I teach kendo in the ninja world

boom!

The wooden shoji slammed against the wall, and the loud noise finally woke up the six people who were paralyzed on the ground.

When they got up, they realized that their clothes were soaked with sweat.

"The way Mr. Araki looked just now... was so scary..."

Hua Bing, who looked like a porcelain doll, gently pulled Terumi Mei's sleeve and whispered softly.

Kaguya Heigou scratched his head, with a look of sadness on his face: "This is the first time I've seen the boss get so angry... It's all Zabuza's fault!"

"Ok?"

The eyebrowless and masked young man turned his head, his eyes full of doubts.

What does it matter to him?

It was obviously because Terumi Mei and others made some omissions when investigating the intelligence that made Araki furious!

"You tell me, it's okay to pretend to be cool in front of the Sunagakure ninjas. Why do you say 'it's just grit, not worth mentioning' in front of Boss Araki?"

Kaguya Black Bone accused bitterly.

"As subordinates, pretending to be silly in front of others is to give the boss face. But if you go to the boss and pretend to be silly, isn't that asking for trouble?"

"what?"

Zabuza's mouth gradually opened wide, almost tearing off the bandage wrapped around his face.

At the same time, he couldn't help but have doubts about himself when he looked at Hei Gu's sworn look.

"Is it really my fault?"

"Okay, okay, stop making noise!"

At this time, Terumi Mei waved her hand and interrupted the conversation between the two of them impatiently.

"It's too late to talk about this now, let's take a look at the mission left by Mr. Araki first!"

She bent down and picked up the information in the bag from the ground.

"Um……"

The moment she touched the bag, she seemed to smell a faint aroma. It was not familiar, but she seemed to have smelled it somewhere.

"what happened?"

Hua Bing, who had been holding Terumi Mei's sleeve, asked softly.

"No, nothing."

Terumi Mei, who thought for a moment but couldn't think of anything, shook her head, ignored the question, and pulled out a stack of documents from the bag.

"Deidara..."

……

Here, after leaving his evening homework for Terumi Mei and others, Araki turned around and returned to his bedroom.

Leaning against the wall with the Samehadas removed from his back, Araki stretched his limbs on the floor and closed his eyes.

consciousness space.

There is still a dark, deep and unknown void, and a solid, flat ground made of unknown material. A golden picture album floats in the air, rotating slowly.

That's right, Araki is here again to hone his sword skills.

"Master Gatekeeper!"

Under his deep call, the golden [Book of Swordsmen] slowly opened, and the characters flashed by like a revolving lantern. Finally, they stopped at a special page with a painted background.

As the pages of the album freeze, the entire space changes in an instant.

The originally dark sky turned into a night sky with a sparse moon and stars, and the flat and solid land turned into an upward simple stone staircase, with a vaguely ancient mountain gate standing at the end of the ground.

A Qingjun man wearing an elegant purple feather fabric stood on the stairs, holding a narrow-edged sword that was almost as long as his body. His eyes were as calm as a bottomless pool.

"You came."

"I am coming."

Sasaki Kojiro raised his head and looked at the bright moon that appeared in the sky, with a free and easy smile on his lips: "How about raising a glass to drink with the moonlight as your companion tonight?"

At this time, his body was full of sharpness, and he looked like a truly elegant and romantic man, if he hadn't held a long sword [Wigangan] in his hand.

"Forehead……"

Araki was stunned for a moment, then blurted out, "I'm not an adult yet, so I can't drink."

"You are underage and can't drink?"

Sasaki Kojiro shook his head, with a rather regretful tone: "Then I will wait a few more years."

Then, he changed the topic and tilted the blade slightly, catching the moonlight flowing down as gently as water.

"Okay, it seems it's time to take action, what do you think?"

"Of course!"

Araki smiled and held Samehada in front of him with both hands.

clang!

The slender sword collided with the ferocious and broad Samehada muscle, making a "sizzling" friction sound.

After a moment of stalemate, although the strength of the two sides was almost the same, Araki was slowly pushing the blade forward due to the pressure of Samehada's own weight.

Seeing this, Sasaki Kojiro twisted his wrist to adjust the contact position between the blade and Samemus, and at the same time leaned forward.

stab-

The long knife continued to slide forward along the side of Samehada, splashing a stream of sparks. At the same time, his slightly lowered body was quickly approaching Araki.

In Japanese Kendo, there is a widely circulated and very simple way to judge the strength of an enemy.

That is, the lower the body lies, the higher the damage dealt.

Therefore, Araki was still a little nervous when Kojiro Sasaki approached him quickly in such a posture.

After all, he was already lying very low.

However, the characteristics of Samehada's sword determine that although Araki can wield it relatively freely in battle, it is still difficult to make very delicate changes like Sasaki Kojiro's.

There is a difference in the level of swordsmanship between the two sides, and there are also reasons for the different characteristics of the two swords [Mugangan] and [Sameki].

Embroidering with a mace is not something everyone can do.

But after all, Araki is considered a veteran who has experienced many battles, and he is still not unable to cope with it at the beginning.

He slashed the same shark diagonally down to his lower left, at an angle just close to his side, using its broad body as a shield, blocking it firmly between the two of them.

Don't you want to slide along my blade? I'll slide with you!

In this way, Samehada always stood between the two of them, covering Araki behind, making it impossible for Sasaki Kojiro to get close to Araki's body.

After gliding half a circle around Araki's body, Sasaki Kojiro, who failed to find a good opportunity to strike, was about to change his moves, but unexpectedly Araki suddenly lifted his right foot and pushed downwards with a faint light of chakra. When you step on it, it's like wielding a weapon, hitting the ground hard.

boom!

The ground shook violently, and cracks suddenly opened on the ancient stone stairs. Driven by the forward power hidden under Araki's feet, the stones and soil flew out and shot toward Sasaki Kojiro. The shapes were large and small. As fast as a bullet!

[Flying Sword Style·Earth Dragon Flash]!

Sasaki Kojiro is actually no stranger to bullets. With his swordsmanship, it is not difficult to chop bullets with a knife.

but!

At the same time, Araki used the kick's repulsion to launch his force from the ground, through his waist and back, to his arms, flexing his Samehada muscles and following behind, slashing down towards the enemy.

[Flying Sword Style·Dragon Hammer Flash]!

Nowadays, Araki has reached the point where he can use these sword moves as he pleases. He is no longer constrained by the restriction that the Earth Dragon Flash can only chop the ground with a knife, and the Dragon Hammer Flash must jump down to chop.

Using his legs as a knife, he can also pick up gravel and contain the enemy. With the weight of the same shark's muscles and his perfect power, the power of this knife will not be reduced at all even if he does not jump.

Since Kojiro Sasaki's body was lying relatively low, the gravel picked up by Araki using his leg as a knife could almost hit his face in the blink of an eye. Not only that, there was also a ferocious blade whistling down on top of his head. Giant blade!

The situation seems to be extremely critical.

But even so, Sasaki Kojiro's face remained calm as usual. He put one hand on the ground and danced the long sword into a shadow in front of him.

Jingle Jingle!

The dense sword light, as if water could not be poured into it, rejected all the flying stones.

Then, he held the knife in both hands, with the handle in front, and the blade tilted downwards, and he jumped up to meet the same shark that was chopped down on his head.

Nourishes—

The violent collision he imagined did not happen. At the moment when the two sides came into contact, Sasaki Kojiro flipped his wrist and fine-tuned the tilt angle of the [Monogari pole] so that Samehada could only follow the opponent's blade towards his side. Slide down.

At the same time, through the friction between the long sword and Samehada, Sasaki Kojiro used Samehada as a scabbard and struck an extremely sharp blow diagonally upward!

Iai!

choke-

In an instant, the sword filled with bright moonlight was handed to Araki's eyes like a sword.Although the swordsmanship is so fierce and compelling, under the moonlight, not only is there no trace of murderous intent, but it is full of an elegant and earthly beauty.

At this time, Araki's strength was so strong that he couldn't retract the Samehada that was struck out. He saw that the situation took a turn for the worse in the blink of an eye.

Just now he was the one who took the initiative to attack, but before he finished using this move, he was in a state of life and death.

"Is this [mind's eye]?"

While he was questioning, he pulled hard with his right hand holding the handle of the Samehada knife. The handle of the knife, covered with golden scales, was like a long snake, and was pulled out by him in a curved way for several meters.

clang!

Araki held the pulled-out knife handle in front of him, just in time to resist Sasaki Kojiro's sharp slash.

"The variety of sword skills seems to have increased."

Sasaki Kojiro smiled slightly.

However, although he had temporarily escaped disaster with the special ability of the Samehada, the hilt of the knife was just a hilt after all. Sasaki Kojiro seized the opportunity of Araki having no knife in his hand and slashed continuously, and his offensive was like mercury pouring down the ground, penetrating every hole.

clang clang clang!

With each blow, Araki would take a step back. After four blows, Araki's arm was shaken to the point of numbness.

But despite this, Araki was still not able to break through the defense line due to Kojiro Sasaki.

This is a very strange thing.

Because Araki, who obviously had Samehada in hand before, would instantly fall into a disadvantage because the opponent caught the flaw in an attack.Now that we have lost our weapons, how can we stabilize our defense?

The reason is actually not complicated.

Araki, who has Samehada in hand, needs to focus on both offense and defense at the same time, and it is inevitable that the energy allocated to each area is very limited.

When attacking, he not only needs to find the enemy's weaknesses, but also leaves behind defensive strength.The same goes for defense. In addition to resisting the opponent's attacks, you must also constantly look for opportunities to counterattack.

That's fine if he's facing other people, but in front of Sasaki Kojiro, who has the [Inner Eye], every time Araki is distracted is a fatal flaw.

This is a state of suppression.

[Mind Eye] To put it simply, it is a combination of super perceptual ability and flaw-catching ability.When fighting against someone with the [Inner Eye], every incongruity in your movements will be discovered by the opponent, which may then turn into a breakthrough and become the small ant nest that destroys the dam.

Therefore, Araki's previous state of being distracted and dual-purpose was full of flaws in the eyes of Sasaki Kojiro.

But now, Araki, who only had a hilt in his hand, was forced into a posture where he could only defend with all his strength.

Although he was still at a disadvantage in terms of the scene, he unexpectedly entered a state of concentration.

In this state, his eyes, ears, skin, mind, and all means of perception are concentrated on the perception of danger to himself.

Gradually, he seemed to be able to vaguely grasp the place where Sasaki Kojiro's next knife was about to hit, and then simultaneously adjusted the handle of the knife in his hand to receive the blow steadily.

Araki's state at this time is very strange.

Because his perception was too concentrated, he could no longer see other things in this space.

The bright moon in the sky, the simple stairs, the distant mountain gate...

All of this was excluded by Araki.

All he could see in his eyes was the long knife that kept slashing at him, and in his ears he could only hear the soft sound of the blade cutting through the air, and his skin could only feel the faint sting of the blade as it approached...

And deep in his heart, he seemed to be standing in the middle of a lake as flat as a mirror.

Every time Sasaki Kojiro swings his sword, it will leave a circle of clear ripples on the lake, and he only needs to respond before the ripples get close to him, so that he can steadily block the opponent's attack.

In the eyes of the outside world, in the eyes of Sasaki Kojiro, Araki always seemed to be able to predict his attacks in advance. Although he was a little passive, he defended himself perfectly.

After the forceful attack failed, he put away his sword and retreated, and said with some surprise: "Has your [Mind's Eye] already started?"

After Sasaki Kojiro stopped attacking, Araki quickly withdrew from that strange state because of the lack of pressure between life and death.

After hearing Sasaki Kojiro's question, he asked back: "Is this the [mind's eye]?"

At this time, after Araki exited the state of extreme concentration, the feeling he gave Sasaki Kojiro was completely different from before. However, as a master swordsman, he naturally would not mistake Araki's state just now.

"That's right. Although it's still in the primary stage and not very proficient, it can still be considered an introduction."

"The primary stage? [Mind's Eye] is divided into many stages?" Araki was confused.

"This is nature. Every ability is constantly developing forward. In my opinion, [Mind Eye] can be divided into two stages. The first stage is called [Confidant], which is the state you just entered. You can sense all changes around you very keenly. When the enemy's attack enters your body, it cannot escape the perception no matter what, and your defense is unparalleled."

Sasaki Kojiro was not stingy with this knowledge and continued: "As for the second stage, it can be called [Knowing the Enemy], spreading out one's perception field and covering the enemy. Feeling the opponent's muscles, fascia, The energy flow in the body and all other changes can capture the opponent's flaws before he makes a move, and take advantage of the situation to directly attack the flaws, with an unparalleled offensive."

"Know your friend and your enemy..."

Araki chewed on these two realms carefully, summarizing his experience just now, and immediately felt that he had gained a lot.

"Okay, Petrified Spring Thunder, let's use this knife to decide the outcome!"

Sasaki Kojiro held the sword with both hands, twisted his body, raised the long sword, and placed it behind his back. His sharp eyes exuded a cold light that seemed to be able to see through everything.

"Secret Sword - Yan Hui!"