Ogata followed the old man's instructions and walked straight ahead, then turned right at the first corner.

After turning right around this corner, a large wooden house that constantly emits noise from the outside appears in front of Ogata's eyes.

The wooden house is larger than any building Ogata has seen since entering the village.

Two white draperins hung from the gate.

Even though it was still a little far away, Ogata could clearly hear the constant noise coming from inside the wooden house.

- This should be a casino......

Ogata said secretly in his heart.

Hiding in the shadows, Ogata looked at the casino opened by the Negishi family, while silently thinking about how to gather information related to the location of the Negishi family's base camp in the future.

Just as Ogata was thinking about whether to enter the casino first and find someone who looked very high to negotiate in a more peaceful way, or simply pull out his knife and rush in and ask loudly, "Who is in charge", an unfamiliar male voice suddenly sounded from behind Ogata:

"The executioner stabbed the fingers."

Before the unfamiliar male voice could fully fall, Ogata's pupils shrank suddenly.

Instinctively, Ogata jumped forward, distanced himself from the man behind him, and quickly pressed his right hand on the hilt of the knife at his left waist.

After distancing himself from the person behind him, Ogata looked towards the source of the sound.

Behind the spot where Ogata had been standing stood a young samurai who looked about his age.

He has fair skin and a delicate complexion.

Wearing an ordinary kimono and hakama, and wearing a crimson haori.

On the bridge of the nose is a pair of glasses, which are quite rare in this era.

The body exudes a quiet temperament.

In terms of temperament, this guy is more of a scholar than a samurai.

Seeing that Ogata quickly distanced himself from him and put on a battle posture, a smile flashed on the face of this guy, who was originally expressionless.

"That's how you react...... It seems that you are indeed the famous 'Executioner's Knife'. ”

"Who are you?" Ogata asked rhetorically in a deep voice, "Are you too...... Did you come to get my head? ”

With that, Ogata gathered the five fingers of his right hand pressed on the handle of the sword, tightened his grip on the handle, and was ready to draw his sword at any time.

Ogata now felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead.

I secretly said in my heart:

- This guy...... When did you just come to the ...... behind me!

The bespectacled samurai came so close behind Ogata, but Ogata didn't notice.

The more Ogata thought about it, the more scared he felt.

If the bespectacled samurai hadn't come to talk to him, but had drawn his sword and slashed at him, he would not have been able to react......

Hearing Ogata's question, the "Glasses Samurai" raised his hands slightly high, revealing his empty palms to Ogata.

"I have no ill will."

"I'm not here to take your head."

"I only saw your face on the wanted notice a while ago, so I just recognized you."

"I met you by chance in this place, and I became a little interested in you, so I just wanted to talk to you."

"My surname is Jian Miya, my name is Jiulang, please advise."

Ogata looked the man who called himself Kyuro Mamiya up and down several times.

After confirming that there was no murderous aura on this person's body, and indeed that he did not exude malice, Ogata slowly let go of the hand that was holding the handle of the knife.

"I'm Ogata Esusei. Please advise. ”

"Ogata-kun." Mamiya glanced at the gambling house opened by the Negishi family, "You've been looking at this gambling hall just now, do you want to go there and play two games?" Or do you want to go there and make some money? ”

"What I'm going to do, it's none of your business, right?" Ogata replied in a cold tone.

"If Ogata-kun has something to do with the Negishi family, then it has something to do with me."

"Oh?" Ogata raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean by that?" ”

"I'm with the local Negishi family...... I guess there's some grudge. That's why I came all the way here to settle accounts with the Negishi family. ”

"It's just—I don't know where the Negishi family's home base is."

"That's why I came here to collect some information from this casino opened by the Negishi family."

After Mamiya's words fell, Ogata chuckled a few times and said:

"That's really a coincidence, I also have a grudge against the people of the Negishi family, and I also want to recruit the Negishi family's base camp."

"Then because I didn't know where the base camp of the Negishi family was, I came here and planned to go into their casino to find the people of the Negishi family to ask about the whereabouts of their base camp."

"Oh?" A flash of surprise flashed across Mamiya's face, "That's really a coincidence." ”

Speaking of this, Mamiya paused.

After a moment's thought, Mamiya threw an offer at Ogata.

"Ogata-kun, since the two of us have the same purpose, how about we work together? We've been working together to find the base camp of the Negishi family. ”

"Oh?" Ogata shrugged his shoulders, "Since you know that I'm 'Executioner Ichisai', do you dare to cooperate with a wanted felony like me?" ”

"What don't you dare." Without thinking, Mamiya said, "If I had been afraid of this kind of thing, I wouldn't have come to talk to you in the first place." ”

Mamiya once again cast her gaze on the gambling house in the distance.

"Anyway—let's go to the casino now."

"If the two of us stand here for too long, it is easy to arouse the suspicion of others."

With that, Jian Gong held the knife at his waist and walked slowly towards the gambling hall.

After hesitating for a moment, Ogata quickly followed.

After Ogata followed, Mamiya said to Ogata:

"Are you agreeing to work with me?"

"Not really. I just happen to be like you, I just want to go to the casino to gather information. ”

"Ogata-kun, it's skillful to gather information in a gambling hall."

"To gather information in a casino, you have to pretend to be a gambler."

"Only after pretending to be a gambler and entering the gambling hall is it not easy to arouse the vigilance of the gambling hall staff."

"Then while gambling, I quietly observed the location of the administrators and thugs of the gambling hall."

"Do you want to pretend to be a gambler...... Ogata muttered, "I don't know how to gamble...... Can you gamble in the palace? ”

"I used to learn gambling in the Owari area."

Speaking of which, the two of them just walked in front of the curtain of the gambling house.

The palace at the forefront lifted the white curtain and stepped into the gambling hall.

And Ogata followed suit.

The next moment you step into the casino, the noise and heat emit out.

The inside of the gambling hall was unusually hot, and the smell of heat mixed with the "man's smell" made Ogata feel suffocated.

The casino was a little more spacious than Ogata had imagined.

More than a dozen gamblers were sitting on their knees or cross-legged on futons.

Opposite the gambler, sits the pot that is responsible for rolling the dice.

On the wooden floor between Hu Zhen and the gambler were several large pieces of paper.

These several large pieces of paper each have "single" and "double" written on them.