I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"These 7 chain mails, you all wear them tomorrow." Cang Yong lightly stroked the chain mail closest to him, "It will definitely come in handy."

"The specific actions to be taken tomorrow will not be known until the scene. So - Ichiro, you will be the commander-in-chief after the seven of you launch an assault."

"When to start the attack, who will be the main attacker and who will be the auxiliary attack-these things are all up to you."

"Yes!" Ichiro responded loudly.

As for Kuranaga, at this moment, he paused for a while.

After a while, he said quietly again:

"It is now approaching the end of September. According to the habit of the lord never going out hunting in autumn and winter, his hunting tomorrow will be his last hunting out this year."

"So it's our only chance this year..."

"So... Tomorrow... is the day that determines our... and the future of the Hirose Domain."

"I hope you all work together."

"I wish you all...Wuyun prosperous."

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Ogata never expected--he would suffer from insomnia tonight.

Maybe it's because I feel excited, or maybe it's because I feel nervous from time to time.

Or maybe... simply because Shiro's snoring was too loud.

Ogata usually finds that Shiro is a very nervous person.

But Ogata didn't expect Shiro's nerves to be so big that he slept better than usual the night before the decisive battle, and his snoring was louder than usual.

Ogata, who felt that he couldn't sleep anymore, lifted the quilt, and then walked to the outside of the room.

The loyalists all slept in the same room. In order not to affect other people's sleep, Ogata specifically minimized the sound of footsteps and breathing.

Ogata relaxes at the thought of walking around outside the room.

In order to conceal the existence of Ogata and others, Kuranaga drew a "circle" with the living room of the lofty scholars as the center. No attendant in the prefecture was allowed to enter this "circle", and Ogata and others were not allowed to leave. This "circle".

The only people who can freely enter and exit this "circle" are Kuranaga and Flying Ape.

Because of the limited range of activities, Ogata can't walk around casually.

In the end, Ogata decided to go to the place he was most familiar with these days-Dojo.

There is a fairly large window in the dojo, and the window is facing the sky.

Ogata's purpose is to go to the dojo to see the night sky and breathe in the fresh air outside the window by the way.

After opening the shoji door of the dojo, Ogata was surprised to find that there were people in the dojo.

And... I'm an acquaintance of Ogata.

"My eldest man..." Looking at Kurunaga, who was holding the wooden knife in his hand, Ogata raised his eyebrows, "Why are you here? Are you coming here to look at the night sky because you can't sleep?"

As Ogata said, he snarled at the big window of the dojo.

"I really can't sleep." Kuranaga smiled bitterly, "but-it's not for looking at the night sky."

"Anyway, I can't fall asleep anyway, so I just wanted to practice the sword."

"My eldest man..." Asakura Ogata cast a helpless look, "You will only get more excited as you practice, and the more you practice, the more you can't sleep."

After all, Ogata walked straight to the window, and then sat cross-legged by the window carelessly, looking at the stars in the night sky outside the window.

"My eldest man...actually... Ever since you called me into the mansion and asked me if I want to be a'executioner', I have always thought you guys are weird."

Now there are only Ogata and Kuranaga, no other outsiders.

Therefore-Ogata decided to bury himself in his mind these days, and always wanted to say to Kuranaga, but has never had the opportunity to say the words and questions, I will explain and ask Kuranaga clearly tonight.

"Strange? What do you mean?"

"My eldest man, you are planning to assassinate Songping Yuannai."

"But for the person you intend to assassinate, you still refer to it as the'Master'."

"It's like saying honorific words to his father and enemy who is about to be beheaded. It's quite weird."

"My eldest man, why do you still insist on calling Matsuhira Genouchi the "Lord"? If you call this kind of thing and change it with your heart, it can be corrected, right?"

After hearing Ogata's question, Kuranaga's lips were pursed.

Afterwards, Kurunaga silently put the wooden knife in his hand back on the knife holder, then walked by Ogata's side, and sat side by side with Ogata.

"Yeah..." Kuranaga smiled bitterly, "I...and I think I am very contradictory..."

"I can't wait for Songping Yuannai to die now..."

"But the mouth always uses the honorific title to him in a disobedient way..."

"The determination to support the righteousness is combined with... the concept of loyalty that I have always adhered to when I have my own memory, and it has created... I am now contradictory and weird..."

"My lord..." Ogata whispered, "You are also an amazing person... In this era, people like you who would kill the lord who he served for the sake of righteousness are almost gone. ..."

"Heh..." Kuranaga twitched at the corner of his mouth, revealing an ugly smile, "I too...After struggling hard to imagine, I finally made up my mind to support the righteousness..."

"After becoming the new lord of my domain in the source of Matsudaira, and his brutal nature was exposed, I told myself in my heart countless times."

"‘I’m a samurai, I must be loyal to my lord, no matter what ridiculous things my lord does, I can’t be loyal to him’."

"I have to say this sentence countless times in my mind every day..."

"Only in this way, I can safely ignore all the atrocities in Songpingyuan."

"Until... About the middle of this year... I saw the lord hack a poor little girl to death..."

"The poor little girl did nothing wrong. It was just that she accidentally ran into the car in Songping Yuannai, and was chopped into two pieces by his subordinates under Songping Yuannai's instructions. Then she was thrown to the side of the road like garbage. ..."

"I happened to be there at the time..."

"I can't describe how I felt after seeing this miserable death of this little girl..."

"I only remember clearly—youdao sounded very loudly in my mind: I can't bear it anymore."

Kuranaga pulled out the knife that was stuck in his waist.

Ka.

Then pull open the opening of the sheath and slowly pull the blade out of the sheath.

The unsheathed blade, the cold light reflected by it just covered the pupils of Cang Yong, illuminating the brilliance in the pupils of Cang Yong's eyes.

"At that moment... I finally woke up..."

"While I am a samurai, UU reading www.uukanshu.com is also a man."

"When the sky is falling apart, a few men have to come forward."

"If you succumb to the darkness and don't dedicate yourself to Kuangfu's righteousness, you will be a man for nothing!"

"Ogata-kun, I will tell you the truth."

"When I decided to assassinate the lord, I decided-I started this assassination as a man. In the end, I will be a samurai."

"Regardless of whether the assassination succeeded or failed. I will apologize by cesarean section."

"The assassination of the lord was for the righteousness of the world. The laparotomy was for the samurai's morality."

"Use the blood in my belly to wash my soul that is unclean because of betrayal of the Lord."

After that, Kurunaga slowly inserted the knife back into the scabbard, causing the cold light that had originally enveloped his eyes to gradually fade.