Pirates: Build a high wall from the East China Sea.

Chapter 13 Kuina and Tashigi

"You're really not Tashigi?"

"My name is Kuina Shimotsuki, the swordsmanship instructor at Isshin Dojo." Kuina frowned and looked at Miss Nami who was standing in front of her. She felt confused and curious. Who was that marine sergeant named Tashigi?
Why does everyone recognize her as Dashigi?
"Ms. Nami, my name is not Tashigi."

however.

"How could there be two people who look so alike, except that they are not wearing glasses? Or are they strangers? Is this really not a conspiracy of the Marine Headquarters?"

Facing Kuina's explanation, Nami still didn't believe it. She touched her chin and looked at Kuina with a frown. She said suspiciously, "Why did you come back again? Did you see so many beautiful girls around Xia Che, and this beautiful girl, so you planned to use a beauty..."

The words are not finished yet.

"Boom~"

Xia Che, with a dark face, said angrily, "I am just a demoted naval colonel. I have no status and I have not done anything bad. Why would the Navy Headquarters use a honey trap on me?"

"It hurts~, I was just joking."

"She is indeed not Sergeant Tashigi." Xia Che shook his head helplessly and turned to look at Kuina who was standing in front of him.

Unlike Tashigi's plaid shirt and suit pants, Kuina wore a women's white suit shirt on the upper body and a pair of slim-fit cropped jeans on the lower body, which just went above the knees, revealing her slender and white calves, further showing the graceful and charming figure unique to the beauty of the sea.

And Kuina did not have short hair like Tashigi, but instead tied it up into a ponytail that just fell past her shoulders. With the large sword, Wado Ichimonji, one of the Twenty-one Swords, pinned to her waist, she gave people a clean and capable feeling.

There is a hint of heroism in the softness.

Xia Che had a smile on his face, "I thought you would come a few days later, but I didn't expect it to be so soon."

After receiving a call from the 16th Navy Branch, he rushed over from the town of Kokoasi, and sure enough, he saw Kuina who had already arrived and was believed to be Tashigi.

He met Kuina not long after he came to the East China Sea. In order to practice kendo, he took Robin to Isshin Dojo to study.

Although he entered school later than Kuina and Zoro, he was directly promoted to the position of eldest senior brother due to his age and strength, so the two of them got to know each other.

He was planning to let Kuina teach the swordsmanship of the 16th Marine Division.

"Senior Brother Xia Che." Seeing that her senior brother did not mistake her for that Tashigi, Kuina was quite happy. She bent down and said happily.

At that time, she was stuck in a dead end. If it weren't for her senior brother who enlightened her and let her know some stories about female swordsmen on the sea, and let her understand that female swordsmen could also become great swordsmen, and regain her confidence, she would probably have given up her dream by now.

At that time, she vowed to not only become a great swordsman as powerful as her senior brother, but also, since her father did not approve of her, she no longer aspired to take over Isshin Gym, and planned to open a Kuina Gym herself and snatch away all the apprentices of Isshin Gym.

then.

Defeat his father, beat him up, and then put Isshin Gym down.

"Please give me your guidance next time." After saying that, she turned her head and looked at Robin who was smiling at the side, and said happily, "Long time no see, Sister Robin."

"Welcome~" Robin also responded to Kuina with a smile, nodded, glanced up and down and said, "It is indeed very similar to that marine sergeant - Tashigi."

"Yeah, yeah." Nami on the side echoed, with her hands on her hips, "I said they look alike. If they wear glasses, they look exactly the same!"

"Dasi Qi?"

Hearing the name again, Kuina was very curious and also wanted to meet the naval sergeant named Tashigi. She turned her head to look at Senior Brother Xia Che and was about to ask something.

"Oh, right~" Xia Che seemed to remember something, looked at Kuina, and said, "Where's Zoro? Why didn't he come with you?"

Since he has encountered this, then... in order to improve his performance, he must have thought of packing everything in one package~
only.

The words fell. "Zoron?"

Hearing what Senior Brother Xia Che said, Kuina was also stunned. After blinking her sparkling eyes, she frowned again, "That guy hasn't come yet?"

"He's already out to sea?"

"He got my father's consent a year earlier than me. Even though that guy couldn't beat me, my father allowed him to go to sea, but he still didn't agree with me."

"..."

however.

After hearing what Kuina said, Xia Che fell silent. Then, his mouth twitched and he asked, "Did he...go out to sea by himself?"

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"Nothing~"

Xia Che covered his face directly.

I was also planning to let that kid Zoro come to work here, but now... I guess that guy has lost his way and I don't know where he is.

He raised his head again and looked at Kuina, who seemed a little disappointed because her father recognized Zoro but not herself.

Xia Che smiled and reached out his hand, patting Kuina's head like he did when they were little, "Don't worry, when you open a gym, I will definitely support you. Let's snatch all the apprentices from your father's gym and let Isshin's gym go bankrupt, so that he will be mad and look down on Kuina."

The words fell.

Hearing what her senior brother said, Kuina, who was originally a little disappointed, suddenly burst into laughter, looked at Xia Che in front of her, puffed her lips, and said happily, "Senior brother, I have grown up!"

What a shame! You even touched someone's head.

Then the delicate face became firm again, and said angrily, "I'll beat that old man up when the time comes!"

"That's right, beat him up!" Xia Che nodded with a smile, looking at Kuina who had just arrived today, and said, "Then let my senior take you around and familiarize yourself with the place first!"

however.

"Later." Kuina refused and looked at Xia Che seriously, "I have more important things to do now."

The voice just fell.

"???"

Before Xia Che, who looked confused, could ask what was going on.

I saw.

Kuina's slender white right hand directly grasped the handle of the Wado Ichimonji sword, and then raised her head with a serious expression on her face, "Let Kuina see if Senior Brother Xia Che has slacked off in the past few years?"

As he spoke, Wado Ichimonji had already drawn it out, and holding the hilt with both hands, he assumed the starting stance of Isshin-ryu swordsmanship. His originally gentle temperament suddenly changed, as if filled with sharpness like a sword.

"Please give me some advice, Brother Xia Che!"

Before Xia Che could react, a hint of cunning flashed across his determined face. He blinked and took the lead in attacking Xia Che.

(End of this chapter)