"What are you two doing here?" Konnosuke frowned slightly, and asked Ogata and Amachi, who were following him closely.

"Please let us go along." "We won't trouble you. ”

“…… Since you are friends of Tenmanji Temple, then you can do whatever you want. ”

"Hey...... Amachi. After Konnosuke turned his head, Ogata turned his head slightly and whispered to Amachi, "Is it difficult for you...... Do you know what Shotaro and Sotaro are? ”

“…… Well. Amachi replied expressionlessly, "After all, they are ninjas who belong to the same Shiranui, so of course they recognize each other...... I didn't expect those two people to be arrested on this island as well......"

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Konnosuke, who didn't even have time to change his clothes, rushed out of his house in a hurry, and without any hesitation or stop, he rushed towards the southeast of the wooden wall, following the guidance of a young man in the village.

Along the way, many villagers who had already learned that Sotaro and others had come to ask for rice again leaned towards Kinnosuke with a panicked face.

Looking at these villagers who came to the near nosuke, Ogata couldn't help but secretly say in his heart:

- Konnosuke is really very popular in Toyowa Village...... As soon as he encountered such a critical matter, the villagers subconsciously came to him......

After Konnosuke appeared, Ogata clearly felt that the panic on the faces of the villagers had faded a lot as if they had seen the main backbone.

At the same time, Ogata senses that the villagers are constantly casting suspicious glances at him and Amachi.

Suddenly, there were two more people behind him who had never met before—whoever it was, they would definitely be puzzled.

However, because Konnosuke didn't pay attention to Ogata and Amachi, and the two of them were still following him, and Sotaro's gang was now waiting for them outside the wall, the villagers were embarrassed to ask Konnosuke about Ogata and Amachi for a while.

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After quickly rushing to the southeast of the wooden wall, Konnosuke, Ogata and Amachi, who followed him closely, and some young people in the village, climbed a watchtower one after another.

When he climbed the watchtower and looked out of the wall, Ogata could clearly see that there were a lot of people gathered beyond the wooden wall.

Most of them wore the same familiar armor that the government had issued to them to the prisoners.

——1、2、3、4、5…… 20…… There are 20 people in total...... I don't know which Sotaro was the one that Konnosuke and Amachi just talked about......

Because the prisoners gathered outside the wall were holding torches for lighting, Ogata could see their numbers very clearly.

Just as Ogata was guessing who Sotaro was, a flirtatious voice rang out from among the prisoners under the wooden wall:

"Yo~~ Good evening! Near-no-suke-sama! We're borrowing rice from you again! ”

"Sotaro ......!" Konnosuke gritted his teeth, and every word seemed to be squeezed out between his teeth, "You bastards! You keep saying that you want to borrow rice! But when did you return rice?! ”

- Is that guy Sotaro......

Ogata followed the flirtatious male voice just now.

The owner of this frivolous male voice is of medium height, with a large vertical scar on his face, and is wearing a special black suit, with a kimono with narrow sleeves on the upper body and a slightly tighter hakama on the lower body.

Looking at the black clothes on this person, Ogata involuntarily raised his eyebrows, and then subconsciously looked at Amachi beside him.

Because the clothes on this person's body are very similar to the clothes on Amachi's body.

It's just that this person's clothes are not like Amachi's clothes, which show his shoulders and back.

- Since the outfit on Amachi's body is the uniform of the female ninja in Shiranui, then the outfit on Sotaro should be the uniform of the male ninja in Shiranui......

While Ogata was secretly saying this in his heart, Sotaro's flirtatious voice sounded again:

"What? Wonosuke-sama, won't you lend us rice? ”

Hearing Sotaro's words, Konnosuke's face changed.

Gritting his teeth, he was about to say something when a young villager standing behind him roared:

"We're all running out of rice!"

"If I give you any more rice, we will all starve to death!"

As soon as the young villager's words fell, a cold laugh came out of Sotaro's mouth:

"Who cares about you! I don't care how much rice you have left! I just need you to give us enough rice! I don't care about the rest! ”

Speaking of this, Sotaro suddenly paused.

After a moment of silence, he changed to a strange tone, and continued:

"But what Kinnosuke-sama said just now is not unreasonable."

"We borrowed so much rice from you, and if we don't pay it back, it will be too much to say."

"But the rice you lent us is already and urine, so I can't pay you back."

"Why don't you do it. I'll give you something else. ”

With that, Sotaro said to one of his subordinates beside him:

"Hey, push those three people up."

"Yes."

The subordinate replied and waved at the other two companions, and the three of them ran together towards the darkness where the light of the torches could not shine.

After a while, the three men returned.

Not only did they come back, but they also pushed 3 people back.

The three people who were pushed out were all young men without exception.

They were shirtless and their limbs were tied to the corners of a square table.

The naked upper bodies of the three were covered with a large number of shocking scars.

After the three prisoners pushed the three out of the shadows, Konnosuke, Ogata, and the others standing on the watchtower could still see a little drop of blood dripping down the bodies of the three people.

Looking at these three people, whether it was near Zhisuke or the rest of the villagers behind him, their eyes were all split, and their faces were densely covered with anger.

Sotaro slowly walked over to one of the three and patted him on the face.

"These 3 people...... Kinnosuke-sama, you should be familiar with it, right? ”

"It's the other three of the four villagers in your village who went out outside the wall a while ago to pick wild vegetables."

"Their luck was also back, and they bumped into us."

"Kinnosuke-sama, although we can't return the rice to you, we can return these three people to you."

"Anyway, it's useless for us to keep these 3 people, and there is no other use for them other than being a punching bag in a bad mood, so it's not impossible to return them to you."

"As long as you obediently hand over the rice tonight, I will return one of these three to you."

"As for the other two, let's leave it for later."

"Kinnosuke-sama, you see this deal is great......"

"Sotaro!! Even if you defect from Shiranui, the scumbag nature of you and Shotaro really hasn't changed!! ”

Before Sotaro could finish his words, a female voice full of anger suddenly sounded, interrupting him.