Chapter 33 Not Killing the Sword
The next morning, Okina Shinji was wearing a single dress and swung his sword in the yard with a stern look. Although it was a simple slash, he did meticulously and strived for perfection in every blow, and soon he let sweat soak his clothes.
When Gu Yijiu saw it, he quickly brought food, watching Okita Masahira practice swordsmanship while eating breakfast.
There is no cup in this world. Gu Yijiu wanted to feast her eyes, but found that Okita Zhongshi had a mind that could pacify the world. She couldn't help but sigh in disappointment.
With a "swoosh", the sharp sword blade passed through Gu Yijiu's ear and stopped between his neck.
Gu Yijiu glanced at it and saw a flying insect stabbing on the tip of the sword. He shrank his neck and quickly picked up the teacup and took a sip.
Okita Chief Stanley was half shorter than Gu Yijiu. She raised her head and asked expressionlessly: "Do you look down on my swordsmanship?"
The ancient Yijiu felt wronged, and the world could be seen. He just looked at other places and didn’t even read swordsmanship at all.
"I don't have it."
"Then why do you sigh?"
Gu Yijiu scratched her face and couldn't answer.
Chief Okina raised his eyebrows and simply said, "Go to fight."
"ah?"
"If you look down on my swordsmanship, just fight me and use your strength to prove you!"
Gu Yijiu shook her head repeatedly: "Miss Chongtian, you are very good at swordsmanship, I think I can't beat you."
Chief Okina frowned and said, "If you don't want to, just say it clearly. I won't force others to do anything. Why do you have to be insincere and deliberately show weakness?"
"It's not that I'm not sincere." Gu Yijiu explained: "Miss Chongtian, your swordsmanship is rare, and I really admire it. But when you reach the state of you and me, it's no problem to see the whole leopard. I've seen you practice sword every day, and you've also seen the wounds I left on the necks of those 300 people. Although I can't be known as the bottom of my knowledge, at least I have a clear idea in my heart. You should have simulated it in your heart. When you and I fight, you must be equal. It's meaningless to fight or not."
Chief Okinawa pondered for a while and nodded, "You said right. If you were a thousand moves before, you were indeed equal to each other; after two thousand moves, you would gradually gain the upper hand; after three thousand moves, I might be defeated by you. I thought about it for a long time, but I still don't understand what I lack. After thinking about it, only by truly fighting can I find the answer. Please don't refuse."
Gu Yijiu was speechless for a while and couldn't help asking: "Miss Chongtian, may you be very idle these days?"
Chief Okina wondered, “Why do you ask that?”
Gu Yijiu said angrily: "I think it will take one or two hours to apply three or five hundred moves in my mind. Wouldn't it take one or two hours to simulate more than three thousand moves? If it weren't boring, why would you spend this time? Don't forget that your task is to ensure the safety of Miss Qiannan. I'm so passive and lazy. I'll report to General Kondo and ask him to deduct your salary."
Faced with the workplace crisis, General Okina Okata was still calm. She said oh and explained with a stern look: "These more than 3,000 tricks are not achieved overnight, but I think in my spare time. Please rest assured that Miss Qiannan's safety is always the first priority and will never slackew."
"Use your free time?" It turns out that it was a dual-core treatment. Gu Yijiu suddenly realized and touched her chin and said, "No wonder you always look stupid and unconscious."
silly?
Chief Okina's eyebrows thumped twice, but she had to ask for help and was not easy to have an attack, so she had to pretend that she had not heard it and said in a muffled voice: "I just want to fight you fairly, and please don't refuse!"
"If you don't fight, you will definitely not fight." Gu Yijiu refused very simply.
Okita asked unhappy: "As swordsmen, it is a supreme pleasure to exchange and communicate, so why don't you fight?"
"Because it takes too much time." Gu Yijiu said with a heartache: "It takes 10 or 20 hours to simulate three thousand moves. If you really fight, you may have to fight from morning to night. I will open a new store these days and recruit employees. How can I have time to compete with you? You can do it well, let me go."
Gu Yijiu was about to leave, but Okita Zhongshi stepped across from him, and didn't say anything, just stared at him with a pair of fighting eyes.
Gu Yijiu said angrily: "You are not trying to force others?"
Chief Okina looked undead and said stubbornly: "I only want to fight, but I hope to achieve it."
Gu Yijiu didn't want to pay attention to her, so he took a step left, and Okita General also took a step left; he took another step right, Okita General also took a step right, no matter how he walked, Okita General always stood in front of him like a mirror. As mentioned before, they were between them, and Gu Yijiu wanted to get rid of Okita General, at least two thousand moves, and he was now in trouble, so how could he have this Pacific time?
The two of them wandered around the courtyard for a long time, and Gu Yijiu became more and more helpless, but Okita became more and more excited. After all, footwork was the basis of swordsmanship, and now it was much more interesting than just now when she swung her sword alone.
Gu Yijiu sighed and said kindly: "Miss Chongtian, in fact, in addition to swordsmanship, there are many beautiful things in the world. You might as well go out for a walk, maybe you will have another understanding."
But Okina Shishi shook his head: "I have been with my sword every day since I was one year old. For me, swords are my partner and swordsmanship is the best thing. Although the world is colorful, I always love one of them."
Gu Yijiu stared at Okina Headmaster Okina, who looked at him without showing any weakness. His black eyes were extremely simple, exuding an enviable brilliance.
Seeing that she loved Jianshen very deeply, Gu Yijiu couldn't bear to be perfunctory. She raised her hand and showed a small wooden sign, saying, "I really don't need to compete, because you have already lost."
Chief Okina was shocked and subconsciously jumped back and opened the distance. She touched her waist and it was indeed empty. Looking at the wooden sign again, she saw that Okina was written on the front and the reverse was written on the back. It was the identity certificate that everyone in the new group had.
As a swordsman, the wooden sign on his waist was taken off but he didn't know it. The chief of Okita felt a chill coming to his heart. If Gu Yijiu wanted to harm her, she would probably be dead at this moment.
As soon as she thought of this, she felt her mouth dry and her confidence she had built in the past collapsed instantly. She asked incrediblely: "Why? It's obvious that the winner should be decided after three thousand moves, why is it... I was wrong, or do you have any hidden means I didn't see?"
Gu Yijiu shook her head: "You are right, and I don't have any hidden means. Your swordsmanship is only between the same level. The so-called defeat after three thousand moves is mostly because you are not strong enough. As a man, I naturally have some advantages in this regard."
"You are still lying to me!" Okita Zhongshi didn't believe it, "You can take my waist card with one move, and naturally you can take my life with one move. The so-called "Big" between people is simply a joke."
"I didn't lie to you, and there was no need to lie to you."
"Then why can you beat me?"
"I didn't beat you, I just killed you."
"Kill me?" Okina General was stunned: "Is there any difference?"
“Of course there is.”
"But if you can't beat me, how can you kill me?"
"I'm trying to kill you, why should I defeat you?"
The more I listened, the more confused I became, the bright eyes were full of doubts.
Gu Yijiu said: "My master once said that swords are weapons, and sword techniques are tricks to kill people. Therefore, my sword techniques are all mainly killing. If it is an ordinary battle, I am afraid that ten points can only be used for 5 or six points, but if I fight hard, ten points can be used for twelve points. I see that your sword skills are rigorous and moderate, although they are extremely sharp, they leave room for non-killing swords. If you really want to fight with your life, the killing sword will naturally be better than the non-killing swords. That's why I say, you can't beat you, but you can kill you."
Chief Okina lowered his head and thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "No, since I joined the new selection group, I have been ordered to arrest murderers, and countless evil people have died at my hands. How could my sword be a sword that does not kill?"
Gu Yijiu asked back, "If you had met those three hundred bandits at that time, what would you do?"
"Of course, I will subdue them and send them to the official court." Okita General said and added: "I am confident that I can do it!"
"Of course, Miss Chongtian, you are superb in swordsmanship, and you can naturally get it right when dealing with a group of thieves. But this is the problem." Gu Yijiu explained carefully: "If I was not wrong, in the past, you either killed people, either the murderer resisted with great force, or the murderer was about to be in danger and innocent, so you would have to kill him."
Chief Okina nodded: "Yes, as a law enforcement person, I naturally cannot abuse my private business."
"That means that you don't want to kill people. Even if you take the head, it is a helpless act that is forced by the situation." Gu Yijiu pointed to Okina's chest and said, "What I mean by not killing the sword is not the sharp blade in your hand, but the one you think. You didn't want to kill people, even if you kill the evildoer, you will still swing the sword of not killing."
Okita gradually accepted this theory and asked again: "What about you?"
Gu Yijiu said, "I said before that I was wielding a murder sword. If the three hundred bandits judged by the law, perhaps not everyone would die. But I think they do many evil things and should die, so they must die."
Main Shin-ji Okita frowned, obviously not like the practice of Gu Yijiu. But since the law judged Gu Yijiu as a self-defense counterattack, she was unwilling to bother her too much, but just continued to discuss swordsmanship.
"According to your words, can my sword not compare to your sword if I don't kill?"
Gu Yijiu smiled and said, "That's not yours if you don't kill the sword."
Okita Headmaster was almost crying: "Why isn't it mine if you don't kill the sword?"
"You don't even have a reason to swing your sword, so how can you swing it without killing it?"
"Of course I have a reason to swing my sword!"
"What is your reason for swinging your sword?"
"Helping the strong and supporting the weak, and protecting the weak!"
"I killed three hundred bandits. You are obviously dissatisfied, but the law acquits me, so you can settle the matter. If there is a criminal who is smart and does not leave any evidence after committing the crime, what should you do if you know that he is a criminal?"
"Of course, we are looking for evidence, and we must arrest the evildoers as soon as possible!"
"If there is no evidence for three to five years, will you give up?"
"Don't give up!"
"If there is no evidence for thirty or fifty years, will you give up?"
"Don't give up!"
"If there is no evidence for three to five hundred years, will you give up?"
"If I don't die, I will never give up!"
"Very good." Gu Yijiu nodded and said, "A thousand years later, you finally collected evidence. First, you dug open the criminal's grave, brought his ashes to justice, and then dug open the victim's grave to inform them that they were injustice. It was really gratifying, glorious."
It's a joyful congratulations!
The delicate face of Okina Mainji Okina was full of entanglement. He opened his mouth a few times, but he couldn't speak.
The criminal and the victim are both dead. Even if the case is solved, what is the point?
"What should I do?" Okita Shin-ji was really about to cry.
Gu Yijiu replied: "I don't know."
Okita's scalp was numb by these four words, and he gritted his teeth and asked, "How come you don't know the question you asked?"
"Because I am not you, I don't know what you should do." Gu Yijiu said: "If I were to kill the criminal and seek justice for the victim, the opinions of others were not important to me. Because I would think about it myself, judge gains and losses, evaluate the damage, and be prepared to bear a series of consequences. The reason for my sword was to kill. If the killing was beneficial, I would do it, and if it was harmful, I would not do it. And your failure to kill was not the result of your thinking.
The consequence is the idea instilled in you by others. I am not saying that not killing is wrong. If this thought is really what you think in your heart, it can also inspire a force that cannot be underestimated. But in my opinion, if you just passively accept it, it will undoubtedly lose human spirituality. When you wave your sword with a sharp blade, others will also hold you to wave it. If you don’t understand the meaning of your existence, how can you have a reason to swing a sword? There is no reason to swing a sword, so how can you swing a true sword that does not kill?"
After thinking for a while, Okina Toshita thought about it, it seemed that he understood it, but he didn't. Finally, he could only ask carefully: "How should I find the meaning of my existence?"
Gu Yijiu asked back: "Miss Chongtian, do you have anyone you want to kill?"
Chief Okina thought about it for a while and shook his head.
Gu Yijiu smiled and said, "You and I are all swordsmen. When you have someone you want to kill, you will naturally find the meaning of your existence."
Seeing that Okita's headmaster was still frowning, he patted the other party on the shoulder and said, "No matter how smart you are, you can't force it. If no one can make you murderous, isn't it just that the world is extremely beautiful? Everything goes with the flow. By the way, I'm about to go to the Tofu Floor Street in Sujie, so why not join us and change our mood."
Chief Okina hesitated for a moment and nodded in agreement.
I am very satisfied with the ancient charity wine. The brilliant scenery of early summer is even more perfect if you have a beautiful woman as your companion.
Chapter completed!