My Gang of Swordsmen

Chapter 674: Chapter 12: Half-Naked Aoto and Pure Sazanoko

Chiba Domon Shiro is very concerned about his family and immensely proud of the achievements that the Chiba family has attained.

If someone slanders Sazanoko or defames the Chiba family... such matters, Chiba Domon Shiro cannot tolerate!

Just a moment ago, Chiba Domon Shiro looked troubled, but now his expression has changed.

He looked seriously at Chiba Shigetarou, and after a moment, nodded solemnly.

”...I understand. Then—Brother Shigetarou, please allow me to offer my humble assistance.”

Finally, I’ve recruited my first ”comrade”... Chiba Shigetarou hadn’t had time to feel pleased about this when he heard Chiba Domon Shiro quickly ask him:

”Brother Shigetarou, now that the two of us are in a mutually supportive relationship, may I ask: How do you plan to matchmake Mr. Tachibana and Sazanoko?”

Chiba Shigetarou’s expression froze at that moment.

Noticing Chiba Shigetarou’s change in expression, Chiba Domon Shiro slowly lowered his eyelids, half-closing his eyes.

”...Brother Shigetarou, don’t tell me you have no plan at all?”

”Ah, hahahaha...” Chiba Shigetarou averted his gaze, nervously avoiding eye contact with Chiba Domon Shiro, ”Of course I have a plan. Didn’t I just smoothly create an environment for Mr. Tachibana and Sazanoko to be alone together by taking Mr. Tachibana to the Inner Courtyard to rest.”

”So you intentionally had Sazanoko take Mr. Tachibana to the Inner Courtyard to create a private environment for them... I’m impressed how you came up with so many undeniable reasons just now. But this spontaneous clever idea doesn’t count; I was asking if you have any long-term plans.”

Chiba Shigetarou: ”...”

Chiba Domon Shiro: ”...”

After each side remained silent for 10 seconds—

”...So, Brother Shigetarou, do you really have no long-term plan?”

”Hahaha...”

Chiba Shigetarou only chuckled dryly and did not speak.

He would never confess to anyone that the main reason he wanted to find a comrade was because he doesn’t understand matters between men and women, so he wanted someone to help him strategize.

”I admit I currently have no long-term plans... but this highlights the importance of having partners. As long as the two of us brothers pool our ideas, we can surely come up with many brilliant plans. So, Chiba Domon Shiro, do you have any good ideas for matchmatching Mr. Tachibana and Sazanoko?”

Chiba Domon Shiro: ”...”

Chiba Shigetarou: ”...”

After each side remained silent for 10 seconds—

”...So you don’t have any good ideas either?”

”Brother Shigetarou... I have never been married, and the young girl I interact with most frequently... no, I should say the only one is Sazanoko.”

Chiba Domon Shiro explained in a subtle manner, indicating that he too is not good at interacting with girls.

At this moment, Chiba Shigetarou suddenly realized: Perhaps one should not randomly choose comrades... The result of such random selection might just be this: two ”emotionally clueless” people staring blankly at each other.

”Alright then...” Chiba Domon Shiro found himself an out, ”We’ll slowly think about it later...”

Just then, several strange noises came from outside the window:

Woo—Bang!

Woo—Bang!

Woo—Bang!

...

Chiba Domon Shiro frowned as he looked out the window.

”Tsk, it’s so noisy... Recently, hasn’t Kagiya been conducting too many fireworks tests...”

The strange noises that had just sounded outside were from Kagiya testing the fireworks that would be set off at the fireworks festival.

As the date of the fireworks festival draws nearer, the frequency of Kagiya’s fireworks tests has increased significantly.

Chiba Domon Shiro is the kind of person who completely doesn’t understand what’s so great about fireworks.

While he was focused on complaining about Kagiya’s fireworks tests, he completely failed to notice: Beside him, Chiba Shigetarou was staring blankly out the window, toward the direction from which the sound of fireworks came.

His pupils were unfocused, in a state of deep thought.

Moments later, as if he had thought of something delightful or interesting, a gleeful smile gradually appeared on his face.

”That’s right... why didn’t I think of this...”

...

...

Little Chiba Sword Dojo, Inner Courtyard—

After doing his best to comfort Sazanoko, Aoto suddenly heard a few strange noises coming from the bushes in front of him.

As he looked up towards the sound, he saw a frog the size of half his palm hop out from the bushes in front of him, leaping toward his face as he squatted on the ground.

For the frogs whose appearance Aoto couldn’t appreciate, he’s always had the attitude of ”don’t let such creatures appear in front of me.”

Having a large creature he dislikes leap toward his face... Aoto was naturally taken aback.

”Whoa!”

He instinctively stood up and shouted, and in his haste to stand, he accidentally knocked over the basin of water.

Having just wiped the sweat off his upper body and not yet having put on his clothes, Aoto was still bare-chested.

Thus—startled by Aoto’s sudden shout, Sazanoko, who turned her face out of instinct while asking anxiously, ”What’s wrong?” naturally saw a half-naked male body...

Since transversing to this era, to strengthen his physique, Aoto diligently trained every day. Thanks to his strong self-discipline, except during unavoidable injury recovery periods, he never slacked off for a single day.

”Eating” combined with ”training” can quickly strengthen the body, so when his wallet allowed a little, Aoto started buying meat to eat and encouraged the fellows at Shiwei Hall to eat together.