"Anyway—when I get back to Edo, I'll report this to Ometsuke-sama."

"Knowing that the Tatsuno Domain is so corrupt, Lord Omu Fu should not sit idly by."

"As for whether the lord of the Tatsuno Domain is innocent or not, and who is most responsible, we can only know after Lord Ometsuke sends someone to investigate."

"Hasegawa-sama." Imai said to Hasegawa in a half-joking tone, "If you do this, you will offend many people in the Tatsuno Domain." ”

The corners of Hasegawa's mouth turned up slightly.

"Compared to the suffering of the common people, my criticism is not worth mentioning. Well, that's the end of the topic. Let's start with the mission we're currently undertaking. ”

Hasegawa swept his fierce gaze over the faces of the powerful subordinates in front of him.

"We're lucky."

"Originally, I just learned that someone had been killed here, so I came to see if I could find any interesting clues and information. I didn't expect to be found by us. ”

"There will be no mistake, the casino guard who died was killed by that guy's knife drawing technique, 'Divine Light'."

"Only that guy's 'divine light' can cut out such a wound."

"From now on, send me all the men."

"A search will be carried out in the center of this village."

"I'll ask Sano-sama to help organize them later, and the strength and concentricity of the Tatsuno Clan will cooperate with us."

"We have only one goal - a young samurai with glasses!"

……

……

A few hours before Hasegawa Heizo led the officials of the Fire Burglar Reform to arrive in the village of Kamoto—

Just as Mamiya said, the two of them hurried along the way at an ordinary pace, just in time for the sky to get slightly dark, and arrived at the castle town called "Matsu".

Matsumachi is not particularly large, but it is a little more prosperous than Ogata imagined.

Ogata turned his head and looked around with interest, and said in a half-joking tone to Mamiya beside him:

"When I first learned that I was wanted by the shogunate, I thought that I might never be able to enter the castle in my life, and as soon as I entered the castle, I would be hunted down by countless people who recognized me."

"Then I realized that I was really worried. There are very few people who will seriously remember which more wanted criminals in the world there are. ”

As soon as Ogata's words fell, Mamiya responded with a smile:

"Of course. It's just that the ronins who plan to live on bounties and the officials of the government will carefully remember which more wanted criminals there are. ”

"Ordinary people just want to live their current lives, who would bother to remember which more wanted criminals and wanted criminals look like?"

At this point, the palace paused.

Then the corners of his mouth curled, and he continued in a meaningful tone towards Ogata:

"Don't say anything else—Ogata-kun, don't you also read the wanted warrant?"

"You're really right." Ogata replied casually, "It's true that I never look at wanted notices. I've only seen my own wanted warrant so far. ”

"Where did you see your wanted warrant?"

"There was a fool who waved my wanted warrant and said, '300 taels is mine.'" The artist in charge of painting my face is really bad enough to paint me so ugly, I've always wondered how those people recognized me according to that wanted post......"

……

……

Ogata and Manomiya walked around Matsumachi in a casual circle and found a ramen restaurant.

After hastily settling dinner at this ramen restaurant, the two began to look for an inn to settle down.

Of course, because Ogata's money bag was stolen, Ogata naturally helped him out of his ramen money tonight.

Not only the money for dinner, but even the money for tonight's stay was helped by the palace.

Just as the two of them were looking for an inn with a vacant room, Mamiya suddenly poked Ogata with his elbow.

"Ogata-kun, look."

Mamiya said as he chin forward.

Ogata looked ahead.

I saw a magnificent house in front of me, which occupied a large area.

Billowing steam rises from above this magnificent mansion.

There is a large banner stuck above the house.

There is a large Chinese character written on the flag: soup.

"Baths......" Ogata muttered.

"Ogata-kun, let's go."

"Let's go? Where to? ”

"Do you need to ask?" Manomiya cast a puzzled look at Ogata, "Since you've met the bathhouse, you can't miss it." ”

"Besides—don't you want to take a shower after a long absence?"

"I see Ogata-kun, you haven't taken a bath in a long time, right?"

"You all stink."

After hearing Mamiya's words, Ogata was stunned for a moment, and then raised his left and right arms? Sniffing back and forth on the upper arms of the left and right arms.

"Does it smell ......?"

"Let's go? Ogata-kun. Mamiya walked straight towards the bathhouse not far away, "Your bathing money?" I'm out too. ”

What does the Jingjian Palace say? Ogata also realizes that he hasn't had a proper bath in a while.

Probably since the beginning of winter, Ogata hasn't bathed.

It's rare to come across a bathhouse now? At the same time, someone invited him to take a bath, so Ogata didn't do much prevarication and hypocrisy? How many quick steps? After allowing himself to walk side by side with Manomiya again, he walked straight with Manomiya towards the bathhouse where the hot air was constantly bubbling outward.

There are two gates in this bathhouse.

A curtain hangs from each of the two gates.

One curtain reads "Men's Soup" and the other says "Women's Soup".

It can be seen that this bathhouse is not a mixed bathhouse, and it is strictly divided into men's and women's baths.

Mamiya and Ogata open the curtain that says "Men's Soup"? Step into the men's bath.

As soon as you step into the baths? An enthusiastic male voice came from the right hand side of Ogata and Mamiya:

"Welcome!"

The ledger is located on the side of the entrance and exit of the bathhouse.

When the young man sitting behind the ledger saw the two Ogata as they stepped into the bathhouse, he immediately put a skillful formula smile on his cheek and greeted the two Ogata warmly.

"Guest! Is it 2 people? ”

"That's right." As he spoke, he threw a large judgment at the ledger.

"Okay!"

The young man sitting behind the account desk used neat movements to quickly find the money? I made a gesture towards the depths of the bath.

The first place where the two of them stepped into the first place after leaving the account desk was the undressing room.

In the stripping room? There was a staff member of the bathhouse walking back and forth there.

After seeing Ogata and Manomiya, the staff member immediately greeted them with a smile.

"Guest! Do I need to do laundry? It only takes so many copper coins to wash the clothes of the two of you! ”

"You can still do laundry in the bathhouse?" Mamiya raised an eyebrow in surprise? "Your baths aren't bad, Ogata-kun? Are you going to do the laundry? ”

"Of course I'm more than happy to wear clean clothes."

"Okay? Then I'll leave it to you with his clothes. ”

Anyway? Mamiya threw a handful of copper coins at the staff member.

The staff roughly counted the copper coins, and after confirming that the amount was sufficient, they said to Ogata and Mamiya with a smile:

"So—two guest officers, please give me your clothes."