I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

The young official did not return alone.

Behind him were several companions holding long wooden sticks like him.

Ogata glanced at the small stack of papers held by the young official, and thought to himself:

——Wanted warrant...

With just one glance, Ogata recognized what the young officer was holding in his hand.

After all, Ogata was quite familiar with this thing.

Not long after leaving the Hirose Clan, I saw a wanted poster with his appearance.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me." The young officer said to Ogata with a very polite tone and a slightly apologetic smile, "We cannot hire wanted criminals who are at large."

"I understand." Ogata smiled, "I can understand."

"Please wait patiently." After finishing speaking, the young officer quickly flipped through the stack of wanted warrants in his hand, and compared them to Ogata's faces one by one.

Ogata was not worried about the comparison of the young officials.

After all, the human skin mask is now properly worn on the face.

Now from the perspective of outsiders, he, Ogata, is just an ordinary person with ordinary facial features and a simple appearance.

This simple appearance looks more like a farmer than a samurai.

With the help of the human skin mask, Ogata successfully passed the level of "comparing the appearance of the wanted criminal".

"Okay, no problem." The young officer nodded gently, put away the arrest warrant in his hand, then turned sideways, and opened the door of the clubhouse behind him, "Sir, please come in with me."

The interior of the Shirobei clubhouse is much more spacious than Ogata imagined.

After handing the big Shitian at his waist to his right hand, Ogata followed the young official around the clubhouse, and the two finally stopped outside a plain sliding door.

"Please wait inside." The young official said as he opened the paper sliding door, "I'll invite the person in charge of our clubhouse to come."

"En." Ogata smiled and nodded at the young official, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

This room should be specially used for receiving guests, and the room was clean and clean.

Ogata knelt and sat on one side of the only table in this room, placed Da Shitian on the tatami on the right, and silently waited for the person in charge to arrive.

I don't know if it's because it's early in the morning, and the flow of people in Yoshiwara is relatively small, so the officials in the clubhouse are relatively free. It didn't take long for the paper sliding door of the room to be opened again.

Opening the sliding paper door and stepping into the room is an elderly man in his 5s or 60s who wears the dark blue haori that was specially designed for the Shirobei Club.

Although he is old, the old man's steps are still solid and powerful, and it can be seen that his body is still strong.

"Guian, my name is Kawajiro. I'm Banfang of Shirobei Clubhouse."

After the old man sat opposite to Ogata, he and Ogata started a brief greeting.

And Ogata also immediately bowed to the old man named Kawajiro and returned a salute.

"I am Izumo Ronin, Mashima Goro."

After brief self-introductions to each other, Kawajiro looked at Ogata several times with a scrutinizing gaze.

"Hmm...he has a good physique." Kawajiro nodded with a smile, "Maintaining law and order in the clubhouse is not an easy job."

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"After all, there are all kinds of troublemakers in Yoshihara."

"So if you want to work in our clubhouse, you can't do it right away."

Ogata immediately understood the implication of Kawajiro's words.

"Do you want me to show my hands?" Ogata smiled and asked knowingly.

"The assessment is very simple." Kawajiro said, "Just compete with the people in our clubhouse."

"I understand." Ogata nodded, "I can start anytime."

"It's Keimon's job to compete with the applicants." Kawajiro scratched his white hair, "It's just that he just went out on patrol to pass the time because he was in a hurry."

"How long will it take for him to come back?" Ogata raised his eyebrows.

If possible, Ogata didn't want to wait in the clubhouse.

"I don't know... the daytime is the most leisure time in our clubhouse. After the fellow Keimon went out to patrol in the morning, he would occasionally go to the tea house to drink a few cups of tea before returning..."

After pondering for a moment, Kawajiro stood up.

"I'll take you to him directly, so that everyone can save a lot of time. I don't know how long it will take to wait for him to come back from his leisurely patrol."

"Huh? Will this bother you?" Ogata's face showed a little worry.

Although Ogata agrees with Kawajiro's approach of actively looking for Keeimon and not staying in the clubhouse, but he doesn't want to disturb this person who should be in the Shirobei clubhouse because of his own affairs. It is the job of the elderly who are not low in status.

"It's okay." Kawajiro waved his hands as if he had seen through Ogata's thoughts, "I said it just now, now is the most leisure time in our Shirobei clubhouse."

"I just don't have anything to do right now."

"I just took this opportunity to take a walk outside."

Seeing that Kawajiro said that, Ogata couldn't say anything more to refute him.

After mentioning Da Shitian and following Kawajiro out of the clubhouse, the air with a faint smell of powder rushed towards Ogata again.

During the daytime, it is the off-duty time for the traveling girls, and the traveling girls no longer sit in rows behind the fence on the first floor of each traveling girl's house, but the smell of cosmetics and the pleasant fragrance are still in the air.

Kawajiro seemed to have a bit of a mouthful, and when he and Ogata walked along Nakanomachi to the depths of Yoshiwara one after another, he had been introducing various basic knowledge of Yoshihara to Ogata.

However, Ogata already knew the basic knowledge that Kawajiro and Ogata had popularized.

For example, women's houses are divided into three levels: large, medium, and small, and women have to show "female cut hands" when entering and leaving Yoshiwara-this knowledge, Ogata has already learned from different populations.

When they walked all the way to the Shirobei clubhouse behind them, there was only a distance as big as a thumb left, Ogata and Kawajiro suddenly heard something unusual happening in front of them, they gathered on the avenue in front of them in the current deserted street Still a lot of people.

And among the people gathered in front, there were several official servants wearing Shiro Bingwei Clubhouse.

"What happened..." Kawajiro muttered, and ran forward quickly.

And Ogata followed closely behind.

After running a little closer to the crowd ahead, Kawajiro exclaimed:

"It's Keemon."

After clearing his throat, Kawajiro shouted loudly to the crowd ahead:

"Keiemon!"

Ogata followed Kawajiro to an uncle in the crowd holding a long wooden stick.

Ogata recognized this uncle.

After watching Gua Shengxiu at the entrance of the sushi restaurant during the day yesterday and beating up the four scumbags who didn't give money after having fun, it was this uncle who led the officials from other clubs to arrive late, which caused Gua Sheng to make a series of unhappy complaints.

Tucao Keeimon why they always arrived at the scene after she had finished fighting with others.

"Keimon! What's the matter with this guy?" Kawajiro hurriedly asked Keeimon after he came to Keeimon's side.

"This guy didn't give any money after eating and drinking at the tea house." Keeimon replied quickly, "Kawajiro, you step back first, you stand here, and when a fight breaks out, you may be implicated."

"Do you need me to call more reinforcements?" Kawajiro asked.

"...Hmm. Please."

Kawajiro nodded vigorously, opened his mouth, and when he was about to say something——

"That..." Ogata interrupted abruptly at this moment, "Kawajiro, you said just now that to become an employee of the Shirobei Club who is responsible for maintaining law and order, you must first test your strength, right?"

"Huh?" Kawajiro was taken aback for Ogata's sudden question, and then quickly replied, "That's right, so you wait, and after Keeimon takes down the thief, let Qingwei The door is here to test you... Hey! You, what are you doing?!"

Before Kawajiro could finish his words, Ooyo walked through the thin encirclement circle built by Keimon and the others for the ronin who ate the king's meal, and walked slowly towards the dirty man who was surrounded by them. One could tell at a glance that he was the kind of ronin who didn't finish his meal.

"Hi!" Keemon's voice sounded behind Ogata, "What are you doing?"

Ogata turned a deaf ear to Keeimon's anxious words.

After walking slowly to a position a little distance from the ronin, he stopped.

"Who are you?! What do you want to do by leaning over all of a sudden?!" Ronin turned the point of the knife and aimed it at Ogata, his face full of vigilance.

"I didn't want to do anything." Ogata said to Ronin in a calm tone, "I'm anxious to let this man named Keimon test my strength, so can you please put down the sword quickly, and then catch him without a fight. Is it? This will save everyone a lot of time."

"Who would just catch him without a fight like this!" Ronin roared, "Aren't you an official of Shirobei Club?"

"My name is Goro Mashima." Ogata said seriously, "Let's be considered a ronin passing by here."

"Since it's not an official post, step aside for me! Otherwise, I'll kill you too!"

After Ogata gave the ronin a meaningful look, he said softly:

"...Didn't you find out?"

"Huh?" Ogata's inexplicable rhetorical question stunned Ronin, Keeimon and the others beside him.

"What did you find?" Ronin asked back.

"Didn't you find out——you have been standing in my best attack range since just now."

After finishing speaking, Ogata raised his right hand abruptly, and put his hand towards Da Shitian at his left waist.

After gripping the hilt tightly, he drew the sword out of its sheath.

Ogata did not use the sword-drawing technique of "No Self Two Swords Style"-Raikiri.

Just an ordinary knife draw.

After all, to deal with a ronin of this level, it is not necessary to use Leiqie.

A cold light leaked from Da Shitian's scabbard, and Ogata aimed at the sword in Ronin's hand, and used the dragon tail of Sakakibara Ichito-ryu.

The cold light swept horizontally, accurately hitting Ronin's sword, and then directly knocked Ronin's sword into the air.

This ronin didn't even see clearly when Ogata's sword was drawn, and it was inevitable that the knife in his hand would be chopped off by Ogata's sword.

After chopping off the ronin's sword, Ogata turned Da Shitian and stuck the blade on the ronin's neck.

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"People who don't even know that they are already standing within the best attack range of the enemy can't kill me."

After Ogata said these words calmly, the ronin finally realized something belatedly.

He didn't know whether he was frightened by Ogata's almost invisible knife just now, or by the sharp touch continuously passing down his neck to his brain, in short, his face made a "swish" After turning pale, his feet went limp and he sat down on the ground.

Keeimon, who was standing behind Ogata, was stunned for a while, then hurriedly waved his hand and ordered:

"Quick! Tie this guy up!"

Hearing Qingweimen's order, the rest of the officials around who were also stunned and stunned finally reacted, and rushed to rush at the ronin who was knocked down by Ogata.

After the officials from the surrounding Shirobei Clubhouse had already started to move, the rogue finally recovered from the shock and fear, and put his hand towards the wakizashi on the left waist.

But he was too late.

The surrounding officials have successfully suppressed the ronin before he pulled out his wakizashi, and tied him into a rice dumpling with thick and long hemp rope.

After the officials captured the rogue, Ogata took back the Da Shitian in his hand, and put the saber back into its sheath.

The reason why he personally subdued this troublesome ronin is because Ogata didn't want to waste too much time on this person.

If Keimon, Kawajiro and the others are allowed to slowly tighten the encirclement net against this ronin at their own pace, God knows how long it will take.

Another reason is that Ogata hates people who don't give money after eating, drinking and having fun.

One of the jobs that Ogata used to do in the Hirose Domain was to deal with the kind of people who eat overlord meals in the izakaya opened by Azaki and Afu.

Because of this job, Ogata unknowingly developed a temperament that could not get used to such scoundrels.

As he walked slowly towards this ronin, Ogata could see that this person might not be able to catch even one of his moves.

Ogata's height and arm length were already above the average line of adult males in this era.

His Da Shitian is also longer than most Da Dao.

Therefore, Ogata's attack range is much wider than that of ordinary people.