At this moment, Chiba's gaze locked on Chiga Suzu's hand-

He saw a mark that surprised him.

"Sister Qianhe Ling, you ......" Qianyu carefully chose her words. How do you ...... your right thumb?"

"Huh?" At this time, Conan and Hattori Heiji also noticed this - at the base of Chiga Suzu's left thumb, a longitudinal scar was quite conspicuous. In fact, they hadn't noticed it before only because Suzu Chiga had been moving all the time, so their eyesight hadn't caught this mark.

"Ahh "Because I've been learning archery recently, for beginners, the yamakura is easy to scratch, so I'll probably get better when I become more proficient?"

“yamakura？” Chiba frowned slightly, and then looked at Saijo Taihe. "So, Mr. Saijo, did you actually mean that Miss Chiga's arrow pillow was injured?"

"Hmm," Saijo Taiga nodded with a somewhat soulmate expression. "Yes, I just wanted to say this, but I think that Miss Chiga Suzu is a woman after all, so she shouldn't be able to do such a thing as attacking you."

"Attack?" Chiga Suzu looked at Heiji Hattori with some surprise and asked as she sat down. "You've been attacked?"

The emotions in this sentence are quite unsettled, and the emotional meaning in them even made Conan sneak a glance at Hattori Heiji's face with a rather subtle look.

And Chiba's gaze fell on Chiga Suzu.

The reason for his concern was simple, because Chiga Suzu did not sit down in the normal way that Chiba was used to, but let her right foot take a slight half step back, and then let her right knee and left knee kneel on the ground in succession, and finally completed the sitting position.

But generally speaking, everyone just kneels down together, right? If you're worried about getting hurt, just use your hands to hold it up...... But she is still very young, and she is also a Kabuki background, so Miss Senga Suzu, who should have integrated these etiquettes into her life, should not do anything wrong.

At the same time, Saijo Taiga had just sat down again—he had been sitting cross-legged until now, which was a rather vulgar way of sitting (cross-legged sitting was vulgar in the eyes of the Japanese), and now that a woman had arrived, he would have to change to a straight seat. And his posture can be said to be almost the same as that of Miss Chiga Suzu, or even more fluid: Miss Chiga Suzu took a half step back very stiffly, as if she was inserted into her normal sitting position. In contrast, Saijo Taiga's movements can be said to have removed almost all the pauses in Miss Chiga's movements, and if you don't look closely, it will seem like he is sitting in a normal position.

"Generally speaking, people who don't learn kyudo can't meet this time, right?" Heiji Hattori turned his attention to Saijo Taiga. "Mr. Saijo, how did you come to know this word?"

"I'm the owner of a second-hand bookstore," Saijo Taiga said with a somewhat helpless look. "I don't think it's strange that I have one or two kyudo books there, right? But it's true that I didn't learn a bow and arrow, that's true. ”

【Kyudo?】 Qian Yu raised his eyebrows slightly, not because of the bow, but because of the Dao.

It wasn't the first time he had seen such a sitting position with his right foot half a step back – the first time he had seen it was from the Champs-Élysées.

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"That's what you learned?" Looking at Hoshino Kaede's strange way of sitting, Qianyu's brows twitched. "From your teacher?"

"yes," Kaede Hoshino sighed and spread his hands. "Really, this instructor is particularly annoying - it is said that his social status is a master of bow and equestrian training, so when he took us to practice, he let us practice bow and equestrianism, and then he actually took us to practice etiquette!"

"Why do you want to practice archery?" Qianyu said curiously.

"Hit the target," Kaede Hoshino's tone was rather helpless. "Originally, he was our moving target shooting instructor, but this guy actually let us practice riding and shooting - literally riding on a horse that didn't even have a saddle and just a rein, and then let us practice one-handed shooting!"

"Uh-" Chiba's expression was rather subtle. "That's enough, if I remember correctly, your previous training results have always been at the top, and probably your instructor is planning to practice your shooting ability in such a frenzied way? Let me remind you that we didn't even have training in moving target shooting, we only trained in pistol shooting—all the firearms shooting training I received was given to me by my master, and it was not taught to me by the organization. ”

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If this memory from a long time ago is correct, then at least this etiquette of taking a half-step back with the right foot exists in bow equestrian - and if we consider that historically speaking, a large part of the etiquette part of bow equestrian and kyudo should have been influenced by the martial arts etiquette developed by Ogasawara-ryu...... So, can it be understood that there may be some similar etiquette in kyudo? After all...... The etiquette of bow equestrianism and kyudo should be the same in terms of sitting down, after all, the difference between the two types of bows is not so big, so there should be no difference when sitting down due to the different weapons carried.

And based on the same reasoning, if this action of Miss Chiga Suzu comes from kyudo, then where does this action of Mr. Saijo Taiga come from? Chiba didn't think that simply reading kyudo books would cause Saijo Taiga to become a habit - otherwise she would have become schizophrenic every day. (I'll give you two examples...... The first example is a man who liked both Byzantium and Venice, and then often sang the praises of Sultan Suleiman of Roma...... The second example is carrying a Manchester United water bottle, wearing a Liverpool jacket, wearing an Everton mask, then a Manchester City scarf, and finally a Manchester City United crest on his head, and then tattooing the logos of Real Madrid and Barcelona on both sleeves. ）

If so, could it be that Mr. Saijo Taiga is ......

No, even if Saijo Taiga does have some anomalies in this regard right now, it is possible to learn these from elsewhere - any etiquette martial arts that has learned this sitting posture from Ogasawara Ryu will do, not necessarily kyudo.

Perhaps it is better to check whether this habit is unique to kyudo.

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Speaking of Dongluo and disease, it must have been the Plague ←←of Justinian (the first plague pandemic), a sudden catastrophe at the height of Byzantium.

The next question is that before the Soviet-Finnish War, the Soviet Union proposed a territorial exchange plan for Finland, which was strongly supported by the Finnish military leader Mannerheim, but was ultimately rejected by the Finnish government, which ultimately led to Finland winning dignity in the Winter War but losing territory. So, what is the territorial exchange of this plan, and why is it supported by military leaders, who are often predominantly hawkish?