Volume 3 Buddha's Enemy Chapter 140: Two Groups
In the Tatsuno Domain, in a certain mountain.
In the mountains that should have been uninhabited, there stands an abrupt three-story magnificent mansion.
Candlelight shone through the windows of the cabin.
The sounds of conversation and laughter continued to echo from the cabin.
"Hahahaha! Drink! Drink!"
"Is this little bit of wine not enough?"
"Hey! The wine is gone! Bring more wine!"
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
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On the top floor of this magnificent mansion, a group of people were having a lively banquet.
This magnificent mansion was the headquarters of the Negishi family, which made the common people of Tatsuno Domain shudder with fear.
The people having a banquet on the top floor of the mansion were the head .
The head of the Negishi family loves to hold banquets in the evening.
Gathering all the main members of the family together to have fun like tonight is a common scene in this mansion.
The middle-aged man with a big belly sitting at the head of the banquet was the head of the Negishi family - Negishi Naomasa.
Just as Negishi Nao was happily raising the wine jug in his hand and pouring the wine into his mouth in big gulps, anxious footsteps suddenly sounded outside the room.
Snapped.
The paper sliding door of the room was opened.
A young man kneeling on one knee by the door said to Negishi Naomasa and others in the room in an anxious tone:
"Boss! Something happened! Something happened in the casino in Emoto Village!"
The young man's loud shout instantly stopped the conversation and laughter in the room.
Negishi Naomasa frowned and asked in a deep voice:
"what happened?"
"The guards of the casino in Bingben Village, Hu Zhen and Zhong Pen were all killed!"
As soon as the young man who came to report the news finished speaking, exclamations and gasps of surprise and disbelief rang out in the room.
"They were all killed?" Negishi Naomasa's face darkened instantly. "Tell me in detail what happened!"
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The young man who came to report the news was very eloquent.
In just a few words, he recounted to everyone in the room what had happened in the casino in Bingben Village today.
"I see..." Negishi Nao said to himself, "Was he killed by someone... What did that person look like?"
"We don't know yet!" the young man answered immediately, "There are no survivors at the scene , but I have asked my men to look for gamblers who went to the casino in Emoto Village today! Those gamblers who were there then and are still here should remember what the guy who killed our people looks like!"
"...Boss." A sturdy man with a long scar on his face who was sitting to the right of Negishi Naomasa said to Negishi Naomasa in a serious tone, "Do you think this guy is an outsider who doesn't know the rules, or... is he here to seek revenge?"
"...I don't know." Negishi Naomasa replied in a deep voice, "No matter if he is a foreigner who doesn't know the rules, or a fool who comes here to seek revenge. Anyway - find him for me first."
"Young ones!"
Negishi Naomasa shouted in a powerful voice.
As soon as he shouted, his subordinates immediately put down their wine bowls and sat up straight.
"Go down and tell everyone down there! All the sword-bearing warriors who are unfamiliar to you should be alert! Be prepared!"
"If you encounter a warrior you don't recognize, come back and report to me immediately!"
"Yes!" All the subordinates in the room shouted in unison.
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The next morning,
Last night, Ogata and Mamiya randomly found an inn.
Ogata and Mamiya each had a room - of course, Mamiya helped pay for Ogata's room.
As soon as the sun rose completely from the horizon, Ogata and Mamiya walked out of the inn one after the other.
"So..." Ogata turned his head and asked Mamiya beside him, "What should we do today? Where should we go to find information about the Negishi family?"
"Well, of course we're going to look for information at the stores owned by the Negishi family. But before that, let's go have breakfast. Is there anything you'd like to eat?"
“I can eat anything.”
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"Ogata, we're here."
Ogata and Mamiya, who had casually eaten some glutinous rice dumplings for breakfast, were standing not far in front of a slightly dilapidated wooden house located in a remote area.
Just after breakfast, Mamiya led Ogata straight to this wooden house.
Looking at the slightly dilapidated wooden house in front of him, Ogata asked:
"Is this house another casino of the Negishi family?"
"No." Mamiya answered immediately, "Although it is not the Negishi family's casino, it is another type of store opened by the Negishi family."
"Ogata-kun, do you know how the 'Yakuza' like the Negishi family make their money? "
“I don’t know.”
Mamiya held up three fingers.
"I make money mainly from gambling, women and money lending."
"And this house is the recreational area opened by the Negishi family."
"Ogata-kun, we will split into two groups today."
"You go into the playground, I'll stay outside."
"……ha?"
After being silent for a long while, Ogata tilted his head and looked at Mamiya with a look as if to ask, "Did I hear something wrong?"
"Sorry, I didn't seem to explain it clearly just now..."
"Ogata-kun, we destroyed the casino that the Negishi family had set up in Emoto Village yesterday. How do you think the head of the Negishi family would react after hearing the news?"
"They will definitely be alerted and remind all the major stores below to pay more attention to unfamiliar people with swords."
"If a stranger like you were to step into the brothel run by the Negishi family, what do you think would happen?"
"I think there is a high possibility that the managers of the roaming camp will run back to their base camp to report the news."
"So you go into the game area and serve as bait."
" And I stayed outside and followed the people who returned to their base camp to report the news."
"…What if no one goes out to report the news?" Ogata asked in return.
"Then we can only consider it as bad luck." Mamiya shrugged.
"…Why am I the bait and not you?"
"Do you know how to track?"
"Then do you understand?"
"I once learned some tracking-related ninjutsu in the Kai region."
"How much have you learned?"
"Anyway - let's stop here for the small talk."
After saying this, Mamiya took out a large gold coin from his bosom and stuffed it into Ogata's pocket.
"Here, this money is for you to use. Go ahead. I'll hide nearby and monitor what's going on in this brothel."
Ogata looked at the large gold coin that Mamiya stuffed into his hand with a complicated expression.
Ogata discovered yesterday that Mamiya seemed to be extremely rich.
When gambling in a casino, the big judge will give you the money as soon as he says so.
When going to the bathhouse to take a bath, Mamiya just threw out a large piece of gold, making the bathhouse owner work very hard to find the money.
And now he casually threw a large sum of money to Ogata to go to the brothel to find a woman...
Ogata looked at the large gold in his hand, and then looked at the Yukou not far away.
"Ogata-kun, what's wrong?" Mamiya, who noticed something strange about Ogata, asked Ogata.
"...I'll tell you, don't laugh at me..."
"I... have never been to a place like this before." Ogata hesitated, "What should I say and do after I go in?"
