Chiba Eijiro half-closed his eyes, reminiscing about the past.
"If I remember correctly... it was about seven and a half years ago that my swordsmanship training hit a bottleneck."
"No matter how hard I practiced, I couldn't feel any new progress."
"At that time, I was quite anxious."
"Afraid that my skills would stagnate at this point. So I racked my brains thinking: Just how could I further refine my skills?"
"But the more I pondered, the deeper I seemed to sink into the bottleneck."
"Back then, my father was still alive."
"Seeing me troubled by the bottleneck, he proposed: Try looking at 'landscapes' you've never seen before."
"Go see 'landscapes' you've never seen before; experience wonders in life you've never felt; maybe a change of mood will unwittingly break through the bottleneck."
"At the time, I didn't really understand what he meant..."
