Volume 6: Edo Castle Imperial Court Test Chapter 349: Set off! Target - Edo!
Ogata took a deep breath, and then slowly switched his breathing to the Source Breathing.
[Ding! Use "Original Breathing" to temporarily increase your reflexes by 10 points]
[Current reflex nerve value: 19 points]
[Concentration is greatly improved]
Currently, using Breathing of the Source can still temporarily improve Ogata's reflexes and concentration.
But just a slight change in the rhythm and intensity of your breathing...
After changing the rhythm and strength of breathing——
[Ding! The host has entered the "selfless state"! ]
As long as you change the rhythm and intensity of your breathing, you can enter the "state of no self".
Ogata lowered his head, looked at the palms of his hands and clenched his fists tightly, feeling the power that was constantly flowing out of his body, Ogata felt a sense of relief.
To master the Source Breathing at the "Master Level", one must first spend about 10 minutes before entering the "Selfless State".
Using the "state of no self" which requires about 10 minutes of preparation time to fight against the "state of Yasha" in Shiranui would definitely be at a disadvantage.
Now that he has upgraded the Source Breathing to the "Grandmaster Level", Ogata has made up for the biggest weakness of his current "Selfless State".
After stopping the Source Breathing and switching to normal breathing, the power that originally filled the whole body slowly receded.
The way to exit the "state of no self" is the same as the way to exit when the Source Breathing was still a "master level" - just stop the Source Breathing.
After exiting the state of "no self", Ogata opened his personal system interface again.
Of the 20 skill points earned in the past 10 days, there are still 2 points left.
Ogata has been thinking about where these two points should be used.
Now that he was about to leave for Edo, Ogata didn't want to hesitate any longer on this issue.
After thinking for a moment, Ogata decided to add these two skill points to his physical strength.
If Ogata's "state of no self" still has any weakness at this moment when he can freely enter the "state of no self", it should be that the "state of no self" has great requirements for physical strength.
Once you enter the "selfless state", you will start to consume your physical strength crazily until it is exhausted.
Therefore, improving one's physical strength is equivalent to prolonging the duration of one's "selfless state".
Moreover, his stamina is indeed a bit low compared to other values, so it's time to increase it a bit.
——Add 2 points to physical strength.
As soon as Ogata finished speaking, the familiar system voice immediately sounded in his mind:
[Ding! Physical strength +2]
[Current physical strength: 13 points]
[Currently remaining skill points: 0 points]
After finishing the addition, Ogata jumped off his bed, walked quickly to the door, opened it, and looked up at the sky.
The sun was still some distance from its highest point - still a little way to noon.
The luggage has been packed, and Ogata, who can't think of what to do next for a moment, decides to take advantage of the remaining time to find Shimada for a few more sparring matches and accumulate some experience points.
After closing the door, Ogata walked quickly towards Shimada's room.
Halfway through the journey, Ogata suddenly ran into someone.
" Asai ."
Ogata called out the man's name and raised his hand to greet Asai.
Asai, who was walking towards Ogata, nodded slightly after seeing Ogata to show that he heard him, and raised his hand to signal Ogata.
If one were to ask which member of the Gourd House other than Rin and Genichi he was least familiar with, Ogata would definitely say Asai's name without hesitation.
He had the longest friendship with Mamiya and Makimura. They had fought side by side on Choujima and had rushed back to Owari from Kii together. Therefore, he was most familiar with these two, especially Makimura.
Makimura has a carefree and unconventional personality. Ogata likes people with this kind of personality, so Makimura is the person in the entire Hulu House who has the best relationship with Ogata.
As for Shimada - Ogata had been practicing sword skills with him for the past 10 days, and Shimada helped Ogata gain experience points.
In the competition with Shimada, Ogata also played the role of a master and gave Shimada a lot of guidance in swordsmanship.
After spending 10 days in this almost "master-disciple" relationship, the relationship between Ogata and Shimada became much closer, from being just nodding acquaintances to being able to chat together naturally.
The only relationship he had with Asai was still a nodding acquaintance.
Although they didn't spend a particularly long time together, Ogata still managed to see some of Asai's personality traits.
Asai is a... somewhat introverted person.
Normally, he is a very quiet, taciturn person who doesn't talk much.
But at certain times, he would also reveal a very positive and talkative side - for example, at the previous "XP System Seminar", Asai gave a long speech on how beautiful the back of a woman's neck is, and spoke seriously about his love for the back of a woman's neck.
Because Asai is not a talkative person and almost never takes the initiative to talk to Ogata, Ogata and Asai are not very familiar with each other.
Ogata originally just wanted to say hello to Asai briefly and then go on to look for Shimada.
But unexpectedly, when passing by Asai, Asai suddenly took the initiative to talk to Ogata:
"Ittosai, have you seen Mamiya?"
Ogata was surprised at first because he didn't expect Asai to talk to him, so he was stunned for a moment, and then he replied:
"Mamiya? No, I didn't see him. Do you have something urgent to do with Mamiya?"
"It's not urgent." Asai said, "I was just bored and wanted to play shogi with a palace."
"Are you going to play chess with Mamiya again? You and Mamiya seem to have a very good relationship." Ogata smiled.
During these 10 days, one of the scenes Ogata saw most often was Asai dragging Mamiya to play shogi.
Asai seemed to like playing shogi very much and would ask Mamiya to play from time to time.
The place where they played chess was also fixed - under a big tree in the temple.
Because the big tree was the only way for Ogata to get to the open space where he and Shimada used to practice swordsmanship, Ogata could always see them playing chess there.
According to Ogata's observation, Asai seems to have the best relationship with Mamiya.
Asai has always had a lukewarm attitude towards Makimura, Shimada, Genichi and others.
Especially towards Makimura - perhaps it was because their personalities were not very compatible, Ogata had seen them quarreling many times over trivial matters.
Although the quarrels between the two were just minor ones.
Asai only showed his more enthusiastic side when dealing with Mamiya.
Not only was he much more enthusiastic towards Mamiya than towards others, but in front of Mamiya, Asai always spoke respectfully with honorifics.
Of all the members of Gourd House, Asai only uses honorifics with three: Rin, Genichi, and Mamiya.
As soon as Ogata finished speaking, Asai paused, then slowly said:
"Mamiya is the only one here who knows how to play shogi. The lord, Makimura and the others either don't know how to play shogi or their skills are terrible, so if I want to play shogi, I can only find Mamiya."
"So I didn't play chess with Mamiya just because I have a good relationship with him."
"I only have Mamiya to play chess with, so I'm looking for Mamiya to play chess with."
After saying that, Asai stopped talking to Ogata, passed by Ogata, and continued to look for Mamiya.
Looking at Asai's departing back, Ogata couldn't help but mutter to himself in a helpless tone:
"The fact that he invited me to play chess so naturally, isn't this proof that we have a good relationship..."
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Not long after parting with Asai, Obane happened to meet Makimura on the way.
"Hey, brother Ogata." Makimura took the initiative to greet Ogata, "Where are you going?"
"I had nothing to do, so I went to Shimada to practice swordplay. What are you doing here?"
"I'm going to go to the village at the foot of the mountain and interrogate that Heitaro again." Makimura shrugged. "Maybe I can get something new out of him this time."
Mucun did not just eat, drink and sleep every day for these 10 days.
Makimura's main task these days was to interrogate Heitaro, who they had captured, to see if he could get anything out of him.
It's a pity that no matter how Makimura interrogated him, he couldn't get any valuable information out of Heitaro.
Apparently, Heitaro must have told everything he knew.
But due to his previous professional inertia as Kyoto Yoriki, Makimura instinctively doubted whether Heitaro had told everything he knew.
So he planned to interrogate Heitaro again before leaving for Edo.
After a brief greeting with Makimura, Obe said goodbye to Makimura and continued walking straight towards Shimada's room.
This time, I didn't meet anyone else along the way.
When I found Shimada, he had just packed his luggage.
Seeing Ogata inviting him to practice sword while there was still some time, Shimada, who didn't know what to do next, readily agreed to Ogata's invitation.
Although Ogata did not have much free time to waste, he still seized the time, using his Muga Two-Sword Style to fight Shimada in four consecutive games.
Change your personal level and the experience bar of the selfless dual sword flow to Lv32 (2850/4800) and 10th stage (6170/10000) respectively.
After these four competitions, Obaka had to stop competing with Shimada because it was time for lunch.
Today's lunch was prepared by Lin who had returned.
Looking at the three dishes and one soup in front of him, Ogata couldn't help but feel mixed emotions...
During these 10 days, Ogata ate a hot pot for almost every meal...
To be honest, I felt like vomiting a long time ago...
In order to change the taste, Ogata has personally cooked for everyone in the past 10 days.
Although this may be a bit exaggerated, after finally seeing dishes other than the big hotpot in the base of Huluwu after a long time, Ogata really felt like he had been redeemed...
Lin's cooking skills are very good. Ogata had also heard from Mamiya and the others that one of Lin's hobbies was cooking, so when Lin was in charge of the base, she was the one who prepared all the meals.
After quickly finishing the long-awaited sumptuous meal, everyone finally started their journey to Edo.
The ship that Lin prepared for traveling to Edo was located on the coastline southeast of Owari.
Their base in Huluya was originally located in the southeast of Owari, so it didn't take too much time to reach the coastline southeast of Owari.
The group set out in the afternoon and saw the sea at dusk the next day.
According to Lin, the boat was bought from a wealthy fisherman she was familiar with.
This fisherman happened to have a sailboat that could accommodate eight people, so Lin bought the boat for a large sum of money.
After seeing the sea, Lin first led everyone to visit the fishermen, and then the fishermen led them to the coastline to deliver the boat.
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"Is this our ship?!" Ating looked at the sailboat in front of him with excitement.
Ogata, along with the others around him, looked at the sailboat docked on the shore in front of them.
The sailboat was large and new, more than enough to accommodate the eight of them.
After looking at the sailboat in front of him several times, Ogata turned his head to look at Atachi who was standing beside him with an excited look on his face.
"A-Ming, you seem very happy."
"Yes!" Ating nodded vigorously, "I have never sailed on a sailboat like this before!"
"What a coincidence." Ogata smiled, "Me too."
Before arriving in the Edo period, Ogata had taken a speedboat several times.
After coming to this Edo period, Ogata had only ridden on that kind of small wooden boat on Choujima Island.
Ogata had never been on this kind of sailboat before. When he thought about going out to sea on this sailboat soon, he couldn't help but feel a little excited.
Lin quickly dealt with all the chores and trivial matters of taking over the sailboat, and called everyone on board to prepare for sailing.
After everyone stood on the deck, Lin, who was always decisive in her style of action, did not hesitate at all. She simply waved her hand and ordered the ship to sail.
After hearing Lin's order to sail, the first person to show surprise was Shimada.
Shimada looked around, then said to Lin urgently:
"My lord! Don't we have other crew members to assist in operating the ship?"
There were only eight people on the boat: Ogata, Atachi, Genichi, Rin, Mamiya, Makimura, Asai, and Shimada.
There was no one else except these eight people.
"We don't need any crew for a small boat like ours." Lin said unhappily, "We only have Jiulang."
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Looking at the increasingly distant coast, Ogata turned his head and said to Mamiya who was controlling the sail:
"You can operate this type of sailboat..."
"I once learned how to sail this type of sailboat in the Hyuga region." Mamiya, who was concentrating on fiddling with the sail, answered without turning his head.
As they got further and further away from the coastline, Ogata gradually felt the bumps on the deck beneath his feet becoming more and more intense.
Although Ogata felt a little uncomfortable with the strong shaking feeling when it first appeared, he soon got used to it.
The same thing happened to Makimura and Shimada, two people who had never been on a boat before. After a brief period of discomfort, they gradually recovered.
However...some people couldn't slow down...
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After about half an hour out to sea——
“Ha…ha…ha…uh…!”
A-Ming, with a pale face, held onto the wooden fence at the edge of the sailboat.
Although he tried his best to hold it in, he still couldn't resist the strong feeling of nausea and vomited violently towards the rough sea.
Ogata, who had been guarding Atachi, saw Atachi start to vomit, so he immediately turned to the side and used his body to block Atachi so that others would not see Atachi vomiting.
While helping Ating block other people's sight, Ogata raised his hand and gently stroked Ating's back to help him breathe smoothly.
"Going out on the boat... is not fun at all... ugh...!" Ating had a sad face, and the previous anticipation and excitement were no longer on his face...
"It's okay." Ogata comforted him, "After you finish vomiting, I'll help you to the cabin to rest."
After only half an hour at sea, Ah-Ming collapsed due to seasickness...
I have to say, this is already a bad start...
Makimura, who was standing nearby, cast a helpless look at Atachi, who was still lying on the fence vomiting, and Ogata, who was taking care of Atachi, and said to Lin behind him:
"Lord, what should we do now? A-Ming is seasick... Hmm? Lord?"
Before Mucun finished asking his question, he suddenly heard a rather heavy breathing sound coming from behind him.
Turning his head and looking back, he saw Lin standing behind him, her face was pale...
Looking at Lin's pale face, an ominous premonition began to emerge in Mucun's heart.
It wasn't just Makimura who had a bad feeling.
The rest of the people present, including Ogata, noticed Lin's abnormality and had the same ominous premonition as Makimura...
"My lord..." Mucun hesitated, "You are not..."
"Hmm...I think I have a cold..."
After saying that, Lin fell to one knee on the ground as if all the strength in her body had been drained away.
"My Lord!" Mucun exclaimed, "Are you seasick too?!"
"snort……"
Lin, whose face turned pale, snorted coldly.
"How could I be seasick? I just have a headache and feel a little nauseous. I think I just have a cold. Humph, the sea breeze is really cold. Everyone, remember to keep warm and don't catch a cold like me..."
"No, you're just suffering from common seasickness!" Makura shouted unhappily.
"It's a cold." Lin corrected Makura's previous words in a serious tone, "Anyway...Yahachi...help me to go and have a rest...As long as I get some sleep, my cold should be healed soon..."
"I told you that you are seasick!" Mucun shouted again in annoyance.
"It's a cold." Lin corrected him again, "Yahachi, help me to rest... My cold seems to be getting worse... Ugh... I feel like vomiting... Ugh..."
"Hey! Asai! Shimada! Both of you come over and help! The lord is seasick! I'll help the lord into the cabin to rest! The two of you go to the cabin, make the bed and get the wooden barrels in the cabin!"
"I already told you, it's a cold..." Lin corrected him again weakly...
Only half an hour after setting out to sea, the only two women in Ogata's group fell down due to seasickness...
