Chapter 41. Self-expression of reason and interest
Canglang.
Rosetta took the sword and pushed it out of the sheath with her thumb, only to find that it was a real sword.
Exhaling slightly, Takase Mai said: "Since Mr. Luo, you asked me to help you find information about Riqu Hidden Fox Style, I guess he should know a little bit about swordsmanship. As a reward for helping to complete this matter,
I ask Mr. Luo to give me a sparring session today."
"Use this real sword?" Rosetta raised her eyebrows and said calmly: "If you ask so, of course I have no objection, but I have to remind you that what I practice is true to the letter.
If you try the murderous swordsmanship with a real sword, you may not be able to keep your hand."
Hearing this, Takase Mai was silent for a moment and said firmly: "I want to know how far the gap between me and the resurrected people is now, even those with auxiliary abilities who are not good at fighting."
"Then you may have found the wrong person." He said: "Even if my powers are auxiliary, they can only help me speed up learning and memory, but in combat, I am not what you imagined.
A soft persimmon among the living.”
"...I know this."
Takase Mai nodded, showing a standard swordsmanship stance like a textbook, and said: "Please come."
"Okay." Rosetta narrowed her eyes slightly. Although she did not continue to persuade, he pushed the knife back into the sheath and said without any fluctuation in his tone: "But if it's just for you to fight, there is no need for a real knife."
It is different from the competitive kendo that was born in recent times.
The swordsmanship of the Riki Hidden Fox style that he practiced was a killing swordsmanship inherited directly from the swordsman who participated in the Tokugaku War during the end of the Tokugawa period. It can even be said that it is very different from the original swordsmanship of the Riku Hidden Fox style.
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Take a step, lunge, and swing your sword.
There was no hesitation at all.
Rosetta's attack moves like clouds and water,
Although his strength and speed were limited to a level weaker than ordinary people, the sheathed long sword he swung down was still as fast as lightning. Takase Mai barely had time to react, and the long sword was already coming!
At this time, her well-honed reaction instinct came into play. At the critical moment, she raised the knife to attack without thinking, but at the next moment, she did not feel any force on the knife. Instead, the cold scabbard had passed her.
The defensive posture, at some point, had stopped in front of her throat.
Her experience deceived her, and so did her eyes.
Rosetta didn't just swing the knife down as she strongly felt. Instead, it was just like a magician's tricks. When people focus on what the magician wants them to pay attention to, the rest of them are left behind.
Takase Mai couldn't pay enough attention to notice his sudden change of moves.
"If this were in a real fight, you would be dead by now."
Rosetta put the knife back and said calmly: "When facing a reborn person with unknown information, the only thing you know is that you don't know anything. You should understand that the experience accumulated in the world of common sense cannot be directly
A crude application to the world of the resurrected."
"What you can see is what I want you to see. Now I can easily use your mental inertia to make you think that I am going to attack one place on your body, let alone other reincarnations.
Or, did you also use your inertia of thinking to make you misjudge his abilities?"
After a moment of silence, Takase Mai put away the knife, bowed and saluted Rosetta, and said: "I have learned a lesson. Thank you Mr. Luo for letting me know my strength and how far I am from being a reborn person."
distance."
"This is a difference in thinking." Rosetta nodded her head with her finger, then shook her head and said: "Forget it, I'll leave these to you to think about slowly. I just want to know what you found.
What’s going on with the information about Fengliqu Yinhuliu?”
"This is a bit complicated to talk about. It's better to sit down first and I'll explain it to you, Mr. Luo."
There was of course a place to sit in the dance hall. Takase Mai took him into a Japanese room, made a pot of tea herself and put it on the table. Then, she said: "The word 'reason'
, is a vocabulary in Buddhism. Generally speaking, in Yingzhou, it refers to the Sutra of the Real Samaya Prajna Sutra, which is a classic highly praised by the Eastern Esoteric monks of the Shingon sect."
"Based on this clue, I searched for all the swordsmanship schools related to monks, or simply created by monks. So, I found the 'Principal Interest Self-Display' taught by them at a registered dojo in a small rural place.
Information about the swordsmanship "Ryu", which is very similar to the so-called "Riqu Hidden Fox Style"."
“According to their dojo’s claim, ‘Rikitsujisen-ryu’ is an ancient swordsmanship passed down from the Muromachi period to the present day, and it is also a way to strengthen the body.
According to legend, this swordsmanship was originally created by monks who fled into the mountains and forests for self-defense. Therefore, like most swordsmanship schools created by monks, it not only contains a lot of terms from Zen and Buddhism, but also incorporates them.
It is also part of the Shugendō training method of practicing asceticism in the mountains with 'yamabushi'."
"But the real thing is not that simple."
Speaking of this, Takase Mai suddenly changed her voice: "After I paid for their swordsmanship tutorials online, I discovered that many of the swordsmanship of 'Riko Zi Xian Liu' are actually based on killing.
The target's moves are undoubtedly a big problem for a swordsmanship that claims to be created by monks for self-defense."
"So, I further searched for historical information on the era when this swordsmanship of 'reason and interest self-evident flow' was born."
"I discovered that during the Muromachi period, when Emperor Go-Daigo was on the throne, there was an extremely sensational assassination case related to the Shingon sect in Yingzhou."
Takase Mai said this.
Next, we entered the professional scope of Rosetta.
In an instant, the folklorist remembered the case and said: "The assassination of Hojo Takatoki? Yes, I remember that at that time, there was a Bunkan monk from Tachikawa-yue of the Shingon sect, under the guise of praying for the birth of a child for Emperor Go-Daigo's concubine.
In order to curse and assassinate Hojo Takatoki, who held the real power at the time."
In the history of this world, this assassination still ended in failure.
Takase Mai said: "After that, the angry Hojo Takaki used the orthodox Shingon sect of esoteric Buddhism to cleanse Tachikawa Ryu and destroy its scriptures. The monks of Tachikawa Ryu were either killed or forced to flee.
Deep in the mountains and forests."
"They also fled into the deep mountains and forests, Mr. Luo, don't you think this description looks familiar?"
"You mean..." Rosetta reacted: "The people who created the so-called 'Riko Self-evident Ryu' were the Tachikawa Ryu monks who failed in the assassination and fled into the deep mountains and old forests?"