"Hey, Motohe, why are you back now?" When Yanagi Motowa returned home and just stepped out of the elevator, his mother Masako Minamida was about to enter the elevator with a vegetable basket.

"Mom, I went through the leave procedures with the school, and during this time I have to prepare for the martial soul duel, so I won't go to school except for exams and general revision. Yanagi replied in a low voice.

"Ahh

Liu Shengyuan was stunned for a moment, nodded hurriedly, took the vegetable basket in his mother's hand, and followed her back into the elevator.

"Motowa, do Sakura know about your request for leave from school?"

"You know, I told her yesterday. ”

"What about the martial soul decision?" asked my mother, looking at the number of floors above the elevator that kept jumping.

"I haven't told her about it yet. ”

"You should make this clear to her and don't let her worry about you. Mom said.

"Well, I'll tell Sakura after school today. Yanagi reassured.

"Kazuya, you're so old in a blink of an eye, and your mother doesn't know kendo, so there's nothing to teach you.

But you have to remember that no matter what you encounter in the game, you have to protect yourself, and that's the most important thing. You're only fourteen years old, you've already achieved so much, and your mother is very proud of you, you don't want to sacrifice your future for a momentary victory, and besides, your mother doesn't want to see you hurt. ”

Masako Minamida lowered her voice as she spoke.

Last night, she and her husband Yanagi and Shima discussed for a night, and finally the two came to the conclusion that 'the child is already older, these things are mainly for him to decide, the child will always have an independent day, not to mention that he has achieved so much, in someone else's home, this achievement is enough to boast for ten years.' ’

Originally, I discussed it with my husband, but the main thing that Masako Minamida wants to say to her son today is, 'Parents support you, let it go.' ’

But when she opened her mouth, Masako Nanda involuntarily changed the content of the advice to 'Children, you have to be careful and safe, grades or something, it is not very important to the family, and the most important thing is that you don't get hurt.' ’

"Don't worry, Mom, I'll be very careful, if it's really dangerous, I'll just throw in the towel. If Yanagi was really just a second-year student, he wouldn't have heard the deep love of his mother in these words.

However, with a little memory of his previous life, Yanagi could clearly feel the meaning behind these words, and now he felt warm in his heart, and the loneliness brought by leaving the campus alone was washed away by the warmth brought by his family.

"This time, I have a son as a porter, and my mother wants to buy something and show everyone tonight. By the way, Yuan and you have to help chop vegetables. The elevator door opened, and the mother and son walked out of the apartment building, Masako Nanda said excitedly.

"Well, I don't dare to say stir-frying, it's no problem to cut whatever you want, Mom!"

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In the evening, in the gym, Sakura Kobayashi sat on a folding desk that she had just moved into the gym today and wrote her homework, and not far in front of her, Yanagi Yuanhe stood in the middle of the room and slowly began to practice the Dragon Sutra.

This was the first time he had practiced this set of fundamental methods in front of his family. If there is anything most precious in the memory of his previous life, it is not his martial arts kung fu, but this set of Taishang Seven Transformation Dragon Sutras.

Originally, he didn't pay much attention to this set of things, anyway, they were all exercises, and Zhou Tian's martial arts were much more professional than the Taishang Seven Transformation Dragon Sutra.

However, a few days ago, he repeatedly practiced and found that the fitness effect of this set of Taishang Seven Transformation Dragon Sutra is quite good, compared to Zhou Tian Martial Dao, it is more effective, and what is even more rare is that it can comprehensively exercise the entire body inside and outside, and even take the initiative to drive the flow of qi and blood, which is very rare.

Maybe you won't experience it under the slow-paced practice, but after you become proficient, the rhythm of the Dragon Sutra practice will speed up to a certain extent, and it will naturally let the qi and blood start to accelerate the cycle with the rhythm of the Dragon Sutra.

Even people like Yanagi Yuan and those who don't have a sense of the gateway have now decided that unless it's his own family, other people won't teach this set of things casually unless they are necessary.

"Sakura-chan, I'm going to participate in the Martial Spirit Duel Competition. While doing the first turn of the Dragon Sutra, Yanagi Yuanhe casually said to Sakura, who was doing his homework.

"What kind of competition is Martial Soul Duel? Sakura Kobayashi stopped writing and looked up at Motokazu Yanagi.

"It's the world's No. 1 weapon fighting competition, and it's said that only adults over the age of twenty-five can see it on a paid channel, and I haven't heard of it before, but I joined the Sword Heroes Club before someone talked about it. Liu Shengyuanhe replied while doing the Dragon Sutra.

"Ah, then I can't see the victory of Yuan Hejun, right?" Kobayashi Sakura directly thought of her regrets.

"Ha, aren't you worried that I'm going to lose? Yanagi laughed.

"Yuan Hejun is the most powerful martial artist in the world, how could he fail? I have never seen such a powerful swordsmanship as Yuan Hejun last night!"

Come on, Sakura Kobayashi seems to be her blind admirer, but that's fine, at least you don't have to struggle to convince her.

"Ha, Sakura, it is said that the prize money for this martial soul duel is very high, and the champion has a prize of 100 million US dollars, which is about 10 billion yen. When I win the championship, the summer vacation should not be over yet, so let's go on a trip together. Being so adored by his little fiancée, Yanagi Yuanhe was also excited, and he was ashamed to take the championship prize money as money in his pocket.

"Okay, okay, I've wanted to travel to the Red Flag Country for a long time, it is said that our ancestors all came from the Celestial Empire Continent, I really want to see with my own eyes what the Red Flag Country is like!"

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"This is Yanagi Shengjun, what a hero out of a young man!"

Walking in Ota District, in the headquarters of the Sword Heroes Club, he was greeted at the gate of the headquarters compound by a middle-aged man who was more than 1.9 meters tall, with a red face, without even a trace of wrinkles on his face, but his hair was a little gray, which made people look a little incongruous, and the whole person looked full of energy.

From the moment he saw Yanagi Yuanhe, he talked endlessly about the history and current situation of the Sword Hero Association, until the two of them walked into the headquarters building from the gate of the courtyard, and Yanagi Yuanhe didn't have a chance to speak.

"The Kenhao Society was founded in 1883, during the reign of the Emperor, and has a history of 115 years. Originally, we were the Emperor's direct retainers, but later after the Restoration, the Emperor lived in seclusion behind the scenes, and the Sword Hero Society also fell silent. Now, the portraits hanging on this corridor are the twenty-nine swordsmen who founded the Sword Heroes Association. ”

"Forty years ago, the RB ushered in a period of great development, when the Chinese Celestial Empire had just concluded the Red Flag Revolution and established the People's Republic, and at the same time, the Celestial Empire gave up its traditional suzerainty status and put forward the eight-character slogan of equality for all and common prosperity in East Asia. ”

"At that time, the most powerful country in the world was the United States, the most appealing sports event was the Olympic Games, and none of the world's three major fighting events had yet appeared.

At that time, the entire seven countries of the Asian Community participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, but they were all wiped out and did not win a single gold medal, and the seven countries together won a total of five silver medals and thirty-one bronze medals, which was called the 'sick man of East Asia' by the Western society. ”

"At that time, the reigning emperor of RB was Emperor Shimu, and in a fit of rage, the emperor issued a summoning order to recall the swordsmen who had been scattered throughout the RB, reorganize the swordsmen's club, and host it with full funding from the royal family, and offer a total prize of 3.5 billion yen - this was the largest amount of prize money in the world at the time - and held a cold weapon fighting tournament for the world - Martial Soul Duel. ”

"The first martial soul duel attracted a total of more than 3,400 participants from all over the world, no protective gear, using a direct elimination system, at that time just reorganized the sword hero meeting, a total of eleven sword heroes, in the first martial soul duel, six were killed, four of them were killed with the enemy, one was seriously injured and disabled, only two swordsmen were slightly injured, and they persevered to the end.

There are also two swordsmen who are too old to participate in the Martial Soul Duel in person, but they each send their proud disciples or heirs to participate in the Sword Hero Meeting and participate in the Martial Soul Duel. Before and after that year's martial arts duel, more than 700 participants were killed and more than 2,200 were injured, a high casualty rate that was unprecedented in the history of sports. ”

"The first Martial Soul Duel, the final Martial Soul Cup winner, is the chief of our generation of Sword Heroes!

Since then, no one in the West has mentioned the title of the sick man of East Asia, and RB has also been respected internationally in both the East and the West as never before, and many aspects have opened up the situation because of this. It is by making RB a window between East and West that it has been able to grow unusually rapidly over the past four decades.

The government and the royal family decided to hold the martial arts every year, and although some countries consider this kind of competition to be too barbaric, our country believes that it is an expression of the spirit of the samurai, and that only the brave should participate in it. ”

"With the popularity of commercialization in recent years, the martial soul will inevitably be stained with copper stench, in order to reduce the casualty rate, and in order to facilitate the sale of broadcast rights on a larger scale, we also have to stipulate that contestants can choose to wear protective armor and use unfired weapons.

These measures have greatly improved the safety of the contestants in the martial soul duel, but the players who practice the battle flag and fighting spirit in the West often have a lot of strength and can bear heavier armor, and they have a considerable advantage under the current rules, which has made the performance of the Chinese contestants drop a lot in recent years. ”

"Now the annual income of the Martial Soul Duel accounts for a large part of the income of the RB royal family, I don't know the specific proportion, but judging from the financial statements released by the Martial Soul Duel Organizing Committee, the financial surplus of the martial soul duel held last year, as well as the sales of martial soul duel brand peripheral products belonging to the royal family, the total profit is about 450 billion yen, which is not counting the bonus effect on the promotion of RB culture. ”

"So you know why the sword heroes of our Sword Heroes Association have such a high salary!"

"Look, this is where everyone from our Sword Heroes Club meets!"

As he spoke, the middle-aged man with a red face excitedly pushed open a large door, which was all made of wood, completely different from the style of some of the glass doors that opened and closed in front of him.

After entering, it was a large room with all kinds of strange things, there was no partition in the middle, only a roof supported by some slender pillars, and the area alone was estimated to be more than 1,000 square meters.

"This is Megumi Oshima's favorite sofa. The middle-aged man pointed to something like a big bear doll.

"I'll go, such a cold swordsman Mr. Oshima, in order to get a glimpse of the realm of the Sword Saint, Oshima Hui, who doesn't even want his life, actually likes such a cartoon sofa?"

"This is Amano-kun's game console from a police officer. "It was a racing simulator fixed to the ground, with a suspended seat that looked like it could be shaken, and there were four screens spread around it, and it looked like a game enthusiast's gear.

Looking at all kinds of strange equipment around him, Liu Shengyuan was deeply skeptical about how Jian Hao would have a meeting, if there were a meeting, playing games, making sculptures, lying down, hanging (there were swings, hammocks, and even a tree), how would this go on?

"Hahaha, Yanagi-kun must be thinking, how did we have a meeting?" the middle-aged man laughed.

"It's a little weird, it's not the same conference room I thought it was. ”

"Liu Shengjun, our Jianhao Club is not those guys who rely on their mouths to eat, let's say that we are having a meeting together, in fact, everyone meets and chats, what will be there to open, anyway, there are managers under the emperor to take care of the industry, we can just do it at will."

You don't want to be as serious as that girl from Oshima Hui all day long, except for kendo, nothing else is important to us, look over there!" As he spoke, the middle-aged man who had never stopped talking pointed to a mess of unnamed instruments placed in the middle of the room.

If it was at the beginning, this old man asked Yanagi Yuanhe, he would definitely say that it was kendo-related testing equipment, but after listening to his introduction, Yanagi Yuanhe couldn't be sure what those instruments were.

"That's our RB's most advanced stereoscopic holographic projection, with a computer analysis system, which can convert flat movies into three-dimensional holographic projections, which is enjoyable to watch movies. With a proud expression, the middle-aged man introduced to Yanagi Yuanhe.

"It's really advanced!" In Yanagi's previous life, this kind of equipment that can translate flat movies into stereoscopic holographic projection movies was first put on the market in 2030, but in this world, it is not yet 2000.

However, presumably this technology is still in the state of laboratory technology reserves, to say that RB has now been able to bring mature products to the market, Yanagi Yuanhe does not believe it, just looking at the equipment occupies an area almost the size of a room. In previous lives, this function was integrated into personal portable smart terminals for virtual reality augmented functions.

"Hahaha, this device is actually used to analyze swordsmanship for our swordsmen, and the data on the other end is directly connected to the human movement analysis subject group, and we sometimes use it to recreate the kendo training and confrontation clips of the family, and exchange opinions by the way. But it's better to watch movies more. ”

As he spoke, the middle-aged man walked towards the other end of the room with Yanagi Motowa, where there was also a door.

Inside the main door is another huge room, with a standard floor and layout, the whole is in the format of a traditional kendo hall, in which more than 30 people are sitting in two rows, among them, among the people sitting in the front row, Nakajima Kampo is the one he knows, and among the people sitting in the back row, he only knows one Kazuko Hirota.

"Let me introduce myself, I am the contemporary chief Sasaki Shinpei of the Sword Hero Club, and welcome to you, Sword Hero Yanagi Kazuya. According to tradition, when every sword hero joins the Sword Hero Club, he must leave a piece of kendo information for the Sword Hero Club, so I will have a fight with you as a ceremony to welcome you to the Sword Hero Club.

Of course, my old man is sixty-seven years old and has a serious heart attack, so you have to move lightly, or I'll have a heart attack!"

Looking at the man in front of him who claimed that he was sixty-seven years old, suffering from a serious heart disease, with a red face and full of energy, Yanagi Yuanhe felt that Oshima Megumi had probably misunderstood something, and in the state of this chief, it was clear that there would be no problem in fighting for another twenty years!