Chapter 117: Artoria's Three Fingers, He and I Argue
"Then God, if you can, can you kill him in the ring of the Martial Soul Duel?" Barry swore that he had never underestimated the girl who inherited the legendary name, but the wisdom displayed by this Artoria VI in the conversation just now still made him dumbfounded.
Originally, he also wanted to use all kinds of side-knocking words to squeeze him, so that this Artoria VI would hate the 'Ice Mask' and decide to kill him in the ring.
But now, he can only say his thoughts carefully, after all, his wife is the only female knight of the Ruiz family, and this matter cannot be hidden from others.
Rather than being discovered in the future and daring to take advantage of Artoria VI, it is better to say it directly and honestly now, as a husband, it is not an unseemly thing to want to avenge his wife.
Especially in the United Kingdom, the queen has been on the throne since the founding of the country, regardless of whether the surname is Elizabeth or Artoria, in fact, they are all family, which makes women's rights even higher.
And what is the Lake of Tranquility? It's the stronghold of the witches! And they have trained their own armed forces, the Amazonian warriors, who are also going to get married.
Why are British gentlemen all the representatives of men's demeanor in the world, and they are all tears, and Nima will be subjected to domestic violence if he is not a gentleman! The so-called 'ladys first' (ladies first) is a bloody and tearful experience accumulated over hundreds of years.
Just think about the people who were the people when Britain was foundedβbandits, pirates, thieves, robbers, and swindlers, all of whom could be trained to be English gentlemen, and who knows the bitterness behind them.
"Barry, be bold!" spoke as Artoria VI's attendant Eloan, he is about the same age as Barry, and in terms of strength, of course, Aloan is stronger, after all, Aloan is one of the four Knights of the Round Table who has the strength of a true knight, but when it comes to his ability to do things, Barry will dump him two streets.
Barry is responsible for the intelligence work of the entire British royal family, whether it is analytical or organizational skills, which is not comparable to Eloan, a bodyguard and attendant who only concentrates on training various martial arts, special operations and escort skills.
But this does not mean that Eloan's status is lower than Barry's, everyone is from the Knights of the Round Table, the oldest traditional aristocracy in Britain, everyone is the same when it comes to titles, and there are many intermarriages between families, and when it comes to generation, Barry has to call him an uncle, if it were weekdays, Eloan would not reprimand Barry so directly.
But the blonde girl in front of her, after walking out of the lake of tranquility, no one knows her specific temperament, except for knowing that she likes to eat and often shows an innocent expression, it seems to be an ordinary girl who is harmless to humans and animals.
However, as long as the people who have stood by her side can clearly feel an invisible pressure - the so-called companion is like a companion, in the historical records of the royal family, Artoria has never been a good-natured lord!
In this case, you dare to use her to avenge your eldest brother, Barry, are you impatient?
"Oh, Barry, do you want me to avenge your wife's brother? It's not impossible, but killing someone will ruin my ladylike image, how are you going to compensate me?"
Artoria finally put down the knife and fork in her hand and looked at the royal intelligence officer playfully.
"God, I have a winery under my name, which produces pearl wine. Being stared at like this by the blonde girl, Barry finally knew what it was like to be in her realm, which was a feeling that the whole body, including the internal organs and bone marrow, was penetrated and suppressed by an invisible force.
This feeling is even more shivering than pouring a bucket of cold water in the ice and snow, as if a chill seeps out of the body and every cell.
"But I'm not interested in wine. The girl said thoughtfully.
"I also have an island in Australia that specialises in a local avocado that tastes great and brings me hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Barry immediately changed course, describing his industry in terms of taste, and of course mentioning the money it represented.
"Wellββ, speaking of which, as the heir of the Knight King and the nominal leader of the team this time, I should indeed teach that kid a lesson, so long as he is not so frightened that he abstains, this kid will stand in front of me sooner or later, and at that time, I will strike three times.
According to our Artoria tradition, the first time I'll shoot normally, the second time I'll use the Steel Slasher, and the third time, if he can survive the Steel Slash blow, the third time I'll go with all my might.
If he survives three shots, then even if his life is great, let him go, maybe he can improve a little more in the future and bring me some surprises. β
The blonde girl rests her cheek in one hand, tilts her head sideways, and holds up three fingers in the other hand, representing her three strikes.
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"Koyanagi, your knife is really beautiful, very good, very good, Hoshino's girl's revenge is avenged, and my old man can sleep peacefully. β
In Yanagi Yuanhe's players' lounge, originally no one was allowed to come in here, but the relationship between the Sword Heroes Association and the Martial Spirit Duel Organizing Committee was relatively special, and this little thing naturally couldn't be difficult for all the Sword Heroes, so now the lounge was crowded with people, and even the two teachers with a first-class heart were squeezed to the side of the door.
"Let's take a walk, let's have a few drinks and celebrate Liu Shengjun!"
"Don't, masters, I just killed someone, and I need to recover mentally, but I'm not in the mood to drink with everyone. Liu Shengyuan hurriedly refused, these old men and middle-aged people, once they started to get drunk, they didn't know what it would look like, not to mention that they didn't like the entertainment at the wine table at all.
"Cut, the person you kid killedββ, cough cough, okay, since Yanagi-kun doesn't like it, then forget it, but we're going to celebrate it, and we want to pay tribute to Hoshino-kun. β
Akiho Amano, who was born in the police department, just wanted to say, 'Are there fewer people killed by your kid?', but suddenly found that there were still three people with first-class hearts here, so he hurriedly cut off half of his words, cut it off, and turned to another direction.
"Kazuko, are you going to drink with us, or are you going to pay homage to Master Hoshino first?" Kazuko Hirota has been in the Sword Masters Club for a long time, and as the spokesperson and chief disciple of Oshima Hui, everyone knows that she will not attend the men's drinking parties, which is just a casual question.
Sure enough, Kazuko Hirota rejected the proposal of the swordsmen, and she wanted to return to the Heavenly Sword Flow as soon as possible, and play the video in her hand in the spiritual hall of her uncle, so as to comfort her uncle's spirit in the sky.
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"Curator, arrange a quiet room for me, let me rest quietly. Accompanied by Aoki Yukimi and the two teachers, Yanagi Motokazu did not go home directly, but came to the Fukuwa Building, where the Aoki Pavilion is located.
Today is the first time that Liu Shengyuan and he took the initiative to kill a person in a planned way, and the nature of the last time he killed people in the Xichuan Gang is completely different, or in other words, the last time for the Xichuan Gang, psychologically, Liu Shengyuan and he didn't think that he had killed people at all, cleaning up the garbage in society, how could it be called murder?
And this time, he killed the other party as a person, and originally thought that Liu Shengyuan and he should not have any psychological problems in this regard (after all, he killed more than 100 people last time, and he didn't feel any psychological obstacles. οΌ
However, due to the different definitions of the killed, Liu Shengyuan and found out that after he finished killing people, he actually felt a little awkward?
For others, this kind of small psychological discomfort is actually a matter of sleeping, but for Liu Shengyuan and this kind of cultivator who polishes his will and body at the same time and pursues spiritual transparency, this is not a trivial matter.
The so-called time can erase everything, but it is just a self-deceptive joke, time can't erase anything, it can only make you gradually bury something in a deeper heart.
In the Aoki Pavilion, there are more kendo rooms and rest rooms of all sizes, and since Yanagi Motokazu made this request, a small rest room was naturally vacated quickly, and even beds, futons, and tea were prepared.
After Yanagi Yuanhe sent the others out, he closed the door, pulled down the curtains, turned off all the lights, and sat quietly on the futon in a quiet darkness, reflecting on the origin of his psychological changes.
'Always wipe diligently, don't let there be dust', for any practitioner, the state of mind is the most important thing, and for Yanagi Yuanhe, this kind of self-reflection homework is to be done every day, so under the familiar road, he quickly entered the state of concentration.
Concentration is a wonderful state of mind that does not give you strength, nor does it allow you to reach wisdom.
Just as the rushing river makes it impossible to see what is clear in the water, the active thinking during the day will also make it impossible to distinguish which thought comes from the heart.
Under the fixed situation, all kinds of thoughts during the day turned into clearly visible dust, floating in the quiet lake of the mind, and the main consciousness of Yanagi Yuanhe just watched quietly above the lake, waiting.
He had to wait until all the dust sank to the bottom of the lake, and the rest were his most tangled thoughts, among which there must be the twisted thoughts that he had caused the murder today.
Yanagi Yuanhe doesn't know how long it has been, in fact, in this mental space, time is meaningless, maybe you think that a long time has passed, and when you wake up, look at the clock placed next to you, maybe only ten minutes have passed, anyway, Yanagi Yuanhe had such an experience before.
I don't know how long it took, the lake of the soul gradually cleared, and most of the distracting thoughts slowly disappeared at the bottom of the lake that I don't know how deep, these distracting thoughts that can be silenced represent something unimportant and will not be forgotten, and those things that really make people worry about are still floating in the lake of the soul.
And at this moment, in the clear lake water, let the miscellaneous thoughts of Liu Shengyuan and Nianzi Zaiz naturally appear.
Why do you make yourself upset just because you just killed someone in the ring?
It's very simple, it's just a matter of harming things.
Maybe Yanagi sometimes thinks that he is superior, but in the end he is not so high that he is too forgetful, and in his subconscious, he always thinks that he is a person.
And at the moment when he personally cut off the head of Angel Ruiz, in the depths of his own subconscious, there was a sense of immersion, and the subconscious thought that his head would also be cut off alive one day.
The so-called heart to heart, things hurt and so on, people will always replace similar scenes on their own body, if a book, the content is basically logical, but not too ugly, can attract readers to read.
There are always readers who unconsciously replace themselves in the book in the process of reading the book, feeling the joys, sorrows, sorrows and various experiences of the protagonist, which is the same reason.
found the reason for the distortion in his heart, Liu Shengyuan and not surprised, which means that he has another bright light on the road to perfecting his soul, which can guide him forward a distance.
The so-called empathy, the so-called things hurt their kind, the so-called heart to the heart, for human beings, this is actually a very good thing, after all, only mutual recognition can bring this kind of empathy feeling, and human society is actually based on mutual recognition.
However, on the path of Yanagi and self-identification, these things were indeed harmful to his spiritual practice. It is not that the direction of his spiritual practice is that he does not recognize himself as an individual, but that in his spiritual practice, he must distinguish this identification with society and race from individual speculation.
Just like a drop of water in the sea, it needs to know that it is water, but it also needs to understand that it is different from other waters, and only with these two concepts, this drop of water can become an intelligent creature, or become a refinement.
This involves a concept of self-awareness, and if there is a sense of empathy for the experiences of others, it means that the person's self-awareness is not strong enough, and even that the concept of 'me' and the concept of 'other', at least subconsciously, cannot be completely and clearly defined.
For practitioners like Yanagi and others, only when they clearly define 'me' can they have a clear understanding of themselves, and only this clear self-awareness is the starting point for Yanagi and his comprehensive grasp of himself.
The so-called 'my life is up to me', not to heaven', refers to this state of perfect definition of 'me' and not interference from any external environment.
Of course, the material 'my life is up to me' is just a joke, after all, you can die with a knife, you can die from starvation, and you will die without even water to drink.
The phrase 'my life is up to me, not to heaven' here refers to a state of spiritual perfection that is no longer shaken by external circumstances.
Even death is just a choice of my own, not the result of being swayed by the outside world.
I see, but that's it!
Yanagi Motokazu opened his eyes in the dark, and the path forward in the future, at least for a short time, was no longer confused.
Only by fighting one's own fears can one produce the power called courage, and only by enriching one's mind can one avoid confusion and emptiness, and that the path of one's determination cannot be shaken.
Every self-doubt, self-denial, self-speculation in the mind, and putting one's own speculation into action, so that one's heart is no longer empty.
As the so-called unity of knowledge and action, only speculation in the heart, if there is no concrete action to support, after all, it is still virtual, only with their own actions to prove the correct thinking, is the cornerstone of their spiritual growth.
So, there is no escaping the battle with that blonde girl!
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"Ah, Yuan and you have worked hard, today's game is so beautiful!" As soon as I got home, my mother Masako Nantian greeted her, after all, from her son's game during this time, she didn't bet less to make money, of course, she had to praise her son.
"Haha, this is nothing, I haven't done my best!" Yanagi Yuanhe made a triumphant expression, if it wasn't for the reflection for a long time in the Aoki Pavilion and the psychological construction, it would be really not easy for Yanagi Yuanhe to make such a seamless expression now.
But now, Yanagi Motowa, who is gradually separating the concepts of 'him' and 'me', can already put aside the murder in the morning, as if it is not his own business at all, and while walking into the house, he jokingly brags with his mother.
The so-called live broadcast watched by Masako Minamida was a special performance made for her by Yanagi Shengyuan and specially hired professionals.
When she watched the live broadcast on TV, she saw that although the two sides of the game were swords and swords, and the fight was very lively, the players on both sides did not shed half a drop of blood.
Until the end, Angel's actor and amiable admitting defeat stepped down, fully demonstrating the competitive sportsmanship of friendship first and competition second.
(In competitive sports, it seems that only the Celestial Empire in the world has this slogan)