Volume 3 Buddha's Enemy Chapter 130 Casino
" The Negishi family's...headquarters?"
"do you know?"
"I do not know."
"How can I possibly know where the base camp of those guys is..."
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The villagers of Shikawa Village were talking about it, but no one stood up and answered loudly where the headquarters of the Ogata Negishi family was.
"No one knows?" Ogata was a little surprised.
"Sir, samurai..." an old man said to Ogata, "The people of the Negishi family are quite cunning... They never told us where their base is, and we have never studied where their base is..."
"Does anyone know where we can gather information about where the Negishi family's headquarters is?" Ogata asked a different question.
The villagers of Sihe Village started talking again.
The person who answered Ogata this time was a middle-aged woman:
"There is a casino opened by the Negishi family in the neighboring Emoto Village. There are people from the Negishi family guarding it at all times. If you go there, you might be able to find out the location of the Negishi family's headquarters from the people in the casino..."
"Emoto Village? Which direction is this village in?"
"Just go straight in this direction." The middle-aged woman pointed to the southwest.
"Thank you very much."
After thanking the middle-aged woman, Ogata held the knife at his waist and walked quickly in the direction the middle-aged woman pointed.
However, before he had taken a few steps, he was stopped by a familiar voice.
"Master Samurai!"
"It's Yoshiro..."
The owner of this familiar voice is Jilang.
At this time, Yoshiro was holding his daughter, who was still crying on his chest due to the fright.
"Master Samurai! Are you going to the Negishi clan's headquarters?"
"That's right." Ogata answered without hesitation, "Without that money, I can't even afford dinner tonight."
"No way!" Jilang said urgently, "The Negishi family has many people and is powerful. You alone are no match for them!"
"So what?" Oobian said this in a decisive tone just as Yoshiro finished his words.
After saying this, Ogata turned around and walked away without any hesitation, heading towards the village of Erben.
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Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak...
My feet stepped into the snow, making a "creaking" sound.
A young warrior was walking slowly on the flat snow.
She has fair cheeks and a medium to thin build.
She exudes a quiet aura.
Against the backdrop of this quiet atmosphere, he looks less like a warrior wielding swords and guns, and more like a scholar who is well versed in ancient and modern times.
He had his hair in a shag, wore an ordinary kimono and hakama, and an ordinary crimson haori.
Although his clothes and appearance were ordinary, there was something extraordinary on his face.
Such a thing is a pair of glasses that are obviously southern barbaric products.
A samurai wearing glasses walking in the snow - such a sight must be said to be quite rare.
Just as the "bespectacled warrior" was silently rushing towards his destination, he suddenly noticed the sound of hurried footsteps on the snow in the distance to his side.
The "Glass Warrior" looked in the direction of the voice.
In the distance to his right, there was a samurai who looked about the same age as him, with long hair like him, but wearing a light green haori, hurrying forward.
Because the two were quite far apart, and the "samurai on the road" wearing a light green feather robe was concentrating on his journey, he did not notice the existence of the "samurai with glasses".
The "Samurai with Glasses" cast a surprised look through the lenses at the "Samurai on the Road" who was hurrying on the road.
Because the pace of this "traveling warrior" who is hurrying on the road is much faster than that of the warrior with glasses.
So after a while, the "Samurai with Glasses" could only see the "Samurai on the Road"'s back getting smaller and smaller.
Looking at the shrinking figure of the "Traveling Samurai", the "Glassed Samurai" murmured in a calm voice that only he could hear:
"I happened to meet an extraordinary person..."
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Ogata hurried along the direction pointed by the middle-aged woman from Shihe Village.
After running for who knows how long, Ogata finally saw the shadow of a building emerging in front of him.
The area of Emoto Village is much larger than that of Shihe Village.
Judging from the looks of the villagers and the extent of damage to the houses, Emoto Village seemed to be much wealthier than Yokawa Village.
There was no security around Emoto Village.
Even when he swaggered into the village of Emoto, no villager looked at him strangely.
He just glanced at Ogata coldly, and then went on with his own business.
Judging from the villagers' indifferent expressions, they seemed to be quite accustomed to strangers coming in and out of their village.
Ogata randomly found a villager and asked him where the casino was.
The villager that Ogata found was an elderly man.
After hearing that Ogata was actually asking about the location of the casino, the old man sighed softly.
"Master Samurai, are you here to gamble as well?"
"I guess so." Ogata lied casually.
"Master Warrior, I advise you - whether you are here to have fun or to make money, it is better to stay away from our casino."
The old man spoke to Ogata in a sincere tone.
"I have lived in this village for many years."
“Every year I see countless people flocking to our village, hoping to get rich through gambling.”
"But without exception, they all lost everything they had."
"Some people even lost so much that they had to sell their children."
“You can’t get rich by gambling.”
"Once you sit at the gambling table, no one wants to leave with nothing. They will keep gambling, gambling, gambling until there is nothing left to bet."
"So I advise you to leave here as soon as possible."
"Thank you for your kindness, old man." Ogata bowed slightly to the kind old man, "But I have made up my mind."
"You... Oh, forget it." The old man sighed as if he had given up. "Young people are like this. They only regret it after they fall down... Since you insist on gambling, I won't stop you."
After saying that, the old man pointed behind him.
"Just go straight in this direction and then turn right at the first corner and you'll see the casino."
After pointing out the direction to Ogata, the old man seemed too lazy to pay any more attention to Ogata and just walked away without saying a word.
After watching the old man who had kindly advised him not to gamble leave, Ogata muttered :
"A lot of people come to this village to gamble every year... No wonder the villagers here look like they are used to it when they see a ronin like me entering their village..."
