I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"Male ninjas who have been demoted to dirt will no longer have any tasks assigned to them. They can only do chores, dirty, tiring, and hard work in the village throughout their lives."

"As for the female ninja who was degraded as filth... Ayi, you said that you used to have a companion from Shiranui who was born in Shiranui, and he told you what would happen to the female ninja who was relegated to 'filth' in Shiranui Is it treated?"

"No..." Ogata shook his head, "He never said that."

"Didn't he tell you... Really... I really don't want to tell you what kind of treatment a female ninja will receive when she is degraded..."

After sighing lightly, A-Machi continued with a wry smile and said:

"A female ninja who is relegated to dirt has two fates."

"One is to be sent to the 'Flower House'."

"The name 'Flower House' sounds nice, but it's actually a free pavilion..."

"A free profile for the enjoyment of upper, middle and lower ninjas..."

"The female ninja who was sent to the 'Flower House' will be a free wandering girl in this room for the rest of her life, until she dies..."

"There is another fate, which is to be used as a prize and rewarded to those male ninjas who have made great achievements as wives."

"This is better, at least you only have to face one man, you don't have to go to the 'Flower House' and entertain different men every day..."

"It's just that...after being assigned to a meritorious ninja as his wife, he was forced to leave Shiranui for the rest of his life..."

"Ayi... Guess what class I am in Shiranui now?"

"... Xiaren." Ogata said softly, "Am I right?"

"That's right." A-Ming smiled sweetly, but there was a bit of sourness and bitterness in her smile, "To be precise, it's because of lack of ability and merit, and she may be demoted to a trash at any time. , the ninja of the ninja..."

"That Soutaro and his brother Aotaro were originally the Chunin in my Shiranui."

"I defected to Shiranui two years ago because I committed some crimes and feared punishment."

"Since they defected to Shiranui, I haven't received any news about the two of them. I didn't expect that they would also become prisoners and be caught on this island..."

"Before the two brothers defected to Shiranui, they liked to make trouble for us ninja and rou."

"After going back and forth, they gradually recognized me as a ninja who has been around for ten thousand years..."

"I... don't want to be degraded..."

A-Ming slowly tightened his arms, and hugged the legs that were encircling him even tighter.

"Even if you can never become a top ninja or a middle ninja, it doesn't matter if you can only be a low ninja for a lifetime, as long as you don't become a filth..."

"So I cherish my mission this time..."

"Ayi, I should have told you, right? How did I get this mission of 'investigating ogres'..."

"The appearance of this mission is purely on the whim of our leader..."

"Because I learned that there are unkillable cannibals haunting Butterfly Island, I was curious about it, so I sent me to take a look..."

"A mission born purely out of curiosity..."

"So it doesn't matter whether this task is successful or not for the leader and for the whole Shiranui..."

"This kind of insignificant task that just satisfies the leader's curiosity is most suitable for an insignificant half-ninja like me."

"It's like asking your own dog to help clean up the poop you just pulled..."

"Because of this, my mission is full of randomness from the beginning to the end... I decided to come to Butterfly Island on a whim, and didn't provide any helpers to support me, nor did I provide any weapon support. ...There is nothing, I came here alone to carry out this mission..."

"However... even if I know that this task is the lowest level task, I still have to do my best to complete it, and do my best to complete it."

"Because... this may be the last chance to save me from being degraded and prove that I am still a useful ninja..."

"So... I really, really cherish this opportunity and this task... After taking this task, I secretly made up my mind that I must complete this task beautifully."

"...Ayi, am I particularly ugly..."

"The master just threw you a stinky poop, and you, the dog, have to eat it excitedly. You have to pinch your nose to eat the poop clean, in exchange for the master's favor..."

Although A-Machi's movements were very subtle, Ogata still noticed it keenly - when he said the words just now, A-Machi quietly stretched out his fingers and wiped the corners of his eyes.

After pursing his lips and staring at A-Machi silently for a while, Ogata slowly walked up to A-Machi and knelt down on the ground.

"Machi." Ogata pointed to his right, "Look this way."

"what……?"

"Don't ask so many questions, just look this way."

Although he was full of doubts in his heart, A-Machi finally chose to obediently follow what Ogata said, and looked in the direction Ogata pointed.

Because he was looking towards Ogata's right hand, Machi showed his right cheek.

After staring at Machi's right face for a while, Ogata turned the direction of his lower finger and pointed to his left.

"Machi, look this way next."

"What the hell are you going to do..."

While Machi muttered in such an annoyed manner, he continued to follow Ogata's instructions, and looked towards Ogata's left hand, revealing the left side of his face.

Chapter 235 Giants Attack

After staring at the left side of Machi's face for a while as before, Ogata turned his fingers to himself.

"Look at me next."

Seeing that Ogata was reluctant to tell her what he was going to do, A-Machi didn't bother to ask Ogata this question anymore.

After Ogata asked her to look directly at him, A-Machi obediently turned her head around, and looked at each other face to face with Ogata.

On the Omo side, he looked expressionlessly at Machi's face.

Ogata just watched A-Machi silently, neither doing other superfluous things nor making a sound.

After such a long silence

"what."

A sudden chuckle broke the silence.

Then he said softly:

"Looking around, it really is your face that looks the best."

"Eh?"

A-Machi felt his face was heating up at a rapid speed.

Just when she was still at a loss for what Ogata said just now, and didn't know how to respond, Ogata then said softly:

"I don't know what other people think of you."

"But to me, Ogata Itsue, you, A-Machi, have never been ugly."

"So in the future, when you feel that your appearance is ugly, or when others say you are ugly, you tell yourself like this: No matter what, there will always be a ronin named Ogata Itsuki who thinks your appearance will always be good-looking , I will never find you ugly."

"Why are you so proficient in saying these deceptive words?" After a short silence, A-Ming said in such an annoyed tone, "Didn't you always use these words to go out of your way before?" A similar place to coax women?"

"No." Ogata said hastily.

Ogata's hastily defending appearance seemed to make Ah-Machi laugh.

After covering his mouth and laughing a few times, A-Machi said to Ogata with a faint smile on his face:

"Thank you."

The smile on A-Ming's face at this time no longer bears the trace of bitterness as before.

"Ayi, what you said just now, whether it is sincere or false, I am very happy to hear it."

"Women are so simple." Ah-Ming changed into a half-joking tone, "As long as someone praises her beauty, no matter whether the other party is flattering or not, she will feel happy."

"Thank you anyway"

"You're welcome. After all, I was just telling the truth."

Bang.

"Huh?" Ogata raised his eyebrows when he suddenly heard a strange noise coming from outside the window.

Bang.

The same muffled sound as before came from the window again.

This muffled sound was louder than the last one.

Both Ogata and A-Machi frowned slightly at this time, and cast doubtful gazes out of the window.

According to the loudness of this strange sound, this muffled sound seems to be the sound of something heavy hitting something solid

Seems to be coming from somewhere far away

at the same time

The base of Qing Taro and others.

"Come on! Newcomer! Drink!"

Aotaro shoved a small wooden cylinder into the arms of Shichiemon who was beside him.

Only the liquid contained in the small wooden cylinder as high as an adult's index finger is continuously exuding a faint smell of wine.

"What is this?" Shichiemon hesitated.

"This is the rice wine we made from the rice we borrowed from Toyowa Village." Aotaro didn't hide anything, "Let's drink a little bit!"

"Then I'm welcome"

After drinking the rice wine in the wooden barrel, the long-lost aroma of the wine immediately filled Shichiemon's mouth.

Although he just joined the organization headed by the brothers Aotaro and Sotaro, Shichiemon has already figured out Aotaro's temperament a little bit in this short period of time.

The most obvious character of Qing Taro should be enthusiasm and boldness.

Even Shichiemon was a little surprised by his enthusiasm and boldness.

After Qiemon and his group of newcomers joined them, Aotaro greeted them very warmly and invited them to drink rice wine.

Shichiemon doesn't dislike this kind of enthusiastic and forthright person.

Not only do I not hate it, but I like it a little bit.

Because such people tend to be more talkative, and can get a lot of information they want from their mouths.

Shichiemon has already collected a lot of information from Qing Taro.

For example: Qing Taro and his current organization, only he and Sotaro were the first prisoners to land on the island. They were thrown on this island at the beginning of December last year, and they have been on this broken island for 1 days. For a little more than a month, the rest were basically prisoners from the second and third batches.

And although Qing Taro's current organization has a large number of people, there are still very few people who know how to fight.

Including Aoutaro and Sotaro, there are probably less than 10 people who have practiced martial arts.

Seeing that the relationship between himself and Qing Taro became more familiar, Shichiemon decided to find out some more private information from Qing Taro.

"Master Qingtaro." Shichiemon put down the small wooden tube in his hand, "Why did you gather so many people? Could it be that you gathered so many people for the convenience of attacking that Fenghe Village and occupying the area with wooden walls?" Protected land, right?"

"How is it possible." Qing Taro sneered without thinking, "What's the use of occupying that piece of broken land?"

"I gathered so many people, not to survive better on this island, but to escape from this island."

After taking a big gulp of rice wine, Aotaro continued to meet Shichiemon's suspicious eyes and said:

"I plan to snatch the shogunate's ship! Then escape from this ghost place on the shogunate's ship!"

"Steal the shogunate's ship?!" Qiemon exclaimed.

"There is not even a single ship that can go to sea in this ghost place. If you want to leave here, you can only grab the shogunate's ship."

"And there must be a lot of soldiers on the shogunate's ship to guard, so I need combat power, and I need enough combat power!"

Speaking of this, a sinister smile appeared on Qing Taro's face.

"And now that number is almost enough."

"The day the next shogunate ship lands on the island, that's when I grab the ship and leave this ghost place"

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

Before Qing Taro finished speaking, a scream from the valley entrance where they lived suddenly interrupted Qing Taro's words.

Qing Taro frowned instantly, and shouted in a low voice: