I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

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Mamiya and Makimura led Ogata to run and leap continuously in the mountains.

It wasn't until the sky was about to be completely dark that the shadow of the building finally appeared in Ogata's field of vision.

Looking at the building in front of him, Ogata was taken aback.

Even though he didn't know much about architecture, Ogata could still tell-this seemed to be the gate of a temple.

Mamiya, who saw Ogata’s doubts, explained from the side:

"This place used to be a temple."

"Later, it was abandoned for unknown reasons."

"The lord saw that the temple was in a good location, so he remodeled the temple a bit and used it as the base of our gourd house."

"So..." Ogata muttered like this, while looking around.

I have to say-the location of this temple is indeed excellent.

There is a small stream flowing by the temple, with sufficient and stable water source.

At the same time, it is hidden in the deep mountains, the location is hidden and not easy to be discovered by others.

Although the gate of the temple was closed tightly, Ogata could still vaguely see a faint light from the temple.

Mamiya stepped forward and knocked **** the temple door.

The knock on the door of Mamiya directly broke the tranquility of this mountain.

The knock on the door "circled" and "reverberated" over the temple door for a long time before it gradually dissipated.

Ogata noticed that-when Mamiya knocked on the door, he didn't knock randomly.

Instead, knocking at the door in a certain rhythm.

After the knock on the door fell, Ogata heard footsteps from far and near coming from behind the temple gate.

Squeak...

The temple door was slowly opened by a crack.

The gap in the doorway is small, but it is enough for the people behind the temple door to observe the movement outside the door.

A crack was opened at the gate of the temple, and the person who opened the door glanced at who was knocking through the crack, and a dull, almost non-emotional young male voice rang from behind the door:

"Mamiya-kun, Mucun-kun, you are back, it's been a long time since you've seen it."

"Well, it's really been a long time since I saw you, Asai. It was winter when I separated from you, and it's almost summer now."

"You two seem to have brought a guest back...Come in first."

After all, the temple door, which was originally only opened by a small slit, was slowly opened, and a large mouth enough for people to pass through was pulled out.

It wasn't until this moment that Ogata finally saw what the man who was responsible for opening the door and talking to Mamiya looked like.

He was a beautiful boy—this was Ogata's first impression after seeing this man.

This man should be between 20 and 25 years old.

Like Ogata and Mamiya, this beautiful boy didn't shave Tsukidai's head, but kept his hair and don't wear a proper bun.

The face is handsome enough to make people scream.

The body is neither fat nor thin, with curvy and long eyebrows, sharp and energetic eyes, a straight nose, rosy lips, beautiful skin, fair skin, and good skin quality to make Ogata dare to be sure-this guy's skin must be jealous of women .

If there is any shortcoming in this person, it should be short.

If this person's height is converted into a unit of length of the modern earth, it should be only about 1.6 meters.

Of course, this height can be considered as good as the Edo period, and it can be classified into the category of "long stature".

All in all-this is a beautiful man who is absolutely popular with women.

It was the most handsome man Ogata had ever seen since he came to this Edo period, so handsome that Ogata couldn't help but feel a touch of envy.

While Ogata was looking at the beautiful man, the beautiful man was also looking at Ogata.

As for Mamiya, standing in the middle of the two, introducing them.

"Ogata-kun, this is Shichiro Asai. It is one of the other two members of our gourd house that I told you just now."

"Asai. This is Ogata Itase. It's the executioner Ichitosai."

"Oh?" After listening to Mamiya's introduction, Asai raised his eyebrows slightly, "You are the executioner Ichidosesai..."

Asai’s tone seemed to have known Ogata a long time ago—but Ogata didn’t feel puzzled either.

After all, it is too normal to know his character, after all, his wanted warrants can be said to be all over Japan.

After bowing to each other with Asai, Asai led Ogata and others through the gate of the temple and headed towards the depths of the Buddhist temple.

As Asai led the way, Mamiya kept throwing questions at Asai.

"Is the lord here?"

"The lord and Yuan have gone deep into the mountains to cultivate hard."

"Are you going to practice again... when will you come back?"

"They started their practice three days ago and will probably be back tomorrow morning."

"Tomorrow morning... That's okay. It's rare to have a visitor. If they can't come back in ten and a half months, it will be troublesome. What about Shimada? Is Shimada here now?"

"Shimada is now preparing today's dinner. You are coming back at the right time. It's about to start dinner. If you come back later, you won't have your meal."

"That's great, we just happened to be hungry. Ogata-kun, before eating, let me take you to your room. We don't have much here and we have the most vacancies."

"Okay, that's a bit of work."

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The room that Mamiya arranged for Ogata is very simple, and it should be the wing room where the monks lived here.

Although the room is not spacious, it is very clean and all kinds of furniture are available.

Ogata bent down and touched the floor casually-fingers were clean and there was no dust.

"It's so clean..."

"The lord likes to be clean." Mamiya said, "At the lord's request, this temple will always be in a spotless state."

"Every day there will be villagers from the village who is responsible for our gourd house outpost at the foot of the mountain come to help us clean."

"You take a rest here, I will let someone call you when the dinner is going to be served."

"Ok."

After watching Mamiya leave, Ogata stretched vigorously, and then sat down on the tatami under his feet.

I rode a horse on the road this morning, and lived in the gourd house tonight-somehow, this rapid change in life made Ogata feel unrealistic.

Just as Ogata thought about staying here for a few days, there was a soft knock on the door.

"Please come in."

The paper sliding door was opened, and a young face that had never been seen appeared in Ogata's field of vision.

The young man who knocked on Ogata's door was holding a futon in his hands.

"Excuse me, are the guests brought back by Mamiya-senpai and Makimura-senpai-the executioner Ichito Sai Ogata's Yishi?"

"That's right." Ogata nodded. "May I ask who you are?"

"Next is Shimada Katsurokuro. At the order of Senior Mamiya, I will come to deliver the bedding to my feet and ask my feet to eat."

——Katsurokuro Shimada...

Ogata chewed the name silently in his heart.

——This should be the last of the other two members of the gourd house that Mamiya said...

——Except for their mysterious lord and Genichi Kinoshita, I have seen all the four members of the Gourd House...

Shimada's first impression of Ogata was that he was young.

Very young, from the outside, he should be less than 20 years old, and there is still a childishness on his face.

The facial features are correct, the sword eyebrows and star eyes-can be regarded as handsome, but there is still a big gap between the beautiful men of Asai's level.

Keeping the total hair, wearing a bun, and properly pinning two knives around his left waist, his height should be only about 1 meter 57 when converted to the length of the earth.

After placing the quilt in his hand respectfully on the ground, Shimada punished his chin outside.

"Master Idozhai, please come down and take you to a place to eat."

"Okay. Don't call me Ichitosai-sama, just call me Ogata."

"Yes, Lord Ogata, please come down."

"You don't need to add the suffix of'adult'... forget it, just call it whatever you like."

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Under Shimada's guidance, Shimada and Ogata walked one after another on the way to eat.

"Our gourd house hasn't been visited by guests for a long time."

Shimada, who was walking in front, smiled at Ogata behind him as he walked.

"I'm so happy that I can finally see new faces here."

"I won't stay here for too long." Ogata smiled, "After all, I'm just here as a guest. I'll leave after one or two days."

Through this brief contact, Ogata has discovered two characteristics of Shimada.

The first feature-talkative, very happy to talk to people.

When leading Ogata, he never stopped talking.

The second characteristic-his body exudes a kind of noble son temperament.

Shimada has an elegant breath no matter when he speaks or when he gestures.

This made Ogata be sure-Shimada's background must be very good, and his family must be very good.

"Shimada." Ogata took the initiative to say to Shimada, "how old are you this year?"

"17." Shimada answered without hesitation.

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"17...I'm so young."

"Yeah." Shimada smiled bitterly, "Zai Shi is the youngest person in the gourd house, so whether the lord, senior Mamiya and others, they all treat him like a little brother, making him very distressed. He is already a man who can be alone."

"Your family must be very good." Ogata continued, "I think you are very well-trained."

"Yeah. In terms of family background, my family background is indeed superior."

"Underneath is the eldest son of the Shimada family, Kimoto from Edo, who has a height of 9,000 stones."

"Qimoto?" Ogata couldn't help his tongue.

The Kimoto samurai, a samurai directly under the shogun, has the right to meet the shogun directly and has his own territory, but the total stone height of the territory is less than 10,000 stones.

There are also high and low points between flags.

According to what Shimada just said, their territory is as high as 9,000 shi-this is already considered a high-level banner.

"So you are from a famous family." Ogata couldn't help but said with emotion, "Why did you come from a famous family, why did you join the gourd house?"

The base is located in the gourd house in the old forest deep in the mountains-it doesn't look like a place where such nobles would come.

"Why did you join the gourd house..." Shimada raised his head and looked at the starry sky above his head, with a faint memory of memory floating on his face. "Because I am looking forward to someone, I have already followed that when I came back to my senses. People have joined the gourd house."

"Although Zaisha is a member of Gourd House, he hasn't joined for a long time. He was invited to join Gourd House last summer. He is currently the latest person to join Gourd House. Ah, Lord Ogata, here we are. "

Ogata looked forward—I saw a pot driving in the open space in front of him.

Burning wood has been laid under the pot.

Five small stools are placed around the pot. Three of them have been used by Mamiya, Makimura, and Asai, leaving only two empty stools.

These two stools must be reserved for Ogata and Shimada.

Seeing Ogata and Shimada coming, Mamiya and Chao beckoned and motioned for them to sit over.

After sitting down on the stool, Ogata looked at the hot water that was about to be boiled in the pot in front of him, and said:

"What are you eating today?"

"Eat a big miscellaneous pot." Asai replied blankly on the side.

"Great miscellaneous pot?" Ogata wondered.

"Except for the lord, all of us have a strong...inertness in cooking." Makimura smiled bitterly. "Usually, the lord is responsible for our three meals a day. When the lord is away, we just want to save trouble. Can cook a big pot."

"The so-called large miscellaneous pot..." Asai said as he held up a pot of vegetables at his feet, "I just throw all the ingredients into the same pot."

After all, Asai directly threw all the vegetables in the pot into the pot.

And Mucun followed closely and threw a few dried meat into it.

Not to be outdone, Mamiya and Shimada threw all the materials they had on hand into it.

Looking at the four Mamiya people who kept throwing ingredients into the pot, for some reason Ogata reminded Ogata of the witch who was throwing all kinds of strange things into the black cauldron to make potions...

The color of the originally clean soup in the pot gradually became weird with the continuous input of ingredients...

Looking at the weird brown soup, Ogata gradually felt his appetite lost...

While waiting for the ingredients in the pot to be cooked, the 5 people started casual chats.

"Mamiya." Asai asked Mamiya first, "What did you bring the executioner Ichitosai to our gourd house? Did you succeed in persuading him to join our gourd house?"

"No~www.ltnovel.com~ I have already sent an invitation to Ogata-kun, but Ogata-kun refused. Ogata-kun came to our gourd house this time, just to be a guest. "

"Guest?" Asai frowned slightly, "Mamiya, the lord doesn't welcome us to bring outsiders in casually."

"I know." An intriguing color appeared on Mamiya's face, "But Ogata-kun is not an outsider."

"From a certain point of view, Ogata-kun can be regarded as the lord's junior."

"What do you mean?" Asai frowned tighter.

Even Shimada cast a suspicious look at Mamiya.

"Ogata-kun, but he has the second sword style without me."

"What?!"*2

Asai and Shimada shouted in unison.