If the direction is the same, we will meet again one day.

It's just that when you say goodbye, you can still talk and laugh as before.

Time has passed, and after saying goodbye, they have experienced a lot, and their moods and positions may have been different.

So in a way, she was scared.

Memories always polish many things, and precious memories are precious precisely because they are memories. Sword skills have improved, combat experience has become more abundant, and physical fitness is far stronger than before. But the more she experienced, the more she gained, and she didn't dare to look back.

She didn't know how her teacher did it, maybe he had hidden Kramer and become reticent when he arrived on the East Coast.

A familiar place, but there is no longer anyone waiting for you to go back. Companions who used to travel together and talk about everything and laugh together, obviously reunited, but they didn't know what to say.

This somewhat delicate and stiff atmosphere made even our Loan girl of the Optimist faction want to turn around and flee.

She has never been afraid of a difficult future, but she is afraid that the good things of the past will be gone.

Because this girl has not had many beautiful things in the first place, she cherishes those encounters more than ordinary people.

So in the eyes of Galeva and Lulu and the young master, our Mira became silent and cowered. Unlike the confident and strong Rigal-listed adventurer they had accompanied along the way, it showed a side that was in a sense in line with her current age.

But what she feared didn't happen.

Although there have been a lot of experiences between the two sides since the goodbye, not only the little girl who could only follow Henry in the past has now become a swordsman in her own right, but the red-haired swordsman, who was already extremely skilled at the beginning, seems to have made great progress.

His face was thinner, and the scar on his chin that wasn't there meant that Joshua hadn't stopped fighting since. It's been a long journey, initially just because her last wish was to see the sea, but finally she came to the other side of the ocean in the Far East.

It was a reunion that Henry had never expected even in the name of a sage.

There are many things I want to say, but in the end, they are all buried in the bottom of my heart.

Because each other is no longer a child who confides in friends in every detail, in the adult world, it is only a simple sentence to know if the past friendship has changed.

"Long time no see. ”

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reunited after a long absence, and stopped fighting just because it was an old friend. It's a naïve scene that seems like an adventure, but it happens.

Joshua seems to have a high reputation in this ronin group, and after inquiring with Henry and the others about the cause and effect, he returned to the camp and not only succeeded in convincing the leader to shrink his formation and put down his sword, but even invited Henry and others to meet their leader for a detailed discussion.

Narumi, Lao Qiao, and the Great God looked at each other, looking very hesitant. They were both Nanban and swordsmen and met Henry, and based on their trust in the sage, they also regarded Joshua as a person they could trust. But a person may be trustworthy, but the group to which he belongs is a very subtle existence in the Japanese society.

In a samurai culture where loyalty to the lord is regarded as the backbone, betrayers are spurned. The ideal relationship between a monarch and a courtier is one in which a courtier devotes his life to serving a monarch. Therefore, once a samurai is reduced to a ronin and becomes an ownerless existence, his status will plummet.

There are two symbols of the samurai's coming-of-age, one is to get rid of the name, and the other is to find a monarch to serve. The Chinese people who become ronins are generally killed by the Chinese they serve or deprived of their status by their superiors, or they are removed from the ranks of the samurai by the Chinese they serve.

Either is a very dishonorable act. In the samurai class where all actions are based on a culture of honor, become a ronin samurai.

It is almost impossible to return to its original position.

Even if reason controls Narumi and the others and will not directly exclude and spurn, the education they have received for many years still makes them prejudiced against this ronin group. Aware of this, our Sage-sage suggested that only he, Yajiro, Narumi, and the girl of Ra'an should go to the ground, and that the rest of the people should stay where they were, and that the command would be handed over to the great god for the time being.

Narumi didn't hesitate long before agreeing to the sage's proposal. Because the other side is currently outnumbered, and not accepting such kindness is to lose face to the leader of the ronin group, which may lead to the resumption of the struggle and the need to face each other again.

Four people is already the minimum number, but this one is just right. While keeping the maximum number of people in place, he also showed enough respect for each other: Henry and Mira were acquaintances of Joshua in the past, and Narumi was the highest-ranking person as the de facto leader of the team.

In addition to this, there is Yajiro who is the young master of Aota. Although he could only be regarded as a samurai serving his father, a Chinese clan, before the abdication of the head of the Qingtian family, even if he was an adult, he had to start from this step, but as a young master, he still had a more respectable status than other samurai.

The ronin group was stationed nearby, and they brought not only weapons and equipment, but also some marching supplies and baggage. This diverted the attention of the three others from Henry—it took a considerable amount of time for a large army to be mobilized, and it would take quite a while for even a well-disciplined samurai and ashigaru troops to prepare for the size of a hundred people.

The armor of the Moon Nation is not as heavy as Rigal's, but it still takes a long time to complete.

A full set of samurai armor takes about 7-8 minutes to wear on your own, but with the help of someone, this time can be kept even lower.

The whole process is the same as the full-body plate armor of the Rigal knights, from the inside to the outside and from the bottom to the top. Start with a calf armor called a stun, which is usually made up of iron bars or plates attached to the cloth leggings. A long rope is set up at the top of the ankle and the gastrocnemius muscle.

The tightened face can play a role in pressurizing the calves during the march, relieving fatigue and facilitating long-distance marching.

After wearing the mat, the next step is to tie a part that protects the thighs and is called a "pei", which is made up of two drooping rectangular pieces of cloth decorated with iron armor. By tying a long horizontal cloth strap around the waist, it can protect the front of the thigh, and if you tie the straps on both sides, it can be bent into a semicircle, which protects the side of the thigh on the one hand, and reduces the volume on the other hand, making it easy to walk.

After the two were quickly put on, unlike the Rigal Knights, who separated the three parts of the shoulder, arm, and hand, the upper limb protector of the Lunar Land was a sleeve that was connected from the shoulder to the back of the hand - called the cage hand. Wear it straight on, then tie the strap under the armpit of the other arm. After both sides are dressed, the cuirass, called the carcass, is put on top of it, and the lacing is hidden under the protection of the cuirass, which forms the basic protection of the torso and limbs.

On top of this, reinforced shoulder armor such as small sleeves for infantry or large sleeves for mounted archery, and wearing a helmet formed a complete samurai with iron armor.

Ashigaru's armor is probably the same way, but their limb armor is simplified, and the area covered by metal is far less than that of the samurai.

The process of putting on armor is so complicated, but it's only the first step.

After the armor is finished, make sure that all kinds of straps are tied tightly so that they do not loosen during the march, and then bring the waist knife and the big gun in their hands, and finally bring their personal food bags and water bottles, and then carry the bedding in a whole formation.

It can be said that unlike the rogue who picks up and leaves with a cloth suit and weapon, the preparation of a serious samurai for the march alone takes an hour. And given the size of the population and the condition of the road, there is only so much more to think about.

- So this made Narumi, Yajiro, and our Luoan girl can't help but have such a question in their hearts:

"Who the hell is this group marching against?"

Earlier, when they were in a state of battle, these ronins who suddenly appeared and were obviously in a gang with the rogues were also subconsciously judged by them to be coming for their side. But now that he has calmed down and lifted the fighting state, looking at their appearance of being ready to go, and considering the time it takes for an armed force of this scale to prepare for the march, it is obviously impossible that the sage ran to grab the water, and the well was reported to be there within two hours.

The previous group of rogues who were beaten down by Henry's old fist can still explain the past by saying that they are reinforcements who have gone back to move, but these more well-armed ronins still carry the baggage of long marches, although it is a bit presumptuous to say so, and it is a bit of a fuss to deal with their team, which is now only this number left.

Although the other side does not necessarily know the size of their numbers, the more you observe the preparations made by these people, the more solid the assumption that they are planning to march to attack a target and happen to collide with their own. And this may be one of the reasons why the ronin group can so easily agree to lay down their arms and de-alert.

If it is not the main goal, then it should be avoided as much as possible to avoid undermining the vitality before the target is encountered.

Another reason, of course, is that fortunately no blood was seen and people died.

The little young master's kindness finally got good results, although Henry beat everyone to the ground with an old punch, but after all, there was no dead hand. The nose is blue, the face is swollen, the dizziness and the eyes are black, and it can always be healed, if you can't help but say that they are all cut in two, then even if they are old acquaintances with Joshua, they are a little embarrassed and difficult to step down at the moment.

Keep a hand in everything, and see each other in the future.

It is true that indecision in the face of a mortal enemy is not advisable, but if you frequently make a dead hand when you can keep it, regardless of the severity, most of you will come back to your senses and one day find that you have betrayed your relatives and are isolated.

Determining when to stop and when not to hesitate has always been a problem, and even seasoned adventurers often regret it later. But for now, the group is glad that the little master's previous hesitation has resulted in a relatively good result.

The surrounding ronin began to camp on the spot, sat down in twos and threes, drank and chatted, and a series of things came down, and it was only at this point that the group noticed that it was close to evening.

"The Ronin Who Started from Douluo"

In June, the long days of sunshine are still bright until 7 p.m., giving the illusion that the day is still early, as if the day never ends. But this visual sense is very deceptive, and when the first rays of the yellow sun set, the whole sky will quickly dim in less than ten minutes.

It's so fast that you can't imagine it.

Therefore, most veterans who go out on a trip do not believe too much in the light, and start looking for a low point to camp when the time is almost up, so as not to continue to move forward because it is still early and have to find a camp in the dark.

This is the so-called obsession with the authorities. Few people can notice it when they are in it, as if those prosperous dynasties that claim to be eternal, but collapse in the blink of an eye.

Most people don't know about the catastrophe coming, and even before they die, all they think is:

"How did it happen so quickly?" and "How did it all happen"

Dressed in straw sandals and leather boots, Joshua led the four of them to the group of ronins who had completed their encampment, and the ronin who led the group, with his long messy curly hair and tall figure among the people, raised his eyes and glanced at them casually.

"Domain, are you coming? ”

"What a rarity. ”

At a glance, he could tell from the ornaments and clothes on Narumi and Yajiro's bodies, which was not something that ordinary scholars or Chinese could do—the ronin leader then waved his hand: "Contemptible Ryunosuke, please take a seat, there are many things I want to ask you." ”