I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

The sound of this female voice made Soutaro stunned for a moment.

Immediately stop Huatou, and hurriedly follow the sound.

The owner of the female voice just now was naturally Ah-Ming.

Just now, because the sight on the watchtower was dim, and Soutaro's attention had been on Konnosuke, Soutaro didn't realize that there was a woman standing behind Konnosuke just now.

And this woman is still his acquaintance.

"Oh My God!"

Soutaro, with ecstasy on his face, turned to Machi who was standing on the watchtower with a frivolous tone, and was staring at him angrily.

"Isn't this Ah-cho? Long time no see!"

"Since my eldest brother and I defected to Shiranui, we haven't seen each other for nearly two years, right?"

"Why are you here?"

Speaking of this, Sotaro's face showed a strong sarcasm.

"You don't... are you here to perform some mission?"

"Hey, hey, can't you? The leader is too gentle, isn't he?"

"Two years have passed, and you, a useless ninja, have not been given as a reward to others as a wife, or have you been thrown into the 'flower house'?"

Soutaro's words just now seemed to have flipped a switch.

As soon as the words fell, A-Ming's naturally hanging hands clenched tightly.

All sorts of emotions started to play on her face. Angry, sad, unwilling...

"Machi, I still have things to do right now." Sotaro waved his hand, "I don't have that much free time to worry about you, let's catch up on the old days when I'm done."

After all, Sotaro fixed his eyes on Konnosuke again.

"I'm sorry, Konnosuke-sama, just now I ran into an old friend by chance, and I accidentally talked a little too much with the old friend, which delayed the serious business."

"I'm too lazy to talk nonsense,

Hurry up and hand over the rice! "

"otherwise……"

Soutaro slowly pulled out the wakizasa from his waist, and put the blade of the wakizawa on the neck of the nearest villager.

"Sotaro!" Konnosuke, who was already furious, roared, "Put down the sword!"

"Master Konnosuke." Sotaro not only did not put down the knife, but also said in a strange tone, "You should still remember what happened when we borrowed rice from you last time and you refused to give it?"

"As a punishment, we chopped one of the four villagers into pieces."

"If you had obediently handed over the rice at that time, then the poor young man would not have had such a miserable death."

"One of those 4 people is dead, only the 3 people next to me are left."

"So—Konnosuke-sama, you should understand what I'm going to say, right?"

"If you don't want any of the three villagers in our hands to die, be more conspicuous."

"I'm still in a hurry to go back to sleep, so hand in the rice quickly."

"Otherwise - every 5 breaths, I'm going to cut this guy next to me."

"Start the clock from now."

After all, Sotaro cut the back of the neck of the villager next to him severely.

"Ahhhhh—!"

The villager immediately let out a mournful wail.

The place where Sotaro cut the knife was not a vital point, so he would only feel extremely painful, but not die.

At the same time - Sotaro deliberately slowed down the cutting speed.

He didn't cut it all at once, but slowed down and cut the villager's skin bit by bit, directly doubling the pain.

"Hurry up, Konnosuke-sama." Sotaro played with the wakizashi in his hand, and danced a knife flower, "2 breaths have passed."

On the watchtower, Konnosuke clenched his fists tightly, as if he was about to scratch his palms to bleed.

"5 breaths are coming soon, Konnosuke-sama." Sotaro said in a joking tone, while slowly leaning the wakizashi in his hand towards the villager next to him...

Although the blade hadn't cut himself yet, the villager's mournful wailing had already sounded out again due to strong fear.

Listening to the villager's wailing, Konnosuke slowly closed his eyes containing various emotions mainly anger and pain, and then——

"...Go." Konnosuke said to a young man behind him, "Bring our rice... Hurry up..."

After saying this, Konnosuke's body, which was originally tense due to clenched fists, suddenly "softened", and then all the bones in his body were pulled out.

at this time……

Whoosh!

Konnosuke suddenly heard a sharp breaking wind sounded in his ear.

A thin black shadow suddenly shot out from the watchtower where Konnosuke and the others were, and attacked Sotaro at an astonishing speed!

Looking at the approaching slender black shadow, Sotaro's pupils suddenly shrank, and then he turned his head to the side according to his body's instinct.

The next moment he turned his head to the side, this thin black shadow brushed past his left cheek, and took away part of his left cheek.

After brushing against Sotaro's left cheek, the thin black shadow remained undiminished, piercing straight into the ground behind Sotaro.

It wasn't until this thin black shadow pierced into the ground that Sotaro finally saw the true face of this black shadow—a wakizasa.

Streams of blood flowed out from the open wound on Sotaro's cheek.

Soutaro with a bad face looked away from the wakizashi, and then looked at the watchtower.

To be precise, he looked at the person on the watchtower who just threw the wakizawa——Ogata.

"...Who are you guys?"

Ogata did not immediately respond to Sotaro's question.

Instead, he first retracted the right hand that threw the Wakizawa just now, and then supported the knife at his waist. Under the staring eyes of Konnosuke, A-cho and others, he directly turned over the watchtower and jumped off the watchtower. .

Boom.

With both feet firmly on the ground and standing in front of Sotaro and the others, Ogata said in a calm tone that seemed to contain no emotion:

"No one, just a ronin who happened to be standing on that watchtower under various chances and coincidences."

"Ronin...?" Sotaro's face was covered with vigilance, "Is he also a prisoner thrown to this island by the shogunate..."

"Ayi!" At this moment, Ading on the watchtower anxiously shouted at Ogata who had jumped off the wall, "What are you going to do?"

"Ayi..." Sotaro frowned slowly, "Did you and A-cho know each other?"

"She is my companion and friend." Ogata replied without thinking.

"...Hmph, that's how it is." Sotaro sneered, "Are you planning to teach me a lesson because you think I said bad things about A-Machi just now?"

"Then you have misunderstood. What I said to A-Ming just now are not bad words, but the truth!"

"A-Machi didn't tell you, did she? What kind of existence is she in Shiranui?"