You're a lot slower than my last pupil, he came looking for me . I was a lot younger then, and thought I knew it all. In a movement too fast for the eye to follow, the yamabushi drew his own blade. The late-afternoon sunlight reflected in the steel, making it seem to glow red. A sword is a weapon.
Swordsmanship is the art of killing people.
No matter how you try to pretty it up, that's the truth. Like Tottchan tried to. You'll do, boy. That's a lot safer ambition than politics. Don't ever get mixed up with politics, you'll only get yourself sold out by your own side, that you will.