Kotonoha Katsura Wants to Become His Disciple

Although Miyauchi Hiyage didn't know why the other party was targeting him, he figured it was better to guide than to block. If Katsura Kotonoha continued to spy on him from afar, Miyauchi Hiyage was genuinely worried that the other party might develop some new mental problems.

Even if Katsura Kotonoha didn't say anything this time, Miyauchi Hiyage had already planned to expose Katsura Kotonoha's spying in a few days.

A few minutes after Miyauchi Hiyage sent a few messages using Shiina Mashiro's phone, Katsura Kotonoha, holding a katana, appeared at the Miyauchi Family's door with a slightly awkward figure.

Knowing that Katsura Kotonoha was averse to contact with men, Miyauchi Hiyage had Shiina Mahiru bring Shiina Mashiro to greet her—for the convenience of filming and editing, and also to take care of Shiina Mashiro, Shiina Mahiru would stay at the Miyauchi Family on weekends.

Shiina Mahiru Shiina Mashiro was a little surprised to learn that a friend she met online had visited her early in the morning.

After all, it seemed rather strange for someone to come and visit on a Monday morning, especially since they were carrying a samurai sword.

However, in the past month, Shiina Mahiru has also come into contact with the magical power of Ripple Breathing from her cousin.

The mysterious details surrounding Miyauchi Hiyage and Tohru also prove that they are not as simple as they seem.

Just like yesterday, Miyauchi Hiyage, who went out with them, reportedly didn't get home until the early hours of last night.

Then, when she got up this morning, she was startled to see that the other person looked like they had just been in a fight. She wondered what had happened to Miyauchi Hiyage yesterday.

For some reason, seeing Tohru's smug look when facing Miyauchi Hiyage, Shiina Mahiru inexplicably felt that Miyauchi Hiyage's appearance might be related to Tohru.

Even she, when studying the recipe given by Miyauchi Hiyage recently, could see some outrageous instructions in it.

The ability of God Tongue to distinguish all flavors is understandable, but does the bizarre phenomenon of clothes bursting off when eating delicious food really exist?

And those claims that when a dish is brought to a certain extreme state, it can make the dish glow—these all seem like exaggerated claims.

But aside from these seemingly outrageous instructions, this recipe is exceptionally meticulous in its details of cooking. You could say that you can gain something new every time you cook a dish according to this recipe.

It was precisely because Shiina Mahiru felt her cooking skills were improving that she began to doubt whether the outrageous descriptions in the recipes were actually true.

In short, Shiina Mahiru adaptability and acceptance have become increasingly strong, only hesitated for a moment before accepting Katsura Kotonoha's visit.

What surprised her even more was Katsura Kotonoha's reaction after seeing Miyauchi Hiyage.

This seemingly gentle and beautiful girl actually performed a formal apprenticeship ceremony to Miyauchi Hiyage, seemingly wanting him to instruct her in swordsmanship.

Although Miyauchi Hiyage has indeed been practicing swordsmanship for an hour every morning in his own courtyard for the past two weeks, Shiina Mahiru has only glanced at Miyauchi Hiyage's practice a few times.

She knew that Miyauchi Hiyage didn't have any formal teacher; he was simply practicing on his own according to the sword manual, and he only started practicing swordsmanship after the Golden Week holiday ended.

Even if Miyauchi Hiyage is incredibly skilled, it's already quite impressive that he's managed to get the basics of swordsmanship in such a short time.

But seeing the girl's respectful demeanor towards Miyauchi Hiyage, Shiina Mahiru felt that she might have misjudged the situation.

Of course, if we're talking about swordsmanship, while Unlimited Blade Works gave Miyauchi Hiyage exceptional swordsmanship talent, the experience boost from Projection Holy Miyauchi Hiyage provided him with an enormous experience boost, allowing him to quickly skip the Miyauchi Hiyage stage.

A few days ago Kusanagi-ryu Ancient Martial Arts improved Miyauchi Hiyage's swordsmanship level considerably.

But Miyauchi Hiyage had only been training for half a month.

Even though he gained a lot of practical experience in clearing mobs by relying on the shadows that could never be completely cleared from the Impression Space, he also gained a lot of knowledge about high-level games by sparring with Tohru.

But half a month is still too short.

To be honest, in terms of pure swordsmanship, Miyauchi Hiyage is definitely not as good as those veteran swordsmen in the Reverse Side World who have studied swordsmanship for decades.

At most, she could only beat up Kasumi Miwa and go toe-to-toe with Maki Zenin.

However, what is even more important is Miyauchi Hiyage Ripple Chi Kung.

Katsura Kotonoha has been practicing swordsmanship since childhood, and she has quite a talent for it.

Although she could only specialize in the draw slash in swordsmanship due to her poor physical condition, she had already honed this skill to a professional level.

Now that she has practiced Ripple Chi Kung, her physique has visibly improved, and she naturally wants to work on other sword techniques as well.

Especially after Shinomiya Kaguya found the Breathing Swordsmanship, Katsura Kotonoha has been searching for a sword technique that suits her.

She initially practiced the Water Breathing Swordsmanship and the Flame Breathing, and with her own talent and the help of her Reading Points, she quickly mastered them.

But after she started learning, she discovered that her personality was not suited to these sword techniques.

The Water Sword Technique requires a calm and still mind, while the Flame Sword Technique requires a mind as fiery as flames.

If it's just temporary calm, there's no problem. But Katsura Kotonoha herself knows that her heart isn't as gentle as she appears on the outside.

Just like when she learned about her original future through her diary, she dreamed that night that she was holding a knife and killing Itou Makoto with her own hands.

Even when Shinomiya Kaguya later used the power of the Shinomiya Family to castrate Itou Makoto's father, the walking cannon Sawagoe Itaru, a twisted thought even surfaced within her.

She knew she shouldn't have such thoughts, but as she practiced Ripple Breathing, she realized that this was her true nature; she had simply suppressed it because of her physical condition.

So she then switched to the Wind Sword Technique, which is the most suitable sword technique for people with a temperament as turbulent as a raging storm.

To be honest, this is not the most suitable sword technique for her either, but she can make good use of the characteristics of this sword technique to vent her negative emotions.

The difference between Ripple Chi Kung Wind Breathing prevents her from fully unleashing the power of Wind Sword Technique, making her feel restricted when practicing sword techniques.

What she wanted was to develop her own derivative sword techniques based on these basic Breathing Swordsmanship, just like her predecessors in the Demon Slayer Corps.

In her vision, she wanted to develop her own swordsmanship based on the two schools of water and wind, combined with Ripple Breathing.

However, she had no experience in developing sword techniques, and her talent for Ripple Breathing was only average.

This idea got stuck right from the start; I didn't know where to begin.

It wasn't until Miyauchi Hiyage displayed exceptional talent in Breathing Technique, effortlessly helping others refine their breathing rhythms to suit their needs, and also demonstrated remarkable talent in swordsmanship, mastering all Breathing Swordsmanship in just one week, that she began to take notice of Miyauchi Hiyage.

She was worried that if she stayed at Sakakibara High School, she would one day lose control of her murderous intent and take action against the two scumbags, Itou Makoto and Sawanaga Taisuke, who had already been punished. So, with the help of Shinomiya Kaguya, she transferred to the Shuchiin Academy.

After inquiring with Shinomiya Kaguya and learning of her "indifferent" attitude, she used this opportunity to gain access to Miyauchi Hiyage.

Although all she did was rent a student apartment next to Beika Town and spend her mornings observing Miyauchi Hiyage practicing Breathing Swordsmanship in the courtyard with binoculars, she did so to satisfy the unspeakable desires in her heart.

Chapter 270: Katsura Kotonoha Wants to Become an Apprentice

It turns out that while spying might seem a bit shady, it actually works.

After she began spying on Hikage practicing Miyauchi Hiyage, Katsura Kotonoha's swordsmanship progressed by leaps and bounds.

After all, since the Demon Slayer Corps disbanded, those powerful Breath Swordsmen have retired and gone into retirement. Their descendants have also left the Reverse Side World one after another. In addition, due to the decline of the mystical arts, the current Breathing Technique are indeed not very well passed down.

Shinomiya Kaguya obtained the files and documents left behind by the last members of the Demon Slayer Corps from a hundred years ago, but it was not an easy task to completely replicate things like breathing rhythms and sword techniques by looking at written descriptions and some abstract pictures.

Sometimes, even if the movements look exactly the same as in the picture, the way sword techniques are connected varies from person to person, and you need to explore the way of swordsmanship that suits you best.

Not everyone can be as overpowered as Miyauchi Hiyage, whose swordsmanship talent is maxed out under the dual influence of Unlimited Blade Works and the Dragonslaying Holy Sword.

At least none of the girls in the group could do something like that.

It's fair to say that the girls in the group who practiced Breathing Swordsmanship all learned water sword techniques by watching the video of Miyauchi Hiyage and Maki Zenin's duel.

However, in the two sparring matches between Miyauchi Hiyage and Maki Zenin, he only fully used the Water and Sun sword techniques, and he only demonstrated the first form of Thunder Breathing, the draw slash.

They would have to figure out the other sword styles themselves.

When Katsura Kotonoha couldn't figure it out herself, she thought of Miyauchi Hiyage.

During the week she secretly observed Miyauchi Hiyage's sword practice, she did indeed record the sword techniques of several other schools in her Diary, which were as textbook-like as Miyauchi Hiyage's.

She had learned the complete sword technique, but she still lacked a sense of the rhythm of her breathing and the connection between sword skills.

After all, Miyauchi Hiyage's physique far surpassed theirs. Even in daily practice, the breathing rhythm she used was completely unsuitable for a woman like her who was only slightly better than the average person.

From that moment on, Katsura Kotonoha was already thinking about how she could actually meet Miyauchi Hiyage.

I never expected this opportunity to come so suddenly.

Although she is a woman, Katsura Kotonoha has the personality of a traditional samurai with the spirit of a warrior.

After encountering another side of this world and changing her original destiny, she hesitated for only half a minute before making her decision, wanting to go further in the path of kendo.

Her current attitude towards Miyauchi Hiyage is not only about wanting to become his disciple, but also about swearing allegiance to Miyauchi Hiyage and regarding him as her future "lord".

Faced with Katsura Kotonoha's sudden and generous gift, the girls in the Miyauchi Family all looked somewhat strange.

Tohru cursed inwardly again, thinking that Miyauchi Hiyage had somehow gotten involved with another girl.

Shiina Mahiru sensed Katsura Kotonoha's sincerity from her demeanor, as if she were truly after Miyauchi Hiyage's swordsmanship.

Even Shiina Mashiro stopped eating her Baumkuchen and watched to see how Miyauchi Hiyage would react.

As Miyauchi Hiyage looked at Katsura Kotonoha, who was so honest, he had sensed Katsura Kotonoha's thoughts before, but he still felt a little uncomfortable when he actually met her.

Katsura Kotonoha is indeed talented in swordsmanship; the newly grown calluses on her opponent's hands are a testament to her hard work these past few days.

However, Miyauchi Hiyage certainly didn't intend to become someone's teacher at such a young age.

He made Katsura Kotonoha stand up. "Katsura-kun, I know what you mean, but there's no need for me to become your apprentice. I've only just started learning. If you have any questions about swordsmanship, you can come over and we can discuss them together."

Katsura Kotonoha was somewhat disappointed to receive such an answer from Miyauchi Hiyage.

She was originally a very traditional woman, but because she had always attended an all-girls school and had a strict family upbringing, she was not good at interacting with the opposite sex and had a psychological aversion to contact with men.

Furthermore, because the You Know Who pointed out that she might be cheated on in the future, her aversion to men subtly increased compared to before.

Although she didn't believe the You Know Who's description of Miyauchi Hiyage as a "harem man," after all, he had been watching Miyauchi Hiyage these past few days and knew how disciplined the other man was in his daily life.

Moreover, Miyauchi Hiyage doesn't give off the same unpleasant vibe as Itou Makoto or Sawagoe Itaru, but it has to be said that he does have a lot of girls around him.

Even just going out to carry out a commission can lead to unwittingly getting involved with a super popular Idol.

This made Katsura Kotonoha somewhat uneasy.

However, if she could successfully become Miyauchi Hiyage's student, she felt that with this status, she should be able to overcome these psychological problems.

So after Miyauchi Hiyage rejected her idea of becoming his apprentice, Katsura Kotonoha was actually quite conflicted.

However, her inner pursuit of kendo still outweighed her fear of men.

After receiving Miyauchi Hiyage's reply, she knew that Miyauchi Hiyage had actually agreed to help her adjust the rhythm of her Breathing Technique.

So she stood up and gave Miyauchi Hiyage a look of grim determination. "Um, Miyauchi -kun, you can just come on ahead."

Her pitiful appearance made it seem as if she was willingly offering herself to Miyauchi Hiyage.

Even Miyauchi Hiyage was puzzled by the other girl's expression, let alone the other girls.

Katsura Kotonoha's lines do sound a bit ambiguous.

After a moment of stunned silence, Miyauchi Hiyage realized that the other person meant for her to experience the taste of misfortune.

This is the fundamental reason why Katsura Kotonoha appears here.

"That was just a joke between Mashiro and me. There's no need to use you as test subjects for this kind of thing. I've already found more suitable test subjects."

Miyauchi Hiyage explained it this way, and then, seeing the puzzled look on Shiina Mahiru's Shiina Mahiru, he decided not to hide it from her any longer.

The character design of "Miyauchi Hiyage" has been initially established, and his Breathing Swordsmanship combined with the Destiny Power is already sufficient to fight against a Special Grade opponent.

Moreover, they have all been disturbed by the falcon's string of sugar sparrows, and the badger has knocked on this, making them dizzy, frozen, and confused. The falcon blows and hangs, wielding the punishment, and the reins serve the lion.

Miyauchi Hiyage briefly explained the matter of the Reverse Side World and transcendent awakening to Shiina Mahiru, and also briefly explained the situation of the Chat Group that Shiina Mashiro had joined.

Shiina Mahiru had already sensed something, so after hearing these things, she quickly accepted these settings.

"Is Miss Tohru also an extraordinary being from the Reverse Side World?" She thought of Tohru, who could eat a whole bag of rice in one meal.

With rice prices skyrocketing recently, Tohru, who makes videos, has already spent tens of thousands of yen just on rice for one video shoot.

From the very beginning, she had already begun to suspect Tohru's identity.

"Tohru's situation is a bit complicated, but she is indeed a superhuman. She couldn't make it in her own territory, so she came to Japan. Don't be nervous, just treat her like a big eater."

In response, Tohru, whose dark past had been exposed, glared fiercely at Miyauchi Hiyage.

I didn't hit him hard enough last night.

However, Miyauchi Hiyage's strength is improving too fast.

When they first met, she only felt that this guy was unpleasant and did not feel any threat from him.

But after arriving in Tokyo, the other party was able to pull out something new every few days.

Even now, facing Miyauchi Hiyage at full strength, she might still suffer some losses in the first few minutes of the battle.

Especially the Curse Power the other party suddenly awakened yesterday. Although it is still very shallow, if Miyauchi Hiyage can really go far on this path, he may really become a top powerhouse in the future!

Considering Miyauchi Hiyage's current growth rate, perhaps in a few months, he will have reached the same level as himself.

It must be said that compared to other races, the growth rate of humans is already enviable enough, and Miyauchi Hiyage's growth rate is among the most astonishing even among humans.

Thinking of this, Tohru felt he had to take this opportunity to beat up Miyauchi Hiyage a few more times, otherwise he wouldn't have the chance once the other party grew stronger.