In 1503 AD, Wood, who was forced to study at the Naval Academy for one more year, finally ushered in the time to graduate.
During this year, except for the original discussion with Gion, Wood acted as low-key as ever.
After a year of systematic training, Wood mastered "Kamie-e", "Shigan" and "Rankyaku" at the Naval Academy.
As for the "Geppo" and "Tekkai", Wood learned them by himself in the back mountains through his accumulated training experience.
Therefore, everyone, including Zephyr, believed that Wood had only mastered the Kami-e, Shigan, and Soru among the six styles. However, in fact, he had mastered all six moves.
But even if he only masters four of the six movements, he is already among the best among all students.
After all, there is only one year, and among all the people in this class, there is only one person who has mastered all six styles, and that is Gion.
The girl was quite dissatisfied with the fact that Wood took advantage of the "Soru" to fool her around during the competition with Wood, so the first course she chose was Navy Six.
During this year, Wood not only practiced the six movements in the navy, but also practiced some martial arts fighting abilities.
Zephyr and Gion were also surprised when they learned that the course Wood chose was martial arts instead of kendo.
In Gion's view, Wood's behavior is completely unprofessional. He has already become a "swordsman" at this age, which means that Wood has outstanding talent in the way of swordsmanship.
Choosing to continue improving in kendo so that he can make further progress in kendo is the right path, but this guy chose martial arts that has nothing to do with kendo.
Forget about the Sixth Form of the Navy. After all, abilities such as "Soru" and "Geppo" are all auxiliary skills and can be used in both swordsmanship and martial arts.
However, martial arts and kendo are two completely different things. If a young swordsman abandons his extremely talented swordsmanship and goes to practice martial arts, isn't this a mental illness?
After Zephyr learned about Wood's decision, he also tried to persuade him. Zephyr himself was good at martial arts, but he would not let Wood give up swordsmanship.
A person's energy and time are limited, and no matter how talented a person is, they cannot achieve good results in swordsmanship and martial arts at the same time.
Rather than trying to do both and getting nothing done in the end, it is better to focus and firmly follow the path that suits you best.
However, Zephyr's earnest words failed to persuade Wood in the end. A person's path is chosen by himself. Although Zephyr hates iron, he has no right to interfere with Wood's choice.
It is also for this reason that Wood, who is obviously a "swordsman" but also practices martial arts, is regarded as a fool by everyone.
He obviously had outstanding talent in swordsmanship, but he chose to waste his talent by learning something he was not good at.
At the beginning of school, the competition between Wood and Gion made everyone agree that Wood was the strongest among them except Gion.
However, a year later, the fool-like Wood chose martial arts that he was not good at, resulting in little improvement in the strength of the sword. Now the overall strength of most people has surpassed the original Wood.
In short, Wood, who was originally the second youngest, has now become the middle-class player among the group...
It was obviously a good hand, but it was played badly by Wood. Most people laughed at it, but is this really the case?
That's right, martial arts and kendo are indeed two incompatible types. One person's energy cannot achieve astonishing achievements in these two areas at the same time.
However, Wood is definitely not within this range, or in other words, he cannot be measured by common sense at all, because he is a man with cheats.
A person's energy is indeed limited, but by using a "life simulator", every time Wood conducts a life simulation, it is like gaining a lifetime of energy and time.
Ordinary people may not be able to take into account both martial arts and kendo, but for Wood, this is not a problem at all.
And even if he also studies martial arts, Wood has never relaxed in the practice of swordsmanship. The wild boars on the mountain every night can prove this.
People who feel that his strength has not grown are just the inherent thoughts of those people after choosing martial arts, coupled with Wood's deliberate hiding of his clumsiness.
Wood, who graduated with decent grades, was not directly assigned to the vacant junior sergeant position.
As for Gion, who had the best grades, he was assigned the position of sergeant just after leaving the naval academy.
Moreover, this sergeant is only temporary. With Gion's strength and performance, perhaps in just two years, his position will be greatly improved.
Smoker and Tina were also retained this year for naval petty officer training because of their excellent results.
When he was about to leave the Naval Academy, Gion came to him specifically and expressed that he wanted to have another discussion.
There is no doubt that Wood directly rejected this thankless request, and said that he, a guy with upper-level strength, could not be a talented opponent at all.
"Although you have wasted a year, your swordsmanship talent is still outstanding, and you are several years younger than us.
If you give up martial arts and return to the right track, you can still hope to catch up with me again, or even surpass me! "
Gion didn't know why she said these words to Wood. Maybe she felt sorry for Wood's talent, or maybe she had regarded Wood as a competitor in the past two years?
"I never said that I gave up kendo. Sometimes what you see with your eyes may not be true, Gion."
As Wood finished speaking, Gion felt a breeze blowing in front of her. She felt a sense of crisis inexplicably. As soon as she grasped the hilt of the Kinpira sword at her waist, she found a sword with a sky blue color. The scabbard was placed on her neck!
Gion was shocked! She didn't even see anything about Wood's action just now.
Although it was because his body was defenseless just now, the aura emanating from Wood at this moment made Gion, who was also a swordsman, feel his skin trembling!
The young man who was regarded as a fool by everyone in front of him has not only not deteriorated in swordsmanship in this year, but has also become stronger!
"I hope you can keep it secret for me. I don't want to be assigned to any dangerous position because of this."
Perhaps it was because of Gion's behavior just now as if he cared about a friend, or because Wood felt that the two people who were assigned to different places would not have other interactions in the future.
So Wood finally made some mistakes and showed the results of this year's practice in front of Gion.