After confirming that A-machi, Fuma and others in the room were all right, Genichi's originally worried heart was relieved.
He was only worried about the three Makimura men who had been blocking enemy reinforcements for them outside the house just now.
According to the direction of the explosion sound and shock wave, the location of the explosion was outside the house, so the probability of injury to Makimura and the others was much greater than that of Genichi and others who were staying in the house.
Because of the angle of view, Genichi cannot see the current situation of Makimura and the others, and he doesn't even know where they are now.
And Genichi currently has no time to pay attention to Makimura and the others because after finding Atachi and Fuuma, he immediately found Yoshihisa.
At this time, Jijiu was running away.
He spread his legs, dragged his short gun, and ran towards the entrance of the wall of the house not far away that was blown down by the explosion just now.
Naturally, it is impossible for Genichi to just watch Yoshihisa succeed in escaping...
Why did they attack the Longshui Temple this time?
The purpose is to try to capture guys who look like big shots alive so that they can get information from them.
From Yoshihisa's appearance, one can tell that his status is certainly not low, and there is no way that Genichi will let him go no matter what.
When holding the sword, no matter what happens, you cannot let go of the sword casually. For Genichi, it is just as natural as breathing.
Even though he was blown away by the blast of air just now, Genichi still held the knife tightly in his hand.
Holding back the dizziness and pain that surged from his brain due to the stimulation of the explosion, he stood up straight, picked up the knife, and chased after Jijiu who was about to run out of the room.
Atachi and Genichi discovered Yoshihisa who was planning to escape almost at the same time.
"Sir, I will pull you out later!"
After speaking loudly to the wind demon, Omachi took off an unfired Kentucky long rifle from his back, sat down on the ground, put his left elbow on his bent left knee, and pressed the palm of his left hand
After holding his right shoulder and building a simple shooting stand with his hands and legs, Atachi placed the barrel of the rifle on the crook of his elbow and pointed the muzzle at Yoshihisa, who was about to run out of the room.
There is no room to aim slowly.
Anyway, this guy couldn't be beaten to death easily, so Amachi tapped the trigger directly on Yoshihisa's back.
boom!
The scorching hot projectiles flew out from the muzzle, drew a straight line in mid-air, and flew towards Jijiu's back.
However, in this flash of lightning, a young man dressed as an Iga ninja flew from outside the room and jumped between Dangan and Yoshihisa.
puff!
The projectile that was supposed to penetrate Yoshihisa's body penetrated deeply into the ninja's chest.
The sudden appearance of this ninja who successfully blocked the bullet for Yoshihisa made Amachi and Genichi look shocked.
Then, just as the loyal ninja who protected his master successfully blocked the bullet for Jijiu, black shadows rushed into the room along the door or the collapsed wall.
These people were the ninjas who had been intercepted by Makimura and the others just now.
At this point, those who have not yet run away due to morale collapse are basically people with extremely strong will and extremely sincere loyalty.
Kiyosumi's self-sacrifice blow just now successfully broke through the defense line built by Makimura, Asai, and Shimada, allowing the remaining loyal people to finally have the opportunity to enter the room and support Yoshihisa.
After seeing Yoshihisa fleeing hastily out of the room, and Genichi who looked like he was going to chase Yoshihisa, these loyal people immediately understood what the current situation was and what they should do now without anyone's instructions or orders.
What to do.
Without any hesitation, they pounced on Genichi like a pack of wolves, covering Yoshihisa's escape.
"Lord Yoshihisa! Let's go quickly!" After someone shouted, he took out the only shuriken left in his arms and threw it towards Yuan.
"Tsk..." Genichi, who frowned slightly, prepared his two swords and struck at the dozen Iga ninjas who were blocking him.
Not far away, Mamiya, who had just put on his glasses, rushed over to support Genichi.
These dozen or so ninjas are naturally no match for Genichi, Mamiya and the others.
Of course, they don't need to defeat Yuan Yi and the others.
Their purpose from beginning to end was only one: to cover Jijiu's escape.
No matter how powerful Genichi, Mamiya and the others are, it will still take time to break through the obstruction of these dozen ninjas.
The sacrifice of these loyal people to protect him successfully bought Jijiu time to escape.
Yoshijiu followed the entrance of a collapsed house wall and fled outside the house, then turned to the left and disappeared from the sight of Genichi and others.
And Jijiu, who was escaping... never looked back at the subordinates who risked their lives to cover his escape from beginning to end...
After knocking down the last ninja who stood in front of him, Genichi quickly jumped out of the room along the wall where Yoshihisa had just escaped. Then he looked in the direction where Yoshihisa had just escaped and saw that Yoshihisa was no longer there...
"Tsk..." Yuan Yi, who had a strong look on his face, sighed softly, "Let him escape..."
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Osaka, outside Ryusui Temple
"Humph...! Humph...! Humph...!"
Yoshihisa, who had hurriedly escaped from Ryushui Temple, turned his head and glanced at the already silent temple behind him, then quickly looked away and continued to run for his life desperately.
There is no escape route.
There was no escape plan.
Just run forward regardless.
He just ran desperately away from Yuanyi.
Just now, when the branded woman was killed and Yoshihisa was about to fight four of them one by one, he felt that there was no hope of survival. He was not very afraid at first. He even had the will to die and planned to risk everything to fight Yuan Yi and the others to the death.
, it’s best to fight until we die together! No matter what, we’ll leave some scars on their bodies!
He originally... was indeed determined to die.
But just when the sudden explosion blew down the wall of the room, and the air wave blew everyone including him and Genichi to the ground, Yoshihisa suddenly realized that the opportunity to escape had come!
The moment he realized that he still had hope to survive, all his thoughts about death and wanting to fight to the death with Genichi and the others and die together were all gone.
Instead, there is a desire to survive that expands geometrically.
Feeling the "surging" desire to live in his chest, Jijiu laughed at himself silently:
Ah...Yoshihisa, you are really a...qualified ninja...
The corner of Jijiu's mouth then curved into a self-deprecating arc.
Just now, he thought majestically about fighting until the last moment, but after discovering that he still had hope of survival, he didn't care about anything, he just wanted to escape, he just wanted to live.
Those subordinates who risked their lives to cover his escape?
Ignore it! Save your life first!
The commanding officer of the "Osaka Spring Formation and Battle of Xu"?
No matter what! Save your life first!
Preserving your own life is the most important thing...
As long as there is a glimmer of hope, even if you have to drink mud soup, even if you have to endure all the humiliation in the world, you must save your life...
Because as long as there is life, there is everything.
Suddenly, Jijiu suddenly thought that his current behavior was very similar to the scene 41 years ago...
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41 years ago
"Hey! Jijiu! Where are you going?"
"Heal your wounds, eat, and take good care of yourself."
"Bastard! Are you trying to escape? That Kinoshita Genichi must not have gone far yet! Now is the perfect time for us to concentrate all our strength and launch a counterattack against him!"
"Counterattack? How do you plan to counterattack? We had so many people just now, but they were no match for Kinoshita Genichi. Can we defeat him with just the current manpower?"
"Even if we are not his opponent, we must not run away in a hurry! We ninjas are also warriors! Now is the time to show our ambition as warriors!"
"...It's boring. Just go ahead and do what you like. Last night, when I was knocked down by that Kinoshita Genichi, I figured it out: dying in vain and showing off one's ambition as a warrior are completely different things. If everyone is like this
If you all die in vain, there will really be no hope for the reconstruction of Iga no Sato."
"What?!"
"Goodbye. I'm going to heal my wounds, eat, and try to survive. If you want to die, go and die. Don't drag me with you."
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Osaka, Ryusui Temple
"Hey! Are any of you injured?"
Makimura, whose forehead was bloody, supported Asai and Shimada with his left and right hands respectively, and limped into the room where all the battles had ended.
"We are all fine, where are you three?" Mamiya put Vairocana back into its scabbard and quickly walked towards Makimura and the other three.
"All three of us are fine, we all only suffered minor injuries. Shimada's left leg was crushed by a collapsed beam, Asai's flank was burned, and I was hit on the forehead by a flying piece of wood.
"
Having said this, Makimura grinned.
"Fortunately, I reacted quickly just now and pulled Asai and Shimada back and lie down in time. Otherwise, the three of us would have been blown to pieces just now."
"It's okay." Mamiya raised his hand and patted Makimura's shoulder, then took two deep breaths in a row to adjust his breathing rhythm from source breathing back to a normal breathing rhythm.
As the breathing rhythm adjusted, Mamiya also slowly exited the "selfless state".
As soon as he exited the "state of selflessness", fatigue immediately wrapped around Mamiya's limbs and bones like iron chains, making Mamiya's face appear tired no matter how hard he tried to cover it up.
"How?" Makimura then asked, "Have you successfully captured any big shot alive?"
Mamiya smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It failed. I had a chance to capture a big shot alive, but he escaped just now."
"Ah? So what is this?" Asai, who always had a bad mouth and was currently hanging an arm around Makimura's neck, frowned and said, "We fought for a long time, but in the end, except for killing a few people, we gained nothing.
?In this case, what’s the difference between us fighting in vain?”
"You can't say that. We haven't gained anything."
After saying that, Mamiya turned his gaze and looked at the tied up girl who was being held by Azuki and who had been huddled in the corner of the room with him since just now.
"We found a girl... who seems to know many of the enemy's secrets..."
"Hey! Mamiya! Makimura! Asai! Shimada! If you guys can still move, come and help!" At this time, Genichi's voice suddenly came over.
Mamiya and the others followed the sound.
I saw Yuan Yi squatting on a certain light bulb... ah, no, lying next to Feng Mo, who was buried until only his head was exposed, with a look of distress on his face.
"Come and help me dig out the tangerine fruits..."
"Hurry up and dig me out!" Feng Mo shouted at this time, "It seems like an insect has crawled into my clothes! I can't scratch it anymore!"
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"Hey, are you two okay?"
While Genichi, Mamiya and the others were huffing and puffing and trying hard to dig out the Fuma, Amachi quickly ran towards Tsukuba and Hatsumi who were huddled in the corner of the room.
Just now, in order to avoid accidentally injuring Hatsuko, who had provided them with valuable information about Yoshihisa and the branded woman's weaknesses, Genichi asked Azuki to drag Hatsuko to a safe place.
Hatsumi perfectly completed the task assigned to her by the source. She dragged the tied up Hatsune to the corner of the room, away from the battlefield of the source and the others.
The two girls have been huddled in the corner of the room until now.
"She and I are both fine," Azhu said.
"It's fine." After saying that, A-Machi looked at Hatsuguang's face carefully with a scrutinizing gaze.
"...As expected, it's Miss Chuguang."
A little surprise slowly appeared on A-Machi's face.
After she rushed into the room with Fuuma and others to support Genichi and Mamiya, A-Machi had already noticed that the girl being tied up looked particularly familiar.
But because he was still fighting against Yoshihisa and the branded woman at that time, A-Machi didn't have the leisure to take a closer look.
But now, after calming down and taking a closer look, Atachi was finally sure that this girl was the "No. 1 artist in Osaka" who had met her once before.
When A-Machi looked at Hatsuguang in astonishment, Hatsuguang was also looking at A-Machi in astonishment.
"Miss Atachi..."
"Do you... know each other?" Azuki looked at Amachi with a blank look, and then looked at Chu Guang.
At this moment, a whirring sound suddenly came from outside the room.
"Miss Chuguang! Miss Chuguang!"
A strong man appeared at the door.
The sudden appearance of this strong man made Genichi and others in the room immediately pull out their swords like a conditioned reflex before the nerves in the room were completely relaxed.
"Hey!" The sound of drawing a sword made the strong man's expression change, and he hurriedly reached out to the wakizashi hanging on his lower back.
"Wait a minute!" When the atmosphere was tense, Chuguang suddenly shouted, "This person is my companion! Not an enemy!"
"Shibata! I'm here!"
This strong man was exactly Shibata who had been under Hatsuko's order and was lurking outside Ryusuji Temple, ready to respond at any time to Hatsuko who successfully detonated Ryusuji Temple.
Chu Guang's shout just now relaxed the atmosphere instantly.
Although Genichi and others did not sheath their swords, they did not look at Shibata with murderous eyes.
"Hasumi, Miss Hatsumi." Shibata kept placing his hand on the handle of the wakizashi sword, "What's the situation now...?"
"I actually don't know for sure," Chu Guang said, "but what is certain is that these people are not our enemies, but companions who may be able to work together."
After saying that, Chuguang turned his eyes and stared at A-Machi.
"I see...I understand..."
That "Mashima Goro" who is married to Atachi always covers his face with a scarf and a bamboo hat...
"Mashima Goro" has a very strong personal background. Even Yukimura, who can make all the difference in Osaka, has to respect him...
On the day when the "Grand Trial Match" was held, Shibata, who happened to be present at the time, reported the situation of that day to Hatsumi. "Mashima Goro" appeared at the "Grand Trial Match" and also participated in the "Grand Trial Match".
Showing great strength, he instantly killed An Yun...
Not long after the "Great Trial Combination" ended, people from the Toyotomi Army learned that Ogata Ittosai was connected to the Isshiki family...
At this moment, when Ogata is being hunted, A-Machi, the wife of "Mashima Goro", appears in the Toyotomi Army's main formation...
All the information that Chu Guang knew came together at this moment.
Hatsuko, whose thoughts "suddenly became enlightened", suddenly shouted to A-Machi:
"Ms. Atachi! Ogata Ittousai seems to be in the northwest corner of Osaka at the moment!"
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Osaka, somewhere in the northwest corner of the countryside
"ah!"
Isshiki Hana accidentally hit her foot on a raised stone and fell forward screaming.
She fell to the ground, and Ogata, who was being supported by her, also fell to the ground.
"I'm sorry..." Isshikihua covered her bruised right palm and apologized softly to Ogata, "I caused you to fall to the ground too..."
"I'm fine...how is your hand...?"
"My hand is fine. It's just a scratch, not even an injury. Come on, let me help you up."
Isshikika helped Ogata stand up.
After her palms touched Ogata's body, Isshiki's brows immediately frowned slightly uncontrollably.
His body temperature...seems to have gotten a little higher...
"...Ittosai-sama, why don't you take a rest now?" Isshikika bit her lower lip with her teeth and asked Ogata in a cautious tone, "We have left Osaka now.
It should be considered safe here."
After saying that, Isshikihua turned around and looked around.
She and Ogata have now left Osaka.
There are currently no buildings around the two of them, and they are surrounded by shrubs and trees.
Isshikika, who was extremely worried about Ogata's current physical condition, felt that this place was considered safe and Ogata should stop and take a rest.
But as soon as Isshikika finished asking this question, Oubon said in his weak tone that became as thin as a gossamer:
"This place...isn't far enough from Osaka..."
"You have to...walk a little further...a little bit..."
"But... your body is getting weaker and weaker." Isshikihua bit her lip again, and then argued with reason, "I think you need to take a rest now."
Isshikika conceived a lot of rhetoric in her mind, preparing to use it to persuade Ogata to stop and take a rest now.
But before these prepared words could even be uttered, a strange sound came out, leaving Isshikika no longer able to persuade Ogata to rest.
sough……
Isshiki heard the sound of leaves shaking unnaturally behind him.
Her expression suddenly changed, and she quickly turned her head and looked behind her
On a big tree behind her and Ogata, squatting was a man in black who was staring straight at her and Ogata with his sharp eyes like an eagle.
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Yesterday when I was reading comics, I saw a costume that looked like Omachi's kunoichi uniform. I posted the picture in the comments of this paragraph to make everyone happy. Because this picture is a little sentimental, I won't use it.
It will definitely be sent out successfully. If you can’t see this picture, it means it has been harmonized →→→