I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Don't pray!

—Final Volume·Introduction

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About a month after the 10,000 shogunate was defeated—

Ezo Land, Red Moon Fortress, Kunoya's Clinic—

"A rare visitor came today."

Kunoya raised her eyebrows and looked up and down with a slightly surprised look at Chanup, who was sitting face to face with the Ogata and Amachi couples now.

"It's not a rare visitor or something," Chanup said in a helpless tone. "Didn't I also visit Ogata-kun several days ago?"

"Really?" Kunoya shrugged, "It seems that I remembered it wrong. You come to visit Ogata-kun, I don't have any comments, as long as I don't mess up or get my clinic dirty. "

After that, Kunoya picked up her cigarette and walked out of the clinic quickly. Enough space was left for Ogata, Amachi, and Chanup.

After watching Kunoya leave, Chanup immediately shifted his gaze to Ogata and Amachi.

"Ogata-kun, Amachi-san, how is your body recovering now?"

Ogata smiled, raised his right hand and patted his left shoulder: "Thanks to you, my wife and I have almost recovered. Mr. Chanup, how about you? How about your injury?"

"My injury was not particularly serious, but I have recovered more than half of it now."

"I heard that you have been busy with the reconstruction of the fortress these days." Ogata continued, "Don't delay the recovery of your injury just because you are busy with your affairs."

"About this, don't worry." Chanup smiled bitterly and shook his head. "My daughter has been supervising me. If I find that I haven't rested on time, she will yell at me..."

When Chanup was about to say something more, he raised his eyebrows suddenly, then turned to look at the door of the clinic: "Ogata-kun, it seems that someone is visiting you again."

Ogata and Chanup heard footsteps outside the clinic almost at the same time, so they looked towards the door with Chanup.

As soon as their eyes turned to the door, they saw Kunoya, who had just walked outside the clinic, leading a tall man back.

"Ogata-kun." Kunoya smiled helplessly. "This red-haired man is coming to see you again."

"Ogata-kun, I came to see you again, oh! There are a lot of people today! Even the boss of this fortress is here!"

The tall man who was led in by Kunoya was exactly Skulucci.

If anyone comes to visit Ogata most frequently, it is undoubtedly Skulucci.

Skulucci would come to talk to Ogata almost every day, and after going back and forth, even Kunoya slowly became familiar with the red-haired young man.

After bringing in Skulucci, Kunoya quickly returned to the outside of the clinic. As for Skulucci, he sat beside Chanup with a grin.

"Mr. Skulucci." Chanup said, "You came just right. I originally planned to see you and your men after visiting Ogata-kun today."

"Oh? Really?" Skulucci grinned, "Thank you for your concern. My subordinates and I are now recovering very well. The doctor named Kunoya is really skilled. "

Skulucci turned his head and looked at the door of the clinic. It's a pity that because of the angle, he couldn't see Kunoya who was smoking a cigarette not far away from the clinic and not mingling with Ogata and the others.

Kunoya is also responsible for the treatment of Skulucci and his group.

Under the treatment of Kunoya's superb medical skills, Skulucci and his team also recovered extremely well.

After complimenting Kunoya's medical operation, Skulucci looked away from the door and moved to Chanup's body.

"Mr. Chanup, now think about it carefully-this is the first time I have come to visit Ogata-kun at the same time with you."

"I basically come to visit Ogata-kun every day, but I seem to miss you every time."

"Yes." Chanup said helplessly, "I didn't have time to visit Ogata-kun today."

"But because there is an urgent matter to tell Ogata-kun, and it's true that I haven't visited Ogata-kun in some days, so I just squeezed time."

"In a hurry?" Ogata cast a suspicious look at Chanup.

"Ogata-kun." Chanup looked at Ogata, "I came to see you today. In addition to visiting you, I actually have another purpose-to tell you good news for Mr. Lin."

"Mr. Lin?" Ogata's eyes flashed a bit of surprise, "I would like to hear the details."

Mr. Lin in Chanupu's mouth was naturally referring to Lin Ziping.

Lin Ziping was undoubtedly one of the biggest heroes in the "Red Moon Fortress attack and defense" that happened more than a month ago.

This great hero has been lying in bed during this period of time. On the last day of the offensive and defensive battle, when he was defending the inner city wall with Chanup and others, he was accidentally shot by two arrows, one Shot on his side waist, one shot on his right thigh, but fortunately it didn't hurt the vitals.

Over the past month or so, Ogata has also visited Lin Ziping several times to the place where Lin Ziping, who was confined to bed due to a leg injury, lived.

If Ogata was not curious about what Chanup said just now, "to tell him good news for Mr. Lin," it would definitely be impossible.

"Mr. Lin helped us Heyzhe a lot. Without Mr. Lin's command, we might not be able to survive the day when you bring Mr. Skulucci and others to help."

Chanup said slowly.

"So as early as when Mr. Lin helped us, we agreed that Mr. Lin is our friend. Therefore, we will never detain Mr. Lin again."

"And Mr. Lin asked me to tell you: The reason why he can live until the day he is free again depends on Ogata-kun."

"In order to repay his gratitude, Mr. Lin said that he is willing to take you to the village where there may be clues to the pair of doctors you are looking for after the body is healed."

"By the way-Mr. Lin can barely get off the ground today, and after a while, he should be able to return to his original condition."

After listening to Chanupu's words, Ogata was startled at first, and after recovering, he asked with joy:

"Mr. Lin really said that?"

Chanup smiled and nodded.

Ogata let out a sigh of relief as if he had relieved some of the burden in his heart, and then said with a little self-deprecating tone: "In order to find that pair of doctors, it was an extremely difficult journey..."

When Lin Ziping first met Lin Ziping, Lin Ziping told Ogata and the others a piece of information that the husband and wife were extremely concerned about-Lin Ziping once saw a strange Japanese doctor in a certain village.

In a place like Ezo land, it is extremely rare for Kazuto to live in Ainu villages, and Kazuto happens to be a doctor—this is even rarer.

After learning this information from Lin Ziping, Ogata concluded a deal with Lin Ziping: Ogata managed to get Lin Ziping back to freedom, and then Lin Ziping took them to the village he spoke of to find the man. Doctor.

The process of letting Lin Ziping regain his free body was not a bumpy one, but fortunately—even though the process was bumpy, it succeeded in the end.

"Mr. Lin will take some time to heal..." Ogata muttered, "It seems that I and Uchiko will have to stay here for a while."

"It doesn't matter if you live longer here." Chanup laughed. "You are the heroes who saved us. We welcome you to stay here for a while. Let us entertain you again."

"Mr. Skulucci, so are you. We also welcome you and your men to stay with us for more time."

"Mr. Chanup, thank you for your kindness." Skulucci smiled politely at Chanup. "But it's a pity—my men and I can’t stay with you any longer. In some time, we I have to leave."

"Are you and your subordinates leaving?" Chanup's face was shocked.

When Ogata and Amachi looked at Skulucci, there was also a slight surprise.

"If we stay outside for too long, my superiors will worry about us."

When he said "the superior will worry about us", Skuluch used a weird tone to accentuate his tone.

"In order not to make my superiors worry about us too much, we can't stay with you for too long."

"Now my injuries and my subordinates are basically getting better. The rest of the people who haven't healed have recovered to the point where they can barely ride horses, so I decided it was about time to leave."

"That's it..." Chinup's eyes flashed with regret, "It's a pity... I still want to entertain you more..."

After sighing lightly, Chanup took a deep breath.

"Then—before you leave, if you have any requests, just let us know." Chanup said to Skulucci, "Anything we can do, we will do our best. arrive."

"Hahahaha." Skulucci let out a hearty laugh, "Thank you. But we don't have anything we want anymore."

"but-"

Skulucci's words suddenly changed.

"Although there is nothing I want, I have always had a question. This question has been held in my heart for a long time, but I have never been able to find the time to ask you. And now it is rare that only a few of us are present to ask this It’s a good time for the question. I wonder if Mr. Chanupu is willing to answer this question of mine."

"Question? Excuse me. Anything that I can answer, I will know everything." Chanup had a facelift and put on a serious look that listened to his ears.

"You don't need to be so serious." Skulucci smiled helplessly, "It's just a small question."

Skulucci cleared his throat:

"Mr. Chanup, I have always been curious: where did your muskets come from?"

Chanup's expression changed slightly.

After hearing this question from Skulucci, Ogata and Amachi looked at each other with a tacit understanding, then looked at Chanup and waited for Chanup to answer.

For Chanup and why they have so many advanced flintlocks-Ogata and the others have always been curious.

During this time, they have also asked some people this question, such as Kunoya, such as Esuma and others, but they all said "I don't know."

Now that Skulucci asked Chanup a question that they had always been curious about, Ogata and Amachi were also happy to hear what the answer was.

"Of course." Skulucci added at this time, "Mr. Chanup, if you find this question difficult to answer, you don't have to answer it. I don't force it. I'm just curious about this question."

Chanup shook his head: "This is not something that is not unknowable. If you want to know, I can answer."

"We Heyezhe's muskets were all two years old... No, it should have been almost three years ago. We bought them from a Washo named'Kinoshita'."

"Kinoshita?" Hearing this surname, Ogata's brows frowned suddenly because he couldn't help but think of two of his acquaintances.

"That Kinoshita is a...very weird businessman." Chanup continued. "Three years ago, when he took his caravan passing by not far from Heyzhe, he sent someone to negotiate with us. Said: They are short of food. They are willing to exchange a batch of guns, a large amount of gunpowder and pellets, as well as teaching us how to use guns, how to store gunpowder and pellets, to exchange some food from us."

"Change food?" Skulucci's eyes widened. "So many muskets are worth a lot of money. How much food did they exchange from you?"

"Not much," Chanup said. "It's just enough food for the 50th person to eat for 20 days."

"Just a little bit of food? Isn't it a loss to lose money?" Skulucci's brows frowned tightly.

Although he is not a professional businessman, he also understands that nearly a hundred flintlocks, coupled with a large amount of gunpowder and projectiles, are about how much money—all the food in Heyezhe’s inventory may not be exchanged for all the food.

What's more, in addition to delivering these dead objects, the "Kinoshita" is also willing to teach Chanup and the others how to use their muskets and how to store gunpowder and projectiles.

"Yeah. That's why I said that Kinoshita was quite weird." Chanup sighed lightly. "In the beginning, I was skeptical that this was obviously a miserable deal for Kinoshita and the others."

"But then they gradually discovered that they were serious about this transaction."

"I have traveled in Herendi, so I also know how powerful a musket is."

"Although I don't know why Kinoshita made such a blood loss transaction, I finally decided to give it a go and trade with him."

"After the transaction, the Kinoshita took people away. Since then, I have never seen him again."

"...Mr. Chanup." Ogata, who had not spoken a moment ago, suddenly said abruptly, "Have you seen what Kinoshita looks like?"

"I've only met Na Kinoshita a few times," Chanup said. "It's a very young young man, about the same age as Ogata-kun."

"The face is very delicate, and he looks very polite."

"He wears a very beautiful knife with a purple handle on his waist."

Seeing that none of the two Kinoshitas in Chanup’s mouth coincided with the two Kinoshitas in his own impression, Ogata's frowning brows slowly loosened, but the confusion on his face did not dissipate—for that Ogata was also puzzled by Kinoshita's act of making such a blood loss transaction.

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Edo, a remote house, in the courtyard—

"Mamiya! I'm on it!" Makimura raised the wooden Odachi in his palm high and assumed the posture of the upper stage.

"Senior Mamiya, please give me your advice." Shimada, who clenched the wooden knife tightly, put on a proper middle posture.

As for Asai—he didn't say much, just grabbed and set up the knife in silence.

Connect the points where Makimura, Shimada, and Asai stand together with a line, which happens to form a standard equilateral triangle.

And in the middle of this equilateral triangle-stands Mamiya, who is slowly tying up the sleeves on both sides with a cuff.

After tying the sleeves on both sides at an unhurried speed, Mamiya picked up the wooden knife at his feet: "Let the horse come here."

As soon as Mamiya's voice fell, Makimura took the lead in uttering a loud qi and rushing towards Mamiya with the knife.

He aimed at Mamiya's head and slashed three vigorously, but they were all swept away by Mamiya's light footsteps.

As soon as Mamiya escaped Makimura's slash, Asai and Shimada's swords approached the wind.

The angles of their two slashes were quite tricky, but their tricky slashes at this angle were still weak against Mamiya.

I saw Mamiya swung very fast 2 knives. There was only 1 sword, but the effect of "Mamiya holding 2 knives" was swung at a high speed. Asai and Shimada's knives were almost at the same time. Mamiya's blade hit the center and the grid opened.

After opening Shimada's sword, Mamiya quickly adjusted the blade, and it hit Shimada's left shoulder with a knife.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

After solving Shimada with a stab, Mamiya's feet slid on the ground and leaped to Asai's side at a speed that Asai was unable to react. Then, as if he had knocked Shimada down just now, he also slashed against Asai's shoulder. Asai fell to the ground.

The pastoral village, who could only fight alone, didn't mean to retreat or surrender at all. He stepped forward bravely, preparing to attack Mamiya again.

And he only had time to step forward.

He had just taken a step forward when he saw Mamiya Cheating before him.

Snapped! Snapped! Snapped!

The dull sound of tapping the flesh sounded.

Mamiya slashed three times at Mucun's sturdy upper body, two at Mucun's left shoulder, and one at his right shoulder.

"Um..." Mucun forcibly endured the pain, retreated three steps, and opened the distance between himself and Mamiya.

"Do you want to come again?" asked Mamiya Chao Makura.

"No need..." Mucun sighed long, "I have died three times just now, and the outcome is divided."

"Senior Mamiya is so strong..." Shimada stood up with a wry smile while holding the position of the middle sword just now. "The three of us went up together, but we still couldn't even touch a corner of Mamiya's clothes..."

For Shimada’s compliment, Mamiya only smiled, and then raised his hand to help the glasses that were sliding on the bridge of his nose: "Take a break. We have been compared a lot just now, and I am also a little tired. It’s also time to take a break."

"Mamiya's biggest weakness is indeed poor physical strength." Makimura teased Shimamiya in a half-joking tone, and took the lead in striding towards under the eaves not far away, and then sat down on the stairs under the eaves. Go up, and the three of Mamiya followed closely behind, sitting side by side with Mucun.

"We stayed here in Edo for a long time..." Makimura raised his eyes and looked at a big tree with delicate green leaves in front of him, "Unknowingly, winter is going to pass."

After bidding farewell to Ogata and Amachi and leaving Edo, the gourd house and the group moved to a new house in Edo, in a luxurious mansion rented by Lin using her network. Continue to heal your wounds in this luxurious house.

Except for the pastoral village who has the special physique of "fast recovery from injury", Lin and the others are all ordinary people, unlike Ogata who possesses extremely abnormal resilience due to "vitality".

Except for Genichi and Mamiya, who were basically uninjured, all of them were injured, and Lin and Asai's injuries were not minor.

In the past few months, Lin and the others have been living in seclusion in this house, meditating to heal their wounds.

About a month ago, all the people in the gourd house finally recovered, and then began their physical "rehabilitation."

And their "rehabilitation" is quite simple and rude—that is, sparring with each other.

The house Lin rented was the kind of mansion with a spacious courtyard, where Lin and the others would fight against each other.

"Edo, I'm tired of staying a bit..." Asai interjected, "Although there are many interesting, beautiful, and delicious places in Edo, I am a little tired of staying here for several months..."

"We should be able to leave soon." Makimura said, "After all, our injuries have healed, and there is no reason to stay in Edo anymore."

Shimada: "Should we return to Owari later?"

"I don't know." Mucun shrugged, "But if nothing else, we should go back to our base camp. After all, we haven't been back in a long time."

"Speaking of Owari..." Asai suddenly mumbled at this moment, "Have you heard of that? It's the'missing incident' that seems quite popular now."

"'Missing Incident'?" Mucun asked back, "What came from?"

Not only Makimura, but Mamiya and Shimada also cast doubtful glances at Asai at this time.

"This is what I heard from the samurai at the table next to me when I went to a nearby izakaya with Genichi late last night." Asai slowly said, "It is said that this large area from Owari to Osaka During this period of time, there were frequent'missing incidents'."

"Listening to the descriptions of the samurai, this'missing incident' is quite paradoxical. It seems that at least hundreds of people have suddenly disappeared and disappeared."

"And among the hundreds of missing people, there are men and women, old and young. There is no pattern in the characteristics of the missing. And among the missing, some samurai are included."

"Hundreds of people...?" Mucun frowned slowly, "It cannot be a coincidence that so many people are missing. There must be some powerful group abducting these people. Did the shogunate intervene in investigating this matter?"

Asai shrugged, "I don't know that."

Shimada seemed to be completely hooked by this "disappearance incident". He turned his head and looked at Pastoral Village: "Senior Pastoral Village, do you think there is a big group abducting those people?"

Makimura used to rely on the power to settle and solve cases in Kyoto, so Shimada subconsciously wanted to ask Makimura, who should have some experience in this regard, his opinion on this matter.

"Of course." Mucun said sternly, "I have never believed in ‘sacred hermits’ or being abducted by gods and Buddhas. It’s just nonsense."

"Hundreds of people disappeared-apart from being abducted, I can't think of other possibilities."

"Listening to Asai's description just now, there are frequent disappearances in this large area from Owari to Osaka."

"From Owari to Osaka-this range is not small. It covers the entire Kansai."

"The ability to abduct people from all over the huge Kansai region shows that this'abducting group' is not small."

"But there is one thing I don't quite understand."

After she pondered for a moment, she continued:

"Asai just said: The missing persons are men and women, old and young. I don't understand this a bit."

"I used to deal with several'human trafficking cases' when I was still working in Kyoto."

"The abducted objects are basically children and young girls."

"Man and old man abducted...this is quite rare. What do you do with abducting man and old man?"

"The "disappearance incident"..." Mamiya, who had not spoken since just now, suddenly said, "Even Owari is within the victim's range... The world is really not peaceful."

At this moment, a female voice that was familiar to Mamiya and others suddenly came from behind everyone.

"Katsurokuro, so you are here, but I found you."

Shimada turned his head back with surprise, "Master, are you looking for me for something?"

Lin is naturally the master of this female voice that is so familiar to Mamiya and others.

"Well. UU reading www.uukanshu.com is indeed looking for you for something, but it's not a matter of importance."

While Lin said, she continued to walk slowly towards Shimada.

"I have just received the news that the temple shrine practiced Ginmono dispatch: Shimada Soichiro returned to Edo a few days ago."

After Lin heard the name "Shimada Soichiro" from Lin's mouth, Shimada's expression froze.

"Katsurokuro." Lin's tone softened. "You should have been away from home for a long time. It's time to visit your family."

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