I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Main Text Chapter 371: Facing Treasure Institute's Spear Technique! [Burst update 1W2! 】

"Teacher Fengling, is this...to give back to her hometown?" Ogata hesitated.

"That's right." Gua Sheng said with a smile, "Teacher, she usually looks a bit cold, but those who know her well know that she is a kind-hearted person."

"I also like the gentle husband."

"As far as I know, Taifu seems to be saving money now, and plans to build a house dedicated to sheltering and taking care of those wandering girls who are no longer able to receive guests normally due to various reasons."

"But whether this matter is true or not, I don't know."

"Miss Guasheng, do you have a good relationship with your husband?" Ogata asked aloud while recalling the scene that he encountered in the detention room today.

Ogata remembered that in the detention room today, Mrs. Fengling took out her teacup and talked to Guasheng in a very familiar tone, asking Guasheng to pour a cup of tea for her.

"I'm actually very familiar with many of the wandering girls in Yoshihara." Gua Sheng smiled, "But I do have a good relationship with her husband. She often invites me to eat all kinds of delicious food."

"Huh?" Just when Ogata was about to say something to Guasheng, his brows suddenly tightened slightly, and then he turned his head to look at the door, "Someone is here."

After years of wandering, Ogata has already cultivated a vigilance far beyond other people.

Especially for the sound of footsteps, it is extremely sensitive.

After hearing the sound of footsteps approaching this room, Ogata immediately frowned, and while looking towards the door, the nerves of his body began to tense.

Wow.

The paper sliding door was slowly opened.

The person who opened the door was Shirobei, whom he had just met in the ruya today.

After seeing that the person who came was Shirobei, Ogata's tense nerves slowly relaxed.

"Oh! Mr. Guasheng, I finally found you. I have been looking for you for a long time."

"Master Shirobei." Gua Sheng said, "What's the matter?"

"It's not a big deal." Shiro Bingwei smiled helplessly, "It's just that Rong Ju and Chuyue from the Lantern House got into a fight."

"It seems that Rongju suspects that Chuyue stole her money."

"I remember Guasheng that you have a good relationship with the two of them. Could you please mediate?"

"I see." Guasheng smiled bitterly, picked up the wooden knife placed on the tatami beside him, and then stood up, "Mashima-kun, I'm leaving first."

"It's a time-consuming job to mediate the quarrel between the wandering girls."

"I shouldn't be able to come back for a while."

"You can rest here by yourself for a while."

After finishing speaking, Guasheng took her wooden knife and hurriedly left from Ogata's field of vision.

After Guasheng left, Ogata smiled wryly and asked Shirobei at the side:

"So, do we have to take care of things like quarreling between the girls?"

"Of course." Shirobei sat cross-legged across from Ogata, and smiled wryly along with Ogata, "Keep the wandering girls in Yoshiwara in harmony—this is also one of the tasks of our clubhouse."

"For me, compared to the samurai who caused trouble in Yoshiwara, these wandering girls who quarreled over trivial matters are more distressing."

After making a small joke, Shirobei slowly put away the joke on his face, moved his eyes, and looked Ogata up and down several times.

"I remember you are Mashima Goro-kun, right?"

"Yes." Ogata nodded, and gave a light salute to Shirobei in front of him, "Izumo Ronin, Mashima Goro."

"I didn't expect that you, who look ordinary, can speak such fluent Chinese, and the accent sounds quite standard." Shirobei smiled.

"In the temple house where I studied before, the teacher who taught there could speak Chinese, and my Chinese is learned from my teacher." Ogata took out the excuse he used to fool Guasheng today.

Because time was tight during the daytime today, Ogata didn't have time to take a good look at Shirobei's appearance.

After Ogata proposed to Lin and others last night that he was going to sneak into Yoshiwara, Lin told Ogata that the current Shirobei and Genichi of the clubhouse were old acquaintances.

After learning that the current Shirobei and Genichi are old acquaintances, Ogata is surprisingly not surprised...

Although Genichi usually doesn't say much about his past, from the lines in Genichi's usual words and various behaviors on weekdays, Ogata can vaguely feel that Genichi should have been a very romantic person before... …

Therefore, Ogata was not at all surprised that Genichi and Yoshihara's managers were old acquaintances.

Although Shirobei is an old man with gray hair, his figure is not fat.

The body is that lean type.

Even if he just sat there quietly, he continued to exude a majestic aura.

"It's rare to be able to speak such proficient Chinese at such a young age."

Shirobei continued to smile.

"You left early today, so you didn't see what happened to Takikawa-kun."

"After Mashima-kun, you and Guasheng left, Takigawa-kun stood there in a daze for a while, and then left the room blushing."

"Although what you did today, Mashima-kun, is really enjoyable, but I still suggest that you should bear with it when encountering such things in the future."

"Takigawa-kun is from Banner after all."

"For this kind of superior warrior, it is the best policy not to provoke them as much as possible."

Ogata couldn't help laughing at Shirobei's advice.

Although he is now wearing a personal leather mask, Ogata has never forgotten his true identity - the current most wanted criminal in the shogunate.

As the current most wanted criminal in the shogunate, he was already an enemy of the samurai directly under the shogun like Banamoto and the royal family in disguise.

That's why Ogata didn't worry about offending any enemies—after all, the largest family in Japan: the Tokugawa family and its affiliated families were already his enemies. Ogata has long since had too many lice and does not itch.

But after all, Shirobei reminded Ogata so out of kindness, so after Shirobei's advice fell, Ogata immediately saluted Shirobei:

"Thank you for your reminder, I will pay more attention to it in the next day."

"Well, just pay more attention in the future."

"Mashima-kun, you speak Chinese very well, have you considered that we stay here to teach Chinese?"

"Huh?" A look of surprise appeared on Ogata's face.

"If you girls can speak Chinese, they can also attract bad customers." Shirobei smiled. "If you, Mashima-kun, are interested in teaching at our linguya, I will be very welcome."

"In short—you can think about it later."

After saying that, Shirobei stood up from the tatami.

"I still have some things to do, so I'll go first."

"Well. Please go slowly. Regarding the matter of going to stay in the house to coach - I will carefully consider it in the next day."

Shirobei came to this room just to find Guasheng to mediate the quarrel between the two wandering girls.

So after chatting casually with Ogata, Shirobei exited the room.

With Shirobei leaving, only Ogata was left in the room.

With no one to chat with, Ogata simply leaned against the corner and took a nap.

After sleeping in one breath until the sun went down and night began to cover the sky, Ogata opened his eyes on time.

After stretching vigorously, Ogata picked up the Dashiten that was placed aside, put on the special haori of the Shirobei clubhouse, stepped out of the room, and then walked out of the clubhouse.

After leaving the gate of the clubhouse, Ooyo saw the sky that was almost dark, and the lanterns that had been lit up in various places in Yoshiwara.

As night fell, Yoshihara seemed to have been untied from some kind of seal, and more and more people began to flock towards Yoshihara.

As soon as he walked out of the gate of the clubhouse, Xu conveniently saw someone he knew beside the gate of the clubhouse.

"Master Kawajiro." Ogata took the initiative to greet this person, "What are you doing?"

The person Ogata knew was the old man whom Ogata met when he came to the clubhouse early this morning, who had worked in the clubhouse for most of his life——Kawajiro.

Kawajiro is now standing by the gate of the clubhouse doing exercises to stretch his waist and shoulders.

"Oh! It's you." Seeing that it was Ogata, Kawajiro smiled, "I've been processing various paperwork in the clubhouse just now, and I'm a little tired, so I just went outside the clubhouse to blow some air and stretch my muscles. "

"Are you here for work? I didn't expect you to come on time."

"After all, this is my first job." Ogata said in a half-joking tone, "Of course I have to show full energy."

"Kawajiro, tonight is my first day of work, do you have any work for me?"

"Let's think about it... Your job is to maintain law and order in Yoshiwara, so you just need to keep patrolling."

"Nakanomachi is the place with the largest flow of people, and it is also the place that should be strictly guarded. Mashima-kun, you should patrol here in Nakanomachi first."

"clear."

After agreeing cheerfully, Ogata supported the knife at his waist, left from the gate of the clubhouse, and walked towards Nakanomachi, where the traffic in front of him was gradually increasing.

Patrol in Nakano-cho, which is connected to the Yoshiwara gate—this is exactly what Ogata wanted.

After all, Ogata's real purpose in coming to Yoshihara is to monitor Jitaro, who comes to Yoshihara every night for pleasure, and try to get some useful information from him.

Patrol in Naka-no-machi, which is connected to the gate of Yoshihara, is just convenient for Ogata to notice Jitaro who will come to Yoshihara in time.

The haori used exclusively for the Shirobei Clubhouse—this dress is really a magic weapon in Yoshihara.

Wearing it, not only will you not be bothered by those who are in charge of soliciting customers in various tourist houses, but some passers-by will automatically give way to you.

Just when Ogata wandered aimlessly in the first half of Nakanomachi and kept his attention on the gate of Yoshiwara——

"That... Excuse me..."

Suddenly, a strange voice came from beside him.

"Huh?" Ogata followed the prestige, and saw that the person who spoke was a man dressed as Misei.

Looking at the Miiseban standing beside him, several black lines immediately appeared on Ogata's face.

"Have you seen the haori on my body?" Ogata shook the haori on his upper body, "Could it be that you want me, a staff member of the club, to have sex at this time?" Bar?"

"No, no, no!" The Jian Shifan hurriedly said, "You misunderstood! I'm not here to solicit customers!"

"I'm Mishiban from Jianmei House."

"Excuse me, are you Mashima Goro-sama?"

"Huh?" Ogata raised his eyebrows, "I am. How do you know my name?"

Ogata's left hand subconsciously touched the saber sheath on his left waist.

"I'm here to send a message. Mrs. Fengling said that he wants to see you."

"... Huh? Who wants to see me?"

"Master Fengling." This Jianshifan repeated the name, "Please follow me, and I will take you to Meiwu."

"Master Fengling is looking for me?" Ogata widened his eyes, "What did she ask me for?"

As far as Ogata knew—he and Taifu Fengling could barely be regarded as the intersection of each other's names.

"I don't know the specifics." The witness smiled wryly, "The husband just told me that she won't take up too much of your time, and I hope you can go see her by all means, she has something to give you. "

"...I see." Ogata nodded after pondering for a while, "Take me there. Move quickly, I want to go as fast as possible."

"Yes, please follow me."

...

...

The thing Gua Sheng hates the most is trying to persuade wandering girls to fight.

Because the girls always quarrel for various strange reasons.

It often takes a lot of time and energy to get these things back together.

For example - it took Gua Sheng a long time to reconcile Rong Ju and Chuyue from the Lantern House just now.

It was still daytime when we entered the Lantern House.

It was already night when we left the Lantern House.

Seeing that it was already dark, Gua Sheng simply started today's work, and cooperated with a few colleagues who happened to be patrolling near the Lantern House, and started an aimless carpet patrol in Yoshiwara with them.

Guasheng led her colleagues to patrol the road in Yoshihara, and her thoughts drifted unconsciously to the newcomer who hadn't started working yet—that is, Ogata.

——I wonder if Mashima-kun is working hard now...

Just when Guasheng was concerned about whether Ogata had started his first day of work, Guasheng suddenly caught a glimpse of a colleague wearing a club-specific haori, running towards her in a hurry.

"Miss Guasheng! It's not good! In front of Meiwu's store, there are warriors fighting!"

"A samurai making trouble again..." Gua Sheng, frowning, muttered in an extremely displeased tone

Gua Sheng happened to be leading a few colleagues to patrol near Jianmei House when he received the news that someone was causing trouble in front of Jianmei House.

Holding the wooden knife at her waist, and leading several colleagues behind her who had been patrolling with her just now, to the door of Jianmeiwu's shop, Guasheng happened to see a group of people vacating a circular open space.

In the center of this circular open space, two samurai were facing each other.

These two warriors are old and young.

The younger samurai was about 20 years old, with a childish face, holding a wooden sword.

The older samurai should be over 40 years old, wearing a white haori on his upper body, and holding a spear with the holster in his hand.

There were already many spectators around the two warriors. And that number is still increasing.

As the only female servant in the Shirobei Clubhouse, Guasheng is one of the celebrities in Yoshiwara, and it is impossible for anyone in a women's house not to recognize Guasheng.

Seeing Guasheng coming, the Jianshi fans who were in charge of soliciting customers from Meiwu immediately came up to greet him.

"Miss Guasheng! Please..."

Before the few Jianshifans finished speaking, Guasheng raised his hand to signal them not to say more.

Gua Sheng thought about it with his ass, and he knew what these Jian Meiwu's Jianshi fans were going to say.

They must have said something like "Please drive these two samurai away".

The two samurai fought in front of the store where they met Meiwu, which would naturally have a great impact on their Jianmeiwu business.

"Don't worry. We will settle this dispute as soon as possible."

After giving reassurance to these Jian Meiwu's Jian Shifan, Gua Sheng turned his head and ordered to those colleagues who followed her to the scene of the trouble:

"You guys go to tidy up the road and drive away those spectators. Then divide the road in half and guide pedestrians to pass on the other half of the road!"

"Yes!" Guasheng's colleagues echoed in unison, took up the long wooden sticks in their hands, went to clear the road, and drove away the onlookers who blocked the road one by one.

When Gua Sheng ordered her colleagues to evacuate the road, the two warriors who had been confronting each other and looking for a suitable fighter finally moved.

It was the young samurai holding a wooden sword who launched the first attack.

The young warrior held up the wooden knife in his hand, exuding a fairly imposing aura, while quickly rushing towards the middle-aged warrior in front of him.

Facing the young warrior rushing towards him, the middle-aged warrior with a spear was not afraid at all.

Without even moving his footsteps, he just turned the spear in his hand and blocked the path of the young warrior.

Then he stabbed the spear forward again, and the tip of the spear accurately hit the young warrior's chest.

However, because the holster of the middle-aged samurai's gun was not pulled out, even if he was shot in the chest, the young samurai would not die.

But—that’s just not going to die.

Even if he survived such a heavy blow to his chest, he would never feel better.

The young warrior let out a low cry of pain, stepped back a few steps and fell heavily to the ground.

Although he planned to get up, after struggling a few times, the sanity of his head was no match for the pain from his chest—he passed out.

After the middle-aged samurai stabbed the young samurai beautifully, a young man who had been standing by just now ran to the middle-aged samurai while cheering.

The young man also carried a long spear on his back, and he was wearing a white feather weaving of the same style as the middle-aged warrior.

"Master! That's great, you won!" The young man shouted in a reverent tone after running to the side of the middle-aged warrior.

Based on the name the young man gave to the middle-aged warrior, as well as the clothes they wore and the weapons they used, it is not difficult to deduce that the two should be masters and apprentices.

"Hahaha!" The middle-aged warrior raised his hand and patted the young man's back, and then let out a hearty laugh, "Of course! How could a teacher lose to such a young man who hasn't even swung a knife a few times?" What! Hongzhi, let's go!"

Just when the middle-aged warrior was carrying his spear in one hand and his apprentice's shoulder in the other, and was about to walk away——

"Please wait!"

Gua Sheng, who was standing not far from the master and apprentice, called out to stop them.

"Huh?" The middle-aged warrior followed the sound and looked at Guasheng.

"Private fighting is strictly prohibited in Yoshihara!" Gua Sheng said in a deep voice.

"Hmm...that—may I ask who you are?" asked the middle-aged samurai.

"I am Gua Shengxiu of the Shirobei Club!"

"Shirobei Clubhouse? What is that?" The middle-aged samurai looked puzzled.

"Master..." The young man who was being held by the middle-aged samurai pulled the sleeve of the middle-aged samurai at this time, "Have you forgotten? Didn't I introduce it to you just now? The organization that manages Yoshiwara."

"Oh! I remembered it when I heard you say that!"

After the middle-aged warrior cleared his throat, he shouted loudly to Guasheng:

"Little girl, the private fight just now was not started by our master and apprentice."

"My apprentice and I just wanted to come to Yoshiwara for a casual stroll and see what the 'Edo's Nightless City' looks like."

"In the end, I went shopping well, and suddenly ran into this guy."

The middle-aged warrior pouted at the fainted young warrior lying not far away.

"The guy said he was doing 'warrior training'. So far, he has never fought against a master who is good at wielding a spear, so he said he wanted to fight with me."

"My apprentice and I happen to be doing the 'Warrior Training'. Since there are similar people coming to invite us to fight, there is naturally no reason to refuse."

"Then I had a fight with him, and then I shot him down."

"So in the final analysis, it's all that guy's fault. This private fight was started by that guy."

"So if you want to catch it, catch that guy."

As soon as the middle-aged warrior finished his explanation, Gua Sheng shook his head without any hesitation:

"Our Yoshihara rule is: no matter who initiated the private fight, all those who participated in the private fight must be taken away. The punishment is based on the severity of the private fight."

"You didn't kill anyone, so you just need to pay some fines and live in the prison of our clubhouse for a few days."

"So please cooperate obediently..."

Before Gua Sheng finished speaking, the middle-aged warrior said in an extremely displeased tone:

"Huh? Prison? I don't want it!"

"This is our Yoshihara rule." Gua Sheng said in a much stricter tone than before, "Please cooperate with us obediently!"

After all, in order to strengthen his deterrence, Gua Sheng raised his hand and put the knife on his left waist.

"It's so troublesome..." The middle-aged samurai raised his hand and rubbed his hair, "If I knew Yoshihara has so many troublesome rules, I would have fought with that guy outside Yoshihara."

"Anyway, hurry up and go to the clubhouse with us." Guasheng, who was already a little impatient, said, "The prison in our Shirobei clubhouse is much cleaner than prisons in other places. If you are locked up for a few days, you will be released. from."

"Let me make sure - I should be the only one who needs to go to prison, right?"

"That's right." Gua Sheng nodded expressionlessly, "Because you are the only one who participated in the private fight."

"That's easy to say." The middle-aged samurai stretched vigorously, "My apprentice will participate in the "Imperial Trial" in the future, and if he is imprisoned, it will affect his participation in the "Imperial Trial" in the future."

"If I'm the only one going to jail, I don't mind going to jail for a few days."

Seeing that the middle-aged samurai was more talkative than he had imagined, Gua Sheng's originally tense expression relaxed a little at this moment.

"Then, please obediently follow us to our clubhouse..."

Before Gua Sheng finished speaking, the middle-aged warrior immediately uttered something that made Gua Sheng's brows slightly frowned.

"I actually have a question." The middle-aged samurai looked Guasheng up and down several times, "Is Edo such an open place? Can even women be officials?"

"I'm not an official official of the club." Gua Sheng said seriously, "I was hired by the club with private money... You can say that I'm a thug. My name is not listed in the official establishment of the government."

"Oh! So that's it! Then you will be hired by the club as a thug, then you must be very good?"

"So-so. Don't dare call yourself 'great.'"

"Hey." The middle-aged samurai grinned, "Since I started 'Warrior Training', I have never fought against a woman with superb skills."

"Little girl, you can compete with me."

"Huh?" Gua Sheng frowned even deeper.

"Did I just say that? I'm currently doing 'Warrior Training' with my apprentice."

"It's not my style not to compete with someone I haven't fought against before."

"Don't worry, no matter if I win or lose, I will obediently enter the prison in your clubhouse!"

The middle-aged samurai slowly lowered the spear on his shoulders, held it with both hands, and pointed the tip of the spear with the holster at Guasheng.

"feed me……"

When Gua Sheng was about to say something——

"Treasure Institute's Spear Technique! Ishida Hironoshi! Join!"

As the shout fell, the tip of the gun with the holster zoomed in rapidly within Gua Sheng's field of vision.

...

...

Edo, Yoshihara, Tachibana House (located diagonally across from Mime House).

"Master Nagano! Master Nagano!" A young samurai lying by the window shouted to a rather majestic middle-aged man sitting not far away.

"What's wrong?" The middle-aged man called Nagano asked the young samurai while handing the wine glass to the wandering girl next to him, "Did you find Genichi Kinoshita?"

"Genichi Kinoshita was not found! It just seems that someone is fighting outside!"

"Oh?" Yong Ye's face flashed a bit of curiosity, "I remember Yoshihara, isn't it strictly forbidden to fight on the street?"

"It seems that the officials of the Shirobei Club are fighting with other people!"

Holding a glass full of wine, Yong Ye walked slowly to the window and looked down.

They are now on the second floor of Tachibanahara House, which is diagonally opposite Miume House.

Therefore, Nagano and the others only need to look down, and they can see a man and a woman fighting in front of Jianmei's shop.

The petite woman was wearing the haori of the Shirobei Club, wielding a wooden sword, struggling to resist the spear stabbed by the middle-aged samurai opposite.

After glancing at the middle-aged samurai holding a spear, Yong Ye's mouth twitched:

"Although Genichi Kinoshita couldn't find it, he did find an old acquaintance."

"Master Yongye." The young warrior who told Yongye just now that there was a fight outside asked, "Who is that person?"

"The man holding the long spear is named Hirotoshi Ishida, and he is the heir of Treasure Institute's spear technique."

"He is a very troublesome person. Whenever he meets a master, or someone who uses a weapon or martial arts style that he has never seen before, he will want to compete."

"The invitation to fight with others has always been open."

"It's a typical kind of person who is obsessed with 'skills'."

"In this regard, he is very similar to Kinoshita Genichi."

"When I was doing 'Warrior Training' before, I met him on a narrow road and competed with him."

"His long spear is quite tricky, and I only narrowly won that contest with him."

"It's been a long time since I saw him. His spear skills must have improved a lot."

"But it's really strange, how could someone like Ishida come to a place like Yoshihara."

"Huh?" The young samurai standing next to Yongye looked puzzled, "Is there anything wrong with that senior who used Hozoin's spear technique appearing in Yoshihara?"

"You don't know what kind of person Ishida is. After you know what kind of person Ishida is, you will find it very strange that Ishida will appear in Yoshihara."

After shaking his head with a wry smile, Yong Ye raised the wine glass in his hand and took a sip of the wine.

"Okay, let's not talk much about Ishida, let's focus on watching the battle."

"In my opinion, this should be a very exciting battle."

After all, Yong Ye held the wine glass in his hand and quietly watched the battle between wooden swords and spears under the window.

...

...

When the middle-aged samurai, who called himself Ishida Hiroshi, suddenly stabbed at Guasheng with his spear, Guasheng immediately pulled out the wooden knife from his waist like a conditioned reflex, and parried the end of Ishida's gun.

"Oh!" Ishida grinned, "The reaction is fast! Not bad!"

"Miss Guasheng!", "Miss Guasheng! We're here to help you!", "Hey! You uncle! Miss Guasheng hasn't agreed to fight you yet!"...

After Ishida suddenly raised a gun to attack Guasheng, the officials of some nearby clubs condemned Ishida angrily, and raised the long wooden stick in their hands, expressing that they would help Guasheng.

But Guasheng shouted to them:

"You all don't come here."

"This place is too narrow, if you come here together, it will only backfire."

In order to ensure that the road would not be blocked by crowds, Guasheng had sent some colleagues to drive away the onlookers and divided the road in half by building a human wall.

Half of the road is used for passers-by, and Gua Sheng and the others settle the dispute on the other half of the road.

Because the space for activities is only as wide as half a street, and the weapons used by the officials in other clubs are still long wooden sticks, so if they swarm up in such a narrow place and deal with this Ishida together, they will hinder each other instead, and it may be difficult. will hurt one's own people.

After telling the surrounding officials not to come over and hinder each other, Gua Sheng raised his wooden knife silently with a sullen face.

"...I hate people like you the most." Gua Sheng said in a deep voice.

"Oh? Do you hate people like me who use long guns?"

"No, I hate people like you who try to force others to compete with you in order to compete with others."

"Brings back some very unpleasant memories."

"Since you want to fight with me, then I will accompany you to have a good fight. I just took this opportunity to accumulate experience in facing enemies with long weapons."

After all, Gua Sheng with a gloomy face slowly lowered his body's center of gravity, and set up a posture in the lower right section.

"I'm going! Gua Shengxiu! Participate!"

The moment the voice fell, Gua Sheng, relying on his strong legs, rushed towards Ishida at such a speed that he seemed to disappear from the spot, and went straight to Ishida.

The next moment when his wooden knife could touch Ishida, Guasheng turned the wooden knife in his hand, and then stabbed towards Ishida's chest.

Ishida's pupils shrank suddenly, and he quickly retreated a few steps to distance himself from Guasheng. Then he swung his spear and parried Guasheng's wooden knife with the barrel of the gun.

Seeing that his attack didn't work, Gua Sheng made an unpleasant "tsk" sound, adjusted his posture, and attacked Ishida in front of him again.

Gua Sheng is only 1.43 meters tall.

Ishida's height is about 1.65 meters.

The height difference between the two was more than 20 meters, and the weapon Ishida used was a long spear that was much longer than a melon-born wooden knife.

With his height already far taller than Gua Sheng's and this large spear, Ishida's attack range was several times wider than Gua Sheng's.

Gua Sheng knew that in this competition, she had an absolute disadvantage because of her short hands.

Therefore, the best chance she could think of was to stick to Ishida, try to shorten the distance between the two as short as possible, and then look for a chance to defeat the enemy with one blow on this basis.

And Ishida's various performances revealed that he is not a person who lacks actual combat experience.

He quickly saw Gua Sheng's attempt, and relying on his advantage in attack distance, he prevented Gua Sheng from getting any chance to get close.

While keeping Guasheng from getting close, he kept using all kinds of powerful stabs, forcing Guasheng to get out of the way or struggling to parry his gun, so as to consume Guasheng's physical strength. Physical strength is a big shortcoming.

No matter how good the swordsmanship is, it's useless if he can't hit the opponent.

Although Gua Sheng managed to get close enough that his sword could strike within the range of Ishida several times, her attacks were always dodged or blocked by Ishida.

While Gua Sheng's attack was slow to be effective, Ishida's attack also failed to hit Gua Sheng.

Guasheng was like a sensitive cat, relying on his extremely high agility, he dodged every shot from Ishida one by one.

No one can do anything to anyone—the two formed such a strange stalemate.

After switching offense and defense for more than ten rounds, and the winner was still not determined, Ishida suddenly and slowly put away his long spear.

"Ah, no more fights!" While putting away the spear, Ishida waved his hand and shouted.

"Huh?" Gua Sheng, who was already short of breath, raised his eyebrows, "Aren't you going to continue beating?"

"Because I just want to experience what it's like to compete with a highly skilled female swordsman." Ishida grinned, "After the experience, of course I don't want to fight anymore."

"It's much more boring than I imagined!"

"If female swordsmen are as good at dodging as you are, it would be so boring!"

"Compared to someone like you who is good at dodging, I prefer an opponent who can confront me head-on!"

Gua Sheng didn't care how this guy felt after the competition with her.

Seeing that Ishida seemed to have no desire to continue fighting, Guasheng also slowly put down the wooden knife in his hand.

"Since you don't want to fight anymore. Then please keep the promise you just said - after you compete with me, no matter you win or lose, you will obediently follow us to the clubhouse."

"That won't work." Ishida shook his head, "I just fought a boring battle, and now it makes me very aggrieved."

"I want to fight again! I'll go to the clubhouse with you guys after the fight is comfortable!"

"Do you have any better fighters in Shirobei Club?"

"It's best to be the one who can confront me head-on."

"Hey! You're never finished!" Gua Sheng yelled extremely displeased, "Our Shirobei Club is not responsible for being your training partner!"

"Can't you choose another expert to fight with me?" Ishida said in a nonchalant tone, "If I don't play comfortably, I won't willingly accompany you to the clubhouse."

Looking at Ishida who kept going back and forth, Gua Sheng's face darkened again.

Just when Guasheng slowly raised the wooden knife in his hand again——

"Well... Am I coming early or late?"

A voice quite familiar to Gua Sheng suddenly sounded behind Gua Sheng.

"Mashima-kun?"

Gua Sheng followed the sound and looked back - he saw Ogata who was breathing a little shortly, standing not far behind her.

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...

When Ogata walked slowly towards Guasheng, Guasheng asked Ogata:

"Mashima-kun, why are you here?"

"That..." Ogata subconsciously glanced at Meimeiya not far away, "For some reason, I happen to be nearby..."

"After finding out that someone seemed to be making trouble here, I rushed over immediately."

"Am I early now, or late?"

"Mashima-kun..." Guasheng said in a helpless tone, "Since you were near Jianmei House just now, then your speed is neither too early nor too late, but you should try to come here as early as possible in the future."

"Sorry... I will try to speed up in the future."

"Oh, oh, my lord, may I ask who you are?"

"Huh?" Ogata Xunsheng looked at the owner of the strange male voice who suddenly asked his name—that is, Ishida who was standing opposite him and Guasheng.

"I'm Mashima Goro."

"Ishida Hirotoshi is a master of spear skills at the Lower Treasure Institute!"

After putting the spear in his hand on his shoulder, Ishida moved his gaze, looked Ogata up and down again several times, and then——

"Since you have a sword on your waist, you must be a warrior!"

After licking his lower lip, Ishida put down the long gun on his shoulder, and pointed the tip of the gun with the holster on Ogata.

"Since he's a warrior, his strength should be stronger than the officials next to him who don't even have knives around their waists, right?"

"Then it's you! With one step, please compete with me!"

"After a happy match, I will obediently go to the clubhouse with you!"

"Hey!" Gua Sheng gritted his teeth, "Didn't you just agree to go to the club with us obediently after a fight with me? Are you still a samurai if you go back and forth like this?"

Ishida turned a deaf ear to Guasheng's shout.

When Ogata was still looking at him suspiciously, Ishida shook his hand suddenly, and

?The long spear was sent forward, stabbing Ogata.

This is a strategy that Ishida has never tried well - when he wants to compete with someone, he only needs to attack him rashly, there is a high probability of angering the opponent, and then he can compete with him.

Oo took a step back, dodging Ishida's thrust, and looked at Ishida opposite with slightly narrowed eyes.

"Although I don't know what you want to do, I don't have much time to discuss with you slowly. If you want to discuss, you should find someone else."

"That can't be done!" Ishida shouted loudly, "After I meet my match partner, if I don't have a good fight with him, I won't give up!"

"If you don't fight with me, I will always bother you!"

After saying that, Ishida shook his hand, and once again stabbed the spear in his hand towards Ogata.

After dodging Ishida's spear again, Ogata sighed softly.

In fact, Ogata has seen this kind of person several times after leaving the Hirose Domain.

Whether it is to improve martial arts, or simply to enjoy the feeling of fighting with others, when encountering someone who seems to be strong, they will change their ways to ask the other party to compete with themselves.

This kind of martial idiot was quite common in the Warring States Period when martial arts were abundant.

A typical representative is Miyamoto Musashi who was active at the end of the Sengoku period and the beginning of the Edo period.

According to various legends and anecdotes, Miyamoto Musashi is such a martial idiot.

Like an annoying spirit, he will use all means to force others to fight him.

Of course—this is just Miyamoto Musashi in the legend.

It is not known whether Miyamoto Musashi in the historical facts is like this.

When he first left Hirose Domain and was wandering aimlessly, Ogata also met several unreasonable martial idiots who kept pestering Ogata, asking him to compete with them.

"……I see."

After sighing again, Ogata raised his right hand and pulled out Da Shitian from his waist.

"I don't have that much time, so let's do it quickly."

Because Ishida's gun holster was not removed, Ogata also turned the Da Shitian in his hand, faced the enemy with the back of the knife, and then held Da Shitian with one hand with his right hand, posing in a well-behaved mid-section posture.

"Huh?" Ishida raised his eyebrows, "Sir, can't you use your left hand? Why are you holding a knife with one hand?"

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"Because this is not a fight to the death." Ogata said in a calm tone, "So if I use two hands, I'm afraid I won't be able to control my strength."

"Hahaha!" Ishida laughed a few times, "I'm afraid I won't be able to control my strength with my hands? His feet seem to be a very funny person too! Forget it, it doesn't matter what you do! Let's start!"

"Treasure Institute's Spear Technique! Hirotoshi Ishida! Come on!"

"Treasure Institute's spear technique...I've seen many enemies with long weapons, but this is the first time I've met someone who uses Treasure Institute's spear technique..." He muttered in such a low voice that only he could hear clearly After saying a word, Ogata slowly sank his focus.

"Gumu Yidaoyu, Mashima Goro, join me."

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...

at the same time--

The second floor of Tachibanahara House not far away——

"Hmph." Yong Ye sneered, "I haven't seen you for so long, this Ishida is still the same, he loves to compete with others."

"In order to compete with others, I don't care about anything."

"Have the same virtue as that Kinoshita Genichi."

"It's unbelievable that a person with his personality can survive until now."

"Master Yongye." The young man standing next to Yongye asked, "That young man is holding a knife with one hand..."

Nagano slowly moved his gaze to Ogata who was holding a knife in one hand.

"I really don't know if this young man has grown up or is really confident." Yong Ye said softly, "He actually holds a knife in one hand..."

Speaking of this, Nagano smiled and shook his head.

"If you use a knife with one hand, if you don't have enough strength, even if you cut through the flesh, you won't be able to break the bone."

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...

Ogata only held the knife in his right hand, posing in a well-regulated mid-section posture, and confronted Ishida on the opposite side.

Looking at Ogata in front of him, Ishida, who was still smiling, slowly disappeared at this time.

His expression gradually became serious.

Because he discovered——he couldn't find Ogata's flaw.

Ogata, who holds a sword with one hand, should have revealed far more flaws than holding a sword with both hands.

However, Ogata is like a big mountain, rooted in the ground, standing upright, without showing the slightest flaw.

No matter how Ishida waited and changed his position, he couldn't find an opportunity to attack.

A drop of sweat started to break out from between Ishida's forehead, and then slid down his cheek.

Compared to Ishida, whose expression changed dramatically, Ogata, on the other hand, had no expression change.

From pulling out Da Shitian to now, Ogata's expression has always been expressionless.

He has been looking at Ishida opposite him with a look of no waves in the ancient well.

Realizing that no matter how much he waited, he might not be able to wait for Ogata to show his weakness, Ishida shouted loudly and pointed his gun at Ogata.

Ishida intends to take the initiative to induce Ogata to show his weakness.

Baozangyuan-style spear art is one of the most famous schools of spear art. It has the reputation of "stabbing becomes a spear, cutting becomes a razor, and cutting becomes a sickle".

Whether stabbing or slashing, Baozangyuan's spear technique is extremely powerful.

The tip of the gun made a beautiful arc and swept towards Ogata's abdomen.

Although the gun headgear was not removed, if he was hit in the abdomen, even if he would not die, he would definitely have to lie on the bed for a while.

Ogata did not dodge or dodge the spear point that was aimed at his belly, nor did he change his posture in any way.

He only squinted his eyes and glanced at the position of the gun head.

Then--

Sakakibara One Sword Flow·Water Falling!

Ogata, who only held Da Shitian with his right hand, carried the sword with one hand, and met the spear head thrown by Ishida.

clang!

There was a deafening crash.

Ishida's spear head only held on in midair for a moment before being bounced off heavily by Ogata's sword.

——————! ! !

After Ogata flicked Ishida's gun head away with one hand, Ishida himself, Guasheng at the side, the officials of the nearby clubhouse, and Nagano who was watching the battle on the second floor of the Tachibanahara House not far away all showed expressions of astonishment.

"This guy..." Yong Ye almost couldn't hold the wine glass in his hand, "One hand can break bones...!"

After firing Ishida's gun with a sword, Oo stepped forward, like an arrow that left the string, and killed Ishida.

Ishida subconsciously wanted to retract the spear to defend.

However——just now, the huge force generated by Ogata's sword blocking his long spear was transmitted to the palms of his hands along the barrel of the gun, making his hands numb.

Because of this, Ishida's movements were half a beat slow, and he couldn't retract the spear in time.

Ogata, who successfully rushed in front of Ishida, placed Da Shitian in his hand on Ishida's neck.

"How?" Ogata, who was still calm, whispered to Ogata who was close at hand, "Are you comfortable playing now?"

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