Chapter 11: What a brittle knife
"Bleeding from the mouth and nose, no heartbeat and no pulse?"
"Is there such a powerful elixir in the world? It was an amazing show......"
"Think about it, how gorgeous it will be in the future for a child who can come up with such a way to escape from prison!"
After Murata recounted his unfortunate day, he thought he would be criticized, but he didn't expect Umi Tengen to groan after listening to it, rubbing his fingers on his lower lip, and actually muttering to himself.
"Ei Na Kuichi, I didn't even forget to add weapons to my name, I feel like I heard a gorgeous music played by Jin Ge Iron Horse! With such a name and such a medicine, it makes people's hearts surging when they think about it. ”
"Isn't it time for us to discuss ghost hunting......
Murata really can't help but complain.
Is this bar really reliable?
"Huh?"
As the big eyes of Cosmo Tianyuan came over, Murata subconsciously lowered his head again.
But then, as if Murata had made some major decision, he sat down directly, "Please!" Lord Otojo! The team members who died today, although they all have little strength like me, they have all saved more than one life by determination, but now they died in vain! I know I'm not qualified to say that, but I still have the courage to ask you to be attentive, and you must kill this abominable ghost! ”
Listening to Murata's words, Uchidon Tengen couldn't help but look at his words, and didn't follow his mantras, but sat down and said, "Okay, okay, I see, now is indeed not the time to satisfy the curiosity of Lord Uchi. ”
Murata relaxed.
The huge identity gap made him almost think that he was going to be cleaned up.
If you dare to talk to Zhu like this, you must be crazy.
But it's worthy of the column that was personally chosen, and it was not angry.
"But there are some doubts in what you say."
Umeji Tengen began to ask.
"Let me ask you, how long did it take for you to sneak into General Fujita's room, from hearing the car enter the yard, to the door opening, to when you were discovered?"
"Uh," Murata looked up in confusion, "Excuse me, does this have anything to do with killing ghosts?" ”
"You don't have a sense of existence, you just need to answer the questions!"
Yu Marrow Tianyuan's temper was really not very good, and he didn't even want to explain, but urged: "Hurry up!" Don't waste my time! A grand show wants a gorgeous curtain call, and the time is measured in seconds! ”
"I'm so sorry!"
Murata quickly lowered his head and thought for a while before saying, "I remember that the car was parked in the yard, and it was about four or five minutes before I heard the sound of the door of the house opening, but then it took less than a minute for General Fujita and his guards to find me!" ”
As he spoke, he raised his head as if he remembered something, looked at Yu Marrow Tianyuan for a moment, and said in a somewhat tentative tone: "Just ...... It's like they knew I was there in the first place! ”
Yu Marrow Tianyuan's face sank.
"Oh, that's pretty much what I thought. That makes sense. ”
"What do you mean by 'makes sense'?" Murata asked.
"Don't you understand? It's not them who have discovered your location, it's the ghosts lurking there. They have always been sensitive to human tastes, and the more powerful the ghosts, the more so. ”
"The reason why this guy named Fujita didn't enter the door for a long time must have communicated with the ghost first, and he knew that someone was lurking in his room."
"What?!" Murata couldn't believe it, "You mean, General Fujita actually has a relationship with ......"
"What's so strange about that?"
Umiji Tengen didn't care about Murata's fuss, and then made a thoughtful look.
"Well, in this way, it makes sense that the team members were killed during the day, and even the crows died. Moreover, the Maeda River, where the body was found, happened to be near General Fujita's manor. If you can't get that ghost, it's hiding somewhere in the Fujita family's manor, maybe underwater, maybe in the cellar. ”
"Presumably after you've been caught, they'll be ready to deal with more Ghost Slayers. Poor team members, the death is really not gorgeous at all, and they were actually killed by humans and ghosts, it's really sad......"
Yu Marrow Tianyuan sighed.
"However, Admiral Fujita is a war hero and a popular candidate for the Minister of the Navy! How could such a person be mixed with something as evil as a ghost? ”
Murata only felt that his three views were about to collapse.
In fact, three years before Murata decided to join the Demon Slayer Team, he was inspired by reading the newspapers about General Fujita's heroic deeds in the fight against the Russian army.
"The more big people are like this, the more they don't care about the good or evil of the weapon in their hands. As for the reasons for cooperating with ghosts, there are simply too many, whether it is curing diseases and prolonging life or buying murder, ghosts are much more reliable than humans. ”
Uchiki Tengen made a look of reminiscence, "Lord Gong once said that in the late shogunate, the previous shogun, Tokugawa Ieshige, suddenly died violently, and the successor Tokugawa Yoshiki hoped that the ghost killing team could send someone to investigate the real cause of his death, but then it was not solved because of the situation. Later, Emperor Xiaoming also seemed to have died inexplicably, but he didn't even start the investigation. ”
"All in all, the cooperation between those in power and ghosts is not the first time, and it is by no means the last, it is really disgusting."
"Okay, now that I've figured out the last link of the matter, I'm going to make a gorgeous appearance and dismantle the sinners and ghosts together!"
Ummy Tengen stood up suddenly, his voice high-pitched and loud, with a bit of Noh tone.
From his words, it can be heard that he also handed down the death sentence against the Fujita general.
"Wait a minute, Lord Otojo!"
Murata also got up from the ground and said firmly, "Please take me with you!" ”
"But a member of your strength, if you go, you can only be a demon, and it will affect the ninja lord's performance!"
Yu Marrow Tianyuan showed a disgusted expression, and he still instructed him, as if he had no brains.
"I know that if I had been as strong as Mr. Tomioka, maybe what happened today would not have happened......"
Murata was already in tears when he said this, "But no matter what, I want to see that ghost with my own eyes and remember today's events forever!" ”
"Well, everyone has their own way of choosing their own gorgeous curtain call...... I won't stop you. ”
Umeji Tengen patted Murata on the shoulder, "But if I had to choose between saving you and killing the demon gorgeously, I would definitely choose the latter." ”
"Great, great!" Murata bowed, "Thank you for your permission!" Please let it go, and don't care about me. ”
"Well, it's good that you're enlightened. But when it comes to the word Tomioka, I remember that the newly appointed water column is called Tomioka Yoshiyoshi. ”
Yu Marrow Tianyuan said casually.
"What?" Murata asked in surprise, "Has Mr. Tomioka become a pillar?" ”
That's his contemporary.
Now he is still the penultimate level, but Tomioka has become a column of water!
It's really more popular than people.
"Well, that's a guy who talks a lot and makes people angry when he looks at it."
Yu Marrow Tianyuan was a little annoyed when he thought of that meeting, "Speaking of which, even the level of swordsmanship is bland. Such a person who has nothing to say about is not gorgeous, and he doesn't know how to defeat the lower string ghost......"
However, before Yu Marrow Tianyuan's words fell, a thunderclap was heard, and a bright trace flashed outside the paper door, almost raising the dark room by two tones.
"Boom—"
"Is this thunder?"
Confused, Umi Tengen walked to the side and opened the paper door, only to find that the bright moonlight was shining on Tokyo without hindrance, and there was no trace of dark clouds in the sky.
However, just a few seconds later, a golden thunderbolt fell from the sky out of thin air in the distance, and once again let out a loud roar like a cannon, which made Yu Essence Tianyuan amazed.
"It's the legendary Thunderbolt! Gorgeous! It's gorgeous! I didn't expect such a bizarre scene in the world! ”
"Wait, Lord Otojo, isn't that the ...... in that direction?"
Murata didn't appreciate the strange phenomenon at all, but stammered, "Fuji...... The location of Shogun Fujita's house! ”
"Is that so?"
Yu Marrow Tianyuan immediately reacted, "Could it be that this ghost's blood ghost technique is actually manipulating thunder and lightning?" Or is someone at war with it? I can't wait! ”
As he spoke, the smoke and dust flew under his feet, and he disappeared in an instant, leaving only a sentence floating in Murata's ears.
"I'll go first, you can follow slowly!"
"Lord Otojo-"
At this moment, the hidden tribe who had promised to find a spare Hinawa knife for Murata hurried over and said to Murata who was still in a daze: "Mr. Murata, no, none of the Nichiren knives in the relics of the team members we have gathered are gone!" ”
"What?!"
Murata couldn't believe it, looked at the thunder one after another in the distance, and sat down in dismay.
On the opposite roof, the Lone Shadow took five identical Nihon knives from the stealth monkey's hands and smiled with satisfaction.
"Now, you can't get over it......"
"Chorichiro-sama's mission should be considered complete."
"But that thunderbolt, how does it look like the thunder of Ashina's Ba no Lei?"
……
The Lone Shadows weren't mistaken.
A few minutes ago.
Shogun Fujita's house.
Listening to the [Harvest from Essence Tengen's reputation value *500] in his head, Genichiro didn't feel the slightest joy, and didn't even mean to check it at all.
Because the water ghost with the barrel on his arm was firing water bombs at him one after another.
The water cannon blew up the top of the pavilion where Genichiro and the eagles were standing, and they saw that there was no place to stand.
Judging from the force that can break the tiles, if a person is concentrated in front of the water cannon, at least he will be fractured.
"We can't stay here, let's go to land."
After saying this, Genichiro grabbed the pillar supporting the pavilion and slid down, and ran along the stone bridge to the small building where General Fujita lived.
Along the way, the water ghost continued to disembowel and fire cannons, until the black-clothed eagles threw two shuriken to obstruct its view, which gave Genichiro a chance to breathe.
And the eagles also came to Genichiro's side with a few somersaults, and looked at the strange-shaped water ghost in the water from a distance of nearly ten meters from a distance.
"The water cannon he unleashed was not completely unconsumed."
Ichiro whispered to the Takashi to exchange information, "Every time he starts running, his back is bulging, and I suspect he is sucking water from the lake." If we don't lure it to the shore, his attacks will be endless, and we will only be beaten passively. ”
Ichiro was confidently observant, but he still underestimated the oni's hearing.
"Oh, what a clever little ghost, much smarter than those fools of the ghost killing team in the morning!"
"In order to hit me, those fools actually dared to dive into the water and swing knives at me!"
Apparently, the water ghost heard Genichiro's words word for word.
However, even if the weakness was discovered, the water ghost did not continue to hide in the water, but dragged the huge and heavy barrel of the cannon and walked ashore from the water step by step.
It looks like there is nothing to fear.
"It's a shame, though, that you can't even make a knife change color, and that the monkey-like guy next to you doesn't have a Hinawa knife in his hand. Even if I'm not in the water, you don't have the slightest chance of winning. Well, that guy came out, just in time to talk......"
"That guy?" Koichiro didn't know what the water ghost was talking about.
It was at this moment that the door of the small building opened.
A man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist walked out, with a gloomy face, it was none other than the owner of this place, General Fujita.
With such a loud sound of water cannons, he should have woken up a long time ago.
The reason why he came out now was to let the guards take his wife and children out the back door, so that the situation here would not be seen.
However, when he saw the strange-shaped ghost, not only did he not mean to run, but instead took out a pistol and aimed it at the eagles who looked very threatening.
"Why don't you people give up? I've given you a chance! ”
He looked at the Hinawa knife in Koichiro's hand and said through gritted teeth.
Apparently he was the one who took him for the Ghost Slayer.
It only took a second for Koichiro to figure out the situation, his gaze moving back and forth between General Fujita and the water ghost, "You guys know?" ”
"Acquaintance?"
The water ghost used his other relatively normal hand to push away the aquatic plants in front of him, and said to Fujita with a hint of hideous banter, "I'm just a diner staying in his house!" Hey, Fujita, do you want to tell him our story? ”
"They're going to die anyway, how about letting them hear the truth about the story of the naval hero Emasa Fujita?"
"The truth?"
The confusion in Genichiro's heart deepened, as if the two of them were more than just a simple partnership.
Rather, it is like some kind of blackmailing and being blackmailed.
"No more nonsense! If you make such a big move, the people around you will find out, so kill them! ”
When Fujita Emasa heard the water ghost's words, he said angrily, "Say it again! As we agreed, it's time for you to get out of here! Just treat the two of them as parting gifts, and never come back here! ”
"Ah, Fujita, you're going to abandon your 'comrades-in-arms' again."
The water ghost's face was gloomy, and the water plants on his head swayed slightly, "Just like the beginning, it's really more ruthless than our ghosts." ”
"Shut up!"
Fujita Masae didn't know why, and when he heard this, he became angry.
It was also the moment when he was angry and distracted, and the eagles actually turned over and jumped on the spot, threw their flying sickles in the air, and directly shot down Fujita Masae's pistol. Immediately afterwards, the eagles fell like birds of prey hunting on the ground, and while catching the flying sickle in mid-air, the body also came behind Fujita Masae strangely.
The cold blade of the scythe was against his neck, and it seemed like it would plunge in at any moment to kill him.
Ichiro never left the water ghost on the other side, and he had no doubts that the Eagle Sect would be able to quickly subdue Fujita Emasa.
"A body that is more flexible than a ghost...... Not any common breathing method. ”
The water ghost said thoughtfully, "Well, it seems that you got a Nichiren knife by chance, and you are not from the Demon Slayer Team. I'll just say, with the personality of those guys who claim to be upright gentlemen, it's too much to send a child like you. ”
"So little ghost, can you satisfy my curiosity, since you are not a member of the ghost killing team, what is the matter with me? I hear you clearly, you're looking for me, aren't you? ”
Ignoring him, Ichiro ordered the eagles, "I'll be enough here." You go and arrest this general named Fujita and all the others, let them watch, and then find a way to deal with it. ”
Whether it was Ichiro's cold killing intent, or the way he looked like he was going to fight this ghost alone, it made the two people present feel a little incredible.
However, Genichiro thought very simply.
A general should be able to provide a lot of prestige.
"Ichiro-sama ......"
The eagles still wanted to persuade him, but thinking of Ichiro's consistent behavior, he knew that he should be prepared, so he didn't continue.
"Ichiro? Is that your name? ”
The water ghost became interested, "It's like a name that the samurai would have taken during the shogunate period." ”
"My name is Ei Na Kuichiro."
After the eagles left completely, Genichiro put the Hinawa knife in front of him, his eyes were like a hungry and vigilant tiger, staring closely at the movements of the water ghost, and the unique aura belonging to the Warring States fierce general gradually spread, "The reason why I came here is just to find a ghost and try your catties." ”
"Oh, nice momentum!"
The water ghost was also a person who practiced martial arts, and at a glance it could be seen that Ichiro's posture was very professional.
"But I'm not an ancient samurai, I'm a modern soldier!"
"You don't think that if I leave the lake, I won't have a way to deal with you!"
The moment the water ghost's words fell, a water grass above his head suddenly stretched out, like a sharp arrow being shot, and rushed straight to the door of Junichiro's face at a speed that was difficult to judge with the naked eye!
However, in front of a fierce general like Genichiro, who often faces bows and shurikens, this speed is not untraceable.
He was preoccupied with finding his position and pinning the blade forward just right.
"Boom!"
Blocked!
But the next moment, Genichiro, whose arm was shocked to the point of numbness, saw a small depression on the body of the Nichiren knife.
“……”
Damn it.
Is this the Ghost Slayer's Nichiwa Knife?