After coming out of the secret door of a bookstore in the bustling shopping street of Nijo Castle, Akamatsu Hiroshi sorted out his clothes in the mirror and picked up a booklet from the bookstore's shelf.

The booklet is all about the information related to the "Hook Genkan" that the dark ninjas collected in the shortest possible time.

Akamatsu Hiroshi flipped through it casually.

"The owner of the museum, Tang Zeqian, is of Chinese descent and is only twenty years old......

The people I have befriended in the past three months are Tsukamoto Daisho of Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine, Zen Master Gono of Honganji, and Takashi Saito, the second deacon of the Kyoto Imperial Palace...... The great onmyoji Ishida Ichiro, Heian Jingu Miko Seto Monyin!

Interesting!

Let me see for myself who you really are!"

He closed the booklet in his hand and was about to put it back in its place, when he suddenly felt a strong discomfort, his head seemed to be torn apart, and a violent emotion surged over, completely drowning his reason.

His eyes instantly turned scarlet, full of bloody desire to kill, as if he could crush all the lives that appeared around him at any time.

"Damn ......"

Akamatsu Hiroshi staggered a few steps, and quickly took out the pill from his personal pocket and swallowed it, forcibly suppressing the desire to kill.

Since three years ago, there has been a problem with the ninjutsu he has cultivated, and he will always enter a state of bloodthirsty and thirsty killing without warning, and he will involuntarily hunt all the lives around him.

Even with alchemical medicine, it can only be temporarily suppressed, not cured.

In the past three years, he has been miserable.

The reason why Lord Guan didn't allow him to go out easily was not because he was afraid that he would encounter any danger, but because he was afraid that after he entered a state of rampaging and bloodthirsty anytime and anywhere, he would wantonly kill the people of Kyoto, and even if he wanted to, he couldn't cover it up, which would make the organization extremely passive.

After about ten minutes, the hardest state was finally over, and Akamatsu Hiroshi felt the occasional twitching pain in his head that was already within the tolerable range, so he took a deep breath, stood up, rearranged his suit, and strode out of the bookstore.

At this time, it is already nine o'clock in the evening, and the commercial streets of Nijo Castle are still full of foreign tourists.

"If the lost 'eggs' can be successfully recovered this time, the flesh and blood of these foreigners will be the best breeding ground for hatching 'eggs'!"

Akamatsu Hiroshi looked at the tourists coldly, like an emotionless beast, looking at a group of food that had intruded into its hunting range.

......

Gogenkan.

Tang Zeqian slowly picked up the cup and drank the attractive jade dew tea.

The fragrant aroma made him can't help but praise: "The tip of the leaf is fragrant and simmering in the twilight, and the amber in the pot is washed for a long time! The taste of the jade dew is sweet and mellow, and the aroma is elegant, which is really worthy of being the best tea in the four islands of Yingzhou." ”

Before coming to Yingzhou, because he was busy looking for notices every day to earn meager living expenses, he was basically busy without touching the ground.

However, after arriving in Kyoto, he lived a slow-paced life for three months.

But after slowly getting used to it, this slow-paced life has become a kind of enjoyment, allowing him to have more time to appreciate the things around him and feel the flow of time.

Located next to the Kyoto Imperial Palace, this Gogen Museum should have a long history, which can be inferred from the fact that there are many cultural relics from the Ming and Qing dynasties in the museum.

However, even though it has a heritage of hundreds of years, the Hook Xuan Pavilion is still crowded all day long, and there are almost no active customers.

It took Tang Zeqian two months of hard work, and finally relied on his superb Xuanmen (You) Five (Great) Techniques (Methods) to convince several reliable customers.

In the entire Hook Xuan Pavilion, apart from him, the only living creature is probably only a wild leopard cat - that is the pet raised by Tang Zeqian's distant cousin before his death, and he will often run out for three or two days without seeing a human figure, and then suddenly catch some birds, snakes, and small animals and come back.

Therefore, most of the time without customers coming to the door, he can only learn to enjoy the boundless loneliness and loneliness, if he can't adjust his mentality and adapt to this slow pace, he is afraid that he will go crazy sooner or later.

Fortunately, this line of work is a bit similar to the ancient coffin shop, either it will not be opened, it will be open for three years, and as long as you can meet a repeat customer, you can last for a long time.

"How fast time flies today!"

Tang Zeqian's mood today was extremely relaxed, and before he knew it, time had passed, and it was time to close.

At this moment, a hungry cat meow came from the loft at the back of the hall.

"Hey, this cat uncle who has been away from home all day is actually back today?" Tang Zeqian muttered a few words, and then went to prepare food for the leopard cat.

After all, it's rare for Uncle Cat to go home, so you have to take advantage of it to eat for a while to have a good time!

......

At the same time, the ninja Goemon at the entrance of the alley not far from the Gogenkan was a little panicked.

Just now, he had been urging the "ghost talisman" to find the whereabouts of the "egg".

Now it can be basically concluded that the "egg" is in the Gogenkan, but the problem is that he can be 100% sure that the "egg" was not brought in by Seto Monyin - after the "Blood Shadow Mandrill" was killed, Seto Monyin didn't seem to know about the existence of the "egg" and didn't look for it.

So, here's the problem!

The "egg" was brought outside the palace by the "Blood Shadow Mandrill", but it was killed before it could enter the palace, and Seto Monne, who then killed it, did not find the existence of the "egg", so it stands to reason that the "egg" should have been lost around the nearby street!

Why does the "Ghost Talisman" show that the "egg" has entered the Hook Xuan Pavilion?

And Tang Zeqian, the owner of the Hook Xuan Pavilion, never went out from beginning to end...... Could it be that the "egg" rolled into the Hook Xuanguan by itself? Or is it that the "egg" has hatched at the moment because of an accident and can run freely?

Hiss!

Goemon suddenly gasped!

If the "eggs" hatch in advance without going through the preset steps, I am afraid that the whole of Kyoto will turn into a hell of blood...... No, not only Kyoto, but the entire four islands of Yingzhou will turn into a sea of blood!

Goemon shuddered violently!

I can't just watch things happen right in front of my eyes!

He took a deep breath, didn't bother to wait for reinforcements, and immediately came out of the shadows and slowly walked towards the Hook Xuan Pavilion.

Just as he stepped on the wooden steps in front of the door, the voice of his companion Kozo Kimura, who had come to reinforce him, suddenly came from behind him: "Goemon, knock on the bean sack!"

Hearing his companion's voice, Goemon immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, he found that even the black trench coat that Kimura usually hated to pretend to be forced and the sound of hunting in the wind seemed to become a little pleasant.

"Kimura-kun, if you don't come again, I'll have to go to the Longtan Tiger's Den alone!"

"What kind of place is this kind of Longtan Tiger's Den?" Kozo Kimura pouted with some disdain, "I didn't say you, Goemon, did you go to the hospital recently and cut your gallbladder? Why are you getting less and less guts?"

Goemon: "......"

Without waiting for him to speak, Kozo Kimura stepped on the wooden steps first, pushed open the door, and broke into the Gogenkan.

"Kimura-kun, be careful!" Goemon changed his face and hurriedly followed.