I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"I was a swordsman in ancient Japan(

Ogata's arrangement for himself these days is to work hard during the day, rest well at night, and build up enough energy and energy for the next day.

So he originally planned to take a short rest after dinner, and then go to Ah Ding's room.

Anyway, there was time, so Ogata decided to follow other people to see Genichi's so-called new work after dinner.

After eating today's dinner quickly, Genichi led Ogata and the others straight to his room.

Genichi's room is located in the deepest part of the temple.

After entering Genichi's room, Ogata glanced around subconsciously.

Genichi's room was smaller than Ogata imagined, and it was also much cleaner than Ogata imagined.

Ogata thought that a careless and informal person like Genichi would have a mess in the room.

But the room that didn't become Xiangyuanyi was unexpectedly quite clean and tidy. Although it was not spotless, it was still clean and fresh.

"Sit down first." Yuan Yi pointed to the tatami in the center of the room, "I'll make some tea."

As soon as Yuan's voice fell, Mamiya immediately said:

"Yuan, one man, make tea or something, let me go."

"No, no," Yuan waved his hand, "I can still do such a small thing as tea."

After Genichi and Mamiya wrangled there for a while, Mamiya finally convinced Genichi - Genichi stayed in the room to accompany Ogata and the others, and Mamiya went to make tea.

Ogata casually sat cross-legged on the tatami in the center of the room. While waiting for Mamiya to make tea, he looked at Genichi's room boredly.

As he scanned the room aimlessly, Ogata suddenly noticed a large pile of unknown things stacked in a corner of the room.

This large pile of unknown things was piled as high as a hill and was wrapped in a thick cloth.

Because it was wrapped in thick cloth, Ogata couldn't see what was under the thick cloth.

"Gen, what is this?" Ogata asked Gento as he raised his hand to the large pile of unidentified objects wrapped in thick cloth placed in the corner of the room.

"Oh, that. That's my learning material."

"Learning materials?" Xu said doubts.

With a meaningful smile on his face, Yuan Yi walked slowly to the side of the huge pile of things, and then pulled the thick cloth covering it away.

After Houbu was torn off, Ogata was finally able to see what the pile of things was—a lot of Ukiyo-e.

No, to be precise...it should be a lot of colorful Ukiyoe...

Looking at the **** pictures of this era that are piled up like a hill, Ogata asked in shock:

"Master Yuan...how many Ukiyo-e did you collect?"

"218 pictures. It cost me a lot of money to buy these things." Yuanyi said a very accurate figure, "I told you just now? I have been obsessed with the painting of men and women over the years. Ukiyo-e of things."

"Because I also want to try to draw this kind of ukiyoe that specializes in men and women. So I bought a lot of this type of ukiyoe to copy and learn."

Having said that, Genichi picked up the dozen ukiyo-e paintings placed on the top of this "hill", and then handed them to Ogata.

"These are the new paintings I commissioned Asai to buy for me after arriving in Kyoto."

"Come on, Ogata-kun, let you see."

"The newly bought paintings this time are all by Utagawa Harunobu."

"Utagawa Harunobu is one of my favorite Ukiyo-e painters. He is extremely good at painting this kind of Ukiyo-e, which specializes in describing men and women."

"I watched these newly bought paintings last night, and I was so excited that I drew my new works."

"At that time, it took me a lot of effort to find this painter named Utagawa Harunobu." Asai on the side said nonchalantly at this time.

"Original source one you entrusted Asai to buy this..." Ogata looked at the large pile of small yellow pictures next to source with a speechless appearance.

When they arrived at the foothills of the Calabash House base area yesterday afternoon, when Lin's gang were discussing how to distribute their pile of luggage, the pastoral village once asked whose luggage a certain cloth bag was.

At that time, Asai quickly said that he admitted that the cloth bag belonged to him, and that it was something he bought for Genichi.

While saying this, Asai winked at Makimura. After seeing the wink that Asai made, Makimura immediately showed a comprehensive appearance, and then stopped asking more questions about the cloth bag.

Ogata noticed the eye contact between Makimura and Asai at the time.

Ogata was still wondering what the wink from Asai and Makimura meant.

And now the case is solved...

Ogata looked at the three people beside Makimura, Asai, and Shimada:

"Do you all know this collection of Yuan Da Ren?"

Mucun nodded:

"We all know that Yuan Yiyi likes to paint, and has been fascinated by it over the years, and has begun to learn to paint this kind of pillow painting. Not only we know these things, but the lord also knows them."

As soon as Makimura's voice fell, Asai on the side added:

"The lord, she has never taken care of Yuan Da Ren's personal affairs, so I let Yuan Da Ren buy and paint these pillow paintings."

After listening to the explanations of Makimura and Asai, Ogata silently held the dozen Ukiyo-e paintings that Origin I had just handed him, and looked roughly.

This kind of Ukiyo-e, which specifically describes the affairs of men and women, has a special elegant name-pillow-e.

Pillow painting is considered to be the largest and most eye-catching subject in the art of Ukiyo-e.

In the modern Japanese art world of later generations, there is even a saying: If you don’t look at pillow painting, Ukiyo-e cannot be talked about.

"...The painting skills are really good." Ogata said casually after flipping through the dozen or so paintings in his hand.

"These paintings are all by Utagawa Harunobu." Genichi introduced, "Utagawa Harunobu is very good at painting women. He is my favorite painter."

Even a person like Ogata who knows nothing about painting can see that the quality of these paintings is very high, and the painters who painted these paintings must have very good painting skills.

Although the painting skills are superb and the characters drawn are full of sensuality, Ogata doesn't feel anything after seeing these paintings.

Born on the modern earth, he really can't appreciate the style of Ukiyo painting in the Edo period...

Although he knew that the painting in his hand was a shrouded picture in the eyes of other men of this era, no matter how he looked at it, Ogata couldn't appreciate it.

After Ogata read the dozen or so pictures that Genichi lent him just now, Mamiya just finished making tea and returned to the room with a tea tray containing 6 cups of tea.

After everyone got a cup of tea, Yuanyi took out a booklet from nowhere.

Looking at the booklet in Genichi's hand, Shimada wondered:

"Yuan Da Ren, is that booklet your new work?"

"Yeah." Yuan nodded vigorously, with a faint smug look on his face.

Seeing the source, everyone including Ogata was curious.

The booklet in Yuanyi's hand has a good cover, and unless you open the cover, you can't see the contents at all.

Ogata thought that Genichi would take out a painting, but he didn't expect Genichi to take out a booklet.

"Yuan is a big man." Mucun glanced at the booklet in Yuan Yi's hand. "It looks like...you have painted a lot of paintings, and they can all be bound into a book."

"No, no," Yuan Yi shook his head as soon as Mu Cun said. "Mr. Mu Cun, don't underestimate this booklet in my hand."

"This booklet in my hand may be a major innovation in the ukiyo-e world."

"You should all know-now Ukiyo-e is a painting that tells a story."

Yuan Yi raised his hand and pointed to the large pile of Ukiyo-e stacked in the corner of the room.

"After viewing the dozen new Ukiyo-e paintings that I commissioned Asai to buy last night, I had a whim!"

"The pillow paintings on the market now use one painting to tell a story, so why don't I try to tell a story with a dozen paintings?"

When Genichi's words fell, Mamiya first raised his eyebrows and asked:

"That is to say... Do you plan to use a comic strip to draw pillow paintings?"

"Yes!" Yuan nodded vigorously and shook the booklet in his hand.

Ogata couldn't help but cast a weird look at Gen.

There is one thing to say-Genichi's plan to use a comic book method to draw pillow paintings is indeed a very good innovation.

In the words of modern earth, when other painters in this era were all drawing single pictures, Genichi had already thought of drawing books...

"Come on! Show you this new work of mine!" Genichi handed the booklet in his hand to Ogata, who is closest to him.

As soon as Ogata received the booklet from Genichi, Mamiya and the others immediately surrounded him.

It can be seen that Mamiya and the others are also very interested in Genichi's innovation of "painting pillow paintings with comic strips".

Ogata is also very curious now.

I want to see what this book painted by Yuanyi looks like.

——Since Yuanyi said that he has been studying and learning after he has been obsessed with pillow painting all these years. After studying for so many years, the things he draws should be more or less similar...

——What exactly is this book drawn by Yuan Da Ren...?

With such anxious feelings, Ogata opened the first page of this book...

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Ogata saw a few aliens that barely had the shape of a human.

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The expressionless Ogata turned page after page the book that Genichi himself had drawn in his hand.

And Mamiya and others also gathered behind Ogata, staring blankly at the booklet that Ogata was constantly turning over.

After turning the last page and closing the booklet completely, Genichi immediately asked Ogata and the others:

"How? How?"

"...I'm hard." Ogata said.

"Oh? Did I paint so well?"

"I mean my fist is hard." Ogata added.

Although it may be a bit rude to say so.

But Ogata really feels that he may paint with his feet, and he can paint more emotionally than Genichi...

Ogata thought that Mamiya and others must have the same impression as him.

But unexpectedly, Mamiya, who was sitting on the side of Ogata, said solemnly:

"Hmm...Yuan Da, compared with last time, your painting skills have improved a lot."

As soon as Mamiya's words came to an end, Makimura also nodded:

"Well, it is indeed a lot better."

After nodding at Makimura, Asai and Shimada also joined in tandem.

After quietly listening to these thoughts from Mamiya and others, Ogata desperately wanted a mirror.

I want to rely on this mirror to see how wonderful my current expression is...

——This is also called a lot of diligent painting skills? How terrible is the painting that Yuan Da Ren drew before? !

Mamiya seemed to see what Ogata was thinking at this time, so he attached it to Ogata's ear and whispered to Ogata with a volume that only he and Ogata could hear clearly:

"Do you still remember the "Second Sword Style of the Two Swords of No-Self" drawn by Yuan Yiyi? The pillow paintings that Yuanyi drew before are similar to the pictures he drew on the "Two Swords of No-Self Stance" before."

Hearing what Mamiya said, Ogata was taken aback, and then hurriedly opened the booklet in his hand again.

Looking at the figures above who can still vaguely see the human form, Ogata nodded seriously:

"Um... painting skills are indeed a lot more diligent."

——Compared with the stick figures drawn before...

Ogata silently added this sentence in his heart.

"Yuan is a big person." Shimada suddenly asked, "Although your painting skills have improved a lot, I don't understand how your series of paintings are telling the story..."

"Actually, the story is very simple."

Genichi moved his body to the side of Ogata, who was in charge of holding the booklet.

After Genichi got in, Ogata turned back to the first page very cooperatively.

"This woman's name is A Guang."

Yuan Yi raised his hand and pointed at one of the figures on the painting.

"This man's name is Hidejiro, Aguang's husband."

"The man standing next to Hidejiro is named Rengoro."

"The general story is that Hidejiro and Ako and their parents have termites, so they invited Rengoro to come to the house to eliminate termites."

"When Rengoro came to get rid of termites, Hidejiro was not at home."

"Then Ren Goro fell in love with the beauty of Hikari who was alone at home."

"And Aguang also fell in love with Ren Goro, who is more heroic than her husband."

"So the two of them..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" Before Genichi's words were finished, Makura's face was full of black lines, and he looked inaudible, "Why is it such a disgusting story!"

"I made this adaptation based on real events." Yuan said solemnly, "I went to a nearby town to buy wine a while ago. After buying the wine, I stopped by a certain izakaya for a few drinks, and then I started from the izakaya. Alcoholic drinkers heard this story."

"This is a real story."

"I don't have any talent for making stories, so I used this story easily."

"The stories I drew in this booklet are true except for the fake names."

"Then what happened to this story?" Shimada, with a bit of excitement on his face, asked the source in an urgent tone.

"I heard that the man forgave his wife at last."

"Gen is a big person." Asai, who had been silent since just now, suddenly stretched out his finger to draw a finger on the booklet, "You can try to draw the back of the woman's neck more exposed in the future."

"Oh?" Genichi raised his eyebrows. "Asai, do you like women's back necks?"

"Yeah." Asai nodded seriously with a serious look, "I like it the most."

"Asai, your preferences are really ordinary." Makimura said casually.

Different times have different aesthetics.

Men in the Edo period generally believed that the back neck of a woman was the most seductive part.

So those wandering girls and geishas will deliberately open the neckline very wide and deliberately tilt it back to expose all the necks.

So Makimura’s comment on Asai just now was not wrong. Asai’s preference is indeed quite ordinary and popular in this era.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Mucun's words fell, Asai asked with an unhappy face to Mucun:

"Don't Mucun you don't like the back neck of a woman?"

Makimura shrugged: "Compared to women with white back necks, I prefer women with good-looking standing postures."

"Ah? What do you mean?" Shimada looked blank.

"In short, I like women who stand gracefully."

"What's this?" Asai frowned, "Makimura, your preference is really strange."

"I don't call it weird." Mucun said, "I call it extraordinary."

"Don't put gold on your face." Asai let out a sneerful smile.

"Actually, in my eyes, you, Asai, are strangers who have a soft spot for women's back necks," Makimura said.

"That's because you don't know how to appreciate it!" Asai said grimly, "Hey, Shimada, you should be like me. You think the most charming part of a woman is the back neck, right?"

"Huh?" Shimada, who was pulled into this topic for no reason, looked dazed.

After Asai involved Shimada in this topic, Makimura, Ogata and others focused their attention on Shimada.

Seeing that he couldn't escape this topic, Shimada hesitated for a moment, then hesitated and said:

"Compared to the back of the neck... I still prefer women with good-looking faces... Hey! Why are you all looking at me with this look!"

"... So Shimada, your preferences are the most common... Then-Mamiya, it's your turn, what kind of woman do you like?"

"Why does the topic suddenly involve the preference for women..." Although he sighed with helplessness on his mouth, Mamiya raised his right hand and gently pinched his chin, thinking seriously.

"Well... I prefer older women. Older women have a sense of stability, and I like stable people."

"Older women?" Ogata asked, "does it take many years?"

"Well... the kind over 30 years old."

"...Mamiya, did you know that the only book I have read completely is Tang Tu's "Three Kingdoms"." Mucun said solemnly, "Your preferences are exactly the same as Cao Mengde in "Three Kingdoms"."

"Have you ever read "Three Kingdoms" seriously?" Asai said grimly, "Why does Cao Mengde like older women? Cao Mengde likes married women."

After spitting out Makimura in this way, Asai turned his attention to Ogata.

Not only Asai turned his attention to Ogata, but everyone in the room turned his attention to Ogata.

Even if they didn't say anything, Ogata knew what they planned to do.

"...It's really troublesome." Ogata sighed after sighing in a low voice at a volume that only he could hear.

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After about half an hour--

In Ogata's room——

Ogata was lying on his bed, resting his left hand on the back of his head. Silently recovered his strength.

The cabinet that was used as a bed by Ogata had already been repaired by Mamiya this afternoon.

Tonight was originally just a look at Genichi's new paintings together.

But the topic is getting crooked for some reason.

In the end it became the "XP System Seminar"...

Moreover, this conference has been held for a long time, and it was only finally over just now, and Ogata was finally able to return to his house price.

Thanks to this conference, Ogata was able to learn about the weird XP of the Mamiya gang...

Midway through the meeting, Mamiya and the others also turned their attention to Ogata, intending to make Ogata also explode his XP.

Ogata, who was not very interested in this topic, finally just said casually, "I like tall women", and fooled Mamiya and the others.

"Where are these pictures going..."

Lying on the bed, Ogata raised his right hand and passed the paintings that he had been holding with his right hand to his face.

These paintings were gifts that Yuanyi gave them when the conference was finally over.

Genichi said this was a thank you for taking the time to watch his new work.

Ogata and each of them got a few pillow paintings from Genichi...

After all, this was a gift from Genichi, and Ogata was not embarrassed not to accept it, so he brought back the pillow paintings that Genichi gave him.

Genichisai has painted 4 pillows for Ogata.

Looking at the 4 pillow paintings in his hand, Ogata involuntarily smiled wryly, not knowing what to do with these 4 pillow paintings.

First of all-he doesn't need these 4 pillow paintings.

Secondly-he thinks Ah Ding would be very unhappy to see him actually collect pillow paintings...

——Forget it...I'll slowly figure out how to deal with these 4 pillow paintings...Now let's go to Achenna...

Ogata has always remembered the agreement he made with Amachi during the day today: he will go to Amachi's room tonight.

Just as Ogata was about to leave for Amachi's room, he suddenly heard the sound of walking outside the door.

Ogata heard it instantly—it was the sound of Amachi's footsteps!

Ah Ding's footsteps are particularly light, so he is very easy to recognize.

Listening to the sound of Amachi's footsteps, Ogata's pupils shrank suddenly.

Ogata looked at the four pillow paintings in his hand, and then at the door of the room, anxious color appeared on Ogata's face uncontrollably.

Because Amachi's footsteps were almost reaching his door, Ogata was anxious, so he had time to hurriedly put these pillow paintings under the quilt, and then covered it with the quilt.

As soon as Ogata hid these pillow paintings, Amachi's voice sounded outside the door:

"A Yi! Are you there?"

"Well, I'm here." Ogata replied quickly, "Come in!"

As soon as Ogata's voice fell, Amachi behind the door opened the door of Ogata's room.

"Why are you here?" Ogata asked rhetorically.

Ogata's implication is: Didn't you say that I will go to your room tonight?

"I'm here to show you this! Look! This is the unicorn I just caught! The first time I saw such a big unicorn!"

After all, Amachi, with a childlike smile on his face, walked toward Ogata, raising his right hand, showing the things he was holding to Ogata.

Ah Ding was holding a large unicorn in his right hand.

This one-horned fairy is indeed very big, about the size of A Ding's slap.

"Yeah." Ogata nodded. "It's really big."

"I really want to catch another unicorn of the same size, and then let these two unicorns fight a duel..." Before A Ding finished speaking, he suddenly paused.

Because she suddenly discovered—the quilt on Ogata’s bed seemed to be covering something.

"Is this... a painting?"

According to Ah Ding's visual observation, the thing exposed outside the quilt seems to be a corner of the painting.

While saying this, Ah Ting raised his hand and grabbed the corner of the painting that was exposed outside the quilt.

After pinching the corner of the painting exposed outside the quilt with his fingers, Ah Ting discovered that there were more than one painting, but four paintings in total.

Ah Ting did not notice-after she found the 4 paintings hidden under the quilt, Ogata's face changed drastically, and she quickly raised her hand, as if intending to take these 4 paintings back from Ah Ting .

It's a pity-Ogata is still one step late.

As soon as he stretched out his hand, Ah Ting conveniently dropped the four paintings out of the quilt.

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"...Ooh~~"

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After pulling out the 4 pillow paintings, Ah Ding let out a strange sound without any emotional color.

Just now, when I was hiding the paintings, I was really in a rush, so I didn't have time to hide these 4 pillow paintings, which caused the corners to be exposed.

Listening to Ah Ding's "Woo", Ogata, who bury his head low, afraid to look at Ah Ding's expression, began to sweat on his forehead.

"Unexpectedly, Ah Yi, you still have this kind of thing in your collection..."

Ah Ding’s words still don’t carry any emotion...

The cold sweat on Ogata's forehead also became more...

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10 days later-

"Yes, Shimada, that's it."

Ogata whispered the sword that Shimada stabbed away while swinging the sword grid, while speaking loudly at Shimada.

"Adjust your center of gravity! Remember to adjust your center of gravity anytime!"

"Yes!" Shimada replied loudly, rebalanced his somewhat messy breathing, and then swung his sword towards Ogata again.

Pop, pop!

The sound of the wooden knife hitting sounded twice in succession.

After blocking Shimada's two slashes again, Ogata sent the wooden knife in his hand forward, and the tip of the knife accurately pressed Shimada's chin.

"I lost again..." Although Shimada said so, his face did not show any frustration, "Master Ogata, you are really strong... After these 10 days, I once I haven't beaten you... if only I could be half as strong as you in the future."

"Why set the goal so low," Ogata said irritably, "If you want to set the goal, why not just set the goal bigger."

"Has half of your power-this is a big goal for me." Shimada responded to Ogata with a playful tone.

After the two chatted for a few words, Ogata raised the wooden knife in his hand again.

"Shimada, do you still have physical strength?"

"of course!"

"Then-let's continue!"

Just when the two were about to regain their stance and start a new round of competition-

"Hey! You two! Pause for a while!"

It's the voice of Mamiya.

Ogata and Shimada turned their heads in response to the sound, and saw Mamiya slowly walking towards them.

"Mamiya, what's the matter?" Ogata knew--Mamiya suddenly stopped the discussion with Shimada, there must be a reason.

"The lord is back." Mamiya said concisely to answer Ogata's question. "She is calling us to the Buddhist hall now."

"Miss Kinoshita has finally come back..." Ogata muttered softly as he slowly lowered the wooden knife in his hand, "Okay, Shimada and I will pass right away."

"Yeah. Then I'll go ahead. I have to tell Makimura and Asai about the return of the two lords. Ogata-kun, can you please tell me later that the lord Amachi is back? "

"Yeah, no problem." Ogata nodded.

After Mamiya turned and left, Ogata turned his head and looked at Shimada beside him.

"Shimada, I'm going to bring Ah Ding over, you go to the Buddhist hall first."

"okay!"

After Shimada also left, Ogata did not rush to leave the place.

Instead, he opened his own personal system interface first.

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【Name: Ogata Yoshie】

[Current personal level: LV32 (22304800)]

[Personal attributes:

Strength: 14

Agility: 12

Reflex nerve: 9

Stamina: 13

Vitality: 23】

【skill:

Sakurahara One Sword Style Level: 11 steps (34557000)

No-Self Two Sword Stream Level: 10 levels (552010000)

Shiranui Ninjutsu level: 6 stages (32104500)]

[Remaining skill points: 2 points]

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【Sakihara One Sword Style (11 paragraphs):

Boarding: Intermediate

Water Fall: Advanced

Bird Sting: Master Class

Dragon Tail: Intermediate】

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【Selfless Two Swords (10 paragraphs):

Step up: Advanced

Blade Return: Master Class

Circulation: Master Class

Breath of Source: Grand Master

Rachel: Beginner

Cicada Rain: Elementary】

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【Shiranui Ninjutsu (6 stages):

Stealth of Shiranui: Intermediate

Shiranui Jiu-Jitsu: Advanced

Shiranui Flow Holding Breath Technique: (Unlocked)]

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Over the past 10 days, Ogata has maintained a perfect life rhythm of practicing with Shimada during the day, taking a good rest in the evening, and nurturing the spirit and physical strength for the second day.

Although Shimada is a samurai who can only level A and does not know any swordsmanship, he is far stronger than an ordinary samurai in terms of hard power, and he is of the kind of superb skill.

Therefore, I did not defeat Shimada once, and the experience points obtained are very impressive~www.wuxiahere.com~ In addition, Shimada's physical strength is quite sufficient, and the skin is thick and thick, so that Ogata can compete with Shimada in one day. Played a lot of games.

Personal level has been upgraded to level 3, from level 29 to level 32. Sakurahara One-Sword Stream and Wu-Second-Sword Stream are each increased by 1 stage, from 10th and 9th to 11th and 10th respectively. Shiranui Ninjutsu has been upgraded from 4 stages to 6 stages.

Including the 6 exclusive skill points obtained by the Second Sword of Wumei after reaching the 10th level, and the 3 exclusive skill points obtained by the Shiranui Ninjutsu after reaching the 5th level, Ogata has gained a total of 20 skill points in the past 10 days. point.

Above, this is the result of unswervingly leveling the 10th.

And 18 of these 20 skill points were spent early by Ogata.

The 6 exclusive skill points and 2 skill points obtained after the Second Blade of Selflessness was upgraded to the 10th level were directly used by Ogata to raise the breath of the source to the highest level-"Grandmaster level."

The other 10 points of these 20 points are used to increase power from 12 to 14 points, increase agility from 11 to 12 points, increase Shiranui Jiu-Jitsu to "Advanced", and Shiranui-style stealth. Promote to "Intermediate" and promote circulation to "Master Class".

After increasing the strength and agility to 14 and 12 points respectively, all the conditions for upgrading the flow to "master level" were finally completed.

After I can’t wait to upgrade my circulation to “master-level”, the difficulty of using the two swords of the selfless to compare with Shimada has naturally changed from “easy” to “very easy”...

After spending 18 of these 20 skill points, Ogata also left 2 skill points.

Ogata is still considering where to use these 2 skill points.