Chapter 63: The Swordsman's Method
"I, ah, I just got the news from Ueno, so I rushed here, and then he sent me a message, saying that the Shinsengumi intervened and had a conflict with our family's big swordsman, and I suddenly remembered, is there still a team of the Shinsengumi stationed in Tokyo."
"So, I let Kudo get tired and do some work -- that's how it turned out."
"Uesugi, I'm late, you haven't been wronged, have you?"
Ryunosuke Akutagawa lifted his top hat, paced leisurely, walked to Uesugi Kiyoshi's side, looked at Uesugi Kiyoshi with a very strong flattering taste, and squeezed his eyes.
Like a monkey asking for merit.
Uesugi Kiyoshi basically understood what was going on, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa didn't believe it too much, but Yuichi Kudo was his best friend, and if he heard that he was being targeted, it was not impossible to take someone to a team of the Shinsengumi.
That "detective", but like him, the lawless master, is completely different from the rule-following Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
What puzzled Uesugi Kiyoshi was how Yuichi Kudo could directly take down so many extraordinary swordsmen from the Shinsengumi without a word.
β... What you did was quite unexpected, and I thought that you would come out and clean up the mess when the matter was over. β
Uesugi Kiyoshi still doesn't have a good tone for Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and the bastard almost caused him to roll over in front of Kyoko.
However, for the sake of his relatively firm position tonight, it would be better to forgive him a little.
I was going to break a tooth in him, but now... Let's just knock out two.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke didn't know what Uesugi Kiyoshi was thinking, and he didn't expect him to be so careful, and at this moment he still wanted to compete with his teeth, so he raised his eyebrows proudly, patted the badge on his chest, and his tone was a little serious.
"What do you say, Uesugi, we're on one side."
Uesugi Kiyoshi sighed, still skeptical of the sincerity of this sentence.
He understood what Ryunosuke Akutagawa thought.
As he just said, Uesugi Kiyoshi is now his "boss".
There may be a chaebol standing behind him, which is completely different from his previous weight.
"Have you said enough?"
"Ryunosuke Akutagawa..."
"Do you really understand the consequences of what you've done?"
Ryunosuke Akutagawa is not an indecisive person, although he deviates from Uesugi Kiyoshi's philosophy, but once a decision is made, he is not a person who will be intimidated by a few words.
"Who to scare? Chief Miyagawa, do you think I'm a little thief caught by your Shinsengumi, and after a few words of intimidation, I just out? β
"You look down on people too much, don't you?"
"I'll give you that back - do you understand the consequences if you talk to me like this again?"
"Maybe, the Shinsengumi will have one less team, right?"
The naked eye can clearly see how fierce Miyagawa Yong's anger is.
His face was purple and black, if his eyes could kill, Akutagawa Ryunosuke estimated that ten thousand arrows would have pierced his heart a long time ago.
He really can't accept being forced into this by a new second-rate organization, at least that's what Isamu Miyagawa thinks, or a bunch of kids.
Breathing hard, he held back his anger and squeezed a string of words out between his teeth.
"Let Tokyo release people, and I will treat today's incident as if it never happened."
"Then the monk you should have been tried, your purpose should have been achieved, people left me behind, and you can't let you take it away."
"Matsubara's death... I'm not going to settle accounts with you - that's my last concession. β
"Don't... I don't know what to do! β
Ryunosuke Akutagawa's eyebrows shook a few times comically and he laughed out loud.
"What a generous policeman... Do you really understand what the situation is now? β
"Am I still grateful to Dade for your forgiveness and kindness?"
β...β
"Phew!"
Taking a sip unceremoniously, Ryunosuke Akutagawa moved his old wound for a moment, his bandaged arm, and his eyes became cold.
"I do these things and say these things because Uesugi is right."
"But, me and you Shinsengumi... It's not without grievances. β
"A few days ago, I took people to do things and crusade against ghosts and gods, how can it not be a bad thing?"
"Near this nightclub, I was ambushed by an unknown transcendent - yes, the monk."
Ryunosuke Akutagawa looked at the monk who was nailed to the wall by Uesugi Kiyoshi and his life and death were unknown, his expression was a little relaxed, and he was very relieved.
"If I'm not mistaken, the Shinsengumi, Heiankyo, Sakura-ri... More than a dozen transcendent organizations, large and small, have made covenants. β
"No matter what grievances the two sides have, when facing ghosts and gods, and the depraved transcendents who are in the company of ghosts and gods, they must unite the front."
"Those who violate this order will be treated as everyone's common enemy - can there be such a thing?!"
Miyagawa nodded with a vague expression, but did not refute.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa haha, a cane, and his tone became gloomy.
"So, Chief Miyagawa, can you explain it to me."
"That night a few days ago, when I was attacked on a road near here, why didn't I respond to my request for help from the Shinsengumi?"
"This isn't your boundary? Isn't it your rule to abide by here? β
"I immediately sent a text message to the Shinsengumi Fourth Team who was guarding this place for help - guess what that Captain Matsubara did to me?"
"He said, without the order of the chief, the Shinsengumi can't go out on their own."
"I'm a good-natured man, so I'll explain the current situation to him and ask him to contact our chief Miyagawa, and I'm sure you'll agree to send troops to support us."
"Hehe, hahaha, guess what the captain of Matsubara did to me?"
"Without the contact information of Chief Miyagawa, I can only go through the reporting process of the Shinsengumi, let me wait for news, and before they make a statement, we must not use extraordinary power in the territory of the Shinsengumi, and let us leave the scene quickly."
Ryunosuke Akutagawa's laughter became creepy, and his expression was a little nervous.
"I say, Isamu Miyagawa, are all your men raising such bastards?"
"We're under attack, we're not playing house!"
"If you don't support it, it's okay, don't use extraordinary power, leave the scene quickly, do you let us be killed, or do you hug your head and run away!"
"That's how the Shinsengumi do things?"
Ryunosuke Akutagawa curled the corner of his mouth gloomily and pointed to the virtual image in mid-air.
"Is Chief Miyagawa a little puzzled, why are more than a dozen extraordinary swordsmen in Tokyo easily restrained by the association?"
"I'll tell you, the door was opened by Kudo by trickery, and they didn't defend us."
"Do you know why it's not fortified?"
"Seven months ago, the ninth team of the Tokyo Shinsengumi pursued an extraterritorial evil god, and was counterattacked by the evil god believers, and was trapped in the dream mirror, I personally led the team, let the dream weaving net tear open the cracks of the dream mirror, and the three collectors poured out of the nest, leading almost all the investigators, exterminating the remnants of the evil god believers, containing the evil god remnants, and saving the dozen lives of your ninth team!"
"Can I be like you at the beginning, ignore it, wait for someone to die, and pick up a bargain?"
"I can."
"I didn't do that."
Ryunosuke Akutagawa's black jade cane pointed diagonally, pointing at Isamu Miyagawa's head, his eyes wide, and his words were like knives.
"Because I'm [naΓ―ve idealist]."
"Because the creed of our association is to protect humanity and the world, and to remove and contain all threats."
"Because I think that all of you in the Shinsengumi are also companions in the battle with ghosts and gods, and you are worthy of admiration!"
"At that time, all the investigators were injured, and the spirit of several researchers who were responsible for opening the passage was severely damaged and became crazy, but we saved a lot of lives after all."
"I think it's worth it, no matter how snobbish and bureaucratic I am, that's why I set up the Collectibles Association."
"I've done many things in the past few years, some good and some bad, some right and some wrong, but I patted my chest and could always say with a clear conscience."
β...β
"So your ninth team, which had no defense against Kudo at all, was easily attacked and controlled."
"Isamu Miyagawa."
"I just want to ask you, to the innocent souls who died here, and to the agents of our association who were killed because of that attack."
"Four words with a clear conscience, did you say it?!"
Uesugi Kiyoshi's eyes changed a lot as he looked at Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
He really didn't expect that Ryunosuke Akutagawa would say such a thing.
Count him lucky, for the sake of these few words, those teeth will be kept for him.
Miyagawa clenched his fists tightly, pursed his lips, and was speechless.
He was speechless.
Because what Akutagawa Ryunosuke said was not a lie.
The Shinsengumi is an organization that has been inherited for a long time, and it is true that it is stronger than the hard power of the Collectibles Association, and it also has backers behind it.
And it is precisely because of this backer that Miyagawa Yong's freedom as a leader is actually not as high as that of Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
To put it mildly, the four words of the imperial court eagle dog are really very appropriate.
Deep down in his heart, he may not want to protect the country and keep the peace of the party.
But in reality, it backfired.
The orders above, and the lives and deaths of mortals, are always severe.
Even if Matsubara's actions were done, he had heard rumors and felt that something was wrong, but he didn't dig deeper.
He didn't want to, didn't dare, and couldn't.
The Shinsengumi are not without enemies, the situation in the world in Kyoto is not as good as in Tokyo, the tension is very high, and it affects the whole body, and if he deals with a captain at this time, the chain reaction caused by it is something he can't afford.
For a moment, he really admired Kiyoshi Uesugi and Ryunosuke Akutagawa on the other side.
Because he has a clear conscience, he will never be able to say it.
He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and was silent for a few seconds.
The very familiar adjusted his mentality, and when he opened his eyes again, Miyagawa Yong's eyes were already indifferent.
"I said, Songyuan's death, I won't pursue it, he didn't follow the rules, he died in vain, he deserved it."
"Now, release the people of the ninth team, and get out of here."
"I'll just treat you as if you weren't here."
The corners of Akutagawa Ryunosuke's mouth slanted, and the malice in his smile surged out unscrupulously.
As soon as he wanted to say something, he was pressed by Uesugi Kiyoshi behind him.
He turned his head and met Uesugi's clear eyes.
"Okay, don't use this kind of indiscriminate means."
"Not to that point."
"We must always have a bottom line, we don't have to pay attention to means to deal with ghosts and gods, we don't have to deal with [the same kind], even if they are not things, we will not be in the same stream."
"I can't do it."
"Yuichi, let them go."
Ryunosuke Akutagawa frowned, as if he didn't understand Uesugi Kiyoshi's words.
But Yuichi Kudo, who was over there, didn't seem surprised at all.
He snapped his fingers with a grin.
"That's what you're going to say, that's what you're like, Qing."
"I know, I don't move them, you come on."
"Don't let me run for nothing in the big night, don't lose."
Yuichi Kudo waved his hand very exaggeratedly, made a farewell gesture, and hung up the communication decisively.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa shrugged his shoulders and gasped like a toothache.
"What are you doing, big brother, this is the opportunity I finally seized, and I can gain the upper hand!"
"This is Tokyo, and there are at least five teams stationed in the Shinsengumi, so I didn't bring many people here, so why let it go?"
"It's clear that you have a conflict with them, okay?!"
Ryunosuke Akutagawa's tone had a sense of incomprehension and frustration that he had kindly fed the dog.
Uesugi Kiyoshi just smiled.
"Don't be that troublesome."
"I have received my heart, and I am not exhausted enough to use the lives of others to coerce them to give in."
"Let's go."
Gently pushing away Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Uesugi Kiyoshi took a step forward and faced Isamu Miyagawa.
"The words have been exhausted, the cause and effect are clear, right and wrong are well known, and the positions are different, so we must not be able to understand each other."
"Keep it simple, Isamu Miyagawa."
"We use the swordsman's method to solve the problem."
"Don't you still have a grudge against my master?"
"As a disciple of the master, I will settle it with you for him."
"You're good with the stinky fish and shrimp behind you."
"It makes sense to stand last, and if you lie down, you can swallow the blood and bitter water."
"Hah..."
With a sigh, the ghost cut upside down, and a mirage loomed in the edge.
"I'm not trying to intimidate you, I really want to kill you."
"Isamu Miyagawa."
"An incompetent leader is more terrible than ten rebellious spirits."
"I don't think you're the kind of person who can lead the Shinsengumi, and I don't think you're a competent defender."
"So, I'll kill you here, I hope your successor can be a little stronger than you."
Isamu Miyagawa didn't speak, but the sword in his hand was already three points out of its sheath.
His sword was a short sword, with a standard rib difference, and the blade was more than half a meter long.
The famous knife "Nagazen Mi Tiger Toru ", the blade pattern is gorgeous, and the edge is flashing.
He smiled sarcastically, if it was Hidekawa Kamizumi who said this, he could still be a little jealous, a junior...
Before the disapproving mood dissipated, his pupils suddenly shrank.
The ghostly figure flashed, and the sword light of the blood volume swept towards his neck.
"So fast!"
As a swordsman's instinctive reaction to dodge, and then parry with rib differences.
But what happened next made him feel even more unbelievable.
Uesugi Kiyoshi drew his sword and slashed more than one.
It was a set of "group knives", and the knife momentum was endless, like thunder, so that he couldn't have a moment of respite.
He is too familiar with this way, the new Yin Liu's housekeeper thunder knife, the number of Japanese kendo orthodox fast knives represents one of the tricks.
But...
Even if he fought with Kamiizumi Hidekawa at the beginning, purely in terms of the attainment of the thunder knife... That's all there is to it, right?!
Isn't this little ghost a fledgling who has just awakened and stepped into the extraordinary?!
This thunder knife of suppressive force ... Why did he use it?!