Volume 3 Buddha's Enemy Chapter 135 Familiar Wounds
"… I'm sorry, Ogata-kun."
Mamiya gave Ogata a faint bitter smile.
"I can't tell you my true identity yet."
"But I can tell you plainly - I have no ill will towards you."
"I am very interested in you who has achieved the feat of killing a hundred enemies."
"Although I am not afraid of the Negishi family, I am also happy to find someone to assist me."
"I sincerely want to cooperate with you to find the Negishi family's base camp."
Having said this, Jian Gong paused.
After a pause, he added:
"And - Ogata-kun, if I really had any ill will towards you, I would have had countless opportunities to kill you with one blow since I met you."
"I didn't draw my sword against you, I walked side by side with you, and I talked and laughed with you - this should be the most powerful evidence that I have no ill will towards you, right?"
After listening to Mamiya's words quietly, Ogata remained silent.
After a long while, Ogata quietly took his hand off the hilt of the sword...
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That evening——
It's a sunny night.
The slender crescent moon peeks at the village of Emoto tenderly and affectionately.
The moonlight shone through the cracks in the clouds like a white blade, illuminating Shizuko's face.
The village of Emoto is quite lively tonight.
After receiving the news that "a ronin had killed someone", the relatives and friends of the Tatsuno clan hurried to the Emoto Village.
All outsiders in the area surrounding the casino have been expelled.
Only the Yuli and Tongxin people in uniforms were walking in and out of this casino filled with a strong smell of blood.
Fujino Soichi - one of the most senior members of the Tatsuno clan.
Although he is the most experienced officer, he has never handled many major cases in his life.
Those troublesome cases were basically pushed by Fujino to his subordinates.
Fujino would only personally handle cases where there was a lot of money to be made.
The pot-bellied Fujino, with his big belly bulging, led several of his subordinates and walked into the casino with a knife in hand.
As soon as he entered the casino, the smell of blood made Fujino frown.
"Quick! Lantern! Quick!"
Fujino waved his fat fingers rudely.
At Fujino's command, the fellow behind him hurriedly raised the lanterns in their hands, stepped into the casino and lit up the place.
Thanks to the light from the lanterns, Fujino was finally able to see the scene inside the casino clearly.
It would have been better if he didn't see it clearly. Once he saw the scene inside the casino, a strong feeling of nausea immediately surged from Fujino's stomach.
There were a total of 6 bodies in the casino.
Each corpse had their eyes wide open.
Looking at the wide-open eyes of the corpses, Fujino felt extremely uncomfortable and almost vomited out the dinner he had just eaten.
Covering his mouth with his right hand, he took several deep breaths and suppressed the urge to vomit. Only then did Fujino dare to look at each corpse again.
"hiss……"
Fujino gasped.
"So many people were killed...it seems there are many murderers..."
As Fujino finished his murmur, a strange male voice suddenly sounded behind him:
"No, these people were all killed by the same person."
As soon as this male voice, which was extremely unfamiliar to Fujino, fell, Fujino widened his eyes full of confusion and looked behind him.
Behind him stood a middle-aged man who had never been seen before, wearing a black uniform.
Behind this middle-aged man stood a dozen people who were also wearing the same black uniform. The words "Fire Thief" were written on the lanterns in their hands.
Fujino didn't recognize who these people in black were.
But he recognized who the man standing next to these "men in black" was.
The man standing next to this group of "men in black" was one of the three elders of their Tatsuno domain - Sano Munenori.
Seeing the family elder here, Fujino hurriedly bowed and greeted him.
The leader of this group of "men in black" - the middle-aged man who just said "all these people were killed by the same person" turned his head and said to Sano Munenori:
"Master, could you please ask the officials from your clan to leave here for the time being?"
"Lord Hasegawa, that's certainly no problem," Sano said readily.
The lord of the Tatsuno domain has only one task given to Sano these days - to represent their Tatsuno domain and do his best to cooperate with the fire thieves led by Hasegawa Heizo.
Therefore, Sano not only had to go out of the city to welcome Hasegawa and others when they arrived at Tatsuno Domain.
When Hasegawa and others settled in Tatsuno Domain and started their search, Sano had to follow up throughout the process and give them all the help that Tatsuno Domain could give.
Sano waved his hand, signaling Fujino to lead his subordinates away quickly.
Fujino was also very sensible. He didn't ask any questions or do anything extra. He quickly led his subordinates out of the casino.
After Fujino and others left the gambling house, the leader of this gang of "men in black" - Hasegawa Heizo - waved his hand, and several police officers who had been transformed from fire thieves behind him immediately entered the gambling house holding their lanterns with the word "fire thief" written on them.
The positions of these officials who were responsible for carrying lanterns for lighting were quite particular.
The positions where they were standing were just enough for the light from the lanterns in their hands to illuminate every corner of the casino.
"Lord Sano, please wait outside for a moment."
"Of course, I understand the rules. I will never interfere with your inspection of the murder scene, Master Hasegawa."
After instructing Sano not to follow him in, Hasegawa slowly walked into the casino, holding the knife.
Hasegawa's right-hand man, Imai Sho, followed closely behind.
Hasegawa stood in the center of the casino, looking around every corner of the casino.
He placed his left hand on the hilt of the katana and his right hand on the wrist of his left hand.
Seeing Hasegawa make this move, Imai standing next to him held his breath out of habit and breathed more lightly.
Because Imai understood that this was Hasegawa's habitual action.
Once Hasegawa enters a thinking state, he will make this move.
So in order not to disturb Hasegawa's thinking, after seeing Hasegawa make this move, Imai would subconsciously slow down his breathing and do his best to reduce the disturbance to Hasegawa.
Hasegawa took a look at the barnacle that was cut in half and the six dice scattered on the ground.
Then he looked at the young man who was killed with a single blow, and it was obvious at a glance that it was Hu Zhen.
Looking at Hu Zhen's injured little finger , Hasegawa narrowed his eyes slightly.
Finally, he took another look at the four men holding knives, who must be the guards of this casino.
Hasegawa's gaze stayed on one of the guards for an unusually long time...
Because the wound on this guard's body was too familiar to Hasegawa...
