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Chapter 731 Hotaru

Chapter 731 Hotaru

On a calm and slightly hot weekend afternoon, the cicadas chirped loudly and noisily.

The courtyard of the Kamiya family.

Tsurumi Aoi was holding a wooden sword and practicing Suzhen under the shadow cast by the red maple tree in the yard.

"Ah——"

"Hum——"

The girl's gloomy eyes looked persistent and focused at this moment, and her hands tightly grasping the hilt of the knife had her knuckles slightly white due to the force. Her high ponytail swayed slightly behind her head with the movement, and the hair was translucent.

Tsurumi's attitude towards kendo practice has always been meticulous.

But today is not the originally agreed day for kendo practice.

Tsurumi has been Kamiya's disciple for about half a year, and now often comes to Arakawa on his own initiative.

When Kamiya is free, he will give extra guidance to this hardworking second disciple. If he is not free, Tsurumi will train independently at his teacher's home.

If you stay late, you can stay in your senior sister's room.

By the way, you can also study the relevant theoretical knowledge of spirit control with your senior sister at night.

By now, Tsurumi Aoi has become accustomed to this kind of daily life.

But when she arrived at Kamiya's house today, the teacher was busy with something, and Songlang and Inugami were exchanging combat skills in the basement.

Tsurumi came to the courtyard by himself to practice kendo.

After finishing another set of Su Zhen waving, the girl felt a little tired. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and stopped for a short rest.

At this time, Tsurumi Aoi saw her younger senior sister, wearing a white loose T-shirt and shorts, wandering out from the other side of the yard.

Today, senior sister seemed to be taking a rest.

"Xiao Kui!"

Kanoyaya excitedly moved closer to Tsurumi.

The two girls were both Kamiya's disciples, and they often ate and lived together. In addition, they had fought side by side more than once, so their relationship had long become close.

The relationship among classmates is harmonious.

But having said that, sometimes Tsurumi still finds it a bit difficult to deal with his senior sister because of her excessive energy and eccentric personality.

"Xiao Kui, are you done with Su Zhen? You've been practicing for a long time, huh?"

"actually, I……"

"Let me tell you a joke, I just saw it!"

"Senior Sister, I'm not done yet..."

"It's very interesting. Come and listen to it. Come and listen to it."

Tsurumi Aoi: ...

It’s so dazzling, and I have such a strong desire to share it.

Seeing that his junior sister had loosened up a little, Shikanoya slightly raised his nose and snorted: "If you smile, you will go out with me to buy watermelon later!"

She knew that her junior sister had been swinging the wooden sword here for almost an entire afternoon, and it was time for her to take a break.

Facing the enthusiastic proposal of her senior sister, Tsurumi Aoi sighed slightly: "Senior sister, if your joke is not funny, I will hit you on the head with a wooden sword."

Tsurumi has always respected his senior sister.

But for some reason, when she blurted out these words, she didn't feel that there was anything wrong.

Instead, the little deer was stunned.

It’s really strange, how come even Xiaokui can say something like she wants to hit me on the head as if it’s a matter of course?

This... can be considered as being led astray by the master?

But Kanoya was still very confident about the joke he was going to tell, and immediately patted his chest and said, "I just found out that I have a talent for telling Rakugo, so, deal!"

"Cough cough!"

She cleared her throat, moved closer to Tsurumi, and naturally put her hand on Tsurumi's shoulder.

Tsurumi has become accustomed to his senior sister's intimate contact and does not object to it.

"So..." Xiaolu deliberately stretched out his voice, "Xiaokui, do you know what the British call people who have no body and no nose?"

Tsurumi reluctantly cooperated: "What's your name?"

"Huh~" Xiaolu raised the hand on Tsurumi's shoulder happily, "Nobody knows!"

Very authentic Japanese English pronunciation.

After shaking off the baggage, Kanoyaya glanced at his junior sister's face with great interest, but found that Tsurumi's expression was extremely helpless.

"Eh? Look, Xiaokui. The body is body, the nose is nose, and when they are put together, it becomes..."

Xiaolu thought that his junior sister didn't understand the clever joke in his joke, so he started to explain, trying to achieve the effect of making people laugh again.

But before Xiaolu could finish analyzing the joke, the shadow of the wooden sword in the hands of the junior sister had already covered his head...

jingle--

The somewhat sultry summer breeze blew, making the wind chimes on the eaves jingle.

"Ouch!"

The wooden sword just tapped lightly on the top of Shikanoya's head, just as a token of his respect.

But the little sister's sudden dream of performing Rakugo was shattered.

……

Eternal life.

Flower bell strange school.

Kamiyagawa, who had just settled Takihime in the emergency hospital, was not in a hurry to return to reality. He first went to Takama-ga-hara to ring the bell to inform the medicine seller to come for a meeting, and then went down to the exclusive martial arts field.

After groping in the [Mirage Bag] for a few times, Kamiya pulled out a large sword with a strange appearance.

The knife is four feet and five inches long, and the blade has a beautiful slightly curved arc.

The entire blade has a very strange fluorescent green color and glows slightly.

What's more worth mentioning is that the blade of the knife is actually in a broken state, made up of hundreds of pieces pieced together. The blade is densely packed with tiny cracks, and it doesn't look very solid to the naked eye.

The name of this sword is [Hotaramaru], and it has an appraisal rating of "Super Epic" in "Kwaidan Monogatari".

It is the reward obtained after completing [Time of Demons IX].

The mission was completed, and in addition to the Hotaru, Kamiya also obtained two Takamagahara pass tokens.

"Try the quality of this weapon."

Holding the handle of the Hotaru sword, Kamiyagawa moved his mind and raised his hand to wave forward.

hum!

The large sword flashed green light and fell with a buzzing sound, but the blade burst into pieces in an instant.

Hundreds of irregular metal fragments spread and danced like fireflies on a summer night, and rolled into sharp green rays, whizzing towards the direction where Kamiya Kawa swung his knife!

hum!

Kamiya withdrew his hand, and the hundreds of knife chips that flew out like fireflies turned back in a hurry with a buzzing sound, quickly rearranged themselves on the hilt, and condensed into a broken sword blade.

"Hotarumaru... It's a long-range sword, but it has a long-range attack mode. It really looks like a firefly. It's quite interesting."

This newly acquired Hotaru is also considered a famous sword.

According to legend, it was forged by swordsmith Raikunitoshi and was the sword worn by Aso Koresumi, the tenth head of the Aso clan during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period in Japan. Therefore, it is also called "Aso Hotaru".

It is said that in the Battle of Tatarahama, the Aso clan of the Southern Dynasty faced off against the Northern Dynasty's Ashikaga Takauji and others, but the main camp collapsed due to a large number of traitors, and the then head of the Aso clan committed suicide by seppuku.

However, Aso Koresumi, who was a descendant of the Aso clan, did not give up even after his defeat. He continued to fight the enemy with the large sword in his hand. In the end, he was forced to retreat with the remnants because of his injuries and cracks on the large sword.

After Aso Koresumi and his party retreated to their residence to rest, Koresumi placed his large sword diagonally against the wall as he was worried that there might still be pursuers. He then fell asleep due to the heavy body.

That night, Weicheng dreamed that countless fireflies were lingering around him, flying to the badly damaged sword and emitting bright light. After waking up, he pulled out the sword and found that all the cracks on the sword had been repaired.

From then on, this knife was called "Hinawan".

"A strange sword that can repair itself."

Kamiya narrowed his eyes and looked at Hotaru again.

Through the appraisal of "Kwaidan Monogatari", he knew that this sword also came with a peculiar war skill - [Firefly Dance].

Slightly different from the legend of Hotaru, this skill provides the knife wielder with a certain degree of "injury recovery".

In other words, it is not only a long-range weapon, but also a medical item.

A sword that can heal.

If it were two years ago, Kamiyagawa would definitely use Hotaru as his main weapon.

But now...

Hotaru cannot compare to Doujikiri and Onikiri in terms of hard power, and its output at medium and long distances cannot compare to the four types of thunder techniques and [Three Thousand Worlds].

As for the medical effect of [Firefly Dance], it is not good enough for Kamiya.

Prajna's "medicine" is a special white powder with strong healing ability.

Moreover, after experiencing the incident at Tianhu Rock, Kamiya still got in the habit of keeping medicine from the pharmacist by his side.

After a comparison, the Firefly Pill, which is the main reward of [The Hour of Demons IX], seems a bit useless, and its actual use is not even better than the two pass tokens that are given as bonus.

It's actually not bad, but it can't complement the current Kamiya River. In a sense, it's more like a toy.

"It seems that the rewards for the normal Ode to Demonic Time missions are a bit useless. It doesn't matter, you can give Hotaru to Tsurumi."

Fortunately, Kamiyagawa also practiced two "small trumpets".

The weapons and props that he no longer needs or have been eliminated can be passed on to his apprentices.

It is not a waste to iterate and transition through our own internal resources.

Moreover, Kamiya Kawa knew that the second disciple, Tsurumi Aoi, had a "career plan" of collecting all kinds of weapons because she lacked talent in magic.

It seems that he wants to use the skills of the exorcism weapon to help deal with the ever-changing situations on the battlefield.

It is hard to say whether this idea is feasible.

But it’s indeed an idea.

As a master, I have to support her to some extent.

This "Hotaumaru" is just right for Tsurumi.

The second disciple's current equipment, Ichimonji can increase her strength and destructive power, and Smiley Aoki increases her battlefield mobility and defensive means.

Hotaru's medium and long-range attack methods, as well as his self-healing skills, are what Tsurumi lacks.

"Tsurumi has mastered the Katori Shinto-ryu's two-sword style quite well, but I don't know if she can use the three-sword switch."

Even though Tsurumi has an excellent talent for kendo and can switch between the three swords, if he wants to truly use the "hundred weapons" flexibly in battle, he definitely cannot do it with just his two hands.

You can't ask a foot seller to reattach Tsurumi's limb.

In addition, carrying weapons is also a problem.

Kamiya felt that he still had to carefully consider and plan the training ideas for the second disciple.

……

Return from the eternal world to the present world.

Kamiya woke up on the big bed in the master bedroom on the second floor, got up, pushed the door open and went downstairs.

When he went down the stairs, he saw Shikanoya walking in from the entrance of the corridor on the first floor.

The eldest disciple was holding a round watermelon in his arms, looking a little listless.

She soon noticed Shen Gu as well: "Master, do you want to eat watermelon? Oh...it needs to be chilled in the refrigerator for a while."

"what happened to you?"

"...Master, Xiaokui doesn't think my jokes are funny."

Kamiyagawa:?

What is this girl talking about?

Why don’t I understand?

"Master, didn't you notice? Xiaokui has been so tense and has hardly smiled." Xiaolu continued.

"Maybe it's because she doesn't like to smile."

"That's too much, Master! Xiao Kui is your apprentice. Even if you try your best, it won't work if you don't relax all the time."

"I see she's fine. Instead of worrying about her, you should worry about yourself - did you take it a little too easy today? Have you finished your exorcism homework?"

"I've finished everything!" The little deer hugged the watermelon in his arms a little tighter. "I only take one day off every two weeks, Master... please be kind."

Ever since Kamiya and Onizuka arranged for Shikanoya to take additional training in talisman techniques, this girl's daily life has indeed become busier.

In the past, I could at least have one day of respite a week.

Now it takes half a month to find a day off.

Moreover, her training of the Platycodon talisman has made good progress. She believes that with more diligent practice for a period of time, she will be able to apply the skills learned from the Giant Qiong Shrine to actual exorcism.

Kamiya Kawa, as his master, saw all of this.

Seeing his eldest disciple's pitiful look, Kamiya finally stopped teasing her: "Don't worry about Tsurumi, she is much more cheerful now than when I first met her. She is very relaxed when she is with us."

"Eh? Really?" Kanoyaya perked up.

"Really, and I feel like she's always happy every time she comes home."

As the master of the human world, Kamiya could easily see into the true emotions of his second disciple.

Although on the surface it seems to be the same as before, you can feel that she is very satisfied with her current life.

Maybe it’s because I taught the little deer well and because I get along very well with him.

After hearing what his master said, Shikanoya finally got rid of the frustration of failing to tell a joke.

Xiao Kui might have felt it was funny in her heart but she didn't laugh out loud!

Right, that is it.

I just wonder how anyone can not laugh at a joke!

"Xiaolu, where's Tsurumi?"

"After you came back from going out with me to buy watermelons, you went back to the yard to practice kendo."

"Then go and ask her to come over. I have something for both of you."

"Okay~"

Shikanoya trotted to the kitchen, put the watermelon away, and then ran out like a gust of wind.

Shen Gu glanced at his eldest disciple who had inexplicably rekindled his spirit, and thought that it seemed that this little fawn's thoughts today were quite difficult to guess...

Later, Kamiya handed Hotaru to Aoi Tsurumi.

Of course, he did not neglect his eldest disciple. He gave [Qian Xi's Smiling Teeth] to Xiao Lu.

"Laughing Teeth" no longer has much auxiliary effect on Kamiya on the battlefield.

The "enchanting" effect of this prop on ghost stories is often not even as great as Kamiya himself going there.

Therefore, if it is placed in the hands of a deer, it may be utilized to a greater extent.

(End of this chapter)