In the dry landscape garden within the dream, two figures, one short and muscular, the other tall and slender, each held a Dragonfly Cutter, assuming their stances.
Although Tsurumi was not accustomed to using long weapons, the Dragonfly Cutter itself was a long-bodied spear with a bamboo leaf-shaped dual-edged blade, and with a tachi-like structure, in a sense, it could be considered as a mutated Tachi with a longer handle.
Moreover, Tsurumi had studied Kagura Shindo-ryu under Kamiyagawa.
Kagura Shindo-ryu was not limited to the Tachi and Dual Blades; it also covered spear techniques.
Thus, Tsurumi, being eager to learn, had some exposure to spear techniques, which provided a certain theoretical foundation.
To put it plainly, the use of a long spear was nothing more than—
Thrust, pull, slash, beat, withdraw.
Tsurumi, being proficient in Sword Dao, had some transferable skills in the cutting-oriented "slash" and "beat" techniques of tachi-like long spears.
