I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

　　 "Ogata-kun..."

　　 Kuranaga wants to say something to Ogata.

　　 But the words rushed to my lips, but I couldn't spit out anything.

　　 He doesn’t know what he can say to Ogata now...

　　Any comforting words are extremely pale now...

　　 Since last night, after checking that there is no one living in the dojo, Ogata's expression has been very strange.

　　 Kuranaga couldn't think of any words to describe Ogata's expression.

　　 looks expressionless on the surface.

　　 But under this expressionless appearance, Kurunaga can clearly feel that there are surging emotions and powers hidden in it...

　　 When Kuranaga hesitated to say something to Ogata, Ogata suddenly grabbed the sword in his arms and stood up.

　　 "...My eldest man, I'm one step ahead."

　　 After that, without waiting for any response from Kuranaga, Xuyi walked directly outside the Xuanzhen Temple, and within a short while, he completely disappeared from Kuranaga's field of vision.

　　 "...Flying ape, are you there?"

　　 "Yes, I am here."

　　 Flying Ape jumped out from the forest beside him, and then stood beside Cang Yong, waiting for his dispatch.

　　 "Flying Ape...I feel more and more...I am really a cruel person..."

　　 "After seeing the Sakurahara sword museum being destroyed by the lord, while I felt sympathy, I also felt...somewhat happy..."

　　 "Because of this, the possibility that Ogata-kun will join us will greatly increase..."

　　 After that, Kuranaga raised his head and sighed.

　　 "Heh... I feel cruel to myself..."

　　 "Lord..." Fei Yuan searched his stomach, thinking about the appropriate words, "Thanks to your cruelty, Hirose Clan can maintain the current stability..."

　　 "...Let's go, let's go back to the house." After saying that, Kuranaga opened his feet and walked down the stairs, "Next...we will slowly wait for Ogata-kun to become enlightened..."

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　　 The next morning in the morning——

　　 Hirose Clan, Ogata’s home——

　　 Ogata is sitting on the tatami in the center of the room.

　　 The two sabers were neatly placed on the right side of his body.

　　 is also neatly placed on the tatami mat on the right, as well as the cheat book of "The Two Swords of No Me" and the certificate of Sakihara One Sword of Immunity.

　　 Dressed in clothes that were obviously just washed, Ogata combed his hair.

After combing his hair and fixing the bun, Ogata picked up the saber on his side and inserted it back to his waist, taking the only two things besides the saber that could be regarded as his precious possessions-the secret book of "The Two Swords without Me" With Sakurahara, the certificate was passed on to Sakihara, and then he walked slowly toward the soil of the house.

　　 After putting on his straw sandals in the soil, Ogata turned his head and looked carefully at the small ruined house where he had lived for a while.

　　 The house is spotless.

　　 Because Ogata had already cleaned the house thoroughly yesterday.

　　 Ogata looked at everything in the house seriously, as if he wanted to engrave all the things and details in the house into his head.

"farewell……"

　　 After whispering this sentence, Ogata opened the door without any nostalgia, and then left the small broken house that had been with him for a long time...

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　　 Hirose Clan, Ryuya.

　　 "Afu!"

　　 Asaki frowned, and said to Afu next to him:

　　 "Did you hear any strange movement outside the kitchen just now?"

　　 "Hey? Are you there? I didn't hear him."

　　 "...Go, let's go out and have a look."

　　 Asaki and Afu walked out of the kitchen one after another.

　　 went out of the kitchen, but did not see a half figure.

　　 But Asaki put a letter on the table closest to the door.

"what is this……?"

　　 Asaki muttered as he walked to the table, then picked up the letter and spread it out.

　　 only wrote a simple sentence on the letter:

　　 (Miss Asaki, Miss Afu, sorry, you need to invite a new samurai to guard the Ryuya, because of some things, I may leave the Hirose clan forever, so-farewell.)

　　 The signature in the lower left corner of the letter is-Ogata Itase.

　　 "Master Ogata..." Asaki murmured Ogata's name, his face gradually became uneasy, "What happened...?"

　　 "Miss Asaki, what is written on the letter?" The uneasy color on Asaki's face made Ah Fu anxious.

　　 "Afu! Ryuya is closed today! The two of us are going to see Master Ogata!"

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　　 Hirose Clan, Kuranaga’s residence——

　　 "Hold on!"

　　 The two gatekeepers of Kuranaga Mansion looked at the young samurai in front of them with guard eyes.

　　 "Unrelated people, etc., don’t come near!"

　　 "Please tell the eldest family member." The young samurai whispered, "Just say-Ogata Ishie is visiting."

　　 "Ogata Itase?" The two gatekeepers exclaimed in unison.

　　 The two of them had already received instructions-if a young samurai who claims to be Ogata Ishige comes to visit, he must report it immediately.

　　 "...I see, please be here for a while." After a gatekeeper left this sentence, he hurried into the mansion.

　　 Not long after the gatekeeper left, the heavy wooden door was slowly opened, and the majestic mansion of Kurunaga appeared in front of Ogata again.

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　　 "Ogata-kun..."

In the reception room of the 　　 mansion, Kuranaga and Ogata sat opposite each other.

　　Meeting Ogata again, Kurunaga didn't have more greetings with Ogata.

　　 "Are you...really enlightened?"

　　 "I'm ready to enlighten." Ogata responded without thinking.

"If you are an executioner, your destiny will be a lifetime of nine deaths." Kuranaga looked at Ogata's sharp eyes as if he wanted to see through Ogata's inner thoughts. "Even so, you still Are you willing to work with me to support the great righteousness?"

　　 And Ogata also stared at Kurunaga with a powerful gaze without showing any weakness.

　　 "I don't care much about righteousness."

　　 Ofang Masahiro said.

　　 "Knack Matsudaira Gennai with a thousand swords-my goal is nothing more!"

　　 "Even if the body is destroyed~www.wuxiahere.com~ I will kill the traitor!"

　　 Kuranaga looked straight at Ogata, still expressionless.

　　 But after hearing Ogata’s words, a faint smile appeared from Kuranaga’s slightly puckered mouth.

　　 "Flying Ape!"

　　 Kuranaga shouted outside the room.

　　 Kuranaga’s voice just fell, and the flying monkey who had been waiting outside the room immediately opened the sliding door.

　　 "Go tell Ichiro and them-new people have joined us!"

"Yes!"

　　 After Flying Monkey walked away quickly, Kurunaga turned his gaze back to Ogata.

　　 "Come on, Ogata. I'll take you to meet other loyalists."

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　　 Kuragara leads Ogata along the zigzag corridor of the mansion toward the depths of the mansion.

　　 Ogata obediently following Kurana, Asakura asked:

　　 "My eldest man, I remember you told me before-besides me, there are only 6 people who are willing to wield swords to kill Matsuhira Genai, right?

　　 "That's right."

　　 "Six people... plus me, there are only 7 people... the eldest man, the number of people here is too small, right?"

　　 "...Now that the world has passed on for a long time, the samurai have gradually slackened the practice of martial arts."

　　 "In this age, it is not easy to find a warrior with reliable strength."

　　 "It's even more difficult to find a samurai who is not only reliable in strength, but also willing to dedicate his life for righteousness..."

　　 "These 6 people besides you are also the lofty people I have spent a lot of effort to finally find."

　　 After that, Kuranaga stopped in front of a huge paper sliding door.

　　 "Ogata-kun, here we are."

　　 "The rest of the aspirations, just practice swords inside."