I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

Shenshan's words were like a big stone thrown into a calm lake. Whether it was Mucun or Shunliu, it was difficult to keep calm now, and they stared at Shenshan with astonishment.

"Lord Shenshan..." Shun Liu's lips trembled slightly because of excitement, "You mean...?"

"I can help you become warriors." Shenshan smiled slightly, "But——I have conditions."

"My condition is - the two of you will join me under my command from now on."

"It happened that two Yuli died in the line of duty a while ago. There is a vacancy."

"I will grant you the official position of Yuli. From now on, you two will no longer be Yakuza who can only live in the depraved place on Third Prince Street!"

"It's a samurai whose responsibility is to protect the safety of Kyoto!"

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The fragments of memories flickered in Mu Cun's eyes.

Although we haven't seen each other for 2 years, Shenshan's face has not changed much from 2 years ago except for a few more wrinkles.

"...A few months ago, when I saw your name in the list of the fourth batch of prisoners who landed on the island, I wondered whether I should come to see you."

The corner of Shenshan's mouth was slightly raised, and a self-deprecating smile mixed with a bit of bitterness emerged.

"But I finally thought about it—you definitely don't want to see my face, so I gave up the idea of ​​seeing you."

"You're right." Mucun closed his eyes slowly, and stopped looking at Mount Shen. "I didn't want to see your face at all. You made the right choice not to come to see me."

"I didn't expect you to be able to escape from that butterfly island...haha, no matter how incredible it sounds, once you find out that you are the one who did it, you won't be so surprised."

"Master Shenshan, if you come to me to catch up with the past, then you can leave. I am sleepy now and want to sleep."

"Of course I didn't come to catch up with you."

Shenshan took out a bunch of keys from his pocket, opened the door of Mucun's cell, walked slowly into the prison, and then knelt down in front of Mucun.

"Makimura, I'm here to seek your help."

Shen Shan said word by word.

"I need you to help me clear up the suspicion of Ogata Itashi and find out who is behind the scenes."

"I suspect that the bombing in Luowai two months ago and the homicides that have continued since last night are the work of the same wave of people."

"The black hands behind the scenes may have a lot of plans. We must find out the black hands behind the scenes as soon as possible!"

After Shenshan's voice fell, Mucun suddenly opened his eyes.

"Help Ogata Yishi clear the suspicion?"

"Maybe you don't know..." Shenshan said with a wry smile, "Right now the whole city is hunting Ogata Yishi outside Kyoto."

"...Master Shenshan."

Mu Cun sat up straight with his body, which was leaning casually on the stone wall behind him.

"Tell me about what happened."

"Ah, you don't need to introduce me to who Ogata Itsue is."

"I know who Ogata Itsuki is, just the executioner who committed the crime of killing the king."

Mucun pretended to have only heard of Ogata Itsuki's name.

Chapter 293 The Red Light District of Kyoto

"Huh~huh~huh~"

While humming an unknown tune, A-Machi grabbed a few candies he just bought from the sugar seller, and walked slowly on his way back to the ramen shop.

After stepping through the door of the ramen shop and returning to the ramen shop, Ah-cho immediately froze in place.

The place where she and Ogata were sitting just now happened to be facing the door of the ramen shop, so as long as you pass through the door of the ramen shop, you can see the table where she and Ogata were sitting just now.

But at this moment, Ogata's figure was not seen beside this table.

There were only two half-eaten bowls of ramen left alone on the table—the ramen she and Ogata ordered just now.

Not only was Ogata nowhere to be seen, but the customers who were also eating noodles in the store were almost gone.

A young man with a wanted warrant in his hand and a handle on his back was in this ramen shop, and said loudly to an old lady who seemed to have just walked into the ramen shop:

"Now there is a murderer in Kyoto, old lady, you have to be more careful. That man's name is Ogata Itsuki. If you find any clues, remember to notify the government in time."

"Hito...giri...?" The old lady seemed to have bad ears, and she repeated the word she hadn't heard clearly just now with a puzzled face.

"It's Hitokiri! Human chop!" The young man repeated the pronunciation of "human chop" helplessly.

This time, the old lady who heard the pronunciation of Ren Zhan clearly asked back with a puzzled face:

"What does it mean to be cut?"

"To put it simply, it can be understood as the meaning of a murderer. In short-once you see someone who looks like the portrait of this arrest warrant, you should immediately inform the nearby officials...huh?"

At this time, the young man noticed Machi who was still standing at the entrance of the ramen shop.

"Girl." The young man said loudly to A-Ding, "Did any official tell you to beware of 'people's killing'?"

"No." A-Ming shook his head, "I just happened to be passing by here and heard you talking about 'people cut Yishi', so I came to take a look out of curiosity."

"Since no official has ever told you to beware of the 'people cutting off the momentum', let me tell you."

Holding Ogata's arrest warrant, the young man walked slowly to A-cho.

"Last night, there was an indiscriminate murderer in Kyoto. As of now, more than 30 people have been killed by him... Ah, no, it is said that the number of victims has risen to more than 40."

"Ah." Ah-Ming nodded, "I know about it."

"Now we've found out who this person is." The young man shook the arrest warrant in his hand, "It's the person on this arrest warrant—the executioner Yidaosai, Ogata Itashi. Also known as 'Ren Zhan Yishi'. "

"Hey~~" Ah-cho looked at the arrest warrant in front of him, "You are so handsome."

"In terms of appearance, this man Zhan Yishi is indeed a dignified man, but it's a pity that he is a scum who kills innocent people indiscriminately."

"I have heard the name of the executioner Itosai, the man who killed the former lord of the Hirose Domain, Matsudaira Gennai. But I heard that he was arrested by the government at the beginning of this year?"

"Who knows what's going on here." The young man smiled wryly, "I also heard that Ren Zhan Yishi was imprisoned a few months ago."

"Probably because he escaped from prison."

"It's also possible that the person arrested a few months ago was not human at all."

"The world is so big, there will always be a few people who look alike."

"Catching the wrong guy because of a resemblance - that's a very common time."

"I heard that our government in Kyoto made such a mistake many years ago."

"Mistaked an innocent civilian who looked very much like a vicious murderer."

"It wasn't until the real murderer was arrested ten years later that the innocent civilian was cleared."

"It's a pity that it was too late at that time. The civilian was executed not long after he was caught."

Speaking of this, the young man who realized that he seemed to have strayed from the topic hurriedly changed the topic back to the main topic.

"In short - if you find any clues, please be sure to inform the nearby officials in time."

"But also remember to pay attention to your own safety."

"No problem." Ah-Ming smiled, "I will pay attention. If there is nothing else, I will leave first."

Seeing that he had successfully informed another citizen about "Ren Zhan Yi Shi", the young man had a faint satisfied smile on his face.

After bidding farewell to the young Okabiki, A-Machi walked out of the ramen shop slowly with a faint smile on his face.

After leaving the ramen shop, as he walked away from the ramen shop, the smile on A-Machi's face disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The original smile has now been replaced by a stern look.

A-Ming's original walking speed also gradually accelerated as the stern expression on his face gradually emerged.

While rushing into a dark alley next to him at a speed close to a trot, Ah-Ming casually threw away the round fan in his hand and the few candies he bought just now.

Hiding behind this dark alley, A-cho took out her Su Sakura and Kasumi.

After checking that Su Ying and Kasumagi's gun chambers were full of bullets and ready to fire at any time, A-machi took Su Ying and Kasumina away again.

"Ayi...wait for me..."

After muttering softly like this, Ah-cho walked out of this dark alley with firm steps...

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"Let me tell you briefly what happened in Kyoto recently."

Shenshan cleared his throat.

"About two months ago, there was a loud noise and a fire in an empty house outside Luowai."

"After investigation by Hasegawa Heizo, the leader of Huofu Thief Gai, it has been found out that the fire was caused by the explosion of gunpowder."

Shen Shan pointed at the middle-aged man in black uniform beside him.

"This is the chief officer of Huofu Bandit Kai-Hasegawa Heizo."

"And last night. A murderer suddenly appeared in Kyoto."

"As of now, 45 people have been killed."

"After gathering all the witnesses at the scene of the crime, the artist drew the appearance of the murderer based on the testimony of the witnesses."

"After drawing the murderer's face, we immediately compared all the arrest warrants based on this portrait to check whether it was done by the wanted fugitive."

Once there is a new criminal, the existing arrest warrant will be called up immediately to check whether it is the work of the wanted criminal—this is also the basic process of handling a case.

"And after drawing the murderer's face, the artist responsible for drawing the murderer's face carefully found that this face was almost exactly the same as the face he was about to vomit before."

"And this face is the face of the executioner Ichito Saiogata."

"When Ogata Yasushi was absconding, the artist was ordered to draw a large number of arrest warrants for Ogata Yasushi. Because the painting was about to spit out, the artist was very familiar with the face of Ogata Yidaosai."

"After the painter reported the matter, the big boss—Abe Riri ordered to call out the arrest warrant for Itsuki Ogata who had been arrested in the warehouse and had been sealed in dust in the warehouse."

"After showing Ogata Yasuo's arrest warrant to those witnesses, almost all the witnesses said——this guy from the arrest warrant killed the person."

"After learning about this incident, the Master of the Kyoto Office ordered all the hundreds of arrest warrants of Ogata Yasushi stored in the warehouse to be shipped out, and the whole city arrests Ogata Yasushi."

"...Lord Kamiyama." Mu Cun said softly, "Let me confirm—is the current Kyoto Soshidai still the guy Toda Tadahiro?"

"..." Shenshan nodded.

After nodding his head, Shenshan raised his eyes to observe Mucun's current expression.

Seeing that Mucun's reaction was far more flat than he had imagined, Shenshan let out a sigh of relief.

At this time, Mucun asked back:

"As far as I know—wasn't Ogata Yidaosai already arrested by the government at the beginning of this year? How could it be him who committed the crime?"

"Of course I know." Shenshan smiled wryly.

Ordinary people in the market may not know whether Ogata Isai was arrested by the government, but all the high-ranking officials in the Kyoto Prefecture are very clear-Ogata Isai was already in the Tatsuno clan at the beginning of this year, and was arrested. Heizang Hasegawa was captured and sent to Butterfly Island.

"After receiving the order from Toda-sama to arrest Ogata Issai in the whole city, the big boss Abe Riri also raised the same objection as you to Toda-sama: Ogata Issai has already been arrested, and the perpetrator has How could it be Ogata Yidao Zhai?"

"Guess how Toda-sama replied to Abed Riri?"

Although Shenshan asked Mucun back, he didn't seem to expect Mucun to answer his question.

After raising this question, Shenshan immediately said:

"Toda said: 'It doesn't matter whether the murderer is Ogata Isai, it just needs to know that the murderer must look very similar to Ogata Isai, and Ogata Isai's arrest warrant can help us catch this guy. enough'."

Hearing this, the corner of Mucun's mouth curled up, and he let out a few chuckles.

"Oh, that's the truth... It's true that you don't need to worry about whether the murderer is Ogata Isai. All you need to know is that the murderer looks a lot like Ogata Isai, and the arrest warrant for Ogata Isai can be brought Reuse is enough."

"That's right." Shenshan nodded, "After seeing the arrest warrant of Ogata Isai, all the witnesses said that this person committed the crime. Then even if the murderer is not Ogata Isai, he will be very handsome. People like Ogata Yidao Zhai."

"Since he looks very similar to Ogata Isai, the hundreds of wanted warrants for Ogata Isai that have been accumulated in the warehouse can be used for nothing." Ogata Ittosai looks a lot like someone'—this is Toda-sama's idea."