I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

The latest website: Mount Koya, Sengenji Temple——

After a few steps of run-up, Ogata leaped over in one breath, and with the help of gravity, he chopped down the sword that was raised above his head, and slashed at a certain "squat" who had been squatting on the beam of the house just now and had been sneaking up on Ogata with a shuriken. monk".

The "monk" subconsciously wanted to hide, but his moving speed was far behind Ogata's sword speed.

Blood spatter.

Ogata fell back to the ground together with the "monk" who was no longer alive.

After killing the "monk", Ogata hurriedly raised his knife and ran to a nearby corridor.

Come to the entrance of the corridor and look into the corridor—there are three forks in this corridor, and no one is seen at each fork.

"Tsk..." Xu Fang curled his lips, "Did Master Xianyuan escape... This Xianyuan Temple is too big..."

Since just now, "monks" armed with various weapons have been attacking Ogata.

Ogata did not count the number of incoming enemies, but he estimated that there should still be twenty. .

Of course, these "monks" were not Ogata's opponents, and they were basically killed by Ogata one by one.

It's just that although they can't beat Ogata, they can still buy time for Master Xianyuan to escape.

After all, no matter how powerful Ogata was, it would take more than ten seconds to kill more than twenty enemies.

And Xianyuan Temple happened to be very big.

There are so many forks in the road that Ogata's head is almost dizzy.

In an area where one is not familiar with the terrain, it is naturally extremely difficult to chase someone who is familiar with the terrain.

Therefore, it is quite a pity - with the "monks" buying time for him to escape, and with the complex terrain as cover, Ogata can no longer find Master Xianyuan now.

"Forget it..." Ogata muttered while shaking his saber, "Let him escape and escape...Anyway, Master Xianyuan is not that important."

After muttering, Ogata turned his head and looked around.

Around him, there were all the "monks" who had been killed by him just now.

At this moment, Xianyuan Temple is extremely quiet, which is in stark contrast to the noise just now.

The roars and shouts of the "monks" attacking Ogata, the screams and wailing of the normal monks fleeing to the outside of the temple in a hurry... These sounds were interwoven into the noise and chaos just now.

After Ogata entered Xianyuan Temple, the news that "thugs attacked Xianyuan Temple" immediately spread throughout Xianyuan Temple like a powerful epidemic.

There are still many normal monks in this Xianyuan Temple.

After they heard that their temple had been attacked, many people quickly took courage and rushed to Ogata to check the situation and see who dared to act presumptuously in Xianyuan Temple.

After seeing Ogata's face, seeing Ogata beheading their "companion" like chopping melons and vegetables, and the holy temple was covered with blood, their expressions immediately changed drastically, and they turned to him in panic and panic. Fleeing outside the temple, fleeing in a direction away from Ogata.

At this moment, looking at the already extremely silent surroundings, Ogata guessed that all the normal monks in this monastery should have run away.

And those Toyotomi tribe who disguised themselves as "monks" and lurked in Xianyuan Temple should have been killed by him, and those who were not killed by him should have escaped cleanly.

--All right……

Ogata tightened the Da Shitian in his hand, thinking to himself.

——Now...just stay here, slowly wait for the Toyotomi clan's reinforcements to come...

——I don’t know how A-Machi and Gen-sama are doing...

Pat, clack...

Suddenly - Ogata suddenly heard the sound of pattering footsteps coming from behind him.

Ogata, who had been in a tense state since he entered Xianyuan Temple, quickly raised his knife and turned around. Mistaking him for a new enemy, he followed the sound of footsteps and pierced his sharp eyes.

However——after piercing his eyes to see the face of the owner of the footsteps, Ogata raised his brows quickly, and his sharp eyes softened immediately.

The owner of the footsteps was an old monk with a goatee and wrinkled face, whose whole cheek was like a dry orange peel.

The old monk was really frighteningly old, Ogata felt that he was at least 80 years old, not only his cheeks were covered with layers of wrinkles, but even the goatee hanging on his chin was all gray.

Ogata looked at the old monk carefully, but he didn't see any weapons on his body, but he saw a small wooden Buddha statue in his arms.

The old monk walked towards Ogata with big strides while hugging the wooden Buddha statue tightly.

While walking towards Ogata, he opened his eyes wide and glared fiercely at Ogata with eyes full of anger.

"Ogata Yidao Zhai!"

"what you up to?!"

"Do you know what you're doing right now?!"

"Do you know where this is?!"

"How dare you attack my Buddhist Holy Land!"

"You are already an enemy of the court! Do you want to be an enemy of Buddha now?!"

The "old monk with goatee" yelled at Ogata like a cannonball.

——This old gentleman... should be an ordinary monk from Xianyuan Temple...

Seeing that this person did not seem to be a member of the Toyotomi Clan, but a normal monk of Xianyuan Temple, Ogata silently put down the sword he raised.

However, he did not completely let go of his guard, his nerves were still tense, and he was always ready to counteract when the "goatee old monk" planned to do something to him.

"Elder." Ogata said, "Get out of here quickly..."

Before Ogata finished speaking, the conversation was interrupted by the "goatee old monk":

"I do not go!"

"Why should I submit to a villain like you?"

"Ogata Iktosai, I am so disappointed in you."

Speaking of this, there was a touch of sadness in the tone of the "goatee old monk".

"Although you were listed as an enemy of the court by the court and the shogunate before, I don't hate you."

"Not only do I not hate you, but I have always respected you."

"I have always seen the corruption of the Edo Shogunate."

"The life of the common people is becoming more and more difficult, and the warriors who should protect the people are becoming more and more incompetent."

"Being intimidated by the strength of the Edo Shogunate, no one dares to deal a resounding blow to the Edo Shogunate—until you show up!"

"Although your method of attacking Nijo Castle and defeating the shogunate army is a bit extreme, I still think you are a hero!"

"A hero who dared to say no to the Edo shogunate and dared to fight against the Edo shogunate!"

"I've always thought that your appearance and your repeated blows to the Edo shogunate might force the Edo shogunate to carry out reforms! Change the rot!"

"But who knew—you actually did something so inferior to pigs and dogs today!"

"Let me ask you: Where did our Xianyuan Temple and our Koyasan offend you?"

"Why do you want to do such a cruel thing here today? Kill the monks in my temple?!"

The more this "goatee old monk" spoke, the more excited he became, and the more passionate his tone became.

Until the words were about to fall, the goatee hanging on his chin was trembling because of being too emotional and too excited.

——This old man...so he is still my fan...

Looking at the old monk who had been glaring at him in front of him, Ogata, who had a somewhat helpless expression on his face, continued to think in his heart:

——If you don't explain it to him briefly, this old gentleman probably won't leave...

After Gu Yan let out a silent sigh, Ogata said slowly:

"My lord... Let me tell you this: There are a group of brutal lawbreakers secretly lurking in Koya Mountain, planning to use Koya Mountain as a base to do illegal things."

"The reason why I came to Koyasan today is to deal with these thugs hiding in Koyasan."

"Your Master Xianyuan of Xianyuan Temple is one of the companions of those thugs."

"Look carefully at these 'monks' that I brought down just now."

Ogata pouted at the corpses on the ground not far away.

"See those guys in their hands?"

"Shuriken, Wakizashi, Kunai, Scythe..."

"Is this a weapon a monk would have?"

"Can all the monks in Xianyuan Temple carry so many murderous weapons?"

"These people are the outlaws I just mentioned. They are disguised as monks and lurking in Xianyuan Temple. They are the real thugs."

"The Venerable Master is a thug's companion? Impossible!" The "goatee old monk" retorted loudly without thinking, "I have known the Venerable Master for decades! I know the Venerable Master very well! How could he be a mob ?!"

"Then let me ask you—" Ogata asked, "How do you explain that the 'monks' I brought down held so many weapons that monks wouldn't have at all?"

"..." "Old monk with goatee" fell silent.

He looked at Ogata, and then at the weapons grabbed by the "monks" on the ground next to him.

The expression gradually became weird.

Just now, with his resentment and enthusiasm, he came to confront Ogata with the Buddha statue in his arms.

Because he was eager to confront Ogata and was dazed by anger, he didn't notice at all—his "companions" who were killed by Ogata were all holding weapons that monks would never have ...

After being questioned by Ogata in a very calm tone, the "old monk with goatee" gradually regained his composure and thinking.

"It's okay if you don't believe me. It doesn't matter what you think of me." Ogata continued at this moment, "In short, get out of here quickly. It's not safe here now."

"In a little while, there should be a large group of people coming over... huh?"

Ogata frowned suddenly, and then sniffed vigorously.

At this time, the "goatee old monk" also made a movement quite in sync with Ogata: frowning and sniffling.

At first, Ogata wondered if it was his own illusion.

But after sniffing his nose vigorously and sniffing the scent floating in the air hard, Ogata was convinced that he hadn't smelled wrong.

In the air... there is indeed an increasingly intense burnt smell...

Ogata, who immediately had a strong sense of foreboding in his heart, rushed to the window not far away in three steps at a time.

And the "old monk with goatee" made a movement that was extremely synchronized with Ogata at this time, and ran towards the window together with Ogata.

Arriving at the window and looking out the window - the scenery outside the window changed the expressions of Ogata and the "old monk with goatee" beside him.

fire.

They saw the fire.

A large number of flames ignited from the woods behind Xianyuan Temple.

The flames were like a torrent, galloping through the woods, devouring everything the flames touched.

A certain big tree was submerged by the pillar of fire in just a blink of an eye, and the sound of cracking wood was heard, as if groaning in pain. The big tree only lasted for a while before it fell in the flames A large number of sparks aroused scattered in the air.

"It's on, it's on fire..." The "old monk with goatee" who had no blood on his face murmured dully.

Ogata immediately regained his composure after being stunned for a short time.

"... Tsk." After thinking for a moment, Ogata gritted his teeth, "This move...!"

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Koyasan, the place where Hasegawa and others were imprisoned——

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, eyes closed, and Hasegawa gently rubbing his left wrist with his right thumb, he suddenly heard very dense footsteps outside the cell.

He opened his eyes and looked outside the prison—more than a dozen members of the Toyotomi Clan with anxious expressions and flintlock guns in their hands appeared from the end of the corridor outside the prison.

"Quick! Take them all away!"

A certain young man with narrow eyes and a pair of knives and wakizawa on his waist, while shouting loudly to the people around him, untied a large bunch of keys from his waist, and quickly He walked to the door of Hasegawa's cell, took out one of the keys, and unlocked the iron lock on the door of Hasegawa's cell.

As soon as the lock was released and the door opened, four members of the Toyotomi family filed in.

Three of them restrained Hasegawa, and the other pulled Hasegawa's hands behind his back, and then tied Hasegawa's hands tightly with a hemp rope.

"What are you doing?" Hasegawa didn't resist, but frowned and asked, "Where are you taking me?"

"Don't worry about this kind of thing." The thin-eyed young man responded impatiently.

When his subordinates were going to tie up Hasegawa, the thin-eyed young man used a key to unlock the cell door of Isshiki's family, and then Isshiki's family did the same as Hasegawa—the Toyotomi clan who filed in. People, tie their hands firmly behind their backs.

"Quick! Take them away!"

The young man with narrow eyes waved his hand.

"Take them all to the shore quickly!"

The members of the Toyotomi Clan pushed Hasegawa, Isshiki Naoshu and others out of the cell, and they were forced to line up in a single file, while the narrow-eyed young man was holding the knife at his waist, like a mother Like ducklings leading ducklings, they swaggered and led Hasegawa and the others to the outside of the prison.

"What do you mean by 'coast'?" Hasegawa lowered his head slightly and asked the narrow-eyed young man in front of him, "Which coast are you going to take us to take a boat?"

"I've already said it just now." The thin-eyed young man suppressed his impatience, and growled in a low voice, "Don't worry about this kind of thing! Just follow us obediently, that's enough!"

"...Where are my subordinates?" Hasegawa continued to ask, "Will my subordinates be taken to a new place like me?"

"I don't know!" The thin-eyed young man responded rudely, "Those subordinates of yours are out of my control!"

"Is that so... well then, I'd better find my subordinates by myself."

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--!"

The sharp scream, like a sharp arrow, pierced the eardrums of the young man with narrow eyes.

The pupils of the thin-eyed young man suddenly shrank, and then he turned his head and looked back like a conditioned reflex.

The first thing that catches the eyes of the young man with thin eyes is one of his subordinates who is covering his forehead that is constantly spurting blood, kneeling on the ground and screaming. The flintlock gun that should have been in his hand is gone. Traces—the screams just now were made by this person.

Hasegawa came into his eyes immediately after.

To be precise, it was Hasegawa holding a flintlock gun high in his right hand.

Hasegawa held the barrel of the flintlock tightly, raised the flintlock over his head, aimed at the head of the thin-eyed young man, and swung the flintlock in his hand downward——

The gun stock getting closer and bigger—this was the last scene the young man with thin eyes saw in his life.

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The author is dead... A few days ago, I got gastroenteritis caused by bacterial infection. After taking the medicine prescribed by the doctor twice, I thought I was fine and didn't take it anymore...

As a result, today, it seems that there is a relapse. Last night, I had diarrhea all night. I was so scared that I quickly took out the medicine given by the doctor and continued to take it. Fortunately, this medicine really worked. After taking it for 2 times, my body recovered again. .

To celebrate getting well again, eat fried chicken tonight!

.bqkan8..bqkan8.