Volume 3 Buddha's Enemy Chapter 134 Who Are You?
Mamiya, who still looked calm, silently crossed his hands and put them into the sleeves of his haori.
"It is your casino that is dishonest."
Mamiya asked back softly.
"Why is it that now it seems as if we are wrong?"
"Stop talking nonsense!" another guard responded rudely, "This is how it is in all casinos! Do you have any objections?! You bastard, you ruined our business, so you should compensate us with your life!"
The four guards who surrounded Ogata and Mamiya from four directions clenched their swords tightly.
The atmosphere at the scene instantly became tense and filled with murderous intent...
Ogata, expressionless, silently reached for his left waist...
at this time--
laugh!
The sound of a sharp weapon hitting flesh rang out beside Ogata .
Mamiya, who was originally kneeling quietly on the futon, suddenly jumped up.
The moment he stood up, he used the sword-drawing technique!
Although Mamiya's movements were so fast, there was no sound at all when the blade was unsheathed.
The blade swept towards the casino guard closest to him at a breathtaking speed.
The blade swept across the guard's vitals, splashing a large amount of blood.
After beheading the guard with a sword-drawing technique that was so fast that it was suffocating, Mamiya did not stop at all.
The sword flashed three times.
The sharp blade slashed at the other three guards at different angles .
First, he slashed horizontally, cutting the throat of a guard.
Then he switched from the horizontal slash to a diagonal chop, cutting from a guard's left shoulder to his right abdomen.
Finally, he used an upward slash to knock the last guard to the ground.
A clean 4 cut.
Every strike of the sword hit the guards' vital points accurately.
After dealing with all four guards, Mamiya seemed to remember something and let out a soft "ah".
"Ogata-kun."
Mamiya looked at Ogata.
"I'm sorry, you won't blame me for not leaving two people for you, right?"
“…No.” Ogata cast a helpless look at Mamiya, “How could I blame you for such a boring thing…”
"That's good. There's a fellow among my companions who loves fighting. If he were you, he would have been clamoring by now, blaming me for not leaving a few people for him."
As Mamiya spoke, he swung the knife in his right hand downward with force, shaking off the blood that was attached to the blade.
Then he turned his head and looked at Hu Zhen and Zhong Pen, who were terrified and slumped on the ground.
"Hey, let me ask you."
Mamiya raised the katana in his right hand and pointed the tip of the katana at Hu Zhen.
Just now, when Mamiya used the sword-drawing technique to cut Fujitsubo in half, he also cut the little finger of Tsubo's right hand.
However, Mamiya did not cut off Hu Zhen's right little finger, he just scraped off a little bit of the flesh on the little finger of Hu Zhen's right hand.
"You two should be from the Negishi family, right? Where is the Negishi family's headquarters?"
As soon as Mamiya finished speaking, Hu Zhen, whose face was already covered with tears and snot, immediately cried out:
"I don't know! I'm not from the Negishi family! I'm just a person hired by the Negishi family to roll the dice! I don't know where the Negishi family's headquarters is!"
Mamiya turned his head and looked towards the middle basin.
"What about you? Do you know where the Negishi family's headquarters is?"
"I don't know!" Zhongben shook his head quickly, "I am just a person hired by the Negishi family! I am not a member of the Negishi family!"
After hearing the answers from the two people, Mamiya sighed with a hint of helplessness.
"Mamiya." Ogata asked Mamiya, "Do you think what these two people said is true?"
"It should be true." Mamiya said softly, "I don't think they dare to lie to me when facing the threat of death. It seems that we came at the wrong time. There happens to be no management personnel of the Negishi family in the casino right now."
After hearing what Mamiya said, Ogata also sighed helplessly:
"That means our trip to the casino was in vain... What should we do next?"
"...Anyway," Mamiya said after a moment of silence, "Let's leave here first. We've made such a big commotion, the Yoriki and Doshin of the Tatsuno clan will be here soon."
"Before I resolve the feud with the Negishi family, I don't want to be entangled with the power and unity of the Tatsuno clan."
After saying that, Mamiya once again turned his gaze to Hu Zhen and Zhong Pen.
"There is no grudge between us."
Mamiya whispered to Hu Zhen and Zhong Pen.
"But if you two are allowed to live, our existence might be revealed to the Yoriki and Doshin of the Tatsuno Domain ."
"If Tatsuno Domain's Yoriki and Doshin knew that the guy who killed these casino guards was a samurai wearing glasses, it would cause a lot of trouble for our future actions."
Upon hearing what Mamiya said, Hu Zhen and Zhong Pen's faces turned pale instantly.
The two of them cried out:
"No! I won't tell Yuli and Tongxin anything!"
"I'll keep it a secret! I won't tell Yoriki and Tongshin anything about you two!"
…
However - no matter how the two cried and shouted, Mamiya remained expressionless and unmoved.
"Remember my face. If you become a ghost after death, remember to come and seek my life. I will kill you two once more."
After saying that, Mamiya swung his sword twice...
…
…
"Ogata-kun, let's go."
After wiping the blood and fat off the blade with the paper he carried with him and sheathing the knife, Mamiya walked out of the casino while speaking to Ogata.
Ogata followed Mamiya with an expressionless face, and they left the casino, which was now filled with the smell of blood, one after another.
After walking out of the casino, fresh air immediately hits you in the face.
After getting used to the turbid air in the casino, Ogata now only felt that the air outside smelled particularly comfortable.
"What should we do now?" Ogata asked Mamiya.
"Let's go to Matsutsumi."
"Matsumachi?"
"It's a small town in the Tatsuno Domain. If we walk from here, we can arrive just before dark."
"Let's stop here for today. Let's go to Matsutsumi and find an inn to rest for the night. We'll continue looking for information about the Negishi family tomorrow."
After saying that, Mamiya took the lead and walked towards the north.
After hesitating for a moment, Ogata followed.
The two walked side by side at the same speed.
Without saying a word, the two left Emoto Village.
After leaving Emoto Village, Ogata suddenly asked Mamiya beside him in a calm tone that was neither salty nor bland:
"Mamiya, who are you?"
As Ogata spoke, he silently placed his left hand on the guard of the katana at his left waist.
Mamiya answered without hesitation: "Just an ordinary ronin."
"The swordsmanship you just displayed and the way you killed people with such a swift move are not ordinary at all."
Ogata tightened his left hand slightly on the katana's guard...
