"What are you two doing here?" Konnosuke frowned slightly and asked Ogata and Omachi who were following closely behind him.
"Please let us go together." A-Machi said sternly, "We won't cause you any trouble."
"...Since you are friends of Tenmanji, then you can do whatever you want."
"Hey... A-Machi." After Konnosuke turned his head, Ogata turned his head slightly and asked in a low voice toward A-Machi, "Is it possible that you... know that Seitaro, Soutaro?"
"...Hmm." Atachi responded expressionlessly, "After all, we are ninjas from the same Shiranui tribe, so of course they recognize each other... I didn't expect those two people to be captured and brought to this island..."
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Konnosuke, who didn't even have time to change his clothes, rushed out of his mansion in a hurry, followed the guidance of a young man in the village, and rushed to the southeast of the wooden wall without any hesitation or pause.
Along the way, many villagers who had learned that Sotaro and others were coming to ask for rice again approached Kinnosuke with panic on their faces.
Looking at the villagers approaching Kinnosuke, Ogata couldn't help but thought to himself:
Konnosuke is really popular in Fenghe Village... When encountering such a critical situation, the villagers will subconsciously come to him...
After Konnosuke appeared, Ogata clearly felt that the villagers seemed to have seen their backbone, and the panic on their faces became much lighter.
At the same time, Ogata also felt that the villagers were constantly casting doubtful glances at him and Atachi.
Suddenly two strangers who had never met before suddenly appeared behind Kinnosuke. No matter who they were, they would definitely be confused.
However, because Konnosuke ignored Ogata and Omachi and the two of them were still following him, and Soutaro and his gang were waiting for them outside the wall, the villagers were embarrassed to ask Konnosuke for a while.
Nosuke’s story about Ogata and Omachi.
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After quickly arriving to the southeast of the wooden wall, Konnosuke, followed closely by Ogata and Amachi, as well as some young people in the village, boarded a watchtower one after another.
After boarding the watchtower and looking outside the wall, Ogata clearly saw a lot of people gathered outside the wooden wall.
Most of these people were wearing the very familiar armor issued to them by the government as prisoners.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5... 20... 20 people in total... I don’t know which Soutaro Konnosuke and Amachi just talked about...
Because the prisoners gathered outside the wall were holding torches for lighting, Ogata could clearly see their number.
Just when Ogata was guessing who was Sotaro, a frivolous voice sounded from the group of prisoners under the wooden wall:
"Good evening! Konosuke-sama! We are here to borrow rice from you again!"
"Soutaro...!" Kinnosuke gritted his teeth, and every word seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth, "You bunch of bastards! You keep borrowing rice! But never did you pay it back?
rice?!"
Is that guy Sotaro...
Ogata looked following the frivolous male voice just now.
The owner of this frivolous male voice is of medium height, has a large vertical scar on his face, and is wearing special black clothes. The kimono on the upper body has narrow sleeves, and the hakama on the lower body is slightly tight.
Looking at the black clothes on this person, Ogata raised his eyebrows involuntarily, and then subconsciously looked at Atachi beside him.
Because the clothes on this person are very similar in shape to the clothes on Machi.
It's just that this person's clothes don't expose his shoulders and back like Atachi's clothes.
If the clothes A-Machi wears are the uniforms of the female ninjas in Shiranui, then the clothes Soutaro wears should be the uniforms of the male ninjas in Shiranui...
While Ogata was thinking this secretly in his mind, Sotaro's frivolous voice sounded again:
"What? Konosuke-sama, aren't you willing to lend us the rice?"
He gritted his teeth and was about to say something when a young villager standing behind him roared:
"We are almost out of rice!"
"If I give you more rice, we will all starve to death!"
As soon as the young villager finished speaking, a cold laugh came from Sotaro's mouth:
"Who cares about you! I don't care how much rice you have left! I just need you to give us enough rice! I don't care about the rest!"
Having said this, Sotaro suddenly paused.
After a moment of silence, he put on a strange tone and continued:
"But what Konosuke-sama said just now is not unreasonable."
"We borrowed so much rice from you, and it would be really outrageous if we didn't pay it back."
"But the rice you lent us has been turned into shit and urine, so we can't return it to you."
"How about this. I'll give you something else."
After that, Sotaro said to a subordinate next to him:
"Hey, push those three people up."
"yes."
After the subordinate responded, he waved to the other two companions, and the three of them ran towards the dark place where the light of the torch could not reach.
After a while, these three people came back.
Not only did he come back, but he also pushed three people back.
The three people who were pushed out were all young men without exception.
They were naked and their limbs were tied to the four corners of a square table.
The naked upper bodies of the three people were covered with a large number of shocking scars.
After the three prisoners pushed the three men out of the shadows, when Konnosuke, Ogata and others stood on the watchtower, they could still see a little bit of blood dripping down the bodies of the three men.
Looking at these three people, both Konnosuke and the other villagers behind him, their eyes were about to burst and their faces were full of anger.
Soutaro walked slowly to one of the three people and patted him on the face.
"These three people... Konnosuke-sama, they should look familiar to you, right?"
"They are the other three of the four villagers from your village who went out to pick wild vegetables outside the wall a while ago."
"They were also unlucky to bump into us."
"Kinnosuke-sama, although we cannot return the rice to you, we can return these three people to you."
"Anyway, there is no use for us to keep these three people. They have no other use except as a punching bag for those who are in a bad mood, so it is not impossible to return them to you."
"As long as you obediently hand over the rice tonight, I will return one of these three people to you."
"As for the other two people, let's leave it to later."
"Lord Kinnosuke, you see this is a great deal..."
"Soutaro!! Even if you defected to Shiranui, the scumbag nature of you and Seitaro has not changed!!"
Before Sotaro finished speaking, an angry female voice suddenly sounded, interrupting him.