I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"Okay, let's go down and do a search for Ogata Issai."

After Chuguang shouted "Yes" again, he got up and left.

As a result, when she just took a few steps back, Ji Jiu seemed to suddenly remember something, and hurriedly called Chu Guang to stop.

"Chuguang, wait."

Chu Guang, who didn't know why, knelt down on one knee again.

"I sent some ninjas to join the search for Ogata Yidaosai. Don't let that crazy woman, Mrs. Lao, know."

Ji Jiu raised his hand and rubbed the center of his eyebrows.

"That crazy woman just came to my place and made trouble"

"What do you want to join in the search for Ogata Yidaosai, and want to be loyal to Toyotomi-sama quickly."

"It's so ridiculous that she is a lunatic who can do nothing but kill people. If she is asked to search for Ogata Yitosai, the only help she can do is to be a waste of help."

"Anyway, don't let her know that I have sent more people to search for Ogata Isaitosai. If she finds out, she will definitely come to me again to nag me."

Hearing Ji Jiu's words, Chu Guang also showed a little smile on his face.

"Yes, I understand."

"Yeah." Jijiu nodded lightly, and then waved to Chuguang again.

This time, Chu Guang was not stopped suddenly by Ji Jiu, and walked out of the room where Ji Jiu was located very smoothly.

After Chuguang left the room where Jijiu was, a dramatic scene appeared

Chu Guang, who had been smiling just now, faded away at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Return to the original expressionless appearance.

Hatsuko, who left Yoshihisa's room, walked quickly in the direction of leaving Ryusuji.

When turning into a road that must be passed to leave Longshui Temple, Chuguang's eyes suddenly brightened.

Because at the end of the road ahead, she saw her old partner: Shibata.

At this moment, Shibata was dressed like an Iga male ninja.

And that's what he was.

Shibata is a member of the Iga Ninja.When Chuguang pretended to be a musician and lurked in Osaka, he always played the role of "the bodyguard of the first performer in Osaka" and assisted Chuguang from the side.

He is Chuguang's true partner, both on the surface and in substance.

At this moment, Shibata was talking to a middle-aged man and a man with his right arm hanging on his chest.

Chuguang also knew the two people who were talking to Shibata.

The former is the owner of the Osaka Motomeikan: Matahachiro Yagi.

The latter is a powerful young swordsman named An Yun.

Both of them have a common identity: they are both members of the Toyotomi Army.

Probably no one would have guessed that the well-known sword gym in Osaka, Yuanmeikan, is the base camp of the spies of their Toyotomi army.

A large number of spies from Toyotomi's army pretended to be apprentices of Yuanmingguan and lurked in Osaka.

As for these two people, Chuguang has heard about the embarrassing things that they both encountered a few days ago. In the "big test" jointly organized by the museum, they humiliated the people of Quanbingkan and Shimurakan.

This task was personally assigned by the commander-in-chief of their Toyotomi army: Toyotomi Nobuhide.

The reason why such a task was issued is also very simple.

The first owner of the Quanbingkan once fell into trouble when the Toyotomi family was in danger 200 years ago.

The current owner of the Shimurakan frequently speaks insultingly to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who created "Toyotomi Tianxia" 200 years ago, both in public and in private.

Toyotomi Nobuhide saw that the two sword gyms were not happy, so he decided to humiliate them in a large-scale event such as the "big trial match".

The reason is as simple as that.

In Chu Guang's eyes, this kind of task is full of the style of Toyotomi Nobuhide's lunatic.Part of the task is completely with your own temper and mood.

Shibata was also involved in this mission at the time.

During the time that Chuguang was lurking in Osaka with Chuguang, Shibata had always held two roles: he was in charge of pretending to be Chuguang's bodyguard and helping Chuguang, and also posing as a disciple of Yuanmingguan, providing for An Yun and others. assist.

Because Shibata was also present on the day when the mission was carried out, Chuguang heard the details of the mission through Shibata's mouth afterwards.

As far as the results are concerned, An Yun's mission was considered a success, but they paid a slightly higher price.

Relying on her high strength, An Yun successfully humiliated both Quanbingkan and Shimurakan in full view, but her right collarbone was broken due to various accidents afterwards.

Chu Guang had heard that An Yun had a mission of "trying to sneak into the prison, and when tonight's battle starts, cooperate with other companions to break through the Osaka Prison".

In terms of importance, it is obvious that this task is far more important than the task of "humiliating Quanbingkan and Shimurakan".

An Yun's superior seems to have told An Yun that the tasks of humiliating Quan and Zhijian Pavilion are very important, but it must be ensured that the task of "resulting in the prison later" will not be delayed.

In the end, because of a broken right collarbone, An Yun's mission of "lurking into the prison" was declared a failure in advance.

After seeing Shibata, Chuguang's eyes showed a few thoughtful lights.

After these thoughts flickered in Chu Guang's eyes for a while, they slowly turned into firmness.

"Shibata, you showed up just in time."

After muttering in such a low voice, Hatsumitsu hurried towards Shibata.

After the distance between Shibata and Shibata gradually narrowed, Chuguang relied on his excellent hearing to slowly hear the conversation between Shibata and An Yun.

"Mr. An Yun, I was shocked when I heard you said that you wanted to challenge that Yishihua during the big test."

Shibata smiled wryly.

"I thought at the time: Is it because the mission information I received was incomplete? Our mission should not include humiliating the Yishi Sword Gym."

"Hey, don't mention it."

An Yun pouted.

"I have experienced hundreds of battles, but the number of times I have fought against female swordsmen is very small."

"So after I came to Osaka, I always wanted to compete with that famous Isshiki."

"And at that time, didn't I just happen to be lurking in the Osaka Prison, and I was going to cooperate with outsiders tonight to break through the mission of the Osaka Prison."

"So I thought of killing two birds with one stone: challenge Yishihua, and then injure Yishihua."

"In this way, I can have a good fight with Yishihua, and after injuring her, I can be sent to prison for hurting others."

"I didn't think so"

An Yun glanced at her chest, which was thickly wrapped in sackcloth, and the right arm hanging on her chest, and twitched the corners of her mouth.

"Okay, let's not chat anymore." An Yun, who looked irritable, scratched her hair vigorously with her remaining left hand, "Shibata, I have something to do, so I'm leaving first."

Shibata: "Well, see you later."

After saying goodbye to each other, An Yun and the others left quickly, and Shibata also turned around to leave.

And as soon as he turned around, he saw Chu Guang running towards him.

"Ah, Miss Chuguang." After seeing Chuguang, Shibata immediately greeted Chuguang with a smile on his face.

"Shibata. Why are you here?" Chuguang asked Shibata, "Shouldn't you be running around in the streets and alleys of Osaka now?"

Chuguang remembered exactly what Shibata was responsible for tonight, and was responsible for searching for Ogata.

Shibata is one of the "eyes" of Toyotomi's army scattered all over Osaka.

After announcing the launch of "Project B" to encircle and suppress Ogata, Shibata was the first group of ninjas sent out to find Ogata.

"I accidentally got hurt." Shibata smiled dryly in shame, and then lifted the clothes on his left forearm, revealing the sackcloth that tightly wrapped his left forearm. "I just searched for Ogata Isaito in the southwest of Osaka."

"As a result, Ogata Yidao Zhai did not find it, but encountered a group of wanderers instead."

"Osaka is in chaos now, and it has given many bad people an opportunity."

"The gang of rogues I encountered were such rotten people."

"Many residents are now frightened by the fires in various places in Osaka and fleeing everywhere. They took this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do evil and broke into various shops to rob property."

"I really can't see their evil deeds, so I went to teach them a lesson."

"You also know that my fighting ability is not very good."

"Although I successfully taught them a lesson, I accidentally injured my left arm."

"So I came back here to heal my wounds, and I just bandaged the wounds."

"So that's Shibata, you came back just in time." Chu Guang raised his hands and patted Shibata's shoulders vigorously.

Afterwards, Chuguang looked around, and after confirming that there were no outsiders around, she lowered her voice, and with a volume that only she and Shibata could hear clearly, she told a series of events that she had just been transferred by Yoshihisa to join the search for Ogata , informed Shibata concisely.

"Shibata, listen up, you and I will act separately now."

Chuguang spoke in a deep voice as if he was reciting some magic spell.

"I'm now pretending to follow Yoshihisa's order and leave this Ryūsui Temple to find Ogata Yidaosai."

"And you will leave here one incense stick later than me."

"We will meet up at Miss Yishihua later."

Well

Ogata, who was resting against the wall, slowly opened his rock-heavy eyelids.

The first thing that catches his eyes is a wooden Buddha statue that has been wiped clean.

The Buddha statue sat quietly on the altar, watching Ogata with calm eyes.

After staring at the Buddha statue for a while, Ogata closed his eyelids again, and then said in his heart in a joking tone:

I always feel that I seem to have a good relationship with Buddha.

Ogata is now in an abandoned Buddhist hall.

An abandoned Buddhist temple that he had just visited a while ago.

After the battle with Yoshiemon was interrupted when the wooden bridge shattered under his feet, he fell into the turbulent water under the bridge.

Misfortunes never come singly, and when he fell into the turbulence, his head accidentally hit the pier.

Ogata's condition was already poor. After being hit hard on the head, his body was finally overwhelmed and Ogata temporarily "slept".

His sleep was not long.

When he was about to drift to the most downstream of the river, he finally woke up faintly.

Even when he was asleep, Ogata still held the knife tightly in his hand.

Ogata inserted the badly damaged sword that was left in his hand into the nearby river bank, using it as a fulcrum to drag himself ashore.

After going ashore, the first word that came to Ogata's mind was weight.

The body was so heavy that it was difficult to even stand up.

To give a vivid example, it feels like every muscle in the body has increased several times

If Ogata's physical state was 30 before falling into the turbulence, then his current physical state is 80.

Even the fatigue after the war, it is impossible to make the physical condition deteriorate so much in one go.

The only reason Ogata can think of is that the "immortal poison" is at work.

This outbreak of "immortal poison" reveals its differences from previous outbreaks everywhere.

Counting every previous outbreak of the "immortal poison", there has never been such a situation where Ogata's physical condition deteriorated so much in an instant like an explosion in one breath.

Ogata opened his skirt and looked at his upper body.

He had thought he must have had more skin turning purple.

But the result was beyond Ogata's expectation.

The purple skin did not increase, but decreased.

The area has been reduced by about one-fifth.

However, although the area has decreased, the color seems to have deepened slightly.