"We're just here to ask you a few questions. We'll leave as soon as we're done, and we'll never stop here, and we'll never hurt the lives of anyone here. All right? ”

Because they still have questions to ask Konnosuke, both Ogata and Amachi are polite to Konnosuke.

Amachi only used his hands to control Konnosuke, and did not hold a knife to his neck like he had just done when he controlled the maid.

And when Ogata negotiated with Konnosuke, he also used an extremely gentle tone, and said honorifics that he hadn't said in a long time.

After Ogata's words fell, Konnosuke nodded slightly, and expressed his willingness to cooperate with Ogata and the others with his movements.

Seeing that Konnosuke nodded, Otomo glanced at Amachi, who was standing behind Konnosuke and controlling him, and motioned for Amachi to let go of Kinnosuke.

After Amachi's hands left his mouth, lips, and tongue and he was free, Konnosuke cooperated very well without screaming loudly, and unhurriedly straightened out his clothes.

"Since you have this sword, it means that you are indeed friends of Tenmanji. So I believe in you. ”

Konnosuke said softly.

"You two must have been prisoners thrown to this island by the shogunate, right? How many prisoners were you thrown onto this island? ”

"4th batch." Ogata replied.

"The fourth batch...... the corners of Konnosuke's mouth twitched, and a sneer came out, "The shogunate has already thrown so many people on this island...... Say, what do you want to ask? ”

"We want to know more about man-eaters."

"You want to know what this is for?" Konnosuke cast a puzzled look at Ogata.

As soon as he finished speaking, Konnosuke whispered "ah" as if he remembered something.

"I remember." Konnosuke muttered, "One of the conditions of pardon that the shogunate has given you prisoners is to get useful information about cannibals, so you're planning to get information from me, am I right?" ”

Ogata shook his head: "No. My companions and I were not interested in the so-called pardon, and I did not believe that the shogunate would simply return our free bodies to us, so we just wanted to escape the island on our own. ”

"The reason why we want information about ogres is only because my companions are tasked with collecting information about cannibals."

"It doesn't matter what your purpose is." Konnosuke sighed softly, "Anyway—you're going to be disappointed. I don't know much about cannibals. ”

"I don't know how they came, how they killed them, or what other characteristics they had."

"The only thing I know about ogres is that they can't be killed, their blood is poisonous, they don't get tired, people on this island become ogres when they die, and people who live suddenly become ogres without warning—I don't know anything else about cannibals."

Konnosuke's words fell, and Amachi, who was kneeling behind Konnosuke, had a deep look of disappointment on his face.

She, Mamiya, and Makimura - the reason why the three of them were deliberately arrested by the people of the government and sent to this island by the people of the government was to collect a lot of information about the "cannibal".

Although she had already been mentally prepared in her heart, she still couldn't hide her loss after hearing what Konnosuke said just now.

"Let's change the question." Ogata hurriedly said, "Do you have any extra ships here?" When the shogunate's men destroyed all the ships on the island, you left a few of them in time. ”

"You know that the shogunate has destroyed all the tools for leaving the island...... Did the people of Tenmanji tell you......" A thick bitter look appeared on Konnosuke's face, "No. The soldiers of the shogunate spared no effort when they were ordered to destroy the island's ships and shipbuilding tools. ”

"There have been no boats on this land for a long time."

"If there were a ship, we would have left this hellish place long ago."

This time, it was hard to hide the disappointment of Ogata.

"Don't you have a ship...... Ogata sighed lightly, "I can't help it...... Let's try to build a raft. ”

"Do you know how to build a raft?" Amachi asked rhetorically.

"I don't know. If you can't do it, just swim out of this island with a piece of wood. ”

Although Ogata said so, he said this in his heart:

- Later, I'll take Amachi and search all over Toyowa Village, maybe they have a boat hidden, but they just hide it from us and won't tell us.

Coincidentally, when Ogata was secretly saying in his heart, Amachi also secretly said in his heart almost at the same time:

- Later, I will take Ah Yi and search all over Fenghe Village, maybe they have a hidden boat, but they are just hiding it from us and refusing to tell us.

It's a pity that the two of them didn't know that the two of them had almost identical thoughts almost at the same time, and they didn't know that they had such a tacit understanding with each other.

"Sorry - excuse me." Konnosuke suddenly spoke up, "Since you two are friends of Tenmanji, may I ask you some questions?" ”

"Just ask." Ogata nodded.

"How's Tenmanji now?" "Since this wooden wall was built one year ago, the connection with Tenmanji Temple has been severed. How are the two of them doing now? ”

Jinghai - Zonghai's Dharma name for his teacher.

Seeing that Konnosuke asked him this question, the expression on Ogata's face became a little weird.

"Tenmanji Temple...... There's a lot going on......"

Toyowa Village erected a wooden wall one year ago to close itself off.

So Konnosuke didn't even know that Kyokai died of a recurrence of an old illness half a year ago.

Ogata recounted everything he knew about Tenmanji with Konnosuke in as brief a sentence as possible.

From Jinghai's illness and death to Zonghai, who is still alive, not long ago, he took Xianhai, who was originally a prisoner, into his door.

And Konnosuke's expression also changed as Ogata spoke.

"That's it...... a look of pathos appeared on Konnosuke's face, "Kyokai ...... Is it no longer alive...... Has he become a man-eater......"

“…… Near no help. Looking at the sad face of Konnosuke, Ogata hesitated for a moment and said softly, "About Sokai...... There are some things I have to tell you. I don't think I should hide these things from you. ”

"Huh? What's up? ”

"...... related to cannibals"

Ogata told Konnosuke about the fact that Kyokai had not turned into an ogre, that Kazuyo and Nao, that the master and apprentice might have a problem, that there might be a problem with the water of the Rinon River, and that Sokai had concealed all of these things was tantamount to a bolt from the blue.

The look of horror on Konnosuke's face expanded at an alarming rate.