Volume 4: The Undead Chapter 211: Ogata and Atsumi's Competition (Part 1)
"I'm not lying."
Mamiya shrugged.
"Master Genichi is a rare swordsmanship genius."
"The first sword style that Master Genichi learned was Mugai-ryu."
"Do you two know when Genichi-sama first held a wooden sword and began to learn Mugai-ryu?"
"I don't know."*2Ogata and Atachi said in unison, shaking their heads.
“At 13.”
"13 years old?" Ogata frowned slightly.
As a swordsman, Ogata knew that it was considered too old to start learning swordsmanship at this age.
Some people who are able to do so have already started practicing swordplay at the age of 8 or 9.
"Then do you know what happened after Master Genichi held the sword for the first time?"
"I don't know."*2Ogata and Atachi said in unison again, shaking their heads.
"Master Yuanyi wielded the sword for the first time, and he chopped down a fellow student in the sword hall who had practiced sword for more than ten years."
Ogata and Atachi's pupils shrank suddenly due to shock.
"It only took Master Genichi one month to go from having no experience with swordsmanship to obtaining the Mugairyu Menkyo Kaiden certificate."
"Wait! Wait!" Atachi said anxiously, "You mean - that Kinoshita Genichi spent only one month to obtain the Menkyo Kaiden when he was 13 years old?!"
"That's right." Mamiya nodded. "At the age of 16, he escaped from his clan and became a wandering ronin. He began to travel around the world and practice martial arts."
"I traveled through all sixty-six provinces of Japan, sparred with masters from all over the world, and eagerly learned different sword techniques."
"At the age of 24, he integrated all the major sword styles he had mastered and created a new sword style called Muga Nito-ryu."
"Not long after he created the new style of Muga Nito-ryu, Genichi, who was not satisfied with staying in Japan and wanted to see the bigger world, ran to Nagasaki, secretly boarded a Nanban ship, and ran away to the Nanban country."
"I heard that Master Genichi also went to the continent east of Japan. Makimura, what is the name of that continent ?" Mamiya asked Makimura.
"I think it was called America."
"Oh, yes, that's right, I remember now, it's the American continent."
"Genichi returned to Japan after traveling to many countries overseas."
"After Master Genichi returned to his country, he stopped wandering around with such passion and started staying at home in a proper manner. He also taught the master, who was already able to practice swordsmanship, the two-sword style."
"Mr. Genichi now lives a leisurely life of drinking, sleeping, and occasionally listening to my lord's nagging."
As Mamiya continued to speak, Ogata and Atachi's eyes widened.
"Although Master Yuanyi is old now, his physical strength and power are not as good as when he was young."
"But looking at the whole world, there is still no one who can be a match for Master Yuanyi - I can guarantee this."
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After Mamiya briefly summarized Genichi Kinoshita's life so far, the whole room fell into silence for a long time.
After a long while, Atachi finally broke the silence by expressing her thoughts:
“…That’s too much.”
This is what Ating feels.
"Hey, what you just said, are you really not just making it up?"
"I'm not making this up." Mamiya smiled helplessly, "I'm telling the truth. If you two have a chance to meet Master Genichi in the future, you'll know that there's not a single lie in what I said just now."
"Okay, let's stop here for Master Genichi. Ogata-kun, do you have any more questions for me? I don't have any more questions for you."
"...I don't have any more questions for you." Ogata said softly, "I've already asked all the questions I wanted to ask."
"Now that you've asked all the questions," Mamiya clapped his hands, "let's talk about our current situation. Let's talk about how to achieve our respective goals on this island and how to leave it."
As soon as Mamiya finished speaking , Atachi immediately said:
"I have only one goal - to collect enough information about the cannibals to report to the leader, and then try to leave this island."
As soon as Atachi finished speaking, Oufang continued:
"My goal is very simple. I am not very interested in information about cannibals. I only have one goal - to find a way to leave this island."
"My goal with Makimura is to collect all the information we can about 'immortality' and then try to leave this island."
Having said this, Mamiya paused and looked at Atachi.
"Come to think of it - the four of us have been chatting here for so long, but I still don't know this lady's name."
"Oh, sorry." Ogata said softly, "I forgot to introduce you. This is Atachi. She is a ninja from Shiranui. Due to various coincidences, we have been acting together since we landed on the island."
"Oh?" Mamiya raised his eyebrows and looked Atachi up and down several times, "You are a ninja from Shiranui... I have heard of your name for a long time. This is the first time I see a female ninja from Shiranui..."
"Me too." Mucun on the side echoed.
"I don't know - why did the Shiranui ninja come to this island?" Mamiya asked, "Could it be that the leader of your Shiranui is also interested in 'immortality'?"
"The leader... probably doesn't have much interest in the so-called 'immortals' and 'cannibals' ." A-Ming said expressionlessly, "He must be just bored and saw that I had nothing to do, so he just gave me an insignificant task..."
"Is that so... Never mind, let's get back to the point." Mamiya turned his gaze back to Ogata, "Ogata-kun, how about we form a four-person alliance?"
"Form a four-person alliance?" Ogata said in a half-joking tone, "After forming a four-person alliance, what should we do? Should we work together to build a raft on this island?"
"I learned from Matsumoto Kiyohito that the islanders fled to a village called Fenghe Village and built a wooden wall to block the cannibal ghosts." Mamiya said in a deep voice, "Next, I plan to go to Fenghe Village to see if I can find any interesting information there, or find a way to leave the island."
"Want to enter Fenghe Village?" A-Ming asked, "Then don't we have to climb over their wooden wall? I have no problem climbing over the wooden wall, but can you three climb over the wooden wall?"
"...Let's first ask how high the wooden wall of Fenghe Village is." Ogata said softly.
