I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Obviously showing such a bright smile, but what he said was something that didn't match Genichi's current expression at all...

"...Master Yuan, are you serious...?"

"Of course I'm serious." Yuan shook the tengu mask in his hand, "In order to prevent unrelated passers-by from seeing my face, I asked Shimada to buy this tengu mask for me."

"...No wonder you suddenly asked Shimada to buy so many toys for you. So you wanted to use other toys as a cover to buy this mask..."

Having said that, Ogata sighed lightly.

"Master Yuan, you probably didn't ask Ms. Kinoshita's consent for your idea of ​​hunting and killing your enemies?"

"If I had Xiaolin's consent, I wouldn't need to be so sneaky about opening the window in the middle of the night." Yuan Yi looked confident, "Xiaolin is quite talkative sometimes, if I let Xiaolin know I actually plan to take the initiative to meet those smokers of mine, and they will definitely teach me for a long time."

"Master Gen, I think the same as Ms. Kinoshita." Ogata scratched his neck, "I think it's better for you to continue to be patient."

"Our primary goal now is to defeat Shiranui."

"So one thing more is worse than one thing less..."

Ogata wanted to continue talking, but Genichi raised his right index finger and shook it left and right.

"Ogata-kun, you don't understand this, do you?"

"You should also know, right? I have a deep blood feud with Shiranui."

Genichi raised his left hand and swiped vertically across his left eye.

"When I was young, I had a fight to the death with the current 17th Balrog, and I cut off his left eye. This is a personal enmity."

"Ten years ago, Fuma no Sato and Shiranui were torn apart. When Fuma was about to be besieged and killed by the Balrogs, I was the one who came forward to mediate."

"As a result, Shiranui missed the opportunity to kill Fu Mo who attacked their base alone and brought them great shame and humiliation. This is public revenge."

"The addition of the two enmities has already made that fellow Balrog hate me to the bone."

Ogata listened carefully while nodding from time to time.

Ogata has heard of the two major hatreds between Yuanyi and Shiranui.

The former was learned from the cheat book "Wuwo Two Swords Style", while the latter was learned from Fumo when he was recuperating at Fumo's home after the "Battle of Nijo Castle".

"It's not clear whether the Balrog knows that many of my enemies are in Edo."

"Let's just assume that the Balrog knows that many of my enemies are in Edo."

"Ogata-kun, think about it."

"If you are a Balrog who hates Genichi Kinoshita to the bone, you know that there are many guys who also hate Genichi Kinoshita in Edo. What will you do?"

Hearing this, Ogata slightly raised his eyebrows.

Although Yuan Yi hadn't finished speaking at this time, Ogata had already understood Yuan Yi's meaning at this time.

"Would you consider cooperating with these guys who also hate Genichi Kinoshita?" Genichi grinned, "As you said just now, our primary goal now is to defeat Shiranui. "

"For us whose ultimate goal is to defeat Shiranui, my enemies who may fight side by side with Shiranui are potential enemies."

"So before we launch a general attack on Shiranui, don't you think it's a wise move to kill our former enemies?"

After silently listening to Genichi's words, Ogata fell silent.

Ogata had to admit——Genichi made a lot of sense.

His heart that didn't agree with Yuan Yi to go and do nothing, was obviously shaken.

While Ogata was still thinking, Genichi put the tengu mask back on his face.

"By the way, Ogata-kun, why don't you follow me to meet my enemies."

"Huh?" Ogata's face was filled with astonishment.

Genichi's invitation was so unexpected that Ogata couldn't help but be stunned.

"If it's just me, one enemy is many, maybe some people will escape."

"It would be much easier if you were the one to do the support."

"How? Do you want to come with me?"

Ogata was stunned for a while at the sudden invitation thrown by Yuan Yi.

The already shaken heart became even more shaken.

Accompanying Yuan Yi will surely gain a lot of experience points.

Experience points have always been very attractive to Ogata.

But Yuan Yi's words still didn't stop.

"If you come with me, I can also teach you some skills in swinging swords."

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"Huh...the wind is really strong..."

While talking, Ogata tightened the haori on his upper body.

The night wind that blows towards Ogata like a sharp knife reminds Ogata all the time—it is the time when the temperature difference between day and night is very large.

In order to fight against the night wind, Ogata was also fully armed: hakama, kimono, haori, tabi socks were all neatly dressed.

Just now, Genichi and Ogata jumped out of the window of their room one after the other.

At this moment, the two were standing on a street where there was no one else around.

Now converted into the time unit of the earth, it is probably close to 24 o'clock in the evening.

At this point in time, except for very few areas such as Yoshiwara, the rest of Edo was completely dark, and no one was wandering on the streets.

"Let's go, Ogata-kun."

Genichi's voice was a bit dull because he was wearing the tengu mask that just covered his entire face and only showed a pair of eyes.

"Go ahead and buy you a mask that can cover your entire face. If you let passers-by see your face when you clean up those 'rats', it will be troublesome."

Compared with Ogata, Genichi's dress is quite cool.

Still wearing only the thin white bathrobe, with neither shoes nor socks on her feet.

Looking at Genichi's cool attire, Ogata couldn't help but say:

"Master Yuan, is it really okay for you to dress like this? Be careful of catching a cold, at least wear a pair of shoes."

"Hahahaha. No need, no need." Yuan Yi waved his hand boldly, "This wind is just enough to sober me up."

"I have thick calluses on the soles of my feet, so it doesn't matter if I wear shoes or not."

——That's true...

Ogata said that in his heart, and nodded.

As Genichi said just now, the calluses on the soles of his feet are very thick.

The soles were thick enough to remind Ogata of boots from Western countries.

It is so thick that the two soles of the feet slap each other, making a "bang bang bang" sound...

Seeing that Yuanyi really didn't seem to be afraid of the cold, and didn't want to wear shoes, he stopped talking nonsense and turned the topic back to business.

"Master Gen, how are you going to find those 'rats' in Edo, which has a population of more than one million?"

It's a little inconvenient to always call him "Master Yuan's enemy" or "my enemy".

For the convenience of addressing, Ogata and the others gave Genichi's group of enemies a nickname: Mouse.

"Since I have decided to deal with these 'rats' one by one, I must know where to go to meet them most easily."

Yuan Yi grinned.

"Let's go to Yoshiwara."

"Yoshihara?" Because he was too surprised, Ogata's voice lost control involuntarily.

"Ogata-kun, have you forgotten? There are a lot of 'rats' coming and going in and out of Yoshihara now, and they plan to look for me in Yoshiwara, or collect information about me."

"So we're going to Yoshiwara's place!"

Hearing this reminder from Genichi, Ogata remembered—it seemed that there was indeed such a thing.

At that time, Genichi learned from his old acquaintance Shirohei that many "rats" came in and out of Yoshihara for the purpose of looking for Kinoshita Genichi, and then learned that many of his enemies gathered in Edo.

"I just came back from Yoshihara, so I'm going back to Yoshihara again..." Ogata couldn't help showing a wry smile.

"Let's go, Ogata-kun."

I don't know if it was because he breathed the outside air that he hadn't seen for a long time, but Genichi seemed to be quite excited.

"I don't know where the nearest store that sells masks is... I knew that when I asked Shimada to buy this tengu mask for me, I would like to ask Shimada where there is a mask."

After a fierce ideological struggle, Ogata decided to turn a blind eye to Yuan Yi's decision to go out.

Oh no. It is a little inaccurate to use the phrase "open one eye and close one eye" to describe it.

Ogata is no longer "turning a blind eye", but directly becoming Genichi's accomplice.

Ogata understood that a large part of Yuan's invitation to him was to pull Ogata into the water, so that Ogata and him would become grasshoppers on the same rope, and the purpose of sealing it was logically achieved.

Although he already knew that Yuan Yi invited him, a large part of the reason was to pull him into the water, but Ogata decided to jump into this pit.

It is also for several reasons.

On the one hand, I think Yuan Yi's idea of ​​killing potential enemies is very reasonable and worth trying. And you can also get a wave of experience points by the way.

On the other hand, he is very interested in Genichi's swordsmanship guidance, and by the way, see for himself how strong the swordsmanship of Genichi, known as the "Sword Master", is.

Although he has known Genichi for a long time, Ogata has never seen Genichi attack the enemy himself.

If you say you are not interested in Yuan Yi's actual combat ability and Yuan Yi's advice, then it must be a lie.

Because of these various reasons, Ogata decided to hunt down "rats" with Yuanyi and make a fuss together.

The two of them were lucky to find a shop selling masks that was still open in such a late night.

Ogata didn't care what mask to wear to hide his identity, so he just bought a white fox mask casually.

After purchasing the masks to hide their identities, "Tengu" and "White Fox" approached Yoshihara while carefully avoiding passers-by who occasionally appeared on the street...

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When Ogata and Genichi had just slipped outside along the window——

In Edo, in the inn where Ogata and the others lived——

Gamiya, whose cheeks were facing the ceiling, closed his eyes and breathed long and regularly all the time, opened his eyes suddenly after Ogata and Gen jumped out of the room, and then sat up from the bed Come.

When Ogata and Genichi jumped out of the window just now, they didn't forget to close the window again.

Mamiya, who sat up from the bed, showed a strange expression, and whispered in a somewhat helpless tone amidst doubts:

"What are the two of them doing..."

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Ogata and Genichi did not enter Yoshihara, but lurked outside Yoshihara's gate.

Ogata and Genichi hid in a dense bush outside the gate of Yoshihara, monitoring the only entrance and exit of Yoshihara.

Although it is late now, there are still many men and women entering and leaving through the sleeve doors on both sides of the gate.

Looking at the Yoshihara gate not far away, who had just left and then returned, Ogata had a complicated expression on his face.

"Master Gen." Ogata said softly, "Although it is true that there are many 'rats' in and out of Yoshiwara looking for you and your information, but it is so late now, can we really meet 'rats'? "

"And do you remember who were 'rats'?"

Compared with the number of "rats" and the number of tourists entering and leaving Yoshiwara every day, it is definitely a drop in the bucket.

It is definitely a small probability event to squat outside the gate of Yoshihara until the "mouse" just enters or leaves Yoshihara.

"Although I have forgotten the faces of some enemies, I still remember the faces of some enemies."

After saying that, Yuan Yi suddenly stretched his right hand forward.

"Aha, got it."

While speaking, Genichi spread his right hand.

A bee that had been crushed to death by Yuan Yi lay quietly on Yuan Yi's right palm.

"My mouth just got a little hungry."

After finishing speaking, Yuanyi threw the bee in his palm into his mouth and began to chew it.

Seeing Genichi's astonishing operation, Ogata's eyes widened.

"Master Yuan, bees should not be eaten raw, right? Its stingers cannot be touched randomly."

As far as Ogata knew, the stings of bees seemed to be poisonous, and it was painful to be stung.

And Yuan Yi actually stuffed the bee into his mouth like this...

"It's unlucky, the bee didn't get honey, it's not sweet."

Genichi spat out the bee stinger and continued to speak in a vague tone:

"Indeed, the sting of a bee is not to be touched."

"I was tortured to death when I first ate bees."

"But after that, my body seems to have adapted to the bee's toxin. No matter how much I eat bees, I won't feel any discomfort anymore."

Speaking of this, a faint look of reminiscence appeared on Yuan Yi's face.

"Using bees as food - this trick was taught to me by that fellow Fuma."

"Because of some accidents, we didn't even have money for food, and then Feng Mo taught me what can be eaten raw without dying."

"That was really an epic time..."

Looking at Genichi with a look of nostalgia on his face, Ogata asked back:

"Master Yuan, you seem to have a very good relationship with Master Fumo."

"Even he did not hesitate to pay the price of forming a deadly enmity with Shiranui, mediating the struggle between Shiranui and Fuma no Sato, and saved Fuma-sama's life."

The "Battle of Nijo Castle" was over, and when Ogata was recuperating at Fuma's home, he had heard from Fuma that Fuma had attacked Shiranui's base alone, and that Genichi had single-handedly mediated the war between the two major ninjas. 2 magnificent stories.

"Feng Mo and I are old friends."

The look of reminiscence on Yuanyi's face became more intense.

"Mr. Ogata, you may not know that when Fumo took the name of the new Fumo, his original name was Ganshi."

"We've known each other since his name was just Gan."

"As for what you said just now, 'do not hesitate to pay the price of forming a death feud with Shiranui'..."

Speaking of this, a meaningful color flashed in Yuan Yi's eyes.

"Enmity with Shiranui is nothing at all."

"I have offended forces much stronger than Shiranui in my life. There are so many."

"Forget it, let's not talk about these old things, let's talk about something interesting. Ogata-kun, look over there."

Minato pouted at the Yoshihara gate not far away.

Ogata thought that a "mouse" had finally appeared, and hurriedly looked towards Yoshiwara's gate.

As a result, I only saw a woman about 30 years old, exuding mature charm all over her body, holding a big cloth bag, walking along the sleeve door on the right side of the Yoshihara gate, and quickly leaving Yoshihara.

"As far as I guess, this woman should have a good background."

Yuan Yi talked eloquently.

"Although I'm wearing ordinary clothes, my feet are fair and clean. Only a woman from a good family can have such feet."

"...Did you ask me to see that woman just to say this?" Several black lines appeared on Ogata's face.

"This is a small game that I used to love to play to pass the time." Yuan Yiyi said, "Based on a person's appearance and clothing, he can guess the other person's family background and job."

Having said that, Yuan took a deep breath.

"It's really more interesting to jump around outside than to drink alone in the room with nothing to do."

Ogata (staring at...): "Master Yuan...let me confirm that the reason why you decided to wipe out the 'rats' one by one is to reduce our potential enemies, not to disturb them when you go out to play Guys kill... right?"

"Of course I want to kill our potential enemies!" Yuan Yi said without hesitation with a dignified look.

Even though Genichi said so, Ogata still stared at Genichi with strange eyes mixed with a bit of suspicion...

While Ogata and Genichi were talking, another group of people came out of Yoshihara.

Seeing someone coming out of Yoshihara again, Ogata didn't care to continue to look at Genichi suspiciously, and followed Genichi to look at Yoshihara's sleeve door.

Genichi raised his eyebrows after seeing the new group of people who came out of Yoshihara.

"Ogata-kun, it seems that we have not wasted our time in this place so far."

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Baoji is very depressed now.

Tonight, he led 6 of his subordinates to Yoshihara to inquire and collect information about Genichi Kinoshita.

However, no matter how he inquired, there was no news of Kinoshita Genichi.

Although there are many old men in and out of Yoshihara, none of them is Kinoshita Genichi.

Tonight is the time for the "Imperial Trial" essay test to release the rankings.

In order to ascertain whether Genichi Kinoshita came to Edo to participate in the "Imperial Trial", Baoji just took a look at the list of those who passed the literary test - but he didn't see the name Genichi Kinoshita.

If Genichi Kinoshita’s name is not seen, there are only three possibilities: Genichi did not come to participate, Genichi participated under a pseudonym, and Genichi participated but failed the essay test.

Today is the 16th day that Baoji took his men south to Edo.

For more than half a month, Baoji did not slack off for a single day, and traveled around every day to find out information about Genichi Kinoshita.

However, until now, no news about Genichi Kinoshita has been collected...

Maybe he was dissatisfied with the current days when he didn't know when the end would be. When he first came out of Yoshiwara, a subordinate behind Baoji said in a tired tone:

"Boji-sama... that Kinoshita Genichi didn't come to Edo at all, did he?"

Hearing this question from his subordinates, Baoji couldn't help but fell silent.

Because he felt that the "Imperial Trial" was very likely to attract Kinoshita Genichi, who was extremely obsessed with swordsmanship, Baoji led his only six subordinates to Edo in a mighty way.

After so many days, no information related to Kinoshita Genichi has been collected, so Baoji can't help but mutter in his heart: Kinoshita Genichi really didn't come to Edo, right?

After being silent for a while, Baoji said in a deep voice:

"Stay here in Edo for another half a month."

"If there is still no news of Kinoshita Genichi, we will go back."

The hatred for Kinoshita Genichi made Baoji reluctant to leave Edo until it was completely hopeless.

Baoji will never forget that night 8 years ago-Kinoshita Genichi broke into their stockade and beheaded almost all of Baoji's subordinates.

Thanks to the hard work of his subordinates, Baoji bought time to escape, and Baoji escaped Kinoshita Genichi's butcher knife.

The Baoji family, a well-known bandit in the Akita area, was completely destroyed because of Genichi Kinoshita.

In the past 8 years, Baoji's hatred for Yuanyi has not only not diminished, but has also increased day by day.

For revenge, during these 8 years, Bao Ji collected information on Yuan Yi from everywhere, while preparing weapons that could defeat Yuan Yi.

It's late at night, and after leaving Yoshihara, the number of figures that Baoji and others have seen so far is less than five fingers.

Baoji is no longer the majestic bandit leader he used to be, so in order to save money, he and his subordinates stay in hotels that are located in remote areas and are relatively cheap.

At this point in time, even the avenues that would be very lively during the day are almost deserted, let alone remote areas.

After Baoji and others turned onto a trail, the sight that appeared in front of Baoji and others forced Baoji and his subordinates to stop.

At the end of the path under their feet stood two figures.

Two people dressed very strangely.

One of them was dressed normally, with both upper and lower body clothes neatly dressed.

The other person's clothes were a bit abnormal in this windy night—only a thin white bathrobe and no shoes.

Although one of them is dressed normally, both of them are strange in Baoji's eyes because they both wear a mask on their faces.

One is wearing a tengu mask and the other is wearing a white fox mask.

"Who are you?" Baoji said in a deep voice.

While questioning the two weirdos in such a deep voice, Baoji and the six subordinates behind him all put their hands on the handles of the sabers around their waists.

"Hmm... If I remember correctly, you should be the bandit leader I killed a few years ago—Baoji, right?"

"Tengu" said abruptly.

Hearing the voice of "Tengu", Baoji's expression changed instantly, and then he gritted his teeth and screamed:

"Kinoshita Genichi!!"

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After pointing out that the group of people who just walked out of Yoshihara are "rats", Genichi led Ogata to follow the group of people closely, looking for the right time to ambush, and at the same time introduced to Ogata who the group of "rats" were ——Genichi wiped out the remnants of bandits in the Akita area about 8 years ago.

Eight years ago, Genichi went to Akita for some reason, and learned that a group of bandits named "The Baoji Family" occupied the top of the mountain and did evil.

Because he hated this gang of burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil, Yuan Yi personally wiped them out.

Because it happened only 8 years ago, Yuan Yi still remembers the face of the escaped bandit leader.

After Ogata and Genichi's dashing appearance, Baoji immediately showed a hysterical appearance.

"Quick! All of you!" Baoji shouted to the six subordinates behind him as he untied a thing wrapped in thick steps from his back, "Help me gain time!"

Baoji now has many doubts.

For example: Genichi Kinoshita is really in Edo? Why did he stop in front of me? Has he been following and monitoring me just now...

Although there are countless questions, Baosheng has no time to ask them one by one.

He has only one thought now: to kill this bastard who made him fall to this point!

The six subordinates behind Baoji are all survivors who narrowly escaped Yuan Yi's butcher knife eight years ago.

Seeing the enemy appearing in front of them on their own initiative, these six people also sullenly pulled out their sabers from their waists, and while shouting, they charged at Ogata and Yuanyi.

"Ogata-kun, I leave it to you."

Genichi raised his hand and patted Ogata on the shoulder.

"Huh?" Ogata turned to look at Yuan Yi, the eyes that were only exposed outside the mask flashed with astonishment, "Is it just me?"

Ogata looked at Yuan Yi, as if saying to Yuan Yi: Are you kidding me? ! Did you agree to teach me some sword swing skills? Let me fight, what do you teach? !

Genichi, who understood the meaning of Ogata's eyes, patted Ogata's shoulder again, and then put on a righteous look.

"Their leader will be handed over to me. His younger brother will be handed over to you. By the way, let me see with my own eyes how strong you are."

The six people had already reached the front, and it was too late for Ogata to argue with Kinoshita.

The eyes exposed outside the mask stared at the six people who were only a few steps away, then stretched the left and right hands to the waist, and pulled out Da Shitian and Da Zizai.

Ever since I came to Edo, I haven't had much chance to use the Wugo Dual Sword Style.

Ogata intends to take this opportunity to regain the feel of the two-sword style.

After these six people entered his attacking range, Xufang took advantage of his height, arms and long sword, and took the lead in launching the attack.

With only 2 knives, he knocked down the two closest to him.

And the system prompts also played continuously in Ogata's mind.

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For the story of Fuma's attack on Shiranui, and Genichi's mediation of the war between the two major ninjas, you can read the full episode - "The Last Fuma Kotaro. "