Zuocun sat up.
"Ah... my head hurts so much. What happened before?"
"I think, with Miss Okita...?"
Zuo Cun stroked his head and remembered something.
It seems that I want to help Miss Okita, and then...
Killed a bandit alone, and then together with Miss Okita, killed the bandit leader who looked like a gorilla?
In other words... I killed someone?
Wow——
Before Zuocun could continue to doubt himself, the bedroom door was opened.
It's Ms. Okita Souji.
"Mr. Zuomura." The lovely Miss Okita approached Zuomura Annuo, and she could not see the way he had hacked to death countless bandits with a knife in the past two days.
Okita Souji looks like a pretty girl on weekdays, but once she picks up a knife...
This is the so-called swordsmanship genius, a genius different from ordinary people.
"Ah, Miss Okita." Zuomura Ano took his hands off his head and put them on his knees.
Well-behaved in capital letters.
Okita Souji sat opposite Annuo and looked into Annuo's eyes.
"Mr. Samura, tell me about your sword skills." Okita Souji's eyes became serious and sharp, "What are you hiding from me?"
Seeing Souji Okita's scary eyes, Zuomura Ano swallowed.
Sighing: "If I say that in my memory, I have never practiced swordsmanship, would you believe it, Ms. Okita?"
Okita Souji shook his head without hesitation.
"You are steady and quick in reaction. Although you don't swing many slashes, you always strike at vital parts. I don't believe you have never practiced swordsmanship at this level."
The two fell into silence.
"Although I didn't see what kind of swordsmanship it was, you must have practiced swordsmanship." Okita Souji continued.
"...I didn't hide anything from Miss Okita." Zuo Cun looked gloomy.
"Um?"
"Since I woke up, I have been wandering in Shirakawa Domain."
"What's the meaning?"
Zuo Cun grabbed his quilt: "I have been wandering since I woke up in the wasteland about a month ago."
Okita Souji was stunned: "So that's what I meant at that time..."
"As for the previous things, I have forgotten everything..." Zuomura Annuo felt a little uncomfortable.
"I don't know my own past, and I can't find it, so I don't know if I have ever practiced swordsmanship. I can only give you this answer."
Anno Zuomura lowered his head, as if he was a child who had done something wrong.
Okita Souji didn't know what to say.
Samura's attitude was very sincere, at least Souji Okita didn't see the deception.
She thought it was cheating, but she didn't expect this to be the reason.
"By the way, Miss Okita, I found this knife from the cemetery behind the mountain. I pulled it out and rushed down in a hurry. Can you help me return it?"
Ano Zumura took the emerald-green wakizashi of the scabbard from his side, stroked the handle, and handed it to Okita Souji with both hands.
The scabbard of this wakizashi is entirely emerald green without patterns, and the blade is in the shape of a half-feather.
Okita Souji gently pushed Wakizashi back into Samura Ano's hand.
"Miss Okita...?" Zuo Cun was a little surprised.
"This sword was buried with my father. But since you have killed the enemy with it, then naturally, the sword that drank blood in your hand should be used by you in the future." Souji Okita said with a smile. arrive.
"Although it was originally used as a funerary object, the quality of this knife is still excellent."
"Is this...really okay?"
"Take it, as a samurai, you can't live without a sword." Okita Souji suddenly remembered something, "By the way, my father didn't name it. Since the sword has changed hands, it's up to you to name it. "
Zuomura Annuo nodded and took a deep breath: "I understand."
He looked at the bird feather-shaped sword and then at the emerald green scabbard.
"Just call it...Pheasant Feather, Cui Pheasant Feather."
Zuocun stood up and took the pheasant feather out of its sheath.
Okita also stood up: "Brother has already set off, let's go too, Mr. Samura."
Zuo Cun was a little confused: "Where to go?"
"Go to the Imperial Guard Hall." Souji Okita smiled slightly, "Go to the Natural Rishin-ryu Imperial Guard Hall in Edo."
........
Zuodori Village is located in the northernmost part of Shirakawa Domain, more than three days' journey from Edo.
After Souji Okita found a decent Wu uniform for Samura Annuo to put on, the two of them hit the road.
There weren't too many dangers along the way, but Zuomura Annuo would always be stunned, as if thinking about something.
Occasionally, Zuo Cun would stop and watch waterbirds staying on the edge of the river.
Zuo Cun likes birds very much.
This was the first fact he confirmed after waking up.
When Zuocun first opened his eyes, he happened to be by a pool.
A group of crane-like birds were walking gracefully by the water, stretching their thin necks and fluttering their beautiful wings.
Except for the group of cranes, Zuocun thought every bird was extremely beautiful.
Sparrows, green pheasants, crows, cranes.
He would remember the name of every bird Zuo Cun saw.
The wakizashi, already pinned to Zuo Cun's waist, was named after a green pheasant by Zuo Cun.
After walking for four days, the two finally arrived in this big city.
Edo.
However, Okita Souji did not directly take the silly sweet Anno Samura to go shopping in the city to enjoy the customs of Edo. Instead, he took a turn outside Edo City.
Natural Rishin-ryu's test hall is located not far outside Edo Castle. Because it is not very well-known, it is jokingly called "countryside swordsmanship" by many people.
But everyone who has practiced Natural Rishin-ryu knows this.
In addition to giving you the basics, the rest of the natural flow is basically to increase your speed.
Fast is the highest standard of natural Rishin flow.
When your speed is fast enough, is the lethality really small?
But at least for now, no one in Natural Rishin-ryu has the strength to convince everyone, so that others will stop jokingly calling Natural Rishin-ryu "country swordsmanship."
The owner Shusuke Kondo might be able to do it, but no one has ever seen Shusuke Kondo take action.
As for Okita Souji, he is still in the period of rising strength.
The other people in the Natural Rishin-ryu Test Guard Hall have not yet reached the level that is sufficient to obtain the "Exemption from All Enlightenment", so the self-certification of Natural Rishin-ryu is far away.
"After you get in, you can use your swordsmanship according to your feelings. I can ask the master to help you take a look and see if I can tell which school you belong to."
Zuo Cun was a little nervous and his palms were sweaty.
"I understand, please, Miss Okita."
"Well, let's go in first."
"Ah, yes!"
Okita Souji and Samura Anno walked into the small building with a huge "Natural Rishin" plaque.
