Konoha no Wanderer

"The second torch cabinet on the east side of the observatory"

He came to the observation deck "unobstructed" and found the second torch cabinet. Shiraishi held an iron box in his right hand and repeated Mihara Yosuke's words.

"Turn counterclockwise"

How do you force it?

Shiraishi looked at the vertical mesh iron box with confusion and tentatively pulled it with his right hand.

click

There was indeed an organic sound accompanying his pulling action.

However, after waiting for more than ten seconds, nothing happened on the observation deck.

“Being fooled”

With a rare raise of his eyebrows, Shiraishi moved the torch cabinet back to its original position, and the sound of the machine sounded again.

Unfortunately, there was still no movement on the observation deck.

Instead, a shrill scream came from the sixth floor.This scream was particularly sad among the sounds of fighting.

"Uh~ah"

"Song Yi"

In a remote side room on the sixth floor, half of a man wearing bamboo armor was trapped by a mechanism.

It reminds me of the image that I am likely to be squeezed into two pieces.

The fear and pain mixed in made him scream heartbreakingly.

After screaming for a while, Soichi realized that everyone around him was looking at him strangely.After regaining his sense a little, he finally realized that the trap door stuck in the armor on his abdomen did not seem to be that powerful.

"call"

After taking a deep breath, Stork, who was standing in the center of the soldiers, waved to his men and said, "Yosuke, go to the observation tower and explain things clearly to that person."

"Yes."

After a moment.

The trap was opened again, and Soichi, who was stuck in the trap for a while, got up from the ground in embarrassment.

Under the leadership of Yosuke, Shiraishi came to this dark intersection. There were a few gatekeepers at the intersection, but he did not see the stork that he had chased away.

Thinking about it, the other party had already gone down to the fifth floor with his own National People's Congress troops.

Shiraishi politely pushed aside the two gatekeepers guarding the secret passage, and walked straight down the not too bright secret passage stairs.

The stairs are long and straight, but the width is also narrow. It can only accommodate two people walking side by side.

In this narrow diagonal passage, even if it is made of white stone, one can only go down the steps obediently.

Because it is a dark building, the height of the fifth floor is only about two meters high.

After going down the stairs and arriving at Shiraishi on the fifth floor, I clearly felt that the overall space on this floor gave people a more depressing feeling.

However, its interior design is very exquisite. The designer tried his best to make this low-rise space less oppressive through well-proportioned arrangements.

As a former art practitioner, Shiraishi turned around to Yosuke behind him and asked after appreciating the layout here:

"Where are your adults?"

"follow me."

Doors were opened one after another, and after walking around for half a minute, Shiraishi led the other party to the central hall on the fifth floor.

Two groups of people occupied two sides of the hall, each holding weapons and confronting each other.There are also a group of dancers and bands hiding in the corner shivering.

The arrival of Shiraishi interrupted the confrontation between the two parties.Each of them turned their attention to the face of this strange visitor.

Who is this guy? He doesn't look like he's from the Bird Country.

Bang bang, bang bang.

"what sound"

Due to the increasing level of physical skills, Shiraishi's various body functions have exceeded the scope of what normal people can understand.

This hearing is naturally unmatched by ordinary people.

He clearly heard a metal banging sound nearby, like a chain being moved.

The impact sound was not regular, nor did it sound like the sound produced by some mechanism being activated.

Looking around, I didn't see anyone using a weapon with a chain.

Out of curiosity about the sound of the chain, Shiraishi ignored all the eyes present and started searching in the central hall openly.

Because the occasion was quite quiet.

He quickly found the source of the sound of the chains.

However, what Shiraishi didn't expect was that the sound actually came from behind a wall.

It's really an agency

"Who the hell is this guy?"

Among the daimyo, someone finally couldn't stand this man who interrupted their negotiations and treated them as nothing.

I just heard him yelling angrily:

"Stork, this is your retainer. If you accept such a rude guy as your retainer, you are worthy of seizing the position of daimyo."

Anxious.

When he heard the other party's first words, Shiraishi knew that this guy was in a hurry.

Apparently, there must be something shady hidden behind the wall.

It can't be some bloody drama about forcing girls into prostitution, right?

Thinking of this, he punched the ordinary-looking white wall in front of everyone present.

砰

Sure enough, the wall was not thick at all. It was only thirty or forty centimeters thick when it was fully stretched.

With just one punch, Shiraishi smashed the fake wall into pieces.

And the scene behind the wall made someone's face gradually darken

Children, all boys, have one thing in common: they are all very delicate.The older one is about ten years old, and the younger one is only five or six years old.

The youngest boy among them was covered in blood. Judging from the damaged clothes, the wounds were probably caused by whips.

Perhaps because he had endured intense pain for a long time without being unconscious, the boy's calf was twitching slightly uncontrollably.

Clang, clang.

The iron chains tied around his ankles were still making crisp knocking sounds.

The huge movement caused by the broken wall alerted the eight dazed boys inside. They instinctively shrank back against the wall, staring at the white stone at the entrance of the cave with a pair of fearful eyes.

Suddenly, the sound of chains sounded like raindrops.

Such a big movement inevitably attracted the attention of everyone in the central hall on the fifth floor.

Compared to the doubts on Stork's side, the expressions of the people on Daimyo's side were much different.

"Are you afraid?"

Hearing the questions from the man outside the wall, the two or three relatively conscious children nodded subconsciously at first, and then shook their heads quickly without knowing what they thought of.

The boy who was whipped stared blankly into Shiraishi's eyes.

For some unknown reason, the transformation technique that Shiraishi had maintained dissipated without warning.

"Why aren't you afraid?"

The man's gentle voice was not loud, but it was more than enough to spread throughout the silent central hall.

"I don't dare." A boy, who might have been captured not long ago, struggled to muster up the courage to answer Shiraishi's question.

As for the boy covered in blood, he continued to look at Shiraishi's face with a straight gaze.

Just like a realistic doll, cute but lifeless.

"Why aren't you afraid."

The man repeated his question again.

At this time, no one answered his question. Everyone, including the boys, cast incomprehensible looks at Shiraishi.

under the gaze

A head of slender white hair replaced the man's pure black short hair almost instantly.

On the left side of his head, there was an imaginary long horn that looked like a cow, a sheep, and a devil.

The man slowly turned his head and looked at everyone in the hall with his wide-open left eye.

The terrifying eyes with white pupils on a black background were like a heavy punch, hitting everyone's heart.

"Why aren't you afraid."

The sound is as solemn as the sound floating out of the netherworld, echoing in the ears of every adult.