The sound of this female voice made Sotaro stunned for an instant.

Immediately stopped talking and hurriedly followed the sound.

The owner of this female voice just now is naturally Amachi.

Just now, because the vision on the watchtower was dim, and Sotaro's attention was always on Konnosuke, Sotaro didn't notice that there was a woman standing behind Konnosuke just now.

And this woman is still her own acquaintance.

"Oops, oops!"

With a look of ecstasy on his face, Sotaro looked at Amachi, who was standing on the watchtower and was stabbing his angry gaze at him, in a frivolous tone.

"Isn't this Amachi? It's been a long time! ”

"Since my eldest brother and I defected to Shiranhuo until now, we must have not seen each other for nearly 2 years, right?"

"Why are you here?"

At this point, a strong look of mockery appeared on Sotaro's face.

"Are you supposed to ...... What kind of mission are you here for? ”

"Hey, hey, won't you? Chief, he's too gentle, isn't he? ”

"It's been 2 years, and you haven't even been given as a reward to someone else as a wife, or just thrown you into the 'flower house'?"

Sotaro's words just now were like some kind of switch was activated.

As soon as the words fell, Amachi's naturally drooping hands clenched violently.

All sorts of emotions began to appear on her face. Anger, sadness, reluctance......

"Amachi, I still have something to do." Sotaro waved his hand, "I don't have that spare time to take care of you, let's catch up on the old days when I'm done." ”

With that, Sotaro refocused his gaze on Konnosuke.

"I'm sorry, Kinnosuke-sama, I met the old man just now, and I accidentally talked to the old man a little more, delaying the serious matter."

"I'm too lazy to talk about gossip, hurry up and hand over the rice!"

"Otherwise......"

Sotaro slowly pulled out the wakicha from his waist and pressed the blade of the wakicha against the neck of the villager closest to him.

"Sotaro!" Konnosuke, who was already furious, roared, "Put the knife down for me!" ”

"Kinnosuke-sama." Not only did Sotaro not put the knife down, but he also said in a strange tone, "You should remember what happened when we borrowed rice from you last time and you refused to give it, right?" ”

"As a punishment, we dismantled one of the four villagers we had captured."

"If you had obediently handed over the rice at that time, the poor lad would not have died so miserably."

"One of the four is dead, and only the three next to me are left."

"So—Kinnosuke-sama, you should understand what I'm talking about, right?"

"If you don't want any of the three villagers in our hands to die, let's be eye-catching."

"I'm still in a hurry to go back to bed, so hurry up and hand over the rice."

"Otherwise—every five breaths, I'll cut the young man next to me."

"The clock starts now."

With that, Sotaro slashed the back of the neck of the villager beside him.

"Ahhh——!hhh

The villager immediately let out a terrible wail.

The place where Sotaro stabbed him was not a critical point, so he would only feel extremely painful and not die.

At the same time - Sotaro deliberately slowed down the speed of the cut.

He didn't cut it in one go, but slowed down, cutting the villager's skin little by little, doubling the pain.

"Hurry up, Kinnosuke-sama." Sotaro played with the wakicha in his hand and danced a knife flower, "It's been 2 breaths." ”

On the watchtower, Konnosuke's fists clenched as if he wanted to scratch the blood of his palms.

"Five breaths are almost here, Kinnosuke-sama." Sotaro said this in a playful tone as he slowly leaned the wakicha in his hand back towards the villager beside him......

Although the blade had not yet cut his body, the villager's mournful wail had been resounded with intense fear.

Listening to the villager's wail, Konnosuke slowly closed his eyes, which contained various emotions mainly anger and pain, and then—

“…… Go. Konnosuke whispered to a young man behind him, "Bring us our rice...... Quick action......"

After saying this, Konnosuke's body, which was originally tense due to the clenching of his fists, suddenly "softened", and then the bones in his body were all removed.

That's when ......

Whoosh——!

Konnosuke suddenly heard a sharp sound of breaking wind ringing in his ears.

A thin black shadow suddenly shot out from the watchtower where Konnosuke and the others were, and struck at Sotaro at an astonishing speed!

Looking at this slender black shadow, Sotaro's pupils shrank suddenly, and then he instinctively tilted his head to the side.

The next moment he tilted his head to the side, a thin black shadow brushed against his left cheek, taking away some of the flesh from his left cheek.

After brushing Sotaro's left cheek, the thin black shadow continued unabated, piercing straight into the ground behind Sotaro.

It wasn't until this thin black shadow pierced into the land that Sotaro finally saw the true face of this black shadow - a wakicha.

Strands of blood flowed down the cut on Sotaro's cheek.

Sotaro, who had an unkind face, withdrew his gaze from the wakicha and looked at the watchtower.

To be precise, he looked at the person on the watchtower who had just thrown this waki, Ogata.

“…… Who are you? ”

Ogata did not immediately respond to Sotaro's question.

Instead, he first withdrew the right hand that threw the wakicha just now, and then held the knife at his waist, and under the stunned gaze of Konnosuke, Amachi and others, he directly turned over the watchtower and jumped off the watchtower.

Boom.

With his feet firmly on the ground, standing in front of Sotaro and the others, Ogata said in a calm tone that seemed to be untouched without any emotion:

"It's not anyone, it's just a ronin who happens to be standing on that watchtower by various coincidences."

"Ronin ......?" Sotaro's face was already full of vigilance, "Are you also a prisoner who was thrown to this island by the shogunate......

"Ah Yi!" At that moment, Amachi on the watchtower shouted anxiously to Ogata, who had already jumped off the wall, "What are you going to do?" ”

"Ah Yi......" Sotaro slowly frowned, "Did you and Ah Machi know each other?" ”

"She is my companion and friend." Ogata replied without thinking.

“…… Hmph, I see. Sotaro sneered, "Do you plan to teach me a good lesson because you think I just said bad things about Amachi?" ”

"Then you're mistaken, what I just said to Amachi is not a bad thing, but the truth!"

"Amachi probably didn't tell you, did he? She doesn't know what kind of existence she is in the fire. ”