The wind and rain seemed to have calmed down a bit, pouring on the "charred head" that was separated from the body, and the manic smile did not dissipate.
The moment Toyotomi's head hit the ground, the strands of flesh that had been squirming on his body suddenly dissipated.
No more shreds of flesh coming out to repair the body.
Toyotomi got up from the ground again without seeing him again.
Ogata had just been holding his breath and fighting Toyotomi to the end.
Now, looking at Toyotomi's mutilated body, which was finally soundless, the nerves in Ogata's mind that had been tense were finally relaxed.
It's over...
The moment the tense nerves were released, intense fatigue hit Ogata like an electric current.
The strength blessing brought by Yashamaru also disappeared at this moment.
Just after exiting the "Yaksha Realm", the fatigue wrapped around Ogata's limbs and bones immediately increased exponentially.
What also dissipated at the same moment was the "transparent state"...or in other words: the integration with the world.
The world in my eyes returned to normal. I could no longer clearly see the path of the wind and rain.
In my ears... I can no longer hear those strange "sounds".
(Ding! The host merges with the world!)
(I am you and I am also the world.)
Recalling the system sound that just sounded in his mind and the words "Ogata Issei" said to him, Ogata couldn't help but feel a sense of enlightenment.
It turns out that the name "Transparent Realm" given by him and Yuan Yi is really inappropriate and ridiculous.
It's not that the world has become transparent in their eyes.
But they have become one with the world, and can see clearly how the world works, and can also borrow... the power of the world!
Ogata tried calling "Ogata Ishi" in his heart.
But no matter how he called... the voice of "Ogata Issei" no longer sounded in his mind.
Seeing that the voice of "Ogata Yoshi" no longer sounded, Ogata felt a bit of looming loneliness for no reason...
Blah blah blah...
The cold touch coming from the instep brought Ogata back to his senses from the state of enlightenment.
He lowered his head and saw that the shipwreck under his feet had been almost swallowed by the sea, and the seawater had already reached his feet.
Gotta... try to get out of here quickly...
Ogata put Da Shiten back into the scabbard, covering his charred right arm that no longer had smoke floating out. He turned his eyes and looked around to see if there was a board of suitable size that could help him return to the coast, or other items that could be sent.
Something useful.
But at this moment, he caught a glimpse of something with bright colors out of the corner of his eye.
Turning around, I saw that it was the brocade box containing eight hundred bhikkhunis.
After Toyotomi devoured the skin and flesh of the heads of eight hundred nuns, he threw the heads back into the brocade box.
So if you look around, you can see the extremely damaged head of the eight hundred bhikkhunis "riding" on the brocade box, floating gently with the water that has overflowed.
Looking at this unrecognizable head, a trace of pity filled Ogata's eyes.
Ogata, Toyotomi and others simply absorbed the "immortal power" suppressed by "Henwakamaru" and became "monsters" that ordinary people cannot match.
It is hard to imagine how powerful the Eight Hundred Bhikshunis, who possess the most orthodox and comprehensive "power of immortality", had during their lifetime...
Although he clearly possesses such terrifying power, he has never thought of relying on this power to cause harm to the world, and he is willing to live in the shadow of history.
Even if he committed suicide, he would just choose to spend the last part of his life peacefully in a remote cave in his hometown.
Such a woman who had nothing to do with the world was used by Toyotomi as a tool to realize his ambition after her death, and her body was cut into thousands of pieces for the "immortality experiment".
The only remaining head...had become a bloody mess.
Seeing the heads of the eight hundred nuns that were almost drifting away, Ogata didn't hesitate and dragged his trembling body in the direction of the brocade box.
After dragging his body to the brocade box, Ogata leaned down, gently closed the brocade box, and then held the brocade box under his arm.
"Wait a minute...Ogata Issei..."
Like thunder on the ground, after Ogata put the brocade box containing the heads of eight hundred nuns under his arm, a voice... was very familiar to Ogata, but because it had been a long time since he heard this voice,
So a slightly unfamiliar male voice sounded from behind Ogata.
Hearing the sudden male voice behind Yu, Ogata was startled for a moment, then regained his composure and slowly turned around.
After seeing the face of the owner of the voice clearly, a complicated expression spread on Ogata's cheeks.
Standing in front of Ogata is a young man who is about the same age as Ogata, with a yellow-handled red sheath on his waist.
This young man's physical condition at this time... was as weak as Ogata's visible to the naked eye.
His left arm had been severed from the elbow. In order to prevent blood loss, a white strip was tied tightly to his left shoulder.
In addition, he also had dozens of large and small burns on his body.
His cheeks were pale from pain and blood loss, as if they were coated with white powder.
But even though his body was broken, the young man still straightened his waist and stared at Ogata with eyes full of hatred.
People of the Prajna Toyotomi clan would call him this when they saw this young man.
But after Ogata met this young man... he would only call him this way
"...Itagaki, seeing you here, for some reason, it really doesn't surprise me at all..."
This young man...or in other words: Prajna, was none other than Itagaki Shichi, Toyama's loyal follower who was beheaded by Ogata on the "God-worshipping Exercise" when Ogata was still an unknown and poor samurai of the Hirose Domain.
Goro!
At this moment, seeing this "old friend" whom he had not seen for a long time suddenly appear in front of him, although Ogata was surprised, he was not too surprised.
This is because I accidentally met the owner of the Ishikawa Sword Hall in Osaka last night: Ishikawa Hyōma. The old master told Ogata that several disciples of their sword hall headed by Itagaki wanted to avenge the murder of Toyama.
, left the sword hall, left the feudal state, and searched for Ogata's traces everywhere.
"Ha...hahahaha..." Itagaki smiled happily, "Ogata Issei...you also have...today...I chose to serve...Toyotomi-sama...it was indeed the right choice..."
Every time he glanced at Ogata's bruised body, the joy on Itagaki's face became more intense.
Previously, after receiving the task of "giving a signal to Sengen Shonin for him" from Toyotomi, Itagaki faithfully performed this task without any hesitation or doubt.
For all tasks related to "Killing Ogata", Itagaki has almost unlimited enthusiasm.
He completed this task almost perfectly. After seeing Toyotomi raise his pierced left palm high, he immediately pulled the fuse of the fireworks in his hand and reported the news to Master Sengen in the ammunition depot.
Then it was blown into the sky.
Miraculously, Itagaki was not seriously injured.
There were just a few burns on his body that were not worth mentioning, and his left arm was pressed down by some heavy object that collapsed.
When Itagaki woke up, it was the moment when Ogata had defeated Toyotomi with his "Thunder Sword".
After seeing Ogata decapitating Toyotomi from a distance, the expression on Itagaki's face immediately changed rapidly.
Ogata is now covered in injuries, his condition is visibly poor, and he can no longer even stand firmly.
If he didn't show up now and stop Ogata, he would probably run away.
If he runs away... I don't know how long it will take to find him again in the future.
And even if we are lucky enough to find him again in the future... can he still be as angry as he is now?
Now... I am afraid it is his best and only chance to take revenge on Ogata!
Itagaki made up his mind like this, and in order to escape from the heavy object pressing his left arm as soon as possible, he pulled out his knife and cut off his left arm!
The complicated emotions on Ogata's face had dissipated at this time.
With his expression calm again, he looked quietly at Itagaki, who was laughing happily.
"...I met your master Ishikawa Hyōma in Osaka last night."
Ogata's words made Itagaki slowly stop laughing.
This time, a complicated expression appeared on Itagaki's face.
"After you left the Hirose Domain, your master immediately closed the sword hall and went looking for you everywhere."
"Your master asked me to tell you something after seeing you: As a master, I left my hometown alone regardless of my old age, just to bring you back, and I suffered a lot for this.
No matter how hard it is, even if it is for the sake of my master, I must return to Hirose Domain as soon as possible..."
"Shut up!"
Before Ogata could finish his words, he was interrupted by Itagaki's roar.
"How much time and effort do you think I spent to get this opportunity to take revenge on you!"
Itagaki, with a fierce look on his face, waved his right arm.
"Those people who followed me to leave the feudal kingdom and come to you to avenge Senior Brother Yuanshan are all a bunch of losers who give up halfway!"
"Not long after I left Hirose Domain, I was the only one who insisted on seeking revenge from you!"
"I put in countless hardships before I finally met Toyotomi-sama by chance. I saw the hope of finding you and avenging you from Toyotomi-sama who was also hunting you!"
"Hahahahaha! More than ten days ago, after hearing your voice and seeing the swordsmanship of Sakakibara's Itto-ryu at Osaka's 'Grand Trial Competition', I was so happy that I almost fainted!"
The fierce look on Itagaki's face became more and more intense.
"Senior Brother Yuanshan's revenge has not yet been avenged!"
"How could I just go back to my hometown like this!!"
After saying that, Itagaki suddenly pulled out the sword that Toyotomi had given him.
Ogata saw it in his eyes and remained silent.
He just quietly... pulled out the Da Shi Tian who had just put it back into its sheath.
"Come on!" Itagaki shouted, "Ogata Issei! Let's put an end to it!"
Is there any way for me to defeat Ogata, who has been severely injured?
Itagaki doesn't know.
He only knows that now is the best opportunity to avenge Yuanshan, and if he misses it, he will have almost no chance to get it back.
This was enough reason for him to draw his sword and rush towards Ogata at this moment!
Itagaki pushed through the sea water and ran towards Ogata.
When he was two feet away, he switched the knife in his hand to the upper stance.
Gu Luo
Ogata didn't move.
He just spread his legs leisurely, stood still, held the Great Release with both hands, and held the Great Release in front of him in a mid-section posture.
The two passed by each other
Pfft...
The dull sound of flesh being cut sounded at the moment the two people passed each other...
Following the momentum of his forward movement, Itagaki passed Ogata, took a few steps forward, and then collapsed softly to the ground.
But Ogata maintained the stance of drawing the sword and stood still.
A string of blood beads remaining on the tip of the sword rolled into the sea water at Ogata's feet under the splash of raindrops.
"Cough...cough...!" Itagaki coughed hard.
Every time he coughed, a handful of blood was thrown from his mouth.
On the vital part of his waist and abdomen, a huge incision slowly opened like a blooming flower.
Itagaki felt as if his entire waist had been cut open, and it was difficult to move his lower body.
And this "paralysis" feeling of being unable to move his body was rapidly spreading from his lower body to all parts of his body.
"Yuanshan...senior brother..."
A voice like a gossamer flowed out from Itagaki's lips that had lost all color.
"I'm sorry... In the end... I still couldn't... kill Ogata Isei for you with my own hands..."
"But...it's not like...I haven't made any achievements at all..."
Itagaki raised his head with all his strength and cast a mocking look at Ogata behind him.
"Although it didn't hit...him...but it...further consumed his...energy...!"
"Hahahaha... Ogata Issei... If I can make you... die in the belly of a fish in disguise... I wouldn't count... my revenge has failed...!"
"Hahahahahaha...!"
Itagaki seemed to have concentrated all his strength on his lips, tongue and throat, and smiled hard.
Laugh, laugh.
I kept laughing until my laughter became weaker and weaker...
I laughed until the laughter suddenly stopped...
He kept laughing... Itagaki's eyes were rounded and his cheeks were still smiling, and his head hung down, lifeless...
Ogata glanced back at Itagaki, whose life had been cut off, and slowly put the Daishukten back into its scabbard.
He held the brocade box containing the heads of eight hundred bhikkhunis and just took a step forward.
"Well……!"
Ogata's brows instantly furrowed together, and there was only a look of pain and fatigue between his brows.
The brief duel with Itagaki just now did not cause any further trauma to the body.
But the knife slashed at Itagaki... drained away the last bit of strength he had left...
Ogata now felt as if he had lost control of his limbs and could not even lift them.
Not only has the body lost control, but even the consciousness has begun to separate from the mind.
Ogata, who was holding the brocade box with a plop, collapsed face down into the sea water that had reached his ankles, making a crisp "plop" sound.
Wake up...! Now... it's not the time to sleep yet...!
Ogata bit the tip of his tongue again.
But no matter how hard he bit, the pain could no longer revive his consciousness and regain control of his limbs.
Not to mention consciousness, limbs, he can't even control his eyelids now.
No matter how hard he struggled, his increasingly heavy eyelids kept falling...
I can't... just sleep like this...
Gudong, Gudong, Gudong...
The next moment when his eyelids completely fell and his vision turned pitch black, Ogata heard the sound of "gudong" and "gudong" as the sea water completely enveloped his body...
This was the last voice heard by Ogata, who had completely lost consciousness.
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on the coast
"Asai-senpai! Can this board be used as a boat?" Shimada asked loudly to Asai beside him.
"Of course it's impossible! A wooden board like this will sink into the sea as soon as you step on it!"
On the coast, Atachi and others were looking for things that could help them cross the sea.
After seeing the sudden explosion of Nikki Maru, even Amachi and Asai could no longer maintain their composure.
Eager to know what happened to the ship and what happened to Ogata and the others now, driven by their anxiety, they looked around on the shore for anything that could help them cross the sea.
They were just a bunch of old, weak, sick and disabled people, so naturally they didn't have the ability to cross the sea directly holding a big wooden board, so they could only look for something that could be used as a small boat.
But on such a deserted beach, how could one find anything that could be used as a boat?
So Atachi and others searched everywhere for useful things, but they still found nothing until now.
Just when everyone was still working anxiously,
"Ah! Look! It's Mr. Makimura! Mr. Makimura is back!"
Azhu suddenly pointed toward the sea and shouted in an excited tone.
Hearing Azuki's shouting, Amachi, Asai and others were immediately shocked, and quickly raised their heads and followed the direction pointed by Azuki.
On the sea, I saw the tall Makimura, paddling a small wooden boat, heading straight towards the coast.
A closer look showed that besides Makimura, there were also Lin and Genichi on the wooden boat. Both of them seemed to be asleep at this time, with their eyes closed tightly.
Except for Makimura, Lin, and Genichi, there was no one else on the boat...
Atachi and others rushed to the shore desperately. Before Makimura could reach the shore, Asai took the lead and shouted to Makimura:
"Makimura! Where is Mamiya and Ittousai?!"
Makimura had already expected that when he returned to the shore, he would be questioned like this by everyone. He calmly recounted the scenes that had happened on the ship before.
When he and Makimura escaped with Lin and Genichi, they quickly grabbed two escape boats on the Nikki Maru and prepared to use the boats to return to the shore.
And not long after they escaped from the Nikki Maru in a small boat... the sudden explosion of the Nikki Maru almost overturned the boat beneath them.
Ogata... is still on the Nikki Maru.
Therefore, after seeing the explosion of the Nikki Maru, Mamiya made a decisive decision and asked Makimura to take Lin and Genichi, who had fainted due to serious injuries, back to the shore. He turned back alone to check the situation on Ogata's side.
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Knowing that someone had to send Lin and Genichi back to Makimura on the shore first, he did not argue with Mamiya. After saying "I know" to Mamiya, he parted ways with Mamiya's soldiers.
After bringing Lin and Genichi back to the shore to ensure their safety, he came back to help search for Ogata, who was swallowed by the explosion.
Seeing Atachi and others with various injuries of various sizes on their bodies for some unknown reason, Makimura was filled with doubts.
But now is not the time to ask questions slowly.
After handing over Rin and Genichi to Atachi and others, Makimura immediately turned the boat around and prepared to return to the still burning "fire ball".
"Wait a minute!" When Makimura was about to start again, Atachi stopped him, "I'll go with you!"
"No!" Makimura refused without hesitation.
He glanced at Atachi, who was standing in an awkward position due to several injuries on her body, and couldn't even stand upright, and then said sternly:
"Miss Atachi, you have been injured and it is not appropriate to go to sea with me anymore."
"And this ship is very small. If there is one more person on board, the speed will be reduced, which will easily delay the time."
"Just leave it to me."
Makimura, with firm eyes showing, clapped the oar in his hand.
"Brother Ogata can be considered my brother."
"I will definitely bring Brother Ogata back safely!"
After hearing Makimura's well-founded reasons for refusing her to go with him, and the persuasion of Azuki and others, Azuki, who bit her lower lip, finally gave up the idea of following Makimura to find Ogata.
Wow... la... la... la la... la...
The thick dark clouds that had just been pouring down the entire sea with heavy rain now seemed to be tired and slowly stopped the rain.
Along with the rain, there were also strong winds, roaring waves and thunder.
The majestic heavy rain slowly turned into moderate rain, light rain, and finally not a drop of water fell.
And the tight dark clouds that had been separating the sky from the earth finally dispersed.
It was evening at this time.
I saw those black clouds, floating in the east and west in the clean sky after the heavy rain.
The unique dark red glow of the evening shines from behind the clouds, giving each dark cloud a red edge, making them, which are black in nature, look a bit more glamorous.
Even the dark clouds were able to splash a layer of red sunset glow, but it was unable to dye the pale cheeks of O-Machi, who was standing on the shore like a helpless child at this time.
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