I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"I was a swordsman in ancient Japan(

"How? Did you feel a little better?"

"Well, it's better... Ah Yi, thank you..."

There are 2 rooms in the cabin of this sailing ship.

One of the two rooms is larger and the other is smaller.

The smaller room was for the only two women in their group, Ah Ding and Lin.

As for Ogata and others, they all squeezed into another slightly larger room.

Although the number of people is slightly larger, Ogata and others can still live in the slightly larger room if they are squeezed.

Because of seasickness, Ah Ding and Lin spent most of the day sleeping in the room.

Now is the fifth day of going to sea.

Maybe it's because the body has become a little accustomed to the rough sea. Acho and Lin's body are now much better, and they are no longer so uncomfortable that they can't stand up like they were at the beginning.

But their bodies are only a little better.

They still have to spend most of their day in bed.

At this moment, Ogata was sitting on his knees behind Ah Ting’s head, resting A Ting’s head on his lap, and giving A Ting’s head a massage.

When he was still on the modern earth, Ogata once learned a massage technique that effectively relieves dizziness and headaches.

And this massage just happens to come in handy now.

Under Ogata's massage, Amachi's expression that had been strained because of her uncomfortable feeling was slightly relieved.

Just as Ogata concentrated on giving Amachi a massage, Lin's whisper suddenly came next to her:

"I also get seasick... It's too embarrassing... Um... It's disgusting..."

Lin, who had a stiff mouth and refused to admit that she was seasick, now finally admitted that the reason she was dizzy and nauseous was because of seasickness.

Although both Lin and Ah Ding are seasick systems, Lin's physical condition is much better than that of Ah Ding.

Without the help of others, Ah Ding couldn't even stand upright, but Lin could barely stand up with her own strength.

It's probably because Lin's body is much stronger than Ah Ding.

Just after Lin's whisper fell, Mamiya, who was kneeling above her head, comforted Lin in a helpless tone:

"Master, some people are more prone to seasickness than others. Just like some people like spicy food more than others. This is all born."

It was like Ogata kneeling on the head of the bed, letting Amachi pillow his legs, and giving Amachi a head massage. At this time, Mamiya was kneeling on the head of the bed, giving Lin a head massage.

The only difference is that Lin didn't rest her head on Mamiya's lap.

When Ogata used this head massage for Amachi for the first time, Mamiya was very interested in Ogata's massage method that can effectively relieve dizziness and headache.

Mamiya directly asked Ogata to teach him this massage method.

This was not an embarrassing request, so Ogata readily agreed to Mamiya's request.

Ogata remembers it very clearly-the first time he used this massage method to relieve the symptoms of dizziness to Acho was on the first night when he went out to sea.

It was also that night when Mamiya asked Ogata to teach him this massage method.

Then after Ogata taught Mamiya the massage method that night, in the morning of the next day, Mamiya could use a much more skilled technique than Ogata to massage Lin...

"By the way... I heard that Katsurokuro also had dizziness last night..."

Lin opened her eyes slightly at this time and looked at the Mamiya behind her head.

"Is he okay?"

"Shimada is okay." Ogata replied for Mamiya, "I just feel a little dizzy. He is sleeping in the room now."

Last night, Shimada, who had never sailed to sea on this sailing boat, also suffered from seasickness.

However, Shimada's symptoms are much lighter, just a little dizzy, not like Ah Ding and Lin do not stop vomiting, even the mind is difficult to stay awake.

...

...

Under Ogata's massage, Amachi felt much better and fell asleep again.

In order not to affect A-Ting’s rest, after A-Ting fell asleep, Okinawa tiptoed out of the room and went up to the deck. Leave Jian Gong alone in the room to continue to massage Lin.

As soon as he arrived on the deck, Ogata saw Genichi, who was squatting at the foot of the bed and drinking "oolong tea" leisurely, and Makimura and Asai sitting side by side on the bed.

Seeing Ogata came out of the cabin, Makimura immediately turned around and asked Ogata:

"Brother Ogata, how are the lord and Miss Amachi?"

"Both of them are asleep." As Ogata said, he walked towards the bow where Makimura and Asai were, and then sat cross-legged beside them.

The three people sitting side by side on the bow looked at the sea in front of them.

Under the bright sky, waves were shot incessantly, the splashing waves shone with tens of thousands of silver light, and the endless sea was rippling with countless bright waves like mercury.

"...It's leisurely." Mucun said abruptly.

As soon as Makimura's words fell, Ogata and Asai on the side turned their heads together to show their agreement.

The sailing boat they were on was not a big ship, and there was not enough space for Ogata and the others to find someone to try and practice their swords. Even if Ogata wants to learn experience, he can't learn it.

At the same time, because of the lack of space, there is not much they can do.

The most common way they spend their time these days is to get together and chat, or to find Yuanyi for a few drinks.

Yuanyi had almost no luggage, so he brought a lot of wine.

After boarding the ship, Yuan Yi stayed at the stern for nearly half of the day.

While drinking wine, while bathing in the sea breeze, it was so uncomfortable.

"Do you want to go swimming?" Mucun asked.

"No, there is no bathing place here. I don't want to make my whole body dirty with sea water." Asai shook his head.

"And the waves are high here, so it's not a good place for swimming." Ogata added.

"That's right." Shepherd nodded.

"By the way, where's Mamiya?" Asai turned his head and looked back, looking for Mamiya's figure. "Why didn't you see Mamiya?"

"He is giving Kinoshita a massage in the room now." Ogata said.

After that, Ogata paused.

Then with a complicated look, faintly said:

"Mamiya's learning ability is really strong... Now if you just bring an outsider to see me and Mamiya's massage techniques, they will definitely think that I am the apprentice and Mamiya is the master..."

"Mamiya's ability to learn is already very strong, and he has a very high savvy." Asai closed his gaze looking for Mamiya's figure. "He gets started quickly no matter what he learns, which is why he has so many skills. "

"...By the way-I have always been curious."

Ogata, whose gaze was still fixed on the sea in front of him, suddenly asked Asai.

"Asai, I can understand how you use honorifics to Ms. Kinoshita and Genichi. But why do you use honorifics when facing Mamiya? Is it because he is the old man in your gourd house? ?"

"It's not that Mamiya is an old man in our gourd house, so I use honorifics to him."

Maybe it's because it's really idle now. Asai, who is usually silent at this time, used quite detailed vocabulary to introduce to Ogata the reason why he used honorifics to Mamiya.

"I only respect those who are stronger than me in swordsmanship."

"On swordsmanship, in the whole gourd house, only the lord, Yuanyiyi, and Mamiya can easily defeat me."

"I admire Mamiya's superb swordsmanship and many skills, so I respect him very much, so I speak honorifics to him, it's that simple."

Ogata smiled knowingly after hearing the words "there are so many skills" from Asai's mouth.

"What did Mamiya do before?" Ogata asked casually, "It feels like he has been to many places... Was he also a ronin who wandered around before?"

The question of Ogata's question fell.

Makimura and Asai fell into a long silence.

The long silence between the two of them made Ogata frown slightly involuntarily.

Just when Ogata wanted to ask why the two of them were suddenly silent, Makimura suddenly said in a deep voice:

"……do not know."

"...Huh?" Ogata tilted his head.

Asai continued Makimura's words and said:

"Except that the lord may know what Mamiya did before, none of us know what Mamiya did before joining the gourd house."

"We have also asked Mamiya himself this question, but Mamiya has always been perfunctory and foolish about this question, and never answered our question positively."

"When I asked the lord, the lord was very secretive about Mamiya's past."

"Don't say it's Mamiya's past." As soon as Asai finished speaking, Makimura shrugged, "We don't even know where Mamiya is from, what kind of swordsmanship we use, and how strong we are."

"Mamiya doesn't have any accent in his speech. He can't even tell where he is from based on his accent, and he never says where he is from."

"Not only does Mamiya never talk about his past, he never reveals what the genre of swordsmanship he uses."

"We only know that Mamiya is very good at drawing swords."

"From the time I joined the Gourd House until now, I have never seen Mamiya go all out...Ah, no, or I've never seen an enemy successfully push out Mamiya's full strength."

"The few of us have never seen Mamiya use all his strength to confront the enemy."

Ogata has been quietly listening to these big talks of the two.

After hearing these words from Makimura, Ogata suddenly found that he himself had never seen Mamiya going all out against the enemy.

In every battle that Ogata has witnessed at Mamiya, Mamiya has always looked calm and calm.

Even on the island of Butterfly Island, fighting with the elite of the shogunate in that narrow corridor, after the battle was over, Mamiya was still in a comfortable state, and there were hardly any injuries left on his body.

"...I guess the work Mamiya did before he followed the lord and joined the gourd house was definitely not a very glorious job... The work Mamiya did before may be related to murder." Asai said suddenly and nonchalantly. .

"It's related to murder?" Ogata cast a puzzled look at Asai, "Why do you say that?"

"Asai, do you want to tell the old story of the'old monk was paralyzed' to brother Ogata?" Makimura's rhetorical question was faintly helpless.

"This story is not a secret, everyone knows it in our gourd house." Asai said, "it's okay to tell Ichidosesai."

"What happened to Mamiya before made you suspect that his previous work was related to murder?" Ogata asked Asai.

"This is also a long time ago." Asai whispered, "On one occasion, Mamiya and I went out of the field due to something and passed by a temple."

"There is a very old monk living in that temple."

"It was night, and Mamiya and I planned to spend the night in this temple."

"I was the one who went to negotiate with the old monk whether he could borrow a corner of the temple for us to rest for a night."

"The old monk is very talkative. After I made this request for lodging, he readily agreed."

"However... when I led Mamiya, which was waiting outside the temple, into the temple, the old monk saw Mamiya... the expression of the old monk was really hard to describe in words."

"There was no blood on his face, and he was so scared that he just slumped on the ground...In short, he looked like he saw a ghost."

"The old monk was sitting paralyzed behind the ground, backing away from Mamiya with his hands and feet, and yelling, "I have never seen such a heavy murderer."

"I don't want to leave the palace in the temple for anything."

"We have no choice but to leave that temple."

"When leaving the temple, the old monk also persuaded Mamiya to study Buddhism and do good deeds for the rest of his life, so as to wash away his accumulated killings and grievances of the dead."

"From then on, I began to doubt what Mamiya did before, maybe it wasn't a very glorious job..."

"If the work done by Mamiya is really related to killing... then the number of people he killed before must be quite large..."

"The killing on his body is so heavy that it can scare a monk to the ground... How many people have to be killed..."

Just after Asai finished speaking, Makimura chuckled slightly:

"That monk might be talking nonsense."

"These monks like to talk nonsense."

"When I was in Kyoto, I ran into a monk who said that I have a noble face, and I will definitely become a big man like Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the future."

As soon as Makimura finished speaking, Asai shook his head:

"You were not there at the time, and you didn't see the monk's appearance and expression at the time."

"If you were there at the time and saw how scary the monk's face was, you wouldn't think that the monk seemed to be talking nonsense." Asai said.

"Don't you know what Mamiya did before?" Ogata asked.

"Well, I don't know."

As soon as Ogata's voice fell, Genichi's voice came from the stern.

Ogata, Makimura, and Asai turned their heads to look at Genichi who had been sitting at the stern and drinking "oolong tea".

"Yuan is a big man." Mucun said, "So you have been listening to our conversation just now."

"Although I am not young, my ears are good enough. And the boat is not so big that the sound of the bow can't reach the stern."

After raising the wine glass in his hand and sipping "Oolong Tea" again, Yuan Yi said slowly:

"I have never been very interested in other people's past, so I never asked Mamiya what he did before joining the gourd house."

"Only Xiao Lin knows about Mamiya's past."

"but--"

Speaking of this, Genichi's eyes flashed with a few meaningful lights.

"Although I don't know Mamiya's past. From the swordsmanship used by Mamiya, I can roughly guess what Mamiya's previous career might be."

"Is there anything wrong with the swordsmanship used by Mamiya?" Asai, who had not always expressed much expression, had a curious look in his eyes at this time.

"You young people don’t have enough experience, so you can’t see how the swordsmanship used by Mamiya is different from ordinary swordsmanship ~ www.wuxiahere.com~ The swordsmanship used by Mamiya will be fast and accurate. ,'Ruthless' 3 characters are played to the extreme."

"Moreover, when Mamiya swings a knife to slash a person, he always subconsciously slashes at certain special parts of the human body."

"Under the world... There is a kind of person who is best at using this type of swordsmanship..."

"What kind of person?" Mu Cun asked anxiously.

"Well... I won't tell you anymore." Genichi shrugged, "Whether Mamiya was that kind of person before, I'm just guessing. I'm not quite sure myself."

"Besides, since Mamiya never tells you what he did before, Xiaolin is also very secretive about Mamiya's past. That means Mamiya doesn't want her companions to know his past."

"So we respect Mamiya's choice and stop inquiring about Mamiya's past."

After all, Yuanyi took a sip of the "oolong tea" again.

"...Gen one person is right." Asai sighed, "Since Mamiya doesn't want to talk about his past, let's not ask more. This topic will stop here... let's talk. Some other more interesting things."

Ogata and Makimura both nodded in agreement.

The three of them once again turned their eyes to the sea ahead.

Looking at the sea, after a long silence--

"Do you want to go swimming?" Mucun asked.

"No, there is no bathing place here. I don't want to make my whole body dirty with sea water." Asai shook his head.

"And the waves are high here, so it's not a good place for swimming." Ogata added.

"That's right." Shepherd nodded.

"How does this conversation feel so familiar..." Ogata whispered with a few black lines on his face.