Chapter 609 Flying like a dragon in the Edo night sky! (1) [6000]
"Kuroro wants to spend the night here tonight?" Looking at Yoshitomo who was kneeling in front of him, Wen Xian's face was expressionless, making it difficult to see what he was thinking right now. Only a bit of surprise appeared in his eyes.
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"Yes!" Yoshitaka said loudly, "My dear brother, he said he wanted to spend the night here so that he could chat with me for a while, whom he hasn't seen for a long time."
"...Didn't he just say that he would only stay here for a while?" Wen Xian asked.
Yichao opened his mouth and was about to say something when Wenxian spoke again:
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't make any difference whether he stays here for an hour or until tomorrow." Wen Xian waved his hand, "Go and tell him that I will only keep him until tomorrow morning at most. After tomorrow morning, he must leave me."
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Wenxian watched Yoshitomo leave.
After Yoshitomo left, Wen Xian also slowly stood up from the tatami, and then walked straight towards a room deep in the mansion.
This is a room with an ordinary looking door.
But behind this seemingly unremarkable door, there is actually a small Buddhist temple.
In the center of the Buddhist hall, there is a small Buddha statue only one person tall.
This Buddha statue has its hands clasped together and its eyes half-closed, looking down forward as if looking down at all things.
Anyone with an in-depth understanding of Buddhism will immediately recognize that the true face of this Buddha statue is none other than Vairocana, the most supreme Buddha in Tantric Buddhism.
However, after entering this small Buddhist hall, Wen Xian did not glance at the Buddha statue of Vairocana. He only walked straight in front of the Buddha statue and walked to a knife rest placed in front of the Buddha statue.
There is only one knife placed on this knife rest.
A knife with an extremely curved blade and black and purple scabbard and handle.
Wen Xian took the knife off the knife holder with both hands, and then slowly pulled the blade out of the sheath.
Canglanglang.
As the blade was pulled out of the sheath inch by inch, Wen Xian's eyes were illuminated by the light reflected by the blade.
The light reflected by this knife actually had a hint of strange purple light... Wen Xian's pupils were covered with a purple light.
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Yamada Asemon Residence, Harama Palace’s Room
"How?" Mamiya asked Yoshitomo who had just returned.
Yichao nodded: "It went very well. Father agreed to keep you until tomorrow morning."
"That's good...then I'll ask you to bring lunch and dinner to Yoshitomo."
"Brother, won't you... come and have dinner with us?"
"If I eat with you, the atmosphere will be very awkward." Mamiya smiled, "Based on my current relationship with my father... Mr. Yamada Asemon, if I eat with him at the same table, I'm afraid it will be awkward
Everyone finds the food in front of them difficult to swallow."
"So it's better for me to eat alone."
After saying that, Mamiya stood up.
"Okay, Yoshitomo, let's go to your room."
"I stayed here on the pretext of 'talking to you more', so it's better to stay in your room as it won't make people suspicious, and it's more convenient for us to stay in your room all the time."
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"Yes!" Yichao nodded his head extra hard, "Let that girl escape from this hell tonight..."
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about half an hour ago
Yamada Asemon Residence, Harama Palace’s Room
"A girl who can regenerate organs?" Mamiya's eyes widened in shock as if they were about to fall out of their sockets, "...Yoshitomo, tell me clearly, what is going on?
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"Everything... begins more than a month ago..." Yichao lowered his head and said slowly, "One day more than a month ago, I was ordered by my father to go to the execution ground to execute the death row criminals, and
My father went with me to check my current skills..."
When the younger generation first took over the execution work at the execution ground, the older generation provided supervision and guidance. This was considered one of the unwritten rules of the Yamada Asaemon family.
"After successfully executing the condemned prisoners of the day, I went home with my father."
"But on the way home, my father and I suddenly heard strange noises coming from the alley next to us."
"When I entered the alley, I saw that it was two gangsters bullying a little girl."
Mamiya listened carefully and nodded in response from time to time.
In Edo, which has a population of one million, there is naturally no one. It is just a very common scene for gangsters to cause trouble everywhere.
"Those two gangsters wanted to insult the little girl. When my father and I arrived, one of the gangsters had already taken out a knife and cut off the girl's clothes."
"If you see something like this with your own eyes, there's no reason to turn a blind eye."
"I drove away those two gangsters all by myself."
"Things have developed quite normally until now..."
"But the next scene that happened in front of me was completely abnormal..."
"When the two gangsters were cutting the girl's clothes with a knife, because the girl struggled desperately, the knife accidentally cut her forearm."
"I wanted to take the girl to a doctor for treatment."
"But when I went to help the girl, the girl resisted desperately and said, 'Don't touch her.'"
"At first I thought it was just that the girl had just been frightened and hadn't recovered yet."
"However... when I just helped the girl up, I saw that the girl's wounds were healing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye."
"In just a few blinks, the girl's injuries were completely healed."
"At that time, my father and I, who was standing next to me, were both frightened..."
"In my entire life, I have never seen such a scene... It has subverted my understanding of everything in the world."
"And when I didn't know what to do... my father had already come to his senses first... and started to take action..."
"The father knocked the girl unconscious and then took the girl home..."
"Sometimes... I really feel that my father is a terrible person..."
"Witnessing such a horrifying scene, while I was still dumbfounded and at a loss, my father quickly came to his senses and immediately thought that this girl would be of great use..."
"After the father forcibly brought the girl home, he began the test."
"He wanted to test whether the girl's wounds could heal so quickly, and whether her organs could recover after being damaged..."
"So...the father locked the girl in the basement and started testing..."
"The test results... made my father smile..."
"This girl's organs can regenerate on their own..."
"then……"
Before Yoshitomo finished speaking, Mamiya, who already had a gloomy look on his face, had already finished the rest of what Yoshitomo said:
"So the father imprisoned the girl and kept taking the girl's guts to make human gallbladder pills."
"...That's right..." Yoshitaka closed his eyes with a face full of pain, "That girl is very young. Although she is a little malnourished, her bile is still a high-quality bile that is suitable for making medicine..."
"Yoshitomo." Mamiya asked in a deep voice at this time, "Besides you and your father, who else knows about the existence of this girl?"
"Except for me and my father, no one else knows that there is such a magical girl locked up in the basement below our mansion." Yoshitomo replied, "My father did not tell anyone about the existence of this girl, nor did he tell anyone about the existence of this girl.
Report to the shogunate. Father, he probably wants to monopolize this girl so that she can help him continuously produce high-quality human gallbladder pills."
"...Yoshitomo, are you involved in this inhumane pharmaceutical practice?" Mamiya asked.
"No!" Yoshitaka opened his eyes fiercely and denied, "I have never participated."
"When my father first started using this inhumane method to make medicine, I thought it was too inhumane. I kept trying to persuade my father not to do such cruel things again, and to let my father let this poor girl go free."
"But my father said, 'Countless people will be saved because of high-quality human gallbladder pills. What's the reason not to do something like this that can benefit the public?'"
"...Ha." Mamiya sneered, "It really sounds like... what he would say..."
"Father can mercilessly regard this girl as a pharmaceutical tool, but I...can't..." Yoshitaka continued softly, "In order to alleviate the guilt in my heart as much as possible, I have been chatting with the girl,
Trying to comfort her as much as I can..."
"Although she has a very magical body, judging from her words and deeds, she is a very ordinary girl no matter how you look at her."
"She said her name was Atake, she was from Osaka, and she was the daughter of an ordinary craftsman."
"She cried over and over again, begging me to let her go and let her go home..."
"I really couldn't stand this kind of torture on my conscience... so not long ago, I secretly let the girl go while my father was not at home."
"However... as soon as I let the girl go, my father came back. After discovering that the girl had escaped, my father took me to chase him. I thought that Edo was so big that my father might not be able to find the girl, but I don't know
Was it because God was attached to my father or something, but in the end, my father really got the girl back..."
"When I saw that my father had actually found the girl, I... I wanted to stop my father and give the girl time to escape..."
"but I……"
A look of explicit guilt quickly appeared on Yoshitomo's face.
"I didn't have the courage to stop my father... In the end I could only watch my father capture the girl again..."
"...It's not your fault." Mamiya said softly, "You have tried your best to do what you can."
After hearing Mamiya's words of comfort, Yoshitomo's expression improved slightly.
"After my father captured the girl again, I was thinking of new ways to help the girl get out of trouble."
"That girl was not familiar with the people and places of Edo. If she was allowed to escape alone, she would not be able to escape at all."
"So if we want the girl to escape from here, the best way is to let a reliable person take her away."
At this time, Yoshitomo raised his eyes and looked at Mamiya.
"...I see." Mamiya said softly, "That's what you meant when you just said, 'I am the best person to take that child out of here now'..."
Yichao nodded gently:
"It wasn't until you mentioned Rendanwan just now that I thought of the best person to take that girl to escape, and now he's right in front of me."
"He has a trustworthy character and the ability to lead people out of Edo."
"Brother, you came just in time."
Yoshitomo's face slowly turned serious at this time.
"Brother...I really hope that girl can escape from here as soon as possible..."
"So can you please take that child out of here?"
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late that night
Yamada Asemon's Residence, Yoshitomo's Room
"Nii-sama, it's almost time." Yoshitomo, who was neatly dressed and had his sleeves tied up with cuffs on both sides of his kimono, looked in front of him, Mamiya Masashiki, who had also tied up his sleeves with cuffs.
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"Yeah." Mamiya grabbed the saber placed at his side, "Let's go."
The plan drawn up by Mamiya and Yoshitomo was quite simple and crude. They took action late at night, entered the basement, and brought the girl out.
It was for this purpose that during the day today, Mamiya asked Yoshitomo to go to Wenxian and panicked that he would spend the night here in order to chat with his brother for a while, and then stayed in Yoshitomo's room, waiting for the arrival of night.
The current time, converted into modern earth time units, is approximately 11 p.m.
At this time, everyone in the Yamada Asemon family, from the head of the family, Fumaki, to the ordinary attendants, were all asleep.
After Yoshitomo and Mamiya came out of the room one after another, they walked towards the basement with silent steps.
Yamada Asaemon is a family that often deals with corpses, so people who don’t know much about the Yamada Asaemon family have made up many urban legends related to Yamada Asaemon.
For example: In order to train the younger generation's "patience" with corpses, Yamada Asaemon would force the younger members of the clan to eat in front of corpses since childhood.
Another example: Yamada Asemon's house was filled with mountains of corpses.
These urban legends are basically nonsense.
For example, "The Yamada Asaemon family will force the younger generation of the family to eat in front of corpses" is pure nonsense.
But it is neither right nor wrong to “pile mountains of corpses at home”.
Yamada Senemon would indeed bring back the corpses that had just been executed at the execution ground and place them at home, but he would not store a mountain of corpses.
Because these corpses are consumed very quickly, the "knife test" business has always been very prosperous, and there is no shortage of customers. The corpses brought home in the morning may be dragged to others for knife testing in the afternoon.
Because corpses are consumed quickly, there is no need to worry about the corpses being stored for too long and causing them to stink.
If a corpse really stinks, it will be cleaned up promptly. Yamada Asaemon is not a noseless pervert, and the corpse will feel disgusting if it stinks.
The place where the body is stored is the basement.
There is a very spacious basement below the Yamada Asemon family's mansion. The basement is relatively cool, so the corpses are stored in the basement to prevent them from rotting easily.
The basement below the mansion is also a pharmacy for refining human gallbladder pills.
Yoshitomo: "We're here..."
Mamiya and Yoshitomo were standing in a remote corner of the corridor of the mansion.
This place is empty, nothing.
In the corner of the empty corridor, Yichao squatted down, took out an iron key, and inserted the key into an inconspicuous hole at his feet. After turning it a few times, the corridor under his feet made a "click" sound.
"A soft sound.
"Brother, let's go." Yoshitaka said, holding the key and pulling it out.
Squeak...
Just like the door being opened, the key still inserted in the hole is the door handle. Holding the "door handle" and lifting it up, Yoshitomo easily lifted up a large wooden board in the corridor under his feet.
Behind the wooden board is a staircase extending underground. Because the light is too dim, you can only see the stairs leading to ink-like darkness.
Mamiya took out the oil lamp he had prepared in advance and lit it.
"Let's go." Mamiya took the lead and walked down the stairs towards the basement.
Only two people have the key to the basement door, the head of the family, Wen Xian, and Yoshitomo, who has been confirmed to be the next head of the family.
Because the light was dim and the stairs were very narrow, both Mamiya and Yoshitomo walked very slowly.
When both of them were walking slowly down, Yoshitaka, who was walking behind Mamiya, suddenly said coldly:
"Brother...thank you..."
"no need thank me?"
"Thank you for being willing to help me set that girl free..."
"I have nothing to thank you for," Mamiya said calmly, "I just don't want my father... Yamada Asemon Fumiaki to continue to do such cruel and inhumane things."
"And the girl's tragic experience made it really hard for me to turn a blind eye."
In fact, Mamiya hid a reason from Yoshinori. The reason why he was willing to save the Osaka girl named Atake was also because this girl might have something related to "immortality" that their Calabash House had been investigating for a long time.
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After all, injuries heal very quickly, and even internal organs can repair themselves. These are consistent with the characteristics of the "immortal body" that Mamiya and the others believe.
Therefore, no matter whether it was public or private, Mamiya could not abandon the girl.
"Speaking of which," Mamiya turned his head at this time and looked at Yoshitomo behind him, "Since you and Wen Xian are the only two people who know about the existence of the girl and also have the key to the basement, then what did you do secretly last time?
Didn't Wen Xian question you about anything after letting the girl go?"
"No..." Yichao shook his head, "After I released the girl privately last time... my father must have doubted whether it was me."
A complicated smile appeared on Yichao's face.
"After all, no matter how you look at it, I have the highest suspicion."
"But my father hasn't said anything to me until now."
"He probably... wants to let me go..."
"...After successfully rescuing the girl this time, Wen Xian may not let you go again." Mamiya turned his gaze back to the front, "Are you ready to wake up?"
"Yes." Yoshitomo's eyes were firm, "I have already made up my mind. At most, I will only get a severe beating from my father."
During the conversation, the two of them had reached the bottom of the stairs.
The air in the basement was filled with the smell of blood.
Although the basement is designed with ventilation holes so that corpses will be disposed of immediately if they stink, this place is always a place where corpses are piled, so the smell will naturally not be bad.
"Brother, here." Yoshitaka walked to the front of Mamiya and led the way.
While following Yi towards the corner of the basement, Mamiya used an oil lamp to light the candles hanging on the walls along the way.
The originally dark basement slowly became brighter as candles were illuminated one after another.
Corpses are often piled up haphazardly, but until now I haven't seen a single corpse, probably because the corpses have been used up, which is also a common thing.
The basement was not spacious. After a while, Mamiya saw a girl tied by an iron chain sitting in the corner of the basement in front of her.
One end of the thick iron chain is connected to the wall, and the other end is tied to the girl's neck.
The chain is quite long, so the girl's range of activities is quite wide, covering less than half of the basement.
Within its range of activities, there are toilets, food, water, changes of clothes and other items.
Mamiya saw the girl, and the girl naturally saw Mamiya and Yoshitomo.
Looking at Mamiya and Yoshitaka walking towards her slowly, panic appeared on the girl's face at a speed visible to the naked eye.
But after seeing clearly that the leader was Yoshitomo, the look of panic on the girl's face slowly dissipated and she became slightly calmer.
"Atake, don't be afraid, it's me, Yoshitomo." Yoshitomo quickened his pace slightly, then knelt on one knee in front of the girl...that is, Atake.
"Yoshitomo-sama..." The girl looked timidly at Mamiya, who was standing behind Yoshitaka, "Who is this..."
At this time, Mamiya secretly thought in his heart:
It seems that what Yoshitomo told me before that he often chats with this girl is not a lie.
Based on the scene before him, it is not difficult to see that this girl trusts Yoshitomo.
"Don't be afraid, this is my brother, he is here to rescue you with me."
"This is our first meeting." Mamiya bowed to Atake, "I'm here, Mamiya Kuro. Don't be afraid, just like Yoshitomo said, I'm here to rescue you."
Now the distance between Mamiya and Atake is only a short distance away, so Mamiya can see Atake's appearance more clearly.
He is only about 15 years old, and his appearance is not good-looking, but not ugly either.
She was wearing clean clothes, and although her complexion was not very good, her spirit was still much better than Mamiya imagined.
Mamiya originally thought that the girl's mental state would be very bad after being locked up in this dark basement for so long and having her stomach opened frequently to remove her bile.
Yoshitomo seemed to have seen through what Mamiya was thinking at this time, and he explained aloud:
"Every time my father takes out the bile, he will first give A-Zhu a powerful drug to relieve his pain... Ah, I'm sorry, A-Zhu, I won't say any more."
Yoshitomo's explanation came to an abrupt end because when Atake in front of him heard the word "gallbladder" from his mouth, his cheeks suddenly turned extremely pale, and his body started to tremble.
"Let's talk about these words slowly later." Mamiya said, "First give this child the chain..."
Snap, snap, snap, snap...
Suddenly, footsteps sounded from behind Mamiya and Yoshinori, interrupting Mamiya's words.
The moment they heard the footsteps, both Mamiya and Yoshitomi's expressions changed.
The sound of footsteps came from the dark place behind the two of them where the candlelight could not reach them.
As the footsteps sounded, a figure slowly appeared from the darkness.
The person who emerged from the darkness was a middle-aged man wearing a black and purple sword on his waist.
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