Mamiya, who still looked calm, silently crossed his hands and put them into Haori's sleeves.
"It's your gambling house that doesn't keep its integrity."
Mamiya asked softly.
"Why does it seem like we were wrong now?"
"Stop talking nonsense!" Another guard responded rudely, "All gambling halls are like this! What do you think? You bastard ruined our business, just use your life to compensate us!"
"
The four guards surrounding Ogata and Mamiya from four directions clenched the swords in their hands.
The atmosphere at the scene instantly became tense, and murderous intent filled the air...
With an expressionless face, Ogata silently reached out to his left waist...
at this time--
laugh!
The sound of a sharp weapon entering flesh resounded next to Ogata.
Mamiya, who was kneeling peacefully on the futon, suddenly became violent.
The moment he stood up, he used the sword-drawing technique!
Mamiya's movements were obviously so fast, but there was no sound at all when the blade was unsheathed.
The blade swept towards the casino guard closest to him at a suffocating speed.
The blade swept across the guard's vitals, spilling a large amount of blood.
After killing the guard with a suffocating sword-drawing technique, Mamiya didn't take any pause.
The sword dances 3 times in a row.
The sharp blade slashed at the other three guards at different angles.
First, he cut open the throat of a guard with a horizontal slash.
Then he switched from horizontal slash to diagonal slash, slashing from a guard's left shoulder to his right abdomen.
Finally, he knocked the last guard to the ground with an upward strike.
A neat 4 bucks.
Each knife accurately hit the vital points of these guards.
After all four guards were dealt with, Mamiya seemed to have remembered something and let out a soft "ah".
"Ogata-kun."
Mamiya looked at Ogata.
"Sorry, you won't blame me for not leaving two people for you, right?"
"...No." Ogata cast a helpless look at Mamiya, "How could I blame you for such a boring thing..."
"It's okay if you don't. There is a guy among my companions who loves fighting. If he were you, he would have been making a lot of noise at this time, complaining that I didn't leave many people for him."
As Mamiya spoke, he swung the knife in his right hand downwards and shook off the blood attached to the blade.
Then he turned his head and looked at Hu Zhen and Zhong Basin, who were already frightened and slumped on the ground.
"Hey, let me ask you."
Mamiya raised the knife in his right hand and pointed the tip of the knife at the pot.
Just now, when Mamiya cut Takashi in half with a single blow of his sword, he also cut Tatsuzaki's right tail finger.
But Mamiya didn't cut off the last finger of Tsuzumi's right hand, he just shaved off a little bit of the flesh on it.
"You two should be members of the Negishi family, right? Where is the headquarters of the Negishi family?"
As soon as Mamiya finished speaking, Hu Zhen, whose face was already covered with tears and nosebleeds, immediately cried and said:
"I don't know! I'm not from the Negishi family! I'm just a person hired by the Negishi family to roll dice! I don't know where the headquarters of the Negishi family is!"
Mamiya turned her head and looked at Zhongpen.
"What about you? Do you know where the Negishi family's headquarters is?"
"I don't know!" Nakabon shook his head quickly, "I'm just a person hired by the Negishi family! I'm not from the Negishi family!"
After hearing the answers from these two people, Mamiya sighed with a hint of helplessness.
"Mamiya." Ogata asked Mamiya, "Do you think what these two people said is true?"
"It should be true." Mamiya said softly, "I don't think the two of them dare to lie to me when they are facing the threat of death. It seems that the two of us came at the wrong time. There just are no managers from the Negishi family right now.
In the gambling hall."
After listening to Mamiya's words, Ogata also let out a helpless sigh:
"That means - our trip to the casino was in vain... What should we do next?"
"...Anyway." Mamiya said after being silent for a while, "Leave here first. We have made such a big noise, and Tatsuno Fan's strength and unity will come soon."
"Before I resolve my grievances with the Negishi family, I don't want to be entangled with the power and unity of the Tatsuno clan."
After saying that, Mamiya once again turned his gaze to Hu Zhen and Naka Bon.
"There is no enmity or enmity between us."
Mamiya said softly to Hu Zhen and Zhong Basin.
"But if you two are allowed to live, our existence may be revealed to Yuli and Tongxin of Tatsuno Fan."
"If Yuli and Tongxin of Tatsuno Domain know that the guy who killed the guards of these casinos is a samurai wearing glasses, it will cause a lot of trouble for the two of us in our subsequent actions."
Hearing Mamiya's words, Tsuzhen and Nakabon's faces instantly turned pale.
The two of them quickly cried:
"No! I won't say anything to Yuli and Tongxin!"
"I will keep it a secret! I won't tell Yuli and Tongxin anything about you two!"
…
However - no matter how much the two of them cried, Mamiya remained expressionless and unmoved.
"Remember my face. If you become an innocent soul after death, remember to come to me and ask for your life. I will kill you two again."
After saying that, Mamiya swung his sword twice...
…
…
"Ogata-kun, let's go."
Wiping the blood and fat off the blade with the pocket paper he carried, and putting the knife back into its sheath, Mamiya said to Ogata and walked out of the casino.
Ogata also followed Mamiya expressionlessly, and they left the gambling hall that was filled with the smell of blood one after another.
After walking out of the casino, the fresh air hit my face immediately.
After getting used to the turbid air in the casino, Ogata now only felt that the air outside smelled particularly comfortable.
"What should we do now?" Ogata asked Mamiya.
"Let's go to Matsucho."
"Matsucho?"
"It's a small town in Tatsuno Domain. If you walk from here, you can arrive before dark."
"Let's stop here for today. Let's go to Matsucho to find an inn to rest for the night, and then continue looking for information about the Negishi family tomorrow."
After saying that, Mamiya took the lead and walked towards the north.
After Ogata hesitated for a while, he followed.
The two walked side by side at the same speed.
The two of them left Emoto Village in silence.
After leaving Karamoto Village, Ogata suddenly asked Mamiya next to him in a calm tone that was neither salty nor light:
"Mamiya, who are you?"
As Ogata spoke, he silently placed his left hand on the knife blade on his left waist.
Mamiya replied without hesitation: "Just an ordinary ronin."
"The swordsmanship and the neat killing techniques you used just now are not ordinary at all."
Ogata clenched his left hand slightly tighter on the knife blade...