Volume 3 Buddha's Enemy Chapter 131 Mamiya Kuro
Ogata followed the old man's instructions, walked straight ahead, and then turned right at the first corner.
After turning right around the corner, a large wooden house with noisy sounds coming out of it appeared in front of Ogata.
This wooden house was larger than any other building Ogata had seen since entering the village of Emoto.
There were two white curtains hanging at the door.
Even though the distance was still quite far, Ogata could still clearly hear the incessant noise coming from the wooden house.
——This should be the casino...
Ogata thought to himself.
Ogata, hiding in the dark, looked at the casino opened by the Negishi family, while silently thinking about how to collect information about the location of the Negishi family's headquarters.
Just as Ogata was thinking about whether to go into the casino first and find someone who looked high-ranking to negotiate in a more peaceful way, or just rush in with a sword drawn and loudly ask "Who is the manager?", a strange male voice suddenly sounded from behind Ogata:
"The executioner Ittosai."
Before the strange male voice had completely fallen, Ogata's pupils suddenly shrank.
Ogata instinctively jumped forward, distanced himself from the person behind him, and quickly placed his right hand on the hilt of the katana at his left waist.
After putting some distance between himself and the person behind him, Ogata looked towards the source of the sound.
Behind where Ogata had just stood, stood a young samurai who looked about the same age as him.
She has fair skin and a pretty face.
She was wearing an ordinary kimono, hakama, and a crimson haori.
On his nose was a pair of glasses, which was quite rare in that era.
She exudes a quiet temperament.
In terms of temperament, this guy is more like a scholar than a warrior.
Seeing Ogata quickly distance himself from him and get ready for a fight, the guy, who had originally had a blank expression , suddenly had a faint smile on his face.
"From your reaction...it seems that you are indeed the famous 'Executioner Ittosai'."
"Who are you?" Ogata asked in a deep voice, "Are you also... here to take my head?"
After saying this, Ogata closed the five fingers of his right hand that were pressing on the hilt of the katana, gripped the hilt tightly, and prepared to draw the sword and fight at any time.
Ogata now felt cold sweat coming out on his forehead.
I thought to myself:
——This guy…when did he come behind me just now…!
The bespectacled samurai came so close to Ogata, but Ogata didn't notice at all.
The more Ogata thought about it, the more scared he became.
If the bespectacled warrior had not come to talk to him but had directly drawn his sword to chop at him, he would definitely not have been able to react...
Hearing Ogata's question, the "glasses samurai" raised his hands slightly and showed Ogata his empty palms.
"I have no ill intentions."
"I'm not here to take your head."
"I just saw your face on a wanted poster a while ago, so I recognized you."
"I happened to meet you in this place. I became interested in you, so I wanted to talk to you."
"My last name is Mamiya, my given name is Jiulang, please give me your guidance."
Ogata looked up and down at the man who called himself Mamiya Kuro.
After confirming that this person had no murderous intent and indeed did not emit any malicious intent, Ogata slowly loosened his hand that was tightly gripping the hilt of the katana.
"I am Ogata Yoshisei. Please give me your guidance."
"Ogata-kun." Mamiya glanced at the casino run by the Negishi family. "You were looking at this casino just now. Do you want to go there to play a few games? Or do you want to go there to make some money?"
"What I want to do has nothing to do with you, right?" Ogata responded in a cold tone.
"If you have something to ask the Negishi family, Ogata-kun, then it has something to do with me."
"Oh?" Ogata raised his eyebrows, "What do you mean?"
"I have some grudge against the local Negishi family... so I came all the way here to settle accounts with the Negishi family."
"It's just that - I don't know where the Negishi family headquarters is located ."
"So I came here specially to collect some information from the casino opened by the Negishi family."
After Mamiya finished speaking, Ogata chuckled a few times and said:
"That's a coincidence. I have a grudge against the Negishi family, and I also want to recruit them to the Negishi family's headquarters."
"And because I didn't know where the Negishi family's headquarters was, I came here specifically, intending to go into their casino to find someone from the Negishi family to inquire about the whereabouts of their headquarters."
"Oh?" A look of surprise flashed across Mamiya's face, "That's really a coincidence."
Having said this, Mamiya paused.
After a little thought, Mamiya made a proposal to Ogata.
"Ogata-kun, since we both have the same goal, how about we cooperate? Let's work together to find the base camp of the Negishi family."
"Oh?" Ogata shrugged. "Since you know that I'm 'The Executioner Itosai', do you dare to cooperate with a wanted criminal like me?"
"Why would I be afraid?" Mamiya said without hesitation, "If I were afraid of this kind of thing, I wouldn't have come to talk to you in the first place."
Mamiya once again cast his gaze towards the casino in the distance.
"Anyway - let's go into the casino now."
"If the two of us stand here for too long, it will easily arouse suspicion from others."
After saying that, Mamiya held the knife at his waist and walked slowly towards the gambling house.
After hesitating for a moment, Ogata quickly followed.
After Ogata caught up, Mamiya said to him:
"Do you agree to cooperate with me?"
"No. I just happen to want to go to the casino to collect information just like you."
"Ogata-kun, there are techniques for gathering intelligence in a gambling house."
"To gather intelligence in a gambling den, you must first pretend to be a gambler."
"Only by pretending to be a gambler and entering the casino can you avoid alerting the casino staff."
"Then, while gambling, he secretly observed the location of the casino manager and thugs."
"Are you going to pretend to be a gambler..." Ogata muttered, "I don't know how to gamble... Mamiya, do you know how to gamble?"
"I once learned to gamble in the Owari area."
As they were talking, the two of them just happened to walk in front of the door curtain of the gambling house.
Mamiya, who was walking in front, pulled aside the white door curtain and stepped into the casino.
And Ogata followed closely behind.
The next moment you step into the casino, noise and heat burst out.
The casino was unusually hot, and the mixture of heat and "male odor" made Ogata feel suffocated.
The casino was more spacious than Ogata had imagined.
Dozens of gamblers were either kneeling or sitting cross-legged on cushions.
Opposite the gambler sits Hu Zhen, who is responsible for rolling the dice.
There were several large pieces of paper placed on the wooden floor between Hu Zhen and the gambler.
There were several large pieces of paper with "Odd" and "Even" written on them.
