I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

The beautiful face caught in Isshiki's eyes made her dazzled for a moment.

She recognized the face.

It is the face of Hatsuko, who is now well-known as the "No. 1 Artist in Osaka".

Yishihua recognizes Chuguang.

By chance.

About half a year ago, Isshiki saw Chu Guang for the first and last time on the street, who was rushing to a certain place to perform at a certain banquet.

Although I only saw Chuguang, her aura that reminds people of "a white lotus blooming in the mud" left a deep impression on Isshika.

Even though she only saw Chuguang once, and hadn't seen this beautiful musician for half a year since then, Isshika still remembered Chuguang's face firmly and could recognize her at a glance.

Isshika was only surprised for a moment by the fact that "Chuguang appeared in front of her eyes".

In just a split second, the astonishment in Yishihua's eyes turned into panic.

She looked around, confirmed her situation, and tried to struggle a few times, trying to break free from the thin rope that tied her firmly to the wooden post.

The binding technique of this thin rope tied with Isshiki is extremely high. While binding Isshiki firmly, it will not make Isshiki feel uncomfortable due to being tightly bound.

After Isshiki struggled with all her strength for a few times, there was no result except that the places where she was tightly bound by the thin rope became painful, and the knot of the thin rope remained motionless.

After struggling to no avail, Yishihua gradually calmed down.

The look of panic gradually disappeared and turned into vigilance.

She raised her head and looked at Chuguang warily.

"Oh?" The corner of Chuguang's mouth curled up, revealing a charming smile, "Not bad courage."

"You can regain your composure so quickly."

"Such a courageous woman is really rare."

Chuguang knelt and sat in front of Yishihua, making his eyes level with Yishihua.

"I don't have much time to act on my own like this, so I'm going to cut the long story short."

"Let me tell you as briefly as possible what you want to know the most right now."

"The reason why your Isshiki family was attacked is because you have an intersection with that 'Sura' Ogata Yidaosai."

Hearing the name "Ogata Ittosai", Isshika's pupils shrank uncontrollably.

Chuguang ignored the change in Isshika's expression, and continued.

"For some reason, my immediate boss insisted on killing Ogata."

"Using a method I don't know, they found out that your One Color Sword Gym is very likely to have a lot to do with Ogata Yidaosai."

"My lunatic boss, who was eager to know the location of Ogata Yidousai, decided to sneak attack on your house tonight, arrest you all, and then torture him for information about Ogata Yidaosai."

"The secret work of my lunatic boss is still so airtight. I was not allowed to tell the goal of tonight's mission and all the content until night fell and the mission was about to start. Before that, I only knew that there was a mission tonight."

"So it's a pity. If I could have known earlier that the target of tonight's mission is your home, I could have acted earlier and let you escape quickly."

"But the luck of the misfortune is—you were lucky to escape from your house in time."

"And among those sent to catch you—I was there."

"And I happen to be the one who found you first."

"From a certain point of view, you have to thank the pervert who I killed just now who tried to take your clothes off."

"If I hadn't made a loud noise, I wouldn't have been able to locate you so quickly."

"I don't want to follow my crazy boss to kill innocent people."

"God knows how those people will torture your family, so the fewer people caught by them, the better."

"So after looking for you first, I secretly brought you to this absolutely safe place."

"Although your grandfather and parents were taken away, they are safe and have not suffered any serious injuries.

For a while, he should be safe. "

"I have a very important question for you now."

While talking, Chuguang raised his hand to grab the white bandage tied on Yishihua's mouth.

"I'm going to take the strap off your mouth."

"Don't you yell when I take the tape off your mouth."

"You should be a smart person. You don't need me to explain in detail. You can know the current situation. Obediently listening to me is the best solution, right?"

After finishing speaking, Chuguang tore off the strip of cloth tied to Yishihua's mouth.

As soon as the cloth strip was taken off, Chuguang immediately filled Yishihua and asked:

"If you know where Ogata Yidaosai lives, tell me his address quickly. He is in danger now, and he has to leave Osaka as soon as possible."

As soon as Chuguang's questioning voice fell, Yishihua immediately "turned the offensive" and asked Chuguang:

"Who are you guys? Why did you kill Master Yidao Zhai? Why did you save me?"

Seeing Isshika who not only didn't answer her question, but also asked her questions, Chuguang pouted.

"...I didn't allow you to ask me questions."

"Forget it, that's fine. Anyway, I still have some time. I'm quite interested in a brave and courageous woman like you, so let me spend more time to help you clear up."

"Two hundred years ago, in the Osaka Summer Formation, the Toyotomi clan's bloodlines were not cut off, and survived tenaciously."

"The 'Mad Boss' I've been mentioning just now is the descendant of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the man of the world two hundred years ago——Toyotomi Nobuhide."

"I don't quite understand why this lunatic suddenly wants Ogata Isai's life so much. After all, my status in the organization is not very high, and I am not qualified to know all kinds of confidential news."

"Obviously before that, he also mobilized a large number of men to search for Ogata Yidaosai everywhere, and strictly demanded that Ogata Yidaosai must be captured alive."

"Hatsumitsu, the 'Number One Artist in Osaka' who belongs to Nanakusaya—this is just my disguised identity."

"My true identity is one of the Iga ninjas."

"After the demise of Iga no Sato 41 years ago, some of the surviving Iga ninjas gathered in an attempt to rebuild and revive Iga no Sato."

"The remnant party in Iga no Sato has been lingering until a few years ago. After being subdued by Toyotomi Nobuhide, life finally got better."

"Disguising one's identity, infiltrating, and spying on intelligence has always been one of the main tasks of a ninja like me."

"I can play the shamisen, so I was sent to disguise myself as an entertainer named 'Hatsumitsu' to gather information in Osaka."

"Compared to the kind of colleagues who need to disguise themselves as wandering girls, my task is much easier, at least I don't need to sleep with other men."

"As for why I want to save you, it's also very simple."

"Because I never planned to work for Toyotomi Nobuhide from the very beginning."

"The reason why I became an Iga ninja and worked for Toyotomi Nobuhide was purely forced."

"When I was forced to work for Toyotomi Nobuhide, I swore inwardly——I will wreak havoc."

"The best thing is to bring down the entire Toyotomi Group internally—although this kind of thing is unlikely, I am working hard in this direction."

"And it's not the first time I've sabotaged secretly while doing a mission."

"I'm pretty familiar with things like secretly adding to the Toyotomi Group's troubles."

Chuguang succinctly answered Yishihua's three consecutive questions just now.

Facing Chuguang's response just now, Yishihua made a response that was completely expected by Chuguang:

"Toyotomi Group...are you joking?"

"Everything I said is true." Chu Guang said, "Do you believe it or not. Is there anything else you want to ask? Answer your questions while I'm still in the mood. If you have anything else you want to ask, please do so as soon as possible. "

"...You just..." Although I tried my best to control it, Isshiki still had an uncontrollable look of worry on her face, "Is it true that my family members are still safe and sound?"

"Really." Chu Guang nodded, "The person responsible for arresting and interrogating your family is that Lou Luo."

"Although I don't like this monstrous monk with a gloomy temperament, I still appreciate the advantage of him sticking to his principles all the time."

"Lou Luo is a very principled person. It is one of his principles not to indiscriminately kill people who don't work for the Edo shogunate."

"As long as your family members don't try to kill themselves, they will be safe now and for a while."

Having said that, Chu Guang suddenly changed the subject.

"Okay, I've also answered a lot of your questions. It's almost your turn to answer my questions."

"If you know where Ogata Isai is currently living, please tell me where he lives. If you know where Ogata Isai often goes, that's fine too."

"..." Yishihua didn't answer.

Instead, as in the beginning, he glanced at Chuguang with vigilant eyes.

"Hey, hey." Chu Guang frowned, "I told you so many things just now, don't you still trust me?"

"I am not an enemy."

Chuguang said it word by word.

"If I were an enemy, I would have reunited you and your family in the cell long ago, instead of taking so much effort to bring you here for protection."

"I don't want to see too many innocent people being killed by that lunatic Toyotomi Nobuhide, so I do my best to protect you and try to protect Ogata Yidaosai who has been targeted."

"No matter how strong that Ogata Yidao Zhai is, in the face of Toyotomi Nobuhide's targeted attack, even if he doesn't die, he will definitely be tortured unspeakably."

"If you want to see Ogata Yidaosai lying dead on the street, just keep silent."

Chuguang's words successfully shook Yishihua's expression.

She lowered her head and looked at the tatami between her and Chuguang.

"I also... don't know where Master Yidaosai lives in Osaka... I don't know the whereabouts of Master Yidaosai either."

After waiting for a while, Chuguang heard Yisehua say this.

Chuguang stared at Yishihua's face for a long time: "...It seems that you are not lying. Sigh... this is troublesome..."

Chu Guang sighed heavily, and then took out a western pocket watch from his pocket.

After looking at the time on the watch, she muttered, "There's not much time left... I should go."

After finishing speaking, Chuguang stuffed the pocket watch back into his bosom, then picked up the strip of cloth that had just been removed to seal Isshika's mouth, and tied it towards Isshika's mouth at a fast speed.

Chuguang's hands were extremely fast.

Just as Yishihua's consciousness came to her senses, Chuguang had tied her mouth tightly again.

"My free time is running out, I should go."

Chuguang said seriously to Yishihua whose mouth was sealed again.

"My colleagues are still looking for you everywhere, so I can't let you go free now. For a while, you can live here temporarily."

"The old woman who lives in this house is my friend and she is absolutely reliable. I will let her take good care of you."

"If you need anything, just mention it to your mother-in-law."

"When I can set you free, I will let you go."

"Although I don't think you are the kind of person who would act rashly to save your family, but in order to avoid accidents, you have to be tied up like this until you are released. Please forgive me."

"I will do everything in my power to make your family comfortable and keep your family safe."

"That's it, I'll see you later when I have time."

Isshiki struggled hard, and let out a cry of "muuuuuu".

Chuguang ignored him and walked out of the room.

As soon as she left the room, she saw her mother-in-law walking towards her.

"Is it over?" asked the mother-in-law.

"Yeah." Chuguang smiled wryly, "Grandmother, I will trouble you to take care of her from now on."

"Hehehe, it's just a trivial matter."

"Grandma, is there any tea? I want to drink a cup of hot tea before leaving."

"Yes, I'll bring it. You can sit in the hall for a while."

"I'll just stand here, leave after drinking, and stay soon."

"Okay, then you wait here for a while."

The mother-in-law took small steps and quickly walked towards the kitchen at the back of the house.

As soon as her mother-in-law left, Chuguang heard the knocking of the door not far away.

Following the sound, he saw that the door was opened with a small gap that was only big enough for one person to pass through, and then a strong man slipped into the room along the small gap.

"Miss Chuguang."

"It's Shibata."

The person who entered the door was Shibata, Chuguang's guard.

"Miss Chuguang, how are you?" Shibata quickly walked up to Chuguang, "Does that Isshiki know anything?"

Chu Guang shook his head: "She doesn't know anything."

"That's it..." Shibata showed regret, "At the 'Great Trial', I saw her talking and laughing with Ogata Isai, and she seemed to have a good relationship with Ogata Isai, I thought she must know There is a lot of information about Ogata Ittosai..."

"Now we can only try our luck to see if we can find Ogata Yidaosai's residence based on the known clues." Chu Guang said, "If you don't find Ogata Yidaosai until the end... then you can only ask He wished for happiness."

"The workload is really desperate." Shibata said with a wry smile.

"I don't want to see any innocent person being killed by that lunatic Toyotomi Nobuhide." Chu Guang said every word, "No matter how heavy the workload is, we have to do it."

Shibata scratched his hair, and the wry smile on his face turned into a smile: "Then I can only risk my life to accompany the gentleman, who told me that I have already sworn to bring down the Toyotomi Group internally with you."

Hearing Shibata's words, a charming smile appeared on Chuguang's face.

"By the way, Miss Chuguang." Shibata suddenly said seriously, "I have something important to tell you. The people above seem to be determined to make some big moves recently."

"Big move?" Shibata's words made the smile on Chuguang's face disappear, and changed back to a serious expression.

"Specifically, I don't know too much." Shibata sighed lightly, "You and I are neither high-level personnel, and we are not qualified to know many things."

"I just heard some rumors. It seems that Toyotomi Nobuhide is going to make some 'big moves' to prepare for the end of the war and the revival of Toyotomi."

Chuguang's expression changed.

"'The Falling Curtain War'..." Chuguang's expression changed, "That Toyotomi Nobuhide is really crazy...does he really think he has the strength to fall the curtain..."

"...Miss Chuguang." Shibata said in a deep voice, "I don't think... Toyotomi Nobuhide is launching a 'war of falling curtain' now, it's really not something unimaginable..."

"I hate Toyotomi Hideyoshi very much, but even I, who hate him so much, have to admit that he is a terrific hero."

"He made one strange person after another willingly work for him."

"Miss Chuguang, you should also know how powerful Toyotomi Nobuhide's ability to gather people's hearts is?"

Facing Shibata's question, Chuguang pursed his lips tightly and remained silent.

At this time, Shibata continued:

"Toyotomi Nobuhide has a lot of talents under his command, and has accumulated huge wealth through smuggling trade."

"The Edo shogunate is now rotten. A while ago, the 10,000-strong army of the shogunate was defeated by Ogata Ittosai. It is no longer the Edo shogunate that made the princes of the world dare not compete with it 200 years ago."

"After several years of dormancy, preparation, and... the control of that strange art, I think Toyotomi Nobuhide may really have the ability to overthrow the Edo Shogunate now."

"All in all - both of us will be more careful in the future, pay attention to collecting information, and investigate to see what the "big move" Toyotomi Nobuhide is going to do next."

"...tsk." The corner of Chuguang's mouth twitched, "The Falling Curtain War...Fuxing Toyotomi...is really crazy..."

...

...

2 days later——

In Osaka, in the hotel where Huluya and his team lived——

"Ogata-kun."

Genichi, who was drinking "tons and tons" with a bottle of wine in his hand, asked Ogata who was standing at the door of the room in a tone that was somewhat vague due to drinking.

"What is the surprise you said you gave me?"

The room that Calabashya and his team are now using as a temporary base is unprecedentedly deserted—there are only four people in the room, Genichi, Rin, Makimura, and Shimada.

Lin is now sitting next to Yuan Yi, blowing the hot tea that is constantly steaming in her hand.

And Mucun sat in the corner of the room, flipping through the "The Analects of Confucius" in his hand boredly. Shimada sat next to Makimura, sharpening his knife with a small whetstone.

Ogata and Atachi, who opened the door of the room by shouting "excuse me" just now, stood at the door with weird smiles on their faces, and did not come in for a long time.

Gen-sama, I have a surprise for you—this is what Ogata said to Yuan Yi after greeting Lin and the others in the room just now.

This is also the reason why Genichi asked Ogata "what is the surprise".

When Genichi asked him what the surprise was, the smile on Ogata's face became even weirder.

Ogata, with a strange smile on his face, took a step back, and then waved to his side.

Under Ogata's beckoning, a bald head slowly came out from the side behind the door that Yuanichi and others could not see, and stood where Ogata was standing just now.

Looking at the sudden appearance of the bald head, Yuan Yi's expression froze for a moment, and the hand that poured the wine into his mouth also paused.

"Master Gen." Ogata said with a smile, "This surprise..."

Boom!

Before Ogata finished speaking, a loud bang interrupted his words.

It was the sound of Yuan Yi slamming on the tatami.

Immediately following the explosion was the piercing sound of metal crashing.

clang!

Genichi, who suddenly became violent, while rushing towards the bald head, quickly pulled out the knife from his waist, Yangshen, and slashed at the shiny bald head.

And the bald head reacted extremely quickly.

When Yuan Yi's Yang God was only a few inches away from the top of his head, the bald head quickly raised his left hand.

Yangshen and the bald head's left arm... To be precise, it was the iron chain wrapped around the bald head's left arm that collided heavily and sparked.

Ogata, who was originally standing behind the bald head, shrank his pupils when Yuan Yi suddenly burst into flames, and then quickly jumped to the distance with his wife in his arms, widening the distance from Yuan Yi and the bald head.

"Oh..." Yuan Yi grinned, "This iron chain... this reaction... is really a mandarin fruit."

As if it had been agreed in advance, Yuan Yi and the bald head...or Fu Mo grinned widely at the same time.

"This slash...is indeed Genichi."

"How on earth did you two recognize people...?" A-Machi, who was still in Ogata's arms, twitched the corners of his mouth and complained.

clang!

The sound of gold and iron colliding sounded again.

Fengmo's arm trembled, and Yuanyi's Yangshen was pushed aside.

The moment Yang Shen was pushed away, Yuan Yi quickly regained his posture, and swung his knife again to strike at Feng Mo.

Swords come and go.

Be it Yuan Yi or Feng Mo, both of them stood still.

The two standing still exchanged fierce offense and defense.

Every time Yuan Yi swung at Feng Mo, Feng Mo accurately parried it away.

And every attack launched by the wind demon is also not effective.

Lin continued to blow the tea calmly. When she saw Feng Mo appearing just now, a shocked expression flashed across her face, but she quickly regained her composure. Two wind demons.

As for Ogata, Makimura, and Shimada, they all had a look of "what's the situation? What should I do now".

The battle between Juggernaut and Fengma is fierce.

But the winner was soon decided.

clang!

Feng Mo pulled the iron chain with both hands and violently pushed Yuan Yi's Yang God away, leaving a slight flaw in Yuan Yi's middle door.

With the rich combat experience accumulated over the years, Feng Mo instinctively seized this fleeting opportunity.

Fumo grasped the iron chain wrapped around his left arm with his right hand, and stretched the iron chain across Genichi's neck.

"I won." Feng Mo smiled.

And Genichi... laughed at the same time.

Looking down at the iron chain around his neck, Yuan Yi smiled:

"Ganshi, time has indeed made your strength worse than before. You don't even know that you are already dead."

"Huh?" Feng Mo first showed doubts, then as if he had discovered something, his face changed, and then he suddenly looked down.

I saw that Yuan Yi had already pulled out his Wakizashi Yanrong with his left hand at some point, and pointed the tip of the knife at the vital point of Fumo.

"...I'm really not reconciled." Fengmo sighed, and slowly put away the chain that was lying on Yuanyi's neck, "I couldn't beat you when everyone was young, but now everyone is gray-haired The old man is old, but he is still not your opponent."

"We haven't all become gray-haired old men." Yuan Yi smiled playfully, looking at Feng Mo's head that was so bright that it could shine.

"Feng Mo Liu Profound Truth!"

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The author only found out after finishing this chapter that Genichi finally shared the same frame as his old partner in the main story with 3.2 million words, not counting the full-book episode "The Last Fuma Kotaro".