After a few simple face-washes, he returned to the dojo.

When Ogata ran out of the dojo to wash his face, a new round of competition had already begun in the dojo.

- Where am I going to sit......

Just as Ogata was wondering where he was going to sit, a familiar voice came into his ears:

"Senpai, here."

Ogata followed the prestige.

The person who spoke was the junior brother who had just competed with Ogata - Makino's Bunshiro.

There happened to be an empty seat next to Makino.

Ogata walked briskly, then knelt down next to Makino.

Just like the sword game just now—the familiar and unfamiliar feeling reappeared.

Ogata had never tried to sit on his knees before he had even crossed over.

At this time, like breathing, he completed the kneeling posture beside Makinochi easily and naturally.

Ogata was already accustomed to this feeling of both familiarity and strangeness.

"How?"

After kneeling beside Makino, he smiled and asked Makino:

"Does your chest still hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore."

Makino rubbed his chest and continued to smile and say:

"Thanks to the mercy of my seniors, I don't feel pain after a little rest."

When he was fighting Makino just now, Ogata restrained his strength in time so that he didn't hurt Makino.

If the wooden sword had been slashed firmly in Makino's chest, then Makino might not have been able to kneel beside Ogata and chat with Ogata like he is now.

Fumishiro Makino - one of the few friends of Ogata Itsei, 1 year younger than Ogata.

Studied Sakakiwara Ichito-ryu with Ogata, but because Makino entered the Sakakibara Hanbei Gate later than Ogata, he is a junior of Ogata.

Because the relationship between the two is good, they always learn from each other as they did just now.

However, because Makino's swordsmanship is worse than Ogata's, in the sword contest with Ogata, it basically ends in Makino's defeat.

……

……

After a brief casual chat, the two brothers stopped talking.

Makino looked intently at the two senior brothers who were competing for swords in the center of the sword hall.

Ogata, on the other hand, pretended to be watching the competition, while secretly studying the system in his brain.

After silently reciting "system" in his heart, a virtual screen appeared in front of him.

[Name: Ogata Yise]

[Level: LV7: 570/600]

【Personal attributes:

Strength: 5

Dexterity: 5

Reflex nerve: 5

Stamina: 5

Vitality: 5]

【Martial Arts Genre:

Sakakihara Ichito-ryu: 3rd stage: 420/500】

[Remaining Skill Points: 0]

【Sakakiwara Ichito-ryu (3 sections):

Ascending the stairs: Beginner

Water Fall: Intermediate

Bird sting: Elementary

Dragontail: Beginner】

Easy-to-understand interface for personal attributes at a glance.

It's just that this person's attribute value makes Ogata want to complain.

- Strength, speed, reflex nerves, physical strength, and vitality, these 5 attributes are all 5 points, and this attribute is too average, right......

After silently complaining about his personal combat power with an average of "5" in his heart, Ogata began to seriously study the various entries in this person's interface.

Ogata noticed that some of the entries had a small question mark at the end.

When Ogata focuses on this little question mark, the question mark turns into a virtual interface box that explains some basic information about the article.

For example, when Ogata focuses on the small question mark after the "level", the little question mark becomes a virtual interface box that explains the usefulness of the level to Ogata in a short sentence.

[Defeating or killing enemies will earn experience points, the stronger the enemy defeated or killed, the more experience points you can get, the current level is 7, and you can get 1 skill point for each level]

Fairly straightforward and understandable instructions.

- Skill ...... What's the use of skill points......

Ogata said this secretly, moving his gaze to the small question mark behind the entry "Remaining Skill Points".

[You can spend skill points to improve your personal attributes, or increase the level of each skill of each martial art school]

[For every 1 skill point spent, you can increase the ability value of a certain attribute by 1 point]

[Spend 1 skill point to unlock a new skill of a certain martial art genre]

[Spend 1 skill point to upgrade the unlocked skill from "Elementary" to "Intermediate" art, and spend 2 skill points to upgrade "Intermediate" skill to "Advanced" art]

[Spend 4 Skill Points to upgrade the "Advanced" Martial Skill to "Master" Martial Art, and Spend 8 Skill Points to upgrade the "Master" Martial Art to the "Grandmaster" Martial Skill]

This article has a lot of explanations, but it's also easier to understand.

- Martial Arts ...... Do you mean the latter ones......

Ogata moved his gaze to the back of the personal attributes screen.

At present, in this column of martial arts schools, there is only one martial arts school, "Sakakiwara Ichito-ryu", which means that Ogata is currently only in this genre.

[Martial Arts School: When you use the skills of a certain martial arts school to defeat or kill an enemy, you can increase the experience points of that martial arts school, and you can upgrade after the experience points are full.] The maximum level of each martial arts school is 15 ranks, and for each level of the martial arts school, you can earn 2 skill points. 】

After reading the explanation of the article, Ogata remembered that when he was fighting Makino with a sword just now, when he knocked out Makino with the dragon's tail that took out Sakakiwara Ichitori, he did hear the words that Sakakiwara Ichitoryu gained experience points.

Ogata digested all the information he had just learned.

- The highest level of martial arts is 15 dans, and the only martial art I know "Sakakiwara Ichitori" is currently only 3 dans...... It seems that I still need to work hard and upgrade slowly......

- The entry for "Skill Points" just now says that skill points can be used to upgrade the skill level of each martial arts school.

- Sakakihara has a total of 4 tricks: dragon tail, climbing the building, bird sting, and water falling.

- Among these 4 moves, the level of "water falling" is the highest, which is intermediate.

- The other 3 moves are all beginners.

- Oh, that's pretty accurate. My physical memory and the memories in my mind tell me that the sword technique I am best at in Sakakiwara Ichi-ryu is "Mizuraku".

- According to the description of the "Skill Points" entry above, I can spend 2 Skill Points to upgrade "Water Fall" from Intermediate to Advanced.

- You can also spend 1 skill point to upgrade any of the 3 moves of "Bird Thorn", "Dragon Tail", and "Climbing the Tower" from beginner to intermediate......

- Wow...... To upgrade a certain sword skill from beginner to the highest grandmaster level, it takes more than a dozen skill points......

- And my current skill points are......

- 0 o'clock ......

- Skill points are precious......

- Skill points can be used to improve personal attributes and sword skill levels.

- To raise a certain sword skill to the highest level, it costs a lot of skill points......

- To increase my personal attribute value and turn me into a superman, it also requires a lot of skill points......

After digesting all the information he had just learned from researching the system, the only thing Ogata came to was that skill points were important and that they should not be wasted.

……

……

"Senpai, Senpai."

Makino, who was sitting next to Ogata, suddenly poked Ogata with his elbow.

"Makino, what are you doing?"

"Why are you embarrassed to ask me what I'm doing?" Makino cast a puzzled look at Ogata, "Senior, your spirit is indeed a little unfocused today, didn't you hear the master calling you?" It's your turn to come forward and compete with your sword again. Your opponent is strong this time, be careful. ”