Abnormal Moon

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Roy narrowed his eyes. The blade was parallel to his line of sight, making it difficult to judge its length. He had no choice but to take a step back to avoid the attack.

Kirin Toudou immediately pressed her advantage, slashing down at Roy from the right side with her sword and kasaya.

Roy estimated the angle and length of the attack, and dodged it with a stepping technique, using the opportunity of turning around to concentrate his strength for the next strike.

However, as soon as he turned around, he saw that Kirin Toudou had already seen through his actions and thrust his sword straight into his heart.

"That's it, the winner is Kirin Toudou!"

The signal for the end of Yulis's match came from the side.

Kirin Toudou exhaled softly, sheathed her sword, and bowed slightly to Roy.

"Thanks for the advice."

Roy couldn't help but show a face full of frustration.

"Kirin, if you don't mind, stay with me a little longer!"

"Ah, of course, no problem."

Kirin Toudou paused for a moment, then drew her sword again and assumed a fighting stance.

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In their second sparring match, Roy's sword was knocked from his hand by Kirin Toudou on the fifth move.

"Again!"

In the third exchange, Roy was cut into the chest on the eighth move.

"Come again!"

In their fourth sparring match, Roy's stomach was ripped open on the third move.

In a real duel, he would probably have died several times over by now.

Of course, this is just a friendly spar, or even just a virtual exchange, with both sides exchanging blows from three meters apart, so it's harmless.

"Again!"

Roy's face gradually contorted as he repositioned his sword, staring intently at Kirin Toudou opposite him.

Yulis's expression went from solemn at first to frozen, and then to speechless, all in less than three minutes.

"You're actually not strong at all!"

"Before that, may I ask Senior Roy a few questions?"

But Kirin Toudou shook her head, sheathed her sword, and looked at Roy with a serious expression.

"Senior Roy, are you deliberately keeping your center of gravity so high?"

"What do you mean?"

Roy paused for a moment, then calmed down and asked in return.

"No, I was just thinking that the senior's swordsmanship foundation seems a bit special, his center of gravity is a bit high. I felt that way from the first time we sparred, and I was wondering if it was a special swordsmanship style, but after several rounds, I still couldn't see any special meaning in the senior's structure..."

Kirin Toudou came up to Roy and demonstrated her structure.

Spread your feet apart, lower your center of gravity, and grip the knife with both hands.

This is her own framework.

Then she shortened her stride and raised her center of gravity slightly.

This is the architecture Roy presented as a demonstration.

"I arranged it this way entirely based on my own understanding."

After seeing the framework that Kirin had laid out, Roy also felt that something was wrong, and he gave his answer very honestly.

"I see, then I understand more or less."

Upon hearing this, Kirin Toudou showed a knowing expression and confidently asked again.

“Senior Roy, you didn’t have anyone teach you swordsmanship. You practiced it all by yourself, right? Although you joined a certain swordsmanship school, you probably only got something like a sword manual.”

"Wow, that's amazing! You could even tell that?"

Roy looked at Kirin with a face full of surprise.

Kirin Toudou was mostly right.

Although Roy obtained Okita Souji's swordsmanship memories, no one could teach him. He started practicing swordsmanship on his own, based on the memories in his mind.

"This level is nothing."

Kirin Toudou's face flushed slightly, as if she were a little easily flattered, but her expression clearly showed that she was very happy.

"Also, if I'm not mistaken, every time you practice your sword, you feel something is off, like you're not using your strength properly, right?"

"Absolutely right!"

Roy nodded repeatedly.

He couldn't help but sigh inwardly, realizing that he had really chosen the right person to spar with Toudou Kirin.

"Did I do something wrong while practicing my swordsmanship?"

He adopted a humble attitude and began to learn from Toudou Kirin.

Upon seeing this scene, Yulis couldn't help but twitch her lips.

Have you no shame?

"Actually, there was no mistake in the technique; the mistake was made by the senior himself."

Kirin Toudou didn't mind at all and enthusiastically helped Roy correct his mistakes in sword practice.

"Simply put, when senior students practice swordsmanship, they are just reproducing the sword techniques in the sword manual, rather than turning the sword techniques into their own moves. Take this basic middle stance as an example. Senior students probably learned the structure from someone else, so they maintain the same front and back foot distance as that person. But in reality, that person should be much shorter than senior students. So when senior students imitate that person's posture and adopt the same front and back foot distance as that person, their center of gravity naturally shifts upward."

"What you need to do, senior, is to find the distance between your front and back feet that you are best at generating power, and then set up this basic mid-stance in your own way. Only in this way can you fully unleash the power of your sword moves!"

That's it!

Roy suddenly realized.

In other words, even sword practice needs to be adapted to local conditions, or rather, to the individual. The sword techniques must be adjusted according to the individual's height, skeletal structure, and other physical characteristics to better suit their own power generation structure before they can be considered truly one's own.

This is actually a very simple principle, but Roy had too much faith in Okita Souji's swordsmanship and thought that following her was definitely the right thing to do, so he failed to see through this point.

Of course, he had only been practicing swordsmanship for less than a month, which was also a reason.

With the help of Kirin Toudou, Roy quickly changed his way of practicing swordsmanship. Instead of continuing to practice sword moves, he began to look for a posture, angle of attack, trajectory of attack, and so on that suited him.

Yulis watched from the sidelines and could clearly see that Roy's moves had become smoother, more powerful, and faster.

Kirin Toudou couldn't help but show a look of surprise.

Such rapid progress.

Finding a suitable framework is a training that most people might not be able to complete in ten days or half a month, but Senior Roy found and adapted to it in just one hour, making amazing progress!

Even with her assistance, this progress is truly extraordinary!

Could it be that Senior Roy is actually a genius at swordsmanship?

"Ding dong!"

During their sword practice, a notification suddenly rang in their ears.

A spatial window containing only sound appeared beside Kirin Toudou's hand.

"Kirin, open the door!"

An undeniable male voice came from outside the door.

"It's Uncle!"

Kirin Toudou's expression suddenly turned panicked.

Yulis's expression also darkened instantly.

The pleasant and friendly atmosphere was shattered in an instant.

Seeing the change in their expressions, Roy narrowed his eyes.