Ogata and Kitaro happened to be in a very remote place.
There are no houses around, only trees. Apart from Ogata, Guao, and Jitaro, there is no fourth person here.
Ogata was very satisfied with this environment where there were no other people around.
In this way, he can also let go of his hands and feet.
"Why..." Ji Tairou endured the pain in his abdomen and stood up slowly, "Renzhan Yishi... will be here...!"
Shiranui has always wanted revenge, and he especially hates those who make their missions unable to proceed smoothly, or directly cause their missions to fail.
When dealing with such people, Shiranui has always adhered to the concept of "retaliating with force".
Guasheng's parents and brother died tragically because of this.
Ogata's attack on Nijo Castle in Kyoto more than three months ago, Shiranui Ri's first major mission from the shogunate, ended in a tragic failure, which directly caused Shiranui Ri's status in the hearts of most of the shogunate to plummet.
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The "anti-Shiranui forces" in the shogunate grew stronger all at once.
Killing someone's job is like killing one's parents. This principle holds true at all times and in all countries.
What Ogata did in Kyoto was tantamount to directly destroying Shiranui's job.
Enma hated Ogata deeply. After learning that it was Ogata Ittosai who caused their mission to protect Nijo Castle to fail, Enma directly found a large number of Ogata's wanted notices, spread them throughout Shiranui, and demanded that everyone in the village
Ninjas all remember this face.
He also issued a very high bounty to Ogata. The ninja who discovers clues about Ogata's whereabouts will be rewarded 5 taels. The ninja who takes Ogata's head will be rewarded 500 taels. The ninja who captures Ogata alive will be rewarded 1,000 taels.
Because the number of task commissions that can be received has been decreasing year by year, Shiranui's finances have not been very optimistic in recent years.
Not to mention 1,000 taels, just 500 taels, for the current Shiranui, it is not a number that can be given without even frowning.
Enma is willing to pay so much money to put a bounty on Ogata's head, which shows that Enma's hatred for Ogata is really extraordinary.
Just looking for clues about Ogata's whereabouts, most people in the village, including Gokutaro, did not take the bounty on Ogata's head to heart.
Although the bounty is very tempting, everyone also knows that there is no life to get the money.
Nijo Castle is defended by more than 20 ninjas headed by Kotaro, one of the "Four Heavenly Kings".
Among the more than twenty ninjas, they were all jounin and chuunin, not a single ninja.
A team with such amazing combat power was still completely wiped out by Ogata Ittosai.
As the "Four Heavenly Kings" who usually have a lot of contact with each other, Gokutaro knows that Kotaro's strength is among his equals.
Although Ji Tairou is usually arrogant, he is not a fool.
Kotaro was defeated by Ogata even with so many helpers. Kotaro would not be arrogant enough to think that he could kill or capture Ogata Ittosai alive and get the reward when fighting alone or with few helpers.
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An unknown person with an ordinary appearance suddenly turned into the world-famous executioner Ittousai. No words can describe Jitaro's current mood.
"Why am I here...Well..." Ogata said softly, "Maybe it's because someone has been making a sincere wish."
After saying that, Ogata dwarfed and lowered his body's center of gravity.
The whole person once again turned into an afterimage and rushed towards Ji Taro.
Although there was still residual pain in his abdomen, Gokutaro couldn't care less about it now.
He gritted his teeth, clenched the two swords in his hands, and faced Ogata's slashing attack.
clang!
Gokutaro used his two swords to hold Ogata's Daishiten and Daizizai respectively.
After the slashing attack was blocked, Ogata repeated his old trick and bent his left leg, using his knee to hit Gokutaro in the stomach.
He had just suffered a loss from this move, so Ji Tairou was already prepared.
Seeing Ogata using this move again, Gokutaro let out a cold "hum", then he bent his right leg and blocked Ogata's left knee with his right knee.
However, as soon as he bent his right leg, Oconi made a change.
Ogata lowered his already bent left leg at a speed that was faster than that of Gokutaro, then stretched out his right foot and hooked Gokutaro's leg with a special technique.
Looking at Ogata's action, Jitaro's pupils shrank suddenly.
He quickly stepped back, avoiding Ogata's sweeping leg, and said loudly with a shocked face:
"Why do you know our Shiranui-ryu jujutsu?!"
With just one glance, Jitaro recognized that what Ogata had just used was the jujutsu technique in their Shiranui-ryu ninjutsu.
And judging from the strength, speed, and skills, his attainments in Shiranui-ryu jujitsu are not low!
"Sorry, I don't want to waste too much time explaining it to you slowly."
The jujitsu attack just now did not work. Without showing any trace of frustration or regret, Ogata rearranged his stance and rushed towards Gokutaro.
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Is this the transfer of "grandmaster level"...
Compared with that time in Kyoto, Ogata's biggest change is that he can freely enter the "selfless realm" and be promoted to the "master level".
Now, after entering the "selfless realm", the circulation can be directly increased to the "grandmaster level".
This is the first time Ogata has used the "Grandmaster Level" transfer.
The first feeling that brought to Ogata was:
The gap between "master level" and "grandmaster level" is much larger than the gap between "advanced" and "master level"!
Using the "Grand Master" flow, the West feels as if the knife in his hand is connected to his body.
You can use the sword in your hand to follow your will, block Kitaro's attack with the least movement, and launch a counterattack against Kitaro.
Gokutaro is now completely suppressed by Ogata, which is proof that the "grandmaster level" transfer is much stronger than the "master level" transfer.
According to Ogata's estimation, Gokutaro's strength is on par with that of Kotaro.
Ogata was able to fight on a par with Kotaro before.
And now Ogata, who was much stronger than he was in Kyoto, directly suppressed Gokutaro.
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clang!
clang!
clang!
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The sound of sharp blades clashing sounded at a rhythmic frequency.
After once again using Dai Zizai to block Gokutaro's stabbing sword, Ogata used Daishiten to inflict a new wound on Gokutaro's body.
This is the seventh wound that Ogata has inflicted on Gokutaro.
Although Jitarō also succeeded in counterattacking and inflicted some injuries on Ogata, the injuries he inflicted on Ogata were all insignificant injuries.
What Ji Tairou is most proud of is his speed.
His most common fighting method is to rely on his body's agility to launch a quick attack on the enemy.
However, facing Ogata, Gokutaro's proud speed had no effect at all.
Ogata's speed was even faster than him.
His strength and stamina are far above him.
After receiving, dodging, and enduring so many attacks from Ogata, Gokutaro's breathing began to quicken.
On the other hand, Ogata only breathed slightly faster.
The horror on Ji Tairou's face became more intense.
Now...I have taken "Yaksha Pills"!
Ji Tairou shouted in his heart with great confusion.
This is not the first time he has taken "Yaksha Pills".
In the past, as long as he took the "Yaksha Pill", his opponents who were inseparable from him would be quickly suppressed by him.
And now, after taking the "Yaksha Pill", Ogata was still being pressed down and beaten. This made Gokutaro feel like his view of the world had collapsed.
Impossible! Impossible!
Unwilling to accept this reality, Gokutaro straightened the swords in both hands and stabbed Ogata like a bull's horn.
This is a killing move that Ji Tairou is very proud of.
Ogata's expression didn't change when he faced the kaitaro thrusting at extremely fast speed.
Using only his left foot as the axis, he turned his body in a circle and dodged Gokutaro's killer move.
Dragon Tail·Dodge!
After dodging Gokutaro's killing move, Ogata's Daishiten swept horizontally towards Gokutaro's chest, cutting the clothes on Gokutaro's chest and taking away part of the skin and flesh on Gokutaro's chest.
The severe pain made Kitaro calm down a little.
This also made Ji Tairou's fear quickly expand.
A strong sense of fear began to control Kitaro's mind.
Jitaro has clearly felt that he is far from Ogata's opponent.
Fear and the desire to survive are often tied together.
Under the dual influence of fear and desire to survive, Kitaro screamed:
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!"
With the help of his desire to survive, Gokutaro burst out with a huge force and pushed away Ogata's sword.
After pushing Ogata away, Gokutaro used quick and skillful movements to take out two shurikens from his lower back and threw them towards Ogata.
Whizzing!
Two shurikens cut through the air and shot towards Ogata.
Hidden weapon?...
Ogata, with a bit of surprise flashing across his face, thought to himself as he quickly jumped to the side and dodged the two shurikens in time.
Kitaro didn't look to see if his two shurikens had hit Ogata.
The reason why he threw these two shurikens was just to attract Ogata's attention and give him some time to escape.
The next moment after throwing the two shurikens, Gokutaro, who no longer had any intention to fight, quickly turned around, used all his strength, and fled backwards without looking back.
He no longer has any missions, and he no longer thinks about killing melons until he gets tired of them.
There was only one thought left in his mind: run away.
Can escape! Can escape!
Ji Tairou said loudly to himself.
Ogata Ittousai's speed is not much faster than mine! I can escape as long as I run with all my strength!
For some reason, Ji Tairou recalled the people he had killed in the past for no apparent reason.
Due to their bloodthirsty nature and desire for achievement, the other three "Four Heavenly Kings" killed more people than Gokutaro alone.
Ji Tairou lost count of how many escapees he had chased and killed.
Ji Tairou never thought that one day he would become a fugitive and run for his life.
After Ogata dodged the two shurikens thrown by Kitaro, he looked at the escaping Kitaro with a bit of surprise.
Ogata never expected that Gokutaro would lose his will to fight so quickly and then run away.
"Don't expose your back to the enemy casually..."
While Ogata muttered softly, he turned the Daiji in his left hand to a reverse grip, then put his left hand into his arms and took out Kasumi Nagi.
boom!
boom!
Just now, Ogata had used 2 bullets in Yoshiwara to deal with the two ninjas who were going to be detrimental to Gua Sheng.
Because Ogata was in a hurry to bring Guasheng to a safe place, he did not have time to reload Kasumi Nagi, so there were still 2 pellets left in Kasumi Nagi's gun chamber.
Ogata shot out the remaining two projectiles in one go.
Ogata's shooting accuracy has also increased due to entering the "selfless state".
One of these two projectiles hit Kitaro's lower back, and the other hit his right calf.
"Well!"
Ji Tairou screamed in pain.
After aiming at Kitaro's back and shooting him, Ogami quickly stuffed Kasumi Nagi back into his arms, and then rushed towards Kitaro, who was unable to even stand due to the bullet.
Gokutaro struggled to turn around and raised the sword in his hand, intending to block Ogata's attack.
But his sword was easily opened by Ogata with Daishi Tenge.
The flow of two swords without self·flow!
After blocking Gokutaro's sword, Ogata swung Daishiten and slashed Gokutaro from his left shoulder to his right abdomen in one stroke, completely causing Gokutaro to lose the ability to escape.
"What... was that just now...?" Gokutaro, who was slashed to the ground by Ogata, asked while vomiting blood.
"It's a short gun."
Ogata took out Kasumi Nagi from his arms again and showed it to Gokutaro.
"You ninjas are not the only ones who can use hidden weapons."
"As a warrior, it is reasonable for me to carry some hidden weapons on my body for self-defense. However, the power of my hidden weapons may be a little too exaggerated."
After saying that, Ogata tucked Kasumi Nagi back into his arms.
Then he turned his head and looked at Gua Sheng, whose brain seemed to have shut down from just now.
"Miss Guasheng, I think it's better to leave this person to you."
Ogata's sword just now stopped working.
It was not that he wanted to let Ji Tairou escape.
But to give another person the chance to kill Kitaro.
Hearing Ogata's words, Gua Sheng was stunned for a moment.
Then he walked slowly towards Ogata with a determined look on his face.
Ogata gave his great freedom to Gua Sheng.
After receiving the gift from Ogata, Gua Sheng walked slowly towards Kitaro, who had fallen to the ground but was still trying to crawl on the ground.
Looking at Gua Sheng, who had no expression on his face and slowly came towards him, Ji Tairou's face was filled with fear.
I don't know whether his face turned pale due to excessive blood loss or fear.
"Wait, wait!" Ji Tailang said hurriedly, "I, I, I know! It's my fault! It's my fault! I will work hard for you for the rest of my life to make amends for you! So... ah ah ah ah
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Before Ji Tairou finished speaking, Gua Sheng raised his hand high and stabbed Ji Tairou in the lower back while he was lying on the ground.
The severe pain distorted Ji Tairou's facial features.
But the severe pain also made Kitaro's desire to survive and fear become stronger.
This feeling of fear, which he had never experienced before, made Kitaro's tears and snot all flow out.
Ji Taro was vomiting blood, crying and begging Gua Sheng for mercy.
But the words he used to beg for mercy were always the same.
What about "forgive me", "I know I was wrong", "please let me go", "I will never trouble you again"...
Gua Sheng paid no attention to Gokutaro's begging for mercy.
He just waved the big sword in his hand and stabbed at Gokutaro one after another.
Guasheng's hand holding the knife trembled slightly with excitement.
Her beautiful big eyes were also filled with moisture from excitement.
"Father...mother...brother..."
When stabbing Ji Tairou with a knife, Gua Sheng mentioned his dead relatives over and over again in a slightly trembling voice.
After stabbing Ji Tailang countless times, Ji Tailang finally died.
Until the moment before he died, Ji Tailang was still begging Gua Sheng for mercy.
The face was covered with snot, tears, and blood, and the facial features became extremely ugly due to pain, fear, and the constant begging for mercy.
After Gokutaro died, the system sound sounded in Ogata's mind:
[Ding! Use Wuwo Sword Style and Flow to defeat the enemy]
[Acquire 300 personal experience points, 250 experience points for the swordsmanship "Mugo Ittō-ryu", 150 experience points for the swordsmanship "Sakakibara Ittō-ryu", and 80 experience points for the ninjutsu "Shiranui-ryu Ninjutsu"]
Because Ogata was not the one who killed Gokutaro, the system determined that Ogata defeated Gokutaro with the last move he had just used on Gokutaro: flow.
Because when dealing with Gokutaro just now, both Sakakibara Itto-ryu and Shiranui-ryu ninjutsu were used, so they both gained experience points.
Although the experience points obtained by "defeating" are much less than "killing", Ogata does not feel regretful or regretful.
After all, compared with letting Gua suffer a great revenge and get rid of a knot in his heart, such a small amount of experience seems a bit worthless.
Ogata glanced at Gokutaro, who was begging for mercy with a very ugly posture until the moment before his death.
"It's really ugly..."
Ogata whispered.
"If you risk everything and launch a life-threatening attack on me, you might be able to leave some very uncomfortable injuries on my body..."
Although his strength is similar to that of Kotaro, his state of mind is far worse than that of Kotaro.
Kotaro fought with high fighting spirit until the last moment.
After being fatally wounded, Kotaro did not say anything to beg for mercy, but tried to stand up again and continue fighting with Ogata.
But Ji Tairou chose to run away early.
Although Ogata has become much stronger than when he fought with Kotaro before, Gokutaro, who is about the same strength as Kotaro, has no chance of winning against Ogata even if he enters the "Yaksha Realm".
But if Jitaro dares to put aside everything and launch a desperate attack on Ogata, he will definitely prevent Ogata from winning so easily.
It's a pity that this murderous man has a stronger fear of death than anyone else.
Let a battle that might even leave the enemy with multiple injuries end in such an ugly situation.
After retracting his gaze from Jitaro, Ogata switched his breathing to normal breathing and exited the "state of selflessness".
Then he turned his attention to Gua Sheng, who was slumped on the ground holding Da Zi Zi in his hand.
Looking at Kitaro's body in front of him, his expression was blank.
"I... finally got my revenge..." She whispered as if she was talking to herself.
"Miss Guasheng." Ogata walked slowly to Guasheng's side, then squatted down, "Get up, the ground is very cold."
As soon as Ogata finished speaking, Gua Sheng slowly turned his head and looked at Ogata, who was squatting beside him.
Looking at the face next to him whose portrait he had seen countless times, Gua Sheng first opened his beautiful eyes.
His eyes filled with tears at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Big tears rolled down her round cheeks one after another.
Gua Sheng repeatedly opened and closed his trembling lips, as if he wanted to say something, but what he wanted to say could not be translated into concrete words.
Ogata felt that he should say something now.
After pursing his lips and being silent for a moment, Ogata said softly:
"Sorry, I didn't respond to your wish until now. I kept you waiting for so long."
The grievances, uneasiness, sadness and anger that had been accumulated since 4 years ago burst out in one breath.
The emotions that burst out flooded out like a dam bursting.
She has been alone since her family was killed four years ago.
Alone, he investigates the enemy who killed his family. Alone, he desperately faces an enemy that he cannot defeat no matter how hard he looks.
For the past four years, I have been facing all this alone.
Guasheng is 16 years old this year, and according to this era, she is already a mature woman.
But the way she cried at this time was like a child.
A child who seemed to have finally found his parents after being accidentally lost.
"Ogata... Wuwu... Ogata-sama really... Wu... really appeared in front of me!"
While Guasheng was crying, he said something that made Ogata laugh.
"Well, I'm here."
Guasheng threw himself into Ogata's arms.
After a while, Guasheng's tears stained Ogata's clothes around his chest.
With a helpless smile on his face, Ogata raised his hand and gently patted Gua Sheng's little head.
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Ji Tairou is good at speed. After taking "Yaksha Pill", his body speed increased significantly.
Unless Eitaro and the others were riding horses, they would not be able to keep up with Geitaro even if they broke their legs.
In order to catch up with the rescued Guaou as soon as possible, Gokutaro acted alone, while Eitaro followed behind with the eight genin.
When Ji Taro first set out, he took the southeast direction.
Eitaro led the eight genin in the southeast direction at a much slower speed than Gokutaro, but could not find Gokutaro or Kusei, so Eitaro concluded that Gokutaro must have changed directions.
"Eitaro-sama." A genin couldn't help but asked Eitaro, "Where are we going to find Gokutaro-sama now?"
"...Let's go there and give it a try." After Eitaro was silent for a while, he raised his hand and pointed in a certain direction.
"There? Why?"
"No reason, it's just intuition. I guess Ji Tairou changed this direction to find the melon."
After saying that, Eitaro suddenly turned his head and looked around.
At this moment, Eitaro was on an unknown trail.
This trail is quite narrow and can only accommodate 4 people walking side by side.
On the left and right sides of the trail are low, dilapidated longhouses, with the same dilapidated wooden walls blocking the perimeter of the longhouses.
Eitaro looked around as if he was looking for something, which aroused the doubts of a genin next to him.
"Eitaro-sama, what's wrong? Did you lose something?"
"...There aren't many people around," Eitaro said softly.
"Huh?" The genin didn't know what was going on, and just looked around blankly, "It's late at night after all, everyone is sleeping, and this place happens to be relatively remote... Hmm!"
Before the genin could finish his words, he felt a sharp pain in his throat that was close to tearing his whole body in half.
He turned his gaze and looked down.
I saw a kunai pierce his throat, and the throat was directly stabbed.
The person holding the kunai is Eitaro.
This genin stood very close to Eitaro, so Eitaro only had to raise his hand to pierce the genin's throat with a kunai.
After ending the man's life with a kunai expressionlessly, Eitaro loosened his right hand and let go of the kunai in his hand.
As he let go of the kunai in his right hand, Eitaro touched his left hand to his lower back and took out 5 new kunai.
Eitaro moved his left hand five times.
The 5 kunai flew to the throats, hearts, eyebrows and other vital points of the other 5 genin in 5 different flight trajectories.
The five kunai were thrown almost at the same time, and then they hit the vital points of the five genin at almost the same time, killing all five genin.
In the blink of an eye, Eitaro killed six genin.
Eitaro's movements were too fast.
In addition, the people present were all powerful but inexperienced genin.
Therefore, it was not until Eitaro killed 6 of them with 6 kunai that the two who were still alive finally realized it later.
Everything happened so suddenly.
Eitaro, who had been leading them to track down Gokutaro just now, suddenly killed them inexplicably.
A large number of questions poured out of the minds of the two survivors, causing their brains to almost shut down.
However, under the influence of the desire to survive, they still suppressed the doubts and horror in their hearts, and each made different reactions.
One of them pulled out the ninja sword on his back.
The other person ran away without hesitation.
Because the kunai he carried was used up, Eitaro drew out the short spear on his back and attacked the genin who drew his sword like a carnivore.
There is no suspense in the battle.
After just one encounter, the genin who tried to resist was shot to death by Eitaro.
The genin didn't realize how Eitaro had just drawn the gun until he was stabbed in the wrong heart.
Withdrawing the short spear that pierced the genin's heart, Eitaro chased the only remaining guy who escaped.
The intense fear and horror caused the escaping genin to try his best to escape while screaming at the top of his hoarse voice.
call!
He felt as if a group of wind was blowing from behind him.
Turn around and look.
Eitaro, carrying a short gun, ran to his left and walked side by side with him.
He was obviously a step ahead of Eitaro, but Eitaro still caught up easily.
Moreover, Eitaro's expression was very calm and he looked very at ease.
Chi!
The sound of a short gun cutting through clothes and flesh was heard.
Eitaro waved the short spear in his hand horizontally, and the genin was cut directly to the ground, with blood flying everywhere.
Because the genin screamed loudly while escaping, most of the residents living around him were awakened.
Lights began to emerge from the windows of some houses, and noises were heard.
Eitaro flicked the short gun in his hand downwards, shook off the blood from the gun tip, and quickly left the scene before the surrounding residents ran out to check the situation...
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After killing all eight genin, Keitaro searched everywhere for a while, and finally found Keitaro's body in a remote place.
Because this place is too remote, no one lives here, and no one passes by here, so Kitaro's body lies quietly in this place.
As for whether anyone else found Jitaro's body before him, Eitaro didn't know.
After seeing Gokutaro's body, Eitaro's face was full of shock at first, wondering if he had seen it wrong.
After squatting down next to Ji Tairou's body and carefully examining Ji Tairou's body, Eitaro said softly:
"Being stabbed to death with random knives... He was able to kill Gokutaro-sama who fell into the 'Yaksha Realm'... Who did it...?"
After looking at Ji Taro's body up and down a few more times, Eitaro stood up.
"...Forget it. It doesn't matter who kills him."
"I originally wanted to take advantage of Lord Gokutaro's lack of attention and launch a sneak attack on him."
"Now that Master Jitaro has been killed, I feel relieved."
After saying that, Kitaro stood up and lowered his head again, looking at Kitaro's body at his feet.
"...Jokutaro-sama, you are surprisingly very perceptive."
Eitaro said softly.
"I... don't have a stomachache."
"I just keep feeling sorry that I have to kill you tonight..."
Looking at Jitaro's body, the light in Eitaro's eyes flickered a few times.
After taking a final look at Gokutaro's body, Eitaro bent down and carried Gokutaro's body. Under the illumination of the moonlight, he carried Gokutaro's body and blended into the darkness of an alley not far away.