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Kujo Sara's expression changed.

As the general of the shogunate, she was captured. Did the other party still expect her to greet them with a smile?

The turmoil in the earth veins caused the appearance of a large number of monsters. She spoke out to remind them for the sake of the overall situation. Apart from that, Kujo Sara had no connection with the other party.

"How about a duel? No... to be more precise, I want to test my newly acquired archery skills. Miss Daitengu is probably most proud of her archery skills. If I defeat you with the skills I just gained from the power of the earth veins, you will follow me for a while.

If I lose, I'll let you go. How about that?" Fan Yu suggested.

Kujo Sara was slightly startled: "Are you serious?"

Fan Yu: "Of course."

After listening to this, Kujo Sara pondered for a moment and nodded: "Okay. However, my current body..."

She tactfully expressed that all her limbs had been cut by the opponent, and although the blood had already coagulated, the residual pain would still affect the competition.

Kujo Sara naturally had no intention of fighting while injured.

Fan Yu was well prepared for this.

He opened his hands directly, and with a crackling sound, a ball of lightning was injected into the four wounds on Kujo Sara's body. The electric current covered the wounds on her limbs, bringing a feeling of numbness.

Immediately afterwards, a warm current flowed through her flesh and blood, making her feel tingling.

Kujo Sara subconsciously reached out to grab it, but found that the wound caused by lightning had revealed its hideous flesh and blood. Then the energy of those elements poured into the wound, quickly stimulating its activity. Then the wound gradually healed along with the self-repair transmitted from the body.

Jiujo Sara looked at Fan Yu in surprise. She was sure that he had only been using the Thunder God's Eye for a short time, but she found it incredible that he had the ability to manipulate the violent thunder so delicately to assist in the healing of his body.

After waiting for a minute or two, the feeling experienced by Kujo Sara gradually disappeared.

Fan Yu looked at her arms, which were intact as before, and said seriously, "That's good."

Kujo Sara nodded, indicating that he was fully recovered and ready for the competition.

"What are the rules?" she asked.

Fan Yu pointed to a rock protruding from the crumbling earth ahead and said, "Without using the power of the Eye of God, aim at that rock. The one who hits the target closer to the center wins. How about that?"

Kujo Sara nodded and had no objection to the conditions of the competition.

Then, Fan Yu handed over her bow and quiver: "You first."

Jiu Tiao Sara stretched out his arms, then took the weapon handed to him by Fan Yu, drew out an arrow and put it on the bowstring.

She closed one eye, stretched her arms to full length, locked onto the distant rocks, and began to regulate her breathing.

The moment her chest suddenly rose and fell, and then relaxed.

Kujo Sara immediately released the bowstring in his hand, and the arrow flew out with a whoosh sound, its trajectory riding on the air currents, reaching the target point in the blink of an eye.

The iron tip of the arrow collided with the rock, making a violent early chiseling sound.

boom!

The arrow hit the rock slightly to the left of its center.

Kujo Sara immediately began to gain insight, and upon seeing that location, he expressed regret: "Without the power of the Divine Eye, it's impossible to approach from such a distance. It seems I've been slacking off lately."

She has natural confidence and racial bonuses in her archery skills, so there is no way to make it perfect. It can only be said that she has relied too much on elemental power recently. Even her usual attack missions rely on the Tengu feathers on her back, and real arrows are only used during normal training.

Because the elemental conduction ability is not as smooth as the feathers behind her!

Although Kujo Sara was self-reflective, these words were undoubtedly Versailles in Fan Yu's view.

If the rock is compared to an archery target, then Kujo Sara has already scored within the ten rings, making him a first-rate marksman.

"It's your turn." Kujo Sara handed back the things that Fan Yu had handed over.

Fan Yu glanced at him subtly, then drew his bow like the other man.

Following the skills he had just acquired, Fan Yu made the gesture of drawing a bow and shooting an arrow, and then suddenly threw the target into the sky.

Whoosh!

Fan Yu gently let go of the arrow, and it instantly flew off the string and rose into the sky, turning into a silver-white meteor.

Jiujo Sara looked at this scene with doubtful eyes. She did not understand Fan Yu's behavior...

But soon, she suddenly realized something and her expression suddenly changed.

He raised his head and focused his gaze on the sky above the rock in front of him. After waiting for a few breaths, he saw a silver-white glowing object falling from the sky above the rock.

With a loud bang, the center of the rock shattered on the spot!

Smoke and dust rose up and began to spread in all directions. Countless pieces of broken rock rolled down from the top of the rock with a crackling sound.

"Could that be..."

Kujo Sara stared ahead, his expression changing constantly.

Although the dust obscured the exact location where the arrow fell, she could confirm that Fan Yu's arrow also hit the target.

She waited there for a few seconds, as the smoke and dust in front of her was blown away by the breeze, reflecting the scene in front of her.

Kujo Sara's pupils shrank slightly, and an arrow was inserted into the crack in the center area, forming an overlapping posture with the arrow she had just shot out.

However, although the two sides seemed to be less than two centimeters apart, the victory or defeat was silently decided based on the different shooting skills used by both sides.

The two centimeters distance from the center of the rock in front is a world of difference.

Fan Yu also looked at the place where his arrow had landed, smiled, put away his bow, and said to Jiu Tiao Sara, "It seems I have won."

“…” Kujo Sara stared blankly at the front without saying a word.

Fan Yu's archery skills reminded her of a long-standing archery technique among Inazuma.

"Mist Cutting Stream..."

……

The archery displayed before her was the only skill that could verify the effectiveness of Kujo Sara's memory.

Fan Yu asked in surprise, "Do you know this archery technique?"

Kujo Sara nodded and said seriously, "There's a song circulating in Inazuma that says Ōtemon Arataki, Yin no Iwazō, Choja Kitain, and Kirikiri Takamine... all of these people were once the Shogun's personal guards."

When Fan Yu heard these four names, he became thoughtful: "So, the so-called 'Flowing Shooting Technique' is that the one named Wuqiri Gaoling?"

Kujo Sara nodded.

She was an expert in archery and naturally knew all the famous archers in Inazuma's history.

Kirigiri Takamine lived five hundred years ago. Records show him not only as a skilled archer, but also as a renowned swordsman. Later, it is recorded that he passed on the archery technique "Ryusaijutsu" to Asarai Hibiki, a shrine maiden of the Kagemukaiyama Narujin Taisha Shrine, thus cementing the art of archery in history.

"You are able to obtain this excellent archery skill, and I lose." Kujo Sara said in a low voice.

Strictly speaking, the opponent's use of parabolic force to drop the stone didn't qualify as a precise hit. However, the reality was that the opponent's arrow had lodged deeper into the center of the rock than her own arrow had, and that was a fact.

Although Kujo Sara was already feeling a little worried about what would happen next, she had to admit this reality.

Moreover, the fact that the other party was able to absorb this skill through the power of the earth veins in a short period of time and was able to use it so skillfully is itself a proof of strength.

"So, what should I call you next?" Kujo Sara asked curiously.

Based on the previous conversation, she already knew that the adventurer's name "Yuejian" was a disguised name.

Fan Yu: "Just call me Fan Yu."

Kujo Sara muttered the two words briefly; they sounded like Liyue names. However, since their previous archery duel stipulated that if she lost, she would temporarily follow the opponent, she had no choice but to change her words: "Lord Fanyu..."

Fan Yu waved his hand: "There's no need to call me that against my will."

Kujo Sara said seriously, "It's not that I can't afford to lose..."

Fan Yu shook his head. "I know your loyalty to General Raiden as the General of the Heavenly Realm. Asking you to follow me does not mean you abandon the faith of the shogunate. I also believe in my own vision. You are not someone who changes with the wind."

“…” Kujo Sara was a little confused.

If the other party didn't need me to betray the shogunate, then the other party's identity as a suspect would be unavoidable. In the natural opposition position, the other party wouldn't worry that I would suddenly attack them during the days of following them?

No matter how powerful a person is, he still worries about the hidden arrows from behind.

If that was all the agreement was, then it seemed completely unnecessary to Kujo Sara. The other party could simply restrain her and drag her along the way, which would have been much more reasonable.

Fan Yu took in her expression and had a subtle look on his face.

It was because he believed that Miss Daitengu was someone who could afford to lose that he made the agreement.

It was indeed the same as what Jiujo Sara had thought. If he had only made such an agreement, it would have been a huge loss. But in fact, the core purpose that Fan Yu needed was to deepen his connection with Jiujo Sara. This purpose was kept in mind from the beginning.

Therefore, rather than capturing the other party and carrying him along all the way, Fan Yu would rather use this archery skill to make the other party gradually willing.

"I need you to accompany me just because I want you to accompany me to see different places. After the agreement is completed, you can still pick up your bow to catch. During this period, let's get along well, Miss Tengu." Fan Yu said gently.

Kujo Sara opened his mouth: "..."

With such an attitude, it was difficult for her to explain the news sent back from the island as "a vicious criminal killed the magistrate at the Kanjo Bugyo."

However, people only know a person's face but not his heart.

No matter how the other party behaved in front of her, the fact that he killed Shinsuke Hiiragi, the head of the Kanjo Bugyo, had spread throughout the island and was undeniable.

She nodded and whispered, "If we're going to travel together from now on, you should change your identity to me, Mr. Fan Yu."

Fan Yu was startled for a moment, then smiled: "Miss Sara."

Kujo Sara's face froze: "..."

The other party really has no sense of boundaries.

"Just a joke." Fan Yu said with a faint smile.

Kujo Sara said seriously, "You can just call me Kujo."

Fan Yu did not hear these words. His thoughts were already immersed in the changes in spectral rhythms detected by the power of [Harmonious Bliss] deep in his golden eyes.

A crimson spectrum of color appeared on the biological field between Jiutiao Shala and Fanyu. The ripples spreading out from the red spectrum pulled the connection between the two people like a silk thread.

[You and Kujo Sara resonate with each other, and the spectral connection is activated...]

[Current connection level: Depth 1 (red)]

Wisps of red ripples rose up and appeared before Fan Yu's eyes. He began to feel an invisible connection with the Nine Saras.

There was also a layer of feedback in his eyes.

[Today's feedback: You gained Strength +1.]

The faint power began to merge into Fan Yu's body through invisible connections.

He looked at Kujo Sara's body with a strange look. The other party's biological information was also converted into a panel through the [Harmonious Bliss] spectrum and presented in front of him.

【Biological Information】

Nine-striped sara.

Race: Tengu

Gender: female

Status: Curious (Can connect.)

Attribute: Thunder...

Traits: Masked Actress/Soldier/Archer/Stern Demeanor/Long Legs/Sacred Depravity/Loyalty!/Strong/Tengu/Four-Winged Domain Deployment/Heavenly General/Thunder Mother (Prototype)...

(For more details on the characteristics, please click here [Expand])

(Note: [Simulated] characteristics are the construction of alien isotopes that fuse cosmic information under specific conditions of star core fusion. Reference is made to the light cone produced by the erosion tunnel.)

[Current Connection Level]: Depth 1 (Target tends to acquire Thunder attributes.)

In every sense, whether it was the contact of the Brahma feathers or the aura released from their appearance, they were consistent with the observed information panel presentation. The two pairs of black Tengu wings were indeed full of the feeling that made people want to introduce the Fallen System, and their strong attitude made people want to conquer them.

However, what is more noteworthy is that Kujo Sara exudes an aura of 'loyalty!' from head to toe!

Unfortunately, this loyalty currently belongs to the shogun of the shogunate, the Thunder Shogun.

But that was only in the past.

Once you connect today, everything will change.

22 Kujo Sara: "I've become stronger!"

Kujo Sara looked at Fan Yu opposite him.

The other party has been standing in a state of contemplation for quite a while.