I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

There are 8 people in the room—Shuntaro, Shintaro, and 6 Jonin who are in the leadership of Shiranui Ri.

When proposing to select a new Balrog, Shintaro and 4 of the 6 Jonin cast their eyes on Shuntaro-it is self-evident what they mean.

Shintaro even bluntly said that he wanted Shuntaro to be the 13th generation Meme Balrog.

Only 2 jounin did not look at Shuntaro.

After Shintaro's voice fell, one of the two jounin who didn't look at Shuntaro just now said in a deep voice:

"Although it is true that someone should be promoted to succeed the Balrog."

"But choosing the successor of the Balrog now, wouldn't you be too anxious?"

"It's not in a hurry." A certain ninja replied, "We don't know that fire is not the shogunate. Balrog's'name' has not so many troublesome rules."

"The former Balrog passed away on the same day, and then launched a suitable ninja to take the name of Balrog on the same day-in the history of our Shiranui, I don't know how many times this kind of thing happened."

"...Well, if you want to elect a new Balrog right away, then I don't care." The ninja who questioned the matter of choosing a new Balrog just now glanced at Shuntaro, "But excuse me Let me bluntly say that I do not agree to let Shuntaro-sama succeed the Balrog."

"I believe that Master Shintaro is the most suitable candidate to succeed the Balrog."

"...I also don't agree to let Shuntaro-sama succeed Yanmo." The other of the two ninjas who didn't look at Shuntaro just now finally expressed his opinion at this time, "but I think it is most suitable to succeed Yanmo. The person who is in the position of the devil is none other than Master Jitaro."

"Speaking of Lord Kyutaro..." A certain Jōnin looked around, "Why hasn't Lord Kyutaro returned yet?"

"I have already sent someone to find Master Jitaro." Another jounin said, "Maybe after a while, Master Jitaro will come back."

In order to avoid causing Shuntaro's dissatisfaction, very few people knew that Ji Taro's mission tonight was to go to Yoshihara to kill people.

Many people, including Shuntaro, only know that Jitaro has a mission tonight, but they don't know the specific details of the mission.

"I am the one who is the least suitable to succeed the Balrog." Shintaro shook his head, "I am not good at controlling others, and my popularity and strength are not enough to convince the public."

"Shuntaro is the one with the highest reputation and the most suitable successor to the Balrog."

The jounin who just selected Shintaro to attack the flame demon did not buy what Shintaro said just now.

"Master Shintaro, please don't be humble!"

"Your wisdom, looking at the entire Shiranui, no one can match you."

"We need your wisdom."

"Even if I don't claim the name of Balrog, I can continue to contribute my wisdom to Shiranui." Shintaro said lightly.

"I think Kyutaro-sama is the one who is most suitable to succeed the Balrog." The jōnin who supported Kyutaro just now spoke again, "Master Kyutaro is rough but fine, and among the middle and lower ninjas, extremely Master Taro also has a very high popularity."

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Shintaro and others are concerned about the matter of "who will succeed the 13th Meme Yanma\

,"A fierce verbal war broke out.

Each made their own claim.

The eloquence of the two jounin who each supported Shintaro and Gokutaro was pretty good.

Even though they were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, they never gave up and fought hard.

Listening to these people's discussions, Shuntaro felt his head getting more and more swollen.

The series of changes that happened tonight made Shuntaro's brain ache and swollen due to "overload".

Now listening to Shintaro and others' discussion about the name of the Balrog, Shuntaro feels his head hurts and swells up, and he can't even think carefully...

"Stop making noise."

Shuntaro said in a calm tone.

Obviously, the volume of this sentence is not loud, and the tone is not very sonorous.

But after Shuntaro said this, Shintaro and others immediately shut their mouths.

Then he turned to look at Shuntaro.

"There's no need to rush to choose a new Balrog."

Shuntaro said without hesitation.

"Too many things happened tonight. I think many of you here must be as confused as I am now."

"In this messy state of mind, nothing can be thought of, nothing can be discussed."

"Let's disband now."

"Let's go down and rest first."

"It's not too late to discuss the right candidate for the new Balrog."

Shuntaro's words caused many people present to ponder.

"...Master Shuntaro is right." Shintaro said softly, "My heart is indeed in a mess right now... I can't think well at all, so let's disband first and take a break each other as Master Shuntaro said. .”

"Well... agree."

"agree……"

After the Jōnin made his statement, other people also expressed their agreement with Shuntaro's proposal of adjournment just now.

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Edo, Yoshiwara——

"Master Shirobei." Keimon, whose face and clothes were covered in black and white patches by the thick smoke, reported to Shirobei, "The flames have been successfully isolated."

"Hmm..." Shirobei's tired face from just now finally showed a slight smile, "Very good. But don't be careless. Don't relax your vigilance until the flame is completely extinguished. "

Keimon: "Yes!"

"Keimon, since the flames have been isolated now, you don't need to demolish the house anymore, do you?"

"Yes! It's no longer needed!"

"Then help me, there are still a lot of freshly dismantled wood to be cleaned up, let's move these wood out together."

"yes!"

Shirobei is now at the forefront of fighting the fire.

Coincidentally, Shirobei had been working at the Shirobei club until late at night because of his busy schedule.

Considering that it was getting late at night, Shirobei simply stayed overnight in the clubhouse.

Because it was too late, or he was too lazy to walk home, he just rested overnight at his office - this kind of thing, Shirobei often did.

Before the fire broke out, Shirobei was sleeping soundly in the clubhouse.

After learning that there was a fire in the west of Yoshihara, and the fire showed signs of getting out of control, Shirobei was so frightened that he lost sleep.

Quickly ordered the officials of the clubhouse who were still on duty to rush to the fire site at full speed, and at the same time they rushed to the front line of fire fighting.

Shirobei didn't even have time to put on clothes at the time, so he just rushed to the fire site in a yukata for sleeping.

After Shirohei led all the officials who were still on duty at the clubhouse to the fire site, the first batch of officials to eliminate the fire also arrived in Yoshiwara.

The officials of the town fire department are professional firefighters. They judged at a glance that the fire has spread, and it is impossible to force it out by manpower. All the nearby combustible objects have to be removed, and then wait for it to go out naturally. .

This is the most common and only useful fire fighting method in the face of large-scale fires in this era.

Due to the limited level of science and technology, people in this era do not have any very powerful fire extinguishing equipment.

If the fire is small, buckets and some crude watering devices can also be used to extinguish the fire.

But if the fire gets bigger, there is no other way but to remove the flammable materials around the fire scene and create a barrier to let the flame go out naturally.

The biggest combustibles are naturally the houses made of wood and paper.

Therefore, once a large fire occurs, the scene seen at the fire scene is not that the officials of the town fire department used buckets and other objects to put out the fire.

Instead, the officials of the town fire department took a sledgehammer and a small cart to smash and demolish all the houses that had not been burned by the flames.

After judging that the fire could no longer be extinguished by force, the town firefighters who rushed to Yoshiwara immediately took out a sledgehammer and ran aggressively towards the houses around the fire scene.

And the officials of the clubhouse headed by Shirobei, naturally followed this group of professional "demolition personnel" to demolish the house.

Some strong and extraordinarily brave civilians also spontaneously joined the ranks of putting out fires and demolishing houses.

Shirobei is not young, and he can't even swing up and down three times with such a big hammer.

Therefore, after Shirobei came to the front line of fire fighting, he only did the relatively simple work of moving the smashed wood to the small cart.

In fact, it doesn't matter if Shirobei doesn't do anything.

As the top boss of Shirobei Clubhouse, as long as he stands at the forefront of fire fighting, he can greatly boost the morale of the clubhouse officials.

Although all the houses around the fire site have been successfully demolished and the flames have been successfully isolated, there are still many house fragments that have just been demolished on the ground that need to be dealt with urgently.

So some of the people who were in charge of demolishing the house just now and still had some strength left turned into "cleaners".

In addition, some people who are exhausted are looking for a place to rest and recover their strength.

Just as Shirobei and Keimon were working together to move a huge wooden pillar onto the small cart next to it, a middle-aged, potbellied man ran towards Shirobei with a grunt.

"Master Shirobei! Finally found you!"

Shirobei knew this middle-aged man with a big belly.

He is the owner of Jianmei House.

"What's wrong?" Shirobei asked, "Why are you in such a panic?"

"Master Shirobei! It's not good!"

Seeing Umeya Higashi look around, he put his lips close to Shirobei's ear, lowered his volume, and whispered anxiously:

"Master Wind Chime is missing...!"

"Disappeared?" Shiro Bingwei's eyes widened, "What's going on? What happened? Tell me clearly."

The disappearance of any wandering girl is an extremely serious event for the Shirobei clubhouse in charge of Yoshiwara.

This is the case for the disappearance of ordinary wandering girls, let alone the disappearance of the oiran.

When he heard the words "Taifu Furin is gone" from Miumeya's mouth, Shirobei's heartbeat immediately accelerated due to nervousness and shock.

"After learning that there was a fire, we immediately woke up all the wandering girls in Jianmei House and asked them to leave Jianmei House as soon as possible."

Seeing that the owner of Meiwu was crying, he looked like he was about to cry at any time.

"I personally took someone outside Taifu's room to wake Taifu up, but no matter how I called, Taifu didn't respond."

"After realizing that something was wrong, I led people into the Taifu's room."

"After entering the room, I realized that there was no one in the room, and the husband had disappeared."

"I've searched everywhere, but I can't find Taifu."

"No matter who you ask, everyone will say that they haven't seen Taifu."

"I asked Taifu's bald to check the room, and found that Taifu's clothes specially used to receive guests, as well as several headgears were missing."

The more Shirobei listened, the darker his face became.

Tonight, a fire broke out in Yoshihara first, and Taifu Fengling disappeared later.

Even the "battle-tested" Shirobei can't help but feel a strong sense of fatigue now.

"...Tonight is really not peaceful..." Shirobei frowned, and let out a long and tired sigh.

"Master Shirobei." Seeing that the owner of Meiwu's face was full of anxious sweat, "I suspect that the Taifu might have been kidnapped by someone. Hurry up and organize people to find the Taifu."

"...Well, Keeimon." Shirobei turned his head to look at Keeimon beside him, "You go to the execution office to report to the officer. I will take someone to see Umeya to see the situation."

"Yeah!" Keimon nodded vigorously, dropped the broken wooden pillar in his hand, and ran towards the direction of the Yoshihara gate.

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Edo, Shiranui, Shuntaro's residence——

After striding back to his residence, Shuntaro did not light the lamp, did not change his clothes, and at the same time did not take off the saber on his back.

After returning to the residence, I lay down directly on the tatami mat, facing the ceiling.

There are only faint sounds of insects around, which makes Shuntaro feel very comfortable.

Shintaro and the others had a messy and intense discussion just now, so noisy that Shuntaro couldn't even calm down and think.

After being in a quiet environment now, Shuntaro felt that his brain was gradually relaxing.

The messy balls of wool in my mind were combed one by one to form clear parallel lines.

Shuntaro prioritized the series of events that happened tonight.

The most urgent and urgent thing to do is to find out who killed the Balrog.

The biggest suspect at present is undoubtedly the Iga ninja who suddenly disappeared.

But Shuntaro didn't just foolishly believe that it was the Iga ninjas who killed Balrog.

There are too many people who have sufficient motivation to kill the Balrog.

It could be some ordinary ninja in the village who has been resenting Balrog for something.

It may be that some shogunate official who is not used to Shiranui bought the murder.

At the same time... it may also be someone from the "Four Heavenly Kings".

Once the Balrog dies, the next Balrog must be chosen from the "Four Heavenly Kings".

So from the point of view of motivation, Shuntaro, Jitaro, and Shintaro are the three most motivated to poison Balrog—especially Shuntaro, who is most likely to succeed Balrog.

It's just that no one in the village would dare to say something like "the 'Four Heavenly Kings' may also be the murderer who poisoned the Balrog".

The "Four Heavenly Kings" are the highest leaders in the village after the Balrog, and no one with any brains dare to suspect that the "Four Heavenly Kings" killed the Balrog.

Shuntaro guessed: There must be many people in the village who suspect that Balrog's death is related to someone among their "Four Heavenly Kings", but they dare not speak out and only dare to discuss it in private.

Arranging the people who have sufficient motivation to kill Balrog, it can be found that the group of Iga ninjas headed by Hannosuke have the least motivation to kill Balrog.

"It's really troublesome..." Shuntaro sat up slowly from the tatami and muttered.

Shuntaro feels that the night can be so long after a long absence...

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Edo, somewhere——

Taifu Fengchi felt a sound coming from afar.

"As expected of the oiran of Yoshiwara, she is really pretty."

A voice came from afar.

"It's the first time I've seen such a beautiful woman."

The sound gradually approached.

"Tsk tsk tsk...the skin is so delicate."

Feel consciousness and strength gradually pouring out.

"Master Sennosuke, let's touch this oiran, let's touch her hand, and do nothing else."

The dark world shines into white light.

"...Huh?" Taifu Fengling slowly opened his eyes as he regained consciousness.

As soon as she opened her eyes, Mrs. Fengling saw 4 youths standing in front of her.

These four youths were all wearing strange black clothes.

After glancing at the four black-clothed youths standing in front of her, Taifu Fengling began to look around.

This is a narrow room without any piece of furniture.

There are only tatami mats on the floor, and only one window too narrow to pass through is opened on the wall.

There is only one candle in the room emitting candle light, so the vision in the room is relatively dim.

Tai Fu looked down, and saw that his hands were tied behind his back, and his ankles were tightly tied together with hemp rope.

She was tightly bound by the hemp rope, and she was laid horizontally on the tatami, unable to move.

After Taifu woke up, the four young men in black standing in front of Taifu also noticed Taifu's awakening.

"Teacher." One of the four men in black, a young man with three tear moles under his left eye, walked slowly to Taifu Fengling, then knelt down on one knee, trying to keep his vision and Taifu Pingqi, "You're awake."

"Who are you?" The husband took a deep breath to calm himself down, and then questioned the "young man with tear mole" in a deep voice.

When questioning this "tear mole youth", memories before coma popped up in Taifu's mind bit by bit...

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When Yoshihara's gate just closed—

Edo, Yoshihara, Mimeya, Furin Taifu's room.

Taifu Fengchi usually falls asleep when Yoshihara's gate is closed when no guests order her.

After falling asleep for an unknown amount of time, the Taifu suddenly heard a faint noise.

Mrs. Wind Chime is the kind of person who is extremely easy to be woken up.

For other people, they might not even be able to hear the noise, but Taifu Fengchi could not.

After being awakened by the noise, Tai Fu opened his eyes, got up from the quilt, walked to the window, opened the window, and looked out.

I saw that on the Nakamachi Avenue outside Jianmei House, many people were dragging their families and carrying big cloth bags, and ran in a panic towards the direction of the gate of Yoshihara.

Some are just running.

But while some people were running, they didn't forget to raise their voices and shouted loudly to the surroundings:

"It's on fire! It's on fire! Everyone wake up!"

--on fire? !

Surprise appeared on the Taifu's face.

Like a conditioned reflex, the Taifu hastily closed the window, prepared to change into clothes that were more convenient for movement, and then ran for his life like those people outside the house.

However - as soon as Taifu closed the window, he heard a low noise from the ceiling not far away.

The Tai Fu didn't even have time to raise his head to look at the ceiling above his head, when the ceiling not far away suddenly fell down.

The 2 figures jumped down from the ceiling along the hole created by the drop of the ceiling.

As soon as the two figures landed on the tatami, they rushed towards Taifu.

One person quickly controlled Taifu.

The other person knocked on the Taifu's neck with a special skill.

Not to mention seeing the faces of the two figures clearly, A-Machi was knocked out without even a chance to scream...

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The Taifu didn't know - after she was knocked out by these two people, the two people worked together to transport her to the top of the ceiling.

Before leaving, one of them took the Taifu's clothes hanging on the wall next to him.

This dress is the dress that the Taifu will only wear when entertaining guests.

Because it is made of the highest quality fabrics, and it is tailor-made for Taifu, the cost is extremely high, and there is only such a set of clothes in Edo.

After transporting Taifu and Taifu's suit to the ceiling, the two of them did not forget to reinstall the ceiling that they just kicked off to jump off the ceiling.

They had just left when they saw the owner of Meiwu hurriedly came out of Taifu's room, and told Taifu that there was a fire, and asked Taifu to run away together as soon as possible.

After hearing no response from the husband for a long time, the host opened the door, and then saw the empty room...

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Back in time to the present——

After the Taifu cast his wary eyes on the "Young Man with Moles of Tears" under the corner of his left eye, the "Youth with Moles of Tears" quickly said:

"Teacher, please be calm, our purpose is not to kill you. We will never do anything to you, please rest assured. I hope you can cooperate with us obediently."

As soon as the "tear mole youth" finished speaking, another young man standing behind him said in a slightly dissatisfied tone:

"Sennosuke, let's touch Taifu's hand. It's rare to meet such a beautiful woman. Wouldn't it be a pity if we didn't do anything?"

As soon as this person's voice fell, the other two people immediately echoed.

"Yes, yes, Sennosuke, let's touch Taifu's hand."

"Let's just touch the Taifu's hand and do nothing else."

"Young man with tear mole"—that is, the young man who was called "Sennosuke" by these three people, turned his head and glared at the three people behind him.

"Shut up!"

"Do you still have the dignity of being a man?"

"As a man, kidnapping a woman is already shameless enough."

"If you still touch others, you really don't have any dignity left!"

The status of Sennosuke seems to be higher than these three people.

After being reprimanded by Sennosuke, the three of them all shut their mouths tightly and kept silent.

After the young man named Sennosuke severely reprimanded the three people behind him, the Tai Fu stared at Sennosuke, and then asked her question that was not answered directly just now:

"Who are you?"

"...Taifu, I'm sorry." Sennosuke turned his gaze back, and there was a slight apology in the gaze cast on Taifu, "It's not convenient for us to tell you who we are."

"We had to bring you here for some reason."

"But as I said just now—our purpose is not to kill you. We will never do anything to you, please rest assured."

As soon as Sennosuke's words fell, the only paper sliding door in this narrow room was slowly opened from the outside.

Taifu looked - the person who opened the door was a white-haired old man who should be 5 or 60 years old.

After the old man opened the door and came in, Sennosuke and others quickly knelt down on one knee, saluted the old man, and said respectfully:

"Hannosuke-sama!"

"Sennosuke, you guys did a good job." The old man who was called "Hannosuke" by Sennosuke and others nodded appreciatively, "You brought the oiran here very nicely."

After being praised by Hannosuke, the young people present all showed joy - except for Sennosuke.

Sennosuke, who was kneeling on one knee, lowered his head slightly.

Even after being praised by Hannosuke, there was no expression on his face.

Hannosuke walked slowly to the Taifu, looked at the Taifu a few times, twitched the corners of his mouth, and said with a smile:

"At first, I thought that the oiran of Yoshiwara might be some kind of weak and weak woman."

"But I didn't expect it to be a heroine."

"Being kidnapped and taken to a strange place without the slightest panic on his face is amazing! Among my subordinates, there are not many people with your kind of heart."

Taifu Fuchi ignored Hannosuke's compliment.

Remaining calm and calm, asked Hannosuke:

"Do you want to rob money, or want to rob sex?"

"If you want to rob money, I think you tied the wrong person."

"I don't have that much money."

"The Jianmei House I belong to is not very rich."

"Taifu, you are wrong." Hannosuke interrupted the Taifu, "We don't want to rob money, and we don't want to rob sex."

"We tied you here for some more interesting purposes."

"As for the purpose...you will know later."

After saying that, Hannosuke turned and walked out of the room.

Before leaving the room, Hannosuke turned his head and told Sennosuke:

"Look at her."

"Yes." Sennosuke replied in a tone without any emotion.

Boom.

Hannosuke left the room, the door was closed with a soft "bang".

After Hannosuke left, the four Sennosuke finally stood up.

After getting up, Sennosuke took out a sword from his arms, drew the sword out of its sheath, and turned to look at the Taifu who was lying on the tatami...

"Sennosuke, what are you doing?" A young man in black who was closest to Sennosuke asked back with a look of astonishment.

"It's nothing." Sennosuke said calmly, "I just want to help Tai Fu untie him."

After all, Sennosuke squatted down again, trying to make his eyes level with Taifu.

"Teacher, I can help you untie now. But you have to promise me - after I untie you, you will be obedient and nothing will happen."

"Otherwise, I will tie your hands and feet back."

Hearing Sennosuke's words, Taifu hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly.

Seeing "the deal is concluded", Sennosuke turned around and walked behind the Taifu, and cut off the hemp rope that tightly bound the Taifu's hands and feet with his sword.

After the hands and feet were freed, the Tai Fu quickly massaged the painful wrists and ankles from the hemp rope to re-circulate the blood.

After Sennosuke cut off the hemp rope that bound Taifu's hands and feet, another young man in black asked Sennosuke in a hesitant tone:

"Sennosuke, you cut her hemp rope, isn't that good? What if you let her escape?"

"I don't think Yoshihara's oiran can escape from under the eyes of four men who have received strict training." Sennosuke said softly.

While continuing to rub his sore wrist, Tai Fu said in a calm tone:

"...I won't say 'thank you' to you."

"It's okay." Sennosuke smiled wryly, "I also think this kind of kidnapping of women is despicable. It doesn't matter if you don't need to thank despicable people like us."

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