Ichiro and Shinobu Butterfly patrolled along the forest path, facing the cold winter wind blowing from the narrow terrain, and their already serious and gloomy expressions became even more gloomy.

In terms of expressions, the relationship between the two is really surprisingly good, and with a black and white costume, it really looks like the impermanence of the forest patrol.

This dark path is lined with huge rocks and thick trees, and if you go any higher, it becomes a canyon.

Pedestrians look up from below and can't see anything at all, so it's perfect for small teams to hide in ambushes.

Presumably, in ancient times, this path must have been the favorite robbery holy place of robbers and thieves.

Suddenly, Ichiro paused in place.

"What's wrong?"

Butterfly Shinobu keenly observed his movements, "Are you feeling cold?" Ask you to wear more and you won't listen. ”

As she spoke, she seemed to be planning to fulfill the duties of a big sister and wanted to take off her scarf and put it around Kuichiro.

However, reed celebrities are not afraid of the cold.

Ichiro waved his hand and continued on his way as if nothing had happened.

"I'm not cold, it's something in front of me that is in ambush."

In his field of vision, there were 12 yellow paper figures flying from behind a large tree on a boulder 30 meters away.

Unlike in the past, these paper figures also let out a whining cry during the flight, as if they were complaining to Genichiro, and finally flew straight into Shinobi's hands, and there was no movement.

In the past, the range he used to absorb paper figures was 20 meters, but when he increased his vision by 1 point, the range increased by 10 meters.

After Koichiro turned on his vision, he could even see three figures behind the big tree, surrounded by faint black smoke.

The black mist should be the guide of the dead.

[It seems that she guessed correctly, the initiator of this disappearance is really a human being.] 】

The thought of not being able to get skill points suddenly made him feel a little bored.

"There are three of them, there should be weapons."

Ichiro reminded.

Hearing Ichiro say this, Butterfly Shinobu glared in that direction with his eyes wide open, but found nothing.

"Why didn't I see anything?"

She said with a suspicious expression, not understanding how Ichiro was sure that there was someone there.

"It's okay, just keep going as usual, don't let them find out if they have guns."

Ichiro pretended nothing had happened and continued to walk, "Get your weapons ready and fight back when they jump down." ”

Butterfly Shinobu looked at it carefully for a while, and also felt a little suspicious. In the end, she still chose to believe in Ichiro, and her right hand quietly pressed on the handle of Xiao Taidao, ready to fight back.

Could it be the police who came here to investigate?

She thought.

The people on both sides waited with bated breath for the time to come, so the distance of thirty meters was extraordinarily long.

When he saw Genichiro and Shinobu walking near the big tree where they were, Yamada immediately ordered, "It's just two little ghosts, catch them!" ”

Although the other two were a little stiff with their legs and feet, when they heard that it was a little ghost, a force in their bodies came from nowhere, and they immediately jumped off the platform where the big tree was located.

Perhaps because they thought that the other party had no ability to resist, they didn't even pull out their knives.

However, one of the attendants was still in mid-air, and a cold light suddenly flashed in front of him, and then he realized that his body actually flew backwards and flew out.

When I looked closely, I found that I had a short and thick bow and arrow stuck in my abdomen at some point, and the severe pain immediately spread!

The next moment, his body was wrapped in a bow and arrow, and he hit the tree where he had been hiding before, and the back of his head made intimate contact with the trunk of the tree, and then he rolled his eyes and fainted.

And the other guy had just landed, and he was hit by the acupuncture point of the elbow by the butterfly ninja with the handle of the small knife, and then the wrist joint was directly removed, and the knife on his waist was directly taken away by the latter and thrown to the ground.

Eventually, the unlucky guy received another knife in the back of the head, and fell forward with a scream.

It can be said that the battle is over before it even begins.

However, Yamada was still sluggish and stopped on the rock where the big tree was.

He didn't understand what was going on at all.

Why does this girl carry a knife?

Why was that kid able to pull out such a big bow?

After reacting, Yamada suddenly wanted to apply oil to the soles of his feet, but he had just turned around when a soft and rough foreign body suddenly felt on his neck.

Immediately after, there was an irresistible force around his neck, and he was directly dragged down a four-meter-high stone, and his body slammed into the ground.

As the rope was quickly retracted, his body was dragged two or three meters before he reached the feet of the butterfly ninja.

At this time, the hook rope around Yamada's neck was relieved, and like a backward strange snake, it slowly burrowed into the sleeve of Genichiro's left hand.

Butterfly Shinobu saw this scene and stopped, she didn't expect the rope on this prosthetic limb to be used like this.

In the end, she still glanced at the attendant who was staring at the tree with some concern, "He's not going to die, is he?" ”

After all, she didn't know where these three people came from.

"At most, if you pierce the intestines, if you don't pull out the arrow, it's fine."

Ichiro coldly withdrew the Iron God Arm Bow, "It should be that he fainted after hitting his head on a tree, don't worry about him, just dry it for a while." ”

It was as if there was not a man hanging on it, but a dried pig.

Butterfly Shinobu glanced at the location of the guy's injury, and agreed with Genichiro's words.

At this time, the two of them looked at Yamada at the feet of the butterfly shinobi at the same time.

Of the three, only he has the most gorgeous clothes and should be the leader.

"Why did you attack us?"

Butterfly Shinobu asked coldly, the scabbard slamming into Yamada's stomach.

Genichiro nodded, at least this sister of Butterfly Chanae didn't seem to care about hurting humans who had malicious intentions towards her.

However, this one, named Yamada, doesn't seem to be ready to talk back.

"Do you know who I am?"

He clutched his stomach in pain as he shouted loudly, "Hurry up and let me go, if you don't let me, let His Royal Highness kill your whole family!" ”

"Your Royal Highness?"

Butterfly Shinobu and Ichiro glanced at each other.

Is that what they think?

At this time, Butterfly Shinobu suddenly noticed the black and gold scabbard under this guy's body and pulled it out.

This sword is somewhat different from a regular katana, with two iron rings on the scabbard, which looks like it should be used for hanging while riding.

It's a saber.

Butterfly's eyes shrank.

"Hey! Give it back! ”

When Yamada saw that the guest's knife was taken away, he immediately shouted, but he was stepped on directly on his front teeth by Ichiro String, and immediately bled profusely.

Seeing that Butterfly Shinobu was staring at the handle of the knife for a long time, Ichiro asked suspiciously, "What, is there anything wrong with this knife?" ”

"You don't know?"

Butterfly Shinobu took out the knife, pulled a sword flower in the air, and then pointed to the chrysanthemum-shaped sword, "This is a saber." This golden chrysanthemum pattern can only be used with a sword given by the Emperor. ”

"You mean?"

Genichiro stared at the knife for a moment, then smelled the opportunity again.

I'm afraid the big news of this month is not far off.

"It should have something to do with the prince he said earlier." Butterfly Shinobi's face was a little solemn, "I have to ask him clearly!" ”

Ichiro removed his shoes from Yamada's mouth, who immediately shouted hysterically, "You pariahs! Give me the knife! You don't have the right to touch it! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you! ”

Looking at his crazy appearance, the word "untouchable" is probably not a word to insult others in a hurry, but he really feels that he seems to be superior.

"Please see the reality clearly."

Butterfly ninja held the knife and said coldly.

"It's been 40 years since the Meiji era, and even the emperor can't just kill someone. If you don't want me to take this to the police, just tell me, what the hell is going on? Why are you attacking me? Where did this knife come from? ”

"Police?"

Although Yamada was trampled on by Ichiro and his mouth and nose were bleeding, he was still as hard as ever and his tone was extremely arrogant.

"Then you can hand me over to the police! Look who's in jail at that time! Now let me go, I can act like this never happened! ”

"You!"

Butterfly didn't expect that this guy would dare to be so rampant.

After a brief silence, Genichiro suddenly spoke, "Don't ask him. ”

"What?"

Butterfly Shinobu and Yamada exclaimed at the same time.

"I've probably guessed what's going on."

Genichiro took the knife from Butterfly Shinobi's hand, looked at it carefully, pointed to the blade and said, "This is obviously a new knife that has just been forged not long ago, this guy should be entrusted by the owner of this knife to find innocent passers-by on this road, and then test the knife with them." ”

In ancient times, there were cases of samurai trying swords with civilians at intersections. Combined with the 12 crying paper figures, Genichiro has already guessed everything.

As he spoke, he swung his knife downward, slashing the tip of Yamada's nose with such precision that the latter let out a terrible howl, but immediately swallowed back the sound from the shoes that had fallen on his abdomen, and his body shrank into a ball.

"You mean, the people who disappeared before were all ...... by the three of them."

A hint of horror flashed in Butterfly Shinobi's eyes.

Rao is much more realistic than her sister Butterfly Chanae, and she can't imagine that the truth of the matter will be like this.

Treat innocent passers-by as the object of knife testing, what do these people regard human life as!

"If it's true, just ask the guy next to you."

With his left hand, Ichiro stretched out his left hand, and the hook rope was directly wrapped around the neck of the henchman who had been removed by the butterfly shinobi before, "If you continue to pretend to be dead, I will fulfill you." ”

Then the rope tightened suddenly!

The man suddenly opened his eyes, lay on the ground, and begged timidly, "Let me go!" This young master is absolutely right! We're here to help adults in Tokyo! He killed all the workers on this road before! We're just being forced to be helpless! ”

"You coward!"

Yamada frantically yelled at his henchman, "I should be the first to test the knife with you!" ”

"It's all this time, what kind of big-tailed wolf are you pretending!"

The attendant was obviously more sober than Yamada, and after spraying the guy, he continued to say to the two: "This guy is the descendant of the notorious executioner, Yamada Asaemon!" He found out that there was no war now, and there was no one to kill those big people, so he re-copied the old business and offered to try the knife for those people! He also coerced the descendants of our clan samurai to join him, saying that he wanted to revitalize the reputation of the Yamada family's imperial sword testers, I think he is simply wishful thinking! ”

"Yamada Asaemon ......"

Butterfly Shinobu thought about it for a while, and finally showed a hint of disgust, "Is it the guy who wrote "Huai Bao Sword Ruler"?" ”

"That's him! That's him! ”

The attendant excitedly shouted, "This guy is the descendant of that guy!" ”

"What, is this Yamada Asaemon famous?" Ichiro frowned.

The expression on Butterfly Shinobi's face can no longer be described as disgusting.

"This family, in addition to testing knives for the nobles, also used human livers, brains, and gallbladders to make pills, saying that they were curing all diseases, and they were banned by the emperor decades ago."

Butterfly Shinobi, who is proficient in the poetics of medicine, turned pale and whispered in a chord Ichiro, "But as early as before the Meiji era, the Oni Slayer discovered that the Yamada family should have a cooperative relationship with many oni. However, at that time, the Yamada clan was in full swing, and the ghost killing team was suppressed by the shogunate, and in the end it had to be stopped. ”

This is a thing of making pills out of the human body and then selling them to people for consumption......

Even Genichiro felt a sudden and intense discomfort in his stomach.

He suddenly realized: "Since their family has a precedent for cooperating with ghosts, then you say, those missing corpses should not have been fed to ghosts by him." ”

Butterfly Shinobi's face became more and more gloomy, and he coldly glanced at Yamada, whose expression was still full of madness, and turned his head to ask the attendant: "Then let me ask you, where are the corpses of those people you killed before?" ”

"That...... He killed all the people. ”

The attendant was startled by the girl's cold eyes, and said with a shrunken voice: "After Yamada tried the knife with those people, he threw the scattered corpses into the woods above, saying that they were eaten by animals, and it can be regarded as giving these people a place to live...... But every time we came back, the body was cleaned up, and it must have been taken away by the police......"

Butterfly Shinobu frowned.

The bodies of those people could never have been taken away by the police, otherwise Old Man Daisuke Hirayama would not be so sure that it was a ghost.

And the bodies must have been disposed of on the night the victims were killed, otherwise the next day the workers would not have found nothing.

Therefore, Genichiro's guess is very likely.

Thinking of the workers, most of them were just children about her age, who were first caught for no reason, then tortured to death by the test knife man with their limbs cut off, and finally fed to the ghosts......

These scenes, as long as they are imagined, are enough to break down the psychology of a normal person.

Obviously, everyone is human!

Why!

Why someone!

It's so easy to take the life of another person!

Butterfly Shinobu couldn't hold back any longer, grabbed Yamada's hair, held his head and slammed it to the ground.

"I ask you, where are their bodies?!"

Her face was gloomy, the green tendons on her head erupted like a demon, and the force of her attack was extremely heavy and the frequency was extremely high, and after just half a minute, Yamada's face was smashed by her.

The latter's nose was knocked down, his face was covered in blood, and even the teeth in his mouth fell to the ground with a stumbling sound, and a muffled sound came out of his throat.

But judging from his finally somewhat frightened expression, he must have begged for mercy.

Ichiro's face was calm and unsightly.

To be honest, if it weren't for Kurou specifically reminding him to let the Reed celebrity integrate into this world, he would have no sympathy for the Japanese.

If you kill it, you can kill it, because from the very beginning, Koichiro regarded everyone other than Ashina as a potential enemy. Since it is an enemy, there is no need to be soft-hearted.

But at Kuro's pleading, that attitude has now been reversed.

But this guy in front of him, relying on his own being a descendant of a samurai clan, used this cruel reason to torture the defenseless children to death, and it really poked the bottom line of Genichiro.

He has always looked down on samurai because he has seen the nature of samurai bullying the weak and fearing the hard since he was a child.

They are willing to give all sorts of bizarre favors to those who are on par with them, but they are so cruel to ordinary people of lower class than them, but of the same camp.

As if the latter were the enemy.

And this kind of cruelty to the people is also inherited by the current Japanese high-level, which can be seen from those police.

This guy in front of him, since it is why the prince tried the knife.

That means that this matter is probably acquiesced in by the prince who did not have the opportunity to kill people himself.

And the Prince, that's a serious royal family.

Besides, listening to the words of this follower, there are more than one or two Tokyo magnates who are looking for Yamada to test the knife.

It can be seen that, like those ordinary samurai in the past, the common people are treated as lambs that can be slaughtered at any time, which has been written into the genes of these high-ranking and powerful people.

And the world that Genichiro wants to leave to Kuro must not be such a world.

Looking at the bloody Yamada, Genichiro's brain was running at high speed, this time, how should he use this matter?