Ogata and Amachi were walking side by side along the street, looking for the next pharmacy, when they suddenly noticed a lot of people gathered on the street not far ahead.

With curiosity aroused in their hearts, the two slowly walked towards the crowd in front.

After arriving at the outermost edge of the crowd, Ogata and Atachi saw clearly that these people were gathered outside the gate of a magnificent mansion.

The door of this magnificent mansion was closed, and two men dressed as samurai were guarding the door.

There is a plaque hanging next to the gate with three large Chinese characters written on it.

"Qianxuekan...?"

Ogata read out the three Chinese characters written on the plaque one by one.

"It seems to be a sword hall." Atachi echoed from the side.

Standing in front of Ogata and Atachi, a young man also dressed as a samurai heard what Ogata and Atachi said, turned his head, and looked at Ogata and Atachi with surprised eyes.

"You two, don't you know the Senxakukan in Kyoto?"

"We are foreigners," Amachi said, "and we don't know much about Kyoto."

Seeing that Ogata and Atachi were not natives of Kyoto, the doubt on the young man's face gradually dissipated.

"So you're a foreigner... No wonder you have to know about Senxuekan. You two, do you need me to introduce you to Senxuekan, which is famous in Kyoto?"

Atachi turned his head and asked Ogata with his eyes: "Are you interested in hearing it?"

Ogata nodded after thinking for a while.

"There are countless sword halls in the huge Kyoto," the young man said, "but there are six sword halls in total that are the most powerful."

"We Kyoto people collectively call these six sword halls the 'Six Great Sword Halls'."

"The six major sword halls are - 'Qiang Gakukan' which teaches the Mito Ittō-ryu, 'Nerimakan' which teaches the Katori Shinto-ryu, 'Metaphysics Hall' which teaches the Nakajo-ryu, and 'White Tiger' which teaches the Ono Ittō-ryu

The 'Seigakukan' where professors are taught without leaking out, and the 'Sengakukan' where professors are taught Zhongjuanliu."

The young man spit out a lot of unfamiliar names in one breath.

Although some people were listening carefully, Ogata still didn't remember any of the things about this museum or that museum that the young man mentioned...

Although he did not remember the names of these six major sword halls, Ogata understood one thing - these six major sword halls were all famous and powerful in Kyoto.

"Then what are these people gathering in front of the Qianxueguan?"

"Today is the day Qianxueguan is open!"

The young man replied.

"The current owner of Sengakukan, Mizuno Shinyong, will show the bells of their Sengakukan to outsiders today."

"Everyone came here to watch it, so they gathered here."

Having said this, the young man raised his head and glanced at the sky.

"It should be time to open the museum in a little while."

As soon as the young man finished speaking, the two young samurai who were guarding the gate of Qianxuekan and should be disciples of Qianxuekan shouted in unison:

"It's time! Everyone line up! Don't crowd!"

As soon as these two people said this, everyone gathered in front of the museum - including the young man who had been explaining to Ogata and A-Machi just now - immediately showed excitement.

"...Ah Yi." Ah Ding asked, "Are you interested in seeing what Zhongjuan Liu is like?"

"Zhongjuanliu... I have never seen Zhongjuanliu...ah, maybe I have seen him somewhere but he was killed by me."

Ogata, who was very interested in Zhongmaki Ryu and the six great swordsmanship halls that the young man said were famous in Kyoto just now, nodded to Amachi and slowly walked towards the Sengakukan with the flow of people...

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When Ogata and Atachi followed the flow of people into Sengakukan——

Somewhere in an inconspicuous corner of Qianxueguan.

"Do you understand the steps?"

A samurai with a neatly shaved Tsukiyo head and a somewhat fat figure said this to a samurai in front of him who had long hair and was dirty and looked like a ronin.

After the fat warrior finished speaking, the ronin immediately nodded hurriedly:

"I understand, I understand!" Ronin's face was filled with a flattering smile, "Aren't you just pretending to lose on purpose? Who wouldn't?"

"Then tell me the process." The fat warrior ordered.

"After Mizuno Shinyong-sama defeated the first person, I deliberately pretended to be disdainful and sneered."

"After I sneer, Mizuno Shinyong-sama will ask me to play by name."

"After I came on stage, I deliberately pretended to be defeated by Mizuno Shinyong-sama, and was defeated by Mizuno Shinyong-sama in one fell swoop."

Seeing that the ronin in front of him, whom he randomly found yesterday, had indeed memorized the process clearly, the fat warrior smiled with satisfaction.

"Very good, remember this process! When everything is done, you will be rewarded! Okay, follow me into the library!"

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Ogata and Atachi sat down on the edge of the dojo along with the surrounding spectators who came here to watch Mizuno Shinyong's heroic appearance.

——Dojo...

The air was filled with the not-so-pleasant smell unique to the dojo.

An ordinary person would definitely not like the smell in the dojo.

But Ogata didn't hate it.

Because after smelling this smell, a faint feeling of nostalgia will arise in Ogata's heart.

While looking around at the layout of Sengakukan Dojo, Ogata muttered in a low voice:

"I really miss it..."

Although Ogata's murmuring voice was low, it was still clearly heard by Amachi.

"Ayi, are you missing the dojo where you used to practice swordsmanship?"

"Well... I have... not set foot on any dojo for nearly a year." Ogata nodded lightly, "Time flies so fast... About a year ago, the Sakakihara Kenkan was still there.

, everyone... is still here..."

Speaking of this, Ogata felt as if his throat was slowly blocked by something.

Atachi also saw that Ogata's mood was falling rapidly at this time, so he also shut his mouth and stopped talking about this topic.

At this moment - there was a lot of movement in the dojo ahead.

Ogata and Atachi raised their eyes and looked forward.

I saw a young man in his prime, about 30 to 35 years old, walking through a small door and slowly walking onto the dojo, surrounded by a large group of young people wearing uniform white uniforms.

central.

As soon as this young man arrived at the center of the dojo, he introduced himself to Ogata and other spectators.

It turns out that this young man is the current owner of Senxuekan: Mizuno Shinyong.

Mizuno's self-introduction was very long.

A simple summary of his self-introduction is - praising himself as a Zhongjuan-ryu master, how awesome he is.

And how many years of history his Qianxueguan has, and how powerful it is.

There are also how many disciples he has under his command, and how many talented people his disciples have produced. They are all so powerful.

In the final analysis, he is just praising how awesome he is...

This lengthy self-introduction almost made Ogata fall asleep.

Just after Ogata started to yawn for the third time, Mizuno finally ended his overly informative self-introduction and began to conduct a practical demonstration to show the bell scroll flow to the audience.

Seeing that the only part he wanted to see finally came, Ogata cheered up and subconsciously wanted to cross his hands and reach into his sleeves.

But because the weather is hot now, Ogata has been using cuff tape to tie up both sleeves, so his hands are empty, so he can only fold his hands in front of his chest in frustration.

Mizuno and one of his disciples each held a wooden sword and stood facing each other.

Both of them have similar mid-section postures, and both look very standard in appearance.

After this confrontation for a while, Mizuno was the first to take action.

While Mizuno sent out a powerful kiai, he stepped forward and quickly closed the distance between himself and his disciple.

The next moment after the disciple reached his attack range, Mizuno immediately swung his sword and aimed at the disciple's left shoulder to strike down.

The blade of the wooden sword accurately hit the disciple's left shoulder.

The disciple cried out in pain and fell to the ground.

Mizuno's set of actions just now was very fast.
To be continued...