Volume 4: The Undead Chapter 236 Giants Attack
Just like before, after staring at the left side of Atachi's face for a long time, Ogata turned his finger towards himself.
"Look at me next."
Seeing that Ogata was reluctant to tell her what he was going to do, Atachi was too lazy to ask Ogata this question again.
After Ogata asked her to look directly at him, Atachi obediently turned her head and looked at each other face to face with Ogata.
Oobe stared at Atachi's face expressionlessly.
Ogata just looked at Atachi silently, neither doing anything else unnecessary nor saying a word.
After a long silence,
"ha."
A sudden chuckle broke the silent atmosphere.
Then he whispered:
"After looking at it, it turns out that your front face is the most beautiful."
"Huh?"
A-Ming felt her face getting hot at a rapid speed.
While she was still at a loss for words and didn't know how to respond, Ogata continued softly:
“I don’t know what other people think of you.”
"But to me, Ogata Issei, you have never looked ugly."
“So - when you think you are ugly in the future, or when others say you are ugly, just tell yourself: no matter what, there will always be a ronin named Ogata Yoshisei who will always think you are beautiful and will never think you are ugly.”
"...How come you are so good at saying these coaxing words?" After a short silence, Ating said in a sullen tone, "You didn't always use these words to coax women in places like brothels, did you?"
"No," Ogata said hastily.
Ogata's hasty explanation seemed to amuse Atachi.
After covering her mouth and laughing a few times, Atachi said to Ogata with a faint smile:
"……Thank you."
The smile on Ating's face at this moment no longer carried traces of bitterness like before.
"Ayi, I am very happy to hear what you said just now, whether it was sincere or false..."
"Women are so innocent." Ating changed her tone to a half-joking one. "As long as someone compliments you on your beauty, you will feel happy regardless of whether the other person is flattering you or not."
"Anyway...thank you..."
"You're welcome. After all, I was just telling the truth..."
Bang.
"Huh?" Ogata raised his eyebrows after suddenly hearing a strange sound coming from outside the window.
Bang.
There was another muffled sound outside the window, exactly the same as before.
This time the muffled sound was louder than the previous one.
Both Ogata and Atachi frowned slightly and cast doubtful glances toward the window.
Judging from the loudness of this strange sound, it seems that something heavy is hitting something solid...
It seems to be coming from somewhere far away...
…
…
at the same time--
The base of Aotaro and others.
"Come! New here! Drink!"
Aotaro put a small wooden tube into the arms of Shichiemon beside him.
The liquid in the small wooden cylinder, which is only as high as an adult's index finger, is continuously emitting a faint smell of alcohol.
"What is this...?" Shichiemon hesitated.
"This is rice wine that we made from the rice we borrowed from Fenghe Village." Qingtaro did not hide anything, "Have a drink!"
"Then... I won't be polite..."
After drinking the rice wine in the wooden barrel, the long-lost aroma of wine immediately filled Shichiemon's mouth.
Although he had just joined this organization headed by the brothers Aotaro and Soutarou, Shichiemon had already gotten to know Aotaro's temperament a little bit in this short period of time.
Aotaro's most obvious character trait is probably his enthusiasm and generosity.
His enthusiasm and generosity were so great that even Shichiemon was a little surprised.
After Shichiemon and his group of newcomers joined them, Aotaro greeted them warmly and offered them rice wine.
Shichiemon didn't dislike such a passionate and generous person.
Not only do I not hate it, I actually like it a little bit.
Because these people are often easier to talk to, and you can get a lot of the information you want from them.
Shichiemon has already collected a lot of information from Aotaro.
For example: In Qingtaro's current organization, only he and Sotaro were the first batch of prisoners to land on the island. They were thrown onto the island around the beginning of December last year and have been staying on this broken island for more than four months. The rest of the people are basically prisoners from the second and third batches.
And - although Qingtaro's current organization has a large number of people, there are still few people who know how to fight.
Including Aotaro and Sotaro, there are probably less than 10 people who have learned martial arts.
Seeing that his relationship with Aotaro had become more familiar, Shichiemon decided to find out some more private information from Aotaro.
"Master Aotaro." Shichiemon put down the small wooden tube in his hand, "Why did you gather so many people? You gathered so many people, could it be to facilitate the attack on that Fenghe Village and occupy the land protected by the wooden wall?"
"How is that possible?" Qing Tailang sneered without thinking, "What's the point of occupying that piece of broken land?"
"I gathered so many people not to better survive on this island, but to escape from this island."
After taking a big gulp of rice wine, Aotaro continued to speak while facing Shichiemon's puzzled gaze:
"I plan to steal the shogunate's ship! And then escape from this damn place on the shogunate's ship!"
"Rob the shogunate's ship?!" Shichiemon exclaimed.
"This damn place doesn't even have a ship that can go out to sea. If you want to leave here, you can only rob the shogunate's ship."
"And there must be a lot of soldiers guarding the shogunate's ship, so I need combat power, enough combat power!"
At this point, a sinister smile appeared on Qingtaro's face.
"And now—this number is almost enough."
"The day the next shogunate ship lands on the island is the day I grab the ship and leave this damn place..."
“Aaaaaaaaaaa——!”
Before Qingtaro could finish his words, a scream coming from the entrance of the valley where they lived suddenly interrupted Qingtaro's words.
Qing Tailang frowned instantly and shouted in a low voice:
"What's going on?!"
Not long after, a man stumbled towards Aotaro and said to him with a horrified look on his face:
"Master Aotaro! Yes, there is a giant!"
"Giant?!" Qingtaro's voice couldn't help but become choked with shock.
After quickly throwing aside the wooden barrel that still contained a little rice wine in his hand, Aotaro grabbed his wakizashi and ran towards the valley entrance at the fastest speed he could achieve.
After arriving at the valley entrance, Qingtaro saw the giant that the man had just mentioned.
It was only after arriving at the valley entrance that Aotaro realized that the man just now had not lied.
A giant really came to visit them.
