I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

　　 Ogata looked up and down the boy several times.

　　 The boy’s clothes are quite neat.

　　 The body is also quite clean, as if he had just taken a shower.

　　 But the look in his eyes made Ogata's heart feel a little hairy.

　　 The boy’s eyes...there is no look...

　　 is like a pair of dead eyes.

　　 The young man kneeled down on the left side of Ogata, led by the flying monkey.

　　 After the young man sat down, the flying monkey stepped back and knelt on one knee to the right back of the young man.

　　 "Samurai-sama, meet for the first time..." The boy introduced himself to Ogata first, "My name is Riki..."

　　 After the voice of the boy who called himself Rigi fell, Ogata quickly turned his kneeling body to the left, so that his body was facing Rigi.

　　 "Meeting for the first time. My name is Ogata Itase."

　　 "Ogata-kun." Kuranaga said at this time, "Riki was born in an ordinary village called'Miaochang' in my domain."

　　 After listening to Kuranaga’s supplementary introduction to Riki, Ogata secretly said in his heart:

　　——Why brought a person with such terrible eyes to see me for no reason...

　　 As soon as the voice in Ogata's heart fell, Kuranaga added a sentence that made Ogata's heart almost missed a beat:

　　 "Five months ago, Miao Zhang Village ceased to exist."

　　 "...Huh?" Ogata turned his head, and Asakura cast a stunned look, "No longer exists? What happened?"

　　 Kuranaga pursed his lips.

　　 paused for a while and said:

　　 "...Since the self-government took the throne, in order to satisfy one's own selfish desires, the villages in the domain have been increasing taxes without any degree."

　　 "Five months ago, the villagers of Miao Zhang Village started an uprising because they couldn't bear the harsh tax."

　　 "The uprising of the villagers in Miao Zhang Village was naturally quickly put out."

　　 "From the start of the uprising, to the failure of the uprising, only three days have passed."

　　 "Ogata-kun, you must be very confused now? wondering why I have never heard of this uprising."

　　 Hearing these words from Kuranaga, Ogata's pupils shrank slightly.

　　 Because Kuragara’s sentence just now caught Ogata’s voice very accurately.

　　 Ogata just now happened to be wondering why he had never heard of this.

　　 "The reason why Ogata-kun has never heard of this is all because we tried our best to block the news of the'Miaobari uprising in the village' and the failure of the'Miaobari uprising'."

　　 "There are two reasons that compel us to do this."

　　 "The first reason: because farmers in a certain rural area of ​​the feudal clan launched an uprising because they couldn't bear the severe taxes-this kind of disgraceful news, naturally, the less people know, the better."

　　 "As for the second reason..."

　　 Kuranaga fell silent suddenly.

　　 The hands that naturally placed on his legs also slowly clenched.

　　 The emotion in his eyes gradually became more complicated.

　　 "...The second reason... is because... the lord has punished the villagers who were captured because of the failure of the uprising..."

　　 What Kuranaga said just now seemed to have some magical power.

　　 As soon as the voice fell, Rigi had a strange reaction...

　　Rigi clenched his teeth sharply, clenched his fists, and began to tremble slightly.

　　Rigi’s strength seemed to crush his teeth and bleed his palms.

　　 And Ogata looked at Kuranaga blankly, and then at Riki.

　　 "...Next." Cang Naga lightly sighed, "It's up to Rigi to tell you what the lord has done to the villagers in Miao Zhang Village..."

　　 Ogata looked at Riki.

　　 Li Jilian took several deep breaths to calm his emotions.

　　 then opened his mouth, making a hoarse voice:

　　 "...The dog thief in Gen Matsudaira...not a human..."

　　 "He brought everyone in the village... back to his city..."

　　 "The men in the village were taken to a dojo in the city, and the women were taken to other places..."

　　 "The dog thief in the source of Matsudaira... likes to see close relatives and close friends killing each other... He is called "competition"..."

　　 "That dojo... is the place where the dog thief watched the fight..."

　　 "The reason why we are brought to that dojo is to see us and our family and friends fighting each other..."

　　 "He gave each of us a knife..."

　　 "Only one person can live in each duel..."

　　 "And my first opponent... is my brother...!"

　　 Speaking of this, Rigi, who couldn't control his emotions anymore, started to roll out big tears from his eye sockets.

　　 "If there is no winner in each duel, then both will be killed by the dog thief...!"

　　 "I don't want to kill my brother..."

　　 "But I don't want to die either..."

　　 "So...I finally...a sword pierced my brother's chest..."

　　 "Then... my opponent in Game 2... is my father..."

　　 "My father hit my knife by himself in order to keep me alive..."

　　 "After that... I continued to fight each other with many friends in the village..."

　　 "I killed my brother, killed my father, killed almost all my friends, and finally survived..."

　　 "I hate... I killed all my relatives and friends in order to survive..."

　　 "But I hate the Matsudaira dog thief who forced us to do this kind of thing even more!!"

　　Riki rushed towards Ogata~www.wuxiahere.com~ and grasped Ogata's right hand tightly.

　　 "Samurai Lord! Please help me! Help us!"

　　 "Please help us kill the dog thief in Genai Matsudaira!!"

　　Riki's hands held Ogata's right hand tightly.

　　Ogata’s right hand can clearly feel the strength of Rigi’s hands, the magnitude of the trembling with excitement and anger, and...the boundless hatred in Rigi’s body...

　　 Compared to Riki’s tearful request, Ogata felt more restless, and counted Riki’s tears.

　　Originally, Rigi’s tears were just plain transparent.

　　 However... as Rigi continued to explain his previous experience, Rigi’s tears gradually began to change...

　　 gradually changed from transparent to light red.

　　 Finally... it became the scarlet now...

　　 Scarlet tears... No, it can't be said to be tears anymore.

　　 It should be said that blood is constantly rolling out of Rigi’s eye sockets, and then dripping onto the hakama on Ogata’s legs...

　　 This drop of blood falling on Ogata's hakama, to Ogata, is as hot as a spark, burning all over Ogata's body, causing large patches of goose bumps to float on the skin of Ogata uncontrollably...

　　 Looking at Rigi who was bleeding and weeping, Kuragara sighed.

　　 "Flying Ape...Take Rigi to rest..."

"Yes……"

　　 Flying Monkey helped Rigi who was still howling and left the room.

　　 Ogata stared at the direction where Rigi had left.

　　 speechless for a long time.