It was only at this time that Inuyama finally couldn't help but think of the encounter many years ago, in 1945, the eighteen-year-old Inuyama met Ange, who was actually sixty-eight years old. It was a long time before Inuyamaga learned of Ange's true age, and he had the impression that the old man had always looked personable and suave, like the immortal vampire in European mythology.

Inuyama is reluctant to recall that era, which lasted through his unhappy childhood throughout the war, when the nuclear bombs leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the emperor announced his unconditional surrender, and the entire country was occupied by the United States. The war drained the country's strength, and Japan woke up from the illusion of gambling on the fortunes of the country, and its memories were full of muddy streets, begging injuries on the streets, jeeps whistling from the Americans, and women who were carried into cars by American GIs, and the war destroyed everything good...... To this day, Inuyamaga still remembers the women, their pale and flabby thighs exposed under their crumpled kimonos, like dehydrated dead flesh.

It was a bleak spring, but the cherry blossoms were still in full bloom, and Inuyamaga was walking around the port of Tokyo in his geta.

Inuyama Kaga, who has just grown up, is a young pimp whose job is to introduce American soldiers. On that day, he was shaking his tongue to introduce business to an American sailor, when he talked about the sky, and suddenly heard a long whistle, he was very familiar with the port, and he had been among the sailors for a few days, and he was no stranger to all kinds of whistles, but he had never heard the whistle of a ship so high-pitched and majestic, it was simply deafening.

Inuyamaga turned around in surprise and saw the white battleship "Iowa" sailing from the sky, its side almost higher than any building he had ever seen, and the pitch-black cannon pointed at Tokyo. The giant ship was as big as a city, and Inuyama suddenly had a mysterious premonition in his dazzle, and this ship was an opportunity for him to change his fate...... Later he learned that there was a staff officer of the American lieutenant colonel on that ship, and his name was Hilbert Jean Angers.

When they first met, Ange was wearing a white officer uniform of the U.S. Navy, and he glanced at the tattoo on Inuyama's arm and said in a contemptuous voice, "Inuyama's child? Go back and tell your adults that my name is Ange, Hilbert Jean Ange, a half-breed from the United States. You can choose, peace or dignity."

Peace is submission, dignity is death, and from the first day of the meeting, Angers succinctly stated his code of conduct in the language of war.

"Is that all? That's it? Too slow! Too slow! Too slow!" Ange in his memory always yelled as he does now.

It was heartbreaking, and again and again, Ange swung his bamboo sword and knocked him to the ground, and Inuyamaga pounced on him again and again, desperate for his life, but in Ange's eyes he was just a puppy that had not even grown his teeth.

Although Inuyama has been reluctant to admit it for many years, Ange is his true teacher, and all the skills he relies on are taught by Anges, without Anges' support, the revival of the Inuyama family is impossible, and it is impossible for him to become the first head of the Japanese branch.

Ange gave him strength, but also trampled on his dignity mercilessly, and Inuyamaga was very suspicious that Ange had ever regarded him as a disciple, or just as a useful tool. During the three-year special training, Ange used bitter language to mock Inuyamaga all the time. Inuyama is his sparring partner, and the so-called sparring job is to be knocked to the ground again and again. Inuyamaga couldn't understand that with Ange's strength, he didn't need a weak sparring partner like him, but he didn't dare to resist, because he was too weak in front of Ange, everything he had was given by Ange, and he was the puppet that Ange used to rule the Snake Qi Eight Family. To this day, there are still people who call him a traitor to the family and a lackey of Angers behind his back, and Inuyamaga never refutes it, because it is true.

But who is his pain like to talk about? Every time she was taunted mercilessly by Ange, Inuyama would think of the women with pale thighs, the brutal American soldiers pounced on them and tore at their kimonos, and they suffered in silence like dehydrated dead meat.

"I don't despise gangsters, I just despise trash! Want dignity? Yes! Knock me down!" The memory of Ange, the ghost that had hovered in Inuyama's heart for more than sixty years, sneered in his ear.

Is that so, teacher? Do you have dignity when you are defeated? Teacher, do you know...... Maybe I'm too greedy, I'm so

The rise of expectation is the hope that everyone in the family will live with dignity...... We have risen, but we have lost our dignity forever...... Is that a teacher? Do you have dignity when you are defeated?

In an instant, he climbed to the ninth order, and five hundred and twelve times faster!

The eighteen-year-old boy in the depths of Inuyamaga's soul let out an angry lion-like roar, and Onimaru Kunitsuna was unsheathed, drawing an arc like a girl's thin eyebrows.

The Sanskrit scripture "Sangha Law" once recorded: a moment is a thought, twenty thoughts are an instant, twenty moments are a snap of the fingers, twenty snaps of the fingers are a pre-one, twenty pre-one is a moment, and a day and night are thirty moments.

It's a stab in the moment.

There has never been such a fast knife in the world, and there has never been such a poetic killing machine, so lonely that even time has to stay for it.

Extremely willful!

Onimaru Kunitsuna finally broke through a certain boundary at this moment, and the high-frequency vibration of the air was faster than the knife, cutting the skin on Ange's shoulder, and the blood flowers flew away like ogi flowers.

Ange's eyes flashed with relief...... He finally put on a first-class posture for two days, "two days of sun", like holding the sun and the moon in his hand, and then, the handle of the knife in his left hand was twisted, the back of the knife was forward, and Inuyama He was hit by the side of the face and flew out.

"Yaga." Ange still scolded lightly.

Although he had spent three years in Japan, Ange had only learned three or five sentences of Japanese, and all of them were used to swear, which once puzzled Inuyama as to what the campus atmosphere in the United States headquarters was.

"Can I be half as fast as you?" Inuyama asked in a hoarse voice, he couldn't stand up for a while, Ange was much more ruthless than Lu Mingfei's young man, and he was a little concussive.

"I don't know, but if you can hurt me, it means you've grown up."

"I'm dying old, do you think I'm grown up?" Inuyamaga let out a laugh and waved his hand at Ryoma and Miyamoto Shishio who came over, "Don't come here, please apologize to the patriarch on my behalf, these are my personal grievances with the principal."

"Bring a chair." Ange said to the girl on the dance floor, pulling a cigar from his bosom, lighting it and smoking it.

The girls brought a luxurious high-backed couch to the center of the dance floor, and Ange took a deep puff of his cigar and pointed to the couch, "Put your master on the couch, this guy is probably a little concussed."

The girls did so, and Inuyama was slumped on the sofa, as if her limbs didn't even belong to her.

"Bring another chair, and now we can finally have a good conversation." Ange said, "Take another glass of martani ice and shake it, don't stir."

Ange sat down across from Inuyama, playing with a folding knife in one hand and an ice martini in the other. Inuyama's swollen eyes opened a slit, only to find that Ange was just sweating, and there was only a small injury on his shoulder all over his body.

Inuyama He immediately knew that it was not only he who had been sharpening for sixty-two years, he admitted sixty-two years ago that his talent was far inferior to the man in front of him, and after sixty-two years, the gap between them would only get bigger and bigger.

Inuyama couldn't help but sigh softly.

"I know you don't want to admit it's my student." Ange said.

"It's more accurate to say it's your dog, right? But the dog always doesn't want to admit that he's been kicked and beaten by his owner." Inuyama laughed hoarsely.

"Don't say that, how can you be a dog? You're just stupid."

"This level of ridicule is useless to me."

"Don't shout so aggrieved that others will hear me and think I'm the abusive stepfather." Ange kicked Inuyama's couch foot, and Inuyama was dizzy.

"Have you seen the team I sent to Japan?" Ange asked.

"It's your beloved student, right? It's not a fool like me." Inuyamaga said with some weakness, "I've seen it, they are all young people with excellent bloodlines, and it's quite interesting."

"Really? You Japanese people are always so hypocritical, and you clearly think that the other person is a guy who is full of bad words, but you want to say something as ambiguous as "quite interesting." Ange shrugged, "First of all, Caesar, a bit rebellious and disregarding everyone

, especially his father. He is confident that he must be number one in the world. He's going to come and challenge me one day, right? When he felt the time was ripe. I never praise him, but I will send him to carry out the most important tasks. He needs to be successful, and the more successful he is, the more confident he becomes, and the more confident he is, the stronger he is, which is called positive feedback in psychology."

"Chu Zihang is a madman, a sword that constantly tempers himself, and for the sword, the meaning of existence is only to cut and cut. Enemies and fate, just cut them off together. If you keep chopping, then chop again. So I never worry about letting Chu Zihang experience failure, every failure will make him more perfect. That's why I always send him on the most dangerous and missions, giving him endless dangers." Ange spoke eloquently.

"As for Lu Mingfei," Ange laughed, "he's perfect, just trust him, he'll surprise everyone."

"Haha, is the stepfather showing off his precious biological sons to his stupid stepson? Ha ha! Haha!" Inuyama laughed too, revealing his blood-covered gums.

"Ahe, don't you understand what I mean? I'm an educator, and I educate different people in different ways." Ange suddenly stopped laughing, "You never thought about what the education plan I made for you was?"

Inuyama didn't smile anymore.

Ange looked Inuyama into his eyes, "Aga, there was something in your eyes when I first met you, do you know what it is?"

"What?" Inuyama He subconsciously answered.

"I'm still talking like a child when I'm so old, how many times have I told you, learn to think, don't be carried away by other people's topics."

Inuyama He only shut up, and he would be trained even to answer casually, and he lost his majesty in front of his goddaughter, and he was simply embarrassed and thrown home.

"It's the boy's grief." "At the time, I thought, why does an eighteen-year-old boy, from an underworld family, pimping American sailors in ports, have that clean sadness in his eyes?"

Inuyamaga turned his head vigilantly, trying to avoid Ange's gaze, chewing on the past as only a little boy would do, he was already an old man, and the old man would only seal the past and never think about it again.

Inuyamaga doesn't want people to peek into those past...... But Ange's gaze penetrated his pupils and into his heart, condescendingly scrutinizing him and mocking him.

"Don't hide, Aga. A man can escape from all the demons in the world, but there is only one thing he can never get rid of, and that is his cowardly self." Ange's voice was as thick and low as a morning bell and a dusk drum.

"I have a file on every student, and I've quietly checked your background. Before World War II, the Inuyama family was the weakest of the eight families of Snake Qi, and was looked down upon by other families because of their money. After the war of aggression began, the eight families of Snake Qi became speculators, and many of the *** people who attached to the Inuyama family were either bewitched or forced to join the women's standing team. Your father felt ashamed and wanted to do something big to prove that the Inuyama family was not a family that relied on women for food, and he also became a supporter of the war of aggression, and mingled with the young officers of the radical faction all day long. On the day the emperor announced his surrender, he committed suicide by seppuku. In addition to you, there are only two sisters left in your family, and other families have also reached into the custom industry to rob the women and business of the Inuyama family. Your eldest sister, Yuki Inuyama, dies in a street brawl to defend what little dignity the family has left. The enemy family does not give up, and also asks your family to hand over the only young son to apologize, and that useless heir, the only hope of the Inuyama family, is you."

"Don't, don't say it! Don't say it!" Inuyama roared with red eyes.

"Your second sister asked for help everywhere, but the people in the family didn't lend a hand, and the eight Snake Qi families, who were badly injured, are waiting to see the end of the Inuyama family, and it is best to become the Seven Snake Qi family. But your second sister finally came up with a way to save the family after being cornered, and she dedicated herself to the beautiful *** official with her famous appearance, so the US *** side promised to protect your precarious and dilapidated family."

"No...... Don't say any more!" Inuyama Hose trembled, and his face was ashen.

"Coward!" Ange slapped him in the face, "Don't even dare to listen, how can you face it?" And how to defeat it?"

Inuyamaga looked at Ange tremblingly, stunned

Chicken.

"You were eighteen years old at the time, a big boy who didn't even have a good kimono to wear, and on a rainy day you ran in the muddy water with a few black and white photos colored with paint in your arms, and you were a matchmaker with the Americans, and if they hooked up, they would give you a little money as a payment. You are the last man of the Inuyama family, stubbornly sticking to the custom industry. Your family's ancestral home is home to an American colonel who is your sister's benefactor and lover. Every day he toys with your sister and doesn't pay anything, and that's what he pays for helping the Inuyama family. You don't dare to go home, you don't want to know all this, you vow to kill that Yankee one day, and you will return to the Eight Snake Houses and make them pay for your eldest sister's death." Ange grabbed Inuyamaga's hair and stared at him deadly, "But you're a coward, you can't do it! From the bottom of your heart, you feel like you can't do it!"

"You are so despicable, you can't even protect yourself, and you're still a coward, you should hide under your sister's wing, grit your teeth, and be incompetent and furious, but you're very good to ***, and you'd rather be beaten by your clients in order to fight for their benefits. In your eyes, those *** who sell themselves for money are like the second sister you don't want to go home to see, and you can only atone for your "can't do" in this way."

The girls all knelt down, they knew very little about the past of the family, they never thought that the current majestic head of the family had such a bad childhood, nor did they know that the family had gone through such dark times, and it was a great disrespect to the head of the family to stand and listen to such sad pasts.

"But that's your power, Aga!" Ange slapped Inuyama's dead face, "You are only in the middle of my class, but you have the strength to hide in your heart. The most devastating force in the world is grief and anger, which can push people to their limits. All I have to do is wake you up and turn the last boy of the Inuyama family into a dignified man. I never encourage you, because encouragement is useless for you, encouragement will only appease you, only help you forget the pain. I have knocked you down again and again, insulted you, laughed at you, made you remember your weakness, made you remember that there were things in this world that you "couldn't do", and let you remember your sorrow forever! Let the teacher be the biggest evil in your life, and you will give up your life to defeat me! I've been waiting for your inner lion to roar."

"Today I saw the results. In an instant, five hundred and twelve times the speed of the slash. I'm relieved, Aga, I'm relieved." Ange nodded slightly, "Congratulations on your graduation, Ahe."