Volume 4: The Undead Chapter 226: Samurai vs. Ninja (Part 1)

"What are you two doing here?" Chikanosuke frowned slightly and asked Ogata and Atachi who were following closely behind him.
"Please let us go with you." Ating said seriously, "We won't cause you any trouble."
"…Since you are friends of Tenmanji, it's up to you."
"Hey... A-Machi." After Chikanosuke turned his head away, Ogata turned his head slightly and whispered to A-Machi, "Could it be that... you know that Aotaro or Sotaro?"
"...Yeah." A-Machi replied expressionlessly, "After all, they are both ninjas from the same Shiranui clan, so of course they know each other... I didn't expect those two to be captured and brought to this island..."
Chikanosuke, who didn't even have time to change his clothes, rushed out of his house in a hurry, and without any hesitation or stop, he followed the instructions of a young man in the village and rushed to the southeast of the wooden wall.
Along the way, many villagers who had learned that Soutarou and others were coming to ask for rice again approached Chikanosuke with panic on their faces.
Looking at the villagers approaching Chikanosuke, Ogata couldn't help but think to himself:
——Chikanosuke is really popular in Toyowa Village... Whenever they encounter a crisis like this, the villagers will subconsciously come to him...
After Chikanosuke showed up, Ogata clearly felt that the villagers' panic on their faces faded a lot, as if they had seen their backbone.
At the same time, Ogata also felt that the villagers were constantly looking at him and Atachi with doubtful eyes.
Suddenly, there were two strangers behind Chikanosuke whom he had never met before - no matter who they were, they would definitely look confused.
However, because Chikanosuke ignored Ogata and Atachi and they were still following him, and because Sotaro and his gang were waiting for them outside the wall, the villagers were too embarrassed to ask Chikanosuke about Ogata and Atachi.
After quickly rushing to the southeast of the wooden wall, Chikanosuke, Ogata and Atachi who followed closely behind him, and some young people in the village, climbed up a watchtower one after another.
After climbing up the watchtower and looking outside the wall, Ogata clearly saw that a lot of people had gathered outside the wooden wall.
Most of these people were wearing the very familiar armor that the government had distributed to them as prisoners.
——1, 2, 3, 4, 5... 20... 20 people in total... I don't know which one is the Sotaro that Chikanosuke and Atachi just mentioned...
Because the prisoners gathered outside the wall were holding torches for lighting, Ogata could see their number clearly.
Just as Ogata was guessing who Soutarou was, a frivolous voice rang out from the prisoners under the wooden wall:
" Good evening, Master Kinnosuke! We are here to borrow rice from you again!"
"Soutarou...!" Chikanosuke gritted his teeth, and every word seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth, "You bastards! You keep saying you want to borrow rice! But when have you ever paid back the rice?!"
——Is that guy Soutarou…
Ogata looked in the direction of the frivolous male voice.
The owner of this frivolous male voice was of medium height, with a large vertical scar on his face. He was wearing a special black outfit, a kimono with narrow sleeves on the upper body, and a slightly tight hakama on the lower body.
Looking at the black clothes on this person, Ogata raised his eyebrows involuntarily, and then subconsciously looked at Ating beside him.
Because the clothes this person was wearing were very similar in shape to the clothes Ating was wearing.
However, this person's clothes did not expose his shoulders and back like Ating's clothes.
——If the clothes on Atachi are the uniforms of the female ninjas in Shiranui, then the clothes on Soutarou should be the uniforms of the male ninjas in Shiranui...
As Ogata was thinking this in his heart, Soutarou's frivolous voice sounded again:
"Why? Master Chikanosuke, are you unwilling to lend us the rice?"
When Chikanosuke heard what Sotaro said, his expression changed.
He gritted his teeth and was about to say something when a young villager standing behind him roared:
"We are almost out of rice!"
"If we give you more rice, we will all starve to death!"
As soon as the young villager finished speaking, a cold laugh came out of Sotaro's mouth:
"Who cares about you! I don't care how much rice you have left! I just need you to give us enough rice! I don't care about anything else!"
Having said this, Soutarou suddenly paused.
After a moment of silence, he changed to a strange tone and continued:
"But what Mr. Chikanosuke said just now does make sense."
"We have borrowed so much rice from you. If you don't return it, it would be really unreasonable."
"But the rice you lent us has all been covered in shit and urine, so we can't pay you back."
"How about this? I'll give you something else."
After that, Soutarou said to a subordinate beside him:
"Hey, push those three up."
"yes."
After the subordinate responded, he waved to the other two companions, and the three of them ran towards the darkness where the torch light could not reach.
After a while, the three men came back.
Not only did he come back, but he also came back pushing three people.
The three people who were pushed out were all young men without exception.
They were shirtless and their limbs were tied to the four corners of a square table.
The three men's naked upper bodies were covered with numerous shocking scars.
After the three prisoners pushed the three men out from the shadows, Chikanosuke, Ogata and others standing on the watchtower could still see drops of blood dripping down the bodies of the three men.
Looking at these three people, both Chikanosuke and the other villagers behind him had their eyes bloodshot and faces filled with anger.
Soutarou slowly walked up to one of the three men and patted his face.
"These three people... Mr. Chikanosuke, you should be familiar with them, right?"
"They are the other three of the four villagers from your village who went outside the wall to pick wild vegetables a while ago."
"They were just unlucky to run into us."
"Master Chikanosuke, although we cannot return the rice to you, we can return these three people to you."
"There's no point keeping these three people anyway. They have no other use except to vent our anger when we're in a bad mood, so it's not a problem ."
"As long as you hand over the rice tonight, I will return one of these three people to you."
"As for the other two, let's talk about them later."
"Master Chikanosuke, this is a great deal..."
"Soutarou!! Even though you defected to Shiranui, you and Aotaro's scumbag natures haven't changed!!"
Before Soutarou could finish his words, an angry female voice suddenly sounded , interrupting him.
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