I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"..." After Matsudaira's question fell, he saw Ogata's body slightly startled.

Immediately afterwards... I saw the strange expression that had been floating on Ogata's face just now, and gradually changed into a somewhat helpless smile.

At this time, Matsudaira saw Matsunari with his hands behind his back, and continued talking to himself.

"Back then, when I heard someone say to me in Ezo: Goro Mashima, who I admire very much, is that Ogata Issei, I didn't dare... or I didn't want to believe it."

"It wasn't until I heard Goro Mashima's voice from Ogata Yasushi on the battlefield of the attack on the Red Moon Fortress...I finally faced reality."

"Actually, at that time, I still didn't want to believe that Goro Mashima was Ogata Issei."

"But no matter how much you deceive yourself, seeing that you have two knives that are exactly the same as those worn by Goro Mashima... I can't go on and lie to myself and say: Goro Mashima and Yoshi Ogata are two... "

Matsudaira squinted his eyes and glanced at Da Shitian and Da Zizai who were on the head of Ogata's bed.

"We really have a special fate."

"Whenever I think we won't have the chance to meet again in the future...you will appear in front of my eyes again in a way that I didn't expect."

"..." Ogata, whose head had been hanging in front of his chest since a while ago, finally slowly raised his eyes, and calmly looked at Matsudaira's expressionless gaze, "... long time no see. Now, Matsudaira-sama."

Just now, after learning from Qingyan's mouth that it was Matsudaira who saved him despite the danger, Ogata had already guessed the true identity of Mashima Goro... I am afraid that Matsudaira had already known.

I saw him smiling, and in a tone like greeting an old friend, he said softly to Songping Dingxin:

"Anyway... Please allow me to thank you first, thank you for saving me."

"It's not necessary to thank you." Matsudaira said quickly without hesitation, "The reason why I save you... I just want to ask something meaningful from you, who seems to know a lot of things that I don't know. information."

"Instead of saying 'thank you' dryly here...let's say something more meaningful to me."

"Mashima... No, Yoshiki Ogata, come and make a deal with me."

"I ask you questions, and you answer the questions I ask."

"Just answer all the questions I've asked, and I'll... let you get out of here."

"Ha." Ogata chuckled, "If I want to leave here, I don't need your permission at all, right?"

Having said that, Ogata turned his head to the side, and glanced at the saber lying by the head of his bed without concealment.

"Ogata Yoshiki." A cold smile appeared at the corner of Matsudaira's mouth, "How can I say... He is also a samurai who practiced swordsmanship hard when he was young."

"Do you think I can't see it? Just from your actions now, I can see that it's hard for you to even draw a knife now, right?"

Ogata's eyes narrowed slightly.

——Ha...Have you been seen through...

Ogata let out a wry smile in his heart.

Matsudaira was right at all.

His current physical condition is indeed extremely bad.

Every muscle in the body is sorely sore that it is difficult to exert force.

He guessed——this should be the side effect of entering the "no-self realm" and the "yasha realm" at the same time.

Just because there is not a single muscle in this body that is not aching... let alone swinging a sword, whether it is possible to pull the heavy sword out of its sheath is a question.

"There are more than 30 guards of mine outside the tent. As long as I give an order, they will rush in and chop you into meat sauce." The cold smile on Songping Dingxin's face disappeared, and his face recovered. With that stern expression, "Make this deal with me, other than that, you have no other choice."

Ogata stared straight at Matsudaira.

I saw that he had a thoughtful look on his face. After a long while, he shrugged with a helpless smile on his face:

"Looks like, if you don't answer your question, you won't let anyone go no matter what..."

"...Okay. You can ask."

"It's also considered... as compensation for deceiving you for so long as Goro Mashima."

Listening to Ogata's words, Matsudaira's brows furrowed slightly, but this small "wrinkle" was quickly smoothed out.

"I'm... have a mountain of questions to ask you."

"If my guess is correct, the thieves who attacked Osaka a few days ago and the thieves lurking in Koyasan are the same group of people."

"Tell me about it—how much do you know about those thieves?"

"Why are you chasing the thief who escaped on a Western ship?"

"And... what was the female head in the brocade box that you were still holding tightly in your arms when you passed out of a coma?"

After throwing a series of questions at Ogata like a barrage of cannons, Matsudaira tilted his gaze again to the delicate brocade box placed on the head of Ogata's bed with Da Shitian and Da Zi.

"It's been so many days, but this broken head hasn't rotted at all. It's really shocking."

"You didn't throw this brocade box as garbage, but recycled it together. I'm very grateful for that." Ogata said in a somewhat playful tone, "But I checked the contents of the brocade box without authorization. , wouldn't it be too rude?"

Matsudaira ignored Ogata's joke and continued to hold his hands behind his back, looking directly at Ogata with a scrutinizing gaze.

Matsudaira opened the brocade box without authorization - Ogata was not surprised by this.

After all, if it was him, I'm afraid he couldn't help but look at what was in this brocade box.

"...I'd be more than happy to tell you what I know." Ogata pondered for a while, then said quietly, "But even if I tell you everything I know, you probably won't believe it."

Ogata selectively...informed Matsudaira about the Toyotomi family in a succinct manner.

The existence of Toyotomi, the battleship of Toyotomi, the ambition of Toyotomi...

Song Ping Dingxin has been in charge of the senior middle school for many years, what kind of storm has he never seen before?

He has already cultivated a strong heart that can remain calm no matter what accident he encounters - but at this moment, facing the words Ogata said at this time, the strong heart that Matsudaira has, Also overwhelmed.

As soon as Ogata started talking about Toyotomi's various things, Matsudaira's expression "collapsed".

His eyes were round, his mouth was slightly open, the skin and muscles on his face seemed to be drooping down, and he no longer had the calm look that was without sadness and joy just now.

For various reasons, it was naturally impossible for Ogata to tell Matsudaira everything.

He concealed the existence of the "undead power".

It also concealed the existence of eight hundred bhikkhunis.

The reason why he concealed the existence of the "immortal power" was not because he was on guard against Matsudaira.

Instead, it is guarding people's hearts...

After going through so many things, Ogata finally understood - this "undead power" is a Pandora's box.

If it is held by someone with an unhealthy mind, it will be a disaster.

The complexity of people's hearts makes Ogata really unsure - if Matsudaira is made aware of the existence of "the power of immortality", will it lead to the appearance of a second Toyotomi Nobuhide...

Ogata, who was determined to hide the "power of immortality" and "eight hundred bhikkhunis", only said that the head contained in the brocade box was the head of a friend he took back from Toyotomi, because it was The special potion has been treated with antiseptic treatment, so it will not be corrupted for several days.

After Ogata finished saying everything he was willing to say to Matsudaira Toshin, Matsudaira... was silent for a long time.

It took him a long time to restore the expression on his face.

After a long time, I finally heard him speak again:

"...Then what happened to your body and the thunder that you swayed at that time?"

"With so many injuries, he can heal them all in less than 2 days... This is not like a body that ordinary people can have."

Having said that, Matsudaira, whose expression returned to seriousness, raised his eyes to pierce Ogata with a sharp and meaningful gaze.

Facing the gaze from Matsudaira Tashin, Ogata couldn't help but smile bitterly.

He knew that about his body's ability to recover, and the Tianlei that he "sucked" to defeat Toyotomi at that time, it was impossible to get around, so he had already thought of the words just now.

Ou explained the so-called "truth" to Matsudaira.

As for the resilience of his body, Ogata only casually said that his body was born like this, and the resilience was far superior to that of ordinary people.

As for how to "move" Tianlei...Ogata only said that he...not sure at all.

All he knew was that when the battle was in full swing, he suddenly heard a strange sound. He followed the sound and ran to the top of the main mast and raised his sword, and then a thunder fell on his sword.

The explanation about "hooking" Tianlei... is actually basically correct.

It was indeed that Ogata suddenly heard a strange sound, and following the guidance of these strange sounds, he succeeded in defeating Toyotomi Nobuhide with the power of thunder.

After Ogata began to explain the origin of his body's strong resilience and how it "tickled" Tianlei, Matsudaira's brows frowned slightly, and the emotions in his eyes slowly became strange.

"...What you said just now...whether it's about the Toyotomi family, or your explanation for why your body has such a strong recovery ability...I personally feel that there are a lot of things to hide, Made up place."

Matsudaira Toshin pointedly questioned Ogata.

Facing Matsudaira's questioning, Ogata just shrugged, his face not blushing or his heart beating.

"Everything I said just now is true." Ogata said casually, "Believe it or not."

Matsudaira: "..."

Although he questioned Ogata, Matsudaira seemed to have no intention of going deeper into this issue.

Just kept silent, and continued to look at Ogata...

Not long after letting the atmosphere between the two fall into deadly silence, Matsudaira Nobunaga closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths:

"...If what you said just now is true...that's really funny."

Matsudaira slowly opened his eyes.

"The shogunate's most wanted criminal... actually saved the shogunate from fire and water."

"However, looking back now and thinking about how the two of us got to know each other...it's very funny."

Matsudaira's expression was always solemn.

But at this moment, the solemn expression on his face showed a few traces of... loneliness.

"When I first met you in Edo, I thought that I had finally found a young man worthy of vigorous cultivation."

"In the end, I found out that the young man I admired very much was actually the enemy of the shogunate..."

After all, Matsudaira closed his eyes again, took a deep breath, and then slowly released the air he had inhaled into his lungs through his nose.

At this time, Ogata asked Matsudaira in a half-joking tone:

"Any more questions to ask?"

"If it's gone, can you let me leave here in accordance with the trading conditions we set?"

Matsudaira slowly opened his eyes that he had just closed.

"...Whether what you just said is true or false, you will destroy Osaka and destroy the two Western ships that were a major threat to the Edo Shogunate. It is an iron-clad fact."

"From this point of view alone, you have helped us a lot."

Having said this, Matsudaira hesitated.

Afterwards, he put on a tone as if he was talking to himself:

"You once... saved my life in Ezo."

"And now, you have helped our shogunate a lot."

"To be honest, emotionally speaking, I really want to let you out of here just like that."

"But, as expected... it can't be done."

At this moment, Matsudaira's eyes flashed fiercely.

"Even if you once saved my life, even if you helped our shogunate a lot, it will not change the fact that you are Ogata Yoshizawa, a villain who has caused the shogunate to lose face many times...!"

"After seeing with your own eyes your terrifying ability to recover from wounds and the way you used the power of the sky to kill enemies, I was even more convinced that you...you really can't stay...!"

"What's more, I can still feel it - you have hidden a lot of things from me."

"Even if I don't kill you... I will imprison you and interrogate you slowly."

As Matsudaira Tashin's murmur-like words came out of his mouth one by one, the air between him and Ogata... slowly became colder.

"Hey hey hey..." Ogata seemed to have expected Matsudaira to be so general, his expression was as usual, and he just sneered, "As long as I answer all your questions, you will let me go?"

"If I fulfill the premise of the agreement, you must answer all my questions truthfully, right?"

Matsudaira also sneered.

"Did I say it just now? I feel that you are hiding a lot of things from me."

"You broke the contract first, so don't blame me for not following the contract."

The atmosphere between the two...in an instant, it became solemn and suffocating.

Inside the small tent, the only sound left was the breathing of the two of them.

Inside the small tent, there was only light and shadow left, only the light of the candlestick, and the pair of eyes that were looking at each other with complex lights.

After a long time, Ogata's soft voice broke the suffocating silence:

"...Then what do you want to do?"

he asks.

"Are you going to kill me now?"

"Or do you want to take me back to Edo and slowly interrogate me?"

The question fell.

A dead silence returned to the tent.

Songping Dingxin's pair of hands behind his back squeezed and released, released and squeezed.

The extremely complex light flashed wildly in his eyes at this moment.

The man in front of him is the most wanted criminal of the Shogunate.

He is extremely weak now, unable to resist his guards at all, his life and death, his future, now all depend on his own words.

For myself...

Also for the Shogunate...

My best solution now... is to take him back to Edo, slowly interrogate him, and interrogate all the information he has withheld from his mouth.

yes……

No need to hesitate...

completely……

No need to hesitate...

……

Matsudaira closed his eyes and took a deep breath again.

"Tachibana!"

Matsudaira turned around, stuck his head out of the tent, and shouted out:

"Light up all the guards—"

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wow... wow... wow...

The waves beat on the shore rhythmically, and there was a very regular sound of waves.

It is now approaching evening.

The sky was as clear as a shower because of the recent shower.

The sun set in the west, and the sky began to be dyed with the color of the sun, and the ground was still bright under the reflection of the sunset.

Lin and Makimura stood side by side on a corner of the coast, looking out at the sea in the distance.

"How is it? Did Miss A-cho have anything to eat today?"

"I have something to eat..." Makimura sighed to Lin, "During the day, I hardly eat anything."

"It wasn't until just now that I finally ate some gruel that A Zhu brought, but I didn't eat much, it was only half a bowl of porridge."

"...It's good to have something to eat." Lin sighed.

In the past few days, there have been one or two showers almost every day, and the mood of Lin and others these days is very similar to this weather - the rain is continuous...

Nearly 10 days have passed since the decisive battle with Toyotomi at sea.

It's been nearly 10 days... Until now, Ogata has not been found.

On the night of the decisive battle, Rin, who was knocked unconscious by Toyotomi, finally woke up.

After waking up and knowing what happened, Lin gave the death order without hesitation: Find Ogata at all costs!

In order to improve the efficiency of the search, Lin reintroduced her usual banknote ability: borrow a few boats from a fishing village in the distance, hire all the villagers that can be hired, and let the hired villagers assist them Find Ogata together.

Regardless of the day or night, everyone drove the boat almost uninterruptedly, searching for the figure of the man around the sea area where the battleship was destroyed.

Ogata must be holding a piece of wood, waiting for their rescue on the sea with difficulty—everyone thought so.

Or rather... trying to think from such an optimistic angle...

However... as time goes by bit by bit, day by day, no matter how optimistic you are, it will inevitably reach its limit.

It's been nearly 10 days, and still nothing...

Lost contact at sea for nearly 10 days... Everyone is vaguely aware of something...

However, no one said it clearly.

Everyone was silent as if they had made an appointment in advance. Whether in front of everyone or in private, they did not mention any topics related to Ogata's life and death.

He just kept going out to sea searching as if he still assumed that Ogata was still alive.

Just kept silent...

No one has the guts to mention "Ogata may have been lost" - especially when A-cho is present.

These days, aside from Ogata, Rin and the others are most worried about A-cho.

Since Ogata disappeared, Rin and the others have been worried about A-cho's mental state.

If she cried a lot, Lin and others would be more accepting.

However, A-Ming has been very quiet these days...

Quietly, without showing any expression or saying anything...

She has only been silently participating in the search for Ogata.

At the beginning, A-cho could barely eat and sleep normally.

But as the search for Ogata came to nothing, A-machi's mental state deteriorated at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Since about 5 days ago, A-cho hasn't eaten much every day.

Did she sleep well? Looking at A-ding's increasingly pale skin and increasingly withered hair, and her dark circles in the eye sockets, Lin guessed that there should be none...

Lin also doesn't know how to make A-Machi's condition improve...

For the situation that A-Machi is facing, I am afraid that any words of comfort are powerless.

"...Makimura. Look at Miss A-machi more these days." Lin softly ordered Makimura, who has the closest relationship with the Ogata couple, "If Miss A-machi doesn't eat, you can find a way to let her eat. drop something."

"If Miss A-Ming... does something stupid, you have to stop her immediately."

"I know..." Makimura let out a long sigh and nodded vigorously with a solemn expression.

"My lord! My lord!"

At this moment, Shimada's voice came.

Following the sound, Shimada rushed towards the beach where Rin and Makimura were standing with an eager face.

"What's wrong?" Lin frowned slightly.

"You... come here..." Shimada said slowly with a strange expression, "Senior Mamiya... he actually found Yukimura..."

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Guided by Shimada, Lin and Makimura strode to another beach not far away.

As soon as she arrived here, Lin saw that it was his turn to take a boat to search for Ogata this afternoon. She had just returned and was now standing beside the boat docked on the beach.

Around Mamiya, Asai, Genichi and others have gathered.

Everyone was surrounded by a... middle-aged man who was kneeling on the ground, quite familiar to Lin...

After her eyes fell on this person, an indifferent light slowly appeared in Lin's eyes:

"...The person I want to find has never been found. The person who I don't want to find has been found. Yukimura, I didn't expect the time for us to meet again."

As soon as Lin's voice fell, the middle-aged man kneeling on the ground suddenly trembled.

"Lin, Miss Lin..." The middle-aged man slowly raised his head, and cast a complicated look at Lin mixed with fear, annoyance, and a touch of remorse.

This middle-aged man was trusted by Lin Mo. Before he made his fortune, he strongly assisted him to become a "well-known wealthy businessman in Osaka". He had previously entrusted him to help investigate the "disappearance case in Osaka", but in the end it was him. Yukimura, who betrayed Rin and disclosed information about Rin and others to Toyotomi.

Lin turned her head to see how Mamiya found this person.

It turns out that Mamiya, with the thought that "Ogata-kun may have drifted far away", went to the farther seas to search for Ogata since three days ago.

Although Mamiya's idea is very good, the reality is still cruel - even if the search scope is expanded, the familiar figure has not been found at all...

Just when Mamiya thought he was going to return without success today and was about to return to the shore, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Yukimura who was hugging a driftwood and struggling to survive in a sea not far away...

When the Hikari Maru exploded, Yukimura, who was also on the ship at the time, was very lucky not to be killed on the spot. After the ship completely sank, he was lucky enough to hug a driftwood.

For the past 10 days, Yukimura just held this driftwood, drifted along the waves, and barely survived by drinking rainwater.

After Rin woke up, she explained to everyone how she met Yukimura in Hikari Maru.

Since he ran into this guy who betrayed their Gourd House, there is no reason to let him go - Mamiya dragged him back to the shore and asked Lin to deal with the traitor.

Yukimura had lost weight at this time because he hadn't eaten for the past 10 days.

The dull skin was taut on the bones, the cheeks and eye sockets were sunken, and the lips were severely peeled due to lack of water, showing a bloodless pallor, his face was the same as his dark circles, black. It has to be reminiscent of ink only.

"Ms. Lin..." Yukimura, who had survived so many days by drinking rainwater, was so weak that he spoke with a trembling voice.

But even so, he tried his best to kowtow to Lin and apologized to Lin.

"I'm sorry...! I'm obsessed...! I'm sorry...! I'm sorry...! Just spare my life...!"

"...Yukimura." The indifference in Lin's eyes was not weakened by Yukimura's begging for mercy. "I...I really don't understand."

"What exactly am I sorry for you?"

"When you were just an unknown junior, it was I who gave you a lot of support so that you could have your current status."

"After you gained power, I still value you, take care of you, and have never treated you badly."

"When I encounter a good business, I will find you to cooperate. If you are in trouble, I will do my best to assist you."

"I really don't understand... What's wrong with me, so that you don't hesitate to rely on Toyotomi, so that my comrades and I almost face extinction?"

Lin's tone has always been calm.

But under this plain tone, every word that Lin uttered was as heavy as a thousand words.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuufully."

Yukimura fell to the ground, crying bitterly.

"Two years ago... Toyotomi Nobuhide learned that I have a very close relationship with you through unknown channels!"

"That's why he found me and asked me to report your whereabouts and information to him regularly... In return, he will give me some of his overseas smuggling channels..."

"I, at that time... I was planning to open up overseas markets, and Yu, so I promised him...!"

Having said that, Yukimura cried even louder, and kowtowed to the ground even harder.

"I'm sorry! Miss Lin...! I'm sorry for you!"

Lin quietly watched Yukimura who kept kowtowing and shedding tears of fear or genuine remorse.

"...So that's the case." Lin took a deep breath and slowly closed her eyes, "That means...you betrayed me because of money..."

"Heh... It's a funny and realistic reason."

Yukimura's kowtow begging for mercy continued.

He wasn't tired yet, but Lin was already tired of listening.

"Enough!" Lin interrupted Yukimura's prayer for mercy with an impatient roar, "You cruel, ungrateful, savage, inhuman thing! You beast!"

Having said that, Lin Fei kicked Yukimura to the ground.

"Did you sell me just for the money?!"

"Just a little money can squeeze enough malice out of you to harm me?"

"My companions and I almost died because of your betrayal!"

"Spare your life? If my companions die because of your betrayal, who will spare their lives?!"

After venting the accumulated emotions in her chest, Lin was panting like a tiger with a head injury.

And Yukimura, who was kicked away, trembled even more, climbed back to the place where he was kneeling before, and continued to beg for mercy while weeping.

"...It's ridiculous." Lin straightened her back and took a deep breath, "Even though the facts are presented in front of me in black and white, I still can't believe my eyes..."

"You are obviously a companion I value and trust so much."

"Your betrayal makes me feel that the world has lost its original luster."

"I will feel sorry for you."

"Because your betrayal is like turning the world upside down for me."

Bass!

The sound of the sword being drawn.

Lin pulled out the saber in her waist and cut the throat of the traitor she was no longer interested in begging for mercy with just one knife.

Yukimura, whose throat was cut open and blood poured out like a hot spring, clutched his throat and struggled a few times before slowly losing his breath and collapsing to the ground...

Lin threw away the blood attached to the saber blade and put it back into its sheath:

"...Mihachi, find a place to bury Yukimura."

"Yes..." Makimura nodded lightly.

Lin turned her head and looked around.

"Why didn't I see Miss A-Machi? Where is Miss A-Machi now?"

"Miss A-machi has been going out to sea with other people to find Ichitosai since this morning." Asai said, "Almost never stopped."

"Because I was worried that Miss A-Machi would be so tired, A-Zuke forced Miss A-Machi to rest just now."

"Miss A-cho is probably still sleeping now."

In the end, Asai paused for a while, then added:

"...Master. Please forgive me." Asai looked around and confirmed that there were no outsiders around, then put his lips to Lin's ear and whispered, "Miss A-Machi's current state... Not good...you have to figure out a way to cheer her up sooner rather than later."

"Or else..."

Asai didn't continue speaking, and closed his mouth at the right time.

"...Of course I can see that Miss A-cho is in a very bad state now."

"But the question is: Is there any way to cheer up Miss A-Machi?"

A heavy and slightly suffocating atmosphere lingered around Lin and the others.

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wow... wow... wow... wow...

A-ding, who had just been forced by A-Zhu to take a rest, took advantage of A-Zhu and the others were unprepared, and sneaked to this secluded beach where no one else was, sitting on the ground with his legs in his arms, watching the waves in front of him motionless.

With the undulating reflection of the ebb and flow of the waves, it reflected pale skin, dry and cracked lips, long sparse and messy hair, bloodshot eyes, and pupils that had lost their radiance.

Turbid consciousness...chaotic thoughts...all the feelings in my mind are fragmented.

In her mind, chaotic and various things are like vortexes in the raging waves, rumbled and swirled.

Cheer up, Ayi will be very sad to see you like this - for no reason, A-cho always feels that the reflection in front of her seems to be preaching to her like this.

Tired of the reflection's sermons, A-machi stretched out his rough and calloused hands, which had become rough and calloused from practicing ninjutsu since childhood, and explored the sea, trying to break the waves and break the reflection.

It has been raining and raining recently, and now it is the season when the sea is still very cold, but after putting her hands near the sea, A-Ding could not feel the chill at all—because her hands and feet were colder than the sea, and after putting her hands into the sea, she did not feel the chill at all. Didn't feel the slightest chill.

(A-machi!)

All of a sudden! A-Ming suddenly heard the very familiar shout coming from behind!

I saw A-cho, whose eyes suddenly lit up, cast an impatient, expectant look behind him, as if he might cry.

Behind A-cho...there is nothing...

Her pair of eyes, which had just lit up, quickly returned to their dull appearance just now...

——Is it coming again...

This is not the first time A-cho mistakenly thought that he heard Ogata's voice.

These days, how many times she has heard "Ogata" calling her - she has lost count.

A-machi, whose face was filled with an expression that made people feel heartache when he saw it, turned his gaze back to himself, and buried his cheeks between the knees that he was holding with both hands.

What A-Machi is most afraid of now... is when she is free.

Because once he is free, the memories of Ogata will flash in his mind like a lantern.

These series of memories, like a boulder pressed against A-Ming's chest... made her feel breathless.

And along with these memories flashed in A-Machi's mind, there is also the fantasy of "If Ogata is gone"...

A-cho has always tried not to think about these unfortunate things.

But no matter how hard she tried to contain it, this terrifying fantasy kept blowing out.

A-machi felt as if gravity had disappeared.

Even sitting on the ground, he felt like he was floating in the air.

The world in front of him seemed to be covered with a thick layer of fog, and the images and sounds were all blurred and indistinguishable.

The only clear sound...the only sound of sobbing.

Two warm currents slowly wrapped around A-Machi's eyeballs.

Another major reason why she hates being free now is that once she is free, tears will roll down unsatisfactorily.

She never cried in front of Lin and others.

She was afraid that her crying would cause Rin and others to go down together, which would increase the psychological pressure of Rin and others who helped her find Ogata.

She only dared to shed tears of worry and pain when she was alone.

A-Ming raised her hand and wiped it **** the eye socket twice, and by the way, pressed the back of her eye socket with the back of her two hands, trying to block the source of the tears.

The tears that were barely blocked flowed back.

The salty and crying taste poured down his nostrils into his throat, making A-Ting's mouth full of bitter taste.

She is the wife of Ogata Ichitosai, a woman who has seen countless storms.

But after removing these glamorous titles, she is just a young wife who just passed her 19th birthday.

Because of her husband's disappearance, she will be so worried and mournful.

Because of worrying about her husband, she couldn't help crying day and night.

"A-machi...?"

At this moment, A-cho heard Ogata's voice coming from behind.

——Why... I have hallucinations again...

He only thought that this was A-Ming, who had hallucinations again because of thinking about Ogata. He ignored the auditory hallucinations behind him. He just continued to wipe his eyes and took deep breaths, trying to stop the tears from flowing.

"A-machi...!"

Ogata's voice... came from behind him again.

And this time, the voice was much closer and clearer at the same time.

A-cho wiped away her tears and slowly stopped...

To say that the voice I heard this time is still a hallucination... that would be too real...

Thinking of this, A-Ming showed a blank expression.

It took a while until I regained my perception of the world.

A-Ming, who had just stopped her tears, felt that she forgot to blink and her eyes were dry.

A-machi slowly put down the trembling hands that were wiping his eyes.

Carefully...shrinking...turning his eyes to behind him.

Behind her, stood a... with a shameful smile on the front, looking at her tall figure with red eyes.

……

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Ogata, who was holding the brocade box containing the heads of eight hundred bhikkhunis in his left hand, and leaning on a simple cane made of branches in his right hand, looked at A-cho, who was described as withered in front of him.

Ogata naturally knew exactly why A-cho became the way he is now.

Thinking that this was all because he had been "missing" for too long, Xu Fang felt a tingling sensation coming from his chest.

"A-cho..." Ogata called A-cho's name again, trying to keep his expression and tone as normal as possible, "I'm back..."

Ogata's voice swirled, intertwined, and tangled in A-cho's mind.

She felt that the corner of her field of vision was burning with light and heat—the corners and sockets of her eyes were wet with tears again.

Ogata's sentence "I'm back" just now made A-cho feel that his eardrum was paralyzed, and all the sounds around him were gradually drifting away.

"Hey ..." Okamachi sent a pale, lipped lips, and what I want to say, but she is unhappy, just simply shocked vocal tape.

As if she was afraid that Ogata would disappear from her field of vision, she stared at Ogata without daring to blink, and hurriedly stood up. Because she got up too quickly, she fell to the ground once, but soon He got up again and stumbled towards Ogata.

A-machi's mind... has been blank since just now.

At this moment, her body moved completely on its own.

Standing up like a conditioned reflex, and running towards Ogata like a conditioned reflex.

At this time, Ogata also threw off the crutches and brocade box in his hand, and limped towards A-Ming.

The two, who were running in both directions, collided and hugged each other.

A-machi, who threw himself into Ogata's arms, wrapped his arms around Ogata's neck, and then put all his strength on Ogata's body.

Ogata, whose body had not recovered yet, was unable to resist the full weight of A-machi's pressure, and fell on the soft sand with A-machi in a face-up posture.

"I can touch it... It's not that I'm hallucinating..."

A murmur floated in his arms that made Ogata both want to laugh and feel sad.

A-cho, who hugged Ogata tightly, put her face on Ogata's right shoulder, holding still.

Ogata looked down at A-Ting's face, and saw that she was biting her lower lip, as if she was about to cry.

But at the same time that Hyun was about to cry, there was also a smile with heavy emotions on the corner of A-ding's mouth.

Feeling the warmth from Ogata's body, A-machi kept tightening the arms around Ogata's neck as if he didn't intend to let Ogata leave her like this.

The soft, gentle touch in his arms, the strength from the tightly clasped arms that wrap around his neck.

Just like that, Ogata was frozen by the warmth coming from behind.

As if it was about to dissolve, Ogata could only feel the soreness all over his body rapidly dissolving.

Like A-Machi, Ogata showed an expression that looked like he wanted to cry but also wanted to laugh. He continued to hug A-Machi with his left hand, while his right hand lifted up and stroked A-Machi's hair.

No need for any excessive words.

The hug between the two is worth more than a thousand words.

"Really... Where did Miss A-Machi go..." A-Tzu anxiously looked around for A-Machi.

Just now, due to her carelessness, A-ding sneaked out, and now I don't know where she ran to.

Azu walked along the beach, put his hands on his eyes, and looked around, looking for A-cho.

At this moment, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a strange shadow lying on the beach not far away...

Looking closely, Ah Zhu's eyes immediately looked as if they had seen a ghost, and they were round.

That strange shadow was two figures who were hugging each other and fell to the ground.

One of them is A-machi.

And the other one...

As if he was hit by a cannonball now, Ah Zhu stood there dumbfounded with a shocked face...

After a while, she finally regained her senses.

"Miss Kinoshita! Miss Kinoshita! Lord Ichitozai is back!" A Zhu, whose face was full of ecstasy, spread his legs and ran to find Lin and others.

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Vaguely, Ogata seemed to hear the sound of the Huluya group rushing towards him.

Hearing the sound of the sound approaching him, the expression on Ogata's face slowly changed to a relieved smile.

Ogata, who was still lying on the beach with his face up, saw a flying swallow streaking across the sky above him.

This flying swallow crossed the sky, and after climbing over several hills, it flew over the top of a path on which a convoy was scrambling.

"...Sir Laozhong."

In the carriage in the center of the convoy, Tachibana glanced at Matsudaira who was silently staring at the scenery outside the window, then took courage and asked in a cautious tone:

"That guy... no matter how you look at it, it's that Ogata Ichitosai, right? It's exactly the same as the portrait on the wanted notice."

"Let go of Ogata Ichitosai... Is it really okay?"

……

……

"Light up all the guards - pack up the camp and leave here tomorrow morning!"

After shouting at the outside of the tent, Matsudaira took his head back from the tent.

"... From here, go all the way north, you can go to Koya Mountain, and go all the way south, you can go back to the sea where you almost died."

"Before tomorrow morning... take something and get out of here."

After all, Matsudaira no longer spoke with Ogata.

Didn't explain anything to Ogata.

He didn't ask Ogata any more.

Just turned around.

It's just like... I don't dare to stay here for a long time, so I left in front of Ogata.

Leaving a...with a somewhat lonely back.

Looking at the side of the bed where Matsudaira was no longer there, Ogata was stunned for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, the stunned expression on his face slowly turned into a wry smile.

"Ichitosai." At this time, Ogata saw Qingyan sneaking into the tent again, "What did you say to Mr. Matsudaira just now?"

Qing Yan looked outside the tent in confusion.

"Why does Mr. Matsudaira have a... sad expression?"

"...Nothing to talk about. It's just...be frank with him."

Seeing that Ogata didn't seem to want to talk more about his conversation with Matsudaira, Qingyan didn't ask any more.

"Mr. Ogata."

I just heard Qingyan ask Ogata in an unbearably excited tone~www.NovelMTL.com~ I was chased away by Master Matsudaira just now, so I didn't have time to ask. "

"Can you allow me... to ask you a question?"

"How did you provoke Tianlei at that time?"

"Do you believe in Buddha?"

Like a barrage of cannons, Qingyan asked a series of questions related to "Tianlei"...

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"...Tachibana."

Matsudaira said in a cold voice, who did not look away from the window.

"We have never captured any Ogata Ichitosai alive."

"Huh?" Tachibana widened her eyes in astonishment.

"What? Do you need me to repeat it?" Matsudaira cut his cold gaze to Tachibana.

"No no no..." Tachibana hurriedly shook his head in fear, "No need, no need... You are right, we have never captured Ogata Ichitosai alive."

After seeing Tachibana, who had successfully "self-corrected", Matsudaira turned his gaze back to the window and looked into the distance.

The convoy moved forward.

Moving forward in the direction away from Ogata.

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