Volume 3 Buddha's Enemy Chapter 154: The Executioner and the Ghost (Part 1)
"...Go!" Imai ordered the two subordinates beside him in a deep voice, "Tie up Mamiya Kuro!"
"yes!"
The two officers standing on the left and right sides of Imai immediately stepped forward, stood on the left and right sides of Mamiya, twisted Mamiya's hands behind his back, and then tied Mamiya's hands tightly with a thick and long hemp rope, and then took Mamiya in front of Imai.
"Mamiya Kuro." Imai cast a vicious look at Mamiya, "I don't know what you are up to."
"But now that we have let you fall into our hands, we will not let you go!"
"We will torture you slowly and continuously until you reveal all the information about the 'Buddha Enemy'!"
“I see…”
After quietly listening to Imai's horrifying words, Mamiya remained calm, as if he didn't take Imai's words to heart at all.
"Then I'm really scared."
At the end, he did not forget to say this to Imai in a tone that carried a hint of sarcasm.
"Take Mamiya Kuro away!" Imai seemed to be angered by Mamiya's slight sarcasm, and ordered his subordinates in an irritable tone, "Also, take the two swords that Mamiya just threw on the ground!"
"yes!"
"Oh, right." Mamiya, who was about to be escorted out of the room by the officers, turned his head and looked at Imai, "I still don't know how you guys caught up with me here? How did you know I was in the Negishi family's base? And - how did you know I was also in the Tatsuno domain?"
Hearing Mamiya's question, a smug look appeared on Imai's face.
"Mamiya, you acted very cautiously, but you missed a step - Lord Hasegawa and I both know what the wounds caused by your unique skill, 'Divine Light', look like."
As soon as Imai
"I see... It seems I really miscalculated... I shouldn't have used the 'Divine Light' when I killed those guards at the casino yesterday."
"That's right. Mamiya Kuro, this is your only and biggest mistake."
"We recognized that one of the casino guards was killed by your 'Divine Light', so we naturally know that besides 'Buddha Enemy', you, as his subordinate, are also here."
"Now that I know you're here, it'll be easy."
"We know what you look like. We can just go around looking for the samurai wearing glasses."
"This morning, I heard from an old lady in Matsumachi that a samurai wearing glasses and a samurai wearing a light green haori were heading to the yurt."
"That's why we were able to reach the outpost in time and set up a siege."
"As for how we know you are now at the Negishi family's base, that's even simpler."
"We don't know why 'Buddha Enemy' and you came to the Tatsuno Domain."
"But you massacred the casino run by the Negishi family yesterday. This is information that is worth further investigation for us."
"Lord Hasegawa boldly speculated that the reason why 'Buddha' and you came to the Tatsuno Domain is most likely related to the Negishi family."
"So as early as last night, we asked the family elder of the Tatsuno Domain for the location of the Negishi family's headquarters, and then sent people to guard outside this mansion early."
"They have only one mission - if they see the 'Buddha Enemy' or you near the Negishi family's base camp, they should immediately report to us."
"Just now, when you and your companion wearing the light green feather cloth charged towards this mansion, the sentry we deployed here immediately ran back to Matsumachi to report to us."
"After receiving the report from the sentry, we rushed over quickly."
"Now that I think about it, we have to thank these 'Yakuza' of the Negishi family."
"If they hadn't held you back, buying us enough time to arrive, you would have slipped away again!"
"So that's how it is..." After listening to Imai's explanation quietly, Mamiya let out a long sigh, then sighed softly, "You guys have figured it out perfectly..."
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Before Imai led his men to the third floor—
"It's not Mamiya Kuro..."
The middle-aged man standing in front of the officers muttered softly and asked Ogata:
"It's a new face I haven't seen before... Are you the new companion of 'Buddha Enemy'?"
"'Buddhist enemy'?" Ogata raised his eyebrows. "If the 'Buddhist enemy' you are referring to is Oda Nobunaga from the Warring States Period, then of course I am not one of them."
"How could I be a companion of the 'Sixth Heavenly Demon King' who has been dead for two hundred years?"
"You don't seem to know who 'Buddha's enemy' is..." The middle-aged man looked Ogata up and down several times, "Looking closely... I seem to have seen you somewhere before... Who are you? Tell me your name!"
As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking, a young man standing behind him shouted.
"Ju, what's the matter?"
"Master Hasegawa! I remembered who this person is!"
The young man, called "Orange" by the middle-aged man, took out a large stack of papers from his arms and began to search through them.
"Master Hasegawa! That's him! This is the wanted poster for this man!"
As Tachibana spoke, he pulled out a piece of paper from the stack and handed it to Hasegawa.
"He is the 'Executioner Ittosai' Ogata Yoshisei who assassinated the lord of Hirose Domain last autumn and slaughtered all of the lord's hundreds of guards!"
The middle-aged man took the wanted poster handed over by Tachibana, looked at the wanted poster in his hand, and then looked at Ogata in front of him.
"...So you are 'Executioner Ittosai'."
As the middle-aged man
"No wonder I always feel like I've seen you somewhere."
"I've taken a look at your wanted poster."
"But since you are not the thief that our fire thief group is responsible for, we did not pay attention to you."
From beginning to end, Ogata looked at the officials in front of him with a vigilant look.
"...The young man just now called you 'Hasegawa-sama'."
Ogata asked the middle-aged man.
"Are you the leader of the Fire Thieves Kai, Hasegawa Heizo?"
"That's right." The middle-aged man responded without hesitation, "I am Hasegawa Heizo. If you find it troublesome to call my name, you can just call me 'Onihei'."
"I wonder why the fire thief Kai, who is responsible for catching thieves and arsonists, is here?" Ogata asked Hasegawa again, this time with a joking tone, "You are responsible for catching arsonists and thieves, why are you here to care about a murderer like me?"
