The next day, Dazen got up early and began his taijutsu and ninjutsu training in the morning until it was time to meet Takashi for Kenjutsu training.

With 15 minutes to go Dazen arrived at the training center and sat under a tree waiting for his teacher to arrive, he didn't have to wait long, just 10 minutes after Dazen had arrived Takashi also appeared.

He saw Dazen and smiled saying, "You're early, you look like you're really excited to learn kenjutsu, do you need to warm up? If not we can start training right now."

Dazen quickly replied, "I can start at any time."

Takashi then replied, "That's great, I guess you don't have a sword yet, but that's not a problem, for now it would be better to start training with a wooden sword, After some training you can switch to a real sword, here I give you a wooden sword." Taking out a scroll from his bag, Takashi summoned two wooden swords and passed one of them to Dazen.

Dazen took the wooden sword and stood there waiting while Takashi continued speaking: "First I will teach you the basic stance which includes the position of the feet, the position of the body and the way to hold the sword correctly and after you learn all of this we can continue with fundamental movements and other training."

Having finished explaining the theory, Takashi continued by correcting Dazen's posture for each movement performed and explaining that he should always train his posture until it becomes natural to him.

Dazen continued with the training for another two hours until Takashi said: "Okay, for today the training is complete, you've started to get the hang of it, tomorrow we'll continue with posture training, you're doing the physical training in the morning right?"

Dazen doesn't plan on hiding his training, so he said: "Yes, I continue doing the exercises the teacher gave me and training the academy's taijutsu."

Takashi: "It's good that you're so hardworking, now that you have started training kenjutsu you will have to do some resistance exercises to strengthen the muscles used during sword training, so I will rework your training plan, this will also help you with your taijutsu."

Dazen quickly agreed with what Takashi said and then he began to explain which exercises he should do, the break time between each exercise and other details of the training.

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After the explanation, Takashi: "If you follow this training you will quickly improve in kenjutsu so don't relax, the training is over for today, so I'll see you tomorrow at the same time."

Dazen quickly agreed: "Okay teacher, we'll see you tomorrow."

Takashi smiled and disappeared from the place, Dazen quickly saw this and thought: 'He's very fast, I think it'll take some time to reach that level, well that doesn't matter, today I learned a lot and he even improved my physical training routine, If you continue with this level of training it will not be impossible to reach the same level of strength as him in two or 3 years.'

From what Dazen knew, Takashi was an elite chunin, this may not seem like much from the perspective of those who watched the anime, but having been in this world for almost a year Dazen knew that it was a level of strength to be respected.

After resting a little Dazen started training again, this time he was training his chakra nature during the last month he didn't have much progress in training, but he didn't give up, because he knew that this training was very advanced and could take years to be completely mastered.

Dazen continued with this training routine over the next few days and little by little he began to improve in the use of Kenjutsu he began by learning the fundamental movements and soon moved on to flexibility and speed training to make the movements more efficient and difficult to predict.

Takashi looked at Dazen, who was training and interrupted him saying: "Okay, that's enough for today, now come here I want to talk to you."

Dazen was surprised and went to his teacher and wondered what it could be that Takashi wanted to talk to him about. Takashi continued talking as Dazen approached: "You have improved much more than expected during this month, so now you can start practicing with a real sword, as you don't have a sword I will give you one, it is one of the my ancient swords, so take good care of it."

Takashi removed a sword from his scroll and handed it to Dazen, who was surprised by his teacher's action: 'I didn't expect him to give me a sword, I had already started saving to buy one for when I graduated, he is a really good person.'

Dazen took the sword and thanked his teacher: "Thank you teacher."

Takishi smiled and replied: "It's no big deal, at first I was going to wait a little longer to give you a sword, but soon classes will start again and I won't have any more time to teach you, so before that I will teach you a little about real combat with simulated training and about mentality and concentration under pressure so get ready because during the next two weeks the training will double in difficulty, now get in position we are starting now, you can do the first movement."

Dazen nodded and replied, "Okay, I won't relax." He entered the position and soon made the first move, which Takashi easily dodged while delivering a blow that knocked Dazen down, who soon got up to continue and this was repeated several times during training.