Volume 4: The Undead Chapter 227: Samurai vs. Ninja (Part 2)
The sound of this female voice made Soutarou stunned for a moment.
He immediately stopped talking and looked in the direction of the sound.
The owner of the female voice just now was naturally Ating.
Because the view from the watchtower was dim just now, and Soutarou's attention was always on Chikanosuke, Soutarou did not notice that there was a woman standing behind Chikanosuke.
And this woman is an acquaintance of his.
“Aiyah!”
With a look of ecstasy on his face, Soutarou spoke in a frivolous tone to Atachi, who was standing on the watchtower and glaring at him angrily.
"Isn't this Ating? Long time no see!"
"Since my brother and I defected to Shiranui, it has been nearly two years since we last met, right?"
"Why are you here?"
At this point, a strong look of sarcasm appeared on Soutarou's face.
"You are not... coming here to carry out some mission, are you?"
"Hey, hey, hey, isn't it? Isn't the leader too gentle?"
"Two years have passed, and you haven't been assigned as a reward to someone else as a wife, or thrown into the 'Flower House'?"
Sotaro's words just now seemed to have turned on a switch.
As soon as she finished speaking, Ating's hands, which were hanging naturally, suddenly clenched.
Various emotions began to appear on her face. Anger, sadness, unwillingness...
"A-Ming , I have something else to do now." Soutarou waved his hand, "I don't have the time to care about you. Let's catch up after I'm done."
After saying that, Soutarou fixed his gaze on Chikanosuke again.
"I'm sorry, Master Chikanosuke. I just ran into an old friend and accidentally talked to him for a little longer, which delayed my work."
"I'm too lazy to talk nonsense, just hand over the rice quickly!"
"otherwise……"
Soutarou slowly pulled out the wakizashi from his waist and placed the blade of the wakizashi against the neck of the villager closest to him.
"Soutarou!" Chikanosuke, who was already furious, roared, "Put down the knife!"
"Master Chikanosuke." Not only did Soutarou not put down his knife, he also said in a strange tone, "You should remember what happened when we asked you to borrow rice last time and you refused to give it to us, right?"
"As a punishment, we cut one of the four villagers into pieces."
"If you had handed over the rice, the poor boy wouldn't have died so miserably."
"One of the four people has died, and only the three next to me are left."
"So - Master Chikanosuke, you should understand what I'm going to say, right?"
"If you don't want any of the three villagers we have to kill again, be more alert."
"I'm in a hurry to go back to bed, so please hand in the rice quickly."
"Otherwise - every five breaths, I will cut the boy next to me."
"The time starts now."
After saying that, Sotaro cut the back of the villager's neck hard.
“Aaaaaaah——!”
The villager immediately let out a shrill wail.
The place where Sotaro cut was not a vital spot, so he would only feel extreme pain but would not die.
At the same time——Soutarou deliberately slowed down the cutting speed.
He did not cut all at once, but slowed down his speed and cut the villager's skin bit by bit, doubling the pain.
"Hurry up, Master Chikanosuke." Soutarou played with the wakizashi in his hand and made a sword flower. "Two breaths have passed."
On the watchtower, Chikanosuke clenched his fists tightly, as if he wanted to scratch his palms until they bleed.
"Five breaths are almost up, Master Chikanosuke." Soutarou said this in a joking tone, while slowly moving the wakizashi in his hand towards the villager next to him again...
Although the blade had not yet cut his body, the villager's shrill wail had already sounded again due to intense fear.
Listening to the wailing of the villager, Chikanosuke slowly closed his eyes filled with anger and pain, and then -
"...Go." Chikanosuke said softly to a young man behind him, "Bring our rice...hurry up..."
After saying this, Chikanosuke's body, which had been tense due to his clenched fists, suddenly "relaxed", and it was as if all the bones in his body were pulled out.
Just then…
whoosh——!
Chikanosuke suddenly heard a sharp sound of breaking wind in his ears.
A thin black shadow suddenly shot out from the watchtower where Chikanosuke and others were, and attacked Soutarou at an astonishing speed!
Looking at the slender black shadow approaching, Soutarou's pupils suddenly shrank, and then he turned his head to the side according to his body's instinct .
The next moment he turned his head to the side, the thin black shadow brushed past his left cheek and took away some of the flesh on his left cheek.
After brushing past Soutarou's left cheek, the thin black shadow continued to move forward and pierced straight into the ground behind Soutarou.
It was not until the thin black shadow pierced into the ground that Soutarou finally saw the true face of the black shadow - a wakizashi.
Streams of blood flowed out from the cut on Soutarou's cheek.
With a sullen look on his face, Soutarou withdrew his gaze from the wakizashi and looked towards the watchtower.
To be more precise, he was looking at the person on the watchtower who had just thrown the wakizashi - Ogata.
"…Who are you?"
Ogata did not immediately respond to Sotaro's question.
Instead, he first retracted his right hand that had just thrown the wakizashi, then held the sword at his waist, and under the astonished gazes of Chikanosuke, Atachi and others, he directly climbed over the watchtower and jumped down from it.
Bang.
After landing firmly on the ground and standing in front of Soutarou and the others, Ogata spoke in a calm tone without any emotion or color:
"He is no one, just a wanderer who happened to be standing on that watchtower by chance."
"Ronin..." Soutarou's face was already filled with vigilance. "Are they also prisoners thrown onto this island by the shogunate?"
"Ayi!" At this moment, A-Ming on the watchtower shouted anxiously to Ogata who had already jumped off the wall, "What are you going to do?"
"Ayi..." Sotaro frowned slowly, "You and A-Ming know each other?"
"She is my companion and friend." Ogata answered without hesitation.
"...Huh, I see." Soutarou sneered, "Are you planning to teach me a lesson because you think I just said something bad about Atachi?"
"Then you misunderstood. What I just said to A-Ming was not bad, but the truth!"
"I guess A-Machi never told you what kind of existence she is in Shiranui."
