I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"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.

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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 Guasheng 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 you swarm and deal with this Ishida together in such a narrow place, you will hinder each other instead, and may And hurt yourself.

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 flow! 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 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 unhappy "tsk" sound, adjusted his posture, and attacked Ishida in front of him again.

Gua Sheng is only 1 meters tall.

Ishida's height is about 1 meters.

The height difference between the two is more than 20 meters, and the weapon used by Ishida is a long spear that is far longer than a 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 major 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 fight any more, 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!"

Putting the spear in his hand behind his shoulder, Ishida moved his eyes, looked down at Ogata several times again, 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 clubhouse 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 sent the spear in his hand 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 the target of the match, if I don't fight 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.

Either to improve martial arts, or simply to enjoy the feeling of fighting with others, when you meet someone who seems to be strong, you will change the way and ask the other party to compete with you.

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?"

"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! Participate!"

"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.

"Kumu Ichidou-ryu, Mashima Goro, please participate."

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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."