[Shaman King] He has a cat

As the name suggests, Ma Cang Ye Ping has a deadpan face, all the lines are in a straight line, his sharp eyes are like a falcon, and his way of speaking is also very direct, without sloppy at all, directly cutting to the point when he comes up:

"Have you ever used a knife?"

A'Du was stunned for a moment, realizing that the other party's question was aimed at her, subconsciously stood up straighter.

"..."

No, she didn't use it.

As a person living in a peaceful age, the only thing she used was...

When it comes to lethality... Does a kitchen knife count?

Ma Cang Ye Wang next to him coughed lightly, as if his throat suddenly felt itchy. She seriously suspected that he was actually holding back his laughter, although she didn't know what he was laughing at.

A'Du: "...No, I have no experience."

Ma Cang Yeping said with no expression, "Have you ever used a weapon?"

"..."

Do metal candle holders count?

A'Du hesitated for a moment: "It's been used."

"What about combat experience?"

Finally it was her turn to a question that she could answer, A'Du breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and raised his eyes: "Yes."

Ma Cang Ye Ping stared at her for a while, he had a thin and stern appearance, the tall and silent martial attendant was like a goshawk in an ancient scroll, even perched on a branch, he still gave people an extremely sharp feeling, as if the next moment He can spread his wings to slap people... Ah no, he can chop ghosts with a knife.

A'Du thought that the other party would say a few words, "Training with me is very hard." "If you want me to teach you, you must be enlightened."——These words are half threats and half persuasion.

But Asakura Yeping just stared at her blankly for a moment, she didn't know whether she should look away, whether to look at him politely at this time, or lower her gaze slightly.

Because she couldn't make up her mind, she simply looked back.

After a while, the samurai with the sword looked away.

Before turning around, he succinctly dropped a sentence:

"follow me."

And so the hellish special training began.

At first, A'Du didn't quite understand why Ma Cang Ye Wang said that Ma Cang Ye Ping was the right person to teach her. She even suspected that the last time she violently beat ghosts with a metal candlestick, she might accidentally be left behind by Ma Cang Ye Wang got the wrong impression.

But soon, she realized that she was wrong.

King Ma Cang Ye has a good intention.

Ever since she started training with Ma Cang Ye Ping, she has no time to think about things, hurting the spring and the autumn.

Compared with Asakura Yeping's special training in hell, the military training she experienced was as relaxing and enjoyable as a spring outing in elementary school.

Standing in a military posture, standing in a queue, or being exposed to the sun for hours, even if it is a social performance, at this moment, under the filter of memories, it is shining like a heavenly light.

As an inexperienced layman, she learned everything from scratch, including how to hold a knife, how to position her fingers, how to use her arms when swinging a knife, and how to coordinate her body and swinging a knife.

Ma Cang Yeping is a very strict person, if she was asked to swing the saber three thousand times, then two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine strokes would definitely not work.

She has to do basic endurance training every day, various sprints, long-distance runs, variable speed runs, and later added weight running, as well as various balance training, which makes her sometimes feel that she has become a highly skilled As an acrobat, if she can't become an onmyoji who fights ghosts physically, she can at least go to the streets to support herself.

A full day of training was arranged, starting before dawn and ending when the sun was setting in the west. Every time she returned to the mansion, she was so tired that she fell asleep, not to mention it was a sad time, even what was the season? She didn't even notice when it was summer.

Heianjing is surrounded by mountains on all sides, which is a typical basin terrain. It is humid and hot in summer, and the noise of cicadas stretches endlessly, spreading from the mountains to Suzaku Avenue in the capital.

After the summer, Asakura Yeping added the field survival part to A'Du's course.

When he found out that she couldn't even make a fire, Asakura Yeping finally showed a look of astonishment on his expressionless face.

"How did you survive until now?"

...Of course, it relies on induction cooker, gas stove, and the convenience technology that she misses so much in the 21st century.

Following Ma Cang Yeping, she learned how to use flint to make a fire, how to identify the direction in the forest, how to identify the traces of different animals, how to find food, and how to distinguish between edible fruits and poisonous plants.

Following the load running, A'Du added obstacle running to his daily training.

But since the training venue has been changed to the forest...

"Will there be that special training?" she asked blankly.

A'Du found that expressionlessness is contagious. Recently, she was so tired that she didn't even want to show her expression. At the same time, she also understood why the other party always had a straight face.

The expression is too much of a waste of energy.

After many days of observation, A'Du can confirm that Ma Cang Yeping's world is very simple, and many things in this world can be generally divided into two categories in his eyes:

Things that affect his draw speed, and things that don't.

The sound of intense water gradually became clear in the forest.

Asakura Yeping glanced at her.

...The result is really there! ! !

The legendary waterfall training.

Waterfall training sounds great on a hot summer day, but anyone who's actually tried it knows it's not.

The purpose of the so-called waterfall training is to cultivate a strong spirit, but how to cultivate a strong spirit?Of course through patience, patience, and endless patience.

The waterfall washes over the human body, which is painful and heavy, and the back will become a kind of numb coldness.

Not surprisingly, she also fell asleep when she went back that day.

The next day, when it was still dark outside, A'Du woke up from a deep, dreamless sleep, hurriedly ate a few mouthfuls of the breakfast Ma Nu had prepared for her, and rushed out the door.

She is now very familiar with the criss-cross streets of Heian-kyo, and even with her eyes closed, she knows how to get to the main residence of the Asakura family.

Every time she arrived at the training ground, it was early enough, but Asakura Yeping seemed like he didn't need to sleep, and every time he waited there with a straight face, as if she was going to go if she was a second late The expression of swinging the knife three thousand times.

It would be a lie if she said she didn't want to sleep in.

When she was in college, she made a lot of fulfilling plans every summer vacation, but the end result was without exception, always lying on the bed and playing with her mobile phone.

When it comes to hard work, she is not particularly diligent and hardworking. If not, her English word book would not always stay on the first page of abandon, and even the matter of going abroad for postgraduate study was delayed until her senior year. I finally made up my mind.

She was not good at enduring hardships before, but she was very good at making her tired. She was exhausted in the military training in her freshman year, but now she recalls it like a lifetime away.

…I want to turn on the air conditioner, I want to lie on the mat and eat ice cream idly, I want to eat freshly cut watermelon, and use a spoon to scoop out the sweetest bite in the center of the watermelon.

There is also ice cola, when you open the can, there will be a click, and the metal ring will make a pleasant and crisp ice cola.

There are also fried chicken, hot pot, takeaway at midnight, smoky barbecue, and sweet milk tea.

The lazy and wasted summer is the summer she has been familiar with since she was a child.

But reality changed.

She is not in a familiar city, has no relatives and friends around, the world has been turned upside down, and she no longer has the qualifications to be willful.

Her goal now is not to graduate and find a job, but to survive in a strange era. The weight of the latter is completely different, and the only person she can rely on in the end is herself.

Compared with other people in this world, she is already very lucky. She met the strongest onmyoji of this era as soon as she crossed, and even got an internal referral from the other party, so she was able to accept the training to become an onmyoji.

Even if you are tired to death, this is an out-and-out kindness.

So no matter how sleepy you are in the morning, you have to get up. No matter how hard you train, you can’t stop. If you can’t hold the chopsticks, you can change the spoon to eat. As long as you can continue to move forward, she will not stop running. can go on...

She suddenly felt that she heard the sound of the alarm clock.

Before he regained consciousness, his body sat up straight like a carp, and then with a "bang", he hit some kind of hard ceiling.

... going to be late!

She opened her eyes and found herself sitting in a familiar bullock cart.

It was evening, and the fiery red setting sun shone in through the gaps in the imperial curtains. An onmyoji in hunting clothes was sitting by the window, his handsome face was half-shrouded in the afterglow of the setting sun, and the expression on his face was very gentle, He didn't seem to notice that she hit the ceiling of the carriage just now.

"are you awake?"

The memory came back, and she remembered that after today's training, King Ma Cang Ye came to the family's mansion to pick her up and go back together.

Of course she was very happy not to have to walk, maybe she was really too tired, she leaned against the bumpy and shaking car wall, and fell asleep accidentally.

Now, the sound of the wheels creaking and creaking has long since disappeared, and the ox cart with the gorgeous imperial curtains stopped at the gate of the familiar mansion, and I don’t know how long it stayed there.

...she definitely overslept.

"How about a day off tomorrow?"

A'Du froze for a moment, then sat back down again.

"……is it okay?"

King Ma Cang Ye smiled: "The combination of work and rest is also very important."

She hesitated: "But..."

"I have already greeted Asakura Yeping, and he also agreed with my proposal."

……are you sure?

A'Du recalled Ma Cang Yeping's expression, it was hard to imagine the expression of agreement on that face.

King Ma Cang Ye smiled and said: "That's all, you have a day off tomorrow."

At this point, she has no reason to continue to refuse.

And to be honest, she wanted to sleep in so badly.

Just once—let her sleep until dawn, just once.

...The consequence of not sleeping in for a long time was that she slept until the sun was rising the next day.

The feeling of not having to get up early is so good. Holding the hard pillow of this era, she feels that the sunlight outside the window is softer and brighter than usual, and the continuous chirping of cicadas is no longer as noisy as usual. Instead, it reminds her of her childhood summer vacation .

When people are free, it is easy to think about something.

But she did miss the familiar high-rise buildings, and even the heat wave that hit her face at that moment when she walked out of the air-conditioned room.

She misses the refrigerator in the canteen, the buzzing electric fan, the ground scorched by the sun, even the endless summer homework, she misses it so much that her heart feels empty, as if someone used a cold The spoon scooped up a piece.

A'Du stopped these thoughts, stuffed these nostalgia that popped up like weeds back, and tried hard to stamp them firmly with his feet.

Now wasn't the time to think about it—although she didn't know when it would be.

A'Du left the room, and found King Ma Cang Ye on the corridor facing the courtyard.

Gu Zong was lying on the cushion next to him, Ma Cang Ye Wang was wearing a red-backed white coat, and he seemed to have just returned from the palace.

In front of him was an exquisite wooden box with a small lacquered bowl containing a cube-shaped food that looked a bit like cheese.

King Ma Cang Ye: "Do you want to try it?"

"...Give it to me?" A'Du was a little surprised, but at the same time curious, "What is this?"

"This is called 'crispy', and it's a snack in the palace. "

Today is a sunny day, the trees in the courtyard are verdant, and the pond under the arch bridge reflects the clear sky. When the breeze blows by, the silk sash hanging from the imperial curtain swayed slightly in the wind, and the continuous cicadas' chirping became slightly quieter.

She picked up the silver spoon, scooped out a small piece of snack and put it in her mouth.

A strange yet familiar taste spread in her mouth. For a moment, she seemed to have returned to the coastal city where the summer wind was hot and humid, and to the childhood that seemed endlessly long in midsummer. The sound of kicking the ball, the gurgling ball rolled far away in the setting sun.

A'Du bit the spoon and froze in place without warning.

After the silence, the memories are connected with the cicadas in reality, and the sounds of the world flood into my ears again.

The dim sum melted, and the unfamiliar taste dissipated in the mouth, but the familiar sweetness lingered.

Not exactly the same though.

Although the difference is so obvious.

She suddenly raised her head and looked at the person opposite.

……

What melted in her mouth was the taste of milk ice cream.

The author has something to say:

Crisp: A snack made from milk in the Heian period. It was very, very expensive, and the nobles seldom ate it.

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