I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

After Isshiki and Naoshu left the room where they lived, and then confirmed that they had gone far away, A-machi let out a long breath, and said softly:

"When Mr. Isshiki just said that he wanted you to go down the curtain with them, I was really shocked..."

Ogata nodded lightly - just now when Isshiki Naoshu invited Ogata to come and fall with them, Ogata was also taken aback.

Although Ogata confronted the shogunate again and again and made the shogunate lose face, in essence, every time the shogunate slapped the shogunate, the shogunate first provoked Ogata directly or indirectly, and then Ogata could not Do not fight back.

Taking the initiative to find fault with the shogunate - Ogata has never done it before.

Therefore, bringing down the curtain with others and uprooting the Edo shogunate was really a path that Ogata had never imagined.

"I feel that Mr. Isshiki and the others should be able to chat with Mr. Lin..." A-Ming changed into a half-joking tone.

The Mr. Lin in the mouth of Ah Ding naturally refers to Lin Ziping who is probably still conducting academic research somewhere in Ezo.

"That's not necessarily true." Ogata smiled, "Although Mr. Lin hates the shogunate, he is more inclined to wake up the shogunate and the shogunate princes."

"Mr. Isshiki's ideas are much more radical than Mr. Hayashi's. Mr. Isshiki wants to uproot the Edo shogunate and bring the country back to the Nara and Heian eras when the emperor was in power hundreds of years ago."

"The two claims are still far apart."

"If Mr. Lin and Mr. Yishi really meet, I think the two of them will just fight."

"According to what I know about Mr. Lin—he will definitely be furious when he learns that Mr. Isshiki intends to return the country to the Nara and Heian eras."

"After all, Mr. Lin is the kind of person who has a broad vision and an open mind."

"I don't think he would approve of this kind of behavior of making the country 'retro'."

"Exactly..." A-Machi nodded.

After nodding, Ah-Ming then said in a half-joking tone: "I was a little worried just now, worried that you would agree to them and promise to go to the curtain with them."

Ogata couldn't help laughing: "I don't have the time to do something wrong now."

"Even with that time,

I won't agree to them either. What happens to the country, I don't care. I don't want to bother with this hassle. "

Speaking of this, Ogata paused for a moment, and then continued in a helpless tone:

"Mr. Lin is really right, I am really the object of admiration of the downfall forces now... How troublesome..."

Previously, Lin Ziping had vowed to Ogata: In the eyes of many people who dislike the shogunate, Ogata is an indomitable hero, and those who fell from the shogunate may respect Ogata as the "ancestor of the shogunate".

Ogata didn't expect that Lin Ziping's words would be confirmed so quickly.

"I hope that these powers that will collapse the curtain will not come to pester us too much..." Ogata said slowly, "All the forces that are determined to collapse the curtain will come to ask me to help them... such a scene, just thinking about it, I feel Big head..."

A-machi nodded in agreement.

"...Speaking of which... this is the first time I've seen someone trying to bring down the Edo shogunate..." A-machi turned his head to look at the door that Isshiki and the others walked through when they left just now, "There is really someone determined to Defeating that kind of behemoth... feels a bit incredible..."

Although her husband had slapped the shogunate countless times, and not long ago defeated the 10,000-strong army of the shogunate and the Northeast feudal clans, the Edo shogunate was still an unshakable colossus to her.

Naoshu's speech just now gave Machi a feeling that they were saying "I plan to move Mount Fuji away".

"Do you think Isshiki-san and the others will succeed?" Acho asked Asaogata.

"I don't know." Ogata replied without hesitation, "I don't know how much power they have accumulated to bring down the curtain. So I don't know if they have a chance to succeed."

"But one day I can be sure - if the Edo shogunate is still as useless in governing the country as it is now, and only wants to maintain their ruling position, then people like Mr. Isshiki who are determined to overthrow the shogunate will only become more and more more."

"Even if the Edo shogunate is not eradicated by Mr. Isshiki and the others now, it will be destroyed by another force that fell the shogunate later."

"A country without the Edo Shogunate..." A-Machi murmured, "It feels a bit unimaginable... Do you think we will see the Edo Shogunate fall in our lifetime?"

"There should be hope." Ogata smiled, "Maybe we will see the collapse of the Edo Shogunate in 10 years, or we may not see the Edo Shogunate fall until we are all grandparents."

"However, no matter what will happen to the Edo shogunate in the future, we don't need to care too much. After all, whether the Edo shogunate survives or dies, our daily life is the same, and we all have to pay for the four things of three meals a day. Work hard."

"No matter what the future of the Edo shogunate will be, the first thing we should consider and do will not change: first concentrate on living our lives well."

"Three meals a day? Working hard for three meals a day, isn't that just three things?" A-cho asked suspiciously.

On the spur of the moment just now, Ogata told the pornographic joke about "three meals a day" in his previous life.

However, Machi didn't understand at all...

But it's normal not to understand.

This joke is very troublesome to explain, so Ogata directly dragged the topic away without changing his face:

"Speaking of which, hasn't Azhu come back yet? Where did she run wild..."

Boom boom boom!

After a long absence, Ogata remembered the old saying "Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive".

As soon as he finished the sentence just now, there was the sound of "dong dong dong" footsteps outside the door.

Along with the footsteps of "咚咚咚", there was also Azhu's energetic voice:

"I'm back!"

...

...

Ogata and O-Machi were sitting upright as they had just talked with Isshiki and the others.

Now sitting in front of the two of them was no longer Isshiki Naoshu and Isshiki Ryoma, but Azuki who was sitting cross-legged.

"When I returned to this inn just now, I saw Mr. Isshiki and the others opening a new house at the counter of this inn." Azuki said quickly, "So I know that their conversation with Mr. Yidaosai is over, so He rushed over in a hurry."

Ogata: "Is that so...Mr. Isshiki and the others will stay here tonight."

Ogata was not surprised that Isshiki and the others would be staying here tonight.

After all, the conditions of this hotel are not bad, and Isshiki and the others don't seem to be the kind of people who will be short of money, so they chose to stay here to save the trouble of finding a hotel. Ogata felt that it was very normal and was not surprised.

"Speaking of which—Master Yidaosai, I don't know if you have noticed." Azuku said with a grin, "That Isshiki Ryoma's butt is quite round and quite big."

"I didn't realize this until I saw Mr. Isshiki and the others at the counter. A man like him should be very popular with those who are fascinated by the Tao."

"How could I pay special attention to a man's butt..." Ogata said helplessly.

——Although this child is young, he occasionally talks like a wretched uncle...

After complaining silently in his heart, Ogata cleared his throat.

"Okay, Azuki." Ogata put on a serious tone, "Don't talk about other things, let's talk about the business. If you have anything to tell me, please say it as soon as possible."

Azhu: "Ah, good."

Seeing that Ogata asked to get straight to the point, Azuki stopped being funny and put on a serious face.

After putting on a serious face, Azuki knelt down on the ground in the posture of Dogeza with the momentum of a tiger descending the mountain.

"Master Yidao Zhai! Please let me travel with you!"

"Impossible—!" As soon as Azuki's voice fell, Acho immediately replied like a conditioned reflex, "What nonsense are you talking about? We can't take you on a trip, Besides, we're not traveling."

When he said these words impassionedly, A-Ming cast his eyes on A-Zhu... with a hint of vigilance and hostility...

Compared to A-Machi who was more reactive, Ogata was much calmer.

After looking at Azuki with puzzled eyes, Ogata's expression became slightly weird.

——The last wave of people invited me to go to the curtain with them, and now there is another person who wants to travel with me...Have I become so popular...?

After trying to calm down, Ogata asked back:

"Why do you want to travel with me, the most wanted man in the shogunate? Do you know what it means to act with us? It means that maybe during the meal, people from the government will suddenly rush in to arrest us .”

"I know." A Zhu nodded without hesitation, "But I have already made up my mind! As long as I can find my sister, I am willing to live a life of homelessness!"

"Find... your sister...?" Ogata frowned slightly.

"Yeah." A Zhu nodded vigorously, "I wandered around for this purpose."

After saying that, Ash stood up abruptly.

Then……

Started to take off his clothes.

First he took off the black robe, revealing the bright red kimono under the black robe, and then began to untie the belt of the kimono with swift and skillful techniques.

Azuki's sudden move can be said to have completely exceeded Ogata and Acho's expectations.

Before Ogata could react, A-Machi, who was sitting next to Ogata, moved first.

"Ahhh, Azuki! What are you doing?"

While Ah-machi shouted like this, he swooped on Ogata's body one by one, and then stretched out his hands to cover Ogata's eyes.

Ogata understood A-Machi's behavior of covering his eyes very well, even if A-Machi didn't cover his eyes, he would look away.

With A-Ming present, it was naturally impossible for him to watch A-Zhu take off his clothes carelessly in front of his wife.

And even if A-Machi wasn't there, Ogata wouldn't have gone to see it—after all, the education he had received since he was a child made him feel full after seeing a 15-year-old child undressing there. guilt.

But even so... Ogata still has a slight... desire to break away from Atachi's hand and take a small glance...

"I want to show you something." A Zhu answered A Machi's question in a serious manner.

After finishing speaking, the bound kimono without the belt slowly slipped off Azuku's small body.

Because the eyes were covered by A-Machi. Ogata couldn't see anything.

But he heard—Ah-Ming next to him let out a sound of "Hey" full of astonishment.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Ogata asked.

"Uh...you can see for yourself..." A-Machi said while slowly lowering his hands covering Ogata's eyes.

After A-Machi lowered her hands, Ogata was finally able to see the scene in front of him clearly.

After seeing the scene in front of him clearly, Ogata's pupils shrank slightly in shock.

Azuki, who was standing in front of Ogata and the others, did not become naked after taking off the bright red kimono.

Under her bright red dress, there was another dress—a dress that was all black.

The upper body was dressed like a sleeveless kimono, revealing two white arms.

The clothes on the lower body... are a bit like short skirts, culottes that only reach half of the thigh.

However, because of the leggings on Azhu's calves, she didn't expose much skin on her lower body.

"This is Iga no Sato's ninja costume!" Azuki said loudly.

"I'm sorry, I lied to you before... Ah, no, I don't think I lied to you."

"I am indeed the merchant's daughter."

"But besides the merchant's daughter, I have another identity!"

Azhu put on a strange posture like a roc spreading its wings.

"I am a descendant of the extinct Iga ninja—Iga-ryu ninja!"

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quiet--

...

In the past half hour——

A Zhu: (⊙﹏⊙) "Master Yi Dao Zhai, why don't you seem very surprised."

"Ah, well... I've always been a quiet person. Although I look calm on the surface, I'm actually quite shocked in my heart."

After Azuku revealed that she was a ninja from Iga-ryu, Acho showed a shocked expression very cooperatively.

And Ogata... was quite calm, with only a bit of surprise in his eyes.

This made Azuki quite confused.

The reason why Ogata was able to be so calm was purely because he had already passed the system and guessed that Azhu might not be an ordinary person, so he was not so surprised after Azhu blew himself up.

At this time, the surprise in Ogata's eyes was mainly because he was shocked by the strange posture of the roc spreading its wings that Azhu was still posing, and the ninja uniform on Azhu's body...

——This is... Iga's ninja uniform...?

In Ogata's mind, the appearance of A-Machi in Shiranui's ninja uniform popped up subconsciously, and then he compared it with Azuki in front of him.

After the comparison, Ogata came to a brilliant conclusion:

——Iga's ninja uniform and Shiranui's ninja uniform really complement each other... Shiranui's ninja uniform has a more conservative lower body, while Iga's ninja uniform has a more conservative upper body...

Ah-Ming's female ninja uniform is still quietly lying in the cloth bag where they put their clothes for changing and washing. Although the upper body of Shiranui's ninja uniform has bare back and arms, the shape of the lower body is somewhat similar to the tight trousers, so the lower body does not show a little bit of skin—this is exactly the same as that of the girl in Iga. In contrast to the ninja uniform, Iga's female ninja uniform has a conservative upper body, only revealing the skin of the arms, while the lower body is quite open.

At this time, Azuki seemed to have accepted Ogata's words just now, and after showing a clear look, he slowly put away this weird posture, and then said seriously:

"Ittosai-sama, you should know about Iga, right?"

"Of course I know." Ogata said, "The former shogunate ninja, but it died 41 years ago."

——Not only do I know Iga, but I also know who destroyed Iga...

Ogata added this sentence in his heart.

"It's good for you to know." A Zhu nodded, "This will save me from explaining."

"I won't say too much about Iga no Sato."

"After all, that's not the point I'm going to talk about."

"Actually, I don't know much about Iga no Sato. After all, I wasn't born when it died."

After finishing speaking, Azhu sat cross-legged and returned to the tatami.

"As I said just now - I am a descendant of the extinct Iga ninja."

"After the demise of Iga no Sato 41 years ago, many Iga ninjas managed to survive and wandered outside."

"My grandfather was one of them."

"After Iga's Sato was destroyed, my grandfather did not choose to rebuild Iga's Sato, but chose to hide his name and live a life no different from ordinary people."

"Not long after I became an ordinary person, I successfully started a family and gave birth to my mother."

"And when my mother became an adult, she also married a merchant who ran a grocery store, and gave birth to me and my younger sister: Ajiu."

"Because of my good family background, as long as I can remember, I have lived a peaceful life with no worries about food and clothing, and spare money and spare money to learn pipa."

A Zhu raised his hand to caress the pipa beside her.

"Although Grandpa has disappeared, he has not completely let go of things related to Iga."

Speaking of this, Azhu paused, and then said to Ogata with a look of shame:

"I'm sorry, Lord Yidao Zhai. What I told you before, 'Luck energy is a self-defense technique passed down from generation to generation in my family', these are all lies."

"Luck energy is not my family's self-defense technique at all, it is actually a secret technique of the Iga style, and its real name is 'Iga style forbidden technique'."

"It's a secret skill that only the Jonin in Iga no Sato can learn."

——I already knew...

While telling the truth in his heart, Ogata exerted his acting skills with all his strength, and squeezed out a surprised expression: "Iga-ryu forbidden art... no wonder it's so powerful..."

"According to the rules of Iga no Sato, luck cannot be passed on to people other than Jonin, or to women."

"But because Iga no Sato was destroyed, my grandfather didn't care about so many rules. He passed the luck directly to my mother, and after my mother gave birth to me and my younger sister Ajiu, she passed it on to both of us."

"The reason why Grandpa taught us Yunjin is also very simple - to enable us to have the ability to protect ourselves when we encounter any danger."

"Except for luck, grandpa didn't pass on the rest of the Iga-ryu ninjutsu to us."

"Grandpa has been hiding his identity as an Iga ninja."

"When he taught us Yunjin, he didn't tell us that it was the Iga-ryu forbidden technique, but that it was a fighting technique passed down from generation to generation in his family."

"Grandpa has been hiding his identity like this..."

"Until... until one night 5 years ago..."

At this time, A Zhu slowly clenched his hands on her legs.

"It was only one night when I was 10 years old that I found out...my grandfather is an Iga ninja..."

"One night five years ago, a large group of people suddenly came."

"The group of people broke into our house directly, then approached my grandfather, and told my grandfather: They are the remnants of the Iga Village, and I hope that my grandfather will join them and rebuild the Iga Village with them."

"Until then, I didn't know that Grandpa is not an ordinary person... Although this fact doesn't make me happy..."

"My sister and I were by my grandfather's side at that time, and the scene at that time is still fresh in my memory..."

"Grandpa refused their 'invitation' without hesitation, and then... the leader of the group - an old guy with a gray pupil in the left eye, said: 'Then you can only take your family members to force you You are our weapon'."

"And then...the guys started attacking us..."

"My father was a helpless businessman, and he was quickly subdued."

"Although my mother, my sister and I were taught luck since we were young, we were quickly subdued one by one in the face of such a person's siege..."

"Grandpa resisted desperately, but he is old after all, and faced with such a disparity in the number of people, he is powerless..."

"Despite our defeat, my sister's valor attracted the leader of the bastards—the old guy with the gray left eye."

"Ajiu's talent in martial arts is much, much higher than mine. In the study of 'Yun Jin', she can master the little skills that took me a month to learn in a day."

"So when I was fighting those bastards, I didn't defeat anyone. On the contrary, Ah Jiu defeated three of them alone."

"The reason why I can sit here and talk to you like this is all because of my sister—I was saved by my sister Ajiu..."

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The prototype of Azhu's female ninja uniform is the costume of Makimachi in "Rurouni Kenshin". It looks like this (this picture can only be viewed at the starting point)——

In the beginning, Azuki was designed to play the shamisen, but because I was following the new series "Heike Monogatari" recently, I changed Azuki to play the pipa. Anyway, it doesn't matter if she plays anything~~