Chapter 324 Fengmo Kotaro and the Ninjas in Shiranui
Just when Makimura finished his roar, Ogata, who had been sitting quietly aside, suddenly raised his eyebrows.
Ogata stood up suddenly, walked quickly to the tatami beside the bald head, and then leaned down.
Ogata's sudden and strange behavior aroused confusion among everyone around him.
"Brother Ogata," Makimura asked, "What's wrong?"
Ogata did not respond to Makimura's words, but took the only candle for lighting in the room and put it aside, shining it on the tatami in front of him.
The tatami in front of Ogata has a red spot about the size of a thumb.
is blood.
And it was very fresh blood that had just dripped down.
Ogata then cast the candlelight on the door of the room - on the tatami at the door of the room, there was also a drop of blood as big as an adult's thumb.
It's a dark night now.
The only lighting tool for Ogata and his party was the candle.
The color of blood is not noticeable in a dim environment.
Therefore, Ogata didn't discover the blood stains on the floor until now.
Ogata moved the candle in his hand and projected the candlelight to the door of the room.
After shining the candlelight on the door of the room, Ogata suddenly discovered that there was also a blood clot as big as an adult's thumb on the tatami at the door.
After realizing something, Ogata immediately stood up and grabbed the bald head, and then looked at the bald head's whole body.
Finally - Ogata found a wound that was neither long nor short on the palm of the bald man's right hand.
The injury was not deep and it required hard squeezing to draw out the blood, so the bald right hand was not stained red with blood.
As long as you put your hands together, you can cover the wound, and outsiders will not be able to tell that there is any injury on the right palm of the bald man.
When he was tied to the paper sliding door, the bald man held his right palm tightly from beginning to end, so Ogata and his party did not notice the wound on the bald man's right palm for a long time.
"You guy...!" Ogata said in a deep voice, "Did you spread blood all the way from your stronghold?"
After hearing Ogata's words, the expressions of everyone present changed.
Seeing that the matter was exposed, the bald head was full of fear, but he forced out a proud smile and said:
"That's right. After I was caught by you, I secretly made a wound on my right palm, and then secretly squeezed out blood beads at regular intervals and sprinkled them on the ground. I spread the blood all the way from the stronghold to here.
"
"Fortunately, the night is dark enough tonight, and you only have one candle for lighting. I didn't let you discover it."
"My companions should be able to find me soon by following the blood trail I left."
As soon as the bald man finished speaking, Ogata's pupils shrank suddenly, and then he quickly turned his head to look at the only window in the room.
While turning around to look at the window not far away, Ogata quickly took out Kasumi Nagi from his arms.
Just now, Ogata heard a strange noise outside the window.
And almost at the same moment that Ogata turned to look at the window, the originally closed window was opened from the outside.
Through the opened window, you can clearly see that there is an extra person outside the window.
Because the light was dim, I couldn't see the person's face clearly.
But we can clearly see this person's movements - this person is grabbing the window edge with his left hand to prevent himself from falling, and at the same time, he is holding on to a square object with his right hand.
Because he heard unusual noises outside the window in advance, at almost the same moment when the man opened the window, Ogata pointed Kasumagagi's gun at the guy lying outside the window.
With just one glance, Ouri clearly saw what the square object he was holding in his hand was - exactly the same as the half-finished explosive bomb that Makimura was still holding in his hand...
And the fuse of the explosive bomb in this guy's hand is already in a ignited state...
After seeing the guy outside the window holding a bomb with a lit fuse in his hand, and making a gesture of throwing the bomb into the room, Ogata didn't hesitate at all——
Bang bang bang bang!
Ogata fired all four pellets in Kasumi Nagi's gun chamber in one breath.
Because the enemy came so suddenly, Ogata didn't have enough time to take a good aim, so Ogata attacked randomly.
Fortunately - the distance between each other is not far, and the target is also very large. Even if they hit each other randomly, one of the four bullets still successfully hit the opponent.
The only bullet that hit probably hit his left shoulder.
The man let out a low cry of pain and threw the explosive in his hand.
However, because he was shot in the left shoulder, the explosive bomb that was supposed to be thrown in the middle of Ogata's group missed the target.
The bomb crossed a crooked parabola and rolled to Makimura's feet.
When the bomb rolled to Makimura's feet, the fuse of the bomb was only as long as an adult's little finger.
Makimura's response was also very quick.
As soon as the bomb rolled to Makimura's feet, Makimura immediately picked it up and threw it out the window.
While throwing the explosive bomb back, Makimura yelled:
"Everyone get down!"
Makimura's reminder is actually redundant.
As soon as he picked up the explosive bomb, Ogon immediately pulled Omachi, Shimada, and Hasegawa to the ground.
As soon as the explosive bomb flew out of the window, the fuse was completely burned out.
Then...
Bang——!!
The air is cracking.
My eardrums are hurting.
A wave of air thundered in Ogata's ears...
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Kyoto, somewhere.
"Hey." Heitaro, who was standing under a big tree, shouted to a young man sitting on the tree, "Ichitaro! Have you seen Ryutaro and the others or that rebellious ninja of Atachi?"
Ichitaro's eyesight is excellent, and this ability is suitable for finding people, so this time he went out to look for Ryutaro and others who had not returned yet, and Heitaro specially brought Ichitaro out.
"No." Ichitaro, who was sitting in the tree, shook his head.
Seeing Ichitaro shaking his head, Heitaro's face showed a hint of anxiety uncontrollably.
at this time--
Bang...
"Huh?" Heitaro frowned slightly and turned his head to look to the southwest.
"Sir Heitaro." Another ninja standing next to Heitaro asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"...Did you hear that just now?" Heitaro asked.
"Huh? What did you hear?"
"I seemed to have heard an explosion just now..." Heitaro said in a deep voice, "...let's go over and have a look."
Just as Heitaro and the other four were about to leave and rush to the place where the strange noise originated, an old male voice suddenly sounded from the depths of an alley not far from them:
"I seemed to have heard the name 'Amachi' from your mouth just now... Do you have anything to do with Komachi?"
"Who's there!" As soon as the old male voice finished speaking, Heitaro and the others quickly followed the voice and cast their gaze, and subconsciously placed their hands on the handle of the knife on the lower back.
Heitaro and the other four men glared at the dark alley.
And a figure slowly emerged from this dark alley.
After the figure fully emerged from the alley, Heitaro and others finally saw the person's appearance clearly - an old man with gray hair.
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"Ogata-sama! Ogata-sama!"
Shimada's call reached Ogata's ears.
"Well……"
Ogata slowly opened his eyes while letting out a low cry of pain.
The first thing that caught Ogata's eyes was Shimada, who was holding Bochi.
The explosion just now seemed to scare Poji.
Porgy is currently curled up in Shimada's arms, shivering.
Judging from Shimada's current appearance, apart from some dust on his face, he has no other major problems.
Seeing that Ogata woke up, Shimada let out a sigh of relief:
"Great...it seems you're fine..."
In addition to Shimada's face, what caught Ogata's field of vision was the thick smoke that had not completely dissipated.
The air was filled with the unique pungent smell of gunpowder. The smoke of gunpowder made Ogata feel a bitter taste on his tongue.
Except for his head being a little dizzy and bloated, Ogata didn't feel any discomfort anywhere else on his body.
After shaking his head vigorously to regain some clarity from his dizzy head, Ogata looked at the ground beside him.
Amachi and Hasegawa were still lying on the ground.
A-Machi, like Shimada, had no external injuries except for some dust on his face.
After hearing Ogata's voice, Atachi first pursed his lips, and then muttered softly in a daze:
"I can't eat anymore..."
"It seems you're fine..." After confirming that Omachi was fine, Ogata looked towards Hasegawa.
Hasegawa's forehead was now wrapped with a relatively clean cloth.
"I bandaged Hasegawa-sama's forehead." Shimada on the side said at this time, "I just showed him that Hasegawa-sama's forehead seemed to have been hit by something flying, and there was a lot of bleeding.
Blood. Although he is still unconscious, his life is not in danger."
At this moment, Makimura's voice sounded:
"Brother Ogata."
"Makimura..." Ogata followed the voice.
Makimura now looks very embarrassed, his body is covered with dust, and there is a slender wound on his forehead. Blood is flowing out continuously along the wound on Makimura's forehead.
"Is the wound on your forehead okay?" Ogata asked.
"It's okay. It's just a cut." After saying that, Makimura raised his hand and wiped the blood from his face.
At this time, Makimura was carrying the bald head.
"How about the bald head?" Ogata pursed his lips at the bald head being carried behind Makimura.
"He's fine." Makimura raised his bald head from behind, "But he passed out."
Thanks to the combined efforts of Ogata and Makimura, the explosive bomb just now was not thrown into the middle of them and detonated.
In such a strong explosion, no one, including Poggi's dog, was seriously injured - it must be said that it was really lucky among misfortunes.
After confirming that everyone around him was okay, Ogata began to observe his surroundings carefully.
Most of the ceiling overhead was blown away.
The ground was covered with scraps of wood and paper.
There was an exaggeratedly large hole in the wall where the window was.
"Where was the person who threw the bomb at us just now?" Ogata asked.
"I didn't find him," Makimura said. "I didn't see any blood on the ground. The guy must have escaped."
Cha Cha Cha Cha...
At this moment, Ogata and his party heard dense footsteps coming from one end of the street.
Ogata and his party followed the sound and saw a large group of people running toward them in fear and confusion.
Among this large group of people were many people dressed as officials.
"It seems that the explosion just now attracted a lot of people..." Ogata muttered softly.
Ogata felt that his eardrums were still aching.
Such a strong explosion and such a loud noise would be strange if it didn't attract a lot of people.
Now among their group, Hasegawa and Baldhead are both in a coma.
Atachi was in a half-conscious state.
In this situation, it is really not suitable to have a head-on conflict with others.
At the same time, under such circumstances, it is really not suitable to be caught by officials.
Ogata needless to say.
Makimura has not yet asked Baldhead where they placed the bombs in Kyoto, so he has no time to waste with the officials.
If you are caught by the officials, they will definitely ask you questions such as "Why are you here?" and "What happened with the explosion just now?"
So no matter what, Ogata and his party cannot be caught by the officials.
Ogata leaned down, held Amachi's shoulders, and shook him vigorously.
"Wake up! Omachi! Get up!"
Under Ogata's shaking, Amachi slowly opened his eyes.
"Well... good evening..."
"Good evening, my dear!"
Ogata, who had no choice but to carry Amachi who was still in a dazed state, could only carry him on his back.
Ogata carried the confused Omachi, Makimura carried the unconscious Baldhead, and Shimada carried Hasegawa, who was also unconscious. The three people each carried one person and fled quickly.
"Hurry! Chase quickly! Catch up with those people!"
The official servants who noticed Ogata and his party quickly followed them.
Because each of them was carrying one person on his back, Ogata and his team could not move very fast, and there was no complicated terrain nearby, so it was difficult to get rid of the gang of officials behind them.
Ogata, who realized that this would be extremely detrimental to them, took the lead and said to Makimura, Shimada and others beside him:
"Atachi and I will lure the officials away."
After saying that, without waiting for Makimura and Shimada to respond, Oromachi fled in another direction with Amachi on his back.
Ogata separated from Makimura and others, and the officials who followed them had to separate their forces to chase Ogata, who fled in another direction.
Ogata lured away nearly half of the official staff, greatly reducing the pressure on Makimura and others.
With the pressure greatly reduced, Makimura and others were finally able to gradually distance themselves from the officials.
Judging from the speed at which Makimura and others are closing the distance between them and the official servants, it will only be a matter of time before Makimura and others get rid of the official servants.
However, at this moment, Makimura's breathing suddenly began to quicken.
"Ha...ha...ha...damn..."
Makimura cursed quietly.
Makimura now feels more and more dizzy.
After experiencing the explosion, Makimura felt a little dizzy after getting up from the ground.
At first, Makimura didn't take the dizziness seriously.
This slight dizziness did not bring any inconvenience to Makimura.
But gradually, after carrying this bald head to escape the pursuit of the officials, and after such violent exercise, Makimura felt that his head was getting more and more dizzy.
——Did the explosion just now hurt my head...
Makimura, who realized that he seemed to have underestimated the injury on his head, had nothing to do with his current predicament.
He could still hear footsteps behind him.
Therefore, Makimura couldn't stop and could only continue to run as hard as he could with his bald head on his back.
Shimada, who was following Makimura closely, noticed something strange about Makimura, and said urgently to Makimura:
"Makimura-senpai! What's wrong with you? Why do you look so weird!"
"I'm fine..."
In order not to worry Shimada, Makimura casually said "I'm fine" and tried to keep his spirits up.
In order to keep himself awake, Makimura bit the tip of his tongue.
But it was of no use - Makimura still felt that his head was getting more and more dizzy, and gradually, his eyes began to turn black.
Even after biting his tongue, Makimura still couldn't stop the inky blackness from occupying his field of vision.
Unable to resist the strong dizziness in his head, Makimura became unsteady on his feet, staggered a few steps, and then fell heavily to the ground.
Makimura tried to regain his footing in time.
However, the consciousness that was about to cease made his legs feel as if they were filled with lead and could no longer move...
After realizing that Makimura fell forward, Shimada exclaimed, and then quickly released a hand to help Makimura.
However, at this moment - a big wrinkled hand stretched out from the darkness, and held up Makimura one step ahead of Shimada...
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Ogata and Omachi quickly threw away all the pursuers behind them.
After all, Ogata has the ability to move on top of the eaves.
Ogata, who rushed up to the eaves, took less than a quarter of an hour to get rid of the group of pursuers who were chasing them.
After throwing away the pursuers, Ogata carried Omachi and fell back to the ground from the eaves.
Ogata specifically landed in an alley where few people passed.
"There should be no pursuers..." Atachi looked back at her and Ogata.
Atachi has now recovered from his dazed state.
"We should get rid of it." Ogata panted as he lowered Omachi on his back to the ground.
As soon as he put Omachi on his back back to the ground, Ogata's expression suddenly changed, he quickly turned around and looked into the depths of the alley not far away, and reached out to Daishiten at his waist.
"...Come out." Ogata stared at the depths of the alley and said in a deep voice.
"Hehehe, brother Ogata, Komachi, don't be nervous, it's me."
An old male voice sounded from the depths of the alley.
As the old male voice fell, a stooped old man slowly emerged from the darkness.
"Lord Fuma?!"*2
Ogata and Atachi called out the old man's name in unison.
After the wind demon fully emerged from the depths of the alley, Ogata and Atachi looked at the wind demon with a look of extreme astonishment.
Because Fuma's hand was dragging a dying young man wearing a Shiranui ninja costume who was probably only half alive...