I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Ogata could not refuse this invitation from Cang Yong.

After all, this is an invitation from Hirose Clan's second in command.

In addition to Matsudaira Gennai, Ogata's top boss.

In addition - Ogata also has a lot of questions he wants to ask Kura Naga.

And Cang Yong's sudden invitation is just a great opportunity to question Cang Yong's various questions face to face.

So - Oo conveniently accepted Cang Yong's invitation.

Before coming to Kurangaga's mansion, Ogata did not forget to make a detour to the Sakakibara Sword House and tell his seniors that he will be attending the banquet later tonight.

"Ogata-kun, I'm very sorry."

Kuranaga suddenly leaned over and apologized to Ogata.

"I've just heard—you have a rather important dinner tonight, don't you?"

"Because of me, you had to postpone the dinner. I'm really sorry."

As early as yesterday, Cang Yong learned from Fei Yuan that Ogata was going to attend a very important banquet tonight.

But for his own selfishness, Cang Yong decided to go ahead with the original plan, and called Ogata into the mansion tonight, wronged Ogata, and forced Ogata to postpone the time for the banquet.

Ogata sighed silently.

"My lord, you don't need to apologize."

"If you have anything important to say to me, please do so. I'll be all ears."

Cang Yong straightened up and straightened his clothes.

"Since Ogata-kun, you still have an important banquet to attend tonight, then I won't waste any time and just get straight to the point."

Cang Yong raised his eyes.

With an extremely serious gaze, he looked directly into Ogata's eyes.

"...Ogata-kun, would you like to be an executioner?"

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After the room was immersed in the weird silence for a long time, Ogata's "ha" finally broke the silence.

"... Huh?" Ogata looked at Cang Yong, who was still holding a serious face, with astonished eyes.

Cang Yong's serious expression declared that what he said just now was not a joke, he was quite serious.

Executioner - although this word is unfamiliar to Ogata, he also understands the meaning contained in this word.

"The executioner...does he want me to kill someone?"

"That's right." Cang Yong nodded.

"Who do you want me to kill?"

"Matsudaira Gennai."

"……what?"

This is the second "ha" sound from Ogata, which contains complex emotions, mainly stunned and shocked.

Of course Ogata knew who Matsudaira Gennai was.

At this moment, Ogata wondered if he had heard it wrong.

"...Master, who do you think you want me to kill?" Ogata repeated the question he had just asked in a cautious tone.

And Cang Yong also repeated his answer just now:

"Matsudaira Gennai."

Seemingly intending to convince Ogata that he heard correctly, Cang Yong added after a pause:

"I hope you can assist us in the assassination of the Hirose domain daimyo, our lord—Matsudaira Gennai."

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Hirose Fan, in a dense forest somewhere in the Fan.

"I'm so unlucky today..."

A young man with a pale and scary face said in a calm and indifferent tone.

"At the end of the day, I didn't even kill a single prey."

The young man is sitting on the body of a samurai.

The samurai put his hands and knees on the muddy ground, turning his back into a "chair".

And this pale young man sat on the warrior's back carelessly.

Even though the samurai under his crotch was sweating constantly due to fatigue, and his hands and legs began to tremble slightly,

The pale young man sitting on his back didn't show any consideration for him.

The youth sits on the back of a samurai.

In front of him and on both sides of him, there were warriors kneeling one knee after another.

These warriors are the young man's bodyguards.

There are 113 people in total.

Every time he went out to hunt, the young man would bring out his 113 guards, so that the 113 guards would protect him personally when he was hunting.

This young man is none other than Gennai Matsudaira, the current daimyo of the Hirose Clan who came to hunt today.

After hearing Matsudaira Gennai's complaint about not being able to hit the prey, many guards began to sweat thinly on their faces.

At the same time, they were also afraid that their already hanging heads would be buried even lower.

This posture seemed to wish to shrink himself into the soil.

Because they have seen too many scenes of Matsudaira Gennai blaming other people because of bad hunting...

In order not to be stared at by Matsudaira Gennai, they had to bury their heads as low as possible and shrink their bodies...

"...My lord."

A burly samurai who was also kneeling on the ground but closest to Matsudaira Gennai spoke.

"It's getting dark now, let's stop here for today's hunting."

This burly samurai is none other than the first samurai of the Hirose Clan and the personal bodyguard of Gennai Matsudaira - Nanahara.

At the same time, he is also one of the few people who can offer some advice to Matsudaira Genuai.

Hearing Qiyuan's words, Matsudaira Gennai raised his head and looked at the sky that was almost dark.

"……Let's go back."

After that, Matsudaira Gennai stood up and walked towards the horse tied beside him.

Seeing that Gennai Matsudaira was finally planning to go back, most of the guards—especially the guard who used Gennai Matsudaira as a "chair" breathed a sigh of relief...

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"Assassinate... Matsudaira Gennai...?"

Ogata struggled to get every word of this sentence out of his mouth.

"...My lord, let me confirm—are you joking what you said just now?"

"I'm not joking." Cang Yong said seriously, "I'm quite serious."

Due to the impact of the huge amount of information, Ogata now feels that his head is a little swollen.

When Ogata raised his hand and rubbed his forehead to soothe his tense brain under the impact of the huge amount of information, Kura Naga said:

"Ogata-kun, although you don't have much chance to get in touch with the lord on weekdays, you should have heard about the cruelty of the lord, right?"

"... I have heard a little bit. I have seen it with my own eyes..."

In Ogata's mind, the scene where Matsudaira Gennai killed Inoue who accidentally hit him in his arms with a single sword when he was inspecting the warehouse...

"Although you have heard about and witnessed the lord's brutality, you haven't had a real experience of the lord's cruelty—I can assure you of this."

"In order to explain to you why I decided to assassinate the lord, I decided to let you... meet someone first."

After finishing speaking, Cang Yong tilted his head and shouted to the outside of the room:

"Flying ape!"

As soon as Kuranaga finished speaking, a short, unremarkable young man opened the sliding door on the left side of Ogata.

"My lord." The young man whom Cang Yong called Flying Monkey knelt on the ground on one knee.

"Bring me Reggie."

"Yes!"

Flying Monkey echoed loudly, then closed the paper sliding door just opened, and disappeared from the sight of Ogata and Kura Naga.

Not long after, the flying ape came back.

The flying monkey who came back did not come back alone.

Instead, he came back with a small and thin boy.