After saying that, Ogata poured the hot porridge in the bamboo tube into his mouth.

After eating the hot porridge, Ogata's eyes lit up.

"Mamiya..." Ogata put down the bamboo tube he drank in one breath, "Your craftsmanship is really good..."

"...Because I once learned cooking from someone in the Mikawa area."

"I knew you would say that." Ogata said angrily, "Since you are so good at cooking, why do you always have to eat a big miscellaneous pot with other people?"

"...For some reasons, although I am good at cooking, I don't like it. Ogata-kun, do you still want to eat? There is still some left in the pot."

"No."

"Then give me the porridge left in the pot." Makimura on the side said at this time, "I happen to be hungry now."

Makimura left quickly to get his own bowls and chopsticks, and then quickly returned here.

When Makimura, who was still shirtless, was loading porridge from the pot, his back happened to be facing Ogata.

Looking at the red dragon tattoo on Makimura's back, Ogata couldn't help but sigh:

"Makimura... the red dragon tattoo on your back is really amazing no matter how many times I see it... it's like there is a real dragon lying on your back..."

"Thank you for the compliment." To Ogata's compliment, Makimura responded coldly in a tone that was neither salty nor indifferent, "Although Ogata brother, you praised my tattoos, which makes me very happy, but actually... I'm not very good at it.

Love this tattoo on my back.”

"Huh? Why?"

"Because I feel like I'm not worthy of the dragon behind me."

As soon as Makimura finished speaking, Genichi, who was sitting next to Ogata, immediately said:

"Makimura-kun, you are too arrogant to belittle yourself."

"Give yourself a little more confidence."

"You deserve the dragon behind you and the title of 'Stegodragon'."

"Stegoryu?" Ogata asked doubtfully.

"Hmm? Don't you know, Ogata-kun? When Makimura-kun was on duty in Kyoto, he was deeply admired and was given the title of 'Stegoryu' by the people in Kyoto..."

"Master Genichi!" Before Genichi could finish speaking, Makimura suddenly shouted, "That's enough... let's stop this topic...!"

After interrupting Genichi's words with a loud roar, Makimura grabbed his own bowl and drank the porridge in it in one gulp.

After saying "I'm full", Makimura put on his upper body clothes again, took his own bowl and chopsticks and quickly left from the sight of Ogata and others.

Mamiya and Genichi had helpless smiles on their faces.

Only Ogata looked confused.

"What happened to Makimura...?" Ogata couldn't help but ask Mamiya and Genichi.

"It's a long story..." Mamiya shrugged, "This is related to Makimura's private affairs, so it's not convenient for me to say more. If you are really curious, Ogata-kun, just wait until you have the opportunity to go there later."

Just ask Makimura."

"That's it... Since this is related to Makimura's personal affairs, I won't ask any more questions..."

When he moved his eyes back from the place where Makimura's back disappeared, Ogata caught a glimpse of the Qiancheng Gourd Horse Seal standing in the corner of the yard.

Looking at this Thousand Gourd Horse Seal, Ogata said softly with a thoughtful look on his face:

"Speaking of which - what a coincidence."

"Two hundred years ago, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, whose original name was Kinoshita Tokichiro, held up the Seal of the Thousand Gourds and Horses and completed the unification of Japan."

"And now, there is another person named Kinoshita holding the Qiancheng Gourd Horse Seal, although she has not accomplished any hegemony..."

The figures "Qiancheng Gourd Horse Seal" and "Toyotomi Hideyoshi" are almost in a state of being tied together.

Because it was Toyotomi Hideyoshi who first named Sencheng gourd and used it to make horse seals.

From then on, every time he marched and fought, Toyotomi Hideyoshi would hold up the horse seal of a thousand gourds.

And Sencheng Gourd has become a nightmare for Toyotomi Hideyoshi's enemies.

In ancient Japan, it was not unusual for people to change their given names for various reasons.

Many important figures in Japanese history have changed their names.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's original name was Kinoshita Tokichiro.

Then he was replaced by Hashiba Hideyoshi, and finally he was given the surname "Toyotomi" by the emperor, and finally changed his name to "Toyotomi Hideyoshi".

After listening to Ogata's emotion, Mamiya smiled and answered:

"This can be considered one of the important reasons why our Lord took Qiancheng Gourd as the symbol of our Gourd House."

"My Lord, his family happens to have the same surname as Toyotomi Hideyoshi's original name."

"And our lord happens to admire Toyotomi Hideyoshi very much."

"Toyotomi Hideyoshi came from such a humble background, but accomplished such an incredible hegemony. This made my lord very moved and inspired."

"In order to show his admiration for Toyotomi Hideyoshi and to show his ambition to learn from the 'Kinoshita' of more than two hundred years ago, as well as to express his love for gourds, the lord chose Qiancheng gourds as our gourds.

The sign of the house.”

"In order to learn from Toyotomi Hideyoshi, my lord once made a fuss about changing her surname to 'Hashiba'..."

"When Xiao Lin said she wanted to change her surname, I scolded her for nearly half an hour before she gave up this ridiculous idea..." Yuan Yi continued, while shaking his head with a wry smile...

…

…

Carrying the bowls and chopsticks, he returned to the kitchen, fetched a ladle of water and washed the bowls and chopsticks casually. After putting the bowls and chopsticks back into the bamboo basket specially designed for everyone's bowls and chopsticks, Makimura hurried back to his room.

After returning to his room, Makimura lay on his back on the tatami in a "big" shape, as if all his strength had been exhausted.

"Dragon..."

Looking at the ceiling above, Makimura's right hand seemed to have a consciousness of its own, touching his back...

"Konraku-sama..." A hint of bitterness appeared on Makimura's face, "You gave me the 'red dragon' tattoo back then... you must have made a mistake... giving me a shrunken turtle tattoo is more like..."

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…

Before noon that day——

Huluwu base area, at the gate.

"Ogata-kun." Mamiya said softly to Ogata, who was fully dressed and put on a bamboo hat in front of him, "Do you really want to leave now and not stay with us for a while longer?"

"Everything I want to do has been done." Ogata smiled slightly, "I have no reason or motivation to stay here any longer."

The reason why Ogata came all the way to visit Calabash House was for two purposes.

1: Ask Genichi Kinoshita if there is a way to freely enter the state of selflessness.

Two: Ask Genichi Kinoshita for advice and see clearly how far the gap is between yourself and the "unparalleled people in the world".

Now that these two goals have been achieved, there is no need to stay in this Calabash House anymore.

What's more, Ogata's current relationship with Kinoshita Rin is... very delicate.

According to Mamiya and others, Kinoshita Rin is responsible for three meals a day at Calabash House.

At the same time, I heard from Genichi about half an hour ago - Makimura once made Rin angry. In order to punish Makimura, Makimura found all kinds of weird things, mainly boogers, in his meals for three days in a row.

thing……

It wasn't until Makimura apologized to Lin that he finally stopped eating boogers...

Makimura later learned that these boogers were dug by Genichi, Mamiya, Asai, and Shimada in turns for Lin to use...

This makes Ogata even more afraid to stay in Gourd House...

If you continue to stay in Calabash House, you might get boogers...

In order not to eat boogers, Ogata specifically chose to leave the Calabash House before eating today's lunch...

Because Ogata left suddenly without notifying anyone in advance, only Genichi and Mamiya came to see Ogata off.

"Practice hard, Ogata-kun."

Genichi didn't say anything like "be careful on the road" to Ogata.

"As a parting gift, let me tell you a little trick to enter the realm of selflessness before practicing the Breath of Source to its peak."

"Ogata-kun, please carefully think back to the moment when you entered the state of selflessness."

"Are you just thinking about winning or something else?"

Ogata thought back to the moment when he first entered the realm of selflessness - it was true as Genichi said, when he first entered the realm of selflessness, he was only thinking about winning, to defeat these more than a hundred people.

Samurai, take off Matsudaira Gennai's dog head.

"The trick to enter the state of selflessness before you have reached the peak of Source Breathing is to let yourself think about only one thing."
To be continued...