Section 21

Guina came back to her senses, remembered what she meant, immediately bent down and picked up two bamboo swords, and said to Ron with a firm look:

"I'm here to challenge you."

Ron scratched his head.

"Didn't you get beaten yesterday?"

"That's because I was too careless. Today, today I have to show my true strength."

"Oh, okay then."

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After a while.

The bamboo sword in Guina's hand was knocked away.

She looked at her trembling hands, gritted her teeth, stared at Ron and said:

"Tomorrow, I will come again tomorrow!"

"Always here for you."

Ron held the bamboo sword and smiled at her.

Guina gave him a sharp look and turned around to leave.

And she had just walked out a few steps.

Ron's voice rang in her ears:

"You have good speed, but you lack strength. You won't be able to defeat me if you continue like this."

Guina stopped immediately, clenched her fists slightly, and bit her lower lip.

The lack of strength was her pain. She hated herself countless times as to why she was born as a girl because women's strength was inherently weaker than that of men.

And this difference becomes more obvious the further you go!

That's why her father Koushiro said bluntly that as a woman, she would never be able to become the strongest swordsman in the world...

"I know too! I also know that lack of strength is my weakness!"

Kuina lowered her head and shouted with her back to Ron.

"But what can I do?! No matter how I practice, my strength cannot grow as much as you boys!"

"If possible, I would also like to be a boy!"

Her voice was full of reluctance.

Ron was stunned when he heard this, and then he reacted.

"You seem to have misunderstood what I meant. I didn't mean to laugh at you. I just wanted to say, do you want me to teach you how to increase your strength?"

Guina trembled all over

"How to increase strength?"

She turned to look at Ron.

"Really...can I increase my strength?"

Ron nodded.

"Probably."

Thirty days in the morning.

In the forest behind the gym.

Ron handed Kuina a piece of grilled fish.

"Eat it."

"Can you gain strength by eating it?"

Guina's eyes were full of doubts.

"That's the premise."

Guina immediately ate the whole grilled fish, and the taste was beyond her expectation.

"Are you full?"

Ron looked at her and said.

Guina nodded.

Ron said hello and started giving her instructions.

"Then close your eyes and do everything I say."

Kuina obeyed his words and closed her eyes.

"From now on, you have to change your breathing rhythm as I told you."

Ron's voice rang in her ears.

"Hello, I have to expel all the air in my lungs in one breath..."

What Ron is now teaching Guina is a very simple version of the Sun Breathing Technique.

He accidentally discovered that using breathing techniques after eating can absorb the energy of food very quickly. Although it cannot directly increase Qi and blood values, it is very helpful in increasing strength.

"How about it?"

After hearing Ron's words, Guina slowly opened her eyes. Her previous feeling of fullness disappeared, replaced by a feeling of hunger.

He clenched his fists.

It seems...the strength has indeed increased a bit.

There was a flash of surprise in her eyes.

But to prevent it from being an illusion, she still stood up suddenly and ran in one direction without saying a word.

"I'm going to test it!"

"Hello."

Ron looked at the figure running away, shook his head helplessly and smiled.

After a while.

Guina walked back disappointed.

"It seems like an illusion, I still can't hold the stone bell with one hand..."

Ron said while waving his bamboo sword:

"How can you increase your strength so quickly? You can try again in ten days."

The next few days.

It seemed that he was stimulated by Ron.

When Ron got up at four o'clock and arrived at the open space, Kuina was already waiting there with a bamboo sword.

The two have a trial first.

Then they can exercise individually without disturbing each other.

When the sun rose, they went to the gym to have breakfast, and then they learned swordsmanship from Koushiro together.

Swordsmanship includes steps, body skills, holding the sword, drawing the sword, drawing the sword, slashing, etc.

afternoon.

It was Ron and Koushiro who held real swords and engaged in actual combat.

Guina sat aside and watched. The more she watched, the more stressed she became. She often went out to practice by herself without watching for a while.

…

The gym seems quite deserted in winter.

Those children who came to learn swordsmanship stayed at home because of the cold and did not want to come to the gym.

Occasionally, only a few acquaintances from the village would come to the gym to sit. Usually there were only Koushiro and Kuina, but this year there was an extra Ron.

You have to wait until spring for the place to become lively.

14. Power, intention, cutting iron, the road to a swordsman (4/5)

Soon, half a month passed.

Inside the gym.

Guina, who was wearing a white gi and short blue hair, looked at the stone bell marked 60kg in front of her and took a deep breath.

Then he raised his hand to hold it and exert force.

This time, she finally raised it with one hand.

"Very good!"