Ever since the Trial Guard Hall, under the command of Aonto, defeated the Little Chiba Sword Hall in the red-white battle at the "Plum Blossom Festival" more than five months ago, the Xuanbu Hall has been sending "promises" to the Trial Guard Hall.

"Invitation to War".

As for the current owner of Xuanbu Hall: Chiba Doisaburo, Aoto has only met him a few times and has almost no communication with him.

The deepest impression Chiba Michizaburo left on Aoto was that he was extremely taciturn.

His personality is a bit like Saito's.

They don't like to talk much and often have expressionless faces.

But underneath Dosaburo's paralyzed appearance, he has a very hot heart as a warrior!

If you want to improve your swordsmanship, you can't do it without sparring with masters! Not sparring with others or only sparring with people whose strength needs to be improved will only make your own strength worse and worse. Only by sparring with masters frequently can you improve your swordsmanship.

Practicing your talents will allow you to continuously improve your abilities - Michizaburo Chiba is a fanatical believer in this teaching philosophy.

Therefore, under the leadership of Michizaburo Chiba, the style of the Xuanbu Hall was... quite "simple".

It is a very qualified gathering camp for fighting madmen!

Influenced by Michizaburo Chiba, the apprentices there were very competitive and were proud to compete with the masters.

In the red and white battle against their Genbukan and Little Chiba Kenkan, the Shiwei Hall, which always loses more and wins less, unexpectedly defeated the Little Chiba Kenkan, Chiba Jutaro, Sanako, Shannan and other masters.

All were defeated... This aroused the strong curiosity of Chiba Michizaburo!

Chiba Douzaburo, who wanted to see for himself why the Weikan suddenly became so powerful, not long after being defeated by the Shiweikan in the small Chiba Sword Hall, he issued a "Let's have a red and white match" to the Shiweikan.

Let’s fight” invitation.

The Showeikan, which had a great victory over the Kochiba Kenkan, was on the rise of its career due to its increasing fame.

Both Shusuke and Kondo wanted to focus on developing the sword hall for the time being, so they declined Chiba Michisaburo's invitation to fight.

Michizaburo Chiba, who really wanted to see how the Test Guard Hall had become so strong, was not discouraged by this small failure.

In the past few months, Chiba Michizaburo has been unremittingly sending out invitations to the trial defense hall for fights every once in a while.

The Trial Guard Hall has always declined.

Last month, at the end of July, Michizaburo Chiba once again issued an invitation to the Tribune Hall to "let's hold a red and white battle together."

This time... the Trial Guard Hall did not refuse without hesitation!

Shusuke and Kondo, father and son, both agreed in a tacit understanding that after such a long period of development, it was time for a fierce competition to test how the current strength of the trial defense hall had improved.

The powerful Xuanwu Hall... is an opponent worth challenging!

Only by fighting against powerful opponents can you unleash your full potential.

So, this time, the Trial Guard Hall accepted the Xuanwu Hall’s invitation to fight!

After a brief discussion, the people from the two sword halls finally decided on August 20th as the time for the red and white battle.

After it was decided that they would have a red-white battle with the Xuanbu Hall for a long time, the atmosphere in the Trial Guard Hall these days was extremely serious and tense.

The list of players participating in this red-white match has not yet been determined.

The apprentices who are eager to be selected to have a big fight with Xuanwu Hall have all been training harder recently.

Speaking of Chiba Dosaburo, he is also a very legendary man.

Chiba Shusaku, the founder of Hokushin Itto-ryu and the first head of the Genbukan, had four sons: Chiba Kisutaro, Chiba Eijiro, Chiba Michosaburo, and Chiba Tamonshiro.

The eldest son, Chiba Kitsutaro, died young, and only the other three sons are still alive.

After Chiba Shusaku died of illness five years ago, Chiba Eijiro should have inherited the position of head of the Hoichen Itto-ryu clan and head of the Genbukan, whether based on seniority or strength.

However, before Chiba Shu died of illness, Chiba Eijiro had already served in the Mito domain in order to improve his knowledge and swordsmanship, so he had no spare capacity to inherit the family business.

Therefore, the position of the second-generation head of the Beichen Itto-ryu clan, the second-generation head of the Xuanbu Hall...this huge family fortune fell on the shoulders of the third son: Chiba Michisaburo.

Many people who don't know enough about the Edo swordsmanship community often have the misunderstanding that Chiba Michizaburo reached his current high position entirely by picking up the slack.

It is true that if Eijiro Chiba had not served as an official in Mito Domain, it would never have been Chiba Michisaburo's turn to inherit this huge family business.

In terms of overall strength, Chiba Michizaburo is indeed far inferior to his second brother Eijiro... but only compared to his second brother, his swordsmanship level is still very low.

After all, Michizaburo Chiba is also a descendant of the Chiba family, the "Swordsman Family".

Because Eijiro's light is so dazzling, people often subconsciously ignore... Chiba Douzaburo is also a top-notch genius swordsman!

Chiba Jutaro once said this to Aonto in a certain chat - among the younger generation of their Chiba family, if they were ranked according to their swordsmanship talents, then his second cousin Chiba Ei

Jiro occupied the first gear, and then his third cousin Chiba Michizaburo occupied the second gear. He, Sanako, and his fourth cousin Chiba Tamonshiro were in the lowest gear.

At this stage, among all the members of the brother sword halls of Genbukan and Little Chiba Kenkan, only Chiba Sadayoshi, Chiba Eijiro, and Chiba Michizaburo have reached the state of being able to freely release "power".

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Compared with Eijiro, Michizaburo is more low-key and inconspicuous.

But in the swordsmanship world of Edo, Dosaburo's various anecdotes are no less than Eijiro's.

Among the various anecdotes related to Michizaburo, the most famous one is "In order to defeat Eijiro, he developed the Hokatsu Two-Sword Style".

According to rumors - Dosaburo has always had the goal of surpassing his second brother, who is superior to him in both talent and strength.

In order to defeat his brother, Dosaburo worked hard on swordsmanship and thought about tactics.

After losing to Eijiro again and again, Dosaburo suddenly thought: Since I can't defeat my second brother with one sword... what will happen if I use two swords?

Dosaburo has a famous special skill: he can do two things at once.

His left and right hands can do two things at the same time without disturbing each other, and the efficiency of both hands is quite high.

Feeling that he could make full use of this special skill of his, Dosaburo practiced hard and finally brought a breakthrough innovation to Beichen One-sword Style, and developed a version of Beichen One-sword Style, the Two-sword Style, which is the "Beichen Two-sword Style"!

Dosaburo's strength has greatly increased after he cultivated Beichen's two-sword style. The swordsmanship of the two-sword style and his ability to do two things are a perfect match.

The two swords in his hands can attack the target from different directions and angles at different sword speeds and strengths at the same time.

Use your own strength to create a "double attack" effect.

People who play against Michizaburo often lose miserably because they cannot cope with this weird feeling of "you are obviously playing against one person, but it feels like you are fighting against two masters who have a very good understanding of each other."

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It's a pity... Even though he worked hard to develop the "Hokushin Two-sword Style", Michizaburo still failed to defeat his brother Eijiro...

The Red and White War with the Genbukan is approaching, but as the second in command of the Imperial Guard Hall, Kondo has recently been busy with another matter that has nothing to do with the Red and White War, but is crucial to his own future.

They are trying to become the teacher of the Imperial Guard Hall, and the next head of the hall, Isamu Kondo, is finally getting married!

Kondo's marriage partner was the blind date that Shusuke had recommended to Kondo before: Tsune Matsui, the daughter of Matsui Yachigoro, a trainee of the Shimizu family, one of the three Tokugawa princes.

A few months ago, when Qingteng had just finished the "Battle of Fanshu Tiaoshu" and was recuperating at home, Zhoushu and Abi were looking for a person for Kondo, who was 26 years old but still alone.

The girl who was highly praised by the matchmakers was Matsui Tsune.

On the matter of "Kondo's marriage", Shusuke and Abi, who often bickered due to disagreements, rarely reached a common opinion.

The old couple agreed that Kondo's marriage must not be delayed any longer!

After giving Kondo a fatal order to "get married this year," Shusuke and Abi forced Kondo to have his first blind date with Matsui Tsune in early April this year.

Kondo, who wanted to focus more on developing the trial clinic and did not want to get married so early, was very resistant to the blind date that Zhousuke and Abi forced on him...but it was difficult to disobey his parents' orders.

Originally, because Kondo had always emphasized that "I don't want to get married so early," Aotobu thought Kondo's first blind date might be quite unsatisfactory.

But who could have imagined that the whole process of Kondo and Tsune Matsui's first blind date... turned out to be extremely smooth!

Qingto felt that he might never forget the change in Kondo's attitude before and after participating in the blind date...

Before attending the blind date——

"Father, mother, I don't want to get married yet. I want to focus all my energy on running the trial clinic. If I get a wife, I'm afraid it will distract me!".

The above are the exact words Kondo shouted in a righteous tone before participating in the blind date.

After attending the blind date...

"Father! Mother! I have figured it out! There are three ways to be unfilial, and the worst is to have no offspring! I am already so old, it is really time to get married and have children! I want to get married! I want to get married!"

After returning from the blind date, Kondo knelt down in front of Shusuke and Abi in the standard earth-seat posture, and expressed his sincere emotions that he wanted to continue the Kondo family and get married... to be precise, he wanted to

The desire to marry Miss Matsui Tsune.

Why did Kondo's attitude change so drastically? Aoto conducted a simple investigation and the reason was quite simple.

Matsui Chang is indeed a pretty good girl.

Although Aoto had never met Matsui Tsune in person, both young people like Kondo and old people like Shusuke and Abi were full of praise for Matsui Tsune's appearance and temperament.

According to Kondo, Matsui was a beautiful woman with skin as white as snow, petite figure, delicate facial features, good temperament and good upbringing.

Kondo probably only mentioned one sentence about Matsui Tsune's temperament and then quickly ignored it.

The rest of the words are all introducing in detail how beautiful Matsui Chang is...

By the way - when introducing Tsunei Matsui's beauty to Aoto, Kondo mentioned in passing that he accidentally touched Tsunei Matsui's little hand.

"Tachibana-kun, do you know? When I was sending Miss Matsui out of the tea house, Miss Matsui accidentally stepped on the stairs going downstairs and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, I had the quick eyesight and hands to help her."
To be continued...