The body is also quite clean, as if it had just been taken a shower.
However, the look in his eyes made Ogata feel a little nervous in his heart.
This young man's eyes...have no sparkle...
Like a pair of dead eyes.
This young man, led by Tobiru, knelt on the left side of Ogata.
After the young man sat down, Fei Yuan took a few steps back and knelt on the right rear side of the young man with one knee.
"Samurai-sama, this is the first time we meet..." The young man took the lead in introducing himself to Ogata, "My name is Rikichi..."
After the boy who called himself Rikichi finished speaking, Ogata quickly turned his kneeling body to the left so that his body was facing Rikichi.
"First time we meet. My name is Ogata Issei."
"Ogata-kun." Kuronaga spoke out at this time, "Rikichi was born in an ordinary rural village called 'Myobar' in my domain."
After listening to Kuranagi's supplementary introduction to Rikichi, Ogata thought to himself:
——Why did you bring someone with such terrifying eyes to see me for no reason...
As soon as the words in Ogata's heart fell, Kuronaga added something that made Ogata's heart almost skip a beat:
"Five months ago, Miaozhang Village ceased to exist."
"...Huh?" Ogata turned his head and cast a surprised look at Kuranagi, "No longer exists? What happened?"
Kuronaga pursed his lips.
After a pause, he said:
"...Since the Lord came to the throne, in order to satisfy his own selfish desires, he has increased taxes excessively on all the villages in the domain."
"Five months ago, the villagers of Miaozhang Village launched an uprising because they could not bear the harsh taxes."
"The uprising of the villagers in Miaozhang Village was naturally put out quickly."
"Only three days passed between the launch of the uprising and its failure."
"Ogata-kun, you must be confused now, right? You are wondering why you have never heard of this uprising."
Because what Kuronaga said just now accurately expressed Ogata's feelings.
Ogata just happened to be wondering why he had never heard of this matter.
"The reason why Ogata-kun you haven't heard of this is because we tried our best to block the news of 'Miaobaru Village launched an uprising' and 'Miaobaru Village Uprising failed'."
"There are two reasons why we have to do this."
"The first reason: because farmers in a certain rural area in the domain launched an uprising because they could not bear the harsh taxes - this kind of disgraceful news, naturally, the less people know about it, the better."
"As for the second reason..."
Kuronaga suddenly fell silent.
The hands that were naturally resting on his legs slowly became clenched.
The emotions in his eyes gradually became more complicated.
"...The second reason...is because...my lord, he punished the villagers who were captured because of the failed uprising...very cruelly..."
Kuronaga's words just now seemed to have some kind of magic power.
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Ji had a strange reaction...
Li Ji suddenly clenched his teeth, clenched his fists tightly, and his body began to tremble slightly.
Li Ji's strength seemed to bite his teeth into pieces and draw blood from his palms.
Ogata, on the other hand, looked at Kurunaga with a blank expression, and then looked at Rikichi.
"...Next." Kuronaga sighed softly, "Let Yuriyoshi tell you what my lord has done to the villagers of Myobaru Village..."
Ogata looked at Rikichi.
Li Jilian took several deep breaths to calm down his emotions.
Then he opened his mouth and made a hoarse voice:
"...That thief Matsudaira Gennai...is not a human being..."
"He brought everyone in the village... back to his city..."
"The men in the village were taken to a dojo in the city, and the women were taken to other places..."
"That thief Matsudaira Gennai... likes to see close relatives and close friends killing each other... he euphemistically calls it a 'competition'..."
"That dojo... is where the dog thief watched the fight..."
"The reason why we were brought to that dojo was to watch us, our families and friends kill each other..."
"He gave each of us a knife..."
"Only one person can survive each duel..."
"And my first opponent... is my brother...!"
Having said this, Li Ji could no longer control his emotions, and tears began to roll out of his eyes.
"If there is no winner in every duel, then both people will be killed by that dog thief...!"
"I don't want to kill my brother..."
"But I don't want to die either..."
"So...I finally...pierced my brother's chest with a sword..."
"Then...my opponent in the second game...is my father..."
"In order to keep me alive, my father hit my knife..."
"After that...I killed each other with many friends in the village..."
"I killed my brother, my father, and almost all my friends before I finally survived..."
"I hate it so much...I killed all my relatives and friends just to survive..."
"But I hate the Matsudaira dog thief who forced us to do this kind of thing even more!!"
Riki rushed towards Ogata and grabbed Ogata's right hand tightly.
"Samurai-sama! Please help me! Help us!"
"Please help us kill that thief Matsudaira Gennai!!"
Riki's hands tightly grasped Ogata's right hand.
Ogata's right hand can clearly feel the strength of Riki's hands, the trembling with excitement and anger, and...the boundless hatred contained in Riki's body...
Compared with Rikichi's tearful request, what made Ogata feel even more uneasy was Rikichi's tears.
Originally, Li Ji's tears were still ordinary and transparent.
However... as Li Ji continued to elaborate on his previous experiences, Li Ji's tears gradually began to change...
Slowly changes from transparent color to light red.
Finally...it turned into the scarlet color it is now...
Scarlet tears... no, they can't be called tears anymore.
It should be said that blood kept rolling out from Riji's eye sockets, and then dripped on the hakama on Ogata's leg...
The drop of blood falling on Ogata's hakama was as hot as a spark to Ogata, burning all over Ogata's body, causing large goosebumps to appear uncontrollably on Ogata's skin...
Looking at Rikichi who was shedding tears of blood, Kuronaga let out a long sigh.
"Flying Monkey... take Rigi down to rest..."
"yes……"
Fei Yuan helped Li Ji, who was still crying, and left the room.