Mamiya, who still looked calm, silently crossed his hands into Haori's sleeves.

"It's your gambling house that doesn't keep its integrity."

Mamiya asked softly.

"Why is it now like we're wrong?"

"Less nonsense!" Another guard replied rudely, "That's what gambling halls look like!" Do you have any comments?! You bastard has ruined our business, so pay us with your life! ”

The four guards who surrounded Ogata and Mamiya from four directions clenched their respective swords.

The atmosphere at the scene instantly became tense and murderous......

Expressionless, Ogata silently reached for his left waist......

That's when —

Laugh at!

The sound of a sharp weapon entering the flesh rang out beside Ogata.

The palace, which was sitting peacefully on the futon, suddenly erupted.

At the moment of getting up, he used the sword drawing technique!

Obviously, the movement of the palace was so fast, but there was no sound when the blade was unsheathed.

The blade swept at the nearest casino guard at a suffocating speed.

The blade swept across the guard's vital point, spilling a torrent of blood.

After slashing the guard to death with a suffocating sword drawing technique, the palace did not pause.

Knife light dance 3 times in a row.

The sharp blade slashed at the other 3 guards at different angles.

First, a horizontal slash slashed the throat of one of the guards.

Then switch the horizontal slash to an oblique one, slashing from one of the guards' left shoulders to his right abdomen.

Finally, he slashed the last guard to the ground with a lift.

4 knives neatly clean.

Each knife hits the vital point of these guards with precision.

After all the four guards were eliminated, the palace let out a soft "ah" as if he remembered something.

"Ogata-kun."

Mamiya looked at Ogata.

"I'm sorry, you don't blame me for not leaving 2 people for you, right?"

“…… No. Ogata cast a helpless look at the palace, "How could I blame you for such a boring thing......"

"It won't be good. There is a guy among my companions who loves to fight, and if he were you, he would have been clamoring at this time, complaining that I didn't keep a few people for him. ”

As he spoke, he swung the knife in his right hand downward, sliking off the blood attached to the blade.

Then he turned his head to look at the already frightened and slumped pot on the ground.

"Hey, I'll ask you."

Jian Gong raised the knife in his right hand and aimed the tip of the knife at Hu Zhen.

Just now, when the palace used the knife drawing technique to cut the barnacle in half, it also cut the tail finger of the right hand of the pot Zhen.

But the palace did not cut off the tail finger of Hu Zhen's right hand, but only cut off the flesh of Hu Zhen's right tail finger.

"You two must both be from the Negishi family, right? Where is the base camp of the Negishi family? ”

As soon as Jian Miya's words fell, Hu Zhen, whose face was already covered with tears and nasal water, immediately cried and said:

"I don't know! I'm not from the Negishi family! I'm just a guy hired by the Negishi family to roll the dice! I don't know where the Negishi family's home base is! ”

Mamiya turned her head and looked at the middle basin.

"What about you, do you know where the Negishi family's base camp is?"

"I don't know!" Nakin quickly shook his head, "I'm just a person hired by the Negishi family!" I'm not from the Negishi family! ”

After listening to the answers of these two people, the palace let out a sigh with a little helplessness.

"Mamiya." Ogata Asamanomiya asked, "Do you think what these two people said is true?" ”

"It should be true." "I don't think the two of them would dare to lie to me in the face of the threat of death. It seems that the two of us came at a bad time, and there is no Negishi family management in the casino right now. ”

After listening to Mamiya's words, Ogata also let out a soft sigh of helplessness:

"That means - did the two of us make this trip to the casino in vain...... What do we do next? ”

“…… In a word. After a moment of silence, Mamiya said, "Get out of here first." We have made such a big noise, and the strength and concentricity of the Tatsuno clan will soon come. ”

"Before the grudge with the Negishi family is resolved, I don't want to be entangled by the strength and concentricity of the Tatsuno Domain."

With that, the palace once again turned his gaze to the body of Hu Zhen and Zhongpen.

"There is no enmity between us."

The palace said softly to the pot and the middle basin.

"But if you two are left alive, the existence of the two of us may be revealed to the strength and concentricity of the Tatsuno Domain."

"If the Tatsuno Domain's Yori and Tongxin know that the guy who killed these casino guards is a samurai with glasses, it will bring a lot of trouble to the two of us in the future."

Hearing this sentence from the palace, the faces of Hu Zhen and Zhongbasin instantly turned white.

The two hurriedly cried:

"No, it won't! I won't say anything about strength and concentricity! ”

"I'll keep it a secret! I'm not going to tell you anything about the two of you! ”

……

However, no matter how the two cried, the palace was expressionless and unmoved.

"Remember my face, if you become a ghost after death, remember to come to me and ask for your life. I'll cut you two off again. ”

After that, Jian Gong swung two swords in a row......

……

……

"Ogata-kun, let's go."

After wiping the blood and fat from the blade with the pocket paper he had brought with him, and putting the knife back into its sheath, Mamiya said to Ogata as he walked towards the outside of the gambling hall.

And Ogata also followed Mamiya with a blank face, and left the gambling hall that was dense with the smell of blood at this time.

As soon as you walk out of the casino, the crisp air hits your face.

Having gotten used to the murky air inside the casino, Ogata now only feels that the air outside smells exceptionally pleasant.

"What do we do now?" Ogata Asamanomiya asked.

"Let's go to Matsucho."

"Matsucho?"

"A small town in the Tatsuno Domain. If you walk from here, you can get there just in time for dark. ”

"That's all for today. Let's go to Matsucho to find an inn and rest for the night, and then go back tomorrow to find information about the Negishi family. ”

With that, the palace took the lead and walked towards the north.

After hesitating for a moment, Ogata followed.

The two walked side by side at the same speed.

In silence, the two left the village.

After leaving the village, Ogata suddenly asked the Mamiya beside him in a calm tone that was neither salty nor light:

"Who the hell are you?"

Ogata said as he silently pressed his left hand on the blade of the knife that was striking at his left waist.

Without thinking, Mamiya replied, "It's just an ordinary ronin. ”

"The swordsmanship you just used, as well as the neat slashing technique, are not ordinary at all."

Ogata clenched his left hand on the blade of the knife a little tighter......