"Huh...huh...huh...huh..."
His eyesight rises and falls with the rhythm of his breathing.
——Did you win...
After glancing around at the corpses lying around him, Qingden swallowed and moistened his throat, which was slightly dry since he had been focusing on fighting just now and had no time to swallow his saliva.
"...Awesome." Saito's voice sounded from behind Qingto.
Saito held the knife that was still dripping with blood and walked slowly towards Aonto.
"I thought the person I wanted to protect this time would be someone who didn't have much strength."
"It seems that is not the case."
Facing Saito's brief compliment, Qingto chuckled a few times:
"It's all thanks to the fact that the opponents I encountered this time were very weak, and also because you helped me guard my back, I was able to fight so smoothly."
Qingdeng believed that the main reason why he was able to achieve such a hearty victory in the battle just now was that the enemy was very weak.
The enemy's strength is not very strong, let alone his sword-wielding skills, and even his footwork is far from up to par.
Talents such as "Lonely Brave" and "Eagle Eye" have also made great contributions.
With the blessing of "Gu Gu", Qingdeng, who was one against four, felt that his physical condition was extremely good, and his physical strength, strength, speed, and reaction speed had all been greatly improved.
Saito, who helped him guard his back and allowed him to attack forward with all his strength, also played a significant role.
After several days of special training, Qingdeng was no longer the "novice in swordsmanship" he had been before. Not only did he have the fighting experience in his previous life, but he also had the blessing of these powerful talents... All these factors were superimposed together, and he defeated the opponent neatly.
These four weak enemies are just a matter of course.
"How are you doing over there? Have all the enemies been killed?" Qingto asked Saito while taking out the pocket paper used to wipe the knife from his pocket.
"One ran away."
"Did one of them run away... Well, this is within my expectation. If these lunatics are all ruthless people who can fight to the death, it would be surprising. Come on, here."
Aomori handed one of the papers to Saito.
After wiping off all the blood, fat, brain matter, bone fragments and other messy things remaining on the sword, sheathed it——
"...You look very calm. Isn't this the first time you kill someone?"
Saito asked Aonto while cleaning his knife.
"Huh? No." Qingden glanced at the corpse at his feet, "This is my first time to kill someone."
"First time killing someone?" Saito, who always had no expression on his face, made a rare expression at this time - his eyes narrowed slightly, "...it's really rare for someone like you to be so calm when killing someone for the first time.
Now. Don’t you feel scared or uncomfortable?”
"Well... draw the knife to the person who draws the knife towards me and kill the person who wants to kill me - I think this kind of thing is natural and I don't feel uncomfortable."
Saito's eyes narrowed a little more.
His eyes were still like ancient pools, neither sad nor happy.
But at this moment, after taking a closer look, you can see a trace of smile deep in his pupils.
Because his back was to Saito, Qingto didn't see the slightest hint of smile in Saito's eyes and looked around.
"Saito, help me observe the surroundings. If there are passers-by or enemies approaching, give me an early warning."
"I want to see if there is any valuable information on these people."
After saying that, Qingdeng lay down on the corpse at his feet, searching inside and outside his body.
Qingdeng's goal is to find something that can provide high-quality intelligence from these madmen who are eyeing his head.
For example: letters such as orders handed over to them by their superiors or peers, lists of organizational members and the like.
Qingdeng is now very suspicious: the group of "radical anti-barbarians" who are eyeing his head is not a small organization.
After the last attack against Qingdeng failed, he was able to immediately organize another assassination against Qingdeng, and the scale was even greater than before. This time 8 people were sent out at once... If there was no organization behind this to direct them, Qingdeng
Absolutely don't believe it.
Saito nodded slightly to Aoto, raised his head, put his left hand on the handle of the sword that had just been sheathed, and stood guard for Aoto.
After searching the seven corpses on the ground inside and out, Qingdeng was disappointed to find that these seven people were so "clean" that they were frighteningly clean.
Not to mention things that could be used to obtain information, there was nothing on him, including money, dry food... nothing.
If only one person is like this, then that's it.
But all seven of them were like this... This made Qingdeng murmur in his heart.
——Is it a coincidence...
Qingdeng frowned.
——Or is it done deliberately to prevent these people from leaking information after the assassination fails...
All kinds of questions emerged in Qingdeng's mind.
After all, this here and now is not a good time or place to think about.
The time now is about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Due to the attack of the "radical anti-barbarian faction", Qingdeng and the others have already been delayed for some time. If they delay any longer, they will most likely not be able to reach the first place before dark.
Hostel: Shinagawa.
In this era without street lights and navigation, walking at night is very dangerous. It is common sense in this era not to walk at night in such a place with no access to villages or stores unless absolutely necessary.
Therefore, Qingto had no choice but to suppress the doubts in his heart, and waved his hand to Saito, saying, "Saito, let's go."
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Tokaido, Shinagawa--
Shinagawa-juku is the closest inn town to Edo on Tokaido. Affected by the radiation from Edo, a large city with a population of one million, the inn town of Shinagawa-juku has developed into a sizable castle town.
With Ao and Sai rushing slowly and hurriedly, they finally entered the Shinagawa-juku town before it got completely dark.
These towns basically rely on "tourism" to survive.
So as soon as Aoto and Saito entered the town of Shinagawa-ryu, there were dozens of figures that looked like cats smelling fishy smell. Asao and Saito gathered around them and asked them
Why don't you go to their tea house or izakaya and ask them if they want a little sister?
Ainoto, who had no time to talk to them, declined their solicitation and went straight to the hotel room of Shinagawa Stay.
The organization responsible for managing the dormitory, as well as providing "people and horses succession" and other related matters for the officials, is called "Wenwuchang".
The head of the Wenwu field is called "Wenwu", and he has permanent staff such as annual mail, account payment, horse pointing, and footwork.
Aoto led Saito into the Wenwuba of Shinagawa-juku, and was immediately greeted by a man, a junior staff member of the Wenwuba.
After seeing the seal of the Edo Administrative Office hanging on Aoshito's right waist and the juju with red tassels that could prove his identity as a "three times", this man did not dare to neglect.
Busy speeded up the pace again.
"I am Edo Kitaban Shouchei Doshin: Tachibana Aoto." Aoto took out the document that could prove that he was an official on official business from his arms and handed it to the man, "Help me prepare it.
A room to stay, food, bath water...ah, and also, help me wash my clothes."
Qingden shook the cloak he was wearing today to keep out the blood.
"Then help me arrange a flying foot who can help me deliver the letter."
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