In order to win the Ishikawa Kenkan in the Kami Worship Contest, Sakakibara Hanbei sends the person who ranks first in the hall in the Great Contest in June every year to participate in the Kami Worship Contest held in July.

Ogata is aware of this convention, so he is not even interested in the ranking of the museum Dabi, which will be unfolding soon.

After all, he didn't bother to compete with the gods again.

Although you can compete with the masters of the Ishikawa Sword Museum by participating in the god worship competition, you may be able to gain a lot of experience points.

Makino on the side also saw that Ogata didn't seem to be interested in the big competition in the museum, which was about to start in one month, so he asked out loud:

"Ogata-senpai, you don't seem to have much fighting spirit for the big competition in the museum."

"It can't be said that there is no fighting spirit." Ogata smiled bitterly, "If I could, I'd be happy to get a high place in the gym competition, after all, I want to win more than losing." ”

"I'm just not interested in the god worship contest in July."

"You also know - the person who won the chief in the big competition in the hall in June will compete in the god sacrifice competition in July."

As soon as Ogata's words fell, Makino let out a soft "ah".

"It turns out that Ogata-senpai, you are afraid that after you get the first place in the big competition in the museum, you will be forced to participate in the god worship competition......"

"That's right." Ogata nodded.

"God Sacrifice Competition......" Makino muttered as he turned his head and looked towards the corner of the dojo, "Speaking of which, I remembered - Mikami-senpai, who has been practicing his sword very hard lately." ”

Ogata followed Makino's gaze - in a corner of the dojo, Mikami, the current head of their Sakakihara Sword Hall, was now practicing swordsmanship alone.

Within a few steps of him as the center, his sweat was sprinkled everywhere.

Mikami has already won the chief of the big competition in the hall three times in a row.

The competition in December of the previous year, the competition in June and December of last year - the chief position was won by Mikami.

Looking at Mikami, who was practicing swordsmanship, Makino muttered:

"Sankami-senpai, maybe he's planning to participate in the god worship competition again, and then the shame that Ichiyuki suffered in the distant mountains last year......

"Hmm." As soon as Makino's words fell, he nodded and agreed, "It's very likely." ”

In June last year, the chief of the big competition in the hall was Mikami, so in other words, in the god sacrifice competition in July last year, it was Mikami who represented the Sakakihara Sword Pavilion and participated in the god worship competition.

And on behalf of the Ishikawa Kenkan, Toyama Renjiro, who is known as "a rare genius swordsman in 10 years".

Toyama Renichiro - the undoubted strongest existence among the many disciples of the Ishikawa Kenkan.

Although Mikami is the chief of the Sakakiwara Sword Pavilion, he does not win every battle against other masters in the Sakakihara Kenkan, such as Ogata.

But the distant mountains are different.

It is said that Toyama is in the Ishikawa Kenkan and has not tasted defeat for 2 consecutive years.

Among the many disciples of the Ishikawa Sword Pavilion, none of them could compete with the distant mountains.

It is also enough to see what a terrible person Yuanshan is.

Last year was the first time Toyama participated in the god worship competition.

Originally, the showdown between Mikami and Yuanshan was watched by tens of thousands of people.

Everyone wants to see what a wonderful competition will break out between the strongest person of the Ishikawa Sword Pavilion and the strongest person of the Kamisakakihara Sword Hall.

However...... In the end, the result was a big disappointment for those who were looking forward to the competition......

This duel between the two is not exciting.

From the beginning of the competition to the end of the competition, only a few breaths passed.

With just one move, Yuanshan knocked Mikami to the ground.

Mikami didn't even have time to use a sword move, and he was killed by Yuanshan in seconds......

Last year's god sacrifice competition became a thorn in the hearts of everyone in the Sakakibara Sword Museum......

After all, it's just too humiliating......

The strongest person in his own hall was killed in seconds......

Mikami was also lost for a long time because of this, and it took nearly 2 months to cheer up.

It's mid-May, and there's not much time left until the start of the big contest and the festival in the museum.

Mikami's current sword training is very likely to be in order to win the first position in the big competition in the hall one month later, and then go out again to compete with the gods and face off against the distant mountains of the Ishikawa Sword Pavilion, and wash away the shame he suffered last year.

Whether it's a big competition in the museum or a festival competition, Ogata is not very interested in these two major events.

Now he just wants to practice his sword silently and become stronger silently.

Ogata has now decided on the fact that although he doesn't know where he should go from here, he can't go wrong to make himself stronger and his sword skills more masterful first.

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That night—

Ogata went to the flow house as usual, guarding the peace of the flow house.

Because people in the neighborhood know that there is a powerful samurai stationed in the stream house now, so in recent days, basically no one dares to make a mistake here in the stream house.

It also made Ogata's "security" work a lot more leisurely.

Now, every night, Ogata just needs to sit at the door of the flow house.

Misaki and Afu are busy entertaining guests.

Ogata, on the other hand, sat at the doorway of the drift house with his two swords in his arms, checking his current personal attribute chart.

[Name: Ogata Yise]

[Level: LV8: 670/700]

【Personal attributes:

Strength: 5

Dexterity: 6

Reflex nerve: 5

Stamina: 5

Vitality: 5]

【Skills:

Sakakiwara Ichito-ryu: 4 stages: 620/700】

[Remaining Skill Points: 2 points]

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[Sakakiwara Ichito-ryu (4 sections):

Ascending the stairs: Beginner

Water Fall: Intermediate

Bird sting: Elementary

Dragontail: Beginner】

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Looking at his personal attribute chart, Ogata muttered in a voice that only he could hear:

"Is the experience point a little bit missing......"

Ogata's personal level, as well as Sakakiwara's level, are all just a little bit of experience points away from leveling up.

The individual level is still 30 XP points away from leveling up, and the Sakakiwara Blade Flow is 80 XP points away from leveling up.

As long as you compete with 1 or 2 more people and defeat them, Ogata's personal level and Sakakihara Ichito-ryu level can both be upgraded.

At that point, Ogata's skill points will be able to become richer.

- After leveling up both my personal level and Sakakiwara Ichitora, I will gain 3 more skill points......

- Combined with the 2 skill points I have always kept, there are 5 skill points in total......

- With so many skill points, it's time to spend some......

Just as Ogata was hesitating about how to spend his skill points, Afuku's exclamation suddenly sounded in the streamhouse.

Ogata hurriedly interrupted his thoughts and followed the prestige.

I saw Ah Fu blushing slightly, covering his buttocks, and looking at the guests at the table next to him with angry eyes.

Looking at the table of guests, Ogata's brow furrowed involuntarily.

Because this table is different from the others.

The people who patronize this drift house are basically farmers and craftsmen...... In short, some civilians.

And the guests at this table, without exception, all have neatly shaved heads.

Katana swords are placed on their laps......