He didn't even die.

This was the first thought that came to Sasaki's mind after waking up.

After the explosions, the attacks, and the relentless attacks, can you still spare your life? Spare mercy to your subordinates? No, should it be said that I would rather have this black cauldron on my head than kill myself......

In the cage of the hospital room, in the monotonous rhythm of mechanical heart sounds, Sasaki opened his eyes and saw the cold incandescent light overhead.

"The wounds have been bandaged, and the damage to the lungs and liver needs to be recuperated for a while, but it is not a big problem. Excessive blood loss is not a big deal for the sublimator, so you can just lie down honestly for a while. ”

In the blue curtain, an old figure sits.

Without regard for the patient's body, he smoked a cigarette stick, and he didn't know how long he had been smoking, and the whole cage was filled with smoke. The buzzing exhaust fan was spinning rapidly, but the pungent smell still made Sasaki cough.

He looked down in silence and saw his body, which was almost broken and put back together, and finally his right leg, with the brace and plaster cast attached to it.

"My leg, what's wrong?" he asked.

Before fainting, he did not remember that he had such a scar.

"I interrupted it personally. The old man outside the curtain said, "Just to be on the safe side." ”

"It's really painstaking, Inue. ”

Sasaki smiled indifferently and closed his eyes.

The mockery did not make Inuee angry, the old man just knocked the cigarette stick on the table casually, knocked out the ashes, and then filled in a pot of tobacco, carefully pressed it, and re-lit it.

"It's for your good. He said.

Sasaki didn't speak.

"Don't worry about Zatoichi, that guy is a lot more slippery than you and has already escaped. Inuee said, "It's really unexpected that a blind man would use such a thing as a shock bomb." ”

Sasaki's fingers contracted slightly, but he didn't respond.

What else is there to say?

Jumped into the trap himself.

From beginning to end, it was an ambush against himself.

It's just that he was outnumbered, and he was caught by mistake, and he was accused of killing demons, and he couldn't even be innocent when he died, like a joke.

"Now that you're gone, why bother coming back?

Inu Jiang sighed softly: "I heard that you are doing well in the Ivory Tower, and you have a new job and a new life, so you shouldn't come back......"

"You shouldn't have shown your tracks when you killed Satomi, right?"

Sasaki suddenly raised his eyes, and a sharp aura suddenly rose from his rough and haggard appearance, like a samurai pressing the hilt of a sword, and asked in a cold voice.

Inuee didn't speak, smoking a cigarette in silence.

And not denying all this.

It was he who killed Satomi with his own hands......

It wasn't the killer who did it that night, it was Inuee.

Sasaki, who had been instructed by Inuee in swordsmanship, saw this scene clearly in his eyes the moment he traced it.

"After so many years, Inuee has pursued it, and you still haven't broken the habit of blood and heartbreaking. Sasaki asked softly, "Why?" or are you...... Is it on purpose?"

Why would you pretend to be a murderer and kill him?

Inuee didn't speak.

But Sasaki pressed forward step by step and raised his voice: "Because you don't know who the real murderer is, right?!!" Once he says it, if he is used by someone with a heart, the Satomi family will be completely defeated...... Because the murderer is hiding in the Satomi house!"

"No, I'm a murderer, you guessed it wrong, Sasaki. ”

The old man behind the curtain knocked on the cigarette stick in his hand, knocked off the last cigarette ash, slowly got up, and bowed: "I'm sorry for planting you." ”

"It was I who fell into the evil way and indulged in the pleasure of killing. When people get old, they will feel the decline of strength, and I am not willing to grow old, so I choose the secret ritual of drinking blood to maintain my vitality. ”

He said calmly: "Please rest assured, when the matter is over, I will surrender to the Luming Pavilion, beg for a disembowelment, and avenge your grievances." Until then, rest well, and soon everything will settle down. ”

And so, after taking a few steps back, he turned and walked away, no longer remembering.

"What a bullshit reason this is!"

But the man who was bound to the hospital bed was not happy that he could wash away his grievances, but on the contrary, he was furious and roared angrily: "Inujiang! Inujiang! What are you doing!"

"Doing the right thing. ”

Inuee replied without replying, "Do what a samurai should do...... In this way, the Satomi family will be saved. ”

"Is the preserved thing really the original Satomi family?"

Sasaki struggled, ignoring the scars cracking and the blood spreading, "You are so ashamed, you old fellow, do you really know how to write the word shame!

Inuee's footsteps paused for a moment, and then he was indifferent: "You and I are both samurai, so we should know the importance of kindness." Don't take it for granted to speculate on others with the thinking of a wild dog, be honest. ”

"Wild dogs know right from wrong!"

Inuee was silent for a moment, amused.

He shook his head indifferently.

Realize how funny this argument really is.

"It doesn't matter if it's right or wrong. As long as the Satomi clan can survive, as long as it can be maintained...... Even if it's just an empty shell, I can go and receive punishment from Lord Chungzang after I die. ”

The rickety old man took one last look at him and said goodbye tiredly: "That's all I can do." ”

Regardless of the angry roar behind him.

He closed the door.

"Look at him. ”

Finally, he said to the regulator: "If you do something, it doesn't hurt to kill it." ”

The regulators are indifferent.

Inuee didn't look back, went straight up, passed through the layers of defense, and saw Kakurayama waiting at the door.

"What about people?" he asked.

"It's here. Kadoyama said, "I'm waiting for you." ”

Inujiang bowed his head and walked straight towards the heavily guarded quiet room.

Walk through the corridors and portals and push open the last paper doors.

When he saw the young samurai kneeling under the calligraphy and painting, it was as if he had foreseen something, his eyes lowered, and his expression did not fluctuate at all.

I can't see the impulsiveness and impatience that I deliberately show on weekdays.

I don't hide the dark evil intent like a fox in those eyes.

"I've been waiting for a long time, I've been quiet for a long time. ”

Inuee closed the door behind him and sat down across from him: "I think, you should know what I came to you for today." ”

"Yes, there is a hard work that has eradicated the traces for me. ”

The young samurai bowed his head, sat down, and thanked the old man: "I originally thought that a person like me could not hide an elder like Mr. Inue. It seems that the day is coming sooner than I expected. ”

He said, "I'm a murderer." ”

Without any concealment, he responded frankly and straightforwardly to Inue's question.

However, Inuee didn't feel any anger or sadness, just felt deep exhaustion in the numbness.

Too many waves, too many waves.

There are too many variations.

Before he knew it, everything was completely different from what he had ever known.

But after so many years of clumsiness, sewing and mending, when such a hole appeared in front of his eyes, he couldn't even feel fear.

Instead, there was an urge to smile wryly.

The day has finally come.

“...... You're doing better than you say, and you're quiet, better than everyone else. I didn't even suspect you before I fled. ”

In the silence, he lowered his eyes, almost pleadingly, and sighed softly: "Stop it, be quiet for a long time, everything still has a chance to be saved." ”

In the silence, no one spoke.

In the long silence, the young warrior seemed to wander.

Stunned, he raised his head and stared at the solemn quiet room in front of him.

For a long time, for a long time.

"Mr. Inue. ”

He whispered, "I have, two fathers. ”

"A father, an unsuccessful man, who raised me in a way that thought he was loving, who thought he could be powered...... There was also a father, an arrogant and shallow man, who made me what I am now, who thought he was generous, who thought he could play with everyone's applause.

One of them taught me apathy, the other pain. ”

"But now, both of my fathers are dead. ”

He lowered his head and smiled as if self-deprecatingly:

"I still remember my loving and kind father before my mother died. I also remember when my adoptive father first ascended to the throne, he was full of spirit and wanted to make a big difference. ”

But in the end, they were never able to achieve happiness, and all they gained was pain and death. They have not been able to fulfill their wishes, even if they lose everything, even they have been turned beyond recognition. ”

"Maybe they shouldn't have been born into this family, like I am," he said. ”

In this way, the young samurai calmly bowed his head and apologized to the old man in front of him.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Inue, for violating your expectations and trust. ”

"There's no turning back. ”

“......”

Anger or regret should I say it?

But Inuee found that he didn't feel anything, only a burst of loss and emptiness, indescribable sadness, "Such a city mansion could have been entrusted with the ...... of the family"

"No, Mr. Inue, I don't want to get Satomi. ”

Satomi said, "I just want to destroy it." ”

At that moment, the young samurai drew his sword!

But it was too late......

Inuee lowered his eyes gloomily and didn't want to look at it again.

As early as the moment he walked into this quiet room, he had already fallen into a siege. Now the eight dogs of the Satomi family are all lurking outside the ashram.

As long as Jiu Jing moves slightly, the only thing that awaits him is death.

In the silence, there was a chopping sound.

Scarlet colors poured out, staining the calligraphy and paintings on the walls red.

When the cloudy blood dripped again, it fell back on Inue's face, causing him to slowly raise his head in a daze, and look at the unscathed Jiujing in front of him.

There are also five fingers that come out of the chest...... from behind him.

Horn Mountain.

The silent and resolute warrior did not draw his sword, but only raised his five fingers, like the edge of gold and iron, and tore the back of the old man's heart, plucked the heart, and stabbed it out of the chest.

Hold it slowly.

Tearing a weakened and erect heart apart.

“...... Horn Mountain, when?" he asked tiredly.

"It's been a long time coming, Inue-sama. ”

The indifferent samurai replied expressionlessly: "Hisashi's thoughts are the same as mine: the Satomi family, who is so struggling, can only bring pain with no end in sight, just like you have always felt......"

He already felt it the moment when the mixed-race girl who barely lived in peace in the border was also caught up in the struggle by this ugly turmoil.

What kind of hell has the Satomi family he guarded become?

"It's time to put an end to this," he said. ”

Inuee gasped tiredly, just raised his eyebrows, laughed as if self-deprecating, closed his eyes, and waited for death to come.

Kadoyama slowly withdrew his hand, took out a square scarf, and wiped away the blood.

But Jiu Jing held the knife and stepped forward step by step.

"Thank you for your care and sacrifice over the years, and I'm sorry for your expectations. The blade slowly lifted and aimed at Inuee's neck, and Jiu Jing finally said goodbye: "Please rest." ”

At that moment, there was a roar of thunder.

Electricity burst out of nothingness.

Because Inuee opened his eyes, and from those cloudy eyes, a brilliant and fiery light burst out.

The aging and tired body reversed time at this moment, regardless of the erosion of the years and the entanglement of pain, drew the sword, stepped forward, and slashed!

At this moment, the dying old lion burst out with the last hideousness.

The miracle of the eighth room befell here, and it disappeared in an instant......

The two staggered.

A deep scar appeared on Jiu Jing's face, almost splitting that face in two. Now, the scars are slowly closing, and they are quickly recovering as new.

I don't see how close we were to death.

And in the sound of stumbling footsteps, the blade in Inuee's hand shattered, and blood erupted from his chest, taking away the last breath.

The aging and shattered body finally collapsed, and a low sound came out.

It's like a bubble bursting.

Maybe it's the sound of waking up from a long daydream?

Finally...... It's over.

I'm sorry, Lord Chungzang, I'm sorry.

I've ...... There is no longer a way to save ...... Satomi is home......

He closed his eyes one last time and prayed silently.

Please, punish me......