Volume 3 Buddha's Enemy Chapter 129: Where is the Negishi family’s headquarters?
Ma Lian led his four men and stood in different positions to surround Ogata.
Five sharp wakizashis, emitting a cold glow, were pointed directly at Ogata.
However, Ogata's reaction was not as Horse Face had expected, showing no surprise or fear.
He simply glanced at them expressionlessly.
It seemed as if he didn't take the five horse-faced men seriously.
"You don't seem to recognize me..." Ogata said softly.
"Ah?" Horse Face pulled the corner of his mouth, "Who do you think you are? Why should I recognize you?"
"It seems you don't usually have the habit of looking at wanted posters."
"Stop pretending!" Horse Face shouted, "I've seen too many vagrants like you who only know how to pretend!"
"He was obviously not very good at swordsmanship, but he pretended to be a master who was calm and composed. In the end, he was chopped into pieces by us. We, the Negishi family, have killed countless such foolish ronin!"
Past experience told Ma Lian that the young ronin in front of him was just like the other ronin he had met before who were all talk and pretended to be very powerful, but when they actually started fighting they were quickly killed.
"You're still so arrogant even though you're surrounded by five of us!" Horse Face continued to shout, "Stop pretending! Can you still fight one against five?"
Hearing Ma Lian's question, an intriguing smile appeared on Ogata's face.
Then he whispered:
"You can come and try it."
"Still pretending here!" Horse-faced man's expression became even gloomier. "Come on! Kill this pretentious ronin!"
As soon as Horse Face finished his words, his four men except Horse Face immediately rushed towards Ogata, making strange noises and waving their knives.
One of them rushed forward particularly fast, perhaps wanting to take credit for himself or something else.
Before the others could get to Ogata's side, this guy had already rushed to Ogata's right hand side.
Ogata didn't even move his feet.
He just slightly turned his eyes and glanced at the gangster on his right... who had entered his attack range.
The left hand has been pressed on the opening of the scabbard, with the thumb slightly tilted forward to press against the guard, allowing the blade of the katana to pop out of the scabbard.
Then raise your right hand to hold the handle of the knife, turn your upper body with your left foot as the axis, and turn your upper body to your right side.
The force is transmitted from the left foot to the waist, and then to the right arm.
While turning his upper body to the right side, he used the force transmitted from his left foot to draw the sword out of its sheath!
The knife light emerged from the scabbard and swept towards the neck of the gangster on the right like a whip.
The familiar feeling of a sharp weapon entering flesh and cutting through bones passed along the handle of the knife to Ogata's palm.
The blade of the katana cut into the gangster's right neck and then cut out from the left neck.
The knife light swept across the gangster's neck, and the gangster's head flew out horizontally along with the knife light.
With a bang, his head hit the wall of a thatched hut next to him, then bounced back and slowly rolled back to Ogata's feet.
Looking at the head with eyes still wide open at Ogata's feet, the villagers of Shihe Village who were watching the fight in fear, as well as the gangsters led by Horse Face, screamed in agony.
The other three gangsters who were about to rush to Ogata...or to say, about to rush into Ogata's attack range, hurriedly stopped.
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"What's wrong?"
Ogata swung the katana in his hand downward heavily to shake off the blood on the blade, and asked back to Ma Lian and others.
"Didn't you say you were going to kill me? You can't kill me if you stand so far away."
Horse Face and his three surviving subordinates seemed to have been frightened by Ogata's sharp sword slash just now.
They all stood there, not knowing whether to move forward or backward.
"Since you guys won't come over, I'll go over there."
After saying that, Ogata took a step forward with his knife in hand.
Ogata only took one step forward, and the three surviving subordinates of Horse Face immediately fled in all directions while screaming.
In the blink of an eye, the three people disappeared from Ogata's sight.
Only Ma Lian was left standing there in a daze with a very interesting expression.
"'Yakuza' is 'Yakuza'. Their morale is broken in an instant." Ogata curled his lips, "You guys can only bully the weak."
Ogata will not chase after the three people who escaped.
After all - his target from the beginning to the end was only Horse Face who stole his money.
"You are the only one left." Ogata cast a cold look at Ma Lian, "Let me be frank with you - even if you return my purse to me now, I will not forgive you."
After saying that, Ogata clenched the knife in his hand and walked quickly towards Ma Lian.
"hateful!"
Looking at Ogata who was approaching him quickly, Horse-Faced Man cursed loudly while hurriedly taking out something like a meatball from his arms.
After taking out the "ball", Horse Face smashed it heavily to the ground.
The next moment after hitting the ground, the "ball" broke into pieces and then turned into thick white mist.
Thick white fog spread out, instantly obscuring the vision of Ogata and the villagers of Yotsuka Village who were watching the battle.
The sudden change caused the villagers of Sihe Village to scream one after another.
"Damn it!" Ogata, who was caught off guard by this sudden change, waved his left hand to clear away the white mist that obscured his vision, and quickly rushed to the place where Ma Lian had just stood, then swung his sword - but only hit the air and the white mist.
Where Ma Lian had just stood, there was only air and white mist.
Ogata quickly found a direction, rushed out of the area covered by the white fog, and then moved his eyes to scan the surroundings.
The horse-faced figure was completely invisible.
"Damn it..." Ogata gritted his teeth, "He ran away so fast!"
After a while, the white mist completely dissipated.
After the white mist cleared, Ogata asked the villagers of Yokawa Village:
"Did anyone see which direction that bastard fled just now?"
When the villagers of Shihe Village heard Ogata's question, they looked at each other in confusion.
No one answered Ogata's question.
The white fog just now also enveloped the villagers of Sihe Village, making it impossible for them to see clearly which direction Ma Lian fled to.
At the same time, the villagers of Sihe Village were frightened by the sudden white fog, so they kept screaming.
Because of the interference , Ogata was unable to judge which direction Ma Lian was escaping based on the sound of his footsteps.
"Damn it!" Ogata cursed as he took out some tissue paper to wipe off the remaining blood and fat on the blade, then sheathed the sword.
Although he had lost Ma Lian, Ogata did not intend to let him go so easily.
"Hello!"
Ogata turned his head and looked at the villagers of Shikawa Village.
"Does anyone know where the headquarters of the Negishi family is?" He then asked the villagers of Shikawa Village in a deep voice.
