The Shinsengumi closed off Shikano Castle and began to search for Assassins from house to house.

But because of this, a lot of evil is temporarily hidden.

At this time, Hijikata was very troubled, and the office of the Shinsengumi welcomed a lot of uninvited guests, these people were foreigners who were in a hurry to do business.

"Deputy Chief of the Turkish Movement, if your Shinsengumi is incompetent, then simply lift the ban, after all, we have been greatly affected by going out of the city to do business." A Portuguese began to press.

"If you can't catch the murderer, then it's better to lift the ban and hire our own bodyguards." Another elder of the country also chimed in.

And Hijikata Suizo, the second-in-command of the new selection group, can only keep laughing.

But in his heart, he scolded these people countless times.

They were the ones who pressured the murderer to be caught, and the Shinsengumi didn't catch the murderer on the first day, and they were the ones who pressed to lift the ban.

Hijikata Suizo is clear, what this group of foreigners want is to catch the murderer accurately without any ban.

But how is that possible?

After coming into contact with the ban, the business flow alone is tens of thousands of people a day, and who knows if you are going in and out of the city or in and out of the city at this moment?

Obviously, the foreigners wanted to catch the murderer, and the Shinsengumi locked down the city under countless pressures to arrest the assassins, and they began to make noise about opening the city again.

"Guys, we said we were going to catch the assassin." The deputy chief of the earth square said, and he tried his best to endure it.

"But you didn't say you were going to lock down the city, did you? What should we do if you lock down the city and our goods stink? I am a loss of tens of thousands of taels of silver a day, and you can afford it? Do you feel that your position has been achieved? Do you want your feudal lord to speak to us directly? Another bald eagle merchant said even more facelessly with a few questions.

Hijikata Suisan was angry when he pulled out his knife and hacked the bald eagle merchant to death, he felt that he had been insulted, but at this time, he absolutely could not get angry and could not turn his face.

The Black Ship Incident has dealt the Shogunate the heaviest blow, and it can't fall out with foreigners over some trivial matter.

"Shut up, we have our own national conditions in Edo, and it's not your turn to meddle in our internal affairs." But even if Hijikata Suizo held back, the samurai next to him, who felt insulted, couldn't help it and yelled directly.

"There will be compensation for the loss of our goods, a total of 80,000 taels of silver, let you Edo Shogunate compensate, then you will have no problem locking the city until any time." The bald eagle merchant apparently does not give face either.

His bodyguards all put their hands on their waists, and the men were bulging at their waists, apparently armed with revolvers.

And the samurai also put their hands on their swords, and the scene was full of gunpowder for a while.

"That's enough, Shishiro! Your Excellency, give us one more day, and after one day, no matter what, we will unseal Luye City, and please bear with me. Hijikata bowed slightly, and then said.

"Then I'll only give you one day." The bald eagle man threw down the sentence and left.

The other merchants are gone.

And the entire Shinsengumi was terrifyingly quiet, and everyone was angry, but when it came to facing the Bald Eagle, they couldn't do anything.

After all, the scene of the Black Ship Mayflower blasting open the gate of Edo is still vivid, and as long as they are facing the bald eagle, they all feel that they are a head shorter.

"Deputy Chief...... Let's ......" The samurai named Shijuro wanted to say something just now, but he was stunned by the look of Toshizo Hijikata.

"We only have one day, and then we will have to open the gates anyway." Hijikata said in a calm tone, but in the calm was extremely suppressed anger.

This anger is not only directed at the waste, but also against foreigners.

"Deputy Chief, it's our incompetence, and it's also the cunning of those gangs of rubbish, they hid after the defeat, and they only engaged in some assassination methods, and they were so cruel that we couldn't even catch them alive." The subordinate said.

Even if they are caught, they will all commit suicide directly, and they will not be able to ask anything.

"But there's good news, the foreigner who put the assassin in the foreign pavilion has been found, and now lives in a shoemaker's house, should we catch him?" A subordinate reported.

Hijikata kept banging on the table, but didn't respond.

"Don't do it yet, we still have a day, and after a day, we will make plans." In the end, he could only sigh.

Maintaining this crumbling shogunate, he was already feeling tired.

But at this moment, a secret letter from a ninja came, and the Shinsengumi who had originally dispersed the meeting directly failed to leave.

Hijikata hurriedly opened the letter, which contained information intercepted by the ninja from within the Tsuchizo faction, which, under the auspices of Sakamoto Ryoma, was united a few days later in Ikedaya, including the Toza Domain, the Choshu Domain, and the Satsuma Domain.

And at that time, if they could be defeated, they would be able to wipe out almost all the Kansai factions.

This news instantly cheered up the entire Shinsengumi, who had been waiting for this day for a long time, and the opportunity to completely defeat the Shoyi faction with one blow had come.

Helping the building to fall and saving the people of Edo.

At this moment, even the unpleasantness that had just been with the foreigner was thrown aside.

"From now on, everything is for this moment, the moment when we can completely defeat the Assassins, everyone, we have to start releasing smoke bombs, we can't let others know our true intentions, and even, including the capture of the assassins, we have to show great effort." Hijikata said.

"Hayin!" The samurai below were also excited.

"Fourteen Lang, you can invite that foreign Mr. Levi over, pay attention, you need to invite you." The deputy chief of the earthwork looked at his subordinates and said.

"Hayin!"

……

And even after two days of searching, the Shinsengumi did not find any trace of Hikosai Kawakami, and under strong pressure from foreigners, Kano Castle was forced to let go.

However, the wanted warrants for Hikosai Kawagami began to be posted all over the city.

In such a situation, Kawagami Hikosai can't just plaster his face, but has to enter a more complicated disguise before he can go out.

Dressed like a samurai who has been wandering for many years, his face is wrapped in a hot cloth, and only his eyes, nose, and mouth are exposed.

The entire Luye City is directly open, because the closed Luye City makes it difficult for foreign adults to do business.

And two days after Kawagami Hikosai entered here, he had already found Levi.

However, he hesitated, even though Lord Ryoma-sama Sakamoto gave Levi a heavenly order, but this time, when faced with this target, he found it difficult for him to start.

He had been hiding not far from the shoemaker's house, no more than a kilometer, but he had been thinking about it for a whole day.

He felt that his sword was for the country, for the people of this land, but the more he killed, the more he could only feel emptiness and torture.

Kawagami Hikosai did not dare to question Sakamoto Ryoma why Mr. Levi was the target of the Heavenly Decree, he had not helped the shogunate, nor had he persecuted the Shogunate.

Why would such a person be chosen to become the object of heaven's punishment.

In the past, he killed all the people of the shogunate, or people who had intersections with the shogunate, and he was able to deceive himself, but now, this heavenly decree is completely unable to convince himself.

And far away in Ikedaya, Katsura Kogoro was also puzzled as to why Ryoma Sakamoto gave a heavenly order to the person who seemed harmless to humans and animals, and should even have helped Hikosai across the river.

"Because, Kawagami Hikosai is starting to get confused, and what we need is a ruthless executioner to draw a knife, not a counter-blade that will hesitate and may even point at himself." Ryoma Sakamoto said calmly.

"In other words, it doesn't matter whether the person named Levi lives or dies, but how Hikosai Kawagami chooses is very important to us." Katsura Kogoro took a sip of tea.

"Yes, if Kawagami Hikosai succeeds in killing that person named Levi, then we can consider letting him get out of the identity of a person and appear in front of the scene as a middle-level warrior, and if he fails or gives up, then kill him." Ryoma Sakamoto said, seemingly casually determining a person's life and death.

"Kawagami Hikosai will definitely make the right choice, he is the person I discovered, and I trust him." Katsura Kogoro said.

In Kano Castle, Kawagami Hikosai looked at the shoemaker's house, and there was no movement for several days.

He also rolled over and started to buy some food.

Tomorrow is his deadline, and he has until tomorrow to make his choice, no matter what.

"Give me a few steamed buns, no stuffing, the cheapest kind." Kawagami Hikosai came to a steamed bun shop and said.

It is also said that it was a shop owned by young people, but in fact, steamed buns and steamed buns were passed around before Edo, but it was not until a large number of young people fled here that steamed bun shops began to spread throughout Fuso.

He quickly took over a pack of white steamed buns, and even without any filling, he ate happily.

Because this may be the better thing he has eaten over the years, before that, he may not even be able to afford to eat white noodles, and it is only recently that white noodles can reach the bottom.

He ate without looking ahead, and then suddenly bumped into a man.

He bit the steamed bun reluctantly, but took a step back, and his hand began to habitually rest on his waist and prepare to draw the knife.

But when he saw a woman who fell to the ground in front of him, he was stunned for a moment and said, "I'm sorry, are you okay?" ”

He saw the woman in front of him, about a few years older than him, maybe a little taller than him, one meter five years old, wearing a kimono, with a surging fragrance on her body, carrying a bundle of vegetables on her back, as if she had just come home from buying vegetables.

"I'm fine, I bumped into you, Lord Samurai." The woman hurriedly bowed and saluted.

"No, I didn't see the way." Hikosai Kawagami also apologized.

It wasn't until the woman left that he looked at her back, slightly distracted, until the back disappeared into the corner of the street, that he picked up the half steamed bun again.

Suddenly, I felt that the steamed buns in my hand were no longer fragrant.

However, he ate it quickly, and then continued back to his secluded place, where the shoemaker's house might be observed.

In the afternoon, the door of the shoemaker's house suddenly opened, and he found that his target had gone out, not only him, but also a couple like Daqing who had left here together.

Kawagami hurriedly followed, he seemed to realize that this was the last choice, whether to kill Mr. Levi or give up, he had to follow.

The short figure hurriedly followed, like an ordinary runner, but ridiculously fast.

"What are you going to do! Let go of my sister! ”

Suddenly, a little boy's voice sounded, and Hikosai's figure on the river froze.

He saw a bald eagle man push a dirty little boy to the ground and walk into the house.

His figure stopped, looked at Levi who was leaving in the distance, and then at the little boy, as if hesitating to make a move.

"Don't come here, the Shinsengumi are on patrol, and they will come soon!" Inside the room, it was a woman's voice, and it even felt a little familiar to him.

"Fakyu, give you the price of a geisha, don't be ignorant." An awkward foreigner's voice could be heard in the room.

The ringing of the doorbell, the exclamation of the woman, and the voice of the bald eagle GI.

There seemed to be people around who had noticed the situation, but they all looked at it numbly and didn't make any moves.

Speaking of which, it is just a foreigner forcibly robbing a woman, since the Black Boat Incident, such a situation has happened every day in this land, and it has been common to say it.

Even, many women didn't even have time to call for help, and they were directly played to death.

"Smack!"

A slap slapped the little boy in the face, knocking him to the ground, and the bald eagle wiped his hands on his clothes in disgust, as if he didn't like to get his hands dirty.

He didn't want to kill anyone, because the scalp of the people here was not worth ten beautiful dollars, but today he saw a very decent woman, and he called someone he knew to enjoy it together.

Anyway, no one cares about it here, they themselves sell the women of their own country as commodities, and at most it is just the money for the loss of goods.

It's not the first time they've done something like this here, and it's not even the first time they've played to death a Fuso woman, so what can the so-called shogunate do with them?

Hikosai Kawagami looked at the back of the departing figure in the distance, and looked at the little boy who had fallen to the ground again.

He seemed to think of himself ten years ago, if Master hadn't saved him at that time, then he would have been the same as that little boy.

So......

"Boom!" Draw the knife in your hand.

In an instant, blood splattered, and the bald eagle man didn't seem to know the situation, so he covered his neck and wanted to scream, but the blood had already entered his lungs, blocking his alveoli, so that he could not make a sound at all.

"Davis, what's wrong?" Another bald eagle man in the house came out, still holding a gun in his hand, and when he saw such a scene, he instantly drew his gun and pointed it at Kawagami Hikosai.

"Bang!"

Kawagami pulled out the gun from the corpse just now at a faster speed and pulled the trigger directly.

Violent gunshots rang out, and the man had just touched the holster.

"Don't worry, it's been solved." Hikosai Kawagami said to the little boy on the ground.

"Murder! Killed! There's murder here! The foreigner is dead! Suddenly, there was a shouting in the distance.