I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Ogata followed the instructions of the old man just now, walked straight ahead, and then turned right at the first corner.

After turning right along this corner, a large wooden house that kept making loud noises appeared before Ogata's eyes.

The wooden house is larger than any building Ogata has seen since entering the Karamoto village.

There are two white curtains hanging over the gate.

Even though the distance was still a bit far away, Ogata could still clearly hear the endless noise coming from the wooden house.

——This should be a casino...

Ogata thought secretly in his heart.

Hiding in the dark, Ogata looked at the casino opened by the Negishi family, while silently thinking about how to collect information related to the location of the Negishi family's headquarters.

Just when Ogata was thinking about whether to enter the casino first and find someone who seemed to be of high status to negotiate in a more peaceful way, or simply rushed in with a knife and asked loudly "Who is in charge", a strange male voice Suddenly a voice came from behind Ogata:

"The executioner fasts with one knife."

Before the strange male voice fell completely, Ogata's pupils suddenly shrank.

Ogata jumped forward instinctively, distanced himself from the person behind him, and quickly pressed his right hand on the handle of the knife on his left waist.

After distanced himself from the person behind him, Ogata looked towards the source of the sound just now.

Behind where Ogata was standing just now, stood a young samurai who was about his age in appearance.

Fair skin, pretty face.

Wearing an ordinary kimono, hakama, and a crimson haori.

On the bridge of the nose is a pair of rare gadgets in this era - glasses.

There is a quiet temperament exuding from his body.

In terms of temperament, this guy is more like a scholar than a warrior.

Seeing that Ogata quickly distanced himself from him and put on a fighting stance, a faint smile flashed across this guy who was originally expressionless.

"Your reaction... it seems,

You are indeed the famous 'Executioner Yidao Zhai'. "

"Who are you?" Ogata asked in a deep voice, "Are you also... come to take my head?"

After finishing speaking, Ogata gathered the five fingers of his right hand that were pressing on the handle of the knife, and gripped the handle tightly, ready to draw the knife to fight at any time.

Ogata felt cold sweat breaking out on his forehead now.

I thought to myself:

——This guy...when did he come behind me just now...!

The samurai wearing glasses came so close behind Ogata, but Ogata didn't notice it.

The more Ogata thought about it, the more afraid he became.

If the samurai wearing glasses didn't come to talk to him just now, but drew his sword and slashed at him, then he must not be able to react...

Hearing Ogata's question, the "spectacled warrior" slightly raised his hands, showing his empty palms to Ogata.

"I have no malice."

"I'm not here to take your head."

"I only saw your face on the wanted notice a while ago, so I recognized you."

"I ran into you by chance in this place, and I became interested in you, so I just wanted to talk to you."

"My surname is Mamiya and my name is Kuro. Please give me your advice."

Ogata looked up and down several times at this man who called himself Kuro Mamiya.

After confirming that there was no murderous intent on this person, and that there was indeed no malice exuding, Ogata slowly let go of his grip on the handle of the knife.

"I am Itsue Ogata. Please give me your advice."

"Ogata-kun." Mamiya glanced at the gambling hall opened by the Negishi family, "You have been looking at this gambling hall just now, do you want to go there to play a few games? Or do you want to go there How about making some money?"

"What I want to do has nothing to do with you, right?" Ogata responded in a cold tone.

"If Ogata-kun, you want to find the Negishi family for something, then it has something to do with me."

"Oh?" Ogata raised his eyebrows, "How do you say that?"

"I have some grudges with the local Negishi family... so I came all the way here to settle accounts with the Negishi family."

"It's just——I don't know where the base camp of the Negishi family is."

"So I came here specially, intending to collect some information in the casino opened by the Negishi family."

After Mamiya's voice fell, Ogata chuckled a few times and said:

"That's really a coincidence. I also have enmity with the Negishi family, and I want to recruit the Negishi family's headquarters."

"Then because I didn't know where the base camp of the Negishi family was, I came here specially, intending to enter their casino to ask the people of the Negishi family about the whereabouts of their base camp."

"Oh?" A look of surprise flashed across Jian Gong's face, "That's really a coincidence."

Speaking of this, Mamiya paused.

After a little thought, Mamiya threw a proposal to Ogata.

"Ogata-kun, since we both have the same purpose, how about our cooperation? We have been working together to find the base camp of the Negishi family."

"Oh?" Ogata shrugged, "Since you know that I am 'Executioner Yidao Zhai', do you dare to cooperate with a wanted criminal like me?"

"Why don't you dare." Mamiya said without hesitation, "If I were afraid of such things, I wouldn't have come to talk to you from the very beginning."

Mamiya once again cast his gaze to the gambling house in the distance.

"In short - let's go to the casino now."

"If the two of us stand here for too long, it will easily arouse the suspicion of others."

After finishing speaking, Jian Gong walked slowly towards the casino, holding the knife at his waist.

After hesitating for a while, Ogata followed quickly.

After Ogata followed, Mamiya said to Ogata:

"Have you agreed to cooperate with me?"

"No. I just happen to want to go to the casino to collect information just like you."

"Ogata-kun, it is skillful to collect information in the casino."

"To collect information in the casino, you have to pretend to be a gambler first."

"Only by pretending to be a gambler and entering the casino will not easily arouse the vigilance of the casino staff."

"Then while gambling, he quietly observed the location of the administrators and thugs."

"Do you want to pretend to be a gambler..." Ogata muttered, "I don't know how to gamble... Mamiya, do you know how to gamble?"

"I used to study gambling in the Owari area."

Having said that, the two of them just walked in front of the curtain of the casino.

Mamiya, who was walking in the front, lifted the white curtain and stepped into the casino.

And Ogata followed closely behind.

The moment he stepped into the casino, noise and heat burst out.

The gambling hall was extremely hot, and the hot air mixed with the "manly smell" made Ogata feel suffocated.

The gambling hall is a bit more spacious than Ogata imagined.

A dozen or so gamblers are sitting on their knees or cross-legged on futons.

Opposite the gamblers, sitting in charge of throwing the dice pot shaker.

Several large sheets of paper were placed on the wooden floor between the pot shaker and the gamblers.

These several large sheets of paper were written with "single" and "double".