"Okay, Emi-chan, if you don't have anything else to do, go ahead and do your work. I'll have a chat with this new member."
Shuiting Maki suddenly brought the topic to Jiang Xu.
"Okay, Minister, I will continue to recruit new people."
Emi Hayaya nodded.
"Well, thank you for your hard work."
When Emi Hayaya walked out of the office, Jiang Xu took a step forward and smiled.
"Hello, Minister Shuiting, this is the first time we meet. I am Jiang Xu."
Shuiting Maki turned the pen with her fingertips and looked Jiang Xu up and down. She had decided in advance to be "cold" and her tone became softer unconsciously.
"Jiang Xujun, hello, I am Shuiting Maki, and I am also the minister of the Kendo Club. In the club, just call me the minister."
After saying one sentence, she felt something was wrong and cleared her throat before continuing.
"Jiang Xujun, it is in line with the school's regulations for you to directly join the Kendo Club. However, whether you can become a regular member is a matter within the club."
"I have learned about your achievements. They are very gorgeous. However, the rules of Xia Kingdom's fighting competition are very different from the rules of Sakurajima's kendo competition. Jiang Xujun, can you really adapt?"
At the end, her tone even took on a hint of seriousness.
Jiang Xu frowned, wondering if it was his misunderstanding. He always felt that Minister Shuiting seemed to be vaguely targeting him.
Is it because you don't like 'foreign aid'?
Jiang Xu couldn't understand, but Shuiting Maki's words were in line with his previous expectations, so he said directly.
"Buchou, I think what you said makes sense, so I hope you will treat me as a newcomer joining the Kendo Club. I want to learn the rules of Sakurajima Kendo from scratch."
"???"
Shuiting Maki was stunned.
Who can tell her what is going on?
Didn't it mean that Jiang Xu, who won the Xia Kingdom National High School Student Fighting Competition, was an arrogant, unreasonable person who only pursued the so-called ultimate in swordsmanship?
Why are real people so different from what the media says?
She was asked to prepare a bunch of words and she couldn't even speak out. She was even a little bit suffocated.
"Well, uh, I, I very much agree with your opinion Jiang Xujun."
"Well, the person in charge of training newcomers this time is the backbone of our kendo club, third-year Fujisaka-san. You can study with him for a while first."
"Okay, thank you, Minister."
Jiang Xu naturally had no objection, "If there's nothing else, I'll go out first."
"Well, nothing happens for now."
"However, as the warrior champion of the Xia Kingdom, you came to our Sakurajima and had to start as a pre-selected club member. Don't you feel slighted? Moreover, aren't there rumors that you came to Sakurajima to challenge our Sakurajima? The sword master of the island kendo world?”
After holding it in for a while, Shuiting Maki couldn't help but ask.
"No, not at all."
Jiang Xu shook his head, "I'm just an ordinary person. Even if I may be a little good at swordsmanship, it doesn't mean I can be proud."
"Sakurajima Kendo also has its own characteristics. One of the purposes of my coming here is to learn Sakurajima Kendo, absorb its advantages, learn by analogy, and improve myself. If the young sword master is willing, I would really like to communicate and discuss with him. .Others are purely rumors.”
Jiang Xu kept saying nice things, and he almost believed them.
He kept telling himself in his heart, don't be lazy, develop first, and then wait until the skill proficiency is increased.
Maki Mizuba moved her fingertips slightly, put the pen in her palm, and said with a smile: "Well, okay, I believe what you said, Jiang Xujun. I also hope that you will gain something from your studies in Sakurajima and Ayakawa."
The gap between Jiang Xu's actual performance and her psychological expectations was so big that she didn't know what to say.
"Then I'll go out first, Minister Shuiting. Goodbye."
Jiang Xu nodded gently in greeting.
"goodbye."
Maki Mizuba kept smiling and nodded in return.
Until he saw Jiang Xu go out and confirmed that the door was closed.
Her brows instantly furrowed, and she leaned back on the chair. As if remembering something, she took out her mobile phone and opened the communication software.
I clicked on the first chat box at the top. The avatar was a landscape photo of the ancient Sakurajima garden with quite an antique feel.
It's not like a picture on the internet, but like I took a random photo at home and used it as a profile picture.
Maki Mizuba typed a string of words and read them to herself. After thinking for a moment, she deleted them all, changed the way of expression, described the matter again, and finally revised the subtle tone of words. Then clicked send.
Then he raised his phone and kept staring at the screen.
In about three minutes, in the blink of an eye, the 'unread' at the end of the message changed to 'read'.
Shuitian Maki suddenly became energetic and stared at the screen, waiting for the reply from the other side.
About half a minute later, a message refreshed.
[Understood, this news is of great help, thank you very much. Since this swordsman from Xia Kingdom is interested in learning Sakurajima Kendo, I would like to trouble you to teach him. I will take time to come to school in two weeks. At that time, no matter what his purpose is, I will meet him for a while. 】
【learn! 】
After seeing that the last message he sent had been read, Maki Mizuba threw the phone on the table, and then he lay down on the table with an uncontrollable smile on his face.
'Two weeks! Great! '
Kendo Club Activity Classroom.
After Jiang Xu went out, he walked directly towards the trial team at the door.
After a simple self-introduction, Jiang Xu successfully joined the newcomer queue as a new student and successfully received a bamboo sword.
Well, freshmen are students who are newly admitted to Ayakawa, which does not mean they are first-year students. There is nothing wrong with them at all.
Fujisaka, as the newcomer's instructor, did not ask about Jiang Xu's level of swordsmanship.
Not only did he not ask Jiang Xu, he would not ask any of the newcomers who had arrived for trial training these days.
Anyway, most newcomers are taught etiquette and some theories in the first few days.
The actual moves will only be practiced from the simplest and most basic moves.
This is the same even if newcomers have already learned it in junior high school. They need to practice it again for a week to sort it out.
If you think it's too simple, doesn't meet expectations, can't stand it, and can't make up your mind, you'll be eliminated directly.
Only after a week will the club begin to teach students individually according to their learning level.
Generally speaking, freshmen are just running errands and doing odd jobs, and it is basically impossible to be selected as a main player in the competition.
Therefore, they have one year to polish themselves, so it doesn't matter if they are slower in the early stage, laying a solid foundation is the most important thing.
After an hour, break time.
Jiang Xu scanned the entire activity classroom again and asked doubtfully: "Is there no instructor in the kendo club?"
Seeing that several other newcomers also had this doubt, Fujisaka explained.
"I heard from the seniors who have graduated that it happened before, but after the minister invited the deputy minister to join the kendo club, it didn't take long for the instructor to say that the kendo he taught was purely misleading. Although the seniors tried to persuade them to stay, the instructor The teacher still resigned. Later, the director of our Kendo club became the deputy minister."
All the freshmen were shocked. Ayakawa was not an ordinary school. Those who could apply for the job were at least those with real qualifications.
What kind of blow did this instructor suffer? He even lost his professional confidence.
"So powerful, who is the deputy minister?"
Jiang Xu also became interested, turned to look at the group of official team members in the center of the classroom and asked.
"The deputy minister's situation is quite special. She doesn't have classes, so she's not in school every day. She didn't come even if school started today."
"But as long as she comes, she will come to the Kendo Club for guidance. It can be said that last year we were able to enter the top 16 of the National Kendo Competition, and the guidance of the Deputy Minister was crucial. It is a pity that I don't know why the Deputy Minister did not participate. National competition. Otherwise, the individual competition champion will definitely not be someone else. In the team competition, we will not fall in the top 16."
As if recalling some experiences from last year's competition, Fujisaka's expression suddenly became very excited.
Jiang Xu was about to ask about the deputy minister again, but Fujisaka suddenly slapped his head.
"By the way, talking about the deputy minister, I suddenly remembered something."
"You should have studied the teaching videos of the Kendo Alliance. But what I am about to pass on to you is the latest version. According to the plan, it will be officially announced and released after half a month. But we got it during the holiday. , which is equivalent to two more months of familiarity.”
Fujisaka chuckled.
"Fujisaka-senpai, the standard tutorials will be updated every few years, and the rules of competitive competitions will be fine-tuned accordingly. This is a big event in the kendo world. How did you get the new version of the teaching video in advance?"
a freshman asked.
Fujisaka nodded, indicating that he understood this doubt.
"The video was obtained by the minister. I can be sure that the information is absolutely accurate and the video is absolutely true."
The newcomers looked at each other and could only half-believe it.
After all, it will be announced in half a month, so there is no need to lie.
But no matter what video it is, it doesn't mean much to Jiang Xu.
He has actually searched for this series of videos on the Internet. The Sakurajima Kendo League will only update it every one or two years. It is a must-see video for newcomers learning kendo in Sakurajima.
Jiang Xu tried to learn from videos, but did not develop skills.
I think that my previous cooking skills only appeared after seeing Aoba in action many times.
Jiang Xu believes that systematic judgment may require seeing others teach it in person.
However, there seems to be an opportunity now.
"Fujisaka-senpai, since you already got the video during the vacation, you should be very clear about the changes this time. Can you please show it? It's best to go through it completely starting from the first action. We also You can see where the gap is between you and your predecessors.”
"Yeah, okay."
Fujisaka thought for a moment and agreed to Jiang Xu's suggestion.
It just so happened that he could take this opportunity to show off his strength as a senior in front of these juniors.
There is no weak person who can stay in the Kendo Club and become a main candidate.
You newcomers have to work hard for a whole year!
Since he was only practicing basic moves, Fujisaka did not warm up. He picked up the bamboo sword and took two steps forward, then turned sideways to several people.
Jiang Xu and others sat cross-legged on the floor, took out their mobile phones and played the video, watching Fujisaka's movements.
The clip about promoting kendo at the beginning of the video on the mobile phone ended, and a line of large characters 'Sakurajima Kendo Basic Tutorial - Sakurajima Kendo Alliance Announcement' appeared and disappeared.
As a swordsman wearing a kendo uniform and helmet, but with a well-proportioned figure who could clearly be seen as a young man, appeared on the screen, the tutorial officially began.
Several freshmen were a little surprised. The previous tutorials were guided by some well-known swordsman masters, and most of them were elderly.
But this time not only was it replaced by a young man, he was also unwilling to show his face or indicate his name.
Doesn't he know that anyone who can appear in a kendo tutorial video promoted across the country can leave his or her name in the history of kendo?
This is the honor that many swordsmen practitioners strive for throughout their lives!
He actually gave up like that!
But no matter what they thought, the video kept playing.
"Natural stance!"
As soon as the voice on the phone rang, Fujisaka's body straightened naturally, looking extremely natural without any signs of exertion.
"Standing pose!"
"Hold the sword!"
"Middle section!"
"pace!"
"Swing the sword!"
"Strike!"
...
As the voices on the phone rang one after another.
The figure in the frame and Fujisaka outside the frame both make the same movements simultaneously.
However, the more they watched, the stranger the looks from Jiang Xu and others became. In the end, they even just glanced at Fujisaka and immediately turned back to the mobile video.
In fact, if you just look at Fujisaka's movements, they are extremely standard. Every movement is infused with power and looks impressive.
It's the kind of thing that beginners will be very eager to reach the same level as soon as they see it, and then show off in front of their friends.
But, compared with the figure in the video.
It seemed extremely clumsy and... stiff.
Although they are all the same movements, the figures in the video look extremely freehand and natural, as if these kendo moves are just instinctive movements like walking, eating, drinking, and turning hands.
The bamboo sword vibrates and dances, and yet there is a hint of soft beauty in the sharpness.
The body turns and moves like a butterfly fluttering, with dexterity and amazing speed.
All his movements, from beginning to end, are like a piece of smooth, coherent calligraphy.
Jiang Xu was sure that this series of actions were all one scene to the end. Apart from subtitles, there were no unnecessary editing in the later stage.
With the final sword sheath and salute, the video ends.
Jiang Xu let out a long breath, as if he had watched a wonderful and gorgeous dance, which made people so focused that they even forgot to breathe.
Suddenly, as if he thought of something, his eyes flashed and he silently recited "system" in his heart.
The Xudan page quickly expanded. Jiang Xu turned directly to the skills column and couldn't help but smile when he saw the new words appearing inside.
Kendo - Beginner (5%)
Finally got started.
This also means that as long as he has enough victory points, Jiang Xu can quickly improve his swordsmanship level to a point where he is stronger than the original owner.
At the very least, there is no need to worry about bottlenecks until the next big realm.
His biggest goal of joining the kendo club was actually accomplished on the first day.
Does that mean that there is no need for the Kendo Club to come?
Jiang Xu touched his chin and thought seriously.
It is estimated that no one in the entire kendo club expected that someone would actually want to run away on the first day.
In the past, even if I couldn't persist, I would force myself to hold on for a few more days before giving up.
There is absolutely no need to think about running away on the first day.
