Slender eyelashes, big and bright eyes, delicate mouth and nose, red and small lips, any one of the facial features is impeccable when taken alone, and when combined together, it looks even more perfect.

His delicate fair skin made his dark hair even more beautiful.

There is no such ugly hair style as the moon on the head. The smooth black hair is tied directly behind the head with a purple ribbon into a high ponytail that hangs down to the neck, and some hair is left on the forehead to hang naturally on the forehead.

Forehead hair.

He is quite young. According to Qingdeng's visual inspection, this beautiful boy is probably only 16 or 17 years old.

He has a slender figure and is a bit short. According to visual inspection, his height may be only 1.55 meters.

Qingdeng felt that it was difficult for him to use precise words to describe the appearance of the beautiful young man in front of him.

To describe it in simple and vulgar language...the beauty of this handsome boy is of a level that would make straight men think: "It doesn't matter even if he is a man."

If it weren't for the fact that he was wearing men's clothing, Qingdeng felt that he would have mistaken him for a cute girl.

Qingdeng felt that if this beautiful boy could put on women's clothes, countless men would be willing to be his lickers.

Of course - it wasn't just his beauty that shocked Qingdeng.

At this moment, this beautiful young man was holding a bamboo sword, concentrating on the air in front of him, practicing sword skills one after another.

Qingden doesn't understand swords.

"Hara Tachibana Aoden" is not interested in swordsmanship and does not have many memories related to swordsmanship.

However, although Qingteng does not understand swords, Qingteng knows unarmed combat techniques such as grappling and free fighting, as well as baton techniques learned in the police academy.

These skills, like swordsmanship, are martial arts with the ultimate goal of "subduing and knocking down the opponent". They are common in many aspects such as footwork and stance.

Therefore - thanks to his attainments in unarmed combat and baton skills, Qingdeng was able to see that the set of sword skill combos that this beautiful boy was using was not something that could only be used to look good, or that could only be used to

"Swordsmanship for old age" used for fitness.

There are almost no redundant movements, and every movement of the hands and feet is concise and efficient.

Qingteng couldn't help but be fascinated by the beautiful young man's exquisite sword skills.

But before he had time to take a few more glances, he saw that the beautiful young man finally noticed Aoto and Kondo standing at the entrance of the dojo. He stopped swinging his sword, turned his little head, and looked at Kondo who was standing there.

Qingden beside him cast curious and doubtful eyes.

Kondo, who had been standing outside the dojo entrance just now for fear of disturbing him, now quickly led Aoto into the dojo.

"General Secretary, come here. Let me introduce you."

The Souji held his bamboo sword, moved his little feet, and walked quickly to Kondo and Aoto.

"This is Tachibana Qingden, and he plans to come to apprentice and learn swordsmanship in our training hall! For some reasons, I decided to make an exception and allow him to enter directly today. When the master comes back later, he will make up for the apprenticeship ceremony!"

After briefly introducing Qingdeng's situation to the beautiful boy, the beautiful boy showed a look of understanding, then immediately stood up straight and bowed to Qingdeng respectfully.

"This is our first meeting! I am Okita, General Secretary! I am an apprentice of this trial defense hall. Welcome to the trial defense hall!"

Not only does she have a good-looking face, but her voice is also very pleasant. Her timbre is neutral, neither rough nor feminine.

"First time we meet." Qingden returned the greeting, "I am Ju Qingden."

——Soji Okita...

Qingdeng silently chewed this name in his heart.

He vaguely felt that this name sounded familiar to him, as if he had heard it somewhere.

But after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't remember when he heard this name, so Qingdeng simply stopped thinking about it.

——Such a thin arm can swing the bamboo sword so steadily

Qingden couldn't help but glance at Okita's slender wrist a few more times.

Due to his limited swordsmanship level, Aomori couldn't judge the level of Okita's swordsmanship based on the series of swordsmanship skills Okita had just practiced against the air.

But he could roughly estimate that this handsome boy's swordsmanship would not be much worse.

Just because this handsome young man can swing the thick and long bamboo sword steadily, accurately and fiercely.

Swinging the bamboo sword steadily and accurately - this kind of thing sounds easy but is difficult to do.

It's really unimaginable that he could swing the bamboo sword so smoothly and powerfully with such a slender body.

——This man is really awesome...

Qingdeng silently added this emotion in his heart.

…

…

The tuition fee for the Imperial Examination Hall is exactly as Kiryu said, 3 dollars per month.

Because he had been mentally prepared to lose money, Qingdeng handed over the money very readily.

Later, Kondo brought over a large book that he said contained apprentice information and asked Aomori to fill it out.

There is not much information to fill in, just basic information such as name, age, address, etc.

Qingteng lay on the floor of the dojo and filled in his information in the book.

After closing the book with Ainoto's information filled in and putting it under his arm, Kondo laughed enthusiastically:

"Ji Jun! When the master comes back in the future, after you make up for the apprenticeship ceremony with the master, you will be an official disciple of my imperial examination hall!"

"It's still early today, it's not yet 10 o'clock in the morning. What do you think? Do you want to start practicing the natural flow of nature today?"

"Of course!" Qingdeng said.

——I came here just to learn the sword as soon as possible and fight with others.

Qingdeng quietly added this sentence in his heart.

"Okay!" Kondo patted his thigh, "I like people like you who are high-spirited!"

"Wait a moment. I'll find a new set of protective gear for you."

After leaving these words, Kondo quickly walked out of the dojo holding the "Apprentice Information Book".

After Kondo left, only Aoto and Okita were left in the dojo.

Just now, Okita had been sitting quietly next to Kondo, saying nothing.

It wasn't until after Kondo left that I heard Okita say the second sentence to Aotobu that they had said since they met, besides self-introduction:

"Welcome to the Trial Guard Hall!"

Okita smiled brightly at Aoden.

When most people smile, their smiles do not look good because the folds on their faces are squeezed together, their teeth are ugly, and other reasons.

But there are also a very small number of people who have very beautiful smiles and have a unique charm when they smile.

The Okita Souji in front of me happens to belong to this type of person.

Okita's smiling face reminded Ayoto of the warm sunshine of spring.

"Let's test the defense hall, and finally we have a new member."

Okita, who was kneeling respectfully on the ground just now, now carelessly changed his sitting posture to sitting cross-legged.

"I have almost forgotten the last time a new person joined our 'Taro Dojo'."

"'Taro Dojo'?" Qingden asked doubtfully.

"Huh? Don't you know the nickname of our trial gym?"

Okita raised his beautiful eyebrows, and then said slowly in a self-deprecating tone.

"This all starts with the school we teach - Natural Rishin-ryu."

"Our Natural Rishin-ryu is widely spread in the Tama area north of Edo, and many of its disciples are farmers in the Tama area."

[Note: Commoners in the Edo period could go to sword halls to learn swordsmanship, but they just did not have the right to carry swords]

"As a result, many boring people ridiculed our natural philosophy as 'peasant swordsmanship', and then ridiculed our training hall as a 'taro dojo' that teaches 'peasant swordsmanship'."

In the Edo period, the word "taro" was often used to mock others for their poverty.

For example, in this era, there was a very common word used to mock samurai: "taro samurai". When you use this word to call a samurai, you are mocking him for being poor.

And "Taro Dojo" means poor dojo.

——So this dojo has such a nickname... I never heard Mr. Kiryu mention this to me...

After thinking this secretly in his mind, Qingdeng put on a smile:

"I just saw the series of sword skills you practiced. Are those all natural Rishin-ryu moves?"

"Oh? Did you see my training just now? That's right! The sword skills I just practiced are exactly the techniques of natural Rishin-ryu!"

"In that case, those who ridicule your natural Rishin-ryu as 'peasant swordsmanship' are either following the rumors or have no vision."

Qingdeng said in a determined tone.

"If the schools with so many powerful swordsmanship are all 'peasant swordsmanship', then there are few schools in the world that are not 'peasant swordsmanship'."
To be continued...