My Gang of Swordsmen

Chapter 66: Chapter 48: Hey, This Place Is Pretty Solid!

The mechanical system voice had just disappeared from Aoto’s mind when he instantly felt warm currents gush out from inside his eyeballs, quickly enveloping both his eyes.

These warm currents were quite stimulating.

Once his eyeballs were wrapped in these warm currents, Aoto couldn’t help but shut his eyes tightly due to the pain.

The warm currents came suddenly and left just as suddenly.

As Aoto closed his eyes, the warm currents began to slowly fade away.

When Aoto reopened his eyes, he was astonished to discover—the world before him... seemed to have changed somewhat.

His vision was still the same, but it felt like something had changed.

Just then, a fly happened to fly past Aoto’s eyes.

Watching the fly pass in front of him, Aoto finally realized what exactly was different about the world in his eyes compared to before.

In the past, Aoto would have only seen a tiny black shadow flash by.

But now, Aoto could clearly capture the fly’s flight path, see its face, and the amplitude of its wing flaps.

Wow!

Hit the jackpot again.

Dynamic vision far surpasses that of others... this talent might not be useful in daily life, but in combat, it could be extremely useful.

If he could see through an enemy’s movements more clearly, he could preemptively predict their actions!

Despite feeling delighted, Aoto was somewhat puzzled by this newly acquired powerful talent of his.

Zhouzhu having a talent was something Aoto expected.

After all, this person was the third generation leader of the Natural Reason Heart School’s main family.

For such a capable person, having some special talent wouldn’t be unusual.

What surprised Aoto was—Zhouzhu’s talent was dynamic vision far stronger than ordinary people...

A person with small slit-like eyes that barely let others know if they were open had a talent named ”Eagle Eye”...

It felt rather strange.

Like seeing a muscular hulk with biceps bigger than a baby’s head having a talent of ”plentiful milk”...

Aoto couldn’t help but cast a surprised, bewildered look at Zhouzhu...

Noticing Aoto’s gaze, Zhouzhu turned his face, which nobody could tell if the eyes were open, toward Aoto.

”Mr. Tachibana, what’s up? Why are you looking at me like that?”

”Ah? Oh, nothing, nothing.”

Although Zhouzhu was puzzled about why Aoto had looked at him that way, he didn’t dwell on the matter further.

After rubbing his right shoulder a few times, the pain slightly reduced, and Zhouzhu smiled with squinting eyes while putting his hands behind his back.

Following this... he suddenly started circling around Aoto...

While circling Aoto, he reached out to pat here and pinch there on Aoto...

Touching and squeezing various parts of Aoto’s body, Zhouzhu wore a strange smile, mumbling:

”Hmm... the body isn’t very robust... but there’s considerable room for growth...”

”Oh, the muscles here are quite firm.”

”Long fingers, very slender...”

Watching Zhouzhu pressing his shoulders, waist, and other parts while saying some strange things, Aoto couldn’t help but have a change in expression, subconsciously tensing up.

The people around, like Kondo, were also dumbfounded by Zhouzhu’s bizarre actions at that moment.

—This guy... couldn’t be some kind of pervert, right?!

Aoto’s heart was constantly filled with chills, his neck shrinking, and countless thoughts and fantasies began to swirl uncontrollably in his mind...

...News from previous lives about teachers taking advantage of their roles to bully students...

...Hey, come to my room tonight, I’ll teach you some secret techniques...

...Why? Just sharing my bed, what’s there to be afraid of? My secret technique can only be taught once you’re in my bed...

...Oh my lovely disciple, you still want to practice swordsmanship, right? I’m feeling fired up right now, so do me a favor and kneel down to help me...

These disorganized thoughts and fantasies swirled in Aoto’s mind for a moment before dissipating.

Because just then, Zhouzhu suddenly asked Aoto a question that made him freeze.

”Mr. Tachibana, have you recently started working out?”

”Hmm?” Aoto was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly nodded, ”Yes, I have.”

”Just as I thought.” Zhouzhu grinned widely, ”I can see that the muscles in your arms, legs, waist, and other places have signs of recent training.”

”Did you just start this physical training?”

”Yes.” Aoto replied, ”I believe that to master swordsmanship, a strong physique is essential, so I’ve been consciously training my body lately.”

”Ho ho ho... Well said.”

The smile on Zhouzhu’s face grew with a touch of excitement and satisfaction.

”Indeed, to master swordsmanship, a strong physique is indispensable.”

”Since you’ve been working out your muscles... that’s good.”

”Keep up your exercise routine, don’t let it be a flash in the pan.”

Zhouzhu stood on his tiptoes and patted Aoto’s shoulders—who was 20cm taller than him.

”Don’t waste that tall and long-limbed body.”

Zhouzhu didn’t comment on the sparring he just had with Aoto.

He only showed a strange smile, teased Aoto a bit, and then, almost inexplicably, told Aoto to ”keep exercising,” before raising his head to scan the crowd of Kondo and others surrounding him.

”Alright, you all don’t just stand around here...”

”I’m back!”

Before Zhouzhu finished speaking, a sudden burst of energetic voice cut him off.

Hearing the familiar pleasing voice, Aoto raised his eyebrows and looked towards the sound—a slender high ponytail bounced at the entrance of the dojo.

Kondo: ”Toshisuke? You’re back. Why did you come back so late? Did you go out playing again?”

Chokata leisurely strolled into the dojo through the entryway.

He was holding a bag of gold flat sugar in one hand and shoving mouthfuls of candy into his mouth with the other.

”I wasn’t out playing!” With his mouth full of gold flat sugar, making his speech a bit muffled and unclear, Chokata pouted unhappily, ”Today was unlucky, when I got to the confectionery, their gold flat sugar was already sold out.”

”Brother Kondo, you know I only eat gold flat sugar from that one store.”

”So I had no choice but to wait slowly for them to bake the new batch.”

After speaking, Chokata scanned the circle of Kondo and others around Zhouzhu with a puzzled look.

”What’s going on? Why are you all gathered together? Are you discussing something... eh?”

At this moment, Chokata’s gaze suddenly froze.

He discovered a particular person among the group encircling Zhouzhu.

Staring blankly at Aoto for a while, Chokata’s eyes lit up, his face turned red, and he noisily scurried over to Aoto with quick little steps.

”Mr. Tachibana! Did you come to practice swordsmanship today?”

”Huh? Yes, I did. Why?” Aoto couldn’t help but look puzzled at Chokata, whose emotions had suddenly grown unusually excited.

”When I was buying gold flat sugar at the confectionery, I heard about your deeds!” Chokata, inexplicably excited and thrilled, slightly tiptoed with two tightly clenched fists before his chest.

Deeds?

Oh... do you mean that case in Mukiura Town I solved the day before yesterday...

Yesterday, while patrolling the road, Aoto had heard from Mukiwa that his feat of ”solving a case in one hour” had already spread among the townsfolk.

As a member of the ”Three Times,” Aoto naturally had the map of Edo memorized by heart.

The murder case location from the day before yesterday: Mukiura Town, was quite far from the Shiwei Hall located in Little Ishikawa Hoshimura Willow Street.

Haha, my story actually reached all the way to Little Ishikawa Hoshimura Willow Street... It’s truly a large, populous city, news spreads quite rapidly here.

Aoto was not someone overly ambitious.

But the fact that his grand achievements were spreading far and wide, and becoming known to more people, did make his heart a little excited and thrilled.

Just as the corners of Aoto’s mouth started to lift slightly with that little thrill—

”In that case, the day before yesterday in Mukiura Town, you hadn’t even entered the crime scene! You just listened to the Jishinban clerks’ crime reports briefly, then, as if like Zhuge Kongming, guessed with your fingers who the perpetrator was! Is that true?”

Aoto: ”......Huh?”

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