Ichisun, who collapsed limply on the ground, did not die immediately.

After falling to the ground, he struggled to get up.

It's just that the injuries on his body are too large to stand up.

The huge injury that ran through his right abdomen to his left shoulder, plus the two penetrating wounds that Ogata had left on his chest - such an injury made it impossible to survive any longer.

His lips twitched, as if he wanted to say something.

His mouth was full of blood, and the words he spat out were muffled.

Ogata could only barely hear Ichichi say clearly:

"I don't want to die...... I don't want to die...... I don't want to die......"

Yichun's face and eyes were covered with fear.

He was terrifying death.

Struggling to get up, not wanting to die like this, Yichun writhed on the wooden floor—like a maggot.

As for Ogata, he silently watched Kazujun's struggle for fear of death.

Il-chun didn't struggle for long.

After a few moments, his breath finally dissipated with the massive flow of blood.

After this system prompt fell in his head, Ogata looked at Kazujun's corpse at his feet and said softly:

"It's ridiculous...... Would a person who takes pleasure in taking people's lives be afraid of this after death......

After shaking the blades of his hands downward, shaking off all the blood attached to the blades, Ogata slowly put the Great Liberation and Great Freedom into the sheath.

After the two knives were sheathed, Ogata instantly felt a sense of exhaustion coming over him like a tidal wave, like a wet towel, instantly wrapping his body in layers.

I've been in a tense state tonight.

In the life-and-death duel with Ichimazu, every nerve in Ogata's body is tense to the extreme, and his attention and concentration are condensed to the highest.

Tense and fully engaged in the battle, Ogata didn't feel too tired physically.

It wasn't until the muscles and nerves in his body relaxed that Ogata realized that he was already so tired.

I was so tired that I felt quite struggling to even stand firmly.

After shaking his body a few times, Ogata's body fell limply to the ground......

However, before Ogata could fall to the ground, a small hand suddenly reached out from his side and grabbed his body.

"Amachi ......"

Ogata looked up at the man holding him.

For some reason, after seeing Amachi's face, he felt a smile uncontrollably appear on his face.

"Thank you...... Amachi said softly.

"Amachi, you've worked hard too......"

Ogata raised his hand and patted the two knives on his left waist, and said in a half-joking tone:

"If it weren't for the fact that you sent these two knives in time, you might not have seen me."

"In order to find you the Great Liberation Heaven and Great Freedom, I also spent a lot of effort......"

Amachi smiled bitterly.

"Konnosuke put the two knives in his storage room as well."

"You know the storage room, right? It's the place with more than 200 barrels. ”

"I also had a flash of inspiration and discovered the law of storing things in Konyuki, so that I could send these two knives to you in such a timely manner......"

"Regularity?" Ogata raised an eyebrow, "What a rule." ”

"Kunnosuke, he puts things according to the pronunciation of the items." Amachi sighed lightly, "He put the items with the same initials in the same row. ”

"I also discovered this pattern after seeing two things, nails and locks."

"The nail and the lock have the same initial sound, so Konnosuke put them in the same row."

"The first sound of the key and the mirror are the same, so they are also placed in the same row."

"My luck was good, and after discovering this pattern, I immediately found items that were the same as the initial sound of the knife - lamp oil and rice paper."

"So I searched for the same row of cabinets and barrels as the lamp oil and rice paper one by one, and soon found Da Shi Tian and Da Zi Zi who were stored in the cabinets."

"I see...... After quietly listening to Amachi's story, Ogata couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Do you store items according to the first sound...... What a strange way to store it......"

"That's right." Amachi also echoed with a helpless expression, "I must count the Konnosuke well in the future." ”

With that, Amachi couldn't help but glance at the corpse of Ichimun at his feet.

Looking at Ichimazu's corpse, Amachi couldn't help but sigh with emotion:

"Ah Yi, it's a shame that you can kill this monster......"

"You're wrong." As soon as Amachi's words fell, he immediately corrected, "It's a shame that we were able to kill this monster." ”

Ogata emphasized the word "we".

"Without your weakening of him before, and your timely delivery of the knife later, I may not have been able to defeat Yichun."

"Well done, Amachi."

Ogata said solemnly.

After hearing Ogata's words, Amachi was slightly stunned.

It was only after a moment that a faint smile appeared on her face.

“…… Thank you. ”

Amachi said softly.

"It's been a long time since I've heard people praise me for my meritorious service...... Let's go, Ogata, let's go downstairs. The battle on the first floor should be over. Do you need me to help you? ”

Although Amachi asked, she had silently hooked Ogata's left arm to her shoulder.

"If you can, please hold me up...... But your feet are okay, right? ”

Ogata looked at Amachi's left foot.

"It's fine." Amachi turned her left ankle, "It's just a little sprained, after resting for a while just now, I feel much better now, and there is no problem at all in helping you downstairs." ”

"That'...... I'll leave it to you......"

With that, Ogata who was hooked on his shoulder with his left arm by Amachi pressed all the weight of his body on Amachi's body.

Amachi used her left arm to lift Ogata up the direction he was leaning on her shoulder, and helped Ogata slowly towards the staircase.

"Don't take the opportunity to touch my body."

"Don't worry, I'm not interested in women who are stained and sweaty...... Wait a minute! I'm kidding! Don't leave me behind! ”

"Hmph."

After regaining Ogata's stability, the two slowly walked down the stairs.

After entering the staircase, Amachi noticed that Ogata had a wound on the left side of his neck.

"Ah Yi!" Amachi exclaimed, "Why is your neck hurt?" ”

"Huh?" Hearing Amachi say this, Ogata was stunned for a moment, and raised his hand to touch his left neck.

As soon as his fingers touched his left neck, he immediately felt a large patch of slimy blood, as well as a knife wound that was neither long nor short.

But the strange thing - Ogata didn't feel pain at all.

- Adrenaline......

Ogata said in his heart.

The reason why he didn't feel pain was probably adrenaline.

The secretion of adrenaline in large quantities can make people feel no pain for a while.

It is not until the adrenaline subsides that the pain slowly returns.

Touching the wound on his left neck, Ogata gradually remembered how it came about.

"I was injured by Ichichun's naginata when I used Dazi to parry Ichichun's downward slash just now."

Ogata explained to Amachi.

"Although he barely used Dazi to block his attack before he chopped my head off with his naginata, his knife still slashed me in the neck."

Hearing Ogata's words, Amachi recalled the scene just now - Ogata used a one-armed single knife just now to frame Ichika's naginata, but Ichikata's naginata was already very low at that time, and it was already attached to Ogata's neck to the extent that Ogata's neck was cut by Ichikata's knife.

"Don't worry, it's just a simple flesh wound."

Ogata said as he withdrew his hand that was touching the wound.

"A little bandaging is fine."

Seeing that the wound on Ogata's neck did not seem to be a serious problem, Amachi also withdrew her gaze and concentrated on helping Ogata towards the downstairs.

As for Ogata, after thinking for a while, he pulled out his own personal system interface.

- Just in case......

Ogata said this secretly in his heart, and at the same time added the 2 skill points he had just gained to the "vitality".

As the system sound fell, Ogata's HP increased to 19 and his skill points returned to 0.

In this era before penicillin was introduced, a small injury could cause infection and death.

Oke didn't want to die of an infected wound after finally defeating a strong enemy.

So just in case, Ogata decided to add the newly acquired 2 skill points to the vitality, anyway, "vitality" is also a very important attribute, and adding it to it is only good and not harmful.

……

……

After descending to the second floor, Ogata and Amachi first told the villagers who were hiding on the second floor that the "giant" upstairs had died.

Bathed in the cheers of the villagers, Ogata and Amachi went down to the first floor.

The corridor facing the gate was now full of corpses.

The corpses of the soldiers of the Shogunate Army were piled up all over the place.

As for Manomiya and Makimura, they sat in a clean corner, silently recovering their strength.

It is not difficult to see from the battle situation at the scene - the shogunate army has been completely annihilated.

However, without Ogata's important combat power, Mamiya and Makimura did not have an easy fight, as can be seen from their blood-stained appearance.

But it's not easy, but it's not to the point where it makes it hard for the two of them to move.

After seeing Ogata and Amachi who were slowly walking towards them, Mamiya said to them in a half-joking tone:

"You two look pretty embarrassed, what's going on upstairs?"

"The battlefield upstairs is much more fierce than here." And Ogata also responded to Mamiya in a half-joking tone.

In as brief a sentence as possible, Ogata explained the series of events in which he first fought against Shotaro and then against the demon monk after he left the battlefield on the first floor.

"I see...... "Mamiya said softly, "Ogata-kun, it's not easy for you......"

After Ogata finished talking about his battle and achievements, Mamiya began to tell about his battle and achievements with Makimura.

He and Makimura blocked the front and retreat of the shogunate army one after the other.

The shogunate army, which could not move forward and retreat, was determined to die because of this, and burst out with more powerful power, which made the sweep of the palace and Makimura take a lot of effort.

After killing only a few people left in the shogunate army, Mamiya deliberately left a few live mouths and asked for a lot of information from their mouths.

For example, why did you suddenly land on the island and attack the islanders here, where did you land, how many companions did you have, did you carry iron cannons, etc......

After asking all the things worth asking, Mamiya did not hesitate to wipe out these soldiers of the shogunate army, who had lost any value.

"Is there an order from above to demand the erasure of all living people on the island......" Ogata muttered.

The people who were questioned by the palace only received an order to go to the island and wipe out all the living people on the island, and they didn't know why such an order came from - this is normal.

They say that in the end, they are just ordinary soldiers, tools to carry out tasks, how can they know what the reason for this mission is.

I don't know exactly why, but Ogata and the others can roughly guess why—probably because a high-ranking official suddenly fears that the living people on the island will leave Butterfly Island, leading to the danger of ogres landing on the main island of Japan, and decides to wipe out all the islanders who are still alive on the island in order to stop this risk.

This is a common occurrence in this era when human lives are as light as mustard - after some uncontrollable plague breaks out in a certain place, the place is directly sealed down and all the living people in that place are killed.

Just then, Ogata suddenly heard a noisy sound of footsteps behind him.

Follow the prestige - I saw the villagers who were still alive coming towards them in twos and threes.

The leader of the group of villagers who was walking towards them was the one who was being supported by someone, and his face was as white as a blank piece of paper.

Looking at the awakened Kinnosuke, Amachi, who was standing beside Ogata and supporting Ogata, muttered with displeasure in a voice that only she could hear:

"You didn't wake up when you were needed, and you didn't wake up until the battle was over......"

With the support of the villagers, he slowly walked in front of Ogata and the others, and the first thing Konnosuke said was-

"Thank you for ......"

Despite the considerable injuries on his body, Konnosuke still managed his body and bowed deeply to Ogata and the others.

"Really...... Thank you so much for saving us ......."

After Konnosuke bowed to Ogata and the others, the rest of the villagers also bowed to Ogata and the others with gratitude on their faces.

For the thanks of Konnosuke and the others, Ogata just had a calm face.

"Kinnosuke, get up. We didn't make a big fuss here to save you. ”

"We just saved ourselves at the same time, and we also saved you together."

"But—we can save you for a while, but we can't save you for the rest of your life."

Speaking of this, Ogata's tone grew serious.

Ogata informed Konnosuke and others of the important information he had received from the Shogunate soldiers that the shogunate was going to kill all the living people on the island.

After learning that the shogunate was planning to kill them all one by one, the faces of the others, including Konnosuke, all showed despair.

"The soldiers of the shogunate, as many as you want."

Ogata said softly.

"This time the attack failed, and they were immediately able to organize a larger attack."

"We are not obligated to protect you all the time."

"We don't have the ability to protect you all the time, no matter how we can fight, at most we will only have a hundred enemies or a thousand enemies, and we can't deal with thousands of troops."

"So what to do after that—think about it."

"Find a way to survive on your own."