I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

It wasn't until this moment that Ogata realized that many places in the corridor under his feet were dripping with a colorless, odorless liquid that looked no different from ordinary water.

Because he was in the pirate ship, it is very common to find "logged water" in the corridor of the pirate ship's cabin, so Ogata didn't notice these "logged water" at all.

Then—Miyabe felt a blur in front of his eyes.

It was just a blink of an eye, and Ogata, who was standing a few steps away just now, had already appeared in front of Miyabe.

While dodging in front of Gongbu with stepping steps, Ogata retracted Da Shitian into the sheath.

Boom!

Ogata pushed Gongbu to the ground.

The left hand controls Miyabe's body, looking for possible weapons on Miyabe's body, while the right hand stretches out the index finger, middle finger, and ring finger into Miyabe's mouth.

"Who the hell are you? What is your relationship with the lunatic who planned to destroy Kyoto last summer?"

Ogata scolded so loudly while groping Miyabe's mouth, checking whether there was any poison hidden in the teeth, and at the same time preventing Miyabe from biting his tongue or licking his collar to commit suicide.

This method of checking for poison hidden in other people's teeth was taught to him by Ah-Ming.

As a ninja, A-Machi has been systematically taught effective suicide methods and methods to prevent others from committing suicide.

Hiding poison in teeth is one of the favorite methods used by dead soldiers.

First hide the poison in a worn-out denture, and when it's time to eat the poison, use your tongue to open the denture and bite the pill.

Another favorite suicide method used by dead soldiers is to smear poison on their collars and lick their own collars when committing suicide.

At this moment, the reason why Ogata used the method of "preventing others from committing suicide" taught to him by A-Machi, searching for Miyabe's teeth inch by inch, and preventing him from licking his collar or biting his tongue, was to prevent this guy from suicide.

Ogata didn't know anything about Gongbe, who knew if he was the kind of ruthless person who would kill himself without hesitation when he had to?

He has a mountain of questions now, and he wants to ask this guy, so he must not let Gongbu die like this.

After some searching, it was found that there was nothing in Miyabe's mouth.

And Miyabe's body was the same as his teeth—nothing,

Not a single weapon was found.

"Heh... you're quite vigilant..." Because Ogata's three fingers were still protruding into Miyabe's mouth, Miyabe's words are still a bit vague, "You still know...to prevent me from committing suicide .”

Miyabe is now not only unable to speak fluently, but also unable to swallow, so most of his face is covered with saliva.

But even though his appearance has become embarrassing, there is still a flat smile on his face.

"But unfortunately—it's too late."

As soon as Miyabe finished speaking, his pupils began to contract violently.

"Ahem! Ahem——!"

Miyabe, who suddenly started coughing violently, coughed up several mouthfuls of scalding blood, which stained Ogata's right hand that was stuck into his mouth red.

"When... you defeated Mori Maru... I already... took...the poison in advance..."

Miyabe cast a playful look at Ogata.

"Anyway, there is no way to escape...then it would be better to die in...my own hands..."

"Fortunately... in order to... see your true face... the medicine that can destroy the human skin mask... was sprinkled all over the place..."

"Before I die... I can see a pirate who can easily defeat a whole ship... and my subordinates... What do they look like... It's a pity..."

At this time, most of the human skin mask on Ogata's face had "withered".

And the "withered" part of the human skin mask also fell from Ogata's face at this moment, as if the skin fell off and hung on Ogata's face, it looked extremely terrifying.

It is precisely because the "withered" part of the human skin mask fell off that Ogata's real face hidden under the mask finally appeared in front of people after a long absence.

Looking at Ogata's face under the mask, the color of astonishment spread all over Miyabe's face at an extremely fast speed, and the smile on his face also slightly dissipated due to this.

But soon——Miyabe cleaned up his emotions and expressions.

"Hahaha..." Gongbu's face showed a flat smile again, "No wonder... no wonder Mr. Yitong's subordinates... and my subordinates... were easily defeated by you..."

"Since you lost to the executioner Yidao Zhai...then it's an honorable defeat..."

"My lord, he... sent so many people to look for you... I didn't expect to meet you in this kind of place... It's really... good luck..."

——Sent so many people to look for me...?

Because of more and more doubts, Ogata's brows were already furrowed unconsciously.

"Hey! Who are you? What do you mean by sending so many people to find me?!"

Ogata has clearly felt that Miyabe's vitality is draining.

And he couldn't do anything except scold Gongbu loudly and shake Gongbu vigorously, trying to keep Gongbu awake.

After all, he is not a doctor and has no ability to restore a person who has taken poison.

"Haha..." Gongbu, whose face was already frighteningly pale, smiled.

There was no fear or panic on his face, he didn't look like a dying person at all.

"Now that I think about it carefully... I feel a bit at a loss..."

"Death in the hands of Yidao Zhai...seems to be a bit more enjoyable than dying from poison...haha...cough cough cough—! cough cough cough!!"

Gongbu coughed a few times again, with such force that it seemed as if he wanted to cough up all the viscera in his stomach.

"What a pity...I haven't repaid... the kindness my lord has given me...'Hara Kanseban'..."

After the words fell, and after uttering the last syllable, Miyabe's eyes widened, and his head tilted—completely silent.

Ogata, as the "Hara Shirobei club staff" who used to work in Yoshihara, is naturally no stranger to the "Mishiban" that Miyabe just mentioned.

The so-called "Jianshifan", also known as "prostitute", is responsible for low-end work such as soliciting customers in Huajie.

At this time, most of the human skin mask on Gongbu's face also "withered" and fell off from the face—under the mask, there was an extremely ugly face.

Too small triangular eyes, bulbous nose, plump lips... none of the facial features can be seen.

And when these ugly facial features were combined, they formed an extremely ugly face.

The only advantage of this face is probably that the skin is fair.

Looking at the dead Miyabe, Ogata remained silent for a long time.

After a while, he raised his hand to tear off the human skin mask that was about to fall off completely, and then put Miyabe's mask back on his face, so that Miyabe returned to his original handsome appearance...

However, just as he put down Miyabe's body, which had been shaking vigorously just now——

Gululu...

Something fell from Miyabe's body.

It's a few small red pills.

Several red pills smelling like mint

Seeing the red pill that fell from Miyabe's body, Ogata was stunned.

This pill... Ogata has an impression.

Before, when he found Xuanzhi, Xuanzhi showed him the exact same pill. Xuanzhi also planned to give the medicine he treasured to Ogata as a gift, but Ogata refused.

According to Xuanzhi, this is his master's unique poison.

Only Xuanzhi and his master Xuanzheng can make extremely poisonous medicine...

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"Hahaha……"

Ant Tong panted heavily, adjusting his breathing evenly, and at the same time stuffed handfuls of Dapanjin into his bosom.

Yitong is in his room now.

He has a habit of putting money where his eyes can see it.

So the gift that Gongbu brought him earlier - the 3000 taels of gold was all placed in Yitong's room.

- to escape! To run away quickly!

In Yitong's mind, there is only one thought left - escape!

Just now, after he followed Miyabe and Morimaru into the cabin, he thought they were trying to escape.

Unexpectedly, these two people planned to fight Ogata to the death.

Yitong has long been unable to raise the slightest desire to resist Ogata.

After learning that Miyabe and Morimaru were going to fight Ogata, Yitong immediately shook his head like a rattle and said, "I'm quitting."

Afterwards, he parted ways with the Gongbu duo.

Miyabe makes a last stand with Morimaru, while Miyabe returns to his room, ready to run with the money.

On his pirate ship, there are several small boats used in emergencies.

He is quite familiar with the nearby sea area, so he knows that his current location is actually very close to the land.

Although it is very difficult, there is still hope that these small boats on the ship can be rowed back to land.

As long as one life can be saved, there is still a chance to make a comeback.

--it is good! It should be enough to take so much money!

After hastily stuffing hundreds of pieces of gold into his bosom, Anthong rushed towards the door of the room, preparing to rush to the cabin where the lifesaving boat was.

But at this moment... the door of his room was roughly kicked open.

Boom!

"Alas--!"

Yitong looked in horror at the person who kicked open the door of his room - Ogata.

Looking at Ogata who suddenly changed his appearance, Yi Tong was taken aback.

"Hey...your face...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Yitong felt that this "new face" of Ogata was very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it. But before he could utter a complete sentence, the rest of the words were replaced by screams.

Ogata quickly approached him with stepping steps, and while pressing Yitong on the wall behind him, he took the knife from Yitong's waist, and then pressed Yitong's palms against the wall above his head , and then nailed the palms of his hands to the wall with Yitong's knife.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh! My hand! My hand!"

The palms of both hands were nailed to the wall, and the pain caused Yi Tong to let out a hoarse scream.

But before he could yell, Ogata slapped him with a slap, slapping Yitong into a daze.

"Quiet me." After slapping Yitong hard, Xu Fang said calmly and expressionlessly, "I have some questions to ask you now."

"Whatever I ask you, you answer."

"Let me warn you in advance—I'm in a very bad mood right now."

"If you say something irrelevant to the question I asked, or don't give an immediate answer, I will cut you off."

After all, Ogata pulled out Da Shitian.

"Who is that handsome man and that blind man? What is their relationship to you?"

"Huh?" Yitong cast a puzzled look at Ogata, wondering why Ogata asked this.

But just as he cast a suspicious look at Ogata, he saw the light of the sword flash.

A flash of knife light across the little toe of his left foot.

The little toe of his left foot was cut off directly, and the blood flowed all over the ground.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"I said, if you talk nonsense or don't answer my question immediately, I will cut you off." Ogata said lightly, "Don't have the slightest doubt about what I just said. I'm ugly. Up front—I've hacked someone into pieces and chopped them into minced meat."

"When it comes to cutting people, I'm very experienced. I don't feel a little bit guilty about cutting a human trafficker like you."

"I'll count to 2, if you don't come out with something that satisfies me, I'll just cut you off again."

Before Ogata started counting, An Tong hurriedly said:

"He, they are subordinates of an old friend of mine!"

"I like to soak in hot springs, so every winter, I will bring my subordinates to the hot springs in Ezo, and at the same time, I will turn to Ezo women to sell them for money."

"Just...I remember it was 4 years ago, when I was soaking in hot springs in Ezodi in winter as usual, I ran into a group of people."

"The leader of that gang is a very young samurai. He calls himself 'Kinoshita'. I don't know his full name, but he only told me his surname is Kinoshita."

--Kinoshita?

Ogata frowned instantly.

He was startled - during this time, this surname was often heard.

The last time I heard this surname was from Chanup in Red Moon Fortress.

According to Chanup, the muskets of their Red Moon Fortress were sold to them by a young businessman named Kinoshita. He not only sold them the precious muskets, but also taught them how to use them.

After selling the musket and how to use it cheaply to Chanup and the others, Chanup never saw Kinoshita again.

Ogata did not interrupt Yitong, let Yitong continue.

"After Kinoshita learned that I was a pirate who made a living from human trafficking, and also had experience in abducting Einu people, he proposed to cooperate with me."

"He gave me money, and I caught shrimp for him."

"His requirements are very low, not limited to men, women and children, and the money is very generous, so I started to cooperate with him."

"We have cooperated...for about a year."

"A year later, Kinoshita suddenly told me that he no longer needed me to help him catch Ezo."

"Then, Kinoshita took people away from Ezodi. I never saw him again after that."

"However, in the past three years, Kinoshita still occasionally sent someone to say hello to me and kept in touch with me."

"Miyabe... that is, the handsome man you mentioned just now, who was sent by Kinoshita to greet me this year."

"Do you know who this Kinoshita is?" Ogata asked the second question, "Tell me all the information about this Kinoshita."

"I know very little about Kinoshita."

"He is very mysterious, he rarely tells me anything about him, and his subordinates are more and more tight-lipped."

"He is very young, about the same age as you. I guess... he should be a businessman who specializes in smuggling."

"Why do you say that?" Ogata asked back.

"Because he told me before he suspended his cooperation with me and left Ezo - he will go back to Ryukyu later."

"He told me: He has set up a stronghold in Ryukyu that is responsible for making money, and he will return to Ryukyu to concentrate on development for a period of time."

"Although he didn't tell me what method his stronghold in Ryukyu used to make money, I guess he most likely made money from smuggling."

"Ryukyu is very close to Japan, Tangtu, and Southeast Asian countries, and it is an excellent smuggling trade transit point."

"If he makes money from smuggling, then why he is so rich can also be explained."

"Although the smuggling trade is dangerous, it is a lucrative business. As far as I know - there is no one in the smuggling trade who is not wealthy."

"The businessman... has money..." Ogata muttered.

For some reason, Ogata recalled his friend who was also a businessman and a rich woman who was also extremely rich...

Ogata was lost in thought.

Yitong didn't dare to talk nonsense now, so seeing that Ogata was silent, he also closed his mouth tightly, waiting silently for Ogata to speak again.

After a while, Ogata finally spoke again:

"...Why did Kinoshita spend a lot of money to ask you to help him catch Ezo? What happened to those Ezo that were captured?"

"I don't know." Yi Tong said, "That Kinoshita is really mysterious! After we abducted Ezo, he always sent people to my stronghold to pick up people."

"As for where and what he took those abducted Ezos by us, I don't know at all!"

"I also asked out of curiosity for a while, but I didn't ask anything."

"That's it..." Ogata murmured softly.

Then he swung the knife violently and chopped off the little toe of Yitong's other foot.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa——I-I-I-I-I-I-I-had told me all I knew in time!"

"I always feel unbelievable." Ogata said lightly, "What did Kinoshita take the abducted Ezo to do, and you don't even know?"

"I, I really don't know!"

"Tell me the truth." Ogata ignored what Antong said just now, and cut off one of Yitong's toes with a knife again, "If you don't tell me the truth quickly, I will give you all your toes Cut it down."

"I really don't know what Kimita brought all those who had been abducted! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

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10 minutes later—

——It seems that this guy really doesn't know anything...

Looking at Yitong's bare feet due to the shaved toes, Ogata thought to himself.

Ogata had cut off all 10 of his toes, and the ant still said he didn't know anything.

"Do you know where Kinoshita's stronghold in Ryukyu is exactly?"

"have no idea……"

"Then... do you know China Village? It's the name of an Ezo settlement. Many young people in their village have disappeared and have not been seen so far. Were they abducted by you?"

After learning that Yitong had been hired by someone to abduct a large number of Ainu people, Owen immediately thought of the "disappearance incident" that had occurred, and there were many young and strong men in the village.

"Qina Village...?" Ant Tong widened his eyes slightly, "Wait... I have a little impression of this name... I remembered it! When I first cooperated with Kinoshita, Kinoshita told me about this settlement. "

"He told me—before he asked me to cooperate, he tried to catch Ezo on their own."

"They used to capture people from a certain settlement by surrounding them to help them—first capture the people who went hunting in this village, and then wait for the village to send people to find the missing people, and then send these people who were sent to find people The villagers were taken away."

"Kinoshita said that because they were inexperienced, it was extremely difficult to catch."

"Because they realize that it is too difficult to catch people by their own strength, they will cooperate with me who has experience..."

"The name of that settlement... seems to be China Village... 噫!"

Yitong screamed because he found that Ogata's face became ugly, which made Yitong's heart rise to his throat.

"...Did Kinoshita mention 'Istosai the Executioner'? Did he say something like 'We must find Istosai'? Or did his subordinates ever ask you something like 'Do you know Istosai's whereabouts'?" question."

"No..." Yitong shook his head blankly.

"I think so too. Three years ago, when you parted from that Kinoshita, I should still have a low reputation."

Xu Fang paused.

"last question."

"Since you come to the hot springs in Ezo every winter, grab some Ainu women and sell them for money."

"Then on this ship of yours, is there any woman abducted by you now? Where is it held?"

"Those... abducted women were first loaded onto my other ship... and transported back to Iki Island ahead of time..."

"...Is that so..."

Seeing that Ogata finally finished asking questions, Yi Tong's face showed hope.

"I've... told you everything I know."

"Can... spare my life..."

Ogata glanced at Yitong.

"You bloodless human trafficker, is there any reason for me to spare your life?"

After finishing speaking, he swung his knife and slashed at Yitong's neck without hesitation.

Yitong's head flew out of his neck and fell to the ground, the fear that appeared on his face after hearing the last words Ogata said to him was still on his face.

Ogata shook off the blood attached to the knife, put the knife back into its sheath, flicked his sleeves, and strode out of Yitong's room with a sullen face.

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"Why hasn't that Mashima Goro come back yet..." Isshiki's eyes now have conspicuous anxiety, "He probably won't...have some accident..."

Azuki, who was standing next to Isshiki, now also has a conspicuous look of anxiety in his eyes.

But Azuki's expression at this time is a bit more complicated than Isshiki - she pursed her lips lightly, as if thinking about something.

"Sure enough... I still have to go up and have a look... Ah! He's back!"

While shouting, Azuki pointed at the pirate ship——Ogata stood on the side of the ship, then jumped off the side of the ship, and landed firmly on the deck of the stowaway ship.

"You're finally back!" Isshiki hurried up to greet him, "How is it? What are those pirates doing now... huh?"

Yishi's footsteps stopped.

She looked at Ogata in astonishment... To be precise, she looked at Ogata's face.

Not just Isshiki.

At this time, everyone on the deck, be it Azuki, Naoshu, and the crew members, basically looked like Isshiki, staring blankly at Ogata's manless skin with expressions as if they saw a monster. mask face.

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