Stable Polarized Practice

By the time we passed through the wisteria grove and came back to the open space at the foot of the mountain, the sky had completely brightened. Judging from the position of the sun, we should have already left the concept of "morning" by now, and it might be near noon. pass.

"There's no one here, so we must be late." An Ding looked around, and his eyes fell on a table erected abruptly behind the red torii gate, on which there were scattered piles of...

"Jade Steel?"

An Ding took a few steps forward and took a closer look: "Huh? Is it really Yugang?"

As Fusangshen of Swords, he is very familiar with the materials used for making swords. When it was An Ding's turn, he even moved the materials for forging knives himself. Let An Ding hold a group of Qingguang to link Zhen Qingguang who is applying nail polish.

Then the next day's valet was replaced by Yamabagiri Kunihiro. Although he didn't quite understand the meaning of the "blonde European" that the master said, he could feel it stably. The master seemed to have a lot of feelings for Mr. Yamabagiri. expectations.

Thinking of this, An Ding glanced back at his senior brother who was still out of his body, his eyes lingered on his golden hair for a while, and he murmured softly, "Blonde European."

"Huh? What?" The blond brother who didn't understand asked in a daze.

"No, it's nothing, I don't know what it means." An Ding scratched his cheek embarrassedly: "I just think I should say such a sentence now."

My wife Shanyi: "..."

Okay, he's used to the little junior brother often saying things he doesn't understand.

My wife Shanyi skipped this episode without being surprised, and he also stretched his neck to look around: "Why is there no one else here? Could it be that we came out too late, have everyone already left?"

Thinking of this possibility, my wife Shanyi's expression was suddenly struck by lightning: "No way?! No way? Why wait until everyone is confirmed to come out before making a decision! The selection of the Ghost Killing Team will not be considered Has anyone had any unexpected delays on the way down! Too bad?!!"

It's okay if he didn't mention it, but when he mentioned "unexpected delays in the process of going down the mountain", the ponytail was already a little loose, and the little brother with disheveled hair puffed up his cheeks dissatisfied: "Obviously it's brother, you don't look at the road. The foot got stuck in the hole, which caused us to delay for so long."

"Brother, do you despise me?!" The blond brother immediately hugged the younger brother's thigh with tears in his eyes: "But that's because I was in a mess at the time! When I was in a mess, I didn't notice that dangerous trap. It’s normal! Super normal, right?! Sorry for the long delay! Junior brother, don’t dislike me——huh?”

My wife Shanyi's high-pitched voice stopped abruptly, and he felt that the touch under his arm was hard and cold, and the shape was not quite like the graceful curve of the younger brother's legs—my wife Shanyi's fingers moved He moved, then raised his head and looked confidently at the expressionless blue-haired boy:

"Little brother, your leg armor is so handy."

stable:"……"

An Ding silently pulled his legs out of the octopus-like embrace of the blond senior brother, and strode decisively towards the table with a pile of jade steel. Picking up a piece of jade steel, he touched it suspiciously:

"It is indeed the material of forging knives...why is it placed here?"

"—Because the swordsmen who have passed the selection need to choose the materials themselves, which are used to forge the sun wheel sword that kills evil spirits."

"!" A voice appeared from nowhere!

An Ning's gaze froze, he took a step back with his left foot, firmly pressed the handle of the knife at his waist with his right hand, and turned his head to look at the place where the voice suddenly appeared: "When... Huh? The girl who explained the rules at the beginning ?”

At some point, a pair of twin girls who appeared behind the torii gate blinked together, walked over like dolls, and didn't pay attention to my wife, Zenitsu, who scrambled and scrambled to hide behind An Ding, yelling, "A monster!" "Pay attention to this kind of behavior, and then speak in a flat and stiff voice after standing still:

"This selection has passed 13 people, and 11 people have left after receiving the crow. Please choose the jade steel for forging the sun wheel sword as soon as possible for the last two swordsmen."

As he spoke, the other girl clapped her hands, and with a few black feathers falling down, An Ding's raised arm landed on a black feather with a sharp beak and sharp eyes, and it didn't seem too easy to mess with. of... crow cubs.

"Little cat! Little cat!" The crow opened its wings and began to quack aggressively: "Gah! Listen to me! Little cat!"

stable:"……?"

An Ding asked with some hesitation: "... Is the crow to be cultivated from a young age?"

"No, compared to this..." The blond brother next to him also looked confused: "...Isn't this a sparrow?"

An Ding and the crow who just yelled "little cat" looked over together, the big blue eyes and the black little peas blinked together, and the blade and the bird tilted their heads at the same time:

"...It's indeed a sparrow."

The little sparrow that landed on Shanyi's fingertips "tweeted" twice, seemed to be very happy, it flew up and landed on Shanyi's golden head, found a comfortable position, and then closed its eyes to sleep. Started a small snore.

My wife Shanyi, who was sleeping in a nest made of sparrows on her head: "..."

-

"Junior Brother, I still feel that our 'Crow' is very unreliable!"

After returning to Taoshan, my wife Shanyi pointed at the two birds of the same size who were in love with each other while her cheeks were stuffed with sweets:

"Look, such sparrows and crow cubs are not reliable at all! The crow that Senior Brother Yan Yue sent a letter to before is so—so big!" He even opened his hand and gestured, "That— - so big" How big is it, and then poked the stable little crow in disgust.

"Let's not say that my jay is a sparrow at all. Junior brother, your jay is too small, isn't it? Is it true that there is no news that it will be eaten by other carnivorous birds in the middle of its flight?"

"..." An Ding glanced at the senior brother who was dying without knowing it, grabbed a bunch of meatballs from the senior brother's plate, "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" bit off the first one: "No, it's very powerful."

"How can such a small crow be so powerful..." Shan Yi, who was used to being bullied by his junior brother, was accustomed to the loss of string balls, and continued to munch on the sweet pastries: "It must be because we came out too late." I was assigned to the crow that no one wants at night—eh?!! Hey! Hey! Don't peck me, it hurts!"

In the middle of speaking, the crow cub who was ridiculed as the "unwanted crow" flew up aggressively, and swooped fiercely at the golden head:

"Little cat! Disobedient! Little cat! Disobedient!"

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts - I was wrong! Don't peck me! Junior brother, take care of your crow!"

An Ding and the little sparrow sitting on the wall looked at each other, and swallowed another ball with an innocent expression: "Look, I said it is very powerful."

……

Shanyi was pecked all over his head. Afterwards, he sighed with a complicated expression, "It is worthy of being the crow of the younger brother, as cruel as the younger brother", and then he was pulled and beaten by An Ding with a smile. Zhong was beaten from one side of Taoshan to the other side of Taoshan.

This was the last time I stayed in Taoshan. Ten days later, An Ding's Sun Wheel Knife was delivered first.

"Wow..." Pulling the knife out of its sheath, An Ding watched in amazement as blue lightning streaks spread from bottom to top on the blade—it's a bit strange, is there blue lightning?

"It looks like the sword of the breath of water from this distance." Kuwashima Jigoro said with a complicated expression: "I have only seen you with a blue thunder pattern sun wheel sword in so many years, normal thunder users are all Golden lightning pattern."

"It feels a bit strange." An Ding honestly expressed his feelings: "Suddenly there are other knives..."

It seems that since the first stop of polarizing practice, An Ding seldom used his own body sword. In the Shinsengumi, it was because the body sword was taken over by Sougo-kun, but here it is because the body sword is not very powerful. If you want to kill evil spirits, you can only rely on the Sun Wheel Knife to behead them.

"It feels a bit inferior..." An Ding looked at the blue-patterned sword with a complicated mood: "If it is installed, it must be a powerful companion, right?"

And with such a special anecdote and ability, it must be a sword like Mr. Odenota or Mr. Smiling Mian, right?

But this is not something that An Ding needs to consider. When the Sun Wheel Knife was delivered, the task also arrived at the same time.

"Xinnannan—little cat! Go to Xinannan!" A palm-sized crow hovered above An Ding's head: "There is a ghost hiding in the mountains and forests in Xinannan!"

"... Huh?" An Ding, who was feeling unfamiliar with the Ghost Killing Squad uniform, was taken aback for a moment: "Is there a mission so soon?"

"Oh! Brother, are you going to kill ghosts so soon! Can you wait for me to join you? If you leave, I will kill ghosts by myself! Without the protection of my brother, I will die! Absolutely Damn! Brother, don’t leave me alone!!!”

Even though I knew that I could kill ghosts, my wife Shanyi subconsciously thought that she was weak and wailed and hugged my junior brother's thigh: "Junior brother, don't leave me alone! Those ghosts are super scary! Suck out brains from ears with tongue! Will die! Will be brutally eaten by ghosts! I don’t want to die!!!”

stable:"……"

An Ding looked down at the blond senior brother with subtle eyes, until he saw the senior brother crying, "Don't look at me with the eyes that look at me like a bug", and then he was serious about teaching him swordsmanship for more than a year. Farewell to Master Sang Dao:

"Then, I'm off."

-

It is said that there are evil spirits "hiding in the mountains" to the southwest of a mountain with few people. Apart from a few hunters and woodcutters living here and there, there is only a sporadic dojo with disciples.

The only supervisor in the dojo is an old man. An Ding, who came to inquire about the news, wanted to make him a new disciple in the dojo. An Ding couldn't escape, and had to be kicked out of the gymnasium. He beat everyone, including the owner, to the ground with a scabbard knife. Only then was he wiped away tears and said, "Our small dojo should not be an obstacle to stop you." The old inspector let it go.

"You want to ask if there are any strange things in that mountain?"

Finally, the old inspector who was willing to listen carefully to An Ding's intentions stroked his beard, and said thoughtfully: "There really is. There was a news circulating a long time ago, and someone saw it with their own eyes."

...

"—In that mountain, there lived a peach-red haired Wu Chi."