Volume 1: Re:Zero -Starting Life as a Samurai Chapter 20: The Confrontation between Ogata and Toyama (Part 2)
"Oh?" Ogata raised his eyebrows and said in a mocking tone, "You lost to me, so in order to save your face, you called a bunch of people to beat me up?"
As Ogata said this, he quietly observed the large group of people in front of him who were obviously here to cause trouble for him.
I was thinking about how I would fight if a group fight broke out.
In the past, Ogata always challenged others openly.
One against many - he had never tried it before.
Therefore, there is a lack of relevant experience.
Ogata, who lacked experience in one-on-many combat, had not yet come up with a suitable plan to deal with the enemy when a cold male voice without any emotion suddenly sounded from behind Itagaki:
"We are indeed here to settle accounts with you."
"But - as upright warriors, we will not resort to such a despicable tactic as a group attack."
As soon as this cold male voice fell, Itagaki consciously stepped aside, revealing the figure of a young man who had been standing behind him since just now.
As soon as his eyes fell on this short young man, whose height, converted into modern Earth units, was only about 1.6 meters, Ogata's pupils shrank slightly.
Because Ogata recognized this young man.
This young man was none other than Toyama Hitoshiro, the strongest of all the disciples of the Ishikawa Sword Gym who had defeated Mikami in a single move during last year's festival competition, bringing great shame to all the people at the Sakakibara Sword Gym.
Ogata couldn't help but sigh once again that fate is really a wonderful thing.
He had just discussed with Makino today about topics related to Ishikawa Swordsman and Toyama.
As a result, he had a sword fight with the disciples of Ishikawa Sword Hall tonight, and then met Yuanshan again.
In Ogata's eyes, Toyama's stature is relatively short, but compared with men of the same age of the same era, Toyama's height is average.
Although the distant mountains are not high, they are exceptionally strong.
Even through the loose kimono, Ogata could feel the solid bulges of muscles on Toyama's body.
Toyama casually placed his left hand on the scabbard of the sword at his left waist and walked towards Ogata with slow steps.
"What happened just now - I've heard from Itagaki."
"Itagaki is, after all, a disciple of our Ishikawa Sword School and my junior fellow apprentice."
"As a senior brother, I can't keep silent when my junior brother is beaten."
"Hey!" Asaki, who was standing by, shouted in an extremely unhappy tone, "Are you kidding me? It was obviously your junior fellow student who made the mistake first, okay?"
"I don't care about that." Yuanshan said without hesitation, "I just need to know that my fellow apprentice was beaten."
"Ogata Yisei, even though we have a large group of people coming, we will not attack you in droves."
"We will not do such a dirty trick."
"I will only come to settle accounts with those who beat my junior brother in an upright manner."
"Come and fight me in a one-on-one duel, Ogata Yisei."
After saying that, Toyama pulled out the sleeve belt from his waist without waiting for Ogata to react.
After Yuanshan pulled out his cuff, Xu took out the cuff that he had just put away and began to roll up his sleeves.
While tying his sleeves tightly with his cuffs, Ogata said:
"Toyama Renshiro of Ishikawa Sword Hall is a very unreasonable person - exactly like what the rumors say..."
"Heh." Yuanshan twitched the corner of his mouth and sneered, "Thanks for the compliment. It's thanks to my 'unreasonableness' that my fellow apprentices love me so much."
Although Ogata did not appreciate Toyama's unreasonable behavior.
But Ogata had to admit that there was some truth to what Toyama had just said.
When his fellow apprentice was beaten, Yuanshan immediately stood up for him and set out to avenge his fellow apprentice - with such a righteous person backing them up, it would be strange if Yuanshan's fellow apprentices did not love him.
"Lord Ogata!" Asaki said anxiously, "Are you still going to fight this man?"
"I have to fight." As soon as Asaki finished speaking, Oofang pulled the corner of his mouth and said in a half-joking tone, "Miss Asaki, don't you understand? I am in a situation where I have to fight. If I don't fight with Toyama, I will definitely not have peace tonight."
"Ha." Yuanshan seemed to like sneering. "You know what's happening. Thanks to your knowledge of the times, we have saved ourselves a lot of trouble."
"If you insist on not fighting me, we will have to spend some time to force you to fight me."
At this point, Yuanshan had just tied his cuffs.
The moment he fastened his cuffs, Yuanshan turned his head and shouted to his fellow apprentice beside him:
"Bring the sword !"
As soon as Yuanshan finished speaking, the fellow apprentice beside him immediately hurriedly handed over two wooden swords that had been prepared long ago.
"Next." After taking the two wooden swords, Toyama casually threw one of them to Ogata.
"You guys are quite careful." Ogata took the wooden sword thrown by Yuanshan and waved it a few times casually to confirm whether his wooden sword was in his hand. "You know to prepare the wooden sword in advance."
After saying that, after confirming that there was no problem with the wooden sword in his hand, Xu Fang was too lazy to say any more to Yuanshan.
Grip the hilt of the wooden sword with both hands and assume a mid-range stance.
"Sakakibara Ittoryu, Ogata Issei, sangoku."
The distant mountains on the opposite side have also taken up their mid-section positions.
"Katori Shinto-ryu, Toyama Hitoshiro, here I come."
The guests in the flow house came out again at this time.
The guests at Ryuya were so excited to be able to see two rarely seen samurai duels in a row in one night.
Asaki and Fuku realized that they had no way to stop the competition, so they could only keep their mouths shut as they did before, and watch the increasingly tense "battlefield" with a nervous look on their faces.
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The next moment when Toyama took a mid-range stance, Oobian saw that Toyama was very strong.
And it's not just generally strong.
In terms of strength, he is far superior to the Itagaki he just dealt with.
After both of them took mid-range stances, they had been in a stalemate for a long time.
However - even after such a long stalemate, Ogata was unable to find any flaws in Toyama.
The distant mountains are like an unshakable mountain - this is Ogata's truest thought at this moment.
It was the first time that Ogata encountered such a strong enemy, so he couldn't help but be on his guard.
His eyes were fixed on the distant mountains opposite, not daring to even blink.
—Should I attack first?
Ogata was secretly planning a countermeasure in his mind.
——If I want to launch the first attack...it would be better to test it with "Dragon Tail" first...
——How strong Yuanshan is is still unknown.
——So, to be safe, we still have to test it out first...
The tip of a wooden sword rapidly enlarged in Ogata's eyes.
The wooden sword that was rapidly enlarging in his eyes directly interrupted Ogata's thoughts.
