Volume 4: The Undead Chapter 234: Cruel Shiranui (Part 1)
Time goes back to when Ogata and his companions were invited by Chikanosuke to spend the night at Chikanosuke's residence.
According to Chikanosuke, he originally had a wife and a son.
His wife died of illness almost 5 years ago, and his son turned into a cannibal almost half a year ago.
The white-haired man sent the black-haired man Chikanosuke away, and in this huge mansion, there was only a maid who had worked in their family for many years who was still with him - the maid who was knocked unconscious by Atachi after being questioned in the storage room.
As for the maid who was knocked unconscious by Atachi, she woke up slowly not long after Chikanosuke led Ogata, Mamiya and others back to the mansion.
After waking up, I learned from Chikanosuke that the person who knocked me out would stay here for the night, and I almost fainted again...
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"Lord Ogata, Miss Atachi."
Chikanosuke opened the sliding paper door of an empty room on the third floor and spoke to Ogata and Atachi behind him.
"You two can sleep here tonight."
"This room was originally my son's room."
Speaking of this, a hint of nostalgia and sadness appeared on Chikanosuke's face.
"Although this room has not been occupied for a while, I have always asked the maid to clean the room, so the room is still relatively clean."
"I'll have the maid bring the bedding for both of you later."
"Will you let us sleep in your son's room..." Ogata's face showed hesitation, "Will this... not be a good idea? This room carries many memories of your son. This room should be very important to you, right?"
"Hahaha." Chikanosuke laughed heartily a few times, "Don't worry, a room is just a room. The function of a room is for people to live in."
Chikanosuke raised his hand and tapped his forehead.
"I have stored all the memories of my son here. It doesn't matter what this room is like."
"Rest well in this room for one night. I'm quite happy to be able to make this long-abandoned room useful again."
"Well then - I'll ask the maid to bring the bedding over. I'll take my leave now."
After saying that, Chikanosuke left the room without any hesitation and closed the paper sliding door.
Ogata and Atachi were the only ones left in the huge room.
Ogata looked around.
Because this room was originally the room of Chikanosuke's only son, it can be said to be outstanding in both size and luxury.
All kinds of furniture are available, and there is a screen placed in the corner as decoration.
There is also a window in this room.
Faint wailing sounds were constantly coming into the room through the wide-open window.
Ogata walked slowly to the window and looked in the direction of the wailing sounds.
The one who wailed one after another was none other than Soutarou, who had been tied to a wooden pillar by the villagers.
The village doctor Leping of Fenghe Village simply bandaged the wound on Sotaro's broken arm.
After finally waiting for Sotaro's treatment to be completed, the villagers immediately couldn't wait to tie Sotaro tightly to a wooden pillar specially prepared for him, and then beat him wildly with sticks or fists.
Sotaro and others have been asking them for the so-called "borrowing rice" and have kidnapped four young men from their village. One of the young men has been poisoned by them. If the other three young men had not been rescued by Ogata today, they would probably be in danger in the future.
Although Fenghe Village has enclosed itself with wooden walls, it occasionally sends some young people out to pick wild vegetables to ease the food pressure within the walls.
These four young men were caught by Sotaro and his men when they were out picking wild vegetables. As a result, the villagers of Fenghe Village dared not even go out of the wooden walls from then on, and the villagers could not even eat wild vegetables.
In short, Sotaro and his gang committed countless crimes against the villagers of Fenghe Village.
There is not a single villager in Fenghe Village who does not hate Sotaro and his gang.
This guy who was usually extremely arrogant and domineering was now in their hands - naturally they had to "treat" him well.
Over the past year, everyone within the wooden walls has lived a very depressing life.
Now that they have Sotaro as a channel to vent their stress, almost all the villagers come to "warmly greet" Sotaro.
Until now, Soutarou, whose head has been beaten into a pig, is still enjoying the "warm hospitality" of the villagers.
Chikanosuke's residence was some distance away from the wooden pillar to which Soutarou was tied, but even so, Ogata could still hear Soutarou's screams - one can imagine how enthusiastic the villagers were.
After a quick glance at Soutarou outside, Obana withdrew his gaze and looked at Atachi who was taking off her socks in the room.
A-Ming doesn't seem to like wearing socks very much. Once she has the chance to take them off, she will definitely take them off.
"…What are you doing?" After taking off her socks, Atachi cast a helpless look at Ogata who had been staring at her since just now, "I'm just taking off my tabi, not taking off my clothes. Why are you looking at me like this?"
"…A-Machi, I say…" Ogata sighed softly, "Isn't it time for you to cheer up?"
"You've been in a bad mood ever since that Soutarou showed up."
Having said this, Ogata paused abruptly.
Because he suddenly recalled what Sotaro had said to Atachi before...
"A-machi..." Ogata said softly, "Is it because of what that Sotaro said to you that made you unhappy ...?"
“…I guess so.”
Sitting on the tatami, Atachi raised her legs and hugged them.
"That Soutarou said I was a worthless ninja..."
"Although I hate this name, but... I have to admit that this name is not wrong..."
"Ayi... we have been working together for so many days, you should have already vaguely realized it..."
" I... am not a very powerful ninja... Not only am I not powerful, I can be described as very weak and substandard... I don't even have the basic quality that a ninja should have - to abandon my sense of shame."
"If it were any other ninja, they would have run and peed without hesitation when they encountered a situation like the day before yesterday where they had to hold their urine to escape from the cannibals' pursuit..."
"But I couldn't bring myself to do such a thing... and ended up making a joke of peeing on your back..."
"You're also stupid... You and I got the same intelligence at the same time, but you discovered that there was something wrong with Zonghai and the water in Linong River early on."
"But I was so stupid that I didn't notice anything..."
"My abilities are not good enough... Among the four techniques of Shiranui-ryu, except for Jutsu which is quite good, I don't have any technique that is up to standard among us Shiranui..."
