"We just came to ask you a few questions. After we finish asking, we will leave immediately. We will never stay here, and we will never harm the lives of everyone here. Okay?"
Because they still have questions to ask Konnosuke, both Ogata and Amachi treat Konnosuke politely.
Atachi only controlled Kinnosuke with his hands, and did not hold a knife against his neck like he did when he controlled the maid just now.
When Ogata was negotiating with Kinnosuke, he also used an extremely gentle tone and used honorifics that he had not used for a long time.
After Ogata's words fell, Konnosuke nodded slightly and expressed his willingness to cooperate with Ogata and others with his actions.
Seeing Konnosuke nodding, Orimachi winked at A-Machi who was standing behind Konnosuke and controlling Konnosuke, and signaled A-Machi to let go of Konnosuke.
After O-machi's hand left his mouth and his lips and tongue were free again, Konnosuke cooperated very well not to scream loudly, and calmly straightened his clothes.
"Since you have this sword, it means that you are indeed friends of Tenmanji. So I believe you."
Konnosuke said softly.
"You two should be prisoners thrown to this island by the shogunate, right? Which batch of prisoners are you thrown to this island?"
"Batch 4." Ogata replied.
"The fourth batch..." Konnosuke twitched the corner of his mouth and sneered, "The shogunate has sent so many people to this island... Tell me, what do you want to ask?"
"We want to know more about the cannibals."
"What do you want to know about this?" Kinnosuke cast a doubtful look at Ogata.
As soon as he finished speaking, Konosuke seemed to have remembered something and softly said "Ah".
"I remembered." Kinnosuke muttered, "One of the conditions for pardon given by the shogunate to you prisoners is to get useful information about cannibals, so you plan to get information from me, I said
Right?"
Ogata shook his head: "No. My companions and I are not interested in the so-called pardon, and I don't believe that the shogunate will really return our freedom to us so simply, so we just want to rely on our own
Strength to escape this island."
"The reason why we want information about cannibals is just because my companions are tasked with collecting information about cannibals."
"No matter what your purpose is." Kinnosuke sighed softly, "In short-you will be disappointed. I don't know much about cannibals."
"I don't know anything about where they came from, how to kill them, or what other characteristics they have."
"The only thing I know about cannibals is that they cannot be killed, their blood is poisonous, and they will not tire. People on this island will turn into cannibals when they die, and living people will suddenly change their diet without warning."
Man-ghosts—other than that, I don’t know anything else about cannibals.”
After Konnosuke finished speaking, A-machi knelt down behind Konnosuke, a look of disappointment appeared on his face.
She, Mamiya, and Makimura—the reason why the three of them were deliberately captured by the government and sent to this island was to collect as much information as possible about the "cannibal".
Although she had been mentally prepared in her heart, she still couldn't hide her disappointment after hearing what Konnosuke just said.
"Then let's change the question." Ogata said quickly, "Do you have any extra ships here? When the shogunate destroyed all the ships on the island, how many ships did you save in time?"
"Since you know that the people from the shogunate destroyed all the Dejima tools on the island...did the people from Tenmanji Temple tell you..." A bitter look appeared on Konnosuke's face, "No.
The shogunate's soldiers spared no effort when ordered to destroy the island's ships and shipbuilding tools."
"There have been no ships in this land for a long time."
"If there had been a boat, we would have left this hellish place long ago."
This time it was Ogata who couldn't hide his disappointment.
"Don't you have a boat..." Ogata sighed softly, "There is no other way...let's try to build a raft."
"Do you know how to build a raft?" Amachi asked.
"I don't know. If it doesn't work, just hold a piece of wood and swim out of the island."
Although Ogata said this with his mouth, he said this in his heart:
——Later, let's take O-machi and search all over Fenghe Village. They might have hidden a boat, but they just hid it from us and refused to tell us.
Coincidentally, when Ogata said this to himself in his heart, A-Machi also said to himself at almost the same time:
——Later, I will take Ayi with me and search everywhere in Fenghe Village. They may have a hidden boat, but they are just hiding it from us and are unwilling to tell us.
It's a pity that the two of them didn't know that they had almost the same idea at almost the same time, and they didn't know that they had such a tacit understanding with each other.
"Sorry - let me interrupt." Konnosuke suddenly said, "Since you two are friends of Tenmanji, can you allow me to ask you some questions?"
"You ask." Ogata nodded.
"How is Tenmanji Temple doing now?" Konnosuke said in a somewhat anxious tone, "Since this wooden wall was built a year ago, the connection with Tenmanji Temple has been severed. Kyokai, Sokai and the others
How are you two doing now?"
Jing Hai - the name of his mentor Zong Hai.
Seeing Konnosuke ask him this question, the look on Ogata's face became a little weird.
"Tenmanji... a lot of things happened..."
Fenghe Village erected a wooden wall a year ago to seal itself off.
So Kinnosuke didn't even know that Kyoumi died of a recurrence of an old illness half a year ago.
Ogata recounted to Konnosuke everything he knew about Tenmanji in as simple a sentence as possible.
After Jing Hai died of illness, Zong Hai, who is still alive, recently took Xian Hai, who was a prisoner, into his family.
And Kinnosuke's expression kept changing as Ogata told it.
"Is that so..." A look of sadness appeared on Konnosuke's face, "Kyokai...is he no longer alive...has he also become a cannibal..."
"...Kinnosuke." Looking at Konnosuke with a sad face, Ogata hesitated for a while and said softly, "About Zonghai...there are some things I have to tell you. I don't think these things are right.
I should hide it from you."
"Huh? What's the matter?"
"It's related to cannibals..."
Kyoukai Ogata did not turn into an ogre, there may be something fishy between the master and the disciples, Kazuyo and Nao, there may be something wrong with the water of the Linon River, and this series of Soumi hiding all these things is very difficult for Kinnosuke.
It was like a bolt from the blue when he told Konnosuke one by one the important news.
The look of horror on Kinnosuke's face also expanded at an alarming speed.