I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Chapter 301 Infiltrating the Metaphysics Hall

Following Fuma on the way to the Xuanxue Museum, Ogata and A-Machi have always been trembling.

An old man in his seventies is running through the streets and alleys of Kyoto at a speed that would make most young people feel ashamed—Ogata and A-machi are afraid of Fuma who is still running so fast at a very old age There will be a sudden waist flash, or a twisted foot.

Fortunately - what Fuma said to Ogata and A-Ming just now that his legs and feet are in good condition today does not seem to be a lie.

The journey to the Metaphysics Hall went quite smoothly.

He didn't meet any official servants or bounty hunters, and there was nothing wrong with Feng Mo's waist, legs and feet.

The reason why Ogata and his party were able to go so smoothly is also related to the fact that Feng Mo specially took those small paths with few people.

Ogata and his party were hiding in the alley facing the Xuanxue Hall and not far from the Xuanxue Hall.

Looking at the magnificent mansion not far away, Ogata thought to himself:

——Is that the Metaphysics Hall...

After Ogata supported Da Shitian and Da Zizai on their waists, he said in a low voice to A Ding and Fumo beside him:

"Machi, Fuma-sama, you two stay here."

"Ayi, do you want to go to the Metaphysics Hall by yourself?"

"Well, this is just a sword gym. If too many people go there, it will be easy to expose their whereabouts. I can go alone. The two of you will help me guard the outside. By the way, help me see if there are any suspicious people coming in and out. Let’s go to the Mystery Hall.”

"...I understand." Ah-Ming nodded, "Be careful all the way."

"Don't worry." Ogata smiled, "It's just a sword hall, not a famous city."

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Ogata spotted the moment when no one was passing by, took advantage of the night and slowly leaned towards the wall outside the Xuanxue Hall, then jumped over the wall and sneaked into the Xuanxue Hall.

After watching Ogata enter the Xuanxue Hall, Feng Mo suddenly leaned against the wall beside him and sat down slowly on the ground.

"Master Fuma?" A-Ming hurriedly crouched beside Fumo, exclaiming, "What's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing..." Feng Mo smiled, "I just feel a little tired... Alas... I'm really old... I can't do it after just a few strokes..."

A-Ming glanced at Fuma's legs - Fuma's legs were trembling slightly at this moment.

"...Sorry, Fuma-sama." A-Ming said to Fuma in an apologetic tone, "We are bothering you so much..."

"It's all right." Feng Mo waved his hand, "I volunteered to help you, and it's not a big deal, just let me rest for a while."

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The Shiranui-ryu stealth technique learned on Butterfly Island finally has the opportunity to "work again" at this moment.

Just like what Ogata said to Atachi and Fumo just now—this is just an ordinary sword hall, not a famous city.

If it was the daimyo's castle, Ogata really didn't have the confidence to sneak in successfully.

After all, the structure of the daimyo's castle must be quite complicated, and there may also be many mechanisms to prevent ninjas from sneaking in.

But the sword hall is different.

To put it bluntly, the sword hall is a teaching institution specializing in teaching swordsmanship.

How complex can a teaching institution be? Can there be any mechanism to guard against ninjas?

Turning into the metaphysics hall, Ogata easily got into the ceiling of the metaphysics hall.

—Okay... let's go find the boss of the metaphysics hall...

When he went to the Xuanxue Museum with Fumo just now, Ogata already knew a lot of things related to the Xuanxue Museum from Fumo.

Ogata now knows the basic information that the owner of the Metaphysics Hall is named Inaba Shigemune, and that the Metaphysics Hall is the most powerful of the six sword halls.

According to Fuma - Inaba is a middle-aged man who is not too young, so Ogata can only focus on finding the middle-aged man with extraordinary temperament in the Metaphysics Museum.

——I hope this Inaba can be in the metaphysics hall now...

While praying in his heart, Ogata moved slowly on the ceiling, and pulled the ceiling plate under his feet from time to time to check the situation under the ceiling.

Although it is already night and there is an annual "Yamaboko Parade" tonight, there are still some people who choose to stay in the sword hall to practice swords at this time.

No matter where Ogata went, when he looked down, he could always see the disciples of the Xuanxue Academy shuttling around the sword hall.

Ogata moved on the ceiling little by little like this, and Ogata finally moved to a certain room in the sword hall.

Pull a certain plate of the ceiling of this room and look down——I saw that this room seems to be a living room.

There was only one middle-aged person in the living room, which had been tidied up.

The middle-aged man was sitting by the window in the living room, seemingly staring at the scenery outside the window in a daze.

It also seemed to be thinking about something.

Looking at the middle-aged man, Ogata narrowed his eyes slightly.

He noticed that this middle-aged man was densely covered with calluses—this is the kind of calluses that only those who use swords all year round will have.

Ogata was convinced in his heart that this person should be Inaba Shigemune, the owner of the Xuanxue Museum.

Ogata pulled away the ceiling plate under his feet, and jumped down.

While leaping down from above the ceiling, Ogata pulled out Dashiten.

Ogata didn't jump around randomly.

He aimed at the direction: aimed at Inaba's side.

The moment his feet stepped on the tatami, Ogata put Dashiten on Inaba's neck.

Inaba doesn't seem to have this kind of experience in dealing with ninjas who suddenly jumped from the ceiling - but this is normal, the world has been peaceful for a long time, and in this peaceful age, ordinary people will never see a few ninjas in their entire lives.

It wasn't until Ogata put Dashiten on his neck that Inaba realized what happened belatedly, and put his hand on Wakizashi around his waist.

Because he was in his own home now, Inaba didn't bring his sword with him, but put it on a knife stand a few steps away from here.

"Master Inaba." Ogata said softly, "Please keep quiet, I don't mean anything malicious. I just want to ask you some questions."

Inaba stared wide-eyed, and carefully looked at Ogata's face for a few times.

"Excuse me..." Inaba asked Ogata in a cautious tone, "Are you Ogata Ittosai?"

Although Inaba's words sounded like he was asking Ogata, there was actually no questioning tone mixed in.

Inaba had seen Ogata Ittosai's arrest warrant before, so he recognized this person as Ogata Itsai at a glance.

"That's right." Ogata admitted bluntly, "I am Yidao Zhai, the executioner. I came to your house this time just to ask you a question."

Ogata told Inaba what he had just heard from Dieyin about the disciples of the Metaphysics Hall.

"A student from our Metaphysics Hall actually said such a thing...?" Inaba murmured, "Sorry... I don't know..."

Seeing that he couldn't get anything valuable out of Inaba's mouth, a look of disappointment uncontrollably appeared on Ogata's face.

At this moment, Inaba suddenly looked a little excited, lowered his voice and said to Ogata:

"Master Yidao Zhai, please... help me...!"

"Ok?"

If the emotion of doubt is in a liquid state, then the emotion of "doubt" should already be flowing down Ogata's face.

I just wanted to ask a question, how did I become the one being asked for help?

"...What happened, tell me in detail."

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After carefully listening to Inaba's request for help, Ogata understood what had happened.

About half a month ago, Inaba's wife and daughter were kidnapped by unknown persons.

The kidnappers don't want any ransom, only one request: let Inaba obey their instructions obediently.

Few people in this world can remain indifferent after their wives and daughters are taken away.

Inaba had no choice but to agree to them.

Half a month after his wife and daughter were kidnapped—that is, today, this group of unknown people finally issued their first instruction to Inaba:

Summon the masters of the other five sword halls of the six major sword halls, and propose to the hall masters to call all the disciples to assist the officials in capturing Ogata Yidao Zhai.

Although Inaba didn't know the reason for doing this, he didn't dare to ask those people why, so he could only do it obediently.

Just now, Inaba's task was successfully completed: his proposal was agreed by the other five sword gymnasts.

At this moment, the disciples of the Six Great Sword Halls took to the streets aggressively looking for the trace of Ogata Yidao Zhai.

With so many senior brothers being killed, most of the disciples in the Six Great Sword Gyms were already extremely sad and angry.

In this era, people are generally educated that honor is the most important thing, and one must defend one's honor at all costs.

The brothers in the gym were killed - this behavior is equivalent to a provocation to their sword gym, which is equivalent to a provocation to the rest of the sword gym.

Most of the disciples of the Six Great Sword Gyms are at the young age, and few of them can endure this kind of provocation.

So after this call was launched, the disciples of the Six Great Sword Halls responded in a crowd.

Each of them took their own knives and took to the streets, assisting officials and bounty hunters to find Ogata.

"...That is to say." Ogata smiled wryly, "In addition to the officials and bounty hunters, my enemies in Kyoto now have disciples from the Six Great Sword Halls..."

"I'm very sorry..." Inaba lowered her head apologetically, "I was forced to do this because of threats..."

"No need to apologize." Ogata waved his hand, "I understand your difficulties, anyway, there are already enough enemies chasing and killing me now, and it's nothing to add a new enemy."

"You just said you wanted me to help you—how do you want me to help you?"

"I didn't do nothing after my wife and daughter were taken away."

Inaba said seriously.

"After my wife and daughter were taken away, I tried my best to find the place where my wife and daughter were detained."

"Three days ago, I finally found it."

"My wife and daughter are currently being held in Mikawahara, Kyoto."

Inaba quickly said a string of place names.

"My wife and daughter are now being held in that place."

"I've always wanted to find someone with strong skills to help me rescue my wife and daughter..."

"But I don't dare to report to the officials... And with the current corruption of the Kyoto Prefecture, I would rather ask the bounty hunters if I ask them."

Ogata understood what Inaba meant now.

"That is to say—you plan to ask me to help you rescue your wife and daughter, right?"

"That's right." Inaba nodded vigorously.

"...Should I say that you are big-hearted, or should I say that you are strange..." Ogata smiled helplessly, "Is it the first time we two met? I am the famous and vicious executioner Yidaosai Oh."

"The first time I met this vicious executioner, I told me everything about you being threatened, and asked me to help you rescue your wife and daughter..."

As soon as Ogata finished speaking, Inaba smiled slightly.

"Because I trust you, Mr. Yidao Zhai."

As soon as Inaba's words fell, Okai's eyes widened in astonishment.

Just now, Inaba spoke with a strong Kyoto accent.

But when he said the sentence just now, Inaba no longer used the Kyoto accent.

Instead, he used a dialect that is quite familiar to Ogata: the dialect of the Izumo area.

"Ittosai-sama, I am also from the Izumo Hirose Domain."

Inaba continued speaking in the Izumo dialect.

"Although I have been away from home for many years, I have never forgotten my hometown."

"In the past, when my friends in my hometown wrote letters telling me how dark the Hirose clan was under the rule of Matsudaira Gennai, I was always anxious and didn't know what to do."

"When I learned that Ogata-sama raised your sword of righteousness and killed Matsudaira Gennai, I couldn't be more excited."

"I believe——to be able to raise the sword of righteousness to kill Ogata Ittosai of Matsudaira Gennai is a trustworthy person."

Speaking of this, Inaba paused.

Then he changed into a half-joking tone:

"What's more - we are still fellow villagers."

"In these years, all those who go out to work hard will unknowingly trust their fellow villagers more-this is the experience I have gained after years of hard work outside..."

boom!

Before Inaba finished speaking, there was a loud explosion outside the window.

As the loud noise fell, Inaba let out a terrifying scream, and then fell limply on the tatami.

Ogata's pupils shrank suddenly, and then he turned his head and looked out of the window—with his excellent eyesight, Ogata could barely see the bulging from the window of a 3-story mansion some distance away. With a touch of gunpowder smoke.

- Sniper!

While remembering where the sniper launched the sniper, Ogata dragged Inaba, who was still moaning in pain, to the window.

Ogata inspected Inaba's injuries—he was shot in the torso, but fortunately, he didn't hit a vital point.

However, the amount of bleeding is heavy, and if not treated immediately, it will still be life-threatening.

There were dense footsteps coming from the corridor outside the room - it should be that the disciples of the Metaphysics Museum came to check the situation after hearing Inaba's screams.

Ogata breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the disciples from the Metaphysics Hall coming over - it was enough for Inaba to leave it to his disciples to take care of him.

After laying the rice leaves flat on the tatami, Ogata jumped out the window before the disciples of the Xuanxue Hall entered the room.

As soon as he jumped outside along the window, Ogata saw Acho and Fuma who seemed to be attracted by the gunshot just now, and ran to the front of Ogata not far away.

"A-cho!" Ogata yelled directly at A-cho, "Let's chase!"

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