I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"I was a swordsman in ancient Japan(

After saying this, Mamiya turned and walked towards Mucun.

"Mucun, I see there seems to be a small stream there, let's go and fill up some water together and come back."

"Loading water? Can you just do this by yourself?"

"Stop talking nonsense, just follow me obediently."

"Yes……"

Mamiya led Makimura towards a stream not far away. After watching the two for a while, Ogata turned his gaze back to Amachi in front of him.

"A Yi... I wish you good luck, we... see you in the future."

In the end, Amachi was the first to speak softly to Ogata.

But Ogata did not immediately pick up Amachi's words.

Instead, he fixed his gaze on Ah Ding in front of him for a while, and finally slowly said his voice.

"A Ding... where is your place in the fire?"

"Huh? What do you ask this for?"

Ogata shrugged: "If you don't even have your address, then no matter how we are bound to each other, it's impossible to see each other again, right?"

"I can't tell you where we are in Shiranui." Ah Ding smiled helplessly. "To tell outsiders where we are in Shiranui is a felony in our Shiranui."

"But... I can tell you where we are in Shiranui. We are in Omi."

"Omi area...Acho, do you know how big Omi is?"

"I can only tell you so much."

Speaking of this, Ah Ding paused.

Then, a touch of cunning appeared on Ah Ding's face.

"If you really want to come to me, just go and find out the specific location in the Shiranui slowly by yourself."

"But I'm still talking about the ugly thing first-if you really find out where Shiranui is someday in the future, you won't be able to get in Shiranui."

"Shiranui can't let outsiders like you come in and out casually."

"Let's talk about this kind of thing at that time." Ogata said jokingly without thinking. "If you don't know the ninja in the fire will not let me in, then I will have to break through."

"Stop talking about this kind of big talk." Ah Ding showed a helpless wry smile, "I don't know the fire is like a cloud, you can't get through it alone."

After all, Ah Ding raised his head and glanced at the sky that was already beginning to wipe the darkness.

"……I should be going."

"Ok……"

"A Yi... these days... thank you very much for your care..."

"You're welcome... I also received a lot of your care."

"A Yi... let me be honest with you... In fact, when I first found you, I actually wanted to use you. After I used you, I didn't hesitate to abandon it, just like those inside us. The respected Shinnins are as cold-blooded and ruthless as they are, and their tasks are the top priority in everything..."

"I've known this kind of thing a long time ago. Teaming up this kind of thing is all about getting what you need."

"You're right. But ah-in the end, I was just an unfamiliar princess."

A gentle smile, like a delicate flower, slowly bloomed from Ah Ding's face.

"I didn't even do the most basic thing for a ninja, which is not to invest my personal feelings in the mission."

"Goodbye, Ah Yi."

After all, Ah Ding turned around and ran towards the distant forest that was about to be darkened by the lack of sunlight.

When Ah Ting's figure was about to disappear in the woods, Ogata saw it vaguely—A Ting glanced back at him.

It wasn't until he couldn't see him at all that Ah Ting took her gaze away.

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"how is it?"

Mamiya and Makimura returned with a few bamboo tubes filled with fresh water.

"Have you parted with Miss Ading?"

Ah Ting has left.

But Ogata still stood in place, his eyes still fixed in the direction where Amachi's figure disappeared.

"...I feel a little lost."

Ogata raised his head, looked at the almost black sky above his head, and let out a light sigh.

This faint sense of loss reminds Ogata of the day when he left Hirose Clan alone a few months ago.

"It's good to get used to this kind of feeling." Mamiya said in a non-salty or indifferent tone. "This is how a person's life is, repeating encounters, separations, and reunions."

"I just vaguely saw there seems to be a cave there. The three of us will spend the night in that cave first."

"Yeah." Ogata nodded softly in response to Mamiya's suggestion.

"Ogata-kun, what do you plan to do after dawn tomorrow? Will you set off for Kyoto as soon as dawn?"

"Yeah." Ogata nodded without hesitation.

"Why are you in such a hurry to go to Kyoto?" Mamiya shrugged. "Before going to Kyoto--how about coming to our gourd house as a guest?"

"A guest?" Ogata frowned slightly.

"Although Ogata-kun doesn't join our gourd house, it is very regrettable, but the door of our gourd house is always open to you, and you are always welcome to visit our gourd house as a guest and take a look around."

"Invite me to your gourd house for no reason...you should have no bad intentions?" Ogata asked rhetorically in a playful tone.

"There is no bad attempt." Mamiya smiled slightly, "but inviting you to our gourd house is indeed for a small purpose."

"I want Lord Lord and Yuan to come and see that there is a third person in the world who has mastered the swordsmanship of the ‘Second Sword Art’."

"If you let Yuanyi know that someone has really succeeded in learning the Second Sword Style with the help of his swordsmanship cheats, he will definitely be very happy."

"Don't you want to take this opportunity to visit our gourd house, Ogata-kun?"

"Look at the heroic posture of the second-generation direct descendant of Wuwo Erdao Style."

"And...the unquestionable unparalleled world--the heroic figure of'Sword Saint' Kinoshita Genichi."

Hearing Mamiya's words, Ogata raised his eyebrows slightly.

After pondering for a while--

"...Okay." Ogata nodded, "If I'm just going to your gourd house as a guest, I would be happy to go. Your gourd house is not far away, right?"

"Not far." This time I changed to Makimura, who hadn't spoken much since just now, and said, "Our gourd house is based in the Owari area. If you ride a horse, you will be there soon."

"Horse? Where did the horse come from?"

"I told you about half an hour ago-our gourd house Japan spreads all over Japan."

"Anyway--" Mamiya said, turning around and walking towards the cave he just saw. "Tonight, take a good night's rest, and then formally set off tomorrow to find the guy who can provide us with horses, and to be able to go. A place to take a shower. Then go back to Owari!"

After Mamiya turned and left, Makura immediately followed him.

Looking at the backs of these two people, a smile with some helplessness appeared on Ogata's face.

After mentioning Da Shi Tian and Da Zi Zao who were lifting their waists, they quickly followed.

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at the same time--

The shogunate camp, the camp of Songping Dingxin.

"Old Master..."

There are only two people in the camp.

Because there are things I want to confirm to Songping Dingxin, I came here to talk about Songping Dingxin.

"Are we really going to release the islanders of Butterfly Island?"

This is what Inamori wants to confirm to Matsuhira's confirmation letter.

"Yes."

Regarding the question raised by Inamori, Matsuhira Matshinbu, who was sitting behind the desk and looking at something, said without hesitation.

"If this series of riots on Butterfly Island is really man-made, then we will have to change our handling methods against Butterfly Island and ogres again."

"I have just ordered Master Banjing to immediately start his research on ogres."

"Since the decision to restart the study, these islanders are precious experimental observation objects, and their lives have to be kept."

"Anyway, they can't escape our palms now. If they want to kill them in the future, they can be killed at any time."

"And—the monk makes sense."

Speaking of this, Matsubishi Dingxin's eyes burst into a cold light.

"If it is really an unknown power that turns people into ogres... then this power can only be controlled by our shogunate! Other people and other forces cannot be allowed to possess this power!"

"Even if you can't have this kind of power, you must destroy this terrible power!"

"I have sent someone to find the suspicious master and disciple named He Shi and He Zhi."

"It's just—it's very difficult to find them."

A faint bitterness appeared on Matsuba Dingxin's face.

"This name is very likely to be a pseudonym. There are too few clues. Looking for a needle in a haystack like this, I really don't know how long it will take to find these two people."

"Stop talking about this, let's talk about something more important."

Having said that, Matsuba Matsushita gathered and aligned the pieces of paper he had been looking at just now, and then handed them to Inamori.

"Inamori, you came just right, and I just happen to have something to go to you."

"Is this...?" Inamori took the papers from Matsupira's letter with a suspicion.

"This is the latest information about Ezo land that just arrived at me."

"It is related to Lu Country and Red Moon Fortress."

Hearing the words "Luguo" and "Red Moon Fortress", Inamori's pupils shrank suddenly, and then quickly flipped through the sheets of paper in his hand filled with densely packed words.

When Inamori looked at these papers full of the latest information about Ezo land, Matsubaru Matsuba whispered from the side:

"Lu Guo recently dispatched several new expeditions to Ezo land."

"These new expedition teams from the country handed over the bandits of the Red Moon Fortress in early March of this year."

"Relying on the overwhelming strength and weapon superiority, the bandits of the Red Moon Fortress successfully drove these expeditions back."

"But the bandits in the Red Moon Fortress didn't fight easily either."

After Matsuhira Dingxin's voice fell, Inamori just read every word on the pieces of paper in his hand.

"... Has Luguo sent expeditions to Ezo land more and more frequently in the past two years?" Inamori frowned and raised his concerns.

"I think so too." Matsuba Dingxin's brows were also slightly frowned at this time, "It seems-Luguo's ambition is not small, maybe they are planning to swallow Ezo land."

"Ezo land is not so easy to swallow." Inamori sneered and sneered, "With the band of bandits in the Red Moon Fortress, how can Ezo land be so easy to occupy?"

"Don't be careless, Inamori." Matsudaira got up and adjusted his clothes. "In two days, I will leave for Edo."

"In 2 days, you come back to Edo with me."

"It would be too awkward to let a tiger like you stay here to watch the ogre."

"Kiy will send a new general to take over."

"When I return to Edo with me, I will persuade the General to increase troops to the Matsumae Clan."

"At that time, you will lead the new force to garrison the front line in the north of our country, and monitor all the movements of Luguo and the Red Moon Fortress."

"Yeah!" Inamori nodded solemnly.

"If Lu Kuni sent a large army to Ezo land... Needless to say, Inamori, you should know what to do, right?"

Matsupira Dingxin's eyes burst out with icy cold light.

"I know." Inamori grinned, "I'll wait until they and the bandits in the Red Moon Fortress are both defeated and injured."

"That's right." Songping nodded with a smile. "The bandits of the Red Moon Fortress neither listen to the shogunate nor succumb to Lu Guo. Let them fight Lu Guo and lose both."

"We watch the fire from the other side, and just reap the rewards."

"Old Master." Inamori asked, "In case Lu Guo really sent a large army to encroach on Ezo Land, and fight with the bandits of the Red Moon Fortress, we will lose a sigh of relief. Will the weakened Red Moon Fortress be eradicated?"

"...This kind of problem, just wait for it to be said later." Matsuba Dingxin waved his hand.

"Yes!"

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In the Omi area, in a deep mountain——

In a large mountain in the Omi area, a village was built abruptly.

Although it is a village, the village does not exude the vitality and popularity that a human settlement should have from the inside out, and there is not even a lot of cooking smoke.

In an ordinary wooden house in this "village", an old man with all gray hair on his head and a huge vertical scar on his left face was writing something on a scroll.

The vertical scar on the old man's face stretched from his left forehead to his left cheek, and penetrated the entire left eye, leaving him with only one right eye to see.

"Master Flame Demon."

A handsome young man walked slowly to the old man's desk, and then knelt on one knee.

"Gokutaro is here to return to life."

"Oh! Jitarou, you're back from completing the mission! It's a hard work, a hard work."

After all, the old man who was called by Gokutaro as the "flame demon" put down the pen in his hand and handed the scroll on the table to Gokutaro.

"Gitaro, since you are here, please do me a favor by the way."

"Help me give this list to Heitaro, and let him proceed to deal with everyone on this list."

"This is...?" Gitaro took the scroll with a bewilderment.

"These are the ninjas who will be downgraded to filth next." The Flame Demon said in a casual tone, "If you are interested, you can see who is on the list."

"Then... I would be rude."

After straightening the scroll in his hand, Kokutaro's gaze slid across each person's name on it one by one.

When he reached the last person's name, Kokutaro raised his eyebrows slightly.

"A Ting? Do I remember that she is not going out to perform a mission now? Lord Balrog, before A Ting returns for business, will she decide whether to demote her based on her current completion of the mission?"

"No. UU reading www.uukanshu.com" Balrog waved his hand, and then showed a grin, "I wanted to demote Ah Ding since the end of last year."

"The reason for giving Ah Ting a task to do is just to make use of the last waste. If she were to be reduced to filth in such a state of nothing, it would be too wasteful of our training for her over the years. ."

"No matter how well her current task is completed, I will reduce her to filth-I have always planned this way."

"Master Flame Demon... you are so bad."

Although Kokutaro said so on his lips, there was no trace of regret on his face.

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Volume 4 "The Undead"-the end!

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Preview of Volume 5 "Kyoto Summer Array":

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"Now Kyoto is very lively, after all, the annual Gion Festival is coming."

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"Now that there is a murderer in Kyoto, you have to be careful, old lady. That person is called Ogata Ishi. If you find any clues, remember to notify the government in time."

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"Brother Ogata, Yuli and Tongxin from Kyoto, officials from the Huosuke Thief Kaikai, all the samurai at the Six Great Sword Museum, and the common people of Kyoto... These people are all your enemies now. You are now your city. Enemies, you should leave Kyoto quickly."

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"Brother Ogata, are you planning to go to the six sword halls alone?"

"Yes."

"They must have laid a net of heaven and earth now, if you go to fight, you will be in their arms."

"So what?"

"You may not be able to come back if you go!"

"Then I won't come back!"