I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

After finishing speaking, Ogata poured the hot porridge from the bamboo tube in his hand into his mouth.

After eating the hot porridge, Ogata's eyes lit up.

"Mamiya..." Ogata put down the bamboo tube that had been emptied in one breath, "Your craftsmanship is really good..."

"...Because I once learned cooking from someone in the Mikawa area."

"I knew you would say that." Ogata said angrily, "Since you are so good at craftsmanship, why do you always have to eat a big pot with other people?"

"...For some reason, although I am good at cooking, I don't like cooking. Ogata-kun, do you still want to eat? There is still some left in the pot."

"No."

"Then give me the porridge left in the pot." Mucun said at this time, "I'm just hungry right now."

Mucun quickly left to get his own bowls and chopsticks, and then quickly came back here.

Mucun, who was still shirtless, happened to have his back facing Ogata when he was loading porridge from the pot.

Looking at the red dragon tattoo on Mucun's back, Ogata couldn't help but sigh:

"Makimura...the red dragon tattoo on your back is amazing no matter how many times you look at it...it looks like there is a real dragon lying on your back..."

"Thank you for the compliment." For Ogata's compliment, Mucun responded indifferently in a tone that was neither salty nor light, "Although you, Ogata, praised my tattoos, I am very happy, but in fact... I am not very Love this tattoo on my back."

"Huh? Why?"

"Because I don't think I'm good enough for this dragon behind me."

As soon as Mucun's words fell, Genichi, who was sitting next to Ogata, immediately said:

"Mr. Mucun, you are too arrogant."

"Give yourself a little confidence."

"You are worthy of the dragon behind you, and you are also worthy of the title of 'Sword Dragon'."

"Sword Dragon?" Ogata asked doubtfully.

"Huh? Ogata-kun, don't you know? When Makimura-kun was working in Kyoto,

But he is deeply admired, and he was dubbed "Sword Dragon" by the people of Kyoto..."

"Master Yuan!" Before Yuan Yi finished speaking, Mucun suddenly yelled, "Enough...let's stop this topic...!"

After interrupting Yuan Yi's words with a loud roar, Mucun grabbed his own bowl and drank the porridge in it in one gulp.

After saying "I'm full", Mucun put on his upper body clothes again, and quickly left from the sight of Ogata and others with his bowl and chopsticks.

Mamiya and Genichi had helpless wry smiles on their faces.

Only Ogata was stunned.

"What happened to Mucun...?" Ogata couldn't help asking Mamiya and Genichi.

"That's a long story..." Mamiya shrugged, "This is related to Mucun's private affairs, so it's not convenient for me to say more. If you are really curious, Mr. Ogata, wait until you have a chance to slow it down later. Slowly ask Mucun."

"That's it... Since this is related to Mucun's personal affairs, then I won't ask any more questions..."

When he turned his gaze back from the place where Mucun's back disappeared, Ogata caught a glimpse of the thousand-cent gourd and horse seal standing in the corner of the yard.

Looking at the thousands of gourd and horse seals, Ogata, who looked thoughtful, said softly:

"And then again—what a coincidence."

"Two hundred years ago, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, formerly known as Kinoshita Tokichiro, held a thousand cents gourd and horse seal, and completed the hegemony of unifying Japan."

"And now, there is another person surnamed Kinoshita holding the seal of a thousand cents gourd horse, although she has not accomplished any hegemony..."

The characters "Sencheng Gourd Horse Seal" and "Toyotomi Hideyoshi" are almost bound together.

Because it was Toyotomi Hideyoshi who first named Sencheng Gourd and used Sencheng Gourd as a horse seal.

Since then, Toyotomi Hideyoshi will hold up the horse seal of a thousand tenth gourd every time he marches and fights.

And Qiancheng gourd has become the nightmare existence of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's enemies.

In ancient Japan, it was not uncommon for people to change their first and last names for various reasons.

Many big figures in Japanese history have changed many names.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's original name was Kinoshita Tokichiro.

Then it was replaced by Hashiba Hideyoshi, and finally he was given the surname "Toyotomi" by the emperor, and finally changed his name to "Toyotomi Hideyoshi".

After listening to Ogata's emotion, Mamiya smiled and said:

"This is also one of the important reasons why our lord uses Qiancheng Gourd as the symbol of our Gourd House."

"My lord, his family happens to have the same surname as Toyotomi Hideyoshi's original name."

"And our protagonist also happens to admire Toyotomi Hideyoshi a lot."

"Toyotomi Hideyoshi came from such a humble background, but accomplished such a remarkable hegemony, which moved and inspired the lord."

"In order to show my admiration for Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and to demonstrate my ambition to learn from the 'Kinoshita' who was more than two hundred years ago, and I already like gourds, so my lord chose Sencheng gourds as our gourds. house sign."

"In order to learn from Toyotomi Hideyoshi, my lord once made a farce about changing her surname to 'Hashiba'..."

"When Xiao Lin said that she was going to change her surname, I scolded her for nearly half an hour before I let her get rid of this ridiculous idea..." Yuan Yi continued, shaking his head with a wry smile...

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Returning to the kitchen with the bowls and chopsticks in hand, he took a ladle of water to wash the bowls and chopsticks casually, and after putting the bowls and chopsticks back into the bamboo basket for everyone's bowls and chopsticks, Mucun hurried back to his room.

After returning to his room, Mucun seemed to have exhausted all his strength, lying on his back on the tatami in a "big" shape.

"Dragon..."

Looking at the ceiling above, Mucun's right hand seemed to have its own consciousness, and he poked his back...

"Master Jinle..." There was a trace of bitterness on Mucun's face, "You gave me the 'Red Dragon' tattoo back then... You must have misjudged me... It's almost as good as giving me a turtle with a shrunken head..."

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Before noon that day——

Gourd house base, at the gate.

"Ogata-kun." Mamiya whispered to Ogata, who was already dressed neatly and put on a bamboo hat, "Do you really want to leave now and not stay with us for a while?"

"I've done everything I wanted to do." Ogata smiled slightly, "I have no reason or motivation to stay here any longer."

The reason why Ogata came all the way to gourd house as a guest was for two purposes.

One: Ask Kinoshita Genichi whether there is a way to freely enter the state of selflessness.

Two: Ask Kinoshita Genichi for advice, and see how far the gap between himself and "Unparalleled Under Heaven" is.

But now that these two goals have been achieved, naturally there is no need to stay in this gourd house anymore.

What's more - the relationship between Ogata and Kinoshita Rin now... is very delicate.

According to Mamiya and the others, Kinoshita Rin is in charge of three meals a day in Gourd House.

At the same time, I heard about it from Yuan Yi about half an hour ago - once Mucun made Lin angry, in order to punish Mucun, Mucun found all kinds of strange things mainly boogers in his meals for 3 consecutive days thing……

It wasn't until Mucun apologized to Lin that he finally stopped eating boogers...

Afterwards, Mucun found out that these boogers were dug by Genichi, Mamiya, Asai, and Shimada in turns for Lin to use...

This made Ogata even more afraid to stay in the gourd house...

If you continue to stay in the gourd house, maybe you will eat booger...

In order not to eat booger, Ogata specially chose to leave the gourd house before eating today's lunch...

Because Ogata's departure was sudden, no one was notified in advance, only Genichi and Mamiya came to see Ogata off.

"Practice hard, Ogata-kun."

Genichi didn't say anything like "be careful on the road" to Ogata.

"As a parting gift, let me tell you a little trick to enter the realm of selflessness when the breath of source has not yet reached its peak."

"Ogata-kun, think carefully about the moment when you first entered the realm of selflessness."

"Is it preoccupied with winning or something?"

Ogata thought back to the moment when he first entered the realm of no-self—it was really like what Genichi said, when he entered the realm of no-self, he only wanted to win, to beat the hundred or so Samurai, remove the dog's head in Gennai Matsudaira.

"The trick to enter the state of selflessness before the breath of source has not reached its peak is to let yourself only think about one thing."

"Only thinking about winning."

"Just trying to survive."

"I just want to protect someone."

"In short, let your mind only think about one thing."

"Only thinking about one thing in the heart, coupled with the assistance of the active breath, can enter the state of selflessness more easily."

Speaking of this, Yuan revealed his memory.

"When I entered the realm of selflessness for the first time, I was determined to win."

"In the frantic thirst for victory, I entered the state of selflessness for the first time, and finally turned defeat into victory."

Ogata silently wrote down the guidance that Genichi gave him just now. Then I solemnly thanked Yuan with a salute.

After thanking Yuan, Mamiya standing beside Ogata said to Ogata:

"Ogata-kun, do you need me to take you down the mountain?"

"No, I remember the way down the mountain."

"Then after you go down the mountain, you go to the village at the bottom of the mountain, which is the outpost of our gourd house, and tell the villagers there, 'Feng Jiangong ordered you to come and lead the horse', and they will take the horse you said yesterday. The horse I rode was returned to you."

"Huh?" Ogata raised his eyebrows, "Are you going to give me that horse?"

"It's just a parting gift." Mamiya shrugged, "Anyway, horses are not an extremely precious thing for our Calabash House."

"...Thank you very much." Ogata didn't make any pretense, just nodded his thanks.

After thanking him, Ogata expressed his half-joking emotion:

"I really owe you Calabash House a lot of favors..."

Without the help of Jian Gong and Mu Cun, it would not be so easy for Ogata to leave the broken place of Butterfly Island.

After leaving Butterfly Island, I have been receiving big and small help from Hulu House.

First, I learned how to ride a horse from Mamiya and the others, and then today I got personal guidance from Genichi.

Not to mention these big help, there are also many small help, for example - from last night to now, Ogata has eaten 2 meals at Huluya for nothing.

Having received so much help from Huluya, Ogata felt a little embarrassed.

Although the relationship with Kinoxia Lin is currently very tense, there is no deep hatred between him and Kinoxia Lin.

So Ogata wouldn't hold grudges against the whole gourd house just because of such a trivial matter.

What's more, compared with the help Huluwu is currently providing him, this little festival with Kinoshita Lin is really nothing.

"It's just helping each other." Jiangong chuckled a few times.

Ogata slightly lowered the bamboo hat on his head, and lifted Da Shitian and Da Zizai from his waist.

"Then——I'll go ahead. See you soon."

"Maybe we will see you again soon." Mamiya said in a half-joking tone, "After having breakfast today and reporting to the lord what he saw and heard on Butterfly Island, the lord has decided on the next move: Go to Kyoto to find He Shi and He Zhi, the master and apprentice."

After hearing Mamiya's words, Ogata was not surprised - after all, he had expected that the people from the Gourd House would definitely come to find this mysterious pair of master and apprentice.

Calabash House has been investigating "Immortal" all these years, and it is impossible to let go of this pair of master and apprentice who might know a lot of things.

"Then you should work hard too." Ogata said in a joking tone, "It is much more difficult for you to find this master-student pair than me. Unlike me, you have the prescription for this master-student pair."

"You don't have to worry about this." An intriguing smile appeared on Gamiya's face, "We also have our clues."

"clue?"

"As for the clues, let me keep it a secret."

"I don't care what your clues are, as long as you don't follow me."

"We will not use such low-level means."

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After joking with Mamiya for the last time, Ogata walked down the mountain without any hesitation.

Ogata stopped slowly when the figures of Genichi and Mamiya completely disappeared from his field of vision and the base of Gourd House could not be seen.

Ogata raised his head and looked towards the top of the mountain he was currently on.

The base of Gourd House is located halfway up the mountain, so Ogata is also right on the mountainside now.

Standing on the mountainside and looking up, you can see the mountain that pierces straight into the sky.

The mountain that Ogata is currently standing on is tall—but not the highest in this area.

Ogata looked around and could see the mountain not far away - its height was far higher than the mountain at Ogata's feet.

But the mountain is still not the tallest,

The mountain next to it is the highest mountain in Ogata's field of vision.

——In a place farther away... there must be another mountain higher than this mountain...

What Genichi said to him this morning echoed in Ogata's mind.

Although nearly an hour has passed, the words that Gen-sama and him said to Ogata are still ringing in my ears.

(Although the sky is thousands of miles wide; the sword is only three feet long, even if you spend your whole life, you can't cut through the sky, but you can experience the joy of becoming stronger in this small three-foot square inch. Don't pursue unparalleled, Just think about hard work and enjoy the process of hard work)

After the words Genichi told him echoed in his mind again, Ogata breathed out a foul breath.

Then, a faint smile appeared on Ogata's face.

"take it easy……"

After murmuring something so softly that only he could hear clearly, Ogata stepped back and walked down the mountain with big strides...\u003c/div\u003e