Standing at the door of the competition venue, Saionji Akino closed his eyes and recalled the skills he had trained in his dreams for the past two days.

At present, his kendo has reached the level of lv3, which is close to lv4, because he has enough theoretical knowledge, he can also learn this modern sport with the most scientific and efficient skills.

The current level should be enough to make it to the national competition, but whether or not they can win the championship depends on the current opponent.

Today is Thursday, and after two days of solid training, and everyone in the kendo club has also witnessed the hard work of Saionji Akino, no one will look down on him anymore.

In addition, there have been other members of the department who have tried to challenge Saionji Akino, but they were all broken in only three moves, and the gap is quite large.

And Kijima Yoshien, who turned out to be resistant to Saionji Akino, after seeing his strong strength, he was no longer angry with himself and chose to recognize Saionji Akino.

So, they organized themselves to come together on Thursday afternoon for this qualifying event.

If you want to participate in the national competition, you must go through the selection of regional universities, and today is the first one.

The winner advances, and the loser retreats.

No matter how long you've been preparing for today, or how much sweat you've put in, it's all about the results that determine whether your efforts are meaningful.

Because of this, the students from other colleges and universities who have not yet entered the venue at this time are all aggressive.

Only in the kendo club of their mountain and field high school, everyone has no momentum.

To put it bluntly, they are also here to accompany the race, which has been the case for many years, and this year... There was one more Saionji Akino who suddenly ran in, but they didn't think it would change anything.

However, Kijima Yoshito didn't think so, he looked at Saionji Akino, who was standing on the side at this time, quietly closing his eyes and concentrating.

His strength has been seen by himself, and since he can defeat himself so easily, he will face people from other schools...

It's not completely out of the ordinary!

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Walking into the venue, you can see a full audience, as well as the support flags of various college kendo clubs, and as for their mountain and wild colleges... Unfortunately, nothing.

Since no one knew that they would be competing today, Kaoru Kijima wanted to come over, but she had other things to do temporarily, supposedly as a librarian.

Asaba Oriyuki's words, Saionji Akino has only been in contact with her on the Internet during this time, but he didn't take the initiative to mention it.

To be honest, he could feel that the temperature difference between chatting with Asaba Oriyuki was a bit big recently, but he also felt that it was acceptable, after all, couples have a period of hot love, and friends naturally have a similar period.

And there's also the impact of the Forest School incident.

Maybe Asaba Oriyuki still needs time to adjust, and Saionji Akino has been really busy lately, so he hasn't been too active in chatting with her.

The transformation of the cat café, the issue of Mihara's current appeal case, he must find a lawyer to deal with the trial within fifteen days.

Although lawyer Kawashima asked him to wait for news from Toshiji Kawano, he didn't just wait there, but really contacted many law firms and found that it was really as he said.

No one dared to accept his commission, and the reason why the word "dare" was used was because every time someone from the law firm sent him out, or hung up the phone, he was repeatedly confirmed, and he was honestly afraid.

There is a sense of flattery that they don't want to offend themselves, but their behavior is diametrically opposed to their words and deeds, which is quite contradictory.

But because of this, Saionji Akino can basically be confirmed.

It is indeed someone who interferes behind his back and restricts himself.

It's just that who it really is, it's not yet known.

…

In the locker room, Saionji Akino, who had changed into a kendo uniform, was about to go out to continue meditating to find his state, but unexpectedly ran into a group of uninvited guests.

It's their opponent this time.

Higaya Private High School Kendo Club.

Hitani Private High School is considered to have a grudge with their mountain high school for generations, and the seniors of their kendo club have also encountered Hitani Private High School no less than seven times, and the result is that they must lose every time.

In other words, if you don't count this time, their high school kendo club will be defeated when it meets Hitani Private High School in the qualifying round.

"Seriously, I didn't expect to meet you, especially you... Yoshito Kijima. ”

"Last year, you were lucky enough to almost get the district championship, don't you feel very proud?"

Kijima Yoshito unexpectedly did not accept the other party's provocation, but just glanced at him lightly.

"Get out of the way, we're going to change our clothes too." Another arrogant teenager shoved their men away and smiled mockingly.

"You!"

Kijima Yoshito pressed the member who was about to attack and looked at him coldly, "Are you so sure, will you win today?" ”

"Or else? With your shrimp soldiers and crab generals, or with your half-baked efforts? The leading boy had a hideous expression.

"Our side is different from the laughter and slapstick you have there, we train desperately every day, work hard to be able to get on the stage of the national competition one day, and you..."

"With all due respect, you are not as serious as a third of us, and you don't have the spirit of kendo fortitude at all, and I don't see any love for the sport of kendo in your eyes!"

This is a mockery, and at this time, the leading boy on the other side is more like a kind of resentment that hates iron and steel.

"You're right." Kijima Yoshito does not deny that because of years of failure, as well as the abandonment of the school, and the dereliction of duty as a minister. The Kendo Club has long since lost the kind of thing that is enough to become a spirit god, and it is just a walking corpse in human skin.

But everything will change from today.

"But, today, we're going to win!" Kijima Yoshito glanced at Saionji Akino, who was standing in the corner and was silent, and said very seriously.

"Hahahaha!" The other party was obviously laughed at angrily.

"Then you can try it."

After walking out of the locker room, the other members of the department looked at each other and looked at Kijima Yoshito with incomprehension, "Minister... Just now, why did you say that kind of big talk? It's impossible for us to win with this strength..."

"What is said is what is said, how can there be so many whys? You all go and prepare, I want to say a few words to Xiyuan Temple. ”

"Yes..."

After watching the remaining members leave, Kijima Yoshito looked at Saionji Akino, who had opened his eyes at this time, and he bowed to Saionji Akino very sincerely.

"Xiyuan Temple, this competition will be up to you to take the position of the general, and it is very likely that we will not be able to solve any opponent, that is, the pressure will be all on you."

"But, please lead us to win, please, this may be our last chance to turn over."

"I've always wanted to boost people's morale and make them realize how much they still have to do their best work, but... I haven't had this opportunity, or rather, I don't have the ability. ”

"But this time, please take us to win, please!"

Looking at the appearance of Kijima Yoshiyuan bending over him, Saionji Akino knew a little more about him.

In any case, at least his love for the sport of kendo is real, and his attitude is extremely sincere and sincere.

Perhaps, they can also become very good friends.

Saionji Akino stepped forward to help Kijima Yoshito, grabbed his palm with a smile, and then shook it heavily.

"Minister, since we have come here, we are bound to win, although I am not familiar with everyone, but I also want to believe that the kendo club will become better and better in the future."

Hearing this voice of Akino of Saionji, Kijima Yoshito also raised his head slowly, and the two men looked at each other with infinite desire to win.

Needless to say, this battle is not too much.

Win!

——

"Shanye High School, isn't it the school that has been at the bottom for 10,000 years and is out in the first round?"

"Public high schools are like this, they don't study well, and club activities don't improve."

"It's so boring, can you fast forward to other schools' competitions?" The groups of relatives and friends in the audience, as well as the cheerleading teams of various high schools, all said that they were not interested in the competition at Yamano High School.

I have to say that Yamano High School is really miserable, this time I came to participate in the qualifying competition, and I didn't even have a teacher to lead the team, they all came by car at their own expense.

There is no support.

Teacher, no.

Encouraged, no.

No one will believe that they can win today's game.

In addition to Saionji Akino, as well as Kijima Yoshiwon.

——

Before entering the category of national competitions, kendo competitions were only team competitions, and only when they stepped into the threshold of national competitions could they be qualified for individual battles.

So the current Saionji Akino just needs to deal with the team competition wholeheartedly.

However, the current situation is indeed very unoptimistic.

There are a total of five people in the team competition, which are divided into pioneers, secondary strikers, backbones, deputy generals, and generals.

And he is equivalent to the goalkeeper, the general, and is the last to appear.

Yoshito Kijima is the deputy general, playing as the penultimate player.

It's just that at the moment, the pioneer of the kendo club of Hitani Private High School is the leading boy who just spoke out to provoke them.

There is no doubt that he should be the strongest one, and it can be seen from his momentum, movements, pace, and strength that this person is immersed in kendo, and his level is already very high.

But he didn't follow the routine of ranking last and guarding the goal with the big future, but as a pioneer, he tried to wear five directly.

He's going to crush them once and for all!

And the actual situation is that he did it, and the top three of the Shanye University team are real rookies, with an unstable foundation, and there is no rhythm and discipline in the attack, and there is no trace of training at all.

In a few moments, all three of them were defeated, and the defeat was also very simple.

Soon it was Kijima's turn to play, and he calmly walked to the stage.

At this moment, the other party still couldn't help laughing, "This is what you are talking about winning us?" ”

"What are you kidding?"

Kijima Yoshito didn't talk, nor did he make good use of the thirty seconds of trash talk time before the start of the fight, but held his breath and tried to get into the best state.

Because he was too tall and agile enough, he accidentally fell due to imbalance in the final battle last year, and fell and injured his ankle, causing a serious fracture.

Although he has already recovered this year, he still can't exert too much force, after all, his feet have to bear the weight of his whole person, and the pressure is already very high.

It is precisely because of this that his kendo steps are particularly cumbersome, and the whole person is really as clumsy as a big black bear.

Seeing that he was struggling to support himself on the stage, being hit by people continuously, and unable to fight back, Saionji Akino heard the ridicule around him, and not only the audience, but also the referee couldn't help laughing.

It's just a beaten kendo, what kind of kendo is it?

"Noodles!"

"Noodles!"

"Noodles!" The opponent's roar is in stark contrast to Kijima's step-by-step retreat.

Obviously, he couldn't win this game anyway.

However, he never gave up, for the sake of the kendo that he has always adhered to, and his love for kendo, he can abandon everything at this moment and burn himself!

With his dull roar, Kijima Yoshito tried to split the opponent's bamboo sword, burrowing into the gap and stabbing the opponent's chest.

However, his sluggishness due to his bulky body made him fail to seize the fleeting opportunity and ultimately lost.

"Noodles!"

At this moment, it seemed that everything didn't matter, he tried his best, but he still lost, and all the unwillingness and humiliation made him fall to his knees.

Kijima Yoshito couldn't control his emotions, tears gushed out of his eyes, and he lowered his head in embarrassment, listening to his opponent's ridicule and let out a dull whimper.

At this moment, a hand suddenly put on his shoulder.

Looking back, it was hidden under the mask, and it was the shallow, but extremely confident smile of Saionji Akino.

"Minister."

"Leave it to me."

(End of chapter)