I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

After staring at the left side of Machi's face for a while as before, Ogata turned his fingers to himself.

"Look at me next."

Seeing that Ogata was reluctant to tell her what he was going to do, A-Machi didn't bother to ask Ogata this question anymore.

After Ogata asked her to look directly at him, A-Machi obediently turned her head around, and looked at each other face to face with Ogata.

On the Omo side, he looked expressionlessly at Machi's face.

Ogata just watched A-Machi silently, neither doing other superfluous things nor making a sound.

After a long silence like this——

"what."

A sudden chuckle broke the silence.

Then he said softly:

"Looking around, it really is your face that looks the best."

"Eh?"

A-Machi felt his face was heating up at a rapid speed.

Just when she was still at a loss for what Ogata said just now, and didn't know how to respond, Ogata then said softly:

"I don't know what other people think of you."

"But to me, Ogata Itsue, you, A-Machi, have never been ugly."

"So——in the future, when you feel that you look ugly, or when others say you are ugly, you tell yourself like this: No matter what, there will always be a ronin named Ogata Itsuki who thinks your appearance will always be ugly. Good-looking, I will never think you are ugly."

"...Why are you so proficient in saying these deceptive words?" After a short silence, A-Ming said in such an annoyed tone, "Did you always use these words to play around in the past?" Can you coax women in a place like Kuo?"

"No." Ogata said hastily.

Ogata's hastily defending appearance seemed to make Ah-Machi laugh.

After A-Ming covered his mouth and laughed a few times,

With a faint smile on his face, he said to Ogata:

"……Thank you."

The smile on A-Ming's face at this time no longer bears the trace of bitterness as before.

"Ayi, what you said just now, whether it is sincere or false, I am very happy to hear..."

"Women are so simple." Ah-Ming changed into a half-joking tone, "As long as someone praises her beauty, no matter whether the other party is flattering or not, she will feel happy."

"Anyway...thank you..."

"You're welcome. After all, I was just telling the truth just now..."

Boom.

"Huh?" Ogata raised his eyebrows when he suddenly heard a strange noise coming from outside the window.

Boom.

The same muffled sound as before came from the window again.

This muffled sound was louder than the last one.

Both Ogata and A-Machi frowned slightly at this time, and cast doubtful gazes out of the window.

According to the loudness of this strange sound, this muffled sound seems to be the sound of some heavy object hitting something solid...

It seems to be coming from somewhere far away...

...

...

at the same time--

The base of Qing Taro and others.

"Come on! Newcomer! Drink!"

Aotaro shoved a small wooden cylinder into the arms of Shichiemon who was beside him.

Only the liquid contained in the small wooden cylinder as high as an adult's index finger is continuously exuding a faint smell of wine.

"What is this...?" Shichiemon hesitated.

"This is the rice wine we made from the rice we borrowed from Toyowa Village." Aotaro didn't hide anything, "Let's drink a little bit!"

"Then... I won't be polite..."

After drinking the rice wine in the wooden barrel, the long-lost aroma of the wine immediately filled Shichiemon's mouth.

Although he just joined the organization headed by the brothers Aotaro and Sotaro, Shichiemon has already figured out Aotaro's temperament a little bit in this short period of time.

The most obvious character of Qing Taro should be enthusiasm and boldness.

Even Shichiemon was a little surprised by his enthusiasm and boldness.

After Qiemon and his group of newcomers joined them, Aotaro greeted them very warmly and invited them to drink rice wine.

Shichiemon doesn't dislike this kind of enthusiastic and forthright person.

Not only do I not hate it, but I like it a little bit.

Because such people tend to be more talkative, and can get a lot of information they want from their mouths.

Shichiemon has already collected a lot of information from Qing Taro.

For example: Qing Taro and his current organization, only he and Sotaro were the first prisoners to land on the island. They were thrown on this island at the beginning of December last year, and they have been on this broken island for 4 days. For a little more than a month, the rest were basically prisoners from the second and third batches.

And—Although the current organization of Qing Taro has a large number of people, there are still very few people who know how to fight.

Including Aoutaro and Sotaro, there are probably less than 10 people who have practiced martial arts.

Seeing that the relationship between himself and Qing Taro became more familiar, Shichiemon decided to find out some more private information from Qing Taro.

"Master Qingtaro." Shichiemon put down the small wooden tube in his hand, "Why did you gather so many people? Could it be that you gathered so many people for the convenience of attacking that Fenghe Village and occupying the area with wooden walls?" Protected land, right?"

"How is it possible." Qing Taro sneered without thinking, "What's the use of occupying that piece of broken land?"

"I gathered so many people, not to survive better on this island, but to escape from this island."

After taking a big gulp of rice wine, Aotaro continued to meet Shichiemon's suspicious eyes and said:

"I plan to snatch the shogunate's ship! Then escape from this ghost place on the shogunate's ship!"

"Steal the shogunate's ship?!" Qiemon exclaimed.

"There isn't even a single boat that can go to sea in this ghost place. If you want to leave here, you have to grab the boat from the shogunate."

"And there must be a lot of soldiers on the shogunate's ship to guard, so I need combat power, and I need enough combat power!"

Speaking of this, a sinister smile appeared on Qing Taro's face.

"And now—this number is almost enough."

"The day the next shogunate ship lands on the island, that's when I grab the ship and leave this ghostly place..."

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Before Qing Taro finished speaking, a scream from the valley entrance where they lived suddenly interrupted Qing Taro's words.

Qing Taro frowned instantly, and shouted in a low voice:

"what happened?!"

Not long after, a person stumbled towards Aotaro, and said to Aotaro with a face full of horror:

"Master Aintaro! There are, there are giants!"

"Giant?!" Ao Taro's voice couldn't help but lose its voice due to shock.

After hastily throwing aside the wooden tube that still contained a little rice wine in his hand, Aotaro grabbed his wakizashi and ran towards Taniguchi at the highest speed he could achieve.

After arriving at Taniguchi, Qing Taro saw the giant mentioned by the population just now.

It was also after arriving at Taniguchi that Aotaro discovered that the person just now hadn't lied.

There really are giants coming to patronize them.