Volume 2 The Executioner Chapter 79: Matsudaira Gennai's Game
Ogata looked the boy up and down several times.
The boy's clothes were quite neat.
The body was also very clean, as if he had just taken a shower.
However, his eyes made Ogata feel a little uneasy.
The boy's eyes... were devoid of any spirit...
Like a pair of dead people's eyes.
Led by Tobisaur, the young man knelt on the left side of Ogata.
After the young man sat down, Fei Yuan took a few steps back and knelt on one knee behind the young man's right side.
"Mr. Samurai, nice to meet you..." The boy took the lead in introducing himself to Ogata, "My name is Rikichi..."
After the young man who called himself Rikichi finished speaking, Ogata quickly turned his kneeling body to the left so that his body was facing Rikichi.
"Nice to meet you. My name is Ogata Yoshisei."
"Ogata-kun," Kuranaga said at this time, "Riyoshi was born in an ordinary village called Myobari in my domain."
After listening to Kuranaga's additional introduction to Rikichi, Ogata thought to himself:
——Why did you bring someone with such a scary look to see me for no reason...
As soon as Ogata finished speaking, Kuranaga added something that made Ogata's heart almost skip a beat:
"Five months ago, Miaozhang Village ceased to exist."
"...Ah?" Ogata turned his head and cast a surprised look at Kuranaga, "No longer exists? What happened?"
Kuransaga pursed his lips.
After a pause, he said:
"…Since Lord Ji came to the throne, he has been imposing excessive tax increases on villages within the domain in order to satisfy his own selfish desires."
"Five months ago, the villagers of Miaozhang started an uprising because they could not stand the harsh taxes."
"The uprising of the villagers of Miaozhang Village was naturally quickly put down."
“Only three days .”
"Ogata-kun, you must be confused now, right? Wondering why you have never heard of this uprising."
Hearing Kuranaga's words, Ogata's pupils shrank slightly.
Because what Kuranaga said just now accurately hit the nail on the head for Ogata.
Just now, Ogata was wondering why he had never heard of this.
"The reason why you, Ogata-kun, have not heard of this is because we have done our best to block the news of 'Myoharu Village launching an uprising' and 'Myoharu Village uprising failing'."
“There are two reasons that force us to do this.”
"The first reason is that the peasants in a certain rural area in the domain could not stand the harsh taxes and started an uprising. This kind of shameful news should naturally be known to as few people as possible."
"As for the second reason..."
Kuranaga suddenly fell silent.
The hands that were naturally placed on the legs also slowly clenched.
The emotions in his eyes gradually became complicated.
"…The second reason…is because…the lord has dealt very cruelly with the villagers who were captured because of the failed uprising…"
It seemed as if what Cangyong said just now had some magical power.
As soon as the words fell, Rigid had a strange reaction...
Reggie clenched his teeth and fists, and his body began to tremble slightly .
Rigid's strength seemed to be enough to break his teeth and scratch his palms until they bleed.
Ogata looked at Kuranaga with a confused look on his face, and then at Rikichi.
"...Next." Kuranaga sighed lightly, "Let Rikichi tell you what the lord has done to the villagers of Miaozhang Village..."
Ogata looked at Rikichi.
Rijillian took several deep breaths to calm himself down.
Then he opened his mouth and uttered a hoarse voice:
"...That bastard Matsudaira Gennai...is not a human..."
"He brought everyone in the village... back to his city..."
"The men in the village were taken to a dojo in the city, and the women were taken to other places..."
"That bastard Matsudaira Gennai... likes to watch close relatives and friends kill each other... He calls it a 'martial arts competition'..."
"That dojo... is where that bastard watched the fight..."
"The reason why we were brought to that dojo was to watch us and our family members and friends kill each other..."
"He gave each of us a knife..."
"Only one person can survive each duel..."
"And my first opponent... is my younger brother...!"
Having said this, Riggie could no longer control his emotions, and tears began to roll down his eyes.
"If there is no winner in each duel, both of them will be killed by that bastard...!"
"I don't want to kill my brother..."
"But I don't want to die either..."
"So... I ended up... stabbing my brother in the chest with a sword..."
"Then... my opponent in the second match... is my father..."
"My father ran into my knife himself in order to keep me alive..."
"After that... I killed many of my friends in the village..."
"I killed my brother, my father, and almost all my friends, and only then did I survive..."
"I hate myself so much... I killed all my relatives and friends just to survive..."
"But I hate the bastard Matsudaira who forced us to do this even more!!"
Rikichi pounced on Ogata and grabbed Ogata's right hand tightly.
"Master Samurai! Please help me! Help us!"
"Please help us kill that bastard Matsudaira Gennai!!"
Rikichi held Ogata's right hand tightly with both of his hands.
Ogata's right hand could clearly feel the strength of Regi's hands, the amplitude of their trembling due to excitement and anger, and... the boundless hatred hidden in Regi's body...
Compared to Rikichi's tearful request, what made Ogata feel even more uneasy were Rikichi's tears.
Originally, Reggie's tears were an ordinary transparent color.
However... as Reggie continued to explain his previous experiences, Reggie's tears gradually began to change...
It slowly changes from transparent to light red.
Finally...it turned into the scarlet red it is now...
Scarlet tears... No, they can no longer be called tears.
It should be said that blood kept rolling out of Rikichi's eyes and dripping onto Ogata's hakama...
The drop of blood that fell on Ogata's hakama was as hot as a spark to him, burning all over his body and causing goose bumps to appear uncontrollably all over his skin...
Looking at Rikichi shedding tears of blood, Kuranaga sighed deeply.
"Tobizaru... take Riki down to rest..."
"yes……"
Fei Yuan helped Riki, who was still howling, out of the room.
Ogata stared blankly in the direction where Rikichi left.
I was speechless for a long time.
