I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Tatsuno Fan, in a certain mountain.

In the middle of the mountains that should have been desolate, there stood an abrupt three-story style mansion.

Candlelight shines through the windows of the cabin.

Conversations and laughter continued to sound from inside the wooden house.

"Hahahaha! Drink! Drink!"

"Isn't it enough to drink so much?"

"Hey! No more wine! Bring more wine!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

...

On the top floor of this magnificent mansion, a group of people are having a lively banquet.

This majestic mansion is the base camp of the Negishi family, which made the common people of the Tatsuno domain change their colors.

And the people who are having a banquet on the top floor of this mansion are the leaders and main cadres of the Negishi family.

The head of the Negishi family loves to hold banquets at night.

Gathering all the main cadres of the family together to have fun like tonight is just a common sight in this mansion.

The middle-aged man with a big belly sitting at the head of the banquet is the leader of the Negishi family - Negishi Naomasa.

Just when Negishi Naozho happily raised the jug in his hand and poured wine into his mouth, anxious footsteps suddenly sounded outside the room.

Snapped.

The paper sliding door of the room was pulled open.

A young man kneeling on one knee by the door said to Negishi Naomasa and others in the room with a somewhat anxious tone:

"Boss, Boss! Something happened! Something happened to the casino in Karamoto Village!"

The young man's loud shout instantly stopped the chatter and laughter in the room.

Negishi frowned tightly, and asked in a deep voice:

"what happened?"

"The guards, Hu Zhen, and Zhongpen of the casino in Gangben Village were all killed!"

As soon as the voice of the young man who came to report the news fell, the room was filled with exclamations of surprise, disbelief, and gasps one after another.

"They were all killed?" Negishi Zhizheng's face darkened instantly, "Tell me in detail what happened!"

...

...

The young man who came to report the letter was very articulate.

In just a few words, he recounted to everyone in the room what happened at the casino in Gangben Village today.

"So that's how it is..." Negishi said to himself, "Did someone kill him... What does that person look like?"

"I don't know yet!" The young man immediately replied, "There are no survivors left at the scene, but I have asked my subordinates to find the gamblers who have been to the casino in the village today! Those gamblers who were there at that time should be Remember what the guy who killed our people looked like!"

"...Boss." A strong man with a long scar on his face sitting on Negishi's right hand said to Negishi, "Do you think this guy is a foreigner who doesn't understand the rules, or... To seek revenge?"

"...I don't know." Negishi replied with a deep voice, "It doesn't matter whether he is a foreigner who doesn't know the rules, or a fool who came to seek revenge. In short-find him for me first."

"Little ones!"

Naogi Negishi shouted in a mid-spirited voice.

As soon as he shouted, the subordinates sitting under him immediately put down the wine bowls in their hands, sat up straight, and sat upright.

"Go down and tell everyone below! All the sword warriors who see the face are cheering me up! Be prepared!"

"Once you meet a samurai with a face, come back and report to me immediately!"

"Yes!" All the subordinates in the room shouted in unison with a tacit understanding.

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...

The next morning, early in the morning—

Last night, Ogata and Mamiya randomly found an inn.

Ogata and Mamiya each have a room - of course, Ogata's rent is also paid by Mamiya.

As soon as the sun had fully risen above the horizon, Ogata and Mamiya walked out of the inn one after the other.

"So——" Ogata turned his head and asked Mamiya beside him, "What are we going to do today? Where are we going to find information about the Negishi family?"

"Well,

Of course, I went to the stores opened by the Negishi family to find information. But before that—let's go have some breakfast. Do you have anything to eat? "

"I can eat anything."

...

...

"Ogata, we're here."

Ogata and Mamiya, who casually ate some glutinous rice dumplings for breakfast, were standing not far in front of a slightly dilapidated wooden house located in a remote place.

After having breakfast just now, Mamiya led Ogata towards the wooden house.

Looking at the slightly dilapidated wooden house in front of him, Ogata asked:

"Is this house another casino of the Negishi family?"

"No." Mamiya replied immediately, "Although it is not the casino of the Negishi family, it is another shop opened by the Negishi family."

"Ogata-kun, do you know what the 'Yakuza' like the Negishi family mainly rely on to make money?"

"I don't know."

Gamiya stretched out 3 fingers.

"The main thing is to make money from three things: gambling, women, and lending."

"And this house is the Youkaku opened by the Negishi family."

"Mr. Ogata, we are divided into two groups today."

"You go into Youkuo, I'll stay outside."

"…………what?"

After being silent for a while, Ogata tilted his head and looked at Mamiya with a look of "did I hear something wrong".

"Sorry, I didn't seem to make it clear just now..."

"Ogata-kun, we destroyed the casino that the Negishi family set up in Karamoto Village yesterday. What do you think the boss of the Negishi family will do when he hears the news?"

"I will definitely be vigilant and remind the major shops below to pay more attention to the people with swords in front of them."

"For a samurai with no face like you, if you step into the tour opened by the Negishi family - what do you think will happen?"

"I think there is a great possibility that such a situation will happen-the managers of Youguo ran back to their base camp to report the news."

"So you enter the swimming pool as bait."

"And I stayed outside, following the men who reported back to their base camp."

"...What if no one goes out to report the letter?" Ogata asked rhetorically.

"Then it can only be regarded as our bad luck." Mamiya shrugged.

"...Why am I the bait instead of you?"

"Do you know how to follow?"

"Then do you understand?"

"I used to learn a little ninjutsu related to stalking in the Kai area."

"How many things have you learned..."

"Anyway—that's all the gossip."

After finishing speaking, Mamiya took out a large gold plug from his bosom and gave it to Ogata.

"Here, this money is for you to use, go. I'll hide nearby to monitor the movement of this brothel."

Ogata looked at the big sentence that Mamiya gave him, with a complicated look on his face.

Ogata discovered it since yesterday—Gamiya seems to be very rich.

When gambling in the casino, the big judge will give money as he says.

When going to the bathhouse to take a bath, Jian Gong also casually threw out a large sum of money, making the shopkeeper of the bathhouse very hard to find the money.

And now he throws a large sum of money at random and asks Ogata to go to Youkuo to find a woman...

Ogata looked at the big sentence in his hand, and then at You Kuo not far away.

"Ogata-kun, what's wrong?" Sensing Ogata's strange Gamiya, he asked Ogata.

"...I said it, don't laugh at me..."

"I...have never been to this kind of place." Ogata hesitated, "After I go in, what will I say and what will I do?"