Chapter 2: Throwing Herself Into His Arms Without Restraint
"Didn't we have Kitsune no Suke assigned to our Honmaru?" Kashuu Kiyomitsu asked, "It stands to reason that matters like sword forging and going into battle should be guided by Kitsune no Suke in the early stages of Honmaru construction, rather than by us Tsukumogami. But I'm already your starting sword, and I still haven't seen Kitsune no Suke. Did you see him when you came here?"
Kitsune no suke? An assistant in fox form?
Jiang Jiu didn’t know whether it was important to have Kitsune’s helper or not, but the things that should be there were not there. This might be the plot that the game deliberately set up.
"I have never seen it," Shirasuga gave a negative answer. "Yesterday, a government official sent me to Honmaru, and I did not see the fox's helper you mentioned. Do I need to report this to the government immediately?"
Kashuu Kiyomitsu thought about it carefully. Kitsunesuke mainly played a guiding role when the Shinsengumi just joined the Time Government. Occasionally, he would slowly convey the government's orders. The rest of the time, he was mostly acting cute and had a low sense of presence. The government's decrees also had paper versions, which was much faster than waiting for Kitsunesuke to pass on the news. Many Shinsengumi would choose to send Kitsunesuke back to the government.
As for forging swords, repairing things, etc., these Tsukumogami can also guide the Shinsengumi, and the existence of Kitsunesuke seems to be dispensable.
"The Kitsune's helper is actually the guiding god given by the government to every Shinsengumi. Although I am a child from the lower reaches of the river, I can also do this job!" Kashuu Kiyomitsu decided to fight for it and get the job of helping the master to familiarize himself with the affairs of Honmaru. While there are few blades now, I will get to know the master more! That way, even if more famous swords come to Honmaru in the future, I will have a greater weight in the master's heart!
An NPC offered to help him familiarize himself with the map? How could Jiang Jiu refuse?
"Then I'll have to trouble you, California." Baisuchuan said to California Kiyomitsu with a grateful smile.
"Hey, Master, just call me Kiyomitsu." California Kiyomitsu achieved his goal and wanted to go one step further. In Japanese culture, people who just met rarely call each other by their first names, and even add a honorific after the last name.
"Okay, Kiyomitsu."
It's just a name. In Baisuchuan's culture, the sense of boundaries in this regard is much weaker, so it doesn't matter what you call him. Jiang Jiu guessed based on Baisuchuan's appearance and conversation habits that his background was not the current neon culture, but the ancient culture of growing flowers like in costume dramas or novels.
I don't know how the game makes this happen.
Shirasuga came to the swordsmithing room alone.
Theoretically, Shirasu had already tried forging a sword yesterday, and it was not difficult to just tell the swordsmith with the dot-eyed shikigami how much of each of the four materials to put in, and then wait for the forging time to end. Therefore, Kashu Kiyomitsu did not accompany him, but greeted Shirasu and went to tidy up the room of the Shinsengumi.
Jiang Jiu felt a little strange when he saw the knife maker holding a large piece of steel in his small body. However, Bai Qichuan had experience and told the knife maker, who was not even as tall as the furnace, to put 500 yuan for each material. Seeing the knife maker put out a sign saying three hours and another saying two and a half hours, he did not wait here and planned to walk around during this time.
Just now he tried to talk to the swordsmith, but this little shikigami was unconscious and could only complete the action of throwing the materials into the sword forging pool. Apart from that, it just walked around in a small area and stopped here and there without any purpose.
Jiang Jiu saw the [Curiosity] status appear on the panel. It seemed that Bai Qichuan had a strong desire to explore.
He first went to the sword-making room next door and quickly figured out how to do it. Just like forging a sword, as long as a certain proportion of materials were put into the furnace, a round bead with a shikigami inside could be made. But he didn't know how to use these three colors of round beads. Could it be that wearing them on the body would provide protection?
After making a few sword sets, Jiang Jiu looked at Bai Qichuan's skill list, which showed level one forging and level one sword set. He thought that as long as he got started, the skills would be displayed.
Since he had nothing to do, Jiang Jiu simply gained some experience in sword equipment. He referred to the various ratios in the world record and made several of each type of sword equipment.
The experience bar for skills is not long at the beginning. Even with the characteristic of "mediocre ability", this sword skill was trained to level three in a short while.
It was fine when he made three or five, but Jiang Jiu wanted to upgrade his skill to level three, so he made dozens of them without restraint. In theory, making sword equipment is not a physical job, and he would not feel tired no matter how much he did. But when he finally upgraded and stopped, he actually felt a little tired.
Bai Qichuan didn't take it seriously. He just thought that he didn't sleep well last night and he should just go to bed early at night.
After walking around for a while, it was already noon and Jiang Jiu returned to the sword forging room.
Two swords of similar length were already placed on the knife rack in front of the knife forging pool. One blade was facing downwards and more curved, with a black handle and scabbard, very simple. The other blade was facing upwards and relatively straight, with a dark red handle and a golden scabbard in contrasting colors, more luxurious. The two swords had obviously just been forged, and no one knew how the short swordsmith could put the swords, which were much taller than them, on the knife rack that was half a person's height.
Shirasu liked the two new swords very much. He had not yet observed the swords of the four people who had already arrived at the main castle, but now he realized that not only were the Tsukumogami handsome, but their swords were also extraordinary.
Jiang Jiu thinks that the ancient people like to collect famous swords and put them on the shelf to admire them from time to time. It is understandable. Such cool and practical things trigger people's collecting habits. It is normal, okay? If he were powerful, he would also want to collect famous swords. How cool!
He picked up the longer knife. It was cold to the touch, as if it had not just been forged in flames. Instead, it had a slight chill, as if it had been stained with blood and murderous intent. It was not just a treasure in a display cabinet, but also a divine weapon that had killed enemies with blood.
Bai Suchuan held the scabbard with one hand and the handle with the other, and pulled out the sword with force. Before he could see the blade shining with cold light as he imagined, the weight in his hand suddenly disappeared, replaced by a huge cherry blossom rain that was enough to blind his eyes and a clear and powerless feeling of his physical strength being drained.
Bai Qichuan's eyes went dark, and he could not see anything with his eyes open. There seemed to be stars twinkling in the darkness. He felt dizzy and about to faint. Bai Qichuan tried to open his eyes wide to see clearly in front of him. He leaned forward and stretched out his arms, trying to hold on to the knife holder not far away to stabilize his body, but his feet were weak and he fell forward.
"My name is Chokudaikiri Mitsutada. I can cut bronze candles...eh?"
Mitsutada Chokudaigi, who had been stared at by the Shinsengumi for a long time and then played with in his hands, had just transformed. Just as he was about to say the self-introduction he had been preparing since he successfully transformed himself, hoping to leave a handsome impression on the Shinsengumi and respond to the Shinsengumi's love that had just been revealed, he was thrown into the arms of his master.
The tall sword-wielding god would certainly not be knocked down by a human who looked like he had rarely exercised and had very little muscles. In fact, he didn't even need to step back and held Shirasuka firmly.
After a moment of surprise, Mitsutada Chokudai was horrified: "My lord! My lord, what's wrong with you? My lord!"
The katana that had not yet transformed was powerless and made a buzzing sound on the sword stand, even causing the sword stand to shake, but no one paid attention to it.
Without time to think, Mitsutada Chokudai picked up the fainted Shinsengumi with both hands and strode out the door, wanting to seek help. Perhaps there was a sword in Honmaru that was proficient in pharmacology and could save the master in his arms.
"Is anyone there? Something's happened to our lord! Come and help!" As soon as he went out, he saw that the courtyard was empty. He realized that this was a newly built Honmaru. He couldn't find help quickly by searching blindly, so he didn't care about maintaining his handsome image and shouted at the top of his voice without hesitation.
Soon, Chokudaikiri Mitsutada ran into Kashuu Kiyomitsu who was running over after hearing the noise. Kashuu Kiyomitsu had just finished cleaning up the house for the Shinsengumi in the morning and was preparing lunch for the people in Honmaru when he heard the shout that something had happened to his master. He used the last bit of his sanity to turn off the fire in the kitchen and rushed out.
Seeing the young man who was being held by the tall Tsukumogami, with his limbs hanging limply and obviously in a coma, he asked hurriedly: "Master, what happened? Why did you faint? What happened?"
Mitsutada Chokudaikiri was also confused by these three questions, and was sweating all over. "I don't know either. The master fell down after waking me up, and didn't have time to say anything! Has Yaken come to Honmaru? Or Hakusan?"
Kashuu Kiyomitsu said anxiously: "No! There is no doctor in Honmaru now! What should we do?"
"Go gather the others and see if anyone knows what's going on and if there's a way to wake the lord up!" Candlestick Mitsutada continued running, "I'll stay with the lord first!"
As they were talking, they had already arrived at the castle tower where the Shinsengumi lived. Chokudaikiri Mitsutada laid the young man on the bed and turned to go out to boil some hot water.
"Ha-ah..." Bai Suchuan tried hard to make a sound to show that he was awake.
"My Lord..." Zhudaiqi heard Baisuchuan's voice, turned around and knelt on one knee beside the bed, calling worriedly, "You finally woke up!"
As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw his master, whom he loved and respected, fall into his arms, and then he couldn't wake him up no matter what he did. He was frightened just after he got a human body. Although his body was made of steel, he felt the fear firsthand.
Jiang Jiu realized something was wrong when Bai Qichuan fell down. He checked the game panel and found that the stamina bar was only one third left and was still decreasing rapidly. It finally stopped when the stamina bar reached the bottom.
After studying for a while, he finally understood that both sword forging and sword equipment production consume spiritual energy, but there is no special spiritual energy bar for spiritual energy, but it is linked to physical strength. He instructed the swordsmith not to consume physical energy when forging the sword, but consumed a lot of spiritual energy when making sword equipment to refresh the experience bar, which should be reflected in physical strength. As for wandering around Honmaru, the physical energy consumed was negligible.
In short, the physical bar will decrease when using spiritual power, but the physical bar reduced by daily activities will not affect the spiritual power.
He guessed that although his current spiritual power would not be too high due to his [mediocre ability], it should be stronger than his physical strength. Because he had discovered that this body was good-looking, he liked to wear wide robes with wide sleeves, and looked like a gentle gentleman, but it was completely a body of a boiled chicken who didn't like to exercise, and would get tired after walking too much, so his physical strength would definitely not grow.
Now on the panel, Bai Qichuan's [Curiosity] buff is gone, replaced by [Tiredness] debuff. Jiang Jiu also saw that Bai Qichuan's character file has been refreshed. It used to be "He is a kind and gentle person who likes to be kind to others", but now it has been added after being kind to others, "He has developed a love for swords."
The Shinsengumi who manages the sword tsukumogami develops a love for swords? That's right! Loving your job and being dedicated to it is a good thing!
It seems that the character profile will gradually enrich the personality as events are updated.
Jiang Jiu learned the lesson this time and decided to pay more attention to his weak stamina bar in the future. He must not let his stamina run out like this time and he would collapse at any time.
"Master..." You can hear the voice even though you can't see the fox. Only that strange fox can make such a unique tone.
What followed was the sound of "dong dong" footsteps on the wooden boards of the corridor.
Alas, I had to use my newly recovered stamina to think carefully about how to explain to these Blades who were in control that this was just an accident.
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