Influenced by the culture of the Tang Dynasty, before the rise of the samurai class, Japan's favorite flower was the plum blossom.

The indomitable and proud bones symbolized by the plum blossom are the favorite symbols of the aristocratic class.

However, after the samurai class flourished, Japan's national flower became the cherry blossom.

There is a popular proverb that is "a flower is a cherry blossom, and a man is a samurai."

It means that cherry blossoms are the king of flowers, and samurai are the king of people.

Makino didn't expect that the Ten Soldiers, who couldn't even withstand his sword, found his "knife" after he was dying, and performed a powerful blood ghost technique such as "Sakuraku".

The longer he practiced swords, the more he became interested in his superb swordsmanship.

I have to say, this really surprised Makino!

What Makino didn't know was that at the "moment" when he found his sword, Jubei also found his memories as a human.

Thinking about it, the ten guards remembered.

During his lifetime, he was indeed a samurai, but he was not a very strong samurai.

If you had to describe it, he was a bastard samurai!

This samurai identity was inherited from his father.

There are some kendo skills, but they are only barely qualified.

But because of his status as a samurai, he can also receive a "chiroku" every month, and he can get by with his small life.

Not only that, but he also married a virtuous wife, Riko, and gave birth to a lovely son, Ryota.

Riko doesn't usually like to talk much, but she is very virtuous, and her home is very delicate, which makes other friends envious to death.

What impressed him the most was Riko's eyes, watery, as if she could speak.

Watery eyes, and then laughing, Shibei can't get enough of it every time.

The beauty of Riko's eyes is famous on the left and right.

Every time he talked about it, the other samurai were all kinds of envy and jealousy towards him, which was also the point that Jubei was most proud of!

Ryota......

I see, is his son before he became a ghost also called Ryota?

No wonder after he became a ghost, he never ate Ryota and taught Ryota swordsmanship!

Everything was supposed to be fine, but the government suddenly issued a "knife abolition order".

Not only did he lose his status as a samurai, but he also deprived him of the right to carry a sword.

What's even more tragic is that at the same time as the abolition of knives, there is also a policy called "Zhilu punishment".

"Zhilu" means Yulu, and "punishment" means removal, except for a small number of capable samurai, most of the samurai have no jobs and no financial resources.

As a bastard samurai, of course Jubei was also unemployed.

But what can he do other than be a samurai?

After the abolition of the sword order, the Ten Guards were completely confused, as if they had lost all the meaning of life at once.

The ancestral katana was confiscated, and even if he wanted to cut his stomach, he didn't have the tools.

In desperation, Jubei sharpened a wooden knife and wore it on his body all day as a samurai, drinking, chatting, and bragging with those samurai who had lost their jobs like him.

But what Shibei didn't expect was that he, who carried a wooden sword and pretended to be a samurai all day long, was respected by some samurai.

By word of mouth among the samurai, and even by false rumors, he became a leader in the rebellion against the policies of the Tokyo Prefecture.

And the wooden knife at his waist has become a symbol of the soul of a samurai!

Jubei was completely stunned, he was scared to death at first, but as more and more samurai who had similar encounters to him joined in.

He has become synonymous with the "soul of the indomitable samurai", and his name is getting louder and louder.

I don't know how the rumors got out, and later, he even became the successor of a mysterious ancient kendo.

Before the abolition of the sword order, Shibei was just a small person, and in the samurai group, he was also the kind of bottom, without the slightest prominence!

But the scrap knife order that made him unemployed made him usher in the peak of his life!

Since then, Jubei has been very popular wherever he goes.

All of a sudden, the Ten Guards were a little flustered.

The only one who poured cold water on him was probably Riko.

Riko hadn't read a book, and she couldn't tell any big truths.

But Riko repeatedly admonished him that when everyone praised him, it was not necessarily a good thing.

But at that time, where could he listen?

The only thing he responded to Riko was "long hair and short knowledge", "what do women know" and so on.

Perhaps because there were too many people complimenting him, Shibei suddenly became the soul of that unyielding samurai, a powerful samurai that all samurai admired.

He began to practice desperately, and began to compete with samurai, not to mention, he really won all the way.

Although he was scarred several times, he won in the end.

All the way to the competition, all the way to victory, all the way to triumph, all the way to sing!

The Ten Guards became more and more confident, and their waists became straighter and straighter.

Looking back, Shibei regretted it.

He's obviously a genius samurai, how did he live like a bastard?

Unfortunately, he woke up too late!

Maybe it's because the prodigal son didn't change his money, and Shibei's martial arts advanced by leaps and bounds, and he won more and more victories, and more and more samurai respected him.

It was not until Saigo Takamori led 3,000 samurai in the southwest that this war was also known as the "Southwest War" in later generations.

It was also at that time that Shibei learned that Saigo Takamori was revered as the "Three Heroes of the Restoration".

As the unyielding soul of a samurai, it was no surprise that Jubei was chosen as the representative to respond to Saigo Takamori's call.

In this regard, Shibei also gladly accepted.

Riko once again objected, and told Jubei the cruel news that Ryota was sick!

And the family is really poor, and there is no money left.

If he had gone, Ryota would probably have died.

That was the first time Jubei saw Riko crying!

But the arrow had to be sent, and in the end, his response to Riko was - as long as he wins a battle, he can become a big official, and Riko will be the official's wife at that time.

After all, it was Ryota's father, and before he set out for the war, Jubei collected a sum of money from other samurai for medical expenses.

To Jubei's annoyance, Riko, who came to see him off, didn't smile and her eyes weren't beautiful.

Shibei is ruthless, he must win a big battle, and let Riko, an uninformed woman, take a good look.

He finally rushed to the battlefield!

Just as the Ten Guards were about to lead their samurai to fight, the government army, which had already been rumored to be, arrived.

The battlefield is so unexpected, unexpected, and unexpected.

And in the government army, naturally, there is also a samurai, and his name is ...... Three Castle Kuashi!

Mijo Kuashi was short, very thin, and dressed in shabby Miyama pattern haori, and was a very down-and-out samurai.

There are probably only five or six subordinates, and they can't even be counted as sesame officials, and they can't be compared with him at all.

But Jubei never imagined that this contest would become his eternal nightmare.

He didn't even take the three moves of Sancheng Kuangzhi, and the knife was taken away by Sancheng Kuangzhi.

Not only were the ten guards stunned, but the faith of a large number of samurai under his command also collapsed!

This battle is naturally a big rout, maybe he is really too vegetable, Sancheng Kuangzhi thinks he is just a small minion.

He knelt down, he begged for mercy, he fled!

Ten Soldiers, who returned to their hometown in embarrassment, never mentioned the word samurai again......

Under the blow of the Shizuku-shaped ripples of the breath of water, the "cherry blossoms" withered one after another.

Ten Guards, whose heads rolled to the ground, looked at the three mountain patterns on Makino Haori, and burst into tears for a while.

"Three Cities Family...... Didn't I get through three moves from you! ”

"Even if I become a ghost, my way of being a samurai, is that nothing more than that?"