Even if they had lost their way due to fog and heavy rain, they were able to find their way back to the outer side of the side road where they met the scouts.

It may be hard to imagine for a samurai who comes from a town area, but children who grow up in the mountains have many excellent survival skills in the wilderness, even if they are not very young.

Identifying the location is a necessary skill, and it is also necessary to keep in mind what kind of wild plants will be in the surrounding mountains and forests, what kind of traces and what animals have left behind, which dangers should be avoided, and which ones can be risked to get meat.

Even if they had brought out the dry food they had brought out early, they would not necessarily have gone hungry—though they certainly wouldn't have eaten as well as the well-prepared samurai.

In addition to these aspects of knowledge and experience, the samurai were most ashamed of the children's physical fitness.

The average age was only about ten years old, and even the oldest and tallest children were only about 1.4 meters, although they did travel lightly, except for knives and spears, the speed comparable to that of a samurai on horseback was still a little speechless.

Born and raised, he has been playing in the mountains since he was a child, and often helps his parents and elders carry things. The physical fitness he has cultivated is not inferior to that of a well-trained samurai, and even when he runs, he is far more adapted to the terrain because of his light body and familiar terrain.

Although Crescent Island is mountainous, most of the densely populated areas of large cities still remain in the plains. Even though most of the samurai had good physical fitness, there was still a gap between them and the natives of the mountains.

Walking at a speed comparable to that of a horse, and although it was possible to overtake the Hayato children leading the way by speeding up on horseback, most of the samurai refused to do so because of their pride.

It is true that the childish is faster than anyone else, but it is even more pathetic that the person who is riding a horse and accelerates with the intention of overpowering others.

Hayato and children are still walking, and they all walk faster than they can ride horses, and they don't breathe. The inner entanglement of the samurai who came from the Japanese people eventually turned silent, but this kind of gloomy situation is not uncommon in the confrontation between the people and the Hayato for thousands of years.

Hayato now occupies the land of Fuso, and has a certain degree of autonomy, which is not the result of the generosity of the people. Although the samurai would argue that the swords, spears, and armor they produced were of such a privilege, but if there was no one around and you had a deep personal relationship with the samurai, then he would probably admit that he was never able to conquer Hayato completely.

His status and autonomy were equal to those of the old royal family, which had been demoted to the rank of feudal king, and he had superb weapons and armor forging skills. The sum of these elements of this series of elements, if Xinjing can sit back and relax without being wary of the Hayato clan, it must be treating the high-level of the Moon Country as fools.

There's a saying in Rigal that says, "Stay close to your friends, get closer to your enemies" – and that's what the Shinkyo royal family did from a map perspective.

Fuso is located in the sphere of influence directly under Xinjing, and the surrounding territories are all heavily garrisoned military fortresses. Even the strongest fighting force of the Japanese people directly under Xinjing, the fief of the ghost clan was also set up at the entrance of Fusang - you must know that Fusang is a territory backed by mines.

As the name suggests, new weapons can be prioritized for the elite, and craftsmen and warriors can have the most direct communication to adjust the armor and weapons they need.

This statement was taken by many Japanese samurai and the new generation of Hayato craftsmen, but the older generation and the Fuso leadership understood it.

This is a prison.

If there is still a set of rhetoric that can be said about geographical supervision, then look at the competitive spirit that the samurai of the Qingtian family can have in the face of a group of Hayato children - Shinkyo has never relaxed in his thinking.

The saying of the Hayato of the martial nation is not from the Hayato race itself.

Even after a long period of peace, generations of samurai have grown up with the precedents of the past.

The other peoples of Crescent Continent sung in textbooks and legends are only a complete fool who would believe that the praise is genuine.

The greatest insult to a warrior is to instill in him as a child that someone is naturally stronger than you, and you can never surpass them, and the competitive spirit that is aroused in this way can easily turn into hostility. Because the other party has been regarded as an opponent in the subconscious, then the rest only needs to be triggered by any opportunity. Naturally, the competitive spirit will push the Kazuto warrior class to kill Hayato in order to prove that he is the greatest warrior on the continent.

This is a thousand-year-old spicy with thousands of years of history, subtle and reserved, and unique to the East.

The nobles of the small kingdom of Rigal, who felt that conspiracy and politics were marriage and assassination, could hardly come up with such a plan, and before they knew it, they had already patched up all the chess pieces. Set the situation to such an extent that it affects the whole body, so as to maintain a lasting peace.

It is like a sudden volcanic disaster in a peaceful year, and it is like a gorgeous and short-lived new moon cherry blossom.

Like the cold North Rigala Sea, there is an undercurrent surging under the dark blue invisible sea level, and it suddenly becomes rough at some point.

If there is a move, you and I will both die.

Peace is not something that comes with sheer goodwill, and it is with a firm grip on the weapon that you can rest easy.

Our young Luoan maiden still hasn't caught a glimpse of such a thing. And even within the samurai of the Qingtian family, I am afraid that only a very small number of people can perceive the friction between the people and the Falato.

— but let's get back to square one.

The line was rightfully elongated.

Even the samurai on horseback could barely keep up with the Hayato kids, and even more so the ashigaru who were carrying heavy baggage on foot.

The sparse formation was three times as long, and the expressions of the senior samurai who frequently turned their heads gradually changed from frowning and dissatisfied to glaring angrily, but before they could open their mouths to scold, the vanguard horses showed some signs that something was wrong—and then spread to the entire ranks of mounted samurai.

"Let's go!" many of the samurai who were holding back their anger could no longer maintain their tenderness for their beloved horses, shouting and scolding and even beating them with leather whips, but the horses just writhed and refused to move on.

"Don't panic, it's the horse feeling the breath of the demon. Although he had no experience in crusade, Narumi could still guess something from the words of the Hayato children before him, and he shouted to stop the samurai's actions. The Hayato kid in front of him noticed the movement and stopped, and it took a while for him to come over, but after one glance at the samurai, he walked straight to the middle of the line and spoke to Miss Doctor.

Henry and his party naturally came to the front of the group from the middle section because of this interruption, and at the same time, the backward ashigaru slowly came forward.

Approaching the front of the group, the keen Luoan girl sniffed her nose and immediately smelled a strange smell. Although the smell of beasts mixed with the horses and the sweaty samurai was not easily noticeable, the smell of rotten eggs could be distinguished.

"Sulfur?" she looked at the sage, who nodded—maybe there was a hot spring nearby, but Mira didn't think much of it, for her attention was immediately interrupted by something else—and when the little unicorn came near the horses, the restless horses immediately calmed down. The warriors turned their heads to look at the white Mitya, and many of them had a greedy look in their eyes, but they quickly turned their heads away when they saw Henry.

The leading boy—Aya introduced him as Archie, at least that is the transliteration—whispered something to Miss Doctor, and Aya smiled at Mira, "He said the little guy was the King of Horses." As she said this, the Lady of Loan turned her head a little smugly to look at Henry, and then at Galeva, who had followed her, but the latter was too busy remembering what had just happened in her travelogue, and was kicked by Mira.

"What's wrong with me. Stunned, her face was full of grievances, and Miss Doctor covered her mouth and laughed when she watched the actions of the two.

The pack ox who was pulled up by the ashigaru had a similar experience, and after Archie had said something to Aya, Miss Doctor turned to Narumi and explained.

"The animal panicked when he felt the breath of the evil spirit, and then he would light the requiem incense and tell us to cover our mouths and noses with a cloth moistened with water, otherwise we might get dizzy. She explained, and Narumi nodded, asking a samurai to relay the matter to the others.

Archie, the leader of the Hayato Kids, is very mature and sophisticated in handling things at his teenage age, which reminds Henry of Mira in the past. If he ignited without a prior explanation, the samurai would begin to get dizzy, apparently suspicious, and even draw their swords and start fighting.

But now that it is communicated to the whole team, some unnecessary misunderstandings can be avoided.

Without further ado, the Hayato children took out some of the herbs they had brought with them, smashed them with the handle of their mountain knives, and put them in small clay bowls they had brought with them. Then he took out the flint and scythe, and the sparks flew and ignited them in a few moments.

Then Archie walked ahead with a small pottery bowl and a requiem incense to lead the way, and the cattle that smelled the smell and some of the people who had not yet put on their scarves shook their heads unconsciously. Hayasato's children pull up the tulle around their necks, and Samurai and Ashigaru and Henry do the same.

The so-called requiem incense seems to contain some kind of calming ingredient, and it is thought that it may have been made by burning pain-relieving herbs. In any case, although the horses and pack oxen had become a little sluggish as a result, they were not at last deterred by fear.

The road continues to stretch forward, sometimes upwards and sometimes downwards.

The Hayato who had escaped the taxes were self-aware after all, and their village was far from the side road, and the group walked from the mountain road for most of the afternoon, until in the early afternoon when they saw the smoke rising from a ravine.

The location is so clever that the mountain hides the traces of cooking smoke and cannot be seen without entering it.

The lead Hayato kid stepped on the burning requiem incense as he walked near the village, and a woman walked past the entrance of the village with a wooden basin in her arms, and when she noticed Archie standing in front of her, she dropped the basin and shouted and rushed over and hugged him.

Although the language is not common, the mother's worries can be seen in her movements and face.

The loud voices attracted the attention of more adults, ranging in age from their twenties to their thirties, but almost all of them were women. One after another, the Hayabusons walked out of the houses in the village, but their joy didn't linger on their countenances for long—they noticed that they were following Archie.

Heavily armed samurai.

This was an expected unfolding, and it was not surprising that Yajiro, Rigal, and the high-ranking samurai leaders who came forward were surprised.

The only one who was somewhat affected was Miss Doctor.

The expressions ranged from the relief of the children returning safe and sound, to the doting with some blame. The moment he saw the samurai, he turned pale in the dark, his eyes dodging and terrified, but he didn't know what to do. After that, it naturally evolved into blame.

Some of the Hayato women behind them sighed, and some of them pointed at the leader Archie loudly and aggressively at a very high speed, cursing something. Although only Miss Doctor was able to understand Hayato's words, anyone who could guess that most of the curses were inseparable from accusations such as taking the lead in taking their children and taking risks and luring the Wato samurai back.

The woman who first appeared apparently Archie's mother first protected him, and eventually turned her head and began to blame her own child.

The boy with his head down didn't say a word, and finally couldn't help but start justifying himself.

It started with a whispered rebuttal, and finally turned into a loud argument. You don't need to understand that he is explaining that he is bringing back the samurai with the intention of defeating the demons. But the mother clearly didn't buy it.

The quarrel became more and more intense, until finally the "——!" ended with a resounding slap in the face.

The other women were still chattering, and several waved their children not to stay with Archie and go back quickly.

Archie's mother froze in place, and he covered his face for a few moments, then turned and ran into the forest without looking back.

"Archie, Archie!" his mother continued to shout, and the other children, who had lost their leader, returned to their mothers' arms.

————The women looked at the samurai with hostility and fear, and then hurried back to their houses in the village.

There was a "click" of closing the door and locking the deadbolt, and Archie's mother, with her head down, walked back to pick up the tub and began to walk towards the interior of the village.

The warriors who had made the ....... had lost their words, and although it was fair to say that they had agreed to come to fight the demons more to prove their martial arts than to save the villagers, the experience was truly indescribable.

"Really, that's how it will be. The fugitive peasants, the gathering place that they have worked so hard to find, it is difficult to come here without the guidance of locals. In this case, a child of his own clan attracted a group of samurai in uniform. The great god sighed and said.

"On the plus side, at least we didn't get shot by a bow or arrow, hahaha. Old Joe tried to make a joke to liven up the atmosphere, but no one answered except for a few dry laughs of his own.

"Camp outside tonight. The cold-faced young master Yajiro said this and turned around and walked to the back of Ashigaru, and the young lady who was stunned for a long time reacted: "I have to look for him." ”

"I'll go with you. Mira nodded, and then looked at the sage, who nodded, and kicked the thick-skinned Galeva again.

"The Reborn Financial Giant"

"Come along, nerd. ”

"Huh?" was visibly half a beat slower again.

"If I have to bring someone back, I don't necessarily have to hold it down. ”