I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

As soon as he stepped out of the camp, Skulucci saw his assistant Vahili, who was particularly interested in "boxing" and "being beaten by powerful men", walking towards him.

"Ah, boss." Vahili said, "I heard that Mr. Mashima has come to our place, is it true? Lucia"

"It's true." Skulucci nodded, "Vassili, you came just in time, help me gather everyone, I have something important to tell them."

Vahili is an old partner who has followed Skulucci for many years, and he has long developed the good habit of "after Skulucci gives orders, just do it and don't ask too much".

After shouting "I see" loudly, Vahili quickly ran away from Skulucci's field of vision.

At this time, Ogata also walked out of Scruzzy's tent and stood behind Scruucci.

"So the apology you just said was apologizing for not being able to get all the subordinates to help me." Ogata showed a complicated smile mainly of helplessness and gratitude.

Ogata really wanted to say something to Scruucci.

But after thinking about it, there is still only the simplest sentence that can best express Ogata's current feelings for Skulucci.

"Thank you, Scruucci."

Skulucci looked up to the sky and let out a big laugh:

"You must be wondering why I would risk my life so much to help you?"

Skulucci turned his head, smiled and looked at Ogata with meaningful eyes.

Without waiting for Ogata to return to camp, Scruucci continued to say to himself:

"Actually, there's no complicated reason. It's just because I want to do it."

There were not many subordinates under Sculucci's command, so after a while, all of Scruucci's subordinates were assembled.

Although Scruucci is now with his superior, Grand Master Alexander, their troops do not live together.

The camp of Scruucci and his troops was located a few hundred meters west of Alexander's camp.

So Alexander doesn't know anything about the situation in Skulucci's camp now.

After the subordinates were assembled, Skulucci stood on a wooden box half a person's height with his hips akimbo, looking down at the 85 subordinates in front of him, including Vasily.As for Ogata, he was standing behind the wooden box at Scruucci's feet.

"Sorry to call everyone so suddenly."

"I'll just say it succinctly."

"Those in power in Japan have taken a fancy to a treasure land not too far from us."

"And on this precious land, there are more than a thousand Ainu people living."

"So Japan dispatched [-] troops to attack these more than [-] Ainu people, intending to drive them out of that treasure land, and then monopolize that treasure land for themselves."

"I hate this approach in Japan."

"So I'm going to help those Ainu people."

"The method of assistance is very simple: when the Japanese army was busy attacking the Ainu people, we attacked the flank of the Japanese army, took their base camp, and defeated the Japanese army in one go."

"None of you are imbecile, you should all know which number is bigger, tens or ten thousand."

"It's a dangerous, maybe deadly fight."

"I don't force everyone to follow me to help that battlefield!"

"People who are tired of this boring winter life and want to find some excitement. And people who are not afraid of death and are willing to follow me. Just follow me!"

"Those who don't want to go, I won't punish you either. Just remember not to cause trouble while I'm not here."

"I'll give you some time to think! After dark, anyone who intends to follow me should report to Vasili! Vasily, after summarizing the number of people, report to me as soon as possible."

"Also, Vasili, I have another task for you: to feed our horses and make our horses ready to attack at any time."

After saying that, Scruzzy jumped off the wooden box, ignoring the uproar of his subordinates in response to his words just now.

"Have you finished?" Ogata cast a surprised look at Skulucci, "I thought you might have a lot to say."

Ogata naturally couldn't understand Scruucci's Lucian language, so from Ogata's perspective, Scruucci stepped on the wooden box and babbled something unclear for less than half a minute, and then Just got off the wooden box.

"That's enough." Scruucci shrugged with a smile. "My subordinates and I are not used to that kind of long speech. This kind of concise speech is just right for them."

"I let them choose freely whether to go or stay. The time limit is tonight."

"Just wait slowly. Wait until tonight and see how many people are willing to follow me."

"And now, while I still have some time, I'm going to do something else."

After all, Scruucci took a big stride and walked up to Ogata, the distance between the two was so close that their breaths could collide with each other.

"What are you doing?" Ogata subconsciously took a step back.

As soon as Ogata took a step back, Scruucci took another step forward.

"Don't move, let me compare your body shape with mine."

Although he didn't know exactly what Scruucci was going to do, Ogata finally decided to obey Scruucci obediently, stand still, and let Scruucci stand in front of him.

"Well, you're about the same size as me."

"So what the hell are you going to do?"

"Mashima-kun, we can be regarded as mercenaries hired by you." Scruucci smiled, "So you can be regarded as our general."

"Not only that, but your skills are also very good."

"When I competed with you, I still remember the scene of being completely suppressed by you."

"You are the sharpest spear on our side. If there is anything wrong with your spear, it will be troublesome. Maybe you won't be able to reach the base camp of the 1 troops."

"So you have to find a way to make your spear not easy to break."

After saying that, Scruucci left from Ogata, then turned around and strode towards the east.

"Mashima-kun, I look at your face, you probably haven't had a good rest in the past few days, have you? Go back to my tent to rest now, I'll go get something, and I'll probably be back this evening."

Although Skulucci has been doing some things that Ogata couldn't understand from just now, Ogata didn't stop Skulucci or ask more questions.

Although the time spent with Skulucci is not very long, Ogata still has some understanding of Skulucci's style of doing things: he is not the kind of person who will do meaningless things.

Seeing the back of Skulucci leaving, Ogata suddenly remembered something, and then shouted at Skulucci:

"Scruucci!"

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"Since you're going to fetch something, can you find something for me? A long pole that's about half my height. It's better to be straight."

"Straight?" Scruucci is not the kind of person who is keen to break the casserole and ask the end. After raising his eyebrows, he nodded, "I know. I will look for it."

After saying goodbye to Ogata, Skulucci strode back to his superior: Alexander's big camp, went straight to Alexander's tent, opened the curtain, and saw Alexander holding a bottle of wine, gulping pouring.

After seeing clearly who the person who received the money was, Alexander, who had already blushed a little from drinking, shouted happily:

"Oh! Scruucci! You're back!"

"Really, what did you do just now? I can only drink alone."

"Sorry, sorry." Scruucci sat down in front of Alexander, "I went to attend to some personal matters just now, and now it's settled. Come on! Boss Alexander, let's have a drink!"

"Aha!" Alexander blushed even more because of his excitement, "I've been waiting for your words!"

Alexander threw a bottle of wine at Scruucci.

As a result, after Alexander threw the wine, the corners of Scruucci's mouth curled up in a sly arc.

"Boss Alexander, we have been drinking and chatting to pass the time these days. Don't you want to come up with some innovations and new ways to pass the time?"

"Innovation?" Alexander's eyes lit up, "Then do you have any good innovative ideas?"

"I thought about it carefully, you and I have never compared our drinking capacity." Skulucci shook the bottle in his hand, "Boss Skulucci, how about we compare and see whose drinking capacity is greater?"

The light in Alexander's eyes became brighter.

"Oh? Interesting! Good! Then let's have a drink!"

Seeing that Alexander readily agreed to his "drinking challenge", the slyness hidden in Scruzzy's upturned mouth became more intense.

"Then let's drink!" Scruzzi unscrewed the wine bottle in his hand.

2 hours later

"belch"

Alexander had a big belch.

Now night has fallen.

Candles for lighting were already lit in the tent just now.

Between Alexander and Scruucci, there were piles of empty wine bottles.

Like Scruucci, his cheeks were burning red.

But the difference between them Ali is that Alexander's eyes have been cloudy.And Scruucci's eyes were still clear.

Skulucci looked Alexander up and down several times, and after confirming that Alexander was quite drunk, he pressed the upturned corner of his mouth as if holding back a smile, and cleared his throat:

"Boss Alexander. I need your help with something now."

"Huh? What's the matter?" Because of his strong drunkenness, Alexander spoke with a bit of a tongue now.

"It's like this. When I was mapping the southern area, I met a Kazuto who lived in seclusion in an Ainu village."

"Na Kazuto is a descendant of a samurai. He has a set of armor inherited from his family. Although it is an armor passed down from generation to generation in their family, it is just a very ordinary set of armor."

"But that guy shows off his armor every day."

"When we were staying in that village, that guy would show us how powerful his family armor was whenever he had the opportunity."

"The more I think about his smug face, the more I get annoyed."

"So Mr. Alexander. I'd like to borrow that suit of armor you just tried on me today for 10 horses."

"I will wear it and take my men and horses to go to that village again. Let the guy know: his family armor is nothing more than a pile of broken copper compared to your armor, Sir Alexander. Rotten iron."

Already drank too much wine, Alexander, whose head was already a little not sober, lost his mind immediately after hearing Scruucci's hidden flattering words.

"Okay!" As soon as Skulucci finished speaking, Alexander slapped the table almost without hesitation, "No problem! You can wear and use my suit of armor as much as you like!"

"Hey, boss, don't worry."

As if by magic, Skulucci took out a piece of paper with several lines written on it from his bosom.

"After all, I'm borrowing something from you. So let's write an IOU for now. Come, you sign here."

"I still need to sign and write an IOU?" Alexander muttered, "Why bother, just take my armor away!"

Scruucci raised his right index finger and shook it left and right.

"That won't work."

"Although the English and French are a bunch of stinky shit, I still recognize their spirit of contract."

"I think we should also learn from their contract spirit."

"Oh, it's really troublesome. Give me your IOU."

Alexander took the IOU from Skulucci and looked it over roughly: there was not much written on it, it just wrote "When and where Skulucci borrowed Alexander's armor", "Damaged Compensation will be made according to the price", and then "Alexander has agreed and will never go back on his word".

Scruucci handed over his pen just in time.

Alexander wrote his name beautifully on this IOU with the pen Scruzzi handed him.

"Boss, you are back. Huh? What is that big box you are carrying on your back? Also, what is that long pole in your hand?"

As soon as Skulucci came back, he saw Vasily, who seemed to have been waiting for him for a long time, walking towards him quickly.

"This long pole was asked by Mashima-kun to help me find it. I don't know what it is used for."

"As for this big box I'm carrying on my back."

Scruzzy smiled triumphantly, and patted the big box on the back.

"It's a good thing I just borrowed from Boss Alexander."

Scruucci briefly outlined what he had done to Alexander just now.

After Skulucci's words fell, Vasily's eyes widened in astonishment.

"Boss really has you"

The astonishment on Vasily's face turned into bitterness.