Chapter 38: Cutting the Table
Walking slowly, Yanagi walked to the rightmost sword target, which was the thinnest, a sheet of grass swept away, representing a keto.
Under the light of the practice room, a flash of sword light disappeared. Yanagi Yuanhe then walked to the second sword target, and the first sword target stood there untouched. And when he walked past the second sword target, even the rhythm of his footsteps did not change a bit, and the onlookers only saw that as he passed, another sword light flashed on his side, and the second sword target was still standing there steadily, but Yanagi Yuanhe still walked towards the third sword target without hurry, as if nothing had happened.
"Yanagi-kun!" Aoki Ema couldn't help but scream, she couldn't bear to be so ugly in front of everyone, after all, the two of them were also in the kendo club of Kangtian School Park as club colleagues, and they got along together for two years.
"Sister Aoki, is there something wrong?" Yanagi Yuanhe turned his head to look at Aoki Ema in surprise, it was rude to interrupt others in RB like this, not to mention that on this occasion, Director Aoki and other elders were there, how could Aoki Senpai do such an impolite thing?
As he spoke, Yanagi Yuanhe happened to pass by the third sword target, his head twisted in the direction of Aoki Eima, and a sword light flew from his hand, sweeping over the sword target.
"Yanagi-kun, please take the test seriously, this is not the time for everyone to joke in the kendo club!"
"Ahh
This sword target is the thickest of the four sword targets, and the diameter is almost one meter, Yanagi Yuanhe stood in front of the sword target, gently touched the sword target, looked at Aoki Ema, and said, "Senior sister, is there a problem with my posture?"
"You should at least be serious about posture issues!" Aoki said angrily when she noticed that her fellow disciples, her father, and the two teachers were all looking at her.
"Uh, okay. Liu Shengyuan reluctantly agreed. Then he took a step back, opened the distance between himself and the sword target, held the katana in his hand with both hands and made a regular robe and slash the sword, and then stepped forward and slashed out with a sword.
The silent sword light swept by, and Yanagi stood with his sword closed, turning his head to look at Aoki Eima, the expression on his face was a question mark, which meant 'What do you think of my sword posture?'
"How are you—" Aoki Eima just said three words, and the second half of the words were stuck in his mouth and he couldn't say it.
The thick No. 4 sword target, the upper half of which slid diagonally down, fell to the floor of the practice room with a 'hole'.
Just now, several young disciples on the onlookers already showed contemptuous smiles on their faces, they turned out to be such a pretentious young guest teacher invited by the sect leader Aoki Yuki, everyone was not very easy to say, but they all secretly snickered in their hearts.
You must know that the sword target of RB Kendo is not a sword target that can be regarded as a sword target by just a grass sweep, and the sword target of one ketone is a bamboo with the thickness of an arm as a skeleton in the special straw mat, whether it is the material of the straw mat or the variety of the bamboo as a skeleton, there are special requirements.
Even when a few first-class teachers give demonstrations to their disciples, they need to hold the sword in both hands and take the sword seriously in order to successfully cut off the sword target. And cutting off a ketone sword target can already be regarded as passing the slashing test, and you can get a certificate of more than three dans of swordsmanship, of course, there are other tests for other items, but at least in the slashing project, cutting off a keto sword target is enough to pass the test.
In addition to the need to use two straw mats to roll, there is a bamboo with a diameter of not less than ten centimeters, that is, the thickness of an adult's arm. At the same time, being able to cut off the diketone sword target means that it can pass the test of the six-stage sword cutting project.
As for the three-one sword target, it is three arm-thick bamboos bundled into a bunch, and the outside is wrapped in three rolls of straw mats. If you use this kind of mass-produced katana provided in the museum, it is estimated that even the curator Mr. Aoki may not be able to cut off the sword target of the three ketones, which was originally a basic skill test of the nine dans of kendo.
Four-keto sword target, that is just in accordance with the requirements of the kendo test, need to be put out together in the test, these years of kendo exams, we really haven't seen anyone so uncommon-sense, carrying the kendo hall to provide a big road goods katana to cut the four-keto sword target, and today everyone is open-eyed, to see a goods without common sense.
As the upper half of the sword target fell to the ground, Aoki Tema's face turned red, and in annoyance, he asked Yanagi Yuanhe loudly: "Obviously you have such a skill, why don't you test it well in front!
Before she could finish speaking, her father, Yukimi Aoki, interrupted her with a hand raised.
Curator Aoki walked to the first one-ketone sword target with a solemn face, grabbed the sword target with his hand and lifted it gently, and the upper half of the sword target rose in response to his hand, separating it from the lower half of the sword target.
Seeing this scene, the two instructors standing behind walked to the second and third sword targets in a few steps, reached out and grabbed them, and sure enough, the two sword targets had been separated.
The sound of gasps echoed in the practice room, as if everyone was startled at the same time.
Aoki Yuki, seeing the curator and the two teachers of Nishimura Kujo and Aoki Harata, looked at the half-cut sword target in his hand, and turned his head to look at Yanagi Yuanhe, who was standing at the fourth sword target, and was stared at by everyone like a monster, and the faces of the onlookers were a little embarrassed, the three of them glanced at each other, shook their heads together and smiled bitterly.
"Yanagi-kun, you're a monster!" Aoki Yukimi walked up to Yanagi Yuanhe, looked him up and down, then reached out and pulled up his arm, looked at it carefully, and stretched out his arm to compare, these two arms were put together, Yanagi Yuanhe's forearm was only about two-thirds the thickness of Aoki Yuki's forearm. It's not that Yanagi Yuanhe's arms are too thin, but that Aoki Yuki's forearms are too thick, enough to catch up with the thickness of ordinary people's calves.
And the first-class disciples and disciples who came around all saw this pair of arms that were thick and distinct, black and white.
Yanagi Yuanhe's forearm, the skin is white and delicate, if it weren't for the clear muscle lines under the skin, then it would be a girl's arm, and many people would believe it.
"Yanagi-kun, how can an arm like yours produce such amazing swordsmanship?" sighed for a while, and Aoki Yukimi asked a question that everyone around him was concerned about.
"Well, can you spread out first?" was tightly surrounded in the middle, and Yanagi said very uncomfortably.
When he said this, the crowd around also found that the crowd was too tight, it was like people next to each other, and there were a few people behind who were still tiptoeing to look inside, and they couldn't even insert a hand in the crowd.
Aoki Yukimi glared at the disciples who were tightly surrounding him, and everyone hurriedly stepped back. Only Aoki Yukimi and the two teachers, plus a Aoki Ema who relied on his identity as a senior sister, were still standing at the forefront.
"I can't say this for a while, so let's show you in slow motion, Uncle Aoki, do you think it's okay?"
"What? great!" Aoki said in surprise when he didn't expect to get such an answer.
"Yanagi-kun is really generous. This is Aoki Ema, she was blushing with anger just now, but now she has calmed down, after all, it was just a misunderstanding. Hearing that Liu Shengyuan was going to demonstrate the secret sword just now to everyone, he said happily.
"It's not a good place to demonstrate, so let's go inside. Aoki Xingjian waved his hand, and naturally there were disciples who went to clean up the sword target, and the others followed him towards the inner dojo.
The team did not return to the practice room that Yanagi saw yesterday, but Director Aoki led everyone into the innermost practice room, which was not much different from the practice room they saw yesterday, but it was only larger.
Entering the practice room, Curator Aoki turned around and said to Yanagi Yuanhe seriously: "Yanagi Shengjun, are you really willing to demonstrate such a sword technique to us? If this is the case, it means that you have taught us this sword with a first-class heart, and this kind of sword technique is enough to create a school and become a secret sword unique to a genre, have you thought about it?"
"Well, Uncle Aoki, this is not a great swordsmanship, what needs to be kept secret? "Of course, Yanagi Yuanhe doesn't think there is anything remarkable about this sword, but it is just that the force is sufficient, and the correct swinging posture is used, if there is really any mystery in it, that is, when the internal strength is condensed on the blade, it will make the long knife become as sensitive as the extension of human limbs, and the resistance of the air can be felt through the blade, and subtle posture adjustments can also be made, so that the knife will continue to accelerate in the process of swinging.
But he won't say this, after all, what is the principle of the sudden appearance of internal strength, even he himself has not figured out, he does not know how to teach, and he does not know if there are other people in the world who have such a strange thing as internal strength.
"Do you really want to pass it on?" Aoki Yuki's eyes widened, as if this was a very important matter.
"Well, I'm really going to pass it. Yanagi nodded affirmatively.
"Okay, from now on, Liu Shengjun you are our first-class heart, and all the secret skills of the sword are open to you. Aoki patted his thigh and said. Beside him, Nishimura Kujo and Aoki Harakata also nodded in agreement.
Yanagi Yuanhe taught such a secret skill, in fact, they benefited the most, in the RB kendo world, the real secret is difficult to obtain, in recent years, the exchange of RB kendo has opened up a lot, after all, in modern society, kendo does not represent force, not so much combat effectiveness, but a cultural symbol. But even so, the true secret sword technique is still out of reach for the vast majority of people. Having a stronger secret swordsmanship, for a genre or a swordsman, represents a deeper heritage and more interests, in RB kendo culture, the real strong still have to rely on fighting, not just relying on propaganda to fool people. And these secret swords represent the actual combat power of a genre.