"Everyone, let's start digging bamboo shoots, but only around here."

"yes--"

After Yoshida Reiko gave her instructions, she took out a picnic cloth, spread it on the flat ground, and sat down to rest before she started working.

"Ladies, please choose the weapon you want." Toru Watanabe showed the hoe and shovel to the two of them.

The two eldest ladies took one look at the ferocious hoe and immediately gave up, choosing a shovel at the same time - the shovels in the countryside weren't that cute either.

Rin Kiyono took the shovel and tried it as if he were holding a trekking pole, then nodded in affirmation.

"...That, Kiyono-san, is for digging soil." Toru Watanabe reminded.

"I know." Qingye Rin said calmly.

As the only believer and the man closest to God, Toru Watanabe can naturally understand the deeper meaning of her words:

If you say anything else, you're dead.

"Mei Ji, be careful when digging bamboo shoots. The shovel is like this... what are you doing, my princess?"

"Whether it goes well or not."

The way Kujo Miki holds the shovel makes it easy to use it hard.

This convenient force refers to how to hit someone's head.

"Anyway," Toru Watanabe raised his voice slightly, "you two, be careful, don't hurt yourselves...and don't hurt others. After you dig out the bamboo shoots, call me."

"Don't treat me like a child." Qingye Rin looked at him slightly displeased.

Everyone separated slightly and each found a place to dig bamboo shoots.

Queen Kujo glanced at Lord Kiyogami provocatively, and a battle began over who could dig out the first bamboo shoot first.

Watanabe Toru breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the two men using shovels in the correct way.

He didn't go far, so he stayed beside the two of them, turning over the soil at will to see if he could try his luck to find winter bamboo shoots in the soil.

After a while, just as he found a bamboo shoot under the weeds and slowly cleaned the soil around it with a hoe, Xiaolian came over with two bamboo poles.

"Archer, Archer!"

"What's wrong?"

"We found the Bamboo Sword!"

Watanabe Toru leaned the hoe against the bamboo, reached out and took the bamboo in her hand, looking at it carefully.

It's just that the branches of bamboo are thin and straight, and they look very much like that.

"Not bad." The bamboos were crossed, and he assumed a two-sword style posture.

"Archer, we want to challenge the sword trial again!"

"Oh?" Toru Watanabe put away his posture and looked serious, "Are you serious?"

"Uh-huh!"

"This is a trial specially prepared for brave men. Once you pass it, you can inherit my title of 'The Strongest Swordsman of Mizawa Village', Toru Watanabe."

"The strongest swordsman in Jianze Village..." Xiaolian's eyes flickered, full of desire for this title, "We want to become the strongest swordsman in Jianze Village!"

"Hmph, it's not just that."

"oh?!!"

"During the year I went to Tokyo, my sword became stronger. Now I am——"

"Archer now——"

"He is the number one high school student in the entire island country!"

"Oh!!!" Xiaolian's eyes widened.

Watanabe Toru huffed arrogantly: "Len, you are just a first-year elementary school student, do you still want to continue to challenge me?"

Xiaolian pursed her lips tightly and put on a serious expression on her first-grade primary school student's face.

"We want to challenge the top high school student in the entire island nation."

"very good!"

Watanabe Toru returned the shorter bamboo to her, kept a distance of three meters, and held his own with both hands.

"Come on, Lian!"

Xiaolian held her "sword" and looked at Toru Watanabe: "We! We want to become the strongest first-grade elementary school students in the entire island country!"

"This momentum?! Very good, girl, defeat me and become a myth!"

The bamboo swords collided and caused sparks from friction, just like a train and railroad tracks.

The figures are intertwined, the bamboo leaves are flying, and the life-devouring cold light is hidden behind every leaf.

When masters compete with each other, victory or defeat can only happen in a split second.

"Len," Toru Watanabe knelt on the ground, "you are already... the strongest first-year elementary school student in the world."

"Move forward, bear the name of defeating me, Toru Watanabe, and keep moving forward."

"The world is yours."

His body fell to the ground.

Ren Watanabe slowly sheathed his sword and looked at Mizawa Village at the foot of the mountain.

"We are already invincible."

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"Come on, Lian!"

The two eldest ladies who were digging bamboo shoots were attracted by this loud roar.

Thinking that something had happened, I looked back and saw that one large and one small, each holding a bamboo stick, were facing each other.

"We! We want to become the strongest first-grade primary school student in the entire island country!" the child babbling.

"This momentum?!" Watanabe Toru took a step back exaggeratedly, as if there was a strong wind blowing from the opposite side.

"Very good!" He waved his hand stupidly, "Girl, defeat me and become a legend!"

Ren Watanabe rushed forward with an "Ah——".

Toru Watanabe rushed forward with the bamboo stick at the speed of Chinese Tai Chi.

"Heh! Heh! Heh!"

Every time Ren Watanabe said "ha", she would hit Toru Watanabe's bamboo stick.

Then, she suddenly stopped knocking, changed direction, and slid on Toru Watanabe's belly.

Watanabe Tetsu staggered a few steps forward, and their bodies were intertwined.

He covered his waist and knelt on the ground in such a way as to avoid touching bird droppings and stones.

"Lian, you are already...the strongest first grader in the world."

He also paused and said, "He was seriously injured" and his acting was very good.

"Move forward, bear the name of defeating me, Toru Watanabe, and keep moving forward."

"The world is yours."

After saying that, he looked around, found a clean place, and lay down.

Ren Watanabe, who never looked back, inserted the bamboo stick into her overalls. The bamboo stick did not stop until it fell to her buttocks.

She looked in the direction she came from and said:

"We are already invincible."

It was obvious that she wanted to act out the feeling of loneliness as much as possible, but unfortunately her tone of voice was flat and she was just reading. Her acting skills were crushed by her brother's.

Two beautiful girls: "..."

Miki Kujo walked to the corpse of Teru Watanabe.

She folded her arms with both hands, raised her foot, and stepped on Watanabe Teru's butt.

"Who is it? Why are you stepping on me?"

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Watanabe Toru turned his face sideways, and following the graceful curves of his long legs under his jeans, he saw Miki Kujo with a gloomy face.

"Meiji?"

Kujo Miki lifted the foot that was on his butt and stepped on it for the second time.

"Um, Mei Ji?"

Kujo Miki stepped on it for the third time.
To be continued...