"...Go!" Imai ordered in a deep voice to the two subordinates beside him, "Tie up Kuro Mamiya!"
"yes!"
The two officials standing on the left and right sides of Imai immediately stepped forward, stood on the left and right sides of Mamiya, twisted Mamiya's hands behind them, and then tied Mamiya's hands tightly with a thick and long hemp rope.
Then he escorted Mamiya in front of Imai.
"Kuro Mamiya." Imai cast a vicious look at Mamiya, "I don't know what the hell you are planning."
"But now that you have fallen into our hands, we will not let you go!"
"We will torture you slowly until you spit out all the information related to the 'Buddha Enemy'!"
"That's it..."
After quietly listening to Imai's terrifying words, Mamiya's expression did not change, as if he didn't take what Imai just said to his heart at all.
"Then I'm really scared."
Finally, he did not forget to say this to Imai with a slightly sarcastic tone.
"Take Kuro Mamiya down!" Imai seemed to be angered by Mamiya's mild ridicule just now, and ordered to his subordinates in a irritable tone, "Also, take the two men that Mamiya just threw on the ground.
Bring your sword too!"
"yes!"
"By the way." Mamiya, who was about to be escorted out of the room by the officers, turned his head and looked at Imai, "I still don't know how you chased me here? How do you know that I am now at the headquarters of the Negishi family?
?Also - how did you know that I am also in Ryūye Fan?"
Hearing Mamiya's question, a look of pride appeared on Imai's face.
"Mamiya, you are very cautious, but you missed a step - Lord Hasegawa and I both know what the wounds caused by your unique skill 'Divine Light' look like."
As soon as Imai finished speaking, Mamiya said softly "Oh".
"I see... It seems I really made a miscalculation... I shouldn't have used the 'divine light' when I killed the guards in the casino yesterday."
"That's right. Kuro Mamiya, this is your only and biggest mistake."
"We recognized that one of the guards in the casino was killed by your 'divine light', so naturally we know that in addition to the 'Buddha Enemy', you, a subordinate of the 'Buddha Enemy', are also here."
"Now that I know you are here, it will be easier to handle."
"We know what you look like, so we can just search everywhere for the samurai wearing glasses."
"This morning I learned from an old woman in Matsucho that a samurai wearing glasses and a samurai wearing a light green haori were heading to Yuko."
"That's why we were able to kill the outskirts in such a timely manner and open up the encirclement net."
"As for why we know that you are at the Negishi family's headquarters now, that's even simpler."
"Although we don't know what the 'Buddha Enemy' and you came to Longye Fan for."
"But you massacred the casino run by the Negishi family yesterday - this is information worth studying in detail for us."
"Lord Hasegawa boldly guessed that the reason why the 'Buddha Enemy' and you came to Tatsuno Domain is most likely related to the Negishi family."
"So as early as last night, we came to the location of the Negishi family's headquarters from the family elder of the Tatsuno clan, and then sent people to guard the outside of the mansion early."
"Their only mission is to report to us as soon as they see the 'Buddha Enemy' or you near the Negishi family's base camp."
"Just now, when you and your companion wearing light green feathers charged towards this mansion, the secret sentry we placed here immediately rushed back to Matsucho to report to us."
"After receiving this report from the secret sentry, we rushed over quickly."
"Now think about it carefully? We still have to say thank you to these 'Yakuza' of the Negishi family."
"What if it weren't for the fact that they held you back and bought us enough time to arrive? Otherwise, we might have let you slip away again!"
"So that's how it is..." After listening to Imai's explanation quietly, Mamiya let out a sigh of relief, and then sighed softly, "You guys have given me a hard time..."
…
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Before Imai led his men to the third floor——
"It's not Kuro Mamiya..."
The middle-aged man standing at the front of the officials muttered something like this softly, and then asked Ogata:
"It's a new face I've never seen before... Are you the new companion of 'Buddha's Enemy'?"
"'Buddha Enemy'?" Ogata raised his eyebrows? "The 'Buddha Enemy' you are referring to? If it is Oda Nobunaga of the Warring States Period, then of course I am not."
"How could I be a companion of the 'Demon King of the Sixth Heaven' who has been dead for two hundred years?"
"You don't seem to know who the 'Buddha Enemy' is..." The middle-aged man looked Ogata up and down several times, "Look carefully... I seem to have seen you somewhere before... Who are you?"
Come up with your name!"
As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking, a young man standing behind the middle-aged man shouted.
"Orange? What's the matter?"
"Hasegawa-sama! I remember who this person is!"
The young man, whom the middle-aged man called "Orange", took out a large stack of paper from his arms and began to rummage through it.
"Lord Hasegawa! That's him! This is this person's wanted order!"
As Tachibana spoke, he took out one of the papers and handed it to Hasegawa.
"He is the 'Executioner Ittosai' Ogata Issei who assassinated the lord of Hirose Domain last autumn and massacred all hundreds of guards of the lord of Hirose Domain!"
The middle-aged man took the wanted notice from Tachibana, looked at the wanted notice in his hand, and then looked at Ogata in front of him.
"...So you are the 'Executioner Ittosai'."
The middle-aged man said this while returning the wanted notice in his hand to Tachibana behind him.
"No wonder I always feel like I've seen you somewhere."
"I took a look at your wanted poster."
"But because you are not the thief in charge of our Huofu Thief Reform Office, we didn't pay attention to you."
From beginning to end, Ogata scanned the officials in front of him with vigilant eyes.
"...The young man just called you 'Hasegawa-sama'."
Ogata asked the middle-aged man.
"Are you the commander of the Hufu Thieves Kaizo—Hasegawa Heizo?"
"That's right." The middle-aged man responded without hesitation. "I am Hasegawa Heizo. If you find it troublesome to call me by my name, you can just call me 'Onipei'."
"I don't know why the Huosuke Thief Kai, who is responsible for catching thieves and arsonists, are here?" Ogata asked Hasegawa again. This time Ogata's tone was a bit joking. "You are specifically responsible for catching arsonists?"
As a criminal and thief, what do you want to do with me, a murderer?"