I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"Jiulang wants to spend the night here tonight?" Looking at Yi Chao who was kneeling in front of him, Wen Xian's face was expressionless, making it impossible to see what he was thinking, only a bit of surprise appeared in his eyes .

"Yes!" Yi Chao said loudly, "Brother, he said he wanted to spend the night here so that he could have a longer chat with me whom I haven't seen for a long time."

"...Didn't he just say that he would only stay here for a while?" Wen Xian asked back.

Yi Chao opened his mouth, and when he was about to say something, Wen Xian said again:

"Forget it, it doesn't make any difference whether he stays here for an hour or until tomorrow." Wen Xian waved his hand, "Go and tell him that I will only keep him until tomorrow morning at most. After tomorrow morning, he has to leave for me."

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Wen Xian watched Yi Chao leave.

After Yi Chao left, Wen Xian also slowly stood up from the tatami, and then walked straight to a room deep in the mansion.

It was a room with an unremarkable door.

But behind this seemingly innocuous door is a small Buddhist hall.

In the very center of the Buddhist hall, there is a small Buddha statue that is only one person tall.

This Buddha statue folds its hands together, eyes half closed, and looks forward, as if looking at everything.

Those who have a deep understanding of Buddhism will be able to immediately recognize that the true face of this Buddha statue is the most sublime Buddha in Tantric Buddhism: Vairocana.

However, after entering this small Buddhist hall, Wen Xian didn't look at the Buddha statue of Vairocana the whole time. He just walked straight in front of the Buddha statue and walked to a knife holder placed in front of the Buddha statue.

There is only one knife on this knife rack.

One blade has a very curved body, and the scabbard and handle are black and purple.

Wen Xian removed the knife from the knife holder with both hands, and then slowly pulled the blade out of its sheath.

Cang Lang Lang.

As the blade was pulled out of the sheath inch by inch, Wen Xian's eyes were illuminated by the light reflected by the blade.

The light reflected by this knife,

It actually carried a few traces of strange purple light... so that Wen Xian's pupils were covered with a circle of purple light.

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House of Asemon Yamada, Haramamiya's room

"How?" Mamiya asked Yoshitomo who had just returned.

Yoshitomo nodded: "Very well, father agreed to keep you until tomorrow morning."

"That's good...then Yichao, I'll trouble you to bring over lunch and dinner."

"Brother, won't you... come and have dinner with us?"

"If I dine with you, the atmosphere will be very awkward." Mamiya smiled, "Based on the relationship between me and my father... Mr. Yamada Asemon, I am afraid that it will be difficult for me to dine with him. Everyone thinks the food in front of them is hard to swallow."

"So it's better for me to eat alone."

After all, Mamiya stood up.

"Okay, Yoshitomo, let's go to your room."

"I stayed here in the name of 'to chat with you more', so it's better to stay in your room, it's not easy to be suspicious, and staying in your room all the time is also more convenient for us tonight action."

"Yeah!" Yoshitomo nodded his head very hard, "Just tonight, let that girl escape from this Abi hell..."

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about half an hour ago

House of Asemon Yamada, Haramamiya's room

"A girl who can regenerate organs?" Mamiya's eyes were so shocked that it seemed that the eyeballs were about to fall out of their sockets, "... Yoshitomo, tell me clearly, what is going on? "

"Everything... starts from more than a month..." Yi Chao lowered his head and said slowly, "One day more than a month ago, I was ordered by my father to go to the execution ground to execute the death row prisoner, and My father went with me to check my current skills..."

When the younger generation first started to take over the work at the execution ground, the older generation supervised and gave pointers. This is one of the unwritten rules of the Yamada Asemon family.

"After successfully executing the death row inmate that day, I went home with my father."

"But on the way home, my father and I suddenly heard strange noises from the alley next to us."

"Walking into the alley, it turned out that two hooligans were bullying a little girl."

While listening carefully, Mamiya nodded from time to time in response.

Edo, with a population of one million, naturally has no one, and it is just a very common scene for local gangsters to cause trouble everywhere.

"Those two hooligans wanted to insult the little girl. When my father and I arrived, one of the hooligans had already pulled out a small knife to cut the girl's clothes."

"When you see this kind of thing with your own eyes, there is no reason to turn a blind eye."

"I drove off those two bastards by myself."

"Things have developed until now, and everything is still normal..."

"But the scene that happened before my eyes was completely abnormal..."

"When the two hooligans were cutting the girl's clothes with a knife, because the girl was struggling desperately, the knife accidentally cut her forearm."

"I wanted to take the girl to a doctor for treatment."

"But when she went to help the girl, the girl resisted desperately and said 'don't touch her'."

"At first I thought it was just that the girl had just been frightened and hadn't recovered from it."

"However... when I just helped the girl up, I saw that the girl's wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye."

"Just blinked a few times, and the girl's injury was completely healed."

"At that time, my father who was standing next to me and I were scared to death..."

"I've grown up so much, I've never seen such a scene... It has overturned my perception of everything in the world."

"And when I didn't know what to do... my father was the first to recover... and started to act..."

"The father knocked the girl unconscious, and then brought the girl home..."

"Sometimes... I really think my father is a terrible person..."

"While witnessing such a horrific scene, while I was still dumbfounded and at a loss, my father quickly came to his senses and immediately thought that this girl is of great use..."

"After the father forcibly brought the girl home, he started the tests."

"He wants to test that girl, since the wound can heal so quickly, can her organs recover after being damaged..."

"So...the father locked the girl in the basement and started the test..."

"The test results...made my father smile..."

"This girl's internal organs will regenerate by themselves..."

"then……"

Before Yoshitomo could finish his words, Mamiya, who already had a gloomy face, had already finished the rest of the words for Yoshitomo:

"So the father imprisoned the girl, took the girl's gall continuously, and used the girl's gall to make human gall bladders."

"...That's right..." Yoshitomo closed his eyes with a face full of pain, "The girl is very young. Although she is a little malnourished, her gall is still a high-quality gall that is quite suitable for making medicine..."

"Yi Chao." Jian Gong asked in a deep voice at this time, "Apart from you and father, who else knows the existence of this girl?"

"Except for me and my father, no one else knows that there is such a magical girl who is locked in the basement below our mansion." Yoshitomo replied, "My father did not tell anyone about the existence of this girl, nor did he tell anyone about it." Report to the shogunate. Father probably wants to monopolize this girl, so that she can help him produce a steady stream of high-quality human gallbladders."

"... Yoshitomo. Have you participated in this inhuman pharmaceutical?" Mamiya asked.

"No!" Yi Chao opened his eyes suddenly, and denied it, "I never participated in it."

"When my father first used this inhumane method to make medicine, I thought it was too inhumane, and I kept persuading my father not to do such cruel things again, and let my father let the poor girl go free."

"But my father said, 'There will be countless people who will be saved because of high-quality human gallbladders. This kind of thing that can benefit the public, is there any reason not to do it?'"

"...Heh." Jian Gong let out a big sneer, "It's really like... what he would say..."

"Father can mercilessly treat this girl as a drug tool, but I... can't..." Yoshitomo continued softly, "In order to alleviate the guilt in my heart as much as possible, I have been chatting with that girl, Do my best to comfort her..."

"Although she has a very miraculous body, judging from her words and deeds, no matter how you look at it, she is a very ordinary girl."

"She said her name was Azhu, she was from Osaka, and she was the daughter of an ordinary craftsman."

"She cried over and over again, begging me to let her go and let her go home..."

"I really can't bear this kind of torture to my conscience... So not long ago, I secretly let the girl go while my father was not at home."

"However... as soon as I let the girl go, my father came back. After finding that the girl had escaped, my father took me to chase. I thought that Edo was so big that my father might not be able to find the girl, but I don't know. Is it because God loves father or something, but in the end, father really chased that girl back..."

"When I saw that my father actually found the girl, I... wanted to stop my father and give the girl time to escape..."

"but I……"

A blatant look of guilt quickly appeared on Yi Chao's face.

"I didn't have the courage to stand in front of my father... In the end, I could only watch helplessly as my father took the girl back..."

"...It's not your fault." Jian Gong said softly, "You have tried your best to do what you can."

Hearing Mamiya's words of comfort, Yoshitomo's face turned slightly better.

"After my father brought the girl back, I was thinking about new ways to help the girl out of trouble."

"The girl was not familiar with Edo, so she was only allowed to escape alone, and she couldn't escape at all."

"So if you want that girl to escape from here, the best way is to let a reliable person lead her away."

At this time, Yoshitomo raised his eyes and looked at Mamiya.

"...So that's how it is." Jiangong said softly, "You just said 'I am the best person to take that child away from here', which is what you meant..."

Yoshitomo nodded lightly:

"I didn't think of the best person to take that girl away until just now, after you mentioned Rendan Wan, and it's right in front of me now."

"Have a trustworthy character, and also have the ability to bring people out of Edo."

"My lord brother, you are really timely."

Yoshitomo's face slowly became serious at this moment.

"My lord brother... I sincerely hope that the girl can escape from this place as soon as possible..."

"So can I ask you to take that child away from here?"

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late at night

Yoshitomo's room at the residence of Asemon Yamada

"My lord, it's almost time." Yoshitomo, who was neatly dressed, with both sleeves tied up with a kimono, turned to Mamiya, who also had his sleeves tied up with a kimono, in front of him. road.

"En." Mamiya grabbed the saber placed by his side, "Let's go."

The plan drawn up by Mamiya and Yoshitomo was quite simple and rough. They started to act late at night, went into the basement, and brought the girl out.

It was for this purpose that during the daytime today, Jiangong asked Yichao to go and Wen Xian pretended that he would spend the night here in order to chat with his brother for a while, and then stayed in Yichao's room, waiting for the night to come.

The current time, converted to the time unit of modern Earth, is about 11 o'clock in the evening.

At this point in time, the family of Yamada Asemon, from the Patriarch Fumaki to the ordinary attendants, had fallen asleep.

After Yoshitomo and Mamiya came out of the room one after the other, they walked towards the direction of the basement with silent steps.

Yamada Asemon is a family that often deals with corpses, so people who don't know much about the Yamada Asemon family have compiled many urban legends related to Yamada Asemon.

For example: In order to train the younger generation's "tolerance" to the corpse, Yamada Asemon would force the young children in the clan to eat in front of the corpse since childhood.

Another example: Yamada Asemon's house piled up with corpses like mountains.

These urban legends are basically nonsense.

For example, "The Yamada Asemon family will force the younger generation in the family to eat in front of the corpse" is pure nonsense.

But "pile up a mountain of corpses at home" is also right and wrong.

Yamada Asemon would indeed bring back the corpses that had just been executed at the execution ground and put them at home, but he would not store as many corpses as mountains.

Because these corpses are consumed quickly, the business of "knife testing" has always been very prosperous, and there is no shortage of customers. The corpses brought home in the morning may be dragged to others for knife testing in the afternoon.

Because the corpse is consumed quickly, there is no need to worry that the corpse will stink after being stored for too long.

If there is a corpse that stinks, it will be cleaned up in time. Yamada Asemon is not a pervert without a nose, and the corpse will feel sick when it stinks.

The place where the corpses are stored is the basement.

Below the mansion of the Yamada Asemon family, there is a very spacious basement. The basement is relatively cool, so the corpse is stored in the basement, and the corpse is not easy to rot.

And the basement under the mansion is also a pharmacy for refining human gallbladder pills.

Yoshitomo: "It's here..."

Mamiya and Yoshitomo were standing at the corner of a remote corridor in the mansion.

There is nothing here, nothing.

In the corner of this empty corridor, Yoshitomo squatted down, took out an iron key, and inserted the key into an inconspicuous hole at his feet. After turning it a few times, the corridor under his feet issued a "click" " a soft sound.

"Brother, let's go." Yi Chao said while holding the key and pulling it up.

Squeak...

Just like the door was pulled open, the key still inserted in the hole was the doorknob, and Yoshitomo, holding the "doorknob" and lifting it up, easily lifted a large wooden board in the corridor under his feet.

Behind the wooden boards, there are stairs extending underground. Because the light is too dim, you can only see the stairs leading to the ink-like darkness.

Mamiya took out the oil lamp prepared in advance and lit it.

"Let's go." Jian Gong took the lead and walked down the stairs to the basement.

The key to the basement door, only two people have the patriarch Wen Xian and Yichao who has been confirmed as the next patriarch.

Because of the dim light and the narrow stairs, both Mamiya and Yoshitomo walked slowly.

When both of them were walking down slowly, Yoshitomo who was walking behind Mamiya suddenly said coldly:

"My lord...thank you..."

"no need thank me?"

"Thank you for your willingness to help me set that girl free..."

"There is nothing to thank." Mamiya said lightly, "I just don't want my father... Fumaki Yamada Asemon to continue doing such inhuman things."

"And the girl suffered such a miserable experience, it is really hard for me to turn a blind eye."

In fact, Mamiya concealed a reason from Yoshitomo. The reason why he was willing to save the Osaka girl named Azhu was also because this girl might have something related to "immortality" that they had been investigating for a long time. clue.

After all, the wound heals extremely quickly, and even the internal organs can repair themselves, all of which are consistent with the characteristics of the "immortal body" that Gamiya and the others recognize.

Therefore, no matter whether it is public or private, Jiangong can't abandon the girl.

"Speaking of which," Mamiya turned his head at this time and looked at Yi Chao behind him, "Since you and Wen Xian are the only two people who know about the girl's existence and also have the key to the basement, then what did you do last time?" After letting that girl go, didn't Wen Xian ask you anything?"

"No..." Yichao shook his head, "After I released that girl privately last time...father must have suspected that I did it."

A complicated smile appeared on Yoshitomo's face.

"After all, no matter how you look at it, I have the highest suspicion."

"But my father hasn't told me anything until now."

"He probably... wants to let me go..."

"...After successfully rescuing the girl this time, Wen Xian may not let you go." Gamiya turned his gaze back to the front, "Have you made up your mind yet?"

"Yeah." Yi Chao's eyes were firm, "I've made up my mind a long time ago. At most, I was beaten by my father."

During the conversation, the two had already descended to the bottom of the stairs.

There was a bloody smell in the air in the basement.

Although the basement has vents designed so that corpses will be disposed of immediately if they stink, this place is always a place where corpses are piled up, so the smell is naturally not good.

"Brother, here." Yoshitomo walked to the front of the palace and led the way for the palace.

As Yoshiki walked towards the corner of the basement, Mamiya used an oil lamp to light the candles hanging on the wall along the way.

The originally dark basement gradually became brighter as one candle after another was illuminated.

Corpses are often piled up randomly, but until now, no corpse has been seen, probably because the corpses have been used up, this is also a common occurrence.

The basement is not spacious, and after a while, Mamiya saw a girl tied by an iron chain sitting in the corner of the basement ahead.

A thick iron chain was connected to the wall at one end, and tied around the girl's neck at the other end.

The iron chain is fairly long, so the girl's range of activities is fairly wide, covering a small half of the basement.

Within its range of activities, there are toilets, food, clean water, and a change of clothes.

Mamiya saw the girl, and the girl naturally also saw Mamiya and Yoshitomo.

Looking at Mamiya and Yoshitomo who were slowly walking towards her, the girl's face first showed panic at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But after seeing that the leader was Yoshitomo, the frightened look on the girl's face gradually dissipated, and she became a little calmer.

"Azhu, don't be afraid, it's me, Yichao." Yichao quickened his pace a little, and then knelt down on one knee in front of the girl...that is, Azhu.

"Master Yoshitomo..." The girl looked timidly at Mamiya standing behind Yoshitomo, "Who is this..."

At this moment, Mamiya secretly said in his heart:

It seems that what Yoshitomo told me before that he often chats with this girl is not a lie.

According to the scene in front of him at this moment, it is not difficult to see that the girl trusts Yoshitomo very much.

"Don't be afraid, this is my elder brother, he came to rescue you with me."

"Meet you for the first time." Mamiya bowed to Azhu, "I'm Shimomiya Kurō. Don't be afraid, just as Yoshitomo said, I'm here to rescue you."

Now the distance between Jian Gong and A Zhu is only a few feet away, so Jian Gong can see A Zhu's appearance more clearly.

He is only about 15 years old, and his appearance is not good-looking, but he is not ugly either.

She was wearing clean clothes, although her complexion was not very good, but her spirit was much better than what Mamiya imagined.

Mamiya originally thought that being locked up in this dark basement for so long and being frequently cut open to extract bile, the girl's mental state must be very bad.

Yoshitomo seemed to see through what Mamiya was thinking at this time, he explained aloud:

"Every time my father takes gallbladders, he will first give Azhu a strong drug to relieve his pain... Ah, I'm sorry, Azhu, I won't talk about it."

Yichao's explanation came to an abrupt end because Azhu, who was in front of him, heard the word "take gall" from his mouth, his cheeks turned extremely pale, and his body trembled immediately.

"These words, let's talk slowly later." Jian Gong said, "Give this child the iron chain first..."

Crack, crack, crack, crack...

Suddenly footsteps sounded from behind Mamiya and Yoshitomo, interrupting Mamiya's conversation.

The next moment when they heard the footsteps, whether it was Mamiya or Yoshitomo, the expressions of the two of them changed.

The sound of footsteps came from a dark place where the candlelight behind them could not reach.

Following the sound of footsteps, a figure slowly emerged from the darkness.

The person who emerged from the darkness was a middle-aged man with a black and purple sword on his waist.

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