The "red flower" that soared into the sky had not yet scattered, and a new "red flower" soared from the cylinder in Mamiya's hand.
The cylinder in Mamiya's hand shot five fireworks into the sky before stopping.
At this moment, Hasegawa, who was about to rush into the Negishi family's headquarters, looked at the "red flowers" in the sky that had not completely dispersed with a look of astonishment on his face.
"Fireworks..." Hasegawa muttered, his face darkening.
Hasegawa's intuition told him: the fireworks just now must be some kind of signal.
It is a signal conveyed specifically to someone.
I just don’t know who set off these fireworks just now.
When he was about to rush into the base camp of the Negishi family, Hasegawa drew his sword in his hand and shouted:
"Act as planned!"
"Yes!" All the officials behind Hasegawa responded in unison with astonishing momentum.
Hasegawa's plan is simple - divide the officials into three groups.
Imai led a group straight to the third floor of the mansion.
Another Hasegawa lieutenant led a team to search the second floor of the mansion.
Hasegawa personally led the last group to sweep the first floor.
Three groups are responsible for three floors respectively.
They have only one purpose - to find out the "Buddha's Enemy" subordinate Mamiya Kuro as quickly as possible!
After rushing into the mansion, the officers of the Huo Fu Thief Reform immediately dispersed into three teams, followed by their respective leaders, and rushed towards the targets they were responsible for.
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"What just... happened?"
Ogata looked out the window with a puzzled face.
From just now, Ogata could vaguely hear what seemed to be dense footsteps outside the mansion.
Before Ogata had time to pay attention to the sudden sound of footsteps, he suddenly heard the sound of fireworks again.
——Forget it... Regardless of what happened, let’s go find Mamiya first.
Ogata made up his mind and steadied the knife at his waist.
However - as soon as he rushed out of the room where the horse face was hiding, and came to the corridor outside the room, he heard a flood of footsteps coming from the end of the corridor.
And the footsteps like a tide came towards him at an extremely fast speed.
As soon as Ogata followed the sound and moved his eyes to the end of the corridor beside him, he saw a samurai wearing black uniforms stepping around the corner and appearing at the end of the corridor.
Ogata was very familiar with these samurai wearing black uniforms.
Because——he just broke out from their siege not long ago.
"Tsk!"
After Ogata made a "tsk" sound that included impatience, confusion and other emotions, he quickly pulled out the sword from his waist.
——Why are the officials who were reformed by Huo Fu Thieves here...!
Just when Ogata was wondering how the government officials who were angry with the thieves were chasing after them, a middle-aged man separated the officials and walked slowly to the front of the officials.
"It's not Kuro Mamiya..."
The middle-aged man said softly.
"It's a new face I've never seen before... Are you the new companion of 'Buddha's Enemy'?"
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Mamiya silently looked at the disappeared "red flowers" in the sky, thinking to himself:
——Okay, that's it. My lord and Asai should have received my signal.
Mamiya casually threw the cylinder aside.
As soon as the cylinder landed, Mamiya heard very noisy footsteps coming from the door behind him.
Bang!
The paper sliding door that was originally half-open was pulled to the end in one breath.
An official with a reputation as a thief rushed into the room with various weapons and surrounded Mamiya.
Mamiya turned around and looked at the group of officers in front of him who surrounded him.
The leader of this group of officials who were surrounding him was an old acquaintance of Mamiya.
"Long time no see." Mamiya smiled at this old acquaintance of his, "Master Imai, I haven't seen you for a while, you seem to have lost some weight."
"Huh." Imai sneered, "It's been a long time since I last saw you. Rukou Hachiman...Kuro Mamiya!"
"Liu Guang Hachiman..." There was a hint of helplessness in the smile on Mamiya's face, "Speaking of which - I have to thank you, Huofu Thief Kai, for giving me such a handsome and suitable title.
, I like this title very much.”
"'The sword is like flowing light, and the posture is like Hachiman'." Imai whispered, "This title was given to you by Hasegawa-sama himself. If you want to thank him, go and thank Hasegawa-sama."
"That's it... Then Imai-sama, please convey a 'thank you' to Onipira-sama for me."
"Kuro Mamiya!" Imai shouted sharply at Mamiya, "Were you the one who set off the red fireworks just now?! Is it a signal for you to communicate with the 'enemies of Buddha'?!"
"Well..." Mamiya shrugged, "Guess what?"
"...It seems that my asking is in vain." The look on Imai's face became more serious, "Then I'm too lazy to talk nonsense anymore! Kuro Mamiya, just surrender!"
"Okay." Mamiya raised his hands high in the air, "I'll catch you at my wits' end."
"I know your sword-drawing technique 'Divine Light' is amazingly powerful! But now you are surrounded by us... Ha?!"
Imai subconsciously thought that Mamiya would say cruel words like "If you have the guts, just use the knife in your hand to catch me," and then start a fight with them.
So as soon as Mamiya finished speaking, Imai immediately spat out the harsh words that he had already prepared.
However, before he could finish the cruel words he had prepared, Imai realized that Mamiya seemed to have said something outrageous just now.
Imai cast a surprised look at Mamiya, who was raising his hands in the air.
"What did you say……?"
"I said I would catch him without any effort." Mamiya shook his raised hands, "What's wrong? Why are you still standing there? Come here and tie me up."
This strange behavior of Mamiya has made everyone including Imai confused.
They looked at each other in confusion, not sure what was going on now.
"...Mamiya." Imai said solemnly, "You want to play some trick on me, right?"
"You are good at drawing swords."
"After you pretended to surrender and lured us to arrest you, you then used your 'divine light' to kill all my subordinates. Am I right?"
Mamiya listened to Imai's hypothesis in silence.
Then he sighed with helplessness on his face.
Then he put down his raised left hand, pulled out the sword and wakizashi inserted in his left waist, and threw it to the ground far away.
"How? This should be enough to prove that I really want to be captured without mercy, right?"
"Kuro Mamiya!" Seeing this scene, Imai had no idea what Mamiya wanted to do. "What on earth are you planning?!"
"I don't have any evil intentions." Mamiya shrugged, and then smiled, "I sincerely want to be caught by you."