I formed the strongest swordsman group

I lost Qingdeng in this place.

And Kinoshita Mai just happened to appear here, far away from Qianshiya.

If it's a coincidence...it would be too coincidental.

Just as the chief executive was still thinking, Kinoshita Mai, who was walking in a hurry, was about to disappear from her field of vision.

The chief executive looked up, looked at this beautiful figure who was about to be "swallowed" by the flow of people from afar, and then looked at the pocket watch in his hand.

In an instant, a look of hesitation and hesitation climbed up the chief executive's cheeks.

This hesitation came and went quickly.

In just two breaths, the chief executive gritted his teeth, squeezed Qingdeng's pocket watch in his hand, and chased after Kinoshita Mai's back...

...

...

Edo, a certain river embankment——

"arrive……"

Kinoshita Mai glanced at the embankment in front of her, and looked down at the note in her hand.

"It's here..."

"Mr. Kiryu, I want to go out to buy something" - after defrauding the permission to go out with this excuse, after some hurried driving, Mai Kinoshita finally arrived at her destination: a certain film next to the The great river of Edo: the embankment of the Kanda River.

Because of its remote location, the embankment is inaccessible. Looking around, I can't see half a pedestrian.

But this is another embankment with a pretty good view.

The area is wide and the terrain is flat, and there are many big trees that Kinoshita Mai can't name, and they are growing extraordinarily lush in the current scorching heat.

To the east of the embankment, which is also directly in front of Mai Kinoshita, is the quietly flowing Kanda River.

The rhythmic sound of running water "哗啦啦" makes people feel calm after listening to it.

Kinoshita Mai stared straight at the beautiful embankment in front of her eyes... A faint rosy glow swept over her cheeks.

——Qingdeng invited me here...why exactly does he want...?

While Kinoshita Mai was thinking this, she looked down at the piece of paper in her hand again.

This is exactly the piece of paper that Qing Deng secretly stuffed into her palm when she left with Kiryu and others after the wedding yesterday.

On the piece of paper, there was only a very simple sentence written in neat handwriting:

(Miss Kinoshita, if you are free tomorrow, please go to AAAA in XX town at the eighth day of tomorrow...)

Kinoshita Mai was so shocked by Qingdeng's sudden paper invitation that she was in a trance last night.

Why did you invite her to this place so suddenly and mysteriously?

Is there something important to tell her?

Or do you want to ask her to go somewhere to play?

The information revealed on the piece of paper is really too little... I am afraid that these doubts can only be answered after meeting with Qingdeng at the place written on the piece of paper.

Want to make an appointment?

For Kinoshita Mai, this question is not difficult to choose at all.

In order to clear up the confusion, and also because of... her affection for Qingdeng, Kinoshita Wu's heart has been beating non-stop since last night due to tension and anticipation.

A young man asks another young woman out to meet in a secret way by handing over a piece of paper... This kind of behavior is easy to imagine in this era.

——Qingdeng, he probably wanted to...

The pure white Shiro Mugou witnessed at Isamu Kondo's and Matsui Tsune's wedding was condensed into a specific shape with fine lines in Mai Kinoshita's mind.

Whenever Kinoshita Mai thought of this, a blush would appear on Kinoshita Mai's face.

If Qingdeng really wanted to show me...

How many children will we have after that?

When you talk about private meetings, you think about that, and then you think about reproduction, and then you think about how many children you're going to have in the future—the imagination of a dreaming girl can always make such leaps at this level.

Out of this association, out of this mentality of "what if?", just before leaving the house, Mai Kinoshita changed into the clothes she thought looked the best, and used the makeup techniques Kiryu taught her to give her a better look. I put on a beautiful makeup.

She hopes to welcome important moments in her life with a beautiful image.

When Kinoshita Mai arrived at the place written on the piece of paper, there were still about 10 minutes before the agreed time...Because it was early, there was no one around except the trees.

At the moment when she stepped onto the embankment, Mai Kinoshita felt that her hands and feet were beginning to become uncontrollable - she didn't know how to move and place her limbs.

Kinoshita Mai let out a "ha", turning the inner tension and anticipation into sound. Then, while pretending to be calm and standing upright under the shade of a certain big tree, he turned his head and looked around anxiously.

The fingers of the hands folded in front of him were twitched restlessly.

The white and tender feet without socks are scratching the red-buttoned flat clogs,

At this moment, Kinoshita Wu found a puddle beside her left foot—this was the remaining water from the rain last night and this morning.

The water in the puddle was quite clear, and the calm water surface clearly reflected Kinoshita Mai's pretty face.

Kinoshita Mai looked at the left and right sides, hesitated for a moment, then lowered her upper body, put her face close to the small puddle, and used the reflection of the water to arrange her hair and check whether there were any strange things on her face.

Just then—

Paso, Paso...

Behind him came the sound of light clogs rubbing against the ground.

--coming!

Kinoshita Mai, who thought it was Qingdeng who was coming, shook her body slightly, and then hurriedly turned around.

However... just as she turned her eyes to the back, her whole body suddenly seemed to be under the "petrification magic". Every muscle in her body became extremely stiff like a stone in an instant, and even the lines of her face They all tensed up.

A calm word with neither salty nor weak tone cut towards Kinoshita Mai like a sharp knife.

"...Miss Kinoshita, why are you here?"

Familiar female voice...

For Kinoshita Mai, the female voice has a very special meaning and status...

"Miss Chiba...?"

Kinoshita Mai looked at the beauty in front of her in disbelief, who was the owner of the female voice just now: Chiba Sanako!

Sanako, who was standing in front of Kinoshita Mai at this time, was in the form of a "Miss from a famous family": a delicate blue kimono, a white belt embroidered with beautiful cloud patterns, and a blue sheath with a blue handle for self-defense at the back of her waist. Wakizashi, wearing clean white socks, was wearing a pair of blue button flat clogs.

Meeting an unexpected person in an unexpected place... Kinoshita Mai's face was instantly filled with shock.

And so is Sanako.

Although Sanako tried her best to keep calm, the astonishment hidden in her eyes could still be seen faintly.

This silent confrontation with a suffocating atmosphere lasted for nearly 20 seconds.

"Qianye, Miss Ye..."

Kinoshita Mai, who spoke first, stammered.

"You, why are you here...?"

"..."

Sanako did not immediately answer Kinoshita Mai's question.

She pondered thoughtfully for a moment, then raised her hand, and took out a piece of paper that Mai Kinoshita thought looked familiar from the interlayer between her belt and kimono.

"Miss Kinoshita, did Tachibana-kun stuff you with this piece of paper?"

"Eh?"

Kinoshita Mai was startled, and then quickly raised the piece of paper "same style" as Sanako in her palm.

Not only are the pieces of paper for the two women identical in style, but even the content written on them is the same.

"What's going on...?" Mai Kinoshita murmured.

Qingdeng and he... made an appointment with himself and Miss Chiba at the same time?

He wanted to tell Miss Qianye and me at the same time... No, how is it possible, it's too outrageous.

As soon as this absurd idea emerged from Kinoshita Wu's mind, Kinoshita Wu rejected it on the grounds that "Qingdeng would never do such a thing".

"who knows."

Seeing the same piece of paper in Kinoshita Mai's hand, a strange color flashed across Sanako's beautiful brows...but the strange color was quickly covered up by Sanako.

Sanako put the paper back into the interlayer between the kimono and the obi, and continued with a cold expression:

"When Mr. Ju comes, we will know what's going on."

As soon as Sanako finished speaking, someone's breath came to them in a hurry.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

When Kinoshita Wu and Sanako heard the words, they turned their heads to look at the direction from which the male voice came from, and looked at Qingdeng who was coming slowly.

Qingdeng, Sanako, Kinoshita Mai...a man and two women, the eyes of the three of them are intertwined with each other.

Seeing that the two daughters had come, Qing Deng immediately showed a look of relief and nervousness.

"Mr. Tangerine."

At this moment, Sanako acted decisively and forcefully.

As soon as Qingdengfang appeared, before Qingdeng could rest, Zuo Nazi asked him quickly and bluntly:

"Miss Kinoshita and I were suddenly invited to this place, do you have something to tell us?"

Sanako's tone was deep, with a sharp reverberation like a sharp knife.

Kinoshita Mai stood upright as if she had recovered, with a tense expression and a restrained aura exuding from her body.

Qingdeng felt the gaze of Kinoshita Mai who wanted to ask questions.

Kinoshita Mai pretended to be calm and wanted not to ask any questions, and tried her best to cover up to avoid strange emotions such as doubts from appearing on her face.

But this attitude of pretending to be mature, on the contrary, portrayed her true heart.

Her complicated and unspeakable eyes had already betrayed all her true thoughts.

"..." Qingdeng silently cast an embarrassed look at Sanazi.

It's ashamed to say, but Zenazi's "head start" just now disrupted Qingdeng's rhythm...

Qingdeng was already very nervous.

From the time he left the test hall, every time he got closer to the agreed embankment, Qingdeng became more nervous.

After being aroused by Sanazi's preemptive question just now, the tension accumulated in Qingdeng's heart instantly "exploded", along Qingdeng's chest and neck, and rushed straight to his brain.

In an instant, his mind became blank.

He had prepared a lot of literary opening remarks... Now he can't remember any of them!

correct.

Not just pre-prepared opening lines.

The carefully planned steps, the meticulously designed words to say to the second daughter...all of these disappeared from Qingdeng's mind in just a moment.

--never mind! I can't remember it!

Qingdeng gritted his teeth, and clenched his hands that naturally fell on both sides of his body.

In the final analysis... In such an occasion, it seems unnecessary to deal with all those red tapes with and without them!

With a "ha", Qingdeng exhaled the stale air in his lungs.

This is the end of the matter... Just rely on your momentum and emotion, let's go to the ground in one breath!

There isn't any strategy...or maybe there was a strategy, but because I'm too nervous now, I can't remember any of these strategies.

Just make up your mind.

Just let the momentum and the emotion for the second daughter drive the body.

Don't think about that messy, long-winded troublesome thing anymore.

Miss Okita is right.

I am a decisive person.

I've also always prided myself on the way I act in a decisive manner.

I am a person who hates the twists and turns that are constantly being cut and messed up, and likes "frontal assault".

Rao Shizi's pre-thought opening remarks, well-designed words... disappear as soon as they disappear! If you can't remember it, you can't remember it!

Just follow your own desires.

Just follow your thoughts and act!

Qingdeng spread his feet slightly and stepped on the soles of his feet.

Take a deep breath and sink your dantian.

Then...he looked into the eyes of the second girl in front of him, and opened his throat:

"Miss Mai Kinoshita! Miss Chiba Sanako! I like you!"

Qingdeng's voice echoed on the quiet embankment where no one passed by.

There was silence all around.

The wind blowing from a distance gently shook the branches of every big tree on the river bank, as well as the hair ends and the hem of the clothes of Mai Kinoshita and Sanako.

But the second daughter was unaware of all this.

Even Sanako, who has always been calm and composed, lost control of her expression at this moment.

She stared round her eyes with Kinoshita Wu, as if her soul had just come out of her body, she gave Qingdeng a shocked look.

They subconsciously thought that Qing Deng was joking with them.

However, Qingdeng's expression at the moment is full of determination.

There is no room for joking...Qingdeng is serious.

Before the two girls came back to their senses, the sonorous and powerful voice full of emotion came out from between Qingdeng's lips and teeth again.

"A Wu, to be honest, when I first met you, I thought you were very difficult to get along with."

Qingdeng turned his gaze to Kinoshita Mai.

Sensing Qingdeng's gaze, Kinoshita Mai trembled a few times.

"Introverted and shy."

"When I talk, I don't dare to look at people, and my voice is as low as mosquitoes. And I don't know how to pick up people's topics. Chatting with you is exhausting."

"Besides being cute, you don't have any merits worth mentioning—this is my first impression of you."

"But gradually, as I spent more and more time with you, I discovered more and more charming things about you."

"Your kindness, your warm heart... all make me feel fascinated."

"When I came back to my senses, you already occupied a very important position in my heart."

Qingdeng continued to speak completely thoughtless words.

Because the head is blank, the brain has lost the basic ability to think.

Inability to carefully study one's own language word for word.

At this moment, Qingdeng is not so much "talking"...it is more like pouring out his enthusiasm.

"Miss Sanako too!"

Qingdeng tilted his head, and shifted his gaze from Kinoshita Mai to Sanako.

It was my turn to be called... Sanako showed a rare look of being at a loss.

"My first impression of you, Miss Sanako, is also very bad."

"Always keep a cold face, with the look of rejecting people thousands of miles away."

"Chatting with you is more tiring than chatting with Ah Wu."

"Actually, for a while, I didn't even want to deal with you."

"But in the same way, in the process of slowly becoming friends with you, I found many 'shiny things' in you that I hadn't noticed before."

"These 'sparkling' places on your body attract me deeply."

"Before I knew it, I couldn't see you as an ordinary friend."

Qingdeng no longer knew what he was talking about.

It doesn't feel like my own voice, but it's really me who is speaking.

After draining the emotions accumulated in his chest in one breath, Qingdeng paused and pursed his lips.

He wanted to play the strongest note for his above-mentioned release of mind and come to a perfect ending.

But for a while, I couldn't think of a suitable rhetoric.

Sensibility and reason are doing the final contest.

At this moment, Qingdeng suddenly recalled the discussion he had with Gu Mu Goro yesterday about "The Sword of Peerless Sword" and "Sword of the Living Man"—the last bit of rationality, under the onslaught of overwhelming sensibility, Eliminate bait completely.

ha……

Qingdeng let out another long breath.

After vomiting until there was nothing to vomit and his lungs ached, Qingdeng inhaled hard——

Let your emotions drive you.

Bearing the sight of the second daughter, he burst out all his emotions.

"I want to protect you forever with my sword!"

Affectionate words full of the characteristics of this era...

After shouting the last syllable, goose bumps immediately spread all over Qingdeng's body one after another.

The pores of the whole body seemed to be relaxed at this moment, which was more comfortable than soaking in a hot bath with a suitable temperature.

There is a sense of pleasure and pleasure that all the chaotic consciousness in the mind is blown away by a cool wind, and the messy lines are straightened out one by one.

Qingdeng only felt that his atrium dilated for a while, and contracted for a while... This kind of convulsion full of tenderness and sweetness is unstoppable.

I finally said what I have been holding back in my heart since the end of the fireworks display...

Do you like Kinoshita Mai or Sanako? Have you thought about marrying any of them?

Qingdeng gave his answer today, today and today.

It's a pity that the person who asked him this question, as well as the people who were watching at the time, were not here.

Qingdeng has done and said everything he can do and say.

The next step... is to wait for the second daughter's answer.

At this moment, Qingdeng's mood miraculously returned to calm.

He looked at the second daughter calmly, letting the wind and time pass by his side.

Suddenly, the wind strengthened.

The strong wind made the hem of the three people's clothes sway.

Sanako raised her sallow fingers gracefully and held down the messy hair on her temples, while looking dodgingly at the lower right corner of her vision.

Embarrassment, bewilderment, and a stubbornness that seemed to suppress a certain emotion appeared in the eyes.

"Orange, Mr. Orange..."

Even though he was kidnapped by the barbarian group, Sanazi, who remained calm, rarely showed the bewilderment and childishness of a lost child.

"Sorry... I have no plans to get married..."

That Zanako who always speaks in a very orderly manner stutters...

"Besides, besides, I just regard you as my important friend now..."

"Even if I don't care about my own desire to get married... I don't think my family will agree to my future husband marrying other women as concubines."

After finishing speaking, Sanako deliberately glanced at Kinoshita Mai beside her.

"Why am I a concubine?!"

Sanako's behavior of directly identifying her as a concubine made Kinoshita Mai very upset.

But she doesn't have time to argue with Sanako now.

After glaring at Sanako viciously, Mai Kinoshita cast her gaze on Qing Dengdi.

At the moment when Qingdeng's eyes met, Kinoshita Mai's eyes softened.

From the "stare" at Sanako just now, it has become full of shyness and resentment.

"Qingdeng, you also have such... such deep feelings for me, I'm so happy."

"but……"

When Kinoshita Mai changed the subject, she lowered her head, staring at her tiny toes.

"My grandma will definitely not agree to my future husband marrying another woman as a concubine after marrying me..."

After finishing speaking, Kinoshita Mai seemed to start a tit-for-tat confrontation with Sanako, and once again gave Sanako a vicious look...but Sanako, who was looking at Qingdeng, flamboyantly ignored her.

Qingdeng finished listening to the second daughter's answers with a normal expression, and then solemnly said a series of answers that neither Sanako nor Kinoshita Mai could have expected.

"I know."

"Miss Sanako, I know that with the Qianye family's status, I will never allow your future husband to marry other women."

"A Wu, I also know that if I tell your parents what I just said, your parents will most likely draw their knives and chop me up."

"But I don't want to give up!"

When Qingdeng yelled out the words "I don't want to give up" word by word, the perseverance and self-confidence expressed in his voice was unprecedented.

"I want to be your family, and I want to protect you with my sword... I will not take back my determination!"

"I've made up my mind!"

"I want to become stronger than anyone else! Become more outstanding than anyone else!"

"I want to go to the sky! Let you and your families accept me!"

The strength almost tore the throat... as if he wanted people in the distance, gods and Buddhas in the sky, and ghosts in the ground to hear his voice.

Sanako opened her red lips in surprise.

After a while, the surprise turns into a charming expression mixed with confusion, doubt, and a little... joy.

"Mr. Tangerine..."

She lowered her head, looked at the ground in front of her feet, and said:

"No matter how good you become, I can't accept that you have other women besides me... Yes, I'm sorry... I want to go first..."

After finishing speaking, Sanako turned around and walked away quickly.

The moment she turned around, Qing Deng could vaguely see a touch of crimson brushing over the tips of her small ears.

Even though she was wearing a women's kimono that was inconvenient to move around, Sanako walked extremely fast.

After a while, there was no blue color in Qingdeng and Kinoshita Mai's field of vision.

Qingdeng silently turned his gaze to Kinoshita Mai.

"Qingdeng..."

Kinoshita Mai looked at the direction Sanako left, then at Qingdeng in front of her, and bit her lower lip lightly.

"I also... can't accept that you marry other women besides me..."

"I, I, I want to calm down a little bit! Let me take my leave first!"

Kinoshita danced hurriedly and hurriedly bowed to Qingdeng, then trotted away from the embankment with Sanazi.

Qing Deng calmly glanced around in the direction where the two girls left, then closed his eyes, turned his face to the sky, and let out a long breath.

He doesn't regret all his deeds just now... Not only does he not regret it, but he also feels very lucky.

Now Qingdeng has lost half of his body weight, and he feels so happy physically and mentally that he is about to float into the sky!

This is the way to go along with his style: never procrastinate, just do what you want to do and what you want to do!

The second daughter's reaction basically did not exceed his expectations.

Although Japan is still in the feudal era where polygamy is allowed, families with better backgrounds will hope that their future son-in-law will only stay with their daughters.

"Next...you have to work hard!"

Qingdeng smiled, and cast a serious and confident gaze towards the blue sky above his head, which had just cleared up after the rain.

...

...

There is no longer any need to stay on the embankment where the two girls are no longer seen.

After tidying up his clothes and emotions, Qingdeng left, preparing to return to the testing hall.

Because he had just put all his mind and emotions into releasing his mind, Qingdeng didn't notice it until he left - there was a small audience who witnessed his feat just now.

The chief is leaning against the big tree calmly, his hands behind his back are tightly twisted together, the instep of his right foot is pressed against the heel of his left foot, and his eyes are staring up at the blue sky from the gap between the branches.

"...That's right."

The Chief lowered his head and looked at a black handkerchief held in his left hand.

"After all, I'm just a good friend..."

call……

There was a sudden gust of wind.

The branches above the chief's head swayed in the wind.

The indistinct shadows covered with light spots due to the blowing of the wind well concealed the expression of the chief executive at this time...

...

...

On the way back to the examination hall, there is a place that must be passed - a deserted path.

Qingdeng, who was in a good mood because he successfully told the two daughters what he had been wanting to say, turned into this place that he had to pass on his way back to the testing hall after some unhurried driving.

The view as always.

Dirt road with potholes as always.

As always, there were no pedestrians, not even a human voice could be heard.

Everything is so "business as usual".

However... just when Qingdeng reached the middle of this uninhabited path, "uncharacteristic" suddenly appeared!

In an instant... the next thing happened in an instant.

Qingdeng suddenly felt someone coming from behind... No! It smells like a beast!

As if being stared at by some giant ferocious beast, cold sweat gushed out like a fountain, and wet the clothes on Qingdeng's back.

Qingdeng's complexion changed immediately, he quickly turned around like a conditioned reflex, raised his right hand to reach his left waist, and held down the handle of the ghost knife.

Behind Qingdeng, at some point, there was a man in black with a wooden knife in his hand and a bamboo hat with a low edge on his head.

"The response is not bad."

said the man in black.

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I, Shushuzi, hate eunuch-type, monk-type, and herbivore-type male protagonists the most. (Leopard Mania.jpg)

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PS: This chapter is also the first time to mention the volume title of this volume: "Momentum Rush to the Blue Sky".