Li!【6300】

August 29, the first year of Wanyan (1860), afternoon——

Edo, Xiao Town, Tsukinomiya Shrine, somewhere——

This is the time when the temperature is the highest of the day.

The sun has unleashed all its heat, and the air between heaven and earth has been heated to a crisp.

The shadows of everything exposed to the sun were illuminated by the blazing sunlight like thick ink, sticking to the ground like a layer of burnt black paint.

Qingden, who did not want to suffer from the burning sun, carefully clung to the shadow of the verandah, followed step by step behind the twins Sae and Yae, and headed towards an unknown location.

Mr. Tachibana, please come with me. Yae and I will take you to the training ground for the first training - these are the exact words Sae said to Aonto just now.

Qingteng asked Shazhong what he was going to train for today, but Shazhong kept it secret and said, "You'll know when you get to the training ground."

Qingdeng was quite curious about what kind of martial arts and skills the new Yutingban practiced on a daily basis.

Since Sha Zhong was betrayed, there was nothing else to do. He could only suppress his expectations for the time being, follow the twins' arrangements, and follow them to the so-called "training ground".

After walking all the way to the deepest part of Tsukinomiya Shrine, Sae and Yae, who were leading the way, finally stopped.

"Mr. Tachibana, we are here."

Shazhong turned around and said to Qingdeng.

Qingden raised his eyes and looked forward.

The first thing that caught Qingdeng's eyes was the wooden stakes inserted upside down in the ground and arranged in a staggered manner.

At first glance, these wooden piles are arranged randomly. But after a closer look, you can find that the arrangement of these wooden piles has a certain pattern.

The further north you go...that is, the closer you get to Qingdeng, the side where the "Second Layer" sisters are currently standing, the wider the cross-section of the wooden pile and the shorter the height.

The shortest and widest wooden stake is about 2 meters high and as wide as an adult man's foot.

The further south you go, the taller the wooden piles are and the narrower the cross-section.

The tallest and narrowest wooden stake is nearly 5 meters, so narrow that even if a child is allowed to stand in the "golden rooster independent" posture, he may not be able to stand firmly.

"Mr. Tachibana, this is the place where we and other new Banshi warriors of the new Royal Court Banner will practice their 'shenfa'."

After saying that, Sasaki put her small white hands into the lapels of her coat and took out a blue scroll.

At the same time, Yae also put his hand into the lapel of his clothes and took out a Juju.

I don’t know how these two little guys, less than 1.4 meters tall, put such big things into their clothes...

According to what Tianzhang Yuan said this morning, although these two sisters look like "Can you tell I'm a primary school student?", they are actually both 18-year-old adults of the same age as Qingdeng.

Since they were peers... for the sake of politeness, Qingdeng decided to use honorifics for the two sisters and add the suffix "Miss" to their titles.

"Miss Sasaki..."

"Listen up, junior! Before we officially start today's training, I want to tell you something important first!"

...junior?

Qingto, who was interrupted by Yae's intervention, realized after a moment that the "junior" Yae mentioned was referring to him.

Qingden turned to look at Yae.

"Ms. Yae, what's wrong?"

"You need to change how you address me and my sister!"

Yae put his right hand on his shoulder and put his left hand on his hip, showing a very proud expression.

"Our New Royal Court Fan is an organization that respects seniority and inferiority!"

"My sister and I entered the new imperial court before you! So we are your seniors! You have to call me and my sister 'senpai'!"

Yae put down the ten hands on his shoulders and pointed at Qingdeng's face with the top of his ten hands.

Although she showed a fierce expression with slightly furrowed eyebrows and slightly curled red lips, because of her cute appearance and her petite body, she didn't look scary or menacing at all.

"Yae, don't point at people like this, it's rude."

Shazhong slapped the Jushou out of Yae's hand, then bent down and bowed lightly to Qingden.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Tachibana, please forgive my sister for being rude."

"My sister is a little complacent."

"Before you joined the New Royal Court Fan, my sister and I were the youngest people in the New Royal Court Fan."

"Finally, a newcomer who is newer than me has arrived. This makes my sister, who has always wanted to have a junior at her disposal, very excited and looking forward to it."

"This morning, my sister has been secretly hiding in the woods behind the shrine, quietly practicing how to show off as a senior to the new juniors."

"As a result, the results of the practice were not shown at all."

"When I came to your rest room just now and called you to the training ground to train, my sister was too ashamed and nervous, so she said 'junior! The happy rest time is over!'"

"Senior, I will train you strictly from today on!" I couldn't wait to say anything but it was too late... Ah, no, I was too embarrassed to say it."

Sasaki seemed to want to continue talking.

"Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah-!"

But Yae's roar...corrected, it was a wailing sound with a sense of despair, cutting off Sae's words.

Yae, who had his head hanging low, held his head with both hands and let out a shrill scream.

His eyesight wandered wildly and his eyes were cloudy.

Her little face, which was no bigger than Qingden's palm, suddenly turned extremely red, as if she could bleed with just a pinch.

"Stop talking! Stop talking! My senior's dignity will be ruined by you!"

Yae struck a hungry tiger...corrected, it was a "short-footed tiger pounces on food", and pounced on Saege, trying to block Saege's mouth.

But it was easily dodged by Shazhong, who seemed to have predicted his movements in advance.

The moment Yae pounced on her, Sasuke gently moved her lotus feet, which were covered with clean white socks and red button straws, and stepped out of the reach of Yae's arms.

Qingden was not sure whether he had seen it wrong, but he vaguely noticed that Sa Zhong's little face, which lacked any expression and seemed to have a dull expression, now seemed to have a faint smile.

The evil smile of a successful prank...

"...Kukukukukuku...~~"

Not only could I vaguely see a bad smile, but I could also vaguely hear a cheerful laugh with malicious intent...

Yae, whose face was still extremely red, was preparing to attack a second time.

But he was stopped by Sha Zhong’s words:

"Yae, your childish look will only make your senior's dignity even more fragile."

"Gu...!"

Yae's body suddenly froze.

Taking advantage of the moment when Yae's message stopped, Saege raised her hand to stroke Yae's hair as if she were soothing her own pet.

"Mr. Tachibana, New Royal Court Fan is indeed an organization that pays great attention to seniority, but it does not force everyone who comes late to call "senpai" to those who come first."

"So you can call us casually, and you don't have to be so formal."

Hearing what Sae said, Yae immediately looked like he had something to say but was hesitant to say it.

After a while, Yae's "hesitation to speak" turned into flattened lips and a look of loss on her face - all these small expressions of hers were fully visible to Qingto.

Titles and so on... In Qingdeng's eyes, this matter is completely insignificant.

Since Yae likes to be called "senpai", it might not be a bad idea to fulfill her little wish.

Anyway, when it comes to the order of entry into the New Imperial Garden, Yae is indeed Aoto's senior, so it makes sense to call her senior.

Thinking of this, Qingden cleared his throat:

"Then I'd better call you two seniors. After all, to me, you two are indeed the old people in the New Royal Court series."

As soon as Qingteng finished speaking, Yae suddenly raised his head, straightened his back, and stared at Qingteng with fiercely flashing eyes, as if an electric current was flowing through his body.

Immediately afterwards, she put her hands on her hips, raised her chest without any distortion to the lines of her clothes, her eyes were half-squinted, and the corners of her mouth curled up as if she had heard some praise.

"Like, that's great!"

"Mr. Tachibana, you should call me 'Miss Sashige'."

Saju, who did not show a happy expression like Yae, shook her head gently.

"I'm not used to the title 'senior'..."

"Um...ok, I understand." Qingden nodded.

"I wasted a lot of time by not paying attention. Let's get back to the topic."

Sasaka turned around and faced the dense mass of wooden piles again.

"Mr. Tachibana, before we officially start practicing, please allow me to introduce you."
To be continued...