I formed the strongest swordsman group

Harada Sanosuke, Fujido Heisuke—these two people Aoto doesn't know each other.

But the name Nagakura Shinpachi, Qingdeng has an impression.

"Yongcang Shinba..." Qingdeng looked at the name of the person written in the big book, and muttered softly, "Isn't this person... the one I had discussed with him before?"

Qing registered that he copied the "steel bone" talent from this Yongcang Shinpachi.

Kiryu nodded: "That's right, it's him."

"That day, I recommended him a lot of jobs that are very suitable for a master of swordsmanship like him."

"I thought that among the jobs I recommended to him, there was always one that would suit him."

"But I found out afterwards that he is also a very picky person."

"After trying one by one, he was not very satisfied with any of the jobs I recommended."

"It's either that it's too boring, or that the boss has a bad body odor, so I don't want to work with him."

"So after going around for a while, he came back to me and asked me to find him another new job."

"I have talked to the three people in the book one by one."

"They are all willing to serve you under your command."

"These three people are all in line with your expectations, Mr. Ju: they are willing to do all kinds of hard work and tiring work, and they all have very good military strength."

"This Yongcang Xinbayi has also met and discussed with him. You should know his personal strength, so I won't introduce him much."

"Let me introduce you to Harada Sanosuke and Fujido Heisuke."

Kiryu stretched out his right index finger and pointed at the name of "Harada Sanosuke" on the notebook.

"Harada Sanosuke was born in the Iyo Matsuyama domain of Shikoku Island."

"I'm 20 years old this year. I'm a master spearman who is good at using Treasure Institute's spearmanship."

"Bao Zang Yuan's spear skills?" Qing Deng raised his eyebrows slightly.

If you talk about what is the most popular and famous style of spear art in Japan now...you go to the street and catch random passers-by and ask them this question, then all passers-by will probably answer: it must be the spear art of the Hozoin school!

Baozangyuanliu - a school of spearmanship created by a monk named Yinrong in the Warring States Period more than 300 years ago.

Because of its extremely high power and practicality, its reputation spread rapidly throughout Japan as soon as it came out. It has lasted for nearly four hundred years and has not seen a slight decline in its reputation.

Kiryu's finger slid down at this time, and it slid to the name "Todo Heisuke".

"Todo Heisuke, a native of Edo."

"He's a little younger, 16 years old this year."

"Currently, I am studying Beichen Yidao Style at Yidong Dojo."

Yidong Dojo - Qingdeng has heard the name of this sword gym.

Although the reputation and scale of this sword gym that teaches Beichen's one sword style is not as large as the three major sword halls and the small Chiba sword hall, it can be regarded as a top sword hall with a very high reputation and status in Edo.

But—compared to the sword hall itself...maybe the master of this sword hall is more famous.

The owner of the Ito Dojo: Ito Dazang is a very famous capable person.

He has both civil and military skills. He has profound attainments in Sinology, Chinese Studies, and Mitoology, and at the same time has the two major schools of Shinto Wunian Style and Beichen Yidao Style.

In addition to being capable of writing and martial arts, he is also a well-known handsome man with a gentle personality, tall stature and handsome appearance.

Qingdeng heard that there are often some nympho women lying on the wall of the Ito Sword Gym to peek at Ito Dazang.

Because Ito Dazang's reputation as "both literary and martial arts" is so famous, many people rushed to the Ito Dojo because of their admiration, trying to make friends with this celebrity or worship this celebrity as a teacher.

Kiryu's introduction continued at this time.

"Ah, that's right. Tachibana-kun, this Todo Heisuke seems to admire you very much."

"Admiration for me?" Qing Deng was taken aback.

Kiryu smiled and nodded: "After he learned that the person who hired Okabishi was Tachibana Qingdeng from the Beiban Institute, he immediately excitedly expressed that he would like to work under Mr. Tachibana's command."

"Ha..." Qingdeng couldn't help laughing.

"Whether it is Harada Sanosuke or Todo Heisuke, I have entrusted my friends to check their strength."

"The strength of these two people is extremely high among their peers."

"Of course—whether you want to hire them or not depends entirely on your thoughts and plans, Mr. Ju."

After finishing speaking, Kiryu closed the big book.

"Mr. Ju, do you want to meet these three people now?"

"All three of them have left addresses of their permanent residences in Edo."

"If you want to meet them now and start an interview with them, I can help you call these three people now."

Today is a rare day off. If you miss today, you don’t know when you will have a new holiday.

If possible, Qingdeng would like to complete the matter of "recruiting Gang Yin" today.

So, after thinking for a while, he bowed his head to Boss Kiryu.

"Then... Boss Kiryu, please call these three people here now."

Kiryu laughed: "No trouble. This is one of the services that an employment agency like ours should have. Anyway, the residences of these three people are not far away."

Slap, slap, slap...

At this time, light cat-like footsteps came from the back room of Qianshiya.

It was Mai Kinoshita who followed Kiryu's order and returned to the back room for breakfast.

Kinoshita Mai, who had just finished breakfast in the back room, stretched out her small tongue and licked her pink lips with a lot of oil, while walking quickly back to the front hall of Qianshiwu.

Seeing that Kinoshita Mai came back, Kiryu slowly stood up from behind the counter: "Young master, you came back just in time."

"I'm going to go out and call the three people who helped Mr. Ju find out."

"Before I come back, I will trouble you to watch the store and entertain Mr. Ju and the others."

Suddenly receiving a new task, Kinoshita Mai was stunned for a moment, and then quickly recovered: "Yes!"

"Tachibana-kun, I won't be back until about half an hour later." Kiryu took the wine-red haori hanging on the wall beside him, "Before I come back, I wronged you to wait here for a while."

"Yeah." Qingdeng nodded, "Boss Kiryu, be careful on the road."

After draping the burgundy feathers casually on his body, Boss Kiryu left the Chishiya with brisk strides.

Kiryu went out, and only Qingdeng, Saito, and Kinoshita Mai were left in the front hall of Senshiya—in fact, if I insisted, only Qingdeng and Kinoshita Mai were left, because they were taciturn and liked to be in a daze Saito's sense of existence is too thin, it's the same with him or without him.

After watching Kiryu leave, Mai Kinoshita turned her eyes away, and looked at Qingdeng and Saito with a smile...mainly looking at Qingdeng.

"Mr. Ju, Mr. Saito, are you thirsty? Let me make you a cup of tea."

After all, before Qingdeng and the others could respond, Kinoshita Wu stepped on the wooden corridor with her two clean feet, and rushed back into the inner room with a "slap-pat-pat".

Kinoshita Mai went back to the kitchen to make tea, chatting with Saito was no different from chatting with Shitou, Qingdeng felt a little bored, so he could only tilt his head, staring at his nose and heart, feeling dazed.

When Qingdeng was concentrating on it in a daze, suddenly—the cry of a cute creature came from beside him:

Meow~ Meow~ Meow~

The sudden meowing made Qingdeng's consciousness, which had been scattered nine days away, return to his body.

Qingdeng turned his head to look at the sound - a big orange cat was walking towards him from the back room of Qianshiwu on elegant catwalks.

This big orange does not seem to be afraid of people.

Seeing this stranger Qingdeng, not only did he not run away, but he even took the initiative to lean towards Qingdeng.

Qingdeng recognized this big tangerine - when Kinoshita Mai met Kinoshita Mai for the first time in this Qianshiwuya, Kinoshita Wu carried this big tangerine to the stage.

He remembered that this big orange seemed to be called "Duo Duo".

Qingdeng happened to be too idle right now, he smiled lightly at Duoduo, then raised his hand to wave at the big orange.

"Duo Duo, come here."

Meow~!

Duoduo gave Qingdeng a "meow", then sped up the catwalk a little, and ran to Qingdeng's side.

Qingdeng scratched the hair on Duoduo's head and stomach.

This big orange cat can be seen to be well cared for, with soft and shiny hair. The stomach is solid and feels full of meat.

Qingdeng looked under its tail—well, it was a female cat.

For Qingdeng's touching, Duoduo seems to be very useful.

After being touched by Qingdeng a few times, it comfortably closed its eyes, and then lay lazily on the floor, showing its glistening belly to Qingdeng.

At this moment, Kinoshita Mai returned to the front hall with a tea tray containing two cups of hot tea.

Seeing the beloved cat who was stroking Qingdeng "letting go of its belly", Mai Kinoshita was surprised at first, then she smiled and knelt down by Qingdeng's side with a gentle movement quite like Yamato Nadeko, Pass the two cups of hot tea on the tea tray to Qing and Zhai respectively.

"Dodo seems to like you very much."

"Haha, maybe it's because I and it are both 'orange'." Qingdeng joked with a cold joke that he just thought of on the spur of the moment.

Because Qingdeng's cold joke was too cold, Saito beside him couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth.

Qingdeng originally just wanted to say something stupid on purpose to enliven the atmosphere.

But who knows—after hearing Qingdeng's cold joke, Kinoshita Mai blinked vigorously twice, then raised her hands to cover her mouth, and giggled coquettishly.

"Haha...it's all 'orange'...haha...hahaha...!"

Because she laughed so happily, both of Kinoshita Mai's shoulders trembled slightly.

Kinoshita Mai was actually amused by his cold joke just now, and she laughed happily - Qingdeng couldn't help showing a dumbfounded expression when he saw this.

Is my bad joke just this funny?

As for Saito, who was so coldly twitched by Qingdeng's cold joke just now, he opened his mouth slightly at the moment, staring at Kinoshita Mai who was still laughing in a daze.

After Kinoshita Mai laughed for a long time, she finally stopped her smile while wiping the tears secreting from the corners of her eyes.

Because he is already very close to Kinoshita Wu, so even if he is alone with Kinoshita Wu now, Qingdeng doesn't feel awkward or uncomfortable.

After taking a sip of the tea that Kinoshita Wu had just made, Qingdeng took the initiative to initiate a topic to Kinoshita Wu:

"Miss Kinoshita, have you encountered anything interesting or worth mentioning recently?"

Have you encountered anything interesting or worth mentioning recently? Qingdeng loves to use this phrase to initiate chats with people.

"There are interesting things or things worth mentioning... there are."

Kinoshita Mai hugged Duoduo on her lap, while stroking Duoduo's belly, said slowly.

"Two days ago, when I went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, I went into a certain tea house to drink tea because I was thirsty."

"While I was sitting quietly drinking tea in the corner of the tea house, I overheard a young man and woman who should be brother and sister at the next table arguing."

"The content of their quarrel is 'Is that big strange thief, Mao Xiaoseng, a plump female ninja?'"

"The elder brother insisted that Mao Xiaoseng is a plump female ninja, and she also "cited scriptures" in various ways."

"And the younger sister angrily scolded her brother for reading too many ninja-themed pornographic papers, so he's just daydreaming about it."

【Note·Yellow table paper: A kind of erotic literature and art publication with yellow skin embroidered images popular in the Edo period. There are many themes that are not outdated even now】

"The quarrel between the siblings was very loud, and many people around watched and joined in the quarrel."

"When I finished my tea, most of the people in the tea house started arguing over whether the cat monk is a ninja or not."

"I was dumbfounded at the time."

"Is it necessary to quarrel over this kind of thing? Is it so important whether Mao Xiaoseng is a man or a woman, and whether he is a ninja?"

Hearing this, there was a faint, weird smile on Qingdeng's face that couldn't be found without looking closely.

He said in his heart:

——I don’t know if Mao Xiaoseng is a ninja, but I now know that she is a female...

Qingdeng still remembers the scene of "milk" talent copied from the cat monk who raided Beifan at night.

Qingdeng did not report to the government that "he found out that Mao Xiaoseng is a woman" - he also had no way to report this matter.

It is impossible for him to directly tell the people above him: he has discovered that the cat monk has a talent full of milk juice and nutrition...

Whether Mao Xiaoseng is male or female is not a particularly important matter. Even if Qingdeng manages to report Mao Xiaoseng's real gender, it will not do Qingdeng himself any good.

What's more--Qingdeng quite likes this cat monk.

After weighing the pros and cons, Qingdeng finally decided to bury the information that "the cat monk is a woman" in his heart for the time being.

"Besides—how did the rumor of 'Mao Xiaoseng is a plump female ninja' come out?"

Kinoshita Mai's voice sounded again.

She pouted, and continued:

"As far as I know, hasn't that little monk Mao never shown his face? The government hasn't even confirmed whether the little monk Mao is a man or a woman. There are so many people who firmly believe that little monk Mao must be a woman or a female ninja... "

After glancing at the puzzled look on Kinoshita Wu's face, Qingdeng chuckled a few times "haha".

"People have always only believed what they wanted to believe."

"'Mao Xiaoseng is a short male', 'Mao Xiaoseng is an ugly woman'...Compared to such rumors, it is obvious that 'Mao Xiaoseng is a plump female ninja' is more eye-catching and more popular .”

"After all... many people like this one."

"Naturally, the rumor spread like wildfire and spread rapidly."

After finishing speaking, Qing Deng raised the teacup in his hand, and took another sip of the tea in the cup.

"The reputation of this cat monk is really getting bigger and bigger...The quarrel between the brother and sister can actually attract more than half of the people in the tea house to join in their argument."

"Well, the cat monk is indeed becoming more and more famous." Kinoshita Mai nodded lightly, "Recently, whenever I go to places with a little more people, I can always hear people discussing this strange thief there."

At this moment, Kinoshita Mai's voice suddenly paused.

"...As fame continues to grow, all kinds of strange comments about Mao Xiaoseng also keep increasing."

Kinoshita Mai's hand stroking Duoduo's belly slowed down slightly at the moment.

"Some people say that Mao Xiaoseng, who only steals from the wicked, is a respectable thief."

"There are also many people who say that Xiaoseng Mao is just a thief. No matter who he stole property from, it cannot change the fact that he is a thief. It is not advisable for Xiaoseng Mao to punish a person purely based on his personal likes and dislikes." .”

Kinoshita Mai stopped touching the cat.

"...Mr. Ju." Kinoshita Wu winked at Qingdeng, "What do you think of Mao Xiaoseng?"

"Me?" Qingdeng drank the tea in the cup that had cooled down a lot in one gulp, "I quite like that cat monk."

"Mr. Ju, do you like that cat monk?" Kinoshita Wu winked at Qingdeng again with a look of surprise on his brows.

"I'm very interested in this kind of grand thieves and strange thieves who specialize in attacking evil people." Qingdeng turned his head and smiled lightly at Kinoshita Mai, "If there is a chance... I really want to try to be like a cat monk. Even a thief is a monster thief."

Phantom Thief—this profession can be regarded as Qingdeng's feelings.

Although Qingdeng in his previous life was a top student with excellent character and learning, he was also a boy who loved playing games in private.

One of his favorite games is a masterpiece with the reputation of "the world's number one Japanese role-playing game": "Goddess X Wenlu 5"

When Qingdeng came into contact with this masterpiece, he was just in the second year of junior high school.

In the game, the basic setting of "a high school student during the day, and a "heart-stealing" monster who challenges corrupt adults at night", as well as the trendy music that makes people just want to get up, let the young people who were in the middle and second years at that time Deng felt astonished and exclaimed, "The producer who designed this game is really a genius!".

Since then, the profession of "Phantom Thief" has become Qingdeng's passion.

This feeling made Qingdeng put on a friendly filter when facing Mao Xiaoseng.

"I'm just a layman, not a saint with high moral character."

Qingdeng then continued.

"What's 'Grand Thief and Kaitou are nothing more than thieves', what's 'you can't put personal likes and dislikes above the law'... I understand these big truths, but I don't want to bother."

"I only know that this kind of behavior like Mao Xiaoseng's only attacking evil people makes me feel very happy and enjoyable, so I have a good impression of Mao Xiaoseng-it's that simple."

"Of course, if one day in the future, Little Monk Mao becomes depraved and starts attacking ordinary people, then I won't be able to have a friendly attitude towards him anymore."

After all, Qing Deng subconsciously raised the teacup in his hand to take a sip of tea, but after passing the cup to his lips, he realized that the tea had been drunk, so he could only put down the teacup in his hand embarrassingly.

At this moment, Kinoshita Mai's slender, velvet-like eyelashes fluttered a few times.

After she gave Qingdeng a long eye wave, the corners of her mouth began to curl up slowly, and a smile emerged, and finally this smile turned into a pure childlike smile.

"Mr. Ju, as the 'three times' Tongxin, you said that you like Mao Xiaoseng... Wouldn't that be a little bad?"

Qingdeng smiled, then raised his right index finger to his lips, making a "silence" motion.

"Then Miss Kinoshita, you have to keep it a secret for me." Qing Deng joked.

Kinoshita Mai raised her hand to cover her lips, and smiled sweetly.

"En!" After putting down the hand covering her lips, she nodded forcefully, "I'll keep it a secret!"

"Hehe, hehehe..." Kinoshita Wu suddenly smirked a few times, "In this way—this matter can be regarded as a secret between the two of us."

At this moment, Kinoshita Mai found that Qingdeng's teacup was empty.

"Mr. Ju, wait a minute, I'll get you a new cup of tea!"

Kinoshita Mai grabbed Qingdeng's empty teacup and rushed back to the kitchen in the back room with a "clack clatter".

After Kinoshita Mai left, Saito, who had been quietly drinking tea beside Qingdeng just now, raised his head and looked at the back room of Senshiya with a mixed expression.

"The secret of the two of us... Ms. Kinoshita, did she forget about me?"

Qingdeng, who was amused by Saito's whisper with a hint of resentment, even though he tried his best to control it, he couldn't help but cover his face and let out a joyful laugh.

...

...

After Kinoshita Wu returned to Qingdeng's side with the cup of freshly brewed tea, she chatted with Qingdeng for quite a while.

I have already drank countless cups of tea in Qingdeng, and the content of the chat with Kinoshita Mai has changed from "cat monk" to "four ways to eat wagashi" without knowing it. Finally, there was a loud noise outside.

"Young master, Tachibana-kun, I'm back." Tongsheng opened the shop door, "It's a good luck—Yongcang-kun and the others happen to be staying in their residence right now, and we will find them all soon."

Looking up - 3 young people who followed Kiryu closely, filed in together with Kiryu, and entered the store.

At a glance, Qingdeng found the Yongcang Shinpachi he had only met last month among the three youths.

As for the other two besides Yongcang...their appearances are worthy of special mention.

One of these two people has a medium height of about 1.6 meters and a rather strong figure.

He was wearing a slightly worn-out kimono, without a hakama, and the front of the chest was crookedly opened to both sides, revealing his hard pectoral and abdominal muscles.

Qing Deng noticed that there was a horizontal incision on the man's abdomen.

The more Qingdeng looked at it, the more he felt that this horizontal incision was like a laparotomy...

There was no scarf around his waist, only a sword, and a spear nearly 2 meters long was held by this person in his right hand and carried on his shoulders—since he was holding a spear, Qingdeng presumed that this person should be The spear master Kiryu talked about: Harada Sanosuke.

As for the other of the two, he was on the short side.

This person is shorter than Okita, only a little over 1.5 meters tall.

The clothes on his body were neatly dressed, and he wore a pair of long and short knives neatly around his left waist.

Since the man carrying the spear is Harada Sanosuke, then this short man should be Fujido Heisuke.

Whether it's Harada or Fujido, they all have a face that should be crushed by many girls.

After entering the Qianshiwu and seeing Qingdeng, Yongcang, who had a relationship with Qingdeng, raised his hand first, and greeted Qingdeng in a quite heroic tone:

"Yo! Ju-kun! We meet again!"

"Mr. Yongcang, long time no see." Qingdeng smiled and nodded politely to Yongcang.

Tachibana Jun——After hearing Yongcura calling Qingdeng this way, Harada and Todo immediately turned their gazes to the side and looked at Qingdeng appreciatively.

Harada is the kind of normal, calm gaze between strangers to strangers.

The light in Fujido's eyes was slightly different. When he looked at Qing Deng, there was a touch of excitement and joy in his eyes.

Holding the gun in his right hand, Harada put his left hand on his hips, and while showing a silly smile, he asked Qingdeng in an ordinary tone without honorifics: "Are you the Tachibana Qingdeng who wants to hire Okabi?"

Qingdeng nodded and stood up: "It's the first time we met, and we returned to Tongxin in the town of Xiabeipan: Ju Qingdeng."

As soon as Qingdeng's self-introduction sounded, that Fujido stood up straight with excitement, and then bowed 90 degrees to Qingdeng.

"First, first meeting! Mr. Tachibana! I am Todo Heisuke from Ito Dojo!"

There is a stark contrast between Fujido's words and Harada's words - the latter didn't use any honorifics when talking to Qingdeng, while the former used the most top-level and complicated honorifics to talk to Qingdeng.

Through the appearances of the two of them, as well as the simple exchange just now, Qingdeng has tentatively figured out the general character of Harada and Fujido.

That Harada seemed to be the kind of bold, unrestrained, unrestrained, rough man who seemed a little simple and honest.

As for Fujido, he was much more honest and courteous, and all kinds of etiquette were extremely thoughtful.

"Okay, don't stick around at the porch anymore." Tongsheng turned his head and smiled at Yongcang and the others, "Come in quickly. Young master, please go and get 3 more cushions."

...

...

Everyone was brought by Kiryu——Qingdeng first thanked Kiryu, then straightened his waist slightly, and said to Yongcang, Harada, and Fujido who were sitting in front of him in various sitting postures:

"I've already heard from Boss Kiryu—boss Kiryu has talked to you one by one in advance, and all three of you are willing to join me. So, I'll get straight to the point."

"You should have heard more or less about the work that Okabiki needs to do."

"This job doesn't require any brain-consuming mental work. The main job is to share the chores, tiring work, and hard work that only require physical strength for Tongxin."

"Therefore, I don't have too many requirements for my subordinate Gang Yin, as long as he has good physical strength and is willing to endure hardships and stand hard work."

"But because helping Tongxin to arrest criminals is one of the most important jobs of Okain, so I also hope that my Okain's skills can be as good as possible. It would be great if he is proficient in a certain martial art."

"According to what Boss Kiryu said—the three of you all have martial arts strengths that are outstanding among your peers."

"Mr. Yongcang has met me once before, and I have competed with him before. I know his strength very well."

"As for Harada-kun and Todo-kun..."

Qingdeng focused his attention on Harada and Fujido.

"I don't know exactly how strong the two of you are."

"So, I want to conduct an assessment to test your strength now. I wonder what your two intentions are?"

"Oh?" Harada's eyelids twitched, and he grinned, "Test our strength? Ahh... that's right, after all, it is impossible to hire someone who doesn't know the specific strength as a subordinate. Okay, okay! Let's test it !"

Fujido on the side nodded his head vigorously: "Yes! I am willing to accept any test!"

"How do you want to test?" Harada continued to ask at this time, "If you want to test our strength... then we must fight with others. Are you looking for someone to come and compete with us? Or Say you want to compete with us in person?"

"I'm here to personally test your strength." Qingdeng slowly revealed a meaningful smile, "But if you test one by one... it would take too much time."

"Just... let's play a two-on-two game, saving time and effort."

"Second team two?" Harada and Fujido muttered in unison.

Qingdeng tilted his head at this moment, looking at Saito who was sitting behind him.

"Saito, can you help me?"

Saito froze for a moment, then nodded without thinking.

He who doesn't like to talk, responded to Qingdeng with actions.

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