I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

The latest website: "Looking for... Ogata Yidao Zhai?" Chu Guang was taken aback.

"Ogata Ittosai is the person whom Toyotomi personally ordered to kill him."

Jijiu withdrew his gaze from Chuguang's body and turned it back to the window.

"However, the current encirclement and suppression against Ogata Yidao Zhai is not going well."

"Ogata Yidaosai's strength far exceeds our expectations."

"Saiweimon and the others have searched up and down the river where Ogata Ittosai fell, but they haven't found any trace of him until now."

"If you let him escape from Osaka, it will be troublesome. If you want to find him again, you don't know where to look for him..."

"So I decided to call out some ninjas to join in the search for Ogata Ittosai."

"And Chuguang, you are one of the people added."

"Good job, Chuguang."

"If you can, try to make some achievements."

Ji Jiu paused for a moment, and then turned his gaze from the window to Chuguang.

"Many people have criticized you recently."

"What are you talking about, 'Chuguang was raised by Master Jijiu alone, and he was personally taught by Master Jijiu, but he has not made any great achievements until now'."

"Although such gossip makes me feel very harsh, I have to admit that what they said is indeed reasonable."

"Ever since you officially served the organization a year ago, you haven't achieved much."

"Let you disguise yourself as a musician and lurk in Osaka, and you have not obtained any particularly valuable information for the organization."

"You are my closed-door disciple. If you don't have any achievements that you can show off, then it is really too shameful."

"So you must give me your best tonight and do your best to make some achievements."

"In this way, those idlers who like to chew their tongues can also be a little quieter."

"Try to prove to these idlers that you don't just have a pretty face.

"

Ji Jiu, who had always kept his face cold and expressionless, turned his mouth up slightly at this moment, and a little smile appeared in Ji Jiu's eyes with the upturn of his mouth.

"yes!"

Chu Guang buried his head low, and said in a respectful voice.

"I will fulfill my mission!"

Jijiu waved his hand towards Chuguang.

"Okay, let's go down and do a search for Ogata Issai."

After Chuguang shouted "Yes" again, he got up and left.

As a result, when she just took a few steps back, Ji Jiu seemed to suddenly remember something, and hurriedly called Chu Guang to stop.

"Chuguang, wait."

Chu Guang, who didn't know why, knelt down on one knee again.

"Don't let that crazy woman, Mrs. Lao, know about the fact that 'I have dispatched some ninjas to join in the search for Ogata Yidaosai'."

Ji Jiu raised his hand and rubbed the center of his eyebrows.

"That crazy woman just came to my place to make trouble..."

"What do you want to join in the search for Ogata Yidaosai, and want to be loyal to Toyotomi-sama quickly."

"It's so ridiculous...She is a lunatic who can do nothing but kill people. If she is asked to search for Ogata Yitosai, the only help she can do is to be a waste of help."

"Anyway, don't let her know that I have sent more people to search for Ogata Yidaosai. If she finds out, she will definitely come to me again."

Hearing Ji Jiu's words, Chu Guang also showed a little smile on his face.

"Yes, I understand."

"Yeah." Ji Jiu nodded lightly, then waved to Chu Guang again.

This time, Chuguang was not stopped suddenly by Ji Jiu, and walked out of the room where Ji Jiu was located very smoothly.

After Chuguang left the room where Jijiu was, a dramatic scene appeared——

Chu Guang, who had been smiling just now, faded away at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Return to the original expressionless appearance.

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Chu Guang, who came out of Yoshihisa's room, walked quickly in the direction of leaving Longshui Temple.

When turning into a necessary road to leave Longshui Temple, Chu Guang's eyes suddenly lit up.

Because at the end of the road ahead, she saw her old partner: Shibata.

At this moment, Shibata was dressed like an Iga male ninja.

And that's what he was.

Shibata is a member of the Iga Ninja. When Chu Guang pretended to be a musician and lurked in Osaka, he always played the role of "the bodyguard of the first performer in Osaka" and assisted Chu Guang from the side.

He is Chu Guang's true partner—both on the surface and in substance.

At this moment, Shibata was talking to a middle-aged man and a man with his right arm hanging on his chest.

Chu Guang also knew the two people who were talking to Shibata.

The former is the owner of the Motomeikan in Osaka: Matahachiro Yagi.

The latter is a powerful young swordsman named An Yun.

Both of them have a common identity: they are both members of the Toyotomi Army.

Probably no one would have guessed that the well-known sword gym in Osaka, Yuanmeikan, is the base camp of the spies of their Toyotomi army.

A large number of spies from Toyotomi's army pretended to be apprentices of Yuanmingguan and lurked in Osaka.

For these two people, Chuguang has heard about the embarrassing things they both encountered a few days ago. In the "Great Trial" jointly organized by the Great Sword Hall, the people of Quanbing Hall and Shimura Hall were humiliated.

This task was personally ordered by the commander-in-chief of their Toyotomi army: Toyotomi Nobuhide.

And the reason why such a mission was issued is also very simple——

The first owner of the Quanbingkan once fell into trouble when the Toyotomi clan was in distress two hundred years ago.

The current owner of the Shimurakan frequently speaks insultingly to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who created "Toyotomi Tianxia" two hundred years ago, both in public and in private.

Toyotomi Nobuhide saw that the two sword gyms were not happy, so he decided to humiliate them in a large-scale event such as the "big test match".

The reason is as simple as that.

In Chu Guang's eyes, this kind of task is full of the style of Toyotomi Nobuhide's lunatic - doing it casually. Part of the task is completely with your own temper and mood.

Shibata was also involved in this mission at the time.

During the time that Chuguang was lurking in Osaka with Chuguang, Shibata had always had two roles: he was responsible for pretending to be Chuguang's bodyguard and helping Chuguang, and also being a disciple of Yuanmingguan, providing An Yun and others assist.

Because Shibata was also present on the day when the mission was carried out, Chuguang heard the details of the mission through Shibata's mouth afterwards.

As far as the results are concerned, An Yun's mission was considered a success—but the price they paid was a little higher.

Relying on her high strength, An Yun successfully humiliated both Quanbingkan and Shimurakan in full view, but her right collarbone was broken due to various accidents afterwards.

Chu Guang had heard that An Yun had a mission of "trying to sneak into the prison, and when tonight's battle starts, cooperate with other companions to break through the Osaka Prison".

In terms of importance, it is obvious that this task is far more important than the task of "shaming Zenbingkan and Shimurakan".

An Yun's superior seems to have told An Yun that the tasks of humiliating Quan and Zhijian Pavilion are very important, but it must be ensured that the task of "later rioting in the prison" will not be delayed.

As a result... just because of the broken right collarbone, An Yun's mission of "lurking into the prison" was declared a failure in advance...

After seeing Shibata, Chuguang's eyes showed a few thoughtful lights.

After these thoughts flickered in Chu Guang's eyes for a while, they slowly turned into firmness.

"Shibata, you appeared just in time..."

After muttering in such a low voice, Hatsumitsu hurried towards Shibata.

After the distance between Shibata and Shibata gradually narrowed, Chuguang relied on his excellent hearing to slowly hear the conversation between Shibata and An Yun.

"Mr. An Yun, I was shocked when I heard you say that you wanted to challenge that Yishihua at the 'Great Trial Match'."

Shibata smiled wryly.

"I thought at the time: Is it because the mission information I received was incomplete? Our mission should not include humiliating the Yishi Sword Gym."

"Hey, don't mention it."

An Yun pouted.

"I have experienced hundreds of battles, but the number of times I have fought against the 'female swordsman' is very few."

"So after I came to Osaka, I always wanted to compete with that famous Isshiki."

"And at that time, didn't I just happen to have the task of 'lurking into the Osaka Prison, and preparing to cooperate with outsiders tonight to break through the Osaka Prison'."

"So I thought of killing two birds with one stone: challenge Yishihua, and then injure Yishihua."

"In this way, I can have a good fight with Yishihua, and after injuring her, I can be sent to prison for hurting others."

"I didn't think so..."

An Yun glanced at her chest, which was thickly wrapped in sackcloth, and the right arm hanging on her chest, and twitched the corners of her mouth.

"...Okay, let's stop chatting." An Yun, with an irritable face, scratched her hair vigorously with her remaining left hand, "Shibata, I have something to do, so I'm leaving first."

Shibata: "Well, see you later."

After saying goodbye to each other, An Yun and the others left quickly, and Shibata also turned around to leave.

And as soon as he turned around, he saw Chu Guang running towards him.

"Ah, Miss Chuguang." After seeing Chuguang, Shibata immediately greeted Chuguang with a smile on his face.

"Shibata. Why are you here?" Chuguang asked Shibata, "Shouldn't you be running around in the streets and alleys of Osaka now?"

Chuguang remembered clearly what Shibata was responsible for tonight—responsible for searching for Ogata.

Shibata is one of the "eyes" of Toyotomi's army scattered all over Osaka.

After announcing the launch of "Project B" to encircle and suppress Ogata, Shibata was the first group of ninjas sent out to find Ogata.

"I accidentally got hurt..." Shibata smiled dryly in shame, then lifted the clothes on his left forearm, revealing the sackcloth that tightly wrapped his left forearm, "I just searched for Ogata Isaito in the southwest of Osaka."

"As a result, Ogata Yidao Zhai did not find it, but encountered a group of wanderers instead."

"Osaka is in chaos now, and it has given many bad people an opportunity."

"The gang of rogues I encountered were such rotten people."

"Many residents are now frightened by the fires in various places in Osaka and fleeing everywhere. They took this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do evil and broke into various shops to rob property."

"I really can't see their evil deeds, so I went to teach them a lesson."

"You also know that my fighting ability is not very good."

"Although I successfully taught them a lesson, I accidentally injured my left arm."

"So I came back here to heal my wounds, and I just bandaged the wounds."

"It turned out to be like this... Shibata, you came back just in time." Chuguang raised his hands and patted Shibata's shoulders vigorously.

Afterwards, Chuguang looked around, and after confirming that there were no outsiders around, she lowered her voice, and with a volume that only she and Shibata could hear clearly, she told a series of events that she had just been transferred by Yoshihisa to join the search for Ogata , informed Shibata concisely.

"Shibata, listen up, you and I will act separately now."

Chuguang spoke in a deep voice as if he was reciting some magic spell.

"I'm now pretending to follow Yoshihisa's order and leave this Ryūsui Temple to find Ogata Yidaosai."

"And you will leave here one incense stick later than me."

"We will meet up at Miss Yishihua later."

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--Well……

Ogata, who was resting against the wall, slowly opened his rock-heavy eyelids.

The first thing that catches his eyes is a wooden Buddha statue that has been wiped clean.

The Buddha statue sat quietly on the altar, watching Ogata with calm eyes.

After staring at the Buddha statue for a while, Ogata closed his eyelids again, and then said in his heart in a joking tone:

——I always feel... I seem to have a lot of fate with Buddha...

Ogata is now in an abandoned Buddhist hall.

An abandoned Buddhist temple that he had just visited a while ago.

After the battle with Yoshiemon was interrupted when the wooden bridge shattered under his feet, he fell into the turbulent water under the bridge.

Misfortunes never come singly. When falling into the turbulence, his head accidentally hit the pier.

Ogata's condition was already poor. After being hit hard on the head, his body was finally overwhelmed and Ogata temporarily "slept".

His sleep was not long.

When he was about to drift to the most downstream of the river, he finally woke up faintly.

Even when he was asleep, Ogata still held the knife tightly in his hand.

Ogata inserted the badly damaged sword that was left in his hand into the nearby river bank, using it as a fulcrum to drag himself ashore.

After going ashore, the first word that popped up in Ogata's mind was—heaviness.

The body was so heavy that it was difficult to even stand up.

To give a vivid example... It feels like every muscle in the body has been increased several times...

If - before falling into the turbulence, Ogata's physical state was -30, then his current physical state is -80.

Even the fatigue after the war, it is impossible to make the physical condition deteriorate so much in one breath.

The only reason Ogata can think of is that the "immortal poison" is at work.

This outbreak of "immortal poison" reveals its differences from previous outbreaks everywhere.

Counting every previous outbreak of the "immortal poison", there has never been such a situation where Ogata's physical condition deteriorated so much in an instant like an explosion in one breath.

Ogata opened his skirt and looked at his upper body.

He had thought he must have had more skin turning purple.

But the result was beyond Ogata's expectation.

The purple skin did not increase, but decreased.

The area has been reduced by about one-fifth.

However, although the area has decreased, the color seems to have deepened slightly.

Ogata couldn't figure out what was going on with his body now.

The constant pain and swelling from the depths of his head also made Ogata's thoughts extremely difficult, making it difficult to think seriously.

Ogata had no time to think about the current situation he was in.

He is now in a state where he is struggling to even stand up, no matter what, he can no longer compete with a strong enemy.

Right now, the only way Ogata can think of to break the situation is to find a place to hide first, and then take action after the "immortal poison" does not erode the body so severely.

Using a knife as a crutch, he dragged his heavy body away from the river bank.

After walking for an unknown distance, suddenly——Ogata suddenly felt that the surrounding scenery was strangely familiar...

Turn your eyes, look around, and try to remember.

After several efforts, he finally remembered when he came here.

On the day when the "big test" ended, in order to thank Ogata for all the help she had given her, Isshika introduced her "secret base" - an abandoned Buddhist temple - to Ogata.

And this place happened to be near this "secret base" of Yishihua.

Excellent hiding place - found it.

The remote location of the Buddhist hall left a deep impression on Ogata, and it was an excellent hiding place.

Ogata was exhausted at that time, and if he walked forward, he probably couldn't find a better hiding place than that abandoned Buddhist hall. So he didn't think too much - headed straight for the abandoned temple.

He is lucky.

During the two sections of the journey away from the river bank and towards the abandoned Buddhist temple, Ogata did not encounter a single enemy.

He climbed over the window very smoothly, entered the Buddhist hall, leaned against the wall and began to rest.

He originally wanted to take a rest to restore his physical condition. But it has been resting until now, and there is no sign of improvement.

Ogata raised his hand and rubbed his brows vigorously, trying to cheer up his already somewhat dazed spirit.

Although his current situation was extremely bad no matter from which point of view, Ogata did not have too many negative emotions such as annoyance and boredom on his face.

At this time, Ogata, with a smile on his face, said in his heart in a joking tone:

——Thinking about it carefully... It's not like I haven't felt this kind of uncomfortable feeling all over my body before...

——On this year's New Year's Day, when I was arguing in the hotel room with Machi until dawn, I felt uncomfortable all over my body.

The Buddhist hall where Ogata is hiding now is extraordinarily quiet because of its remote location.

But this silence... was broken by a sudden sound of footsteps at this time.

Chachacha...

Outside the Buddhist hall, there was a sound of footsteps approaching the Buddhist hall at an unhurried speed.

Ogata's expression suddenly became serious, and he quickly grabbed the sword placed beside him.

As soon as the knife was started, the only window that could not be locked diagonally opposite Ogata was gently pulled open at the same moment.

A beautiful shadow entered the Buddhist hall along the window.

Looking at the beautiful figure who entered through the window, Ogata's original expression, as if he was facing a big enemy, was immediately stunned.

Also stunned was the owner of this beautiful shadow.

A look of astonishment first appeared on Ogata's face, and then the astonishment quickly turned into consternation.

"Isshiki...Miss...?"

"Yi Dao Zhai... my lord..."

Ogata opened his mouth, and when he was about to say something more——

poof.

The owner of Qianying... that is, Isshiki threw away the small package she was holding in her arms, and rushed into Ogata's arms with a stride.

"Master Yidaosai..." Isshiki ignored Ogata's wet clothes and buried her face deeply in Ogata's chest.

Ogata clearly felt that the clothes on his chest were being moistened by warm tears.

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The author now feels a sense of relief—after laying the groundwork for so long, the penultimate climax of this book is finally coming soon, which should also be the biggest climax. It's really not easy...QAQ

Are there any book friends who can guess why the purple skin on Ogata's body does not increase but decreases?

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