I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

After saying these words, Feilu stabbed the wakizashi in his hand towards his own throat without any hesitation.

The sharp blade pierced through the flying ape's throat, and then pierced out from the back of the flying ape's neck.

After collapsing on the ground and convulsing for a while, the flying ape slowly died

"Oh." Cang Yong let out a long sigh.

The expression on his face was quite complicated, and he didn't know whether he was laughing or crying.

"What an idiot, why should you be buried with me?"

After sending out this emotion.Cang Yong took a deep breath.

Then slowly raised his head and looked at the blue sky above his head.

"It's such a beautiful and sunny day."

"It's a pity that I don't have the opportunity to go to next year's cherry blossoms."

After all, Cang Yong stabbed the sword in his hand into his left abdomen without any hesitation.

Then with both hands, he cut the sword inserted into the left abdomen to the right abdomen little by little.

Chapter 116 The Enemy's Trace

Only the sound of the wind blowing by his ears and his own footsteps remained.

"It's kind of lonely."

Ogata muttered in a volume that only he could hear clearly.

Before parting from Kuranaga and the others, Ogata still didn't feel lonely.

After leaving Kurangaga and the others, feelings of loneliness unconsciously surfaced from the bottom of Ogata's heart.

The master, the senior brothers, Kuranaga, Feilu, Ichiro and others familiar to Ogata are all gone.

In this world, Ogata's only friends are Azaki, Afu, and the knife in his waist.

Saki and Afu, in the foreseeable future for a long period of time, Ogata will not have the opportunity to come back to the Hirose Domain to meet Azaka and Afu.

In other words, the only thing left in this world is the sword at his waist to accompany him.

Ogata couldn't help raising his left hand, and pressed down on the Dao Dao Tan on his left waist.

"I don't know what lies ahead"

Ogata grumbled again.

This time, his tone was no longer sad, but excited and expectant.

Ogata didn't know what lay at the end of the horizon ahead.

He didn't even know whether he was going east or west now.

But Ogata didn't care about that.

After all, no matter which direction you go, you are moving forward.Just keep going forward.

The feet are full of vitality, and the eyes are shining with the unique drive of young people.

Ogata slightly pushed up the edge of the bamboo hat above his head, looking at the unreachable and completely unfamiliar road ahead.

With his left hand idly resting on the knife at his waist, Ogata walked along the winding country road, bathed in the sunlight pouring down from the sky.

The wind is sunny and the sun is cloudless.

at the same time

Edo

Somewhere in Edo, there is a magnificent mansion.

This mansion is not the home of some high-ranking official, but Edo, no, it is the residence of a famous government office well known to the entire Japanese.

Outside the gate of this magnificent yamen, there are two spring lanterns.

The family crest of the Tokugawa family, which ruled the whole of Japan, is painted on the lantern: the three-leaf sunflower pattern.

Next to the grand gate that can accommodate 8 people to enter side by side, there is a wooden signboard.

On the top of this wooden sign are five vigorous and powerful Chinese characters.

These five Chinese characters are the name of this well-known yamen.

At the same time, it is also a name that has made countless thieves in the world fearful.

It was just after noon, and the entire Edo Castle was immersed in a lazy atmosphere.

However, Huofu Thief changed Yamen, but it was quite lively.

An official who was wearing the uniform changed by Huofu Bandit, while holding the knife at his waist, walked quickly to the Yamen changed by Huofu Bandit.

It was precisely because of the sudden arrival of this official that the atmosphere of Huofu Thief changing Yamen, who was also immersed in a lazy atmosphere, changed instantly.

The two officials standing outside the gate of the yamen and guarding the gate recognized who this man was rushing towards them in a hurry.

This person is the right-hand man of Hasegawa Heizang, the chief executive of their Huofu Thief Reform: Imai Cheng.

After quickly rushing into the Yamen where Huofu Thief changed, Imai walked straight towards a certain place in the Yamen without any hesitation.

At this moment, a young male shouted suddenly from his side:

"Master Imai!"

Imai followed the prestige.

"It's Mr. Tangerine."

Tachibana Heitaro is the name of a young man who lives in Imai.

He is a newcomer who just joined their Huofu Thief Kai this year.

Although he is young, he has strong swordsmanship and ability to handle various cases, so he is highly valued by Imai.

Tachibana quickly walked to Imai's side, maintaining the same speed as Imai, walking side by side with Imai.

"Master Imai! Why are you in such a hurry? Could it be that there are some troublesome bandits again?"

"That's right." Imai said in a deep voice, "Tachibana-kun, you came just in time. Let me ask you if Mr. Hasegawa is in the yamen now?"

"Yes!" Tachibana said without thinking, "But Hasegawa-sama is taking a nap now!"

"It's good that he's here. Mr. Ju, listen. You should go and prepare for the long journey right now."

"We're leaving for Kansai soon."

"Kansai?" Tachibana exclaimed, "Do you want to go so far away?"

"That's right. We're going to hunt down a thief who has given us Huofu Thieves a headache for many years. I just received the latest information that the thief has been haunting Kansai recently."

"It's hard to track down the trace of this thief, we can't let it go no matter what."

The "thief" Ju is more confused.

He thought for a while, but he still couldn't figure out who the thief Imai was talking about was.

After all, there are too many thieves who have been absconded, and the officials who have changed their fire to the thieves have tracked them all over the world.

"Master Imai!" Tachibana asked, "Who is the thief we are going to chase?"

"Get ready for the long journey first!" Imai said in a somewhat impatient tone, "I'll tell you later who we are going to pursue!"

"Yes Yes!"

Seeing that Imai didn't want to say more, Tachibana didn't dare to ask any more.

He hurriedly released the state of walking side by side with Imai, and prepared to follow Imai's instructions and prepare for the long journey.

Imai, at a speed no less than running, quickly shuttled through the corridors they had changed for the thieves.

Eventually he stopped in front of a sliding paper door that opened onto a small courtyard.

Facing the paper sliding door, Imai knelt down on one knee.

then

"Master Hasegawa!"

He shouted at the paper sliding door in front of him with a voice that wasn't too high-pitched, nor too deep.

After Imai's voice fell, a lazy voice unique to human beings when they just woke up sounded from inside the paper sliding door:

"It's Imai"

"You came to me suddenly, what's the matter?"

"Master Hasegawa." Imai said in a deep voice, "We have traced the Buddha's enemy!"

As soon as Imai's voice fell, the sound of the quilt being lifted behind the paper sliding door sounded.

and hurried footsteps.

call!

The paper sliding door in front of Imai was jerked open.

A middle-aged man in an ordinary brown kimono maintained the posture of opening the paper sliding door, said with a sullen face:

"Imai, report to me all the information you know so far."

"Yes!"

Omi area, inside a certain mountain

The mountains are the farthest places from humans.

However, in a certain mountain in the Omi area, a village was suddenly built.

But it would be a bit of a stretch to call this piece of buildings a village.

Because this "village" does not have the vitality and popularity that human settlements should have.

Like an ice cube, exuding a cold breath.

Occasionally, a few people shuttled through this "village", but all of them were expressionless and hurried. Whether it was the clothes on their bodies, or their expressions and movements, they were far from the image of the mountain people.

In an ordinary wooden house in this "village", an old man with all the gray hair on his head was holding a scroll and reading it with relish.

"It seems" the old man suddenly said in a tone of self-talk, "The shogunate's purpose of concentrating all the serious criminals across the country in Kii is much more interesting than I imagined."

"It's been a long time since I've encountered such an interesting thing, it's really itchy."

After a few weird laughs, the old man casually threw the scroll in his hand aside.

"Come here." The old man shouted in a casual tone.

As soon as his words fell, a young man in black clothes and black pants jumped from the ceiling above the old man's head.

"Go and call A-Ming for me."

The old man said while stretching out his right tail finger to dig his earwax.

"I have a very interesting task for her."

After all, the old man's one eye shone with a meaningful light.

The old man has only one eye, the right eye.

A huge scar was drawn vertically from his left forehead, across his left eye, and then stopped on his left cheek.

The end of volume 2!

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"We didn't come to chase Yidao Zhai." Hasegawa said in a deep voice, "We came to Guifan this time to chase down Buddha's enemies!"

Chapter 117

January 1, the second year of Kanzheng——

Edo--

Today is a rare sunny day in the middle of winter.

The warm sunshine slanted down from the clear blue sky, bringing warmth to Edo Castle, the center of Japan.

Edo - seat of the Tokugawa shogunate, unquestionably the center of all of Japan.