Edo, Koishikawa Kohigaricho—

——This...is the test of the health center?

Qingdeng looked at a house with a somewhat simple appearance in the distance with a suspicious look.

Outside a small house, there is a plaque with the Chinese characters "Natural Mind and Mind Testing and Safety Hall" written on it.

——Why can’t you hear any sword practice?

In the test hall, it was quiet...

I couldn't hear the sound of bamboo swords fighting each other, and I felt like there was no one in this test hall...

Qingdeng walked slowly towards the Trial Hall with this question in mind.

As soon as he walked a few steps forward, Qingdeng suddenly saw a tall and strong young man walking out of the museum with a bucket and a rag.

The young man walked to the plaque with the words "Natural Mind Flow Test and Health Care Museum" - he probably wanted to wipe the plaque.

At this moment, the young man discovered Qingdeng who was walking towards their sword hall.

Qingdeng and the young man looked at each other, and their eyes collided in mid-air.

Then—

thump.

The sound of buckets and rags falling to the ground rang out.

The young man threw the bucket and rag in his hand steadily to the ground, and then appeared in front of Qingdeng at a flash speed.

"Good morning! Are you going to come to my clinic to learn swordsmanship?"

The young man who suddenly flashed in front of him was startled Qingdeng and subconsciously took two steps back.

Looking at Qing Deng who was evacuating quickly, the young man was stunned at first, and then showed shame.

"Sorry, sorry, I was impatient. I was really embarrassed to scare you."

After saying that, the young man cleared his throat and then showed a somewhat silly smile at Qingdeng:

"I'm here to go Kondo! I'm the teacher training agent of this test clinic! What's your point?"

[Note: "Teacher Agent" can be understood as an agent master, responsible for assisting the swordsman master to carry out teaching tasks.]

After Kondo Yuki introduced himself, Aoden quickly politely reported to the house and explained his purpose in concisely:

"I'm at Xia Ju Qingdeng. I've heard that your hall is a sword hall with excellent martial arts, so I want to enter your hall to practice swordsmanship."

While reporting to his home, Aoden looked up and down at Kondo Yuki's appearance.

Kondo’s first impression of Aoden…is that he is very energetic.

He has thick eyebrows and big eyes, bright eyes, tall and strong figure, about 1.8 meters tall, and looks quite energetic.

Among his facial features, the one that left the deepest impression on Qingdeng was his mouth.

His mouth is very big.

This big mouth felt like I swallowed my fist and there was no problem at all.

However, although this person had a big mouth, it did not have much negative effects on his appearance. Looking at his whole face, he still felt quite handsome, and he was the kind of masculine handsome guy.

The only drawback is that he has a month old.

This ugly hairstyle directly gave Kondo's appearance a 50% discount.

The tsukita head is the most popular hairstyle in Japan during the Edo period, no one. Among the 10 men, about 9 have this hairstyle.

Its roughly looks... can be understood as a variant version of the "Mediterranean".

Shave all the hair on the top of the head, leaving only the hair on the back of the head and temples, braid the hair on the back of the head and temples into a bun and put it on the top of the shaved head - this is the moon head.

This hairstyle is cool and convenient for wearing a helmet. When fighting with people, you don’t have to worry about the hair spreading and blocking your vision. Therefore, it became popular among the samurai class, and then led the common people to start to keep this hairstyle.

Looking at Kondo's Tsukiyo head, Aoden couldn't help but raise his hand and touch his hair - he was very glad: his hairstyle is always hair, not Tsukiyo head.

The so-called total hair means keeping the hair on the top of the head and braiding the hair into a bun.

Although Qingdeng also thinks this hairstyle is ugly, no matter how ugly it is, it is millions of times better than the moon.

"Oh! I really want to come and learn swordsmanship!"

The smile on Kondo's face instantly became much more enthusiastic.

However, in the next moment, Kondo's smile suddenly froze, and then his smile turned into embarrassment.

"Ah... I almost forgot... Our master is not in the Sword Hall today... If you want to become a disciple, you have to wait for tomorrow at the earliest..."

"Tomorrow?" Qingdeng glared at him with eyes

Japan is also a country that values ​​the word "respecting teachers and respecting the way".

Learning swords in the sword hall usually requires you to apprenticeship to the masters of the sword hall, and then make a bunch of mixed etiquettes to be considered an entry-level and officially start learning swords.

Therefore - if the master of the Sword Hall happens to be away, then during the period when the master is away, new apprentices will generally not be accepted.

"I'm sorry..." Kondo's face was full of apology, "But the master is indeed not here today... If you want to get started, please choose a date."

The "radical anti-barrier sect" of Damocles is now hanging over Qingdeng's head all the time. In this situation, Qingdeng doesn't want to waste a day. Now he just wants to learn swords as soon as possible, copy his talent as soon as possible, and let him come back again with a date. Naturally, he doesn't do it.

"I have no time tomorrow! Do you have to wait until the master of your library comes back before you can get started with the sword learning?"

After today's holiday, Qingdeng will continue to work at the Fengxing Institute tomorrow, and it will take at least 2 days to have another holiday.

"This..." Kondo showed a embarrassed expression.

Looking at Kondo's embarrassed expression, Aoden suddenly remembered the "new customer benefits" that Boss Kiryu just gave him.

Qingdeng took out the note from his arms with the four big words "Kurizuma" written by Boss Kiryu just gave him.

Before he could say anything, Kondo opened his eyes when he saw this note.

"Is this... you introduced by Mr. Kiryu?"

"Yes." Aoden nodded quickly, "It was Mr. Kiryu who introduced me to your library."

"Did Mr. Kiryu introduce it..."

There was a little more entanglement between Kondo's eyebrows.

After a long time, I saw him breathing a long sigh and nodded vigorously:

"...Okay, since it was introduced by Mr. Kiryu, let's make an exception."

"Let's do this - you will pay the tuition fee today and write down your message in the apprenticeship book. When the master comes back, he will make up for the apprenticeship ceremony. What do you think?"

For Qing Deng, these introductory procedures are good, as long as he can get started with swordsmanship as soon as possible and fight with people.

"Of course." Qingdeng nodded vigorously without thinking.

"Then come in with me!"

Kondo turned around and picked up the bucket and rag he had just thrown to the ground, and led Aoden to strode into the test guard hall.

The Trial and Warehouse Museum is a very typical architectural style of this era - a house with a circle of earthen walls around the house, and the gap between the house and the earthen wall is a small courtyard.

Aoden asked Kondo curiously while taking back the note that Kiryu gave him into his arms.

"Kondo, is there a deep friendship between Takato and Boss Kiryu of Chitsuya?"

"Well... to be precise, it is my father...ah, that is, he has a deep friendship with his master." Kondo sighed, "When the master planned to start the construction of the trial hospital here, Mr. Kiryu helped us a lot."

"Father?" Listening to Kondo's "father" who was accidentally blurting out, Aoden raised his eyebrows.

He suddenly recalled that Boss Kiryu seemed to have told him just now: the current owner and master of the Trial Hospital is the head of the third generation of the Tianlixin Liuzong family: Kondo Shusuke.

He happened to have the same surname as the Kondo Yuki in front of him.

"I didn't expect you to be the young master of this sword hall." Qing Deng smiled, "As the young master of the sword hall, it must be very hard, right? If you want to help manage the sword hall, you will be extra 'taken' when practicing swords."

"Yes." Kondo sighed with a wry smile, "I have been scolded since I was a child and have been more than other fellow brothers in the Sword Hall... Alas, this is also a responsibility that people like us have to take on."

After the two of them chatted for a few simple words, the atmosphere between them became much more harmonious.

"Jujun, have you learned swordsmanship before?"

"Just learning a little bit of wild ways from my deceased father almost means not learning swordsmanship."

"That means you have a little basics."

Kondo then moved his gaze down and looked at the seal cage on Aoden's right waist.

"You have a seal cage hanging around your waist. I wonder if you are now serving in the Northern Fan Office or in the Southern Fan Office?"

Qing Deng has always carried this seal cage that can prove his identity as an official who works in the municipal government and has been tied to his right waist.

"Yeah." Qingdon nodded, "I am in Kitacho. I am dedicated to the work of the government. Nodaicho returns to the same heart."

"Return to Dingcho?"

Kondo seemed to have heard some amazing secret, and his expression suddenly became stunned.

I saw the look of this strong man slowly appearing in the eyes that Qingdeng was cast.
To be continued...