I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"So it's better to have more than one thing less"

Ogata wanted to continue talking, but Genichi raised his right index finger and shook it left and right.

"Ogata-kun, you don't understand this, do you?"

"You should also know, right? I have a deep blood feud with Shiranui."

Genichi raised his left hand and swiped vertically across his left eye.

"When I was young, I had a fight to the death with the current 17th Balrog, and I cut off his left eye. This is a personal enmity."

"Ten years ago, Fuma no Sato and Shiranui were torn apart. When Fuma was about to be besieged and killed by the Balrogs, I was the one who came forward to mediate."

"As a result, Shiranui missed the opportunity to kill Fumo, who attacked their base alone and brought them great shame and humiliation. This is public revenge."

"The addition of the two enmities has already made that fellow Balrog hate me to the bone."

Ogata listened carefully while nodding from time to time.

Ogata has heard of the two major hatreds between Yuanyi and Shiranui.

The former was learned from the cheat book Wuwo Two Swords Style, while the latter was learned from Fumo when he was recuperating at Fumo's home after the "Battle of Nijo Castle".

"It's not clear whether the Balrog knows that many of my enemies are in Edo."

"Let's just assume that the Balrog knows that many of my enemies are in Edo."

"Ogata-kun, think about it."

"If you are a Balrog who hates Genichi Kinoshita to the bone, you know that there are many guys who also hate Genichi Kinoshita in Edo. What will you do?"

Hearing this, Ogata slightly raised his eyebrows.

Although Yuan Yi hadn't finished speaking at this time, Ogata had already understood Yuan Yi's meaning at this time.

"Will you consider cooperating with these guys who also hate Genichi Kinoshita?" Genichi grinned, "As you said just now, our primary goal now is to defeat Shiranui. "

"For us whose ultimate goal is to defeat Shiranui, my enemies who may fight side by side with Shiranui are potential enemies."

"So before we launch a general attack on Shiranui, don't you think it's a wise move to kill our former enemies?"

After silently listening to Genichi's words, Ogata fell silent.

Ogata had to admit that Yuan Yi made a lot of sense.

His heart that didn't agree with Yuan Yi to go and do nothing, was obviously shaken.

While Ogata was still thinking, Genichi put the tengu mask back on his face.

"By the way, Ogata-kun, why don't you follow me to meet my enemies."

"Huh?" Ogata's face was filled with astonishment.

Genichi's invitation was so unexpected that Ogata couldn't help but be stunned.

"If it's just me, one enemy is many, maybe some people will escape."

"It would be much easier if you were the one to do the support."

"How? Do you want to come with me?"

Ogata was stunned for a while at the sudden invitation thrown by Yuan Yi.

The already shaken heart became even more shaken.

Accompanying Yuan Yi will surely gain a lot of experience points.

Experience points have always been very attractive to Ogata.

But Yuan Yi's words still didn't stop.

"If you come with me, I can also teach you some skills in swinging swords."

"It's so windy"

While talking, Ogata tightened the haori on his upper body.

The evening wind that blows towards Ogata like a sharp knife reminds Ogata that it is now a season with a large temperature difference between day and night.

In order to fight against the night wind, Ogata was also fully armed: hakama, kimono, haori, tabi socks were all neatly dressed.

Just now, Genichi and Ogata jumped out of the window of their room one after the other.

At this moment, the two were standing on a street where there was no one else around.

Now converted into the time unit of the earth, it is probably close to 24 o'clock in the evening.

At this point in time, except for very few areas such as Yoshiwara, the rest of Edo was completely dark, and no one was wandering on the streets.

"Let's go, Ogata-kun."

Genichi's voice was a bit dull because he was wearing the tengu mask that just covered his entire face and only showed a pair of eyes.

"Go ahead and buy you a mask that can cover your entire face. If you let passers-by see your face when you are cleaning up those mice, it will be troublesome."

Compared with Ogata, Genichi's dress is quite cool.

Still wearing only the thin white bathrobe, with neither shoes nor socks on her feet.

Looking at Genichi's cool attire, Ogata couldn't help but say:

"Master Yuan, is it really okay for you to dress like this? Be careful of catching a cold, at least wear a pair of shoes."

"Hahahaha. No need, no need." Yuan Yi waved his hand boldly, "This wind is just enough to sober me up."

"I have thick calluses on the soles of my feet, so it doesn't matter if I wear shoes or not."

That's true

Ogata said that in his heart, and nodded.

As Genichi said just now, the calluses on the soles of his feet are very thick.

The soles were thick enough to remind Ogata of boots from Western countries.

It is so thick that the two soles of the feet clap together, making a "bang bang bang" sound

Seeing that Yuanyi really didn't seem to be afraid of the cold, and didn't want to wear shoes, he stopped talking nonsense and turned the topic back to business.

"Master Gen, how are you going to find those rats in Edo, which has a population of more than 100 million?"

It's a little inconvenient to always call him "Master Yuan's enemy" or "my enemy".

For the convenience of addressing, Ogata and the others gave Genichi's group of enemies a nickname: Mouse.

"Since I have decided to deal with these rats one by one, I must know where to go to meet them most easily."

Yuan Yi grinned.

"Let's go to Yoshiwara."

"Yoshihara?" Because he was too surprised, Ogata's voice lost control involuntarily.

"Ogata-kun, have you forgotten? There are a lot of mice coming and going in and out of Yoshihara now, and they plan to look for me in Yoshiwara, or collect information about me."

"So we're going to Yoshiwara's place!"

Hearing Genichi's reminder, Ogata remembered that this was indeed the case.

At that time, Genichi learned from his old acquaintance Shirohei that many "rats" entered and left Yoshihara for the purpose of finding Kinoshita Genichi, and then learned that many of his enemies gathered in Edo.

"I just came back from Yoshihara, and I'm going back to Yoshihara again?" Ogata couldn't help showing a wry smile.

"Let's go, Ogata-kun."

I don't know if it was because he breathed the outside air that he hadn't seen for a long time, but Genichi seemed to be quite excited.

"I don't know where the nearest store that sells masks is. If I knew that when I asked Shimada to buy this tengu mask for me, I would like to ask Shimada where there is a mask."

After a fierce ideological struggle, Ogata decided to turn a blind eye to Yuan Yi's decision to go out.

Oh no.It is a little inaccurate to use the phrase "open one eye and close one eye" to describe it.

Ogata is no longer "turning a blind eye", but directly becoming Genichi's accomplice.

Ogata understood that a large part of Yuan's invitation to him was to pull Ogata into the water, so that Ogata and him would become grasshoppers on the same rope, and the purpose of sealing it was logically achieved.

Although he already knew that Yuan Yi invited him, a large part of the reason was to pull him into the water, but Ogata decided to jump into this pit.

It is also for several reasons.

On the one hand, I think Yuan Yi's idea of ​​killing potential enemies is very reasonable and worth trying.And you can also get a wave of experience points by the way.

On the other hand, he is very interested in Genichi's swordsmanship guidance, and by the way, see for himself how strong the swordsmanship of Genichi, known as the "Sword Master", is.

Although he has known Genichi for a long time, Ogata has never seen Genichi attack the enemy himself.

If you say you are not interested in Yuan Yi's actual combat ability and Yuan Yi's advice, then it must be a lie.

Because of these various reasons, Ogata decided to hunt down "rats" with Yuanyi and make a fuss together.

The two of them were lucky to find a shop selling masks that was still open in such a late night.

Ogata didn't care what mask to wear to hide his identity, so he just bought a white fox mask casually.

After buying masks to hide their identities, "Tengu" and "White Fox" approached Yoshihara while carefully avoiding passers-by who happened to appear on the street.

When Ogata and Genichi slipped outside along the window

Edo, the inn where Ogata and the others stayed

Gamiya, whose cheeks were facing the ceiling, closed his eyes and breathed long and regularly all the time, opened his eyes suddenly after Ogata and Gen jumped out of the room, and then sat up from the bed Come.

When Ogata and Genichi jumped out of the window just now, they didn't forget to close the window again.

Mamiya, who sat up from the bed, showed a strange expression, and whispered in a somewhat helpless tone amidst doubts:

"What are they two doing?"

Ogata and Genichi did not enter Yoshihara, but lurked outside Yoshihara's gate.

Ogata and Genichi hid in a dense bush outside the gate of Yoshihara, monitoring the only entrance and exit of Yoshihara.

Although it is late now, there are still many men and women entering and leaving through the sleeve doors on both sides of the gate.

Looking at the Yoshihara gate not far away, who had just left and then returned, Ogata had a complicated expression on his face.

"Master Gen." Ogata said softly, "Although it is true that there are many mice in and out of Yoshiwara looking for you and your information, but it is so late now, can we really meet mice?"

"And do you remember who were rats?"

Compared with the number of "rats" and the number of tourists entering and leaving Yoshiwara every day, it is definitely a drop in the bucket.

It is definitely a small probability event to squat outside the gate of Yoshihara until the "mouse" just enters or leaves Yoshihara.

"Although I have forgotten the faces of some enemies, I still remember the faces of some enemies."

After saying that, Yuan Yi suddenly stretched his right hand forward.

"Aha, got it."

While speaking, Genichi spread his right hand.

A bee that had been crushed to death by Yuan Yi lay quietly on Yuan Yi's right palm.

"My mouth just got a little hungry."

After finishing speaking, Yuanyi threw the bee in his palm into his mouth and began to chew it.

Seeing Genichi's astonishing operation, Ogata's eyes widened.

"Master Yuan, bees should not be eaten raw, right? Its stingers cannot be touched randomly."

As far as Ogata knew, the stings of bees seemed to be poisonous, and it was painful to be stung.

And Yuan Yi actually stuffed the bee into his mouth like this

"It's unlucky, the bee didn't get honey, it's not sweet."

Genichi spat out the bee stinger and continued to speak in a vague tone:

"Indeed, the sting of a bee is not to be touched."

"I was tortured to death when I first ate bees."

"But after that, my body seems to have adapted to the bee's toxin. No matter how much I eat bees, I won't feel any discomfort anymore."

Speaking of this, a faint look of reminiscence appeared on Yuan Yi's face.