Volume 1: Re:Zero -Starting Life as a Samurai Chapter 24: Matsudaira Gennai (Part 2)
It was not until Toyama and the others had completely left that Asaki and Afu finally dared to step forward and ask Ogata if he was injured.
"I'm fine." Ogata smiled at Asaki and Fuku, "I'm not injured, I just feel a little tired."
"Afu, help Ogata-sama to the stream house to rest!" Asaki said to Afu urgently, "I'll go get some drinks."
After leaving these words, Asaki hurried back to the house.
And Afu also obeyed the order and planned to help Ogata into the house.
Although the battle with Toyama just now had consumed a lot of Ogata's physical strength, his physical strength was not so low that he could not even walk properly, and he did not need Afu's support.
But this was Afu's good intention after all, and Ogata was embarrassed to refuse, so he let Afu help him into the stream house.
Because too many unexpected events happened tonight, Asaki simply announced the closure of the business.
After Ogata returned to the empty Nagaya with the help of Afu, Asaki also handed him a cup of tea at just the right temperature.
The cup of tea brought by Asaki was like timely help to Ogata.
Having just fought a nerve-wracking battle, Ogata was now feeling a little thirsty.
After Asaki brought the cup of tea, Ogata immediately took it up and drank it without any hesitation.
After putting down the teacup that he had drunk in one breath, Ogata silently recovered his strength while recalling the competition with Toyama just now.
——The competition just now... there was no system sound, and I didn’t get any experience points.
——But this is only natural... There is no winner, so of course it is impossible to get any experience points.
——That Yuanshan... is really strong...
——Before the battle, I spent 6 skill points to improve my combat power, and also had an "advanced" bird thorn, but in the end I was just on par with him.
Ogata had to admit that Toyama was really strong, worthy of being the strongest among all the disciples of Ishikawa Sword Hall.
Ogata silently reviewed the two rounds of competition he had just had with Toyama.
The biggest lesson Ogata learned from the two rounds of competition with Toyama was that he still lacked combat experience.
The system that Ogata has is very powerful.
Just by using skill points, you can improve your personal physical fitness and sword skills level, so that your sword skills can be instantly improved to a level that others may take decades to master.
But when fighting with others, the most important thing is not just physical fitness and technical level.
And combat experience.
Combat experience is exactly what the system cannot give to Ogata, and Ogata has to accumulate it slowly through his own efforts.
In the battle with Toyama just now, Ogata clearly felt that he still had a big gap compared to Toyama in the field of "combat experience".
Because he has more experience than Ogata, Toyama can deal with each of Ogata's attacks more easily than Ogata.
However, due to his lack of experience, Ogata had a hard time defending against some of Toyama's attacks from tricky angles that he had never encountered before.
——My current strength is far from strong. The road ahead is long, and I still need to slowly train and become stronger...
After silently sighing like this in his heart, Ogata pulled up his personal system interface.
Before the battle with Toyama, Ogata still had 2 skill points left to spend because he was interrupted by Asaki.
Looking at the two skill points on his system interface, Ogata pondered for a moment, then smiled bitterly and sighed:
“Tsk…”
Then he whispered in a voice that only he could hear:
"Adding skill points... This is much more troublesome than I thought..."
How to use these skill points most efficiently - this is what Ogata has been thinking about recently.
According to the law that "the higher the personal level and martial arts level, the harder it is to obtain skill points", skill points will definitely become more and more difficult to obtain in the future.
In order not to waste skill points, Ogata has been thinking about the best "point allocation strategy".
Looking at the system interface floating in front of him, the scene of the battle with Toyama just now uncontrollably reappeared in Ogata's mind.
In the battle with Toyama just now, each of Ogata's swords was blocked or dodged by Toyama one by one because they were not fast enough.
Recalling the battle with Toyama just now, Ogata's eyebrows suddenly raised.
"……Um?"
Just then, an idea suddenly popped into Ogata's mind.
——Although skill points are valuable, they cannot be used carelessly.
——But wouldn’t it be fine as long as I make sure every skill point is not wasted?
——At this stage, the way to add skill points in the least wasteful way should be to add all of them to personal attributes...
——People with strong physical fitness have the advantage in battle.
——Just like the battle with Yuanshan just now, if my sword speed is fast enough, Yuanshan will have no way to deal with me.
——It shouldn’t be wrong to make your body strong first.
——As long as I put all my skill points into my personal attributes and become a "superman", then even if my sword skills are at a very low level, I can easily defeat all my opponents...
——No matter how good a person’s swordsmanship is, he should not be able to defeat a superman who can “resist a hundred tripods”, right?
——Even if my sword skills are low level, if I have the power to "resist a hundred tripods", I can still easily defeat my opponent even if I can only perform ordinary slashes...
——In this case, it doesn’t matter whether the sword skill level is high or low...
——As long as my personal attribute values are high enough...
"Spend all skill points on personal attributes and make myself a 'superman'" - this idea lingered in Ogata's mind and did not disappear for a long time.
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A few days later——
May 20, 1789
Today is a special day for Ogata... no, it should be said that for all the storehouse officials of Hirose Domain including Ogata.
Today is the day when the lord of the Hirose Domain, their master, Matsudaira Gennai, inspects the major warehouses in the domain.
Early in the morning, all the warehouse officials put on their robes and took their positions.
The kimono is the formal dress of samurai.
It is only worn during special events or occasions, such as visiting one's master.
Ogata doesn't like wearing hemlines.
The reason why I don’t like wearing hems is, on the one hand, because I’m not used to it and it feels particularly awkward.
Another reason was that Ogata felt that the dress was too ugly.
Ogata did not appreciate the samurai's formal attire.
Ogata felt that the style of the hem was particularly similar to the battle suits worn by the Saiyans in the famous comic "Dragon Ball" that he had read on modern Earth.
There were many warehouses with different functions within the Hirose domain.
There are special warehouses for storing weapons.
There are special warehouses for storing grain.
There are special warehouses for storing salt.
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The warehouse officers were also divided into several groups and stationed in various warehouses, so that when Matsudaira Gennai inspected each warehouse, there would be someone to introduce him to the storage situation of the warehouse.
Ogata was assigned to a warehouse specifically for storing salt.
In addition to Ogata, those who were also assigned to the warehouse where salt was stored included four of his colleagues and one superior who was above him in rank.
The boss who was above him in rank was named Inoue.
Ogata's task today is actually very easy.
Among all the warehouse officials, his rank was the lowest.
A small character like him would naturally not be assigned any important tasks.
If Matsudaira Gennai came, Ogata and his four colleagues would only need to kneel on the ground to welcome Matsudaira Gennai's arrival.
As for the various troublesome tasks such as leading Matsudaira Gennai to visit the salt warehouse and explaining the various storage , they were all handled by Ogata's boss, Inoue.
