At this time, He Ma already had some experience.
As long as you apply the right force to the big apple on your head and let him move with your body, you can keep it from falling.
So he retreated calmly with the horse, and at the same time used the bamboo knife in the middle of the posture to block the sweeping bamboo knife while opening the distance.
Kishimoto Jiro continued to attack, using his sword again at the fastest speed.
He seemed to be sure that He Ma couldn't be distracted while receiving moves continuously to ensure that the apple wouldn't drop.
However, Kazuma's body has long been familiar with the movement of blocking.
He usually practiced with opponents of the same level as Honami and Qingliu, especially Qingliu. After she joined, Hema's usual practice intensity increased a bit out of thin air.
Therefore, Kazuma responded to the attack only by instinct, and his main attention was still on the apple above his head.
Jiro Kishimoto's level of attack, if he hadn't been distracted by the apple above his head, he would have been counterattacked.
After the tenth sword was received by Kazuma, Kishimoto Jiro temporarily stopped attacking and distanced himself, apparently wanting to think of new countermeasures.
Unexpectedly, he said directly to the referee: "I want to check the apple on Kiryu's head!"
The referee frowned slightly, but still agreed to the request: "The game is suspended, Kiryu-san, check the apple for Kishimoto-san."
He Ma put down the bamboo knife and took a step forward.
Kishimoto took the apple and observed it over and over again.
He Ma was still teasing him: "Did you find the glue? How about I ask someone to wipe it off now?"
Kishimoto Jiro glared at Kazuma, and then said to the referee: "I want to check his head! The apple didn't move during the fierce attack and defense just now, there must be glue on the top of his head!"
He Ma shrugged: "No problem, let's check."
After finishing speaking, he lowered his head and pointed Tianling Gai at Jiro Kishimoto: "Come on, check it out!"
Jiro Kishimoto was also polite, and grabbed Kazuma's head when he came up, carefully inspecting the top of his head.
After a few seconds, Jiro Kishimoto let go of his hand.
He Ma raised his head, looked at the stinky face of the other party, and grinned: "I understand your confusion, and I never thought that I could get the experience of topping apples after beating three of your subordinates."
Kishimoto Jiro made a sulky face, returned the apple to Kazuma and returned to the starting line without saying a word.
He backed up behind his starting line and put the apple on top of his head again.
Next he decided to take the initiative to attack.
Because of Apple, the offensive speed will probably be much slower than usual. The more reasonable approach is to consolidate the defense and look for opportunities to cut down.
But Kazuma plans to give it a try.
After the referee's start command was given, He Ma stepped forward and chose a very straight sword path to attack the opposite side.
At the same time as the sound of the bamboo knives colliding, the opponent directly turned his wrist to press Kazuma's bamboo knives down.
With a backhand sword flower with the horse, the opponent's knife is shaken, and in conjunction with the stepping in front of the side, swing the knife horizontally.
The opponent retreated very quickly, but was still swept by Zhudao Xiange.
One of the three referees raised the flag, but the referee was unmoved.
It seems that the play was not positive enough, so the referee did not think it was an effective attack.
And the horse did not once again, stepped forward to attack again.
As a result, he forgot to shake his head to control the apple this time, and suddenly felt that the apple was about to fall, so he was slightly distracted when he swung the knife.
Immediately, Kishimoto Jiro showed a "successful" expression, dodged Kazuma's attack, and counterattacked at the same time.
But Kazuma's distraction not only slowed down the sword, but also shortened the distance of Kazuma's stepping. As a result, Kishimoto Jiro's attack just swept in front of Kazuma's armor.
He Ma breathed a sigh of relief.
He felt more used to Apple's presence.
—Just treat the apple as a part of your body.
It was as if a tumor had suddenly grown on his head.
The referee issued a reset command, returned to the starting line with the horse, and also straightened the apple on his head by the way.
He felt that he could try to launch a faster attack.
The referee ordered the game to resume, and as soon as the voice fell, the horse launched an attack.
**
Boss Tan Zhoulou laughed: "I won."
"Well, even though I haven't practiced kendo, I can tell that Kiryu-kun has gotten used to apples, and is getting used to them more and more. It's a terrible adaptability."
Miss Guiting showed an expression of appreciation: "As expected of Mr. Shangquan's valued person."
"The guidance of the Juggernaut." Boss Tan Zhoulou was stunned, "It's really enviable."
When the voice fell, the three referees in the arena raised the flag together, and the referee announced loudly: "Kiryu and Ma, one book!"
Kiryu's opponent Jiro Kishimoto yelled: "Impossible! His apples are tricky! How can this not fall!"
The referee looked helpless: "You can check the apple until you are satisfied."
Kishimoto Jiro didn't wait for Hema's agreement, he strode forward and took the apple off Hema's head, and observed it carefully.
Boss Tan Zhoulou suddenly shouted: "Shengying High School, what you are doing now is ugly!"
After the words fell, the people watching the battle all echoed in unison: "Yes, yes!"
"Don't play if you can't afford to lose!"
"They're going to fight you with an apple! If you want me to say, you should let the other party take away the apple, and have a serious fight!"
"That's right! Being beaten with an apple, the face of our high school group is completely embarrassing to you!"
In the excitement of the crowd, Kishimoto Jiro could only sullenly stop finding fault, return the apple to Kazuma, and return to his starting line.
Gui Ting glanced at Tan Zhou Lou in surprise, and said in a low voice, "Wouldn't you think you would stand up for a boy from Tokyo?"
"What are you talking about? Gaifang High School is the school of our neighbor Daban. Kyushu people are unreasonable. What's wrong with me helping my neighbor?" Tan Zhoulou responded.
Guiting laughed: "You just say honestly that you appreciate Kiryu and Ma, it's over, and you make some excuses."
"Hmph, I'm from Kansai. Even if I appreciate a Tokyo boy, I can't say it directly."
When the voice fell, the referee announced loudly: "The second trial match, start!"
**
At this time, Hema can of course follow the previous practice, regardless of a tooth protruding and knocking his opponent into the air.
In this way, if you lose Apple, you count as one, and if your opponent loses two.
But the problem is that the tooth protrusion is too powerful, and if Jiro Kishimoto falls to the ground to play, he may be sentenced to a malicious foul.
Moreover, at this time, He Ma really wanted to see how much he could do under the constraints of the unfavorable conditions of the apple on his head.
Just now he has increased his speed to 70% of his usual speed.
Maybe it could be faster.
He made up his mind with the horse and decided to continue the attack.
At this time, He Ma suddenly discovered that, in addition to the man-made entries with the same kendo level and color block on the opponent's head, there was another time-limited entry.
despair
-I go? I crushed him with an apple, and he became desperate
Reasonable.
He immediately took a step forward, before the sword was drawn, the opponent was about to raise his sword to block, but he reacted a moment before the action and stopped.
In the eyes of outsiders, Jiro Kishimoto's bamboo sword shook a bit.
Kazuma took another step forward, and Jiro Kishimoto stepped back directly.
Competitive kendo competitions encourage you to step forward and fight with swords. If you retreat when others are advancing, it will give a bad impression to the referee. Normally, you should avoid it.
Even if you step forward at the same time and then fight with bamboo swords to fight your body shape and stabilize your lower plate, it is better than retreating.
—Have you lost your ability to judge because of despair
And the horse picked up the pace.
Now because there is an apple on the top of the horse's head, the axis of the body must be kept vertical when moving forward, so the previous assault method of keeping the center of gravity very low and the body leaning forward sharply cannot be used with the horse.
He can only maintain a very positive mid-section posture like this, while flipping his feet quickly.
But as long as the speed increases in this way, it will look very oppressive.
Jiro Kishimoto seemed to be completely overwhelmed by Kazuma's aura, he had no choice but to take two steps back, so he bit the bullet and fought forward.
Kazuma aimed at his hand holding the knife, and the bamboo knife clicked on his gauntlet.
This blow was extremely powerful, and Jiro Kishimoto screamed in pain, and the bamboo knife came out with his hands and fell to the ground.
At the same time when the bamboo knife fell to the ground, He Ma suddenly felt that the apple on his head was about to fall, so he simply tilted his head to let the apple roll down, and caught it firmly in his hand.
The referee raised the flag high: "Two straight sets, the high school wins!"
The voice fell, and there was thunderous applause.
"Amazing! Apple Swordsman!"
No need to ask, this voice was called by Mikako.
Amidst the cheers of the crowd, Kazuma took off his mask, took a bite of the apple in his hand, and looked at the scoreboard, only to find that Chuan Renyuan, who was sitting next to the scoreboard, had already left.
It's really a pity that I couldn't "report the good news" to Sang, the president of the West Japan Kendo Association in the first place!
Hema was feeling sorry, Mikako ran over and gave him a solid bear hug.
"And Mama! I want apples too!"
Hema pushed back the apple he had bitten twice in his hand, and Mikako bit it directly, breaking off a large piece with her teeth and jaw.
Qingliu came over and kicked Mikako's calf: "You just know how to eat! I don't know whether you are here to congratulate Ma Shengli or to eat!"
"Can't I eat and congratulate Ma Shengli?" Meijiazi asked back.
He Ma: "If you don't hang it around my neck when you congratulate the victory, I will thank you even more."
"This is welfare, welfare!"
"It's very hot." He Ma said.
Mikako immediately let go of Kazuma's neck: "Sorry, I forgot. Then, do you want water with Kazuma?"
"You have?"
"Honami has it!" Mikako said with a smile.
Kazuma shook his head, took the water from Honami, drank it and added a punch.
But there is one thing to say, relying on the little spell left by Yuzao just now, this time He Ma is not as hot as before, and he sweats less than before.
Kazuma glanced at Tamamo, and thanked her with his eyes.
Tamamo nodded.
Komori Shanling also came forward and directly held Kazuma's hand: "Thank you so much, I really didn't expect you to win against an apple."
He Ma laughed and said, "It's a trivial matter, the main reason is that the enemies are ridiculously weak, and I didn't expect them to be so weak."
Kazuma said this very loudly, so that the Kendo Club of Private Shengying High School, who had already returned to the players' bench to pack their bags, could hear.
Komori Shanling smiled and said, "It should be that you are too strong!"
"No, I don't think there is any problem in beating them if Kenichi wasn't maliciously fouled. These people are dishonest, and they will never be able to achieve anything in the way of swordsmanship."
At this time, a staff member with a camera came to him: "Student Kiryu, in order to commemorate this victory recorded in the history of the Yulong Banner, let's put on a victory pose!"
He Ma nodded: "Okay."
He was just going to make a V gesture to deal with it.
But Mikako jumped out, squeezed into his arms and said, "Give me a victory kiss!"
"Come on, don't make trouble!" Kazuma patted Mikako on the forehead.
As a result, the moment he flicked his forehead, the staff pressed the shutter.
Flashing lights flashed, and this scene was left in the history of Yulong Banner.
Later, the West Japan Kendo Association developed a very large photo, put it in a beautiful photo frame, and sent it to the Kiryu Dojo.
In the photo, Hema and Mikako each hold an apple, with smiles on their faces, which really fully conveys the joy of victory.
The key prop Apple also appeared, and it happened to be in the most conspicuous position.
The only problem is that if this photo is placed in the dojo, people who don't know the real situation will think that Mikako is the mistress of the dojo.
Mikako wins again.
Get back to the present.
The staff with the camera had just left, and the staff with the schedule came forward: "Will Kiryu and Ma continue to participate in the high school competition?"
Just as Kazuma was about to answer, an old and majestic voice sounded from behind him: "No, this is the end of Kiryu's schedule."
Kazuma turned his head and saw that he was an old man with a little impression, who seemed to be the coach of the Kendo Department of Gaifang High School.
The old man looked at Kazuma with a smile on his face: "Although I really want you to continue to compete in place of our high school, but that would be too unfair to players from other schools. Our next opponent will see you in our team , it is estimated that he will surrender directly."
As soon as the old man finished speaking, the deputy head of the Kendo Department of Gaifang High School beside him spread his hands: "The main reason is that he was defeated by someone with an apple on his head. It's too embarrassing. Maybe he lost the courage to practice kendo from now on."
Hema raised his eyebrows, thinking that the general of Shengying High School must be such an unlucky guy.
However, he first went crooked and worked with well-being technology, so he can only be regarded as his own fault.
The staff picked up the pen and confirmed to the coach of Gaifang High School again: "Are you sure that Kiryu will no longer participate? This cannot be changed after this."
"I'm sure." The old man replied solemnly. "At the same time, we request to change the lineup. Except for the forward, the order of appearance of the others will be moved backwards. At the same time, the substitute will be used as the new lieutenant."
The deputy director of the reform party sighed: "Oh, I will be a general in the next round, so the pressure is so great."
Hema patted him on the shoulder: "You should think this way, since Kenichi Ma is not around, it's finally time for you to perform."
"If you say that, it's true. Then if Komoriyama can promise me, if we win the championship, you can go to the movies with me..."
"Don't even think about it." Komori Shanling responded with a smile.
The former deputy general sighed: "I knew it."
He Ma laughed happily with everyone, but his Shunfeng ear suddenly heard someone in the stands throwing a tantrum.
**
Akira Tosai, the representative of the Kyushu branch of Welfare Technology Co., Ltd., was furious in the stands.
"What's going on! Are those high school students idiots? They can't beat other people's apples! Who will buy our services now!"
Akira Tosai patted the railing of the stand vigorously: "Speak! Who will buy this service! This result is disastrous for the business that the head office is optimistic about!"
"President," Secretary Xiaoxi pushed his glasses, "This is a public place, so it's not good to talk about it?"
Tomatsuki took a deep breath.
Then he glared at Kiryu and Ma viciously: "Damn it, I know why the head office regards him as a thorn in the side. I thought it was just because the head office couldn't win over and became angry from embarrassment.
"Is 'that thing' ready?"
Konishi looked around, obviously considering that this was a public place, but Tosai Akira turned his head and gave him a look, and he could only answer truthfully: "Ready. In fact, the third development department reported that the effect was unexpected. good."
"Very good!" Akira Tosai squeezed the guardrail with both hands, and stared at Kiryu and Ma in the arena with a ferocious smile, "Wait, let you know how good it is!"