Chapter 8: The Land of Dragons
The country of waves, the house of the daimyo.
As a small, remote and impoverished daimyo near the sea, Matsubara didn't have much ambition.
The weak military power made the country of Wave a small country to be bullied, and any powerful force could come and fight the autumn wind and run rampant in the country of Wave, bullying the people, but Matsubarada had no desire to change all this.
It's already a salted fish anyway, can there be any worse?
Rather than correcting political affairs, handling government affairs, training the army, and inspecting the people's situation every day, Matsumotohara prefers to stay in the palace and watch opera while drinking and enjoying himself.
You say that the people of the country of waves are living a difficult life? It's his business, the taxes are collected anyway, and it doesn't matter if those untouchables sell their sons or their wives.
If the bandit forces that came to fight the autumn wind were ruthlessly suppressed, the tax would be raised if it was a big deal, and they couldn't treat themselves badly anyway.
The life is good, but over the years, it has also worn out all of Matsubarada's intentions.
Now all he could think about was which opera he should watch tomorrow, where he should go, and whether he should have a banquet with the ministers.
As for the hardships and hardships of the people of the country of Waves, which are separated by a wall from the palace, he turned a blind eye to them all.
Some time ago, an organization called the dragon came to contact him and said that he wanted to establish a dragon village in the country of waves.
Although the completion of the ninja village is very beneficial to the military strength of the country of waves, Matsubara is also a little reluctant in his heart.
Without him, it's just trouble. According to the tradition in the ninja world, the ninja village was built for a period of time under the supervision of the daimyo, and then they had to send diplomatic letters in the name of the country to other countries to inform them of the establishment of the ninja village, and then they had to reply to the replies of other countries, etc., and the shadow in the ninja village also needed the canonization ceremony of the daimyo.
Matsubarada couldn't bear the amount of time wasted by various procedures, and it was better to go to a new opera than to do so.
"Hiccup, a day like this...... It's life! ”
At the dinner table, Matsubarada, who had just finished breakfast and had eliminated another meal, burped, and his fat body was piled up on the chair like a mass of fat.
He touched his belly, and the fat on his body suddenly surged like waves.
"Fujiwara, another sashimi."
Matsubara waved his hand behind him and said, Fujiwara is the chief of the internal affairs guard in the palace, and he is one of his most favored vassals. Every time Fujiwara always has something fresh to delight him.
Of course, for the people of the country of waves, Fujiwara is an out-and-out traitor who can only please the monarch and bully the subordinates.
"Your Highness, the sashimi is gone, but there is something more exciting, do you want to eat it?" An unfamiliar voice replied slowly, I don't know why, but Matsubarada felt a little strange in that tone.
"Oh? What is that? Submit it quickly! ”
It's just that Matsubara didn't think about the weirdness in it, and he didn't think about why it wasn't Fujiwara who answered him, but an unfamiliar voice, and he was more interested in what the man said was "something more exciting."
"Then Your Highness, don't be afraid."
As he spoke, the strange guard flipped his hand, and something appeared in front of Matsubarada.
"Ah!!h
As soon as that object appeared, Matsubarada screamed loudly in fright, and the hairs on his body suddenly rose, and the cold sweat wet his entire back in an instant!
With a loud bang, Matsubarada's fat body fell heavily to the ground along with the chair! Normally, he would moan in pain even if he knocked lightly, but at this moment he was trembling and retreating, his teeth chattering.
It was a human head, a human head that had been cut off, and it was placed on a plate and placed at the table.
The blood was stained, the plate was dyed red by the neat incisions, and the two eyes of the human head were open white, like a demon crawling out of the underworld without looking at it.
The face of the human head Matsubara knows and is still very familiar, it is Fujiwara, who usually always has a flattering smiling face. It's just that the smiling face of the past has become the hideous and terrifying gaze of today.
The sun was raging outside, and hot air was blowing in through the windows, but Matsubara felt that the air was so cold at the moment.
Under the injection of that terrifying severed head and white gaze, the entire hall was gloomy, and he was so cold that goosebumps all over his body.
A gust of wind blew in through the window, and the flickering curtains suddenly shook shadows on the ground, and in the empty and uninhabited hall it looked like a demon crawling out of hell to take revenge.
In a trance, Matsubara Tian seemed to see Fujiwara's headless corpse holding his head and walking towards him step by step, blood dripping from his broken neck, and his hoarse voice seemed to come out of the distant void, as if he wanted to pay for his life.
"Don't come here! It's not like I'm going to kill you! Don't come to me......"
Matsubara curled up in the corner like a madman, weeping bitterly, waving his hands as if something he couldn't see was in front of him, and he wanted to push it away.
"Your Highness, is this thing interesting?"
The guard restrained Matsubara's hands and brought his face to him, revealing a sunny smile, but to Matsubara, that smile was as terrifying as the devil of hell.
"Let me go! Please let me go! I'll give you whatever you want! As long as you let me go! ”
Matsubara continued to kowtow as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, and tears fell.
He is the only son of the previous daimyo, he has been cared for since he was a child, and he has been pampered since he was a child, as if he has been living in a beautiful opera, where has he seen this kind of scene?
It is good to be able to not have an immediate nervous breakdown in the face of this terrible human head and the oppression of life and death.
"Your Highness, do you still recognize me?"
As if he hadn't heard his plea for mercy, the guard asked Matsubara, a little sarcastic in his tone.
Hearing this, Matsubara raised his head tremblingly, and suddenly he felt that the person in front of him was a little familiar.
"You..... you're the dragon's ..... Chizuki?"
Finally, he remembered the person who suddenly came to discuss with him half a month ago that he wanted to establish a ninja village in the country of waves, and the person who presided over it seemed to be like this, because he didn't care much about it at the time, so he didn't recognize it at the first time.
"It seems that His Highness remembers, I don't want to gossip, the purpose of my coming here is to ask His Highness how the matter of the Dragon Village has been decided?"
After a pause, Qianyue then said in a stern tone:
"Of course, Fujiwara-sama couldn't see the road clearly before, and accidentally stepped on the air and fell to his death, so I brought his head over to His Highness to look at it, in case His Highness took the wrong path."
Threats, naked threats.
Among the many officials in the country of waves, the one who was most active in preventing the establishment of Shinobi Village was Fujiwara, and this Matsubarada knew it.
The meaning of Chizuki's words is self-evident, if you don't agree, then I will treat Fujiwara like and give you a ride.
Qianyue has lived under the cruel rule of the black head since he was a child, and if Jiang Chuanyue hadn't killed the black head and saved him and his sister, I'm afraid that he and her sister would have died in a corner in a few days.
Some of the times he experienced in his youth made him hide the bloody cruelty in his heart, and it happened that Fujiwara was bought by Cardo before, which added many obstacles to the plan to establish a ninja village in the country of waves, so Fujiwara was naturally suppressed by blood, and by the way, he took his head and beat Matsumotowara.
Now it seems that the effect of the beating is very good.
In this way, the new chief of the guard will be their person in the future, so that it is convenient to monitor the guy in front of him.
"I know, I know, I'll do it." Matsubara nodded again and again, and if he didn't agree, he would die, he hadn't lived enough.
"Eventually, the Land of Waves was officially renamed the Land of Dragons...... Do you understand? ”
Matsubara was about to say something, but as soon as he saw the head on the table, he swallowed what he wanted to say.