I teach kendo in Tokyo

In the next few weeks, Kazuma, apart from participating in a few joint training sessions of the wind club, spent most of his time between kendo practice and study.

Consultant Yokoyama tried his best to convey a feeling of "everything is under control" every time he talked to Kazuma, so Kazuma didn't say anything and just let him be.

In mid-June, the district preliminaries for the Kendo Katsushi district began.

The requirements for venues for kendo competitions are actually not very high, unlike the music club, which at least requires a regular concert hall.

The preliminaries for the Kendo District in the Gurashi District began in the indoor sports hall of the Civic Hall. The indoor venue of the huge indoor sports hall was cut into several small venues like tofu cubes.

Each small venue is a separate playing field where a team battle can take place.

Originally, there were not many audiences for kendo, because kendo competitions really lacked entertainment, and many things only happened in the blink of an eye, which was not as exciting as in sword and halberd movies.

Basically, only people who practice kendo themselves will enjoy watching kendo competitions.

The first game of North Gurashi High School was arranged in the upper left corner of the Civic Gymnasium, at the edge.

As soon as the group put on their equipment in the locker room and entered the field, the chief referee of the whole game left the referee's table and walked towards Kitagashi.

As soon as Kazuma enters the field, he starts looking for the master - by looking at the entries.

Then his eyes were directly attracted to Minoru Taira, who had a kendo level of 27 in the Beichen Ittōryu.

Kazuma knew in advance that the chief referee of this match was a seventh-dan master. Now when he saw this level 27 guy walking this way with the chief referee's armband, he immediately became confused.

Seventh dan, only level 27?

And it seems that he has no special entries.

What the hell?

Could it be that levels are not evenly distributed, and those over level 50 like Suzuki Butler and Uesugi Soichiro are all super rare and powerful?

Normal people’s levels are below 30?

Or does it mean that in order to break through to a higher level, one must have a life?

Although Suzuki Butler does not have a permanent entry, Kazuma has no doubt that when he really faces the old man, he will burst into the second stage - no, the second stage may not be enough, and the minimum is three stages.

While Kazuma was thinking, Minoru Taira had already arrived in front of him and patted Kazuma on the shoulder: "Kiryu and Kazuma, right?"

You already tapped me on the shoulder before you came to confirm if it was me? Wouldn't it be embarrassing if the wrong photo was taken?

Kazuma complained in his heart and said with a smile: "It's me, are you the seventh-dan Taira Minoru?"

In fact, Kazuma really wanted to invite this seventh-dan to teach him now.

His actual combat level may be too high now. After reaching the seventh level of swordsmanship, no matter who he fights, he will only get a little experience.

If you fight against Nanjo, you will be given a little bit. If you fight against those miscellaneous fish from the Kendo club, you will be given even less. You can’t even see the experience bar moving.

In the past few days, Kazuma has more than once wanted to play a trick with Nanjo and seduce the Suzuki butler...

This must be a lot of experience.

However, Kazuma was afraid that he would be accidentally beaten to death by Suzuki Butler, so in the end he did not implement it.

At level 67, he can still get a state of explosive energy, which is too scary to offend.

But the level 27 Mr. Minoru Taira in front of me seems to be a good experience package, especially when it doesn't matter if he loses.

Lose casually, it would be great if you can get experience!

But Minoru Taira clearly didn't want to directly "teach" Kazuma in this place. He came here obviously because he heard something and came to get close.

He doesn’t know what he heard, whether it was that he was separated by one person and then Soichiro Uesugi made a bet of “either go to Tokyo University or the whole family will die”, or that he was valued by Hiro Nanjo and might become the son-in-law of the Nanjo family.

From the perspective of trying to get closer rather than keeping a distance, it is probably the latter.

"Your father is my junior brother," Taira Minoru said, "I'm also very sorry for his early death. I always wanted to visit you brothers and sisters before, but unfortunately I was too busy. Now that I see you so active, I feel relieved La!"

Kazuma instantly had the urge to punch this guy. He was still in the seventh dan. No wonder you didn't have a permanent entry.

But when people come over and say nice things, you still have to give them face.

After all, He Ma is a senior business representative, and he is very good at this kind of situation.

So Kazuma also smiled and said: "Well, I have been sad for a long time when my father passed away, but with Chiyoko by my side, we, brother and sister, supported each other and finally cheered up. I have indeed received your kindness."

"Well, that's good. Let's see how well you perform today." After saying that, Minoru Taira suddenly came closer and whispered, "As far as I know, there is no particularly strong school in this district this year. Although Koshigawa Girls is strong, it is a girls' school. , there is no men’s kendo club.”

The subtext was quite obvious, but Kazuma didn't know whether the meaning he heard was the true meaning of others. After all, he was Chinese at heart and didn't quite understand Japanese things.

"I know. In fact, I have no idea whether I can participate in the national competition in the team competition. Anyway, I will definitely be able to compete in the individual competition." He Ma responded, the subtext was "Don't worry about it, I don't need it." He didn't know if the other party could hear it. .

Hiranaka Minoru smiled and said: "Of course, of course. Then, I am the chief referee after all, and it is not appropriate to stay here all the time, so I went back first and said hello to Nanjo-san for me..."

"She's right next to her. How about you..." Kazuma pointed to the side. Nanjo now took the position of club manager and was sitting in the spectator seat with Mikako from the women's kendo club.

"No, no, then I'll go back." Pingzhong Minoru waved his hands repeatedly, turned around and walked towards the referee's stand.

Kazuma noticed that Minoru Hiranaka nodded to the referee in charge of Kitagaru's match.

——Grass, what kind of method is this?

He Ma originally thought that he was Stephen Chow's character in Shaolin Football.

As a result, now because of Nanjo-san's presence, Kazuma can already recite Qiangxiong's lines: "Even the referee is mine, why are you comparing yourself to me?"

Kazuma now wants to travel through time and space back to 2020, and then ask a question on Zhihu: What is it like to be the mastermind behind the game?

**

At the same time, Kyoto, high school kendo regional preliminaries and finals.

Lieutenant general battle.

After his opponent fell down with a howl, Mitsuyama Kikio stopped attacking.

The opponent's consultant stood up and yelled at the referee: "He fouled!"

The referee frowned, as if he was considering it.

But he did not lower the flag he had raised.

After more than ten seconds, the referee shook his head: "There should be no foul, it is indeed a win."

"What?" shouted the opponent's consultant teacher, "How is this possible!"

However, both assistant referees chose to support the referee's decision.

Mitsuyama Kimio smiled and looked back at his general, Nakato Endo.

At the same time, he pressed the mechanism of the bamboo knife in his hand to return the bamboo knife to its normal state.

Endo stood up slowly and raised his right hand: "Head referee! Do we still need to continue the main battle? We are already three to one."

In a kendo match, even if the winner is already certain, you can still choose to finish the rest of the match.

This is called defending honor.

The opponent's general stood up directly: "I want to fight!"

But the consultant, who was still arguing with the referee, suddenly woke up and shouted: "No!"

He looked at Mitsuyama Kimio, then at Endo Nakato, and gritted his teeth: "No, we won't fight. It's Dajishan Beigao's victory!"

Nakato Endo laughed.

The referee nodded, then turned to look at the chief referee.

The chief referee discussed with the two people beside him, and then pressed the switch of the microphone in front of him: "Then, I declare that Dajishan North High School is the seed school in our Kyoto Division!

"For the national competition, please continue to work hard!"