Chapter 607 Standing in front of you is Mamiya A Yuguro Yoshitsune [6200]
"I told you to drink less..." Asai said angrily to Shimada, who was currently lying behind him.
"I'm sorry..." Shimada, whose face was so red it felt like he could bleed, muttered, "I have to trouble you to carry me back again..."
Converted to the time unit of modern earth, Makimura and the three of them drank at the izakaya until 23 o'clock...
Although they drank so late, Asai, who only had a small drink the whole time, and Makimura, who drank a lot, were still in good spirits, but Shimada was almost drunk and unconscious.
"Shimada, you should practice your drinking more in the future." Makimura joked.
"Uh... I'm sorry... Makimura-senpai... what did you just say? I didn't pay attention... ugh..."
"Hey! If you want to vomit, hold it back! If you dare to vomit on me, I will kill you!"
The three Makimuras returned to their residence noisily.
As soon as I returned to my residence, I met Lin who was still asleep.
"I said..." Lin, who was several inches shorter than Makimura and the others, put her hands on her hips and raised her head high, looking up at Makimura and the others, "I don't have any objection to you going out to drink, but drinking.
, you have to be a little more restrained, right? What’s the matter with drinking so much that you can’t even walk?”
Lin's words were obviously addressed to Shimada, who was still lying behind Asai.
"I'm very sorry..." Shimada's face turned redder due to embarrassment, "I shouldn't have a drinking competition with Makimura-senpai."
"Alas..." Lin sighed, "Okay, you go down and rest."
After Lin's brief scolding, Asai, at Shimada's request, carried him to the bathroom. Their mansion, in modern terms, was a luxury villa. Naturally, it had a private bathroom that ordinary people could not have.
"Hey, Shimada." When Shimada was being carried to the bathhouse by Asai, Makimura said to Shimada, "Remember not to take a bath for too long. I also want to take a bath tonight."
Makimura last took a bath three days ago.
He could already smell something from his body today. In order to avoid being disliked by his companions for body odor in the future, he had decided to take a good bath tonight.
In order not to waste the time waiting for the bathroom to be free, Makimura sat in the center of the living room, doing maintenance on his Odachi.
And as soon as he drew out his Odachi, Mamiya's voice suddenly sounded from behind him:
"Makimura, you are back."
"Oh, it's Mamiya." Makimura turned to look at Mamiya, who was walking slowly towards him with a smile on his face.
"I just happened to bump into Asai who was carrying Shimada to the bathroom. Why is Shimada drunk and unconscious again..."
"Sorry, it's my fault." Makimura smiled bitterly, "I thought he would be able to drink better this time. I will be careful in the future and don't let him drink too much. Otherwise, I will kill him every time.
It would be really troublesome to carry it back."
Speaking of this, Makimura paused, and then asked Mamiya:
"Mamiya, I plan to go out for a drink tomorrow night. Do you want to come with me?"
"Still drinking?" Mamiya frowned slightly, "Makimura, have you been going out to drink too frequently recently?"
"Isn't it because we will leave Edo soon?" Makimura shrugged, "Once we leave Edo now, we won't know when we will come to Edo next time."
"So it would be a waste not to leave Edo now and experience more of the beauty of Edo."
"To experience the beauty of Edo, do you mean going to an izakaya to drink..." After complaining in a low voice, Mamiya shook his head, "I'm sorry, I won't go."
Seeing that Mamiya rejected his invitation almost without thinking, Makimura narrowed his eyes slightly and took a deep look at Mamiya.
Then, he said in a joking tone:
"...Mamiya, ever since you arrived in Edo, you have been very resistant to going out. Is there an old lover of yours here in Edo?"
"I don't have any old lovers." Mamiya responded calmly, "The reason why I don't want to go out is simply because I am a wanted person."
"Edo is a big city with a population of one million, and it is also the center of the shogunate's rule. Government spies are everywhere. Maybe the shogunate will track the whereabouts of a wanted criminal like me and come to my door."
"...Then I think you are a bit unfounded." Makimura sneered a few times, "I used to be an official who worked for the shogunate. I know very well what kind of virtue the shogunate has now."
"On how to maintain the Tokugawa family's rule over the world, the shogunate has various unique skills one after another."
"But when it comes to catching thieves and other issues that are closely related to the lives of the people, the shogunate has little ability."
Having said this, Makimura opened the knife oil at his feet and officially started to oil his Odachi sword.
"Anyway, I think it would be better for you to go out for a walk if you have the chance. After all, if I remember correctly, you seem to have not been out for a long time."
"Come to the izakaya with us for a drink. Not only can you breathe in the fresh air outside, but you can occasionally hear some interesting things to relieve your boredom."
"We heard a lot of interesting things at the izakaya today."
"Oh?" Mamiya raised his eyebrows, and then changed to a half-joking tone, "The interesting thing in your eyes...is there another beautiful girl in Yoshiwara?"
"So, in your eyes, I am like this..." Makimura looked at Mamiya with a resentful look.
"I just made a little joke." Mamiya smiled and waved his hand, "Tell me what the interesting thing is. I happen to be very free now."
"Perhaps Mamiya will also be interested in this matter." Makimura smiled, "Mamiya, do you know about the 'No. 1 Swordsman of Edo' and the 'Demon Sword Zana'?"
"Huh? What is this?" Behind the eye piece are Mamiya's doubtful eyes...
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Makimura completely retold Mamiya the story he heard from the izakaya today.
When the retelling was finished, Makimura happened to have put new oil on his Odachi sword.
"...Anyway, that's the story. After listening to the story, I went back to Asai and the others to continue drinking."
"Although I have heard of Yamada Asaemon's name before, I didn't know until tonight that the current head of Yamada Asaemon is an extremely skilled swordsman."
"...It's really scary, this family."
"Huh?" Makimura turned to look at Mamiya who suddenly made a comment.
"This family is really scary." The expressionless Mamiya repeated his previous comments, "Relying on killing people and corpses in exchange for fame and wealth... The more I think about it, the more uncomfortable I feel..."
"Yes, I think so too." Makimura echoed, "It has been hundreds of years since their family became the 'shogunate's royal sword testers'. Over the past hundred years, all the people killed by their family should have been
There are thousands...no, tens of thousands of people."
"In addition to killing people, they also use human gallbladder to make medicine. This behavior of taking people's internal organs to make medicine also makes me very uncomfortable."
"How did they make medicine out of human gallbladder..." Makimura sighed softly, "Although this medicine makes me feel sick, I still want to buy a human gallbladder pill to see what this medicine is like.
What it looks like and how effective it is are why so many people are attracted to it."
"But this medicine seems to be very expensive. It has always been expensive but not available in the market." Makimura scratched his hair, "And it is said that the quality of this gallbladder pill has suddenly improved a lot recently. It must be more difficult to buy now."
Even with all my spare money, I probably won’t be able to afford one.”
"The quality of Rendan Pills has suddenly improved a lot?" Mamiya raised his eyes and looked at Makimura in shock.
"Yes." Although he didn't know why Mamiya looked at him like this, Makimura answered honestly, "But I also heard about it from the construction workers who told me the story of Wenxian tonight.
, I don’t know if it’s true or false.”
In as short a sentence as possible, Makimura summarized what he heard from the construction workers about "the quality of Rendan Pills has improved."
"...They then argued there about whether Rendan Pills were useful or not, but I had already returned to Asai and the others to continue drinking, so I don't know what the final outcome of their argument was."
"...I'm quite curious." Mamiya smiled, "How did they suddenly improve the quality of this medicine? Did they invent some new method of refining medicine?"
"I don't know about that." Makimura shrugged, "Anyway, I don't like this medicine. For me, even if the raw material for refining the medicine is the gall of dead people, I really can't accept it."
"Hey! Makimura!" At this time, Asai's voice suddenly reached the ears of Mamiya and Makimura, "Shimada asked me to bring you a message. He has already taken a bath. You can take a bath at any time now."
"Oh! I'm going now!" Makimura picked up his well-maintained Odachi and stood up, "Mamiya, I'm going to take a shower now, and then we can talk slowly."
"Yeah." Mamiya nodded lightly.
Makimura, carrying the Odachi, strode away from Mamiya.
Mamiya maintained his kneeling position on the ground, motionless.
He looked down at the tatami in front of him, as if he was in a daze and at the same time thinking.
Even though Makimura had completely left his field of vision, Mamiya still didn't make any movement.
It wasn't until an unknown amount of time passed that Mamiya's faint soliloquy could be heard in the hall:
"……Father……"
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Kuro stared blankly at the wilderness in front of him on the outskirts of Edo.
In the wilderness, there were densely packed people whose hands and feet were tied and forced to kneel on the ground.
Roughly speaking, there are at least hundreds of people.
Without exception, they were all shivering, looking frightened and uneasy.
Surrounding these hundreds of people were a similar number of fully armed warriors. They glared viciously at the hundreds of people kneeling on the ground, demanding that they all kneel down and not move.
"...Father..." Kurang looked at his father beside him, "Who are these people kneeling on the ground? What are we doing here?"
"Jiulang." His father said in a tone of neither joy nor sorrow, "join me to kill all these people, and then take away their courage."
"Kill, kill? Why?" Jiulang couldn't help but look at the hundreds of people who were forced to kneel down. There were men and women among them, but without exception, they were all extremely young. They were basically only in their teens.
Years old, the oldest one should not be more than 20 years old.
No matter how they looked at it, they were not people who would be sentenced to beheading.
It is impossible that there will suddenly be so many young prisoners on death row.
"Nakamiya is infected with lung disease and urgently needs treatment." At this time, his father took out the cuff band and tied the sleeves on both sides of the kimono. "So we need a lot of the highest quality liver, which is made from young, fresh livers."
I’m going to use Rendan Pills to treat the disease. Stop talking nonsense and start working.” [中宫: the queen’s nickname]
"Wait! Father! These people are not death row prisoners at all, right?!"
"They are healthy, disease-free, and young enough people that the government has collected from all over the place."
"Does that mean they are just helping innocent people? Killing all these innocent people just to treat Zhonggong?"
"Jiuro, pay attention to your tone." His father said in a very obviously displeased tone, "The remarks you just made are so disrespectful to the Lord."
"These people are just helping the evildoers. How can they be compared with the lives of the Central Palace servants? The Central Palace servants have the important responsibility of caring for the world. Her survival is far more valuable than letting these evildoers live."
"Is there anything wrong with using these filthy lives to exchange for one life in the palace?"
"Father! This is so ridiculous! How can human life be exchanged in this way!"
"...Kuro, it seems...I shouldn't have brought you here. Anyway, if you don't want to do it, just go aside and rest. I can do this job by myself."
"Hey! What are you arguing over there? Why don't you take action yet?" At this time, a pot-bellied samurai strode towards Kuro and the others.
"Sir, I'm very sorry." The father bowed to the warrior and apologized, "We will take action now."
Seeing what seemed like a big shot from the government coming, Jiulang quickly wanted to tell him that it was ridiculous to take the lives of more than a hundred people to save Zhonggong.
However... before he could speak, there was a sharp pain in his side.
He struggled to look to his side at his father, who was standing beside him, and struck him in the side with the bottom of the knife handle.
He had no defense against his father. He did not expect that his father would attack him unexpectedly...
This fierce blow made Jiulang's limbs go weak. When Jiulang completely lost the ability to resist, his father slashed at the back of Jiulang's neck with a hand knife.
The pain from the back of his neck made Jiulang's eyes darken, and the strong dizziness made Jiulang's eyelids slowly sink, making it difficult to open them.
Before he completely lost consciousness, he saw his father who was still expressionless and said to him coldly: "I told you, if you don't want to do it, just go aside and rest."
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Mamiya opened his eyes suddenly and sat up.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
In the empty room where he was alone, the only sound was his low breathing.
Mamiya was a little lucky that each of them had a room to themselves, otherwise the sound of him just getting up would have woken up one or two people.
This luxurious mansion has so many rooms that even if the number of people in Calabash House doubled, there would still be enough room for everyone.
Because everyone can have their own independent room, Mamiya's sudden rise did not disturb anyone or wake anyone up.
Mamiya raised his hand and touched the clothes on his back, which were already wet with sweat.
He didn't have nightmares.
He just recalled a certain past event in his dream, even though this past event was no different from a nightmare.
Now... what time is it...
Mamiya turned to look at the window next to him and saw that the sky outside the window was still dark. Mamiya made a simple calculation and found that it was still far from dawn, probably more than an hour away.
(Is there anything wrong with using these filthy lives to exchange for one life in the palace?)
Even though he has woken up from the dream, the words that the person he just recalled in the dream said to him are still in his ears.
In his mind, as soon as that person's words fell in his mind, the words of another person, Makimura, said to him before falling asleep tonight, seemed to have their own consciousness, automatically resounding in Mamiya's mind:
(It is said that the quality of this man's gallbladder pills has suddenly improved a lot recently.)
Mamiya turned his head again and looked at the sky outside the window again.
At this time, Mamiya himself did not notice that his eyes slowly changed from confused to sharp.
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Next day, early morning
Everything about this luxurious mansion was good, except for one thing that made Lin very dissatisfied. For some reason, the stove was built extremely high.
This made Lin, who was only 1.45 meters tall, particularly uncomfortable.
So every time when cooking, Lin could only find a small wooden box and then step on the wooden box to cook.
At this moment, in the kitchen, Lin, who was stepping on the wooden box with her bare little white feet, was stirring the miso soup in front of her with a large spoon while humming a song that she had just improvised and composed by herself.
The small and well-proportioned toes wiggled with the rise and fall of the tone.
Even though the tune kept coming back and forth to the same tune, and the lyrics only talked about cooking, boiling soup, and adding salt, Lin was still humming happily.
When she is in a good mood, Lin will cook and hum songs like she does now.
Because Lin has always taken care of everyone's three meals a day, she is basically the first to get up every morning.
Just when Lin was concentrating on cooking today's breakfast, suddenly, Mamiya's voice sounded behind her.
"Lord."
Mamiya's voice suddenly came out from behind, which made Lindu so frightened that her whole body trembled.
Lin quickly turned her head and looked behind her, only to see Mamiya, who was neatly dressed and holding a brand new bamboo hat in her hand.
"Kuro?" Lin looked at Mamiya several times with surprised eyes, "Are you... planning to go out?"
Mamiya nodded: "I have some things that I have to do. I won't eat breakfast today."
"...How long will you be out for?"
"I don't know." Mamiya replied honestly, "But I will come back as soon as possible."
"...I understand." Lin returned her gaze to the miso soup in front of her, "Then go and come back quickly."
"My lord, you...don't ask me why I want to go out suddenly?" Mamiya's face showed traces of doubts that were difficult to hide.
"How long have you been working under me? I have already figured out some of your behavioral habits." Lin said lightly, "You didn't tell me why you wanted to go out in the first place. You just told me that you wanted to go out."
Going out. This means that it is not convenient for you to tell me the reason why you are going out now."
"In that case, I won't ask any more questions. Just tell me when you want to tell me."
"...Yes." A smile slowly bloomed on Mamiya's face, "I understand."
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Mamiya lowered his hat very low and walked straight forward along the street at his feet, unhurriedly.
Because it was just dawn, there were not many pedestrians on the street.
In order to prevent the people around him from seeing his face, Mamiya not only lowered his bamboo hat, but also lowered his head.
Although this way, he could no longer see the road ahead and could only see the road under his feet, but Mamiya's pace still did not pause at all. He would go straight when he needed to go straight and turn when he needed to turn. This was very suitable for the nearby road conditions.
He looked familiar with the road, as if... the road under his feet had been traveled hundreds of times.
Mamiya, who kept walking along the way, finally stopped in front of a mansion located in a remote place in Edo.
Although it is still early in the morning and there are not many people on the streets, this is Edo with a population of one million. No matter how few people there are, there should be 1 or 2 pedestrians on each street.
But the street in front of this mansion is not like this. The street in front of this mansion is deserted.
The lack of people passing by gave the street, and the mansion, a somewhat eerie air.
arrive……
Mamiya slightly raised the bamboo hat on his head and looked at the mansion in front of him.
Knock knock knock.
He knocked on the door of the mansion.
The "knock, knock, knock" knock on the door broke the silence of this dead avenue and became the only sound in this avenue.
Squeak.
After a while, the side door next to the mansion's main door was opened, and a very young attendant walked out through the opened side door, looking at Mamiya up and down with suspicious eyes.
"Who are you?" the young man asked, "What are you doing in front of my house, Yamada Senemon? If you want to ask for gallbladder pills, please leave. We have sold out all the pills."
"You don't recognize me?" Mamiya asked, "That's right, I've never seen you before, you're probably new here."
"Please tell me inside that 'Kurō Yoshitsune' is visiting."
The suspicion in the young man's eyes became even heavier.
He was just a low-status squire, but the man in front of him was a warrior, and he was a warrior who dared to say "please report inside" with a flat face, which made him not dare to neglect at all.
"Please wait a moment." The young waiter whose tone unconsciously changed to honorifics returned to the mansion along the side door.
Mamiya stood there, waiting quietly.
He didn't have to wait long.
Not long after, he saw the side door being violently opened.
Then, a black shadow rushed out from the side door at a dizzying speed and threw itself into Mamiya's arms.
"Brother!"
"Yoshitomo..." Mamiya smiled and touched the head of the person in his arms, "Long time no see. You've grown a lot taller."
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If you forget who Yoshitomo belongs to, you can look back at Chapter 578 "Ogata: "Huh? Pirate? Here?"", Yoshitomo is Fumaki's son: Yamada Asaemon Yoshitomo.
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