Chapter 398 Yidaozhai, the sword saint duo [Explosion 7000 words]
Although he was wearing such a bright smile, what he said was completely incompatible with Genichi's current expression...
"...Genichi-san, are you serious...?"
"Of course I'm serious." Genichi shook the Tengu mask in his hand, "In order to prevent irrelevant passers-by from seeing my face, I asked Shimada to buy me this Tengu mask."
"...No wonder you suddenly asked Shimada to buy so many toys for you. Did you want to use other toys as a cover to buy this mask..."
Speaking of this, Ogata sighed lightly.
"Lord Gendai, you probably didn't get Miss Kinoshita's consent for your idea of hunting down your enemies, right?"
"If I had obtained Xiaolin's consent, I wouldn't have had to secretly plan to break through the window in the middle of the night." Yuan Yi said confidently, "Xiaolin is quite verbose sometimes. If Xiaolin knew
I actually plan to take the initiative to fight against those people who beat me, and it will definitely take me a long time to teach them."
"Genichi-san, my thoughts are the same as Miss Kinoshita's." Ogata scratched his neck, "I think it's better for you to continue to be patient."
"Our primary goal now is to defeat Shiranui."
"So it is better to do less than to do more..."
Ogata wanted to continue talking, but Genichi raised his right index finger and shook it left and right.
"Ogata-kun, don't you understand this?"
"You should also know, right? Shiranui and I have a bloody feud."
Yuan Yi raised his left hand and scratched his left eye vertically.
"When I was young, I had a deadly fight with the current 17th generation Balrog and blinded his left eye. This was a personal grudge."
"Ten years ago, Fuma no Sato and Shiranui had a falling out. When Fuma was about to be surrounded and killed by Enma and the others, I personally stepped in to mediate."
"As a result, Shiranui missed the opportunity to kill the Fuuma who attacked their base alone and brought shame and humiliation to them. This is public revenge."
"The two hatreds combined have long made that Balrog guy hate me to the core."
Ogata listened carefully and nodded from time to time.
Ogata has heard of the two great hatreds between Genichi and Shiranui.
The former was learned from the secret book "Muga Two Sword Style", and the latter was learned from Fuma's mouth when he was recuperating at Fuma's home after the "Battle of Nijo Castle".
"It's unclear whether Enma knows that many of my enemies are in Edo."
"Let's just assume that Enma knows that there are many of my enemies in Edo."
"Ogata-kun, think about it."
"If you are Enma who hates Kinoshita Genichi to the core, and you learn that there are many people in Edo who also hate Kinoshita Genichi to the core, what will you do?"
Hearing this, Ogata raised his eyebrows slightly.
Although Genichi had not finished speaking at this time, Ogata had already understood what Genichi meant.
"Would you consider cooperating with these guys who also hate Kinoshita Genichi to the core?" Genichi grinned, "As you just said, our primary goal now is to defeat Shiranui.
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"For us, whose ultimate goal is to defeat Shiranui, these enemies of mine who may fight alongside Shiranui are potential enemies."
"So before we launch a general attack on Shiranui, don't you think it is a wise move to kill our previous enemies?"
After silently listening to Genichi's words, Ogata fell silent.
Ogata had to admit that what Genichi said made sense.
His heart, which was originally dissatisfied with the idea that nothing would happen once the source of origin was gone, was obviously shaken.
While Ogata was still deep in thought, Genichi put the Tengu mask back on his face.
"By the way, Ogata-kun, you might as well follow me to fight against my enemies."
"Ah?" Shock appeared on Ogata's face.
Genichi's invitation came so unexpectedly that Ogata was stunned.
"If I'm the only one fighting against many, I might let some people escape."
"It would be much easier if you were in charge."
"How about it? Do you want to come with me?"
Ogata was stunned for a while at this sudden invitation from Genichi.
The already shaken heart became even more shaken.
Accompanying Yuan Yi will definitely earn you a lot of experience points.
The concept of experience points has always been very attractive to Ogata.
But Yuan Yi's talk has not stopped.
"If you come with me, I can also teach you some sword-wielding skills."
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"Huh... the wind is so strong..."
As Ogata said this, he tightened his upper body haori.
The night wind blowing towards Ogata like a sharp blade reminds Ogata all the time that we are in a season where the temperature difference between day and night is huge.
In order to fight against the gusts of night wind, Ogata was also fully armed: hakama, kimono, haori, and cloth socks were all neatly worn.
Just now, Genichi and Ogata jumped out of the window of their room one after another.
At this moment, the two of them were standing on a street with no one else around.
Now converted into earth time units, it is probably close to 24:00 in the evening.
At this time, except for a few areas such as Yoshiwara, the rest of Edo was dark, and no one was wandering around in the streets.
"Let's go, Ogata-kun."
Because he was wearing a tengu mask that just covered his entire face, with only a pair of eyes exposed, Genichi's voice was a little dull.
"Let's buy you a mask that can cover your whole face first. If you let passers-by see your face while cleaning up those 'rats', it will be troublesome."
Compared to Ogata, Genichi's dress is quite cool.
She was still wearing only the thin white yukata, with neither shoes nor socks on her feet.
Looking at Genichi's cool outfit, Ogata couldn't help but say:
"Master Genda, does it really matter if you are dressed like this? Be careful of catching a cold. At least put on a pair of shoes."
"Hahahaha. No, no need." Yuan Yi waved his hand boldly, "This little wind is just enough to sober me up."
"The calluses on the soles of my feet are very thick, so it doesn't matter if I wear shoes or not."
That's true...
Ogata said this in his heart and nodded.
As Yuan Yi said just now, the calluses on the soles of his feet are very thick.
It was so thick that it reminded Ogata of the soles of boots found in Western countries.
It's so thick that when two soles of the feet are slapped together, they can make a "bang bang bang" sound...
Seeing that Genichi really didn't seem to be afraid of the cold and didn't want to wear shoes, Ozu stopped talking nonsense and brought the topic back to business.
"Genichi-san, how do you plan to find those 'rats' in Edo, which has a population of more than one million?"
It's always a bit inconvenient to call him "Mr. Genichi's enemy" or "my enemy" all the time.
In order to make it easier to call them, Ogata and the two gave the group of enemies of Genichi a nickname: rats.
"Since I have decided to deal with these 'rats' one by one, I must know where to go to meet them most easily."
Yuan Yi grinned.
"Let's go to Yoshiwara."
"Yoshihara?" Because he was too surprised, Ogata's tone couldn't help but lose control.
"Ogata-kun, have you forgotten? There are many 'rats' coming in and out of Yoshiwara, trying to find me in Yoshiwara or collecting information about me."
“So it’s right for us to go to Yoshiwara!”
After hearing this reminder from Genichi, Ogata thought about it and it seemed that such a thing was indeed the case.
At that time, Genichi learned from his old acquaintance Shirobei that there were many "rats" coming in and out of Yoshiwara with the purpose of looking for Kinoshita Genichi, and from this he learned that many of his enemies gathered in Edo.
"I just came back from Yoshihara, and I have to go back to Yoshihara again..." Ogata couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"Let's go, Ogata-kun."
I don't know if it was because he breathed the outside air that he hadn't seen for a long time, but Yuan Yi seemed to be quite excited.
"I don't know where the nearest shop that sells masks is... If I had known, when I asked Shimada to buy this Tengu mask for me, I would have asked Shimada where he could buy masks."
After a fierce ideological struggle, Ogata decided to turn a blind eye to Genichi's outing.
Ah, no. Using the phrase "turn a blind eye" to describe it is slightly inaccurate.
Ogata no longer "turned a blind eye", but directly became Genichi's accomplice.
Ogata understood that a large part of the reason for Genichi's invitation to him was to lure Ogata into the water, so that Ogata and he would become grasshoppers on the same rope, and thus achieve the goal of sealing things off naturally.
Although he already knew that a large part of Genichi's reason for inviting him was to drag him into the trap, Ogata still decided to jump into this pit.
It can be considered to be due to several reasons.
On the one hand, I think Genichi's idea of killing potential enemies is very reasonable and worth trying. It can also earn a wave of experience points by the way.
On the other hand, he was very interested in Genichi's swordsmanship instruction, and wanted to see with his own eyes how powerful Genichi, known as the "Sword Master", possessed.
Although he had known Genichi for a long time, Ogata had never seen Genichi personally take action against an enemy.
If you say that you are not interested in Yuan Yi's actual combat capabilities and are not interested in Yuan Yi's guidance, it is definitely a lie.
Because of these various reasons, Ogata decided to hunt "rats" with Genichi and make some noise together.
The two of them were lucky enough to find a shop selling masks that was still open late at night.
Ogata didn't care what mask he wore to hide his identity, so he just randomly bought a white fox mask.
After purchasing masks to hide their identities, "Tengu" and "White Fox" carefully avoided passers-by who happened to appear on the street while approaching Yoshiwara...
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When Ogata and Genichi just slipped out through the window,
In the hotel where Edo, Ogata and the others are staying
Mamiya, who was facing the ceiling with his face straight and his eyes closed, was breathing long and regularly. After Ogata and Genichi jumped out of the room, he opened his eyes suddenly and sat up from the bed.
Come.
When Ogata and Genichi jumped out of the window to leave, they did not forget to close the window again.
Mamiya sat up from the bed, showing a strange expression, and whispered in a confused and helpless tone:
"What are the two of them doing..."
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Ogata and Genichi did not enter Yoshihara, but lurked outside Yoshihara's gate.
Ogata and Genichi were hiding in a dense bush outside the Yoshihara gate, monitoring the only entrance and exit of Yoshihara.
Although it was late now, there were still many men and women going in and out of the sleeve gates on both sides of the gate.
Looking at the Yoshihara gate not far away, which had just left and then returned not long ago, Ogata had a complicated expression on his face.
"Genichi-san." Ogata said softly, "Although there are indeed many 'rats' in and out of Yoshiwara in search of you and your information, but it is already so late now, can we really encounter 'rats'?
"
"And do you remember who were the 'rats'?"
The number of "rats" is definitely a drop in the bucket compared to the number of tourists entering and leaving Yoshiwara every day.
It is definitely a small probability event to squat outside the gate of Yoshiwara and catch a "rat" that happens to enter or leave Yoshiwara.
"Although I have forgotten the faces of some enemies, I still remember the faces of some enemies."
After saying that, Yuan Yi suddenly stretched his right hand forward.
"Aha, caught it."
As Genichi spoke, he spread his right hand.
A bee that had been crushed to death by Yuan Yi lay quietly on Yuan Yi's right palm.
"I just feel a little greedy."
After saying that, Yuan Yi dropped the bee in his palm into his mouth and started chewing it.
Looking at Genichi's shocking operation, Ogata's eyes widened.
"Master Yuan Yi, bees should not be eaten raw, right? Their stings cannot be touched."
As far as Ogata knows, bee stings seem to be poisonous and will cause excruciating pain if stung.
And Yuan Yi actually stuffed the bee into his mouth...
"It's bad luck. The bee didn't get any honey. It's not sweet."
While spitting out the stinger of the bee, Genichi continued to speak in a vague tone:
"Indeed, bees' stings cannot be touched randomly."
"The first time I ate bees, I was tortured to death."
"But then my body seemed to adapt to the toxins from bees, and I no longer feel any discomfort no matter how much I eat bees."
Speaking of this, a faint look of reminiscence appeared on Yuan Yi's face.
"That guy from Feng Mo taught me this trick of using bees as food."
"We once had no money to eat due to some accidents, and then Feng Mo taught me what I could eat raw without dying."
"It was really a tearful time..."
Looking at Genichi with a look of reminiscence on his face, Ogata asked:
"Genichi-sama, you and Fuma-sama seem to have a very good relationship."
"He even paid the price of becoming a mortal enemy of Shiranui, mediating the fight between Shiranui and Fuma no Sato, and saving Fuma-sama's life."
The "Battle of Nijo Castle" ended, and when Ogata was recuperating at Fuuma's home, he heard from Fuuma that Fuuma attacked Shiranui's base alone, and that Genichi single-handedly mediated the war between the two great ninjas.
2 magnificent stories.
"Feng Mo and I are old friends."
The look of reminiscence on Yuan Yi's face became more intense.
"Ogata-kun, you may not know that when Fuma took the name of the new Fuma, his original name was Kanmitsu."
"We've known each other since his name was just Tangerine."
"As for what you just said, 'not willing to pay the price of becoming a mortal enemy of Shiranui'..."
Speaking of this, a somewhat meaningful look flashed in Yuan Yi's eyes.
"Having a grudge against Shiranui is nothing at all."
"I have offended many forces much more powerful than Shiranui in my life."
"Forget it, let's not talk about these old things, let's talk about something interesting. Ogata-kun, look over there."
Genichi pursed his lips towards the Yoshihara gate not far away.
Ogata, thinking that a "rat" had finally appeared, hurriedly looked towards Yoshiwara's gate.
As a result, I only saw a woman who was about 30 years old and exuded mature charm. She was holding a big bag and left Yoshiwara quickly along the sleeve door on the right side of the Yoshiwara gate.
"According to my guess, this woman's background should be very good."
Yuan Yi was talking eloquently.
"Although she is wearing ordinary clothes, her feet are very white and clean. Only women from well-off families can have feet like this."
"...You asked me to look at that woman just to say this?" Several black lines appeared on Ogata's face.
"This is a little game I used to love to play to pass the time." Yuan Yiyi said, "Based on a person's appearance and clothing, you can guess what his family background is and what he does for a living."
After saying that, Yuan Yi took a deep breath.
"It's definitely more fun to play outside than to sit around and drink alone in your room."
Ogata (staring...): "Master Minamoto... let me confirm, the reason why you decided to annihilate the 'rats' one by one is to reduce our potential enemies, not to disturb them when you go out to play.
Guys take out...right?"
"Of course I want to kill all our potential enemies!" Yuan Yi said without thinking with a righteous look.
Despite what Genichi said, Ogata still stared at Genichi with a strange look mixed with a bit of suspicion...
While Ogata and Genichi were talking, another group of people walked out of Yoshiwara.
Seeing someone else coming out of Yoshihara, Ogata stopped looking at Genichi with suspicious eyes and followed Genichi to look towards Yoshihara's sleeve door.
After casting his eyes on this new group of people coming out of Yoshiwara, Genichi raised his eyebrows.
"Ogata-kun, it seems that our stay in this place so far has not been wasted."
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Baoji is very depressed now.
He led his six subordinates to Yoshihara tonight to inquire and collect information about Kinoshita Genichi.
However, no matter how much he inquired, there was no information about Kinoshita Genichi.
Although there are many old men who come and go in Yoshiwara, none of them is Kinoshita Genichi.
Tonight is the time when the results of the "Imperial Examination" literary test are released.
In order to confirm whether Kinoshita Genichi came to Edo to participate in this "Gozen Examination", Hoji just took a look at the list of those who passed the literary test, but he did not see the name Kinoshita Genichi.
If Kinoshita Genichi’s name is not seen, then there are only three possibilities: Genichi did not come to participate, Genichi participated under a pseudonym, and Genichi participated but failed the literary test.
Today is already the 16th day that Baoji led his men south to Edo.
For more than half a month, Baoji never slacked off for a day, running around every day to get information about Kinoshita Genichi.
However, until now, no information about Ding Dian and Kinoshita Genichi has been collected...
Perhaps he was dissatisfied with the current life of not knowing when it would end. As soon as he came out of Yoshiwara, a subordinate behind Baoji said in a tired tone:
"Hoji-sama...Isn't it possible that Kinoshita Genichi never came to Edo at all?"
Hearing this question from his subordinates, Baoji couldn't help but fell silent.
Because he felt that the "Gozen Trial Combination" event was very likely to attract Kinoshita Genichi, a man who was extremely obsessed with swordsmanship, Hokichi led his only six subordinates to go to Edo in a mighty manner.
So many days have passed, and no information about Ding Dian and Kinoshita Genichi has been collected, which makes Baoji couldn't help but murmur in his heart: Could it be that Kinoshita Genichi really didn't come to Edo?
After a moment of silence, Baoji said in a deep voice:
"Let's stay here in Edo for another half month."
"If there is still no news from Kinoshita Genichi, we will go back."
The hatred for Kinoshita Genichi made Hokichi unwilling to leave Edo until there was no hope at all.
Baoji will never forget that night eight years ago when Kinoshita Genichi broke into their village and killed almost all of Baoji's subordinates.
Fortunately, the subordinates fought hard and bought Baoji time to escape, and Baoji escaped Kinoshita Genichi's butcher knife.
The bandit Hokichi's family, which was originally famous in the Akita area, was completely destroyed because of Kinoshita Genichi.
In the past eight years, Baoji's hatred for Yuan Yi has not only not diminished, but has only grown day by day.
In order to take revenge, during these eight years, Baoji collected information about Yuan Yi from all over the world and prepared weapons that could defeat Yuan Yi.
It's late at night now. After leaving Yoshihara, the number of people Baoji and others have seen so far is less than five fingers.
Baoji is no longer the majestic bandit leader he once was, so in order to save money, the hotel he and his men stayed in was a cheaper hotel located in a remote area.
At this time, even the avenues that would be very busy during the day are almost deserted, let alone remote areas.
After Baoji and others turned onto a trail, the sight that appeared in front of Baoji and others made Baoji and his men have to stop.
At the end of the path beneath their feet, two people stood.
Two people dressed very strangely.
One of them was dressed quite normally, with both upper and lower body clothes well-dressed.
The other person's attire was somewhat unusual in such a night with the whistling wind. He was only wearing a thin white bathrobe and no shoes.
Although one of them was dressed normally, both of them were weird in Baoji's eyes because they both wore masks on their faces.
One person wears a tengu mask and the other person wears a white fox mask.
"Who are you?" Baoji said in a deep voice.
While questioning these two weirdos in a deep voice, Baoji and the six subordinates behind him all put their hands on the handles of the sabers at their waists.
"Hmm... If I remember correctly, you should be the bandit leader Bao Ji that I wiped out a few years ago, right?"
"Tengu" said suddenly.
Listening to the voice of "Tengu", Baoji's expression changed instantly, and then he gritted his teeth and screamed:
"Kinoshita Genichi!!"
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After pointing out that the group of people who just walked out of Yoshiwara were "rats", Genichi led Ogata to follow closely behind the group of people, looking for a suitable opportunity to ambush, and at the same time introduced to Ogata who this group of "rats" were.
Genichi wiped out the remaining bandits in the Akita area about 8 years ago.
Eight years ago, Genichi went to Akita for some reasons and learned that a group of bandits named "The Hoji Family" were occupying the top of the mountain and committing evil crimes.
Because he was disgusted with this gang of guys who burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil, Yuan Yi personally set out to wipe them out.
Because it only happened 8 years ago, Genichi still remembers the face of the bandit leader who escaped.
After Ogata and Genichi made a dashing appearance, Hoji immediately showed a hysterical look.
"Hurry! You guys!" Baoji took off a thing wrapped in thick steps from his back and shouted to the six subordinates behind him, "Help me earn time!"
Baoji has a lot of doubts now.
For example: Genichi Kinoshita is really in Edo? Why did he stop in front of me? Was he following and monitoring me just now...
Although there are countless questions, Baosheng doesn't have time to ask them one by one now.
He only has one thought now: kill the bastard who brought him to this point!
The six subordinates behind Baoji were all survivors who narrowly escaped Yuan Yi's butchery eight years ago.
Now seeing their enemies voluntarily appearing in front of them, these six people also grimaced, pulled out the sabers from their waists, and then, while shouting, started to kill Ogata and Genichi.
"Ogata-kun, I leave it to you."
Genichi raised his hand and patted Ogata's shoulder.
"Huh?" Ogata turned to look at Genichi, his eyes that were only exposed outside the mask flashed with astonishment, "Am I the only one coming?"
Ogata looked at Genichi, as if he was telling him: Are you kidding me?! You promised to teach me some sword-wielding skills? Let me fight, what are you teaching?!
Genichi, who understood the meaning of Ogata's eyes, patted Ogata's shoulder again, and then put on a confident look.
"Leave their leader to me, and leave his younger brother to you. By the way, let me see with my own eyes how powerful you are."
The six men had already arrived, and Ogata had no time to argue with Kinoshita.
The eyes exposed outside the mask were fixed on the six people who were only a few steps away, and then he stretched his left and right hands to his waist and pulled out Da Shi Tian and Da Zi Zai.
Since arriving in Edo, I haven't had much opportunity to use the Mugo Nitō-ryu.
Ogata planned to take advantage of this opportunity to regain the skill of the two-sword style.
After these 6 people entered his attack range, Ouri took advantage of his height, long arms, and long sword, and took the lead in launching the attack.
With just two blows, he knocked down the two people closest to him.
The system prompts also continued to play in Ogata's mind.
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For the story of Fuma's attack on Shiranui, and the story of Genichi mediating the war between the two great ninjas, you can watch the full-order extra "The Last Fuma Kotaro."