I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"I know." Yuan Yi shrugged, "But this kind of thing doesn't matter now, right?"

"I was cautious before, I just didn't want people in Shiranui to know that Genichi Kinoshita was in Edo, so that Shiranui would be on guard."

"And now that the fire is gone, there is no need to worry about Genichi Kinoshita being exposed in Edo."

"If there are enemies who recognize me now and come to challenge me, then let them come."

"I, Kinoshita Genichi, have never been afraid of anyone since the first time I held a sword."

"I see." After thinking for a moment, Lin nodded slowly, and then turned her gaze back to the account book in front of her, "Uncle, just pay attention to your own safety."

"It should be to make my enemies pay attention to safety." Yuan Yi grinned, "If you didn't meet me, or if you met me and pretended that you didn't see me, you could live longer."

After notifying Lin, Yuanyi held his bag of painting tools in his right hand, rested his left hand casually on his two sabers, and strode out of the house.

Then I wandered aimlessly, holding the idea of ​​"trying my luck", looking for beautiful scenery worth painting.

Unknowingly, Yuanyi walked into a commercial area.

There are various shops on both sides of the street.

Countless pedestrians shuttled on the street, or entered and exited a certain shop, or walked straight forward without turning their eyes.

Yuan Yi was not interested in painting shops, and after looking around the street, he was about to leave.

However, just as he was about to leave, he suddenly heard a conversation from two women who were chatting not far away that made Yuan Yi's pupils shrink slightly.

"Mrs. Gui, have you heard? It is said that the remnants of the Toyotomi Clan attacked the Kitamachi Prefectural Office in Edo last night."

"Toyotomi? What is that?"

"Oh, Mrs. Gui, don't you know the Toyotomi family?"

Yuan Yi's footsteps subconsciously stopped.

Standing there, there was a bit of astonishment and surprise on his face.

He pursed his lips tightly, and after standing there for a while, he strode towards the two women.

"Sorry." Yuan Yi broke into the conversation between the two women.

Genichi's sudden interjection startled the two women.

"Sorry for scaring you." Yuan Yi bowed slightly and apologized, "Can you please tell me in detail what you talked about just now?"

The two women looked Yuan up and down several times with hesitant eyes.

"I don't know the details," one of the women said slowly, "I just heard it from my husband."

Residence of Edo, Ogata and others

Lynn is still concentrating on keeping accounts.

Suddenly, another voice sounded outside the door, interrupting Lin's concentration.

"Xiaolin, it's me."

Listening to the human voice that was just heard a while ago, Lin's brows immediately frowned.

"come in."

After the owner of the human voice entered the room, Lin put down the brush in her hand, then turned around, faced this person, and cast a puzzled look at him.

"Uncle, why are you back? Didn't you go to paint?"

The person who entered the room was Genichi who just went out to paint.

After casting her eyes full of doubts on Yuan Yi, Lin found that Yuan Yi's expression was somewhat solemn.

"Xiao Lin."

Yuan said in a deep voice.

"I just heard something out there."

"Nobuhide seems to be in Edo right now."

Lin's pupils shrank slightly after hearing Yuan Yi's words just now, no, it should be said that he heard the name "Nobusu" from Yuan Yi's mouth.

Genichi told Lin one by one what he had heard from the two women just now.

After Yuanyi's voice fell, Lin slowly lowered her head.

"Attack the Kitamachi Enforcement Office in the middle of the night, kill all the officials stationed in the Enforcement Office, and then paint Taigetong on the wall?"

Lin suddenly sneered.

"It's really like what that person would do."

After finishing speaking, Ben Lin turned her body back, faced the desk covered with ledgers, picked up a brush, and continued to scribble something on the ledger.

"That person may really be in Edo now."

"It doesn't matter to me where that person is now."

"What that person is doing now is equally irrelevant to me."

"Even if he immediately leads his subordinates into Edo Castle and kidnaps the shogun, it's none of my business."

"I don't care where or how that person is now."

"Whatever he likes to do is his freedom."

"Compared to that person's current movements, I care more about what I have for lunch today."

"Uncle, thank you for coming back to tell me this."

"I'm going to settle the score."

"Uncle, if you still want to continue painting outside, go quickly."

"If you keep procrastinating like this, it will be noon."

Because Lin turned her body back, Genichi could only see Lin's back now.

Yuan opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something.

But just as he opened his mouth, Genichi closed it again.

Then he left the room without a word.

After Yuanyi left, the trouble in Lin's hand slowly stopped on the paper of the ledger.

Lin lowered her head, and her eyes shot straight at the ledger in front of her.

Obviously the place where the eyes are looking at is the account book on the table, but Lin's eyes seem to be looking at other, more distant places

After a long while, the sound of the brush sliding on the paper resounded in the room again.

Edo, Yoshiwara

Ogata walked along the road that he had traveled countless times before, arrived at the Nippon Embankment, stepped on the Fifty Ways, and then passed through the wide Yoshihara gate.

Pass through the gate of Yoshihara, enter Yoshihara, and you will see the headquarters of Shirobei Club on the right hand side.

Standing in front of the Shirobei clubhouse, Ogata couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

Some acquaintances in the Shirobei clubhouse, led by Shirobei and Keeimon, were the first people Ogata wanted to say goodbye to.

Shirobei and Qingweimen are very friendly. During the period of lurking in the Shirobei clubhouse, Ogata also received some care from these people, big and small. So it's still pleasant.

Now that he was about to leave Edo, Ogata felt that he had to say goodbye to Shirobei and the others no matter what.

Ogata walked towards the Shirobei clubhouse, and then said to the two officials standing guard in front of the clubhouse:

"Excuse me, is Lord Shirobei in the club now?"

The current Ogata is naturally wearing that human skin mask, incarnate as "Mashima Goro".

One of the two officials standing guard in front of the clubhouse unexpectedly recognized Ogata, and shouted in a surprised tone:

"Huh? Isn't this Mashima-sama?"

During the time when Ogata was lurking in Yoshihara, he did a lot of great things to make him famous.

So Ogata is considered a half-celebrity in the Shirobei Clubhouse, and many officials in the clubhouse recognize Ogata.

"Well, it's me." Ogata nodded, "Is Lord Shirobei there? I need to find him."

"Yes, yes." The official who recognized Ogata just now nodded vigorously.

The officer led Ogata into the Shirobei clubhouse, and then led Ogata all the way to Shirobei's office

Entering the office, Obi saw Shirobei who was working at his desk.

Shirobei was also surprised when he saw Ogata.

"Mashima-kun?" Shirobei exclaimed, "It's been a long time since I've seen you. If it wasn't because Guasheng told you about you before, I really thought you had some accident and disappeared."

Now that I don't know the fire is extinguished, naturally there is no need to lurk in Yoshihara anymore.

So when Ogata was recuperating in that house before, he asked Guasheng to tell everyone in the Shirobei clubhouse that he would no longer work here because of some things.

This is the first time Ogata has appeared in front of Shirobei since the decisive battle with Shiranui, and indeed it has been a long time.

"Master Shirobei, long time no see." Ogata smiled, "May I trouble you with something?"

"what's up?"

What Ogata wants to trouble Shirobei to do is also very simple, and help to call some people headed by Keimon.He has something important to say to these people, including Shirobei.

Call some people who are acquainted with each other on weekdays, and it is also convenient for Xu to say goodbye to all of them.

This kind of thing is just a trivial matter to Shirobei, and the people Ogata just pointed out happen to be in Edo now, so Shirobei immediately sent an order to Keeimon and others to come.

Soon, some people who were familiar with Ogata, headed by Keimon, came to Shirobei's office one after another.

After everyone arrived, Ogata greeted them first, and then got straight to the point, telling them that he was leaving Edo for some things and going to Ezo.

These people present are the group of people who have a close relationship with Ogata in the Shirobei clubhouse.

Seeing that Ogata came to say goodbye, some people headed by Shirobei showed sadness while cheering Ogata up, asking Ogata to pay attention to safety during the subsequent trip to Ezo.

However, some people headed by Keimon spoke out to persuade Ogata to stay in Edo and continue to work here in Yoshihara.

But Ogata would naturally not accept their persuasion.

After politely rejecting their request to stay and saying goodbye to Shirobei and the others, Ogata left the Shirobei clubhouse.

But he did not leave Yoshihara immediately.

Instead, he stood outside the gate of the Shirobei clubhouse, raised his head, and let out a long breath facing the sky.

Then he muttered in a low voice that only he could hear clearly:

"The only ones left to say goodbye are him and him."

Right now

Kii Domain, Butterfly Island, the source of the Linong River

Fujiwara, wearing armor and full armor, looked seriously at the fishermen who were constantly throwing nets into the Linon River in small boats.

The fishermen sprinkled their nets into the river again and again, and then again and again there was nothing in the nets.

Looking at the fishermen who had been fruitless all this time, Fujiwara's serious face gradually showed a bit of frustration, and he thought to himself:

There should be no gain again today

As of this spring, Masa Inamori, also known as "Tiger Inamori", was in charge of leading the army to monitor Butterfly Island.

But after spring, Inamori was transferred to the north to monitor the Lucians who had been making small moves recently.

After Inamori was transferred, the task of leading the army to monitor Butterfly Island fell on Fujiwara's shoulders.

After the replacement of the commander-in-chief, a new change was made to the handling of Butterfly Island.

Originally, the shogunate's plan was to mobilize felons from all over the country, and let this group of people who don't care if they die to consume the number of monsters on Butterfly Island as much as possible.

The shogunate's plan failed.

No matter what method is used, the "ogre" on Butterfly Island cannot be killed, and the felons sent to the island are wiped out.

So the shogunate had no choice but to send out the army again in the least desirable way to forcibly suppress these "ogre ghosts" on Butterfly Island.

Before concentrating the felons across the country, the shogunate sent troops to land on the island to exterminate the ogres on the island.

At that time, there was very little information, and almost nothing was known about ogres, so that FA match ended in a disastrous defeat.