"But I can tell you clearly - I have no ill intentions towards you."
"I'm very interested in you who accomplished the feat of killing hundreds of enemies."
"Although I am not afraid of the Negishi family, I am also happy to find someone to help me."
"I sincerely want to cooperate with you to find the base camp of the Negishi family."
Having said this, Mamiya paused.
After a pause, he added:
"Furthermore—Ogata-kun, if I really have any ill intentions towards you, I will have countless opportunities to kill you with one strike from the moment I meet you."
"I didn't draw a knife on you, walked side by side with you, and even talked and laughed with you - this should be the most powerful evidence that I have no ill intentions towards you, right?"
After listening to Mamiya's words quietly, Ogata remained silent.
After a while, Ogata silently took away his hand from the sword...
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That night——
It's a sunny day tonight.
The slender crescent moon peeks at Emoto Village gently and affectionately.
The moonlight shot in through the cracks in the clouds like a white blade, illuminating Jingzi's face.
Emoto Village is quite lively tonight.
After receiving the news that "a ronin killed someone", Tatsuno feudal clan's troops and forces hurried to Emoto Village.
All the idlers in the surrounding area centered around the casino have been expelled.
Only the uniformed men and women walked in and out of this casino that exuded a strong smell of blood.
Fujino Soichi—one of the oldest members of the Tatsuno clan.
Although he is the most senior Yuli, he has never handled a few major cases in his life.
Those troublesome cases were basically delegated to subordinates by Fujino.
Only those cases where there is a lot of money to be made will be handled by Fujino himself.
The pot-bellied Fujino held out his big belly, led several of his subordinates, and stepped into the casino holding a knife.
As soon as he entered the casino, the smell of blood made Fujino frown.
"Quick! Lantern! Quick!"
Fujino waved his fat fingers roughly.
Under Fujino's order, the colleagues behind him hurriedly raised the lanterns in their hands, stepped into the casino, and lit up the casino.
Thanks to the light emitted by these lanterns, Fujino was finally able to see clearly the scene inside the casino.
It was okay not to see clearly, but once he saw the scene in the casino clearly, a strong feeling of nausea immediately surged from Fujino's belly.
There are a total of 6 corpses in the casino.
Each corpse had their eyes wide open.
Looking at the wide-open eyes of these corpses, Fujino felt strong discomfort and almost vomited out the dinner he had just eaten.
He covered his mouth with his right hand, took several deep breaths, and resisted the desire to vomit, before Fujino dared to cast his gaze back on each corpse.
"hiss……"
Fujino gasped.
"So many people were killed...it seems there are many murderers..."
As soon as Fujino finished murmuring, a strange male voice suddenly sounded from behind him:
"No, these people were all killed by the same person."
As soon as this male voice, which was extremely unfamiliar to Fujino, fell, Fujino widened his eyes full of doubts and looked behind him.
Behind him stood a middle-aged man who had never seen him before, wearing a predominantly black uniform.
Behind this middle-aged man, there were dozens of people also wearing black uniforms, with the word "Fire Robber" written on the lanterns they were holding.
Fujino didn't know who these people in black were.
But he knew who the man standing next to these "men in black" was.
The man standing next to this group of "men in black"? It was one of the three elders of their Tatsuno clan - Sano Munenori.
Seeing his elder here? Fujino hurriedly saluted him and said hello.
The leader of this group of "men in black" - the middle-aged man who just said "these people were all killed by the same person" tilted his head and said to Sano Munenori:
"My lord, could you please ask the officials of your domain to leave here temporarily?"
"Hasegawa-sama? Of course there is no problem." Sano said cheerfully.
The feudal lord of the Tatsuno clan has only one task for Sano these days - to represent their Tatsuno clan and do their best to cooperate with the official servants of the fire thieves led by Hasegawa Heizo.
So Sano not only had to go out of the city to greet Hasegawa and others when they arrived at Tatsuno Domain.
When Hasegawa and others settled in Tatsuno Domain and launched their search, Sano had to follow up throughout the process and provide them with all the help that Tatsuno Domain could give them.
Sano waved his hand, signaling Fujino to quickly lead his subordinates away from here.
And Fujino was also very aware of current affairs. He didn't ask any more questions or did anything more. He quickly led his subordinates out of the gambling den.
After Fujino and others exited the casino, the leader of this group of "men in black" - Heizo Hasegawa waved his hand, and several of the gangsters behind him immediately carried their bags with the words "
A lantern with the word "Fire Robber" entered the casino.
The positions of the officials responsible for carrying lanterns and lighting are very particular.
The positions they were standing in were just enough for the light from the lanterns in their hands to illuminate every corner of the casino.
"Sano-sama? Could you please wait outside for a while?"
"Of course, I understand the rules. I will never interfere with Hasegawa-sama's inspection of the murder scene."
After giving Sano a warning so that Sano didn't have to come in with him, Hasegawa held the knife and walked slowly into the casino.
Hasegawa's right-hand man, Imai Cheng, also followed closely behind.
Hasegawa stood in the center of the casino and looked around every corner of the casino.
He put his left hand on the handle of the knife, and his right hand was pressed on the wrist of his left hand.
Seeing Hasegawa make this move, Imai held his breath habitually and breathed lightly.
Because Imai understands - this is Hasegawa's habitual action.
Hasegawa will make this action once he enters a thinking state.
Therefore, in order not to disturb Hasegawa's thinking, Imai would subconsciously slow down his breathing after seeing Hasegawa make this action, and try his best to reduce the disturbance to Hasegawa.
Hasegawa glanced at the barnacles cut in half on the ground and the six dice scattered on the ground.
Then he looked at the young man who was beheaded to death with a knife, and at a glance he knew it was Hu Zhen.
Looking at Hu Zhen's chopped right little finger, Hasegawa narrowed his eyes slightly.
Finally, I took another look at the four people holding knives in their hands. They must be the guards of this gambling house.
Hasegawa's eyes were fixed on one of the guards for an exceptionally long time...
Because the wounds on this guard's body were too familiar to Hasegawa...