I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

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After entering Mugen Street, Ogata continued to ask about the location of "No. 17 Mugen Street".

At last they found their destination.

An unremarkable little dilapidated house on the corner of the street.

"...Is that really the place where Yoji lived?" A-cho couldn't help asking Ogata beside him.

"According to what the uncle said just now... that small dilapidated house is indeed No. 17 Mugeng Street..." Ogata also looked at the house that looked more like a haunted house with a complicated expression at this time, "Anyway, let's go and have a look first. Let's see."

Ogata and the others walked quickly towards the "haunted house".

"Is anyone home?"

Standing in front of the door of the "haunted house", Ogata shouted loudly towards the house.

They were also worried that there would be no one in the house to respond.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Ogata's words fell, the sound of "dong dong dong" footsteps sounded in the house.

Crack...crack...crack...

The wooden door, which had been in disrepair for a long time, was pulled open with difficulty.

Behind the opened wooden door was... a face that all three of Ogata and the others had seen before.

The Ogata three looked at the person pulling the door in astonishment.

And the person pulling the door also looked at Ogata and the others with astonished eyes.

The person who opened the door of this "haunted house" was the old man who persuaded Ogata to come and close the curtain together: Naoshu Isshiki.

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The three of Ogata stared at Naosuke who hadn't seen him for a while, and the scene had a somewhat comical atmosphere for a while.

If it was discussed who had the most exaggerated expression among the people at the scene, it was Zhi Zhou.

Although Ogata is now wearing a face scarf and a bamboo hat, but Ogata's figure, the saber around his waist, and the two female ninjas standing on the left and right sides of him, let Naosuke recognize this person in the first place. The man who he wanted to break his head before, and also wanted him to join their "fading cause".

"O, Ogata..." Naosuke's tongue seemed to be paralyzed, twisting stiffly.

As soon as he uttered the surname "Ogata", Naoshu finally came to his senses and realized that this place was not a place where he could easily pronounce Ogata's name, so he quickly shut up and changed his name to Mashima.

"Mashima-sama, you, why are you here?"

"I want to ask you that question too."

Is Osaka really a big city with a population of one million?

Ogata couldn't help complaining in his heart.

At this time, Ogata suddenly discovered that since he came to Osaka, he seemed to be frequently encountering acquaintances and people he knew.

After suppressing the urge to continue complaining, Ogata raised his eyes and looked at the small house behind Naoshu: "Mr. Isshiki, I want to ask: Is this the residence of Master Yuer?"

Hearing Ogata's words, Naoshu suddenly realized the reason why Ogata would show up here, and hurriedly asked Ogata:

"Master Zhendao, are you here to find Master Yuer?"

"Yeah." Ogata didn't hide anything, after all, it wasn't something worth hiding, "I heard that Master Yu's knife repairing skills are at the peak, so I came here specially, and wanted to entrust Master Yu to repair my saber."

"Are you here to find Master Yu Er to repair the knife?" Zhi Zhou stood aside and made way for him, "Master Yu Er happens to be at home right now, please come in."

"Mr. Naoshu, are you friends with Master Yuer?" Ogata asked Naozou as he walked into the small shabby house along the path that Naocho left.

"It's an old friend for many years." Zhizhou chuckled, "Our Yishi family has always asked Master Yuer to help cast knives, and if the knife is damaged, we entrust Master Yuer to help repair it."

"I don't have anything important to do today, so I thought of coming to chat with this old friend, and take a look at the progress of the knife I entrusted him to repair."

"I didn't expect to meet you again here. The world is really unpredictable."

Feeling once again that Dasaka is a real queen, Ogata took off the big Shitian from his left waist and held it with his right hand, while roughly looking at the scene in this small dilapidated house.

The appearance of this small dilapidated house is dilapidated, but the inside is almost the same.

After passing through the gate of the house, it leads directly to a slightly cramped living room. There is almost no decent furniture in the living room, only a few worn and old cushions.

The corridor is relatively complete, but the ceiling is a bit horrible. Looking up, there are three large or small holes in the ceiling of the living room alone.

However, although the interior of the house was simple and dilapidated, it was still clean. The corridors and the walls had been well cleaned.

Ogata sniffled. When he was outside the house, he smelled a very strong smell of iron, charcoal, and something burnt.

After entering the house, the smell became much heavier immediately.

Ogata noticed that the smell seemed to come from a room with a thick curtain in the back of the house.

In addition to this burst of peculiar smell, there was also the sound of sharpening knives from that room.

"Zao Zhou."

At this time, a hoarse middle-aged male voice came from that room.

"Who is here?"

"Master Yu Er!" Zhi Zhou shouted in the direction from which the voice came from just now, "An old friend of mine wants to ask you to repair the knife! You should stop what you are doing first."

"Your old man? Bring him in."

This short conversation ended with this cold remark.

"Mashima-sama." Naosuke, who was old enough to be Ogata's grandfather, said "please" to Ogata respectfully. No matter how you look at this picture, it seems inconsistent, "Please come with me. I will take you to Ogata The place where the second master works."

After finishing speaking, Zhizhou strode straight towards what he called "Master Yuer's workshop", that is, the room that constantly smelled and made strange noises.

After following closely behind Naoshu and opening the door curtain of that room, the scene behind the door curtain made Ogata's eyes brighten up.

Behind the curtain is a blacksmith shop.

In the southeast corner of the blacksmith shop, there are pieces of unbeaten pig iron and a hill made of coal.

In the northeast corner is the smelting platform responsible for blacksmithing.Facilities like a blower, a place where Yokoza swordsmiths sit while blacksmithing, and a fire bed are all available.

In the corner of the northwest corner, leaning on a stick, it feels like a single swing can smash an adult's head like a watermelon falling from a tall building.

The southwest corner of the room is the only place where tatami mats are laid.A middle-aged man with an extremely strong figure is squatting in this place, stepping on a whetstone with his feet, and sharpening the knife held in both hands with the whetstone under his feet in a specific rhythm.

This middle-aged man seemed to be around 40 years old, with dark skin, a cropped head that was extremely rare in this era, and his short hair stood up like steel needles.

Wearing only this thin gray bathrobe, his body is quite strong, especially his arms, the muscles of both arms are as tight as granite and full of strength.

The reason why Ogata's eyes lit up after entering this blacksmith's shop was precisely because of the knife sharpened by this middle-aged man, to be precise.

The middle-aged man is now sharpening a badly broken knife.

Not only is the blade full of gaps, but the blade is bent directly to the right by nearly 10 degrees.

If such a broken knife is handed over to Ogata and asked Ogata to try to repair the knife, then even if Ogata racked his brains, he would not be able to think of any way to repair such a severely damaged knife.

However, the scene presented in front of Ogata at this time clearly told Ogata: Someone really has a way to repair this knife.

The broken knife is now in a very strange state.

This knife is bounded by the center of the blade. From the center of the blade to the tip, the blade is full of notches and bends.

As for the part from the center of the blade to the root of the blade, the blade is straight and has no gaps, just like a new knife with a handle.

A knife is both damaged and brand new, and its appearance is indescribably strange.To make a similar analogy is like grafting the branches of a peach blossom tree onto a banana tree.

And the reason why this knife is in such a strange state is because the middle-aged man started repairing it from the root of the blade.

At this time, the middle-aged man had been sharpening the base of the blade of the knife with a whetstone until Ogata and the others came in, and he did not put down his work or look up at Ogata and the others.

"Master Mashima." Naoki introduced to Ogata and the others in a timely manner, "This is Master Yuer."

"Master Yuer! This is my old friend Mashima Goro."

"It's the first time we meet, Master Yuer." After Naoshu's voice fell, Ogata immediately bowed slightly, and introduced himself, "I'm Mashima Goro."

The sound of sharpening the knife finally stopped.

The middle-aged man, Yu Er, finally stopped the work of sharpening the knife at hand, and looked up at Ogata and the others.

"Hello, I'm Yu Er. Just find a place to sit."

Yu Er's self-introduction was very brief, and he did not exchange too many pleasantries with Ogata.

After putting aside the half-trimmed knife in his hand, Yuji crossed his hands into the wide sleeves of his bathrobe.

"Let me see the knife you want to commission me to repair."

Yu Er's style of not talking too much nonsense and going straight to the point is quite to Ofang's liking.

Since Yu Er was so straightforward, Ogata didn't talk nonsense, pulled out Da Shitian and Da Zizai, and handed the two knives towards Yu Er.

"I would like to entrust you to repair these two knives."

Yu Er received the knife with both hands.

Looking at the notched blades of Da Shitian and Da Zizai, Yu Er seemed to be surprised, with a blank expression on his face.

He moved his eyes, looked at the back of the knife roughly, then raised his eyebrows vigorously, and whispered in a tone of surprise:

"This type of knife casting method is the knife cast by the monks of Tianxiangzong?"

Ogata was surprised and pleasantly surprised that Yu Er could recognize who made the two knives just by looking at the blades.

"Exactly." Ogata said.

"Is it the work of the monks of Tianxiangzong?" Yuer murmured, "I haven't seen the works of those bald donkeys for a long time. What are the names of these two knives?"

"Hit the knife and release the sky, and the threat is free"

Bald donkey?

After hearing the title "bald donkey" from Yu Er, Ogata, for some reason, had an ominous premonition in his heart

"Using the Buddhist language to name the sword? Huh, it's indeed the style of those bald donkeys."

"These two knives seem to use some Nanman casting skills, but they are mainly based on Tian Xiangzong's unique knife casting method."

Speaking of this, Yu Er glanced at the Da Shitian and Da Zizai held in his hands several times, and then nodded slightly.

"A good knife, both tough and sharp. I have seen countless kinds of precious swords, and there are only a handful of them that can surpass your two swords in terms of quality."

"Can these two knives be kept intact?" Ogata asked.

"Have you seen this knife?" Yu Er did not directly respond to Ogata's question, but suddenly pouted at the half-repaired broken knife with a "side-curved blade" that he had just put aside. , "I can even repair a knife that has been damaged like this, let alone your knife?"

Yu Er looked at the saw-like blades of Da Shitian and Da Zizai that had been cut with holes.

"Although your knife is not badly damaged, it's not difficult to repair it intact."

Hearing Yu Er's words, Ogata couldn't help showing a happy smile on his face.

"Then, I'll leave it to you, the price"

Before Ogata finished speaking, he suddenly saw Yu Er in front of him handing back the double swords he was holding in his hand.

Then he said something that made Ogata's expression froze.

"But I don't want to fix the knife for you."

As soon as Yu Er's words came out, the blacksmith shop was silent for several seconds.

A few seconds later, Azhu, who has always been active, broke the silence first.

"Why?" Azhu asked anxiously, "Didn't you say that it would not be difficult to repair Master Mashima's sword?"

"Well, I did." Yu Er nodded solemnly.

"Will it be expensive to repair the knife?" At this time, A-Ming also asked, "If it's because we are worried that we won't be able to pay the money."

Before Ah-cho finished speaking, Yuji interrupted:

"It's not about money. I just don't want to repair the knife for you. No matter how much money you give me, I won't repair it for you."

At this time, Ogata suddenly recalled that Yu Er called the monks of Tian Xiangzong "bald donkeys" just now.

"Master Yuer." Xu Fang said in a deep voice, "Did you ever have any festivals with the monks of Tian Xiangzong?"

"You are neither right nor wrong." Yu Er closed his eyes, raised his head, and took a deep breath, "I am not against the monks of Tianxiangzong, I am against all the monks in the world!"

After finishing speaking, Yu Er who had closed his eyes suddenly opened them.