi, and was a little puzzled, and Koshiro paused slightly with a smile.

I remembered what my father told me when I went to find my father with food at night, saying that he should not let Kuina pay too much attention to this knife, and not to put the expectations of their two generations on the child Kuina.

Of course, after finishing speaking, his father beat himself with a fishing rod, saying that he hadn't cooked the meal and left it there to wait for him.

The fishing rod didn't hurt at all, but Koshiro cried alone on the path for a long time after leaving his father's house.

When he was a child, he was most afraid of his father hitting him, because his father was very powerful, and it would be very painful to hit him.

But now Koshiro hoped that his father could still hurt him. After all, at least such a father is still healthy.

However, Koshiro did not express this sadness, but said: "Your grandfather is getting old, and the work of maintaining the knife is too cumbersome, so I will leave it to you in the future."

"Um."

Kuina nodded, feeling nothing unusual.

"Want to try a knife?"

Koshiro asked, but Kuina shook her head and said, "Grandpa said, don't draw the sword easily, unless you want to cut something."

"Haha~" Koshiro smiled again. His father, who was still unwilling to say those bloody words in front of Kuina, patted Kuina's head and said:

"It's okay, your grandpa isn't here, and He Daoyi's words are very gentle."

Hearing her father's instigation, Kuina was also very moved. After struggling for a while, she still nodded, ran to the center of the small courtyard, drew her knife, and slashed a few times.

But Kuina stopped soon, and Koshiro also asked: "Do you feel that using a real sword is very different from using a bamboo sword?"

Kuina nodded and said, "It seems very disobedient."

"Because the knife is born to cut something, if your knife can't cut something, he will be very disobedient, and when he is obedient, you can cut everything.

If you are disobedient, even the straw mats will be cut continuously! "

Koshiro explained, but Kuina didn't believe it, and said, "I can cut the straw mat with a bamboo sword, but how can I not cut it with a real sword?"

"Because you smashed it before, not cut it off, go and get a roll of straw mat."

Hearing this, Kuina nodded, and sheathed the words cautiously with Dao. She ran to the corner of the small courtyard, picked up a roll of straw mats, and pulled a stake. Both things were not light, but Kuina seemed to be Easy.

Because she often helps the dojo to place this kind of straw mat for sword testing, Kuina's movements are very proficient.

Although the straw mats in this small courtyard are much fresher than the straw mats used by those students trying their swords, and at the same time, the weaving is more tightly woven, and the thickness has reached the latitude of an adult's torso, but Kuina is very confident.

Because of the real sword, how could it be possible to cut even a mere straw mat?

Koshiro watched with a smile, watching Kuina put the straw mat and adjusted her breathing.

Kuina pulled out the Wadaichi character, and before swinging the knife, she turned her head to look at Koshiro, Koshiro nodded, and Kuina also looked back at the straw mat in front of her.

"Ah!"

Guina swings the knife, but.

"Crack~"

The entire pile and the straw mat fell to the ground, and her hands were so painful from the shock. The straw mat pile was only separated by two or three layers.

"This this."

Gu Yina looked at the He Dao Yi character in her hand in disbelief. Under the moonlight, the He Dao Yi character froze. No matter how you looked at it, it didn't look like a sword that couldn't even cut through straw mats.

"Come on, give it to me."

Koshiro walked up to Kuina, who was self-doubting, took the word "Hedo" in her hand, and then helped up the straw mat, saying: "A real sword requires more than strength."

Saying that, Koshiro placed the blade at the side of the straw mat about two fists away, why should there be a distance? Because he was afraid that Kuina would not understand.

"Sa~"

Swinging the knife was not fast, even Kuina didn't think it was fast, but the blade passed through the straw mat.

"Crack~"

The cut straw mat slipped and fell to the ground. Koshiro looked at Kuina and asked, "Do you see clearly?"

Kuina's face was tangled, and she seemed to understand, but instinctively wanted to refute, Koshiro didn't say much, but brought up the words of Hedao again, this time, it was completely attached to the straw mat.

"If you want to cut, you can cut anything."

"Sa~"

"Crack~"

Another straw mat fell to the ground, and Koshiro handed the words of Hedao to Kuina again. Kuina took the words of Hedao and raised her head and asked, "Father, why didn't you say the second half of the sentence?"

"Because what you want to learn now is the first half of the sentence."

Under the moonlight, the girl slashed at the straw mat again and again, even though it was late at night, she didn't stop. It seemed that the excitement of picking up the real sword just now, and the shame of cutting even the straw mat, were constantly whipping her.

And as the father, Koshiro, sat beside him quietly, without any hindrance. After all, his daughter still wanted to train, so why did he stop it?

What's more, not everyone is like those two monsters. Normal people will rest when they are tired.

The moon sets and the sun rises, and the sun appears.

"Crack~"

The word He Dao fell, and Kuina also slammed her head on the tattered straw mat and began to sleep soundly.

Koshiro shook his head helplessly, picked up Kuina, walked towards her room, settled Kuina, and then he came out, picked up the words of Hedao, put them back into the sheath, and then walked to another room.

He took out maintenance supplies such as knife oil and deerskin, and carefully maintained He Daoyi's characters.

From this day on, Kuina trained with a bamboo sword during the day and with a real sword at night. At the same time, she no longer debated with anyone whether she was the number one swordsman in the world.

Even if the people around thought that the strange man won, but Guina knew in her heart that Skyler didn't lose, and that strange man didn't win, and that was enough.

Day after day goes by, G-5 Branch.

Skyler, whose hair has become a little short, is lying on a beach chair on the training ground, with a plaster cast on his left hand and a bandage hanging around his neck, while his right hand is performing the difficult movement of holding a barbecue and a drink at the same time.

Beside him was Karp who was also in a relaxed posture. The two of them were having breakfast, watching the combatants of Garp's detachment beat up the combatants of Zhanye detachment, quite comfortable.

"By the way, that Mihawk, are you awake?"

Garp seemed to be remembering something, and asked, Skyler nodded, restrained his volume and breath, and said, "I woke up yesterday, but I still can't move, I'm really too weak haha~ hiss~"

Skyler, who was still laughing, suddenly changed his face, and the muscles on his face began to twitch, Karp snorted, and said, "Hmph! Let's see if you dare to be so willful in the future!

Don't think that the old man doesn't know, the two of you obviously don't need to use all your strength to swing the same perfect slash, if you have strength, you don't need to use it sparingly, so why are you working so hard? "

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Skyler, who was accused, didn't dare to say a word, and listened to Garp's lesson in silence, but he should eat and drink.

"Also! What about the return of life? Where did you learn the six styles?! Why don't you use them?!"

"."

"It feels good to be dying, right?!"

"It's really good."

Skyler finally spoke, turned to look at Garp, and said, "What do you think? The feeling of giving up everything for the battle?"

Garp was choked, the veins on his forehead kept throbbing, and his face suddenly turned red, he really wanted to refute! ! !

"I'll go back and let the crane teach you a lesson!"

After holding it in for a long time, Karp finally uttered this sentence. He found that this daughter is becoming more and more a jerk, and dared to stab himself with words like this. She is as jerk as he was back then! How come no one taught her a lesson? !

Seeing Garp threatening him with a crane, Skyler also shrank instinctively, and shifted his gaze inadvertently.

The two were silent for a while, and Skyler suddenly asked: "What happened to Qiwuhai, do you know?"

"What Shichibukai?"

Skyler didn't speak, just looked at Garp. After a long time, Garp nodded reluctantly and said, "That bastard of the Warring States period threatened him with you."

"Me?" Skyler said with a puzzled expression, "How could I threaten him? Could it be that he didn't agree and let me kill him?"

"Are you two guys afraid of death?"

Garp snorted and said, "Remember what happened to Ace? At first, it was the deal that the sick ghost made with me out of friendship. It was a deal, rather than coercion."

"Haha~ hiss~ hehe~ My friendship with Mihawk can make someone like him bow his head?"

"I don't know how you young people are messing around. One has only two friends, and the other has only one friend!"

Karp looked at the silly Skyler with disdain, Skyler's smile froze, and he said falteringly, "I still have a lot of friends."

"Tell me two? The navy doesn't count."

"Mihawk and how many friends do you care I have?! Cough~~ If you don't count those in the navy system, do you have any friends, old guy?"

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Garp was suddenly at a loss for words, the only name he could think of, but that person was already dead.

The two vice admirals fell silent.

The dignified vice admiral, the person whom countless people need to be friends with, turns out to be the second friend whose name he can't even think of.

"What do you think of Zhan Ye now?"

In the end, Skyler still couldn't stand Garp's silence. After all, a man of this age should have a lot of stories and friends all over the world, but Garp could only be silent in the end.

Garp blinked, looked at the training in the distance. The fighters of the Zhanye Detachment who had been beaten violently said: "You look good, and in a few years, you may be able to equalize with these people of the old man.

But how did you get so many strange-looking creatures into the detachment? The detachment is almost becoming a zoo.

And that skeleton, what happened? He actually called old man young man! "

Speaking of this, Garp clenched his fist. He has clearly reached the age where he can rely on his old self-willedness, but he is called a young man. It is unbearable!

"Brook? A pirate from decades ago. Marshal Warring States didn't let me arrest him, so he let him stay in the detachment. After all, I also want to listen to songs occasionally."

After Skyler finished speaking, Garp frowned and recalled the name. After a long time, he slapped his thigh and said, "The man from the Pirates who is crying and howling all over the world?"

"Yes, but recently he has learned a lot of navy songs, and he sings them very well."

"Hey~ I'm going to have a party tonight, and I'll sing a song myself, so you can hear what it means to sing!"

After Garp finished speaking, he cleared his throat, his face was as confident as ever, Skyler was stunned for a moment, and then his brows jumped wildly, because Luffy's singing voice rang in her mind.

"I don't think so!"

"The old man is very."

"Need not!"

"Pity."

Garp had a look of "young people don't know what to do", but he didn't care about the fact that Brooke, a former pirate, stayed in the navy.

Karp doesn't like memorizing books, but when he was a recruit in the navy, he memorized all the materials of the famous pirates at that time, just to defeat them one by one.

The Rumba Pirates are the only pirates that he can memorize information without memorizing it. After all, it is really weird.

So many years later, although he can no longer remember the name of the pirate group and how many members there are, he still firmly remembers that it is a pirate group that was rewarded by the world government for singing.

Skyler finished his breakfast at this time, picked up the wet towel with his right hand, wiped his mouth, and then kept rubbing the towel with his right hand. After all, only one hand can move now, and that's all.

He stood up, raised his right hand slightly, maintained his balance, and then said, "I'm going to change my medicine, are you going to see Mihawk?"

"No! The old man wants to beat him when he sees him!"

Karp shook his head and refused, and Skyler didn't say much, and walked slowly towards the medical department alone.

When she came to the medical department, Skyler probed her head and found that Florence was not on duty today. She was relieved and then began to receive treatment.

After changing the medicine, Skyler stood up and walked towards Mihawk's ward.

"Ka~"

Pushing open the door of the ward, seeing Mihawk whose whole body was covered with plaster, with only one head exposed, Skyler wanted to laugh. After all, the contrast was too great.

Seeing Skyler come in, Mihawk blinked his eyes, as a greeting.

He was not Skyler. Although the heart was fine, the lung lobes and bones were cut open. Although the navy's medical technology was extremely effective in treating wounds and even healed them as before, it was not so fast.

Therefore, Mihawk still obeyed the doctor's orders honestly, lying on the hospital bed, not even daring to move.

Looking at Mihawk, Skyler said: "There is a big banquet tonight, the best wine, the best barbecue, you must eat and drink well! By the way, I remembered, you don't even have water now can't drink."

Hearing this, Mihawk directly shifted his gaze, expressing that he didn't want to talk to her.

Schuyler looked complacent, picked up a cotton swab in his right hand, dipped it in the clear water in the glass next to him, painted it on Mihawk's lips twice, then threw the cotton swab into the trash can, and said:

"You don't have to care about Qiwuhai's affairs at all, just do what you are best at, and just do what you want."

Mihawk frowned. He just raised his mouth at the beginning of the battle. He almost forgot to tell Skyler about it, but Skyler still remembered it.

After blinking his eyes, Mihawk had no other reaction.

"Take good care of your wounds. I still have three weeks at most before I can wield my full slash. How about you?"

Skyler asked, Mihawk glanced around Skyler's left shoulder, then gritted his teeth, closed his eyes directly, and was unwilling to even respond.

"Haha~"

Skyler turned away, no longer prodding Mihawk.

In the evening, the banquet begins.

The two detachments, as well as the rotating navy of the G-5 branch, temporarily put down their work, gathered on the training ground, surrounded a small stage, and began to barbecue and drink.

On the small stage, Brook began to play and sing, and below, Garp's ears were pricked up, but the expression of "just so" was always on his face.

For Skyler not letting him go on stage to show his singing voice, he chose to hold grudges!

Skyler didn't care so much. She just sat down and picked up a large piece of barbecue.

"You can't eat too meaty and spicy things now!"

Suddenly, a voice came, Skyler turned his head slowly, and saw Florence looking at her.

Skyler looked at her, then at the barbecue, and at her again, and then put down the barbecue with a look of regret.

Looking at the wine that Garp had poured for her a long time ago, she usually doesn't drink it, but she is still willing to have a glass at the banquet. Just after raising the glass, Florence said leisurely:

"Alcohol can't be ingested either."

"####!!!"

Putting down his wine glass, Skyler forced a smile and asked, "Then what can I eat now?"

"Bread is good too, and sweets, as much as you want."

"What about the drink?"

"Milk, salt water, light juice are all fine, or what would you like to drink? Vegetable juice?"

"It's okay, I can just drink juice."