"If I have a chance in the future, I will answer you again."

——Not convenient to answer? Why?

Qingdeng couldn't help but be startled.

But he didn't ask any more questions.

After all, this kind of thing involves people's privacy. Since Kinoshita Mai doesn't want to say more, it's not convenient for him to ask more.

"It's okay." Qingdeng said quickly, "If you don't want to say more, I won't force you."

Where did Kinoshita Mai learn these skills from? This question was so quickly ignored.

And Mai Kinoshita... to be precise, various questions related to "Cat Monk" have been answered in this question and answer.

There was only one last question left in Qingteng's mind: Where did Kinoshita Mai go with the large amounts of money she had stolen from those evil people?

The Mouse Monk 40 years ago distributed every money he stole directly to the poor.

But for the current Cat Monk, the observance office has not found any record of her directly distributing stolen money to the poor like the Mouse Monk 40 years ago.

Therefore, there is a saying in the market: The cat monk is far different from the mouse monk. Although both of them only steal money from evil people, the latter will distribute all the stolen money to the poor, but the former only

He will keep the stolen money for his own enjoyment.

What did you do with such a large amount of money? Just when Qingdeng wanted to ask this question, he suddenly...

"...Tachibana-kun."

Mai Kinoshita, who had been playing the "answerer" just now, suddenly changed her identity and became the "asker".

She blinked hard at Qingdeng, a strange emotion that was difficult for outsiders to detect was filled in her eyes.

"The question you just asked me reminds me of something I have always wanted to ask you..."

"Tachibana-kun, on the night when I sneaked into the training center to see how you all worked the night shift, after you found me, you could run very fast when you chased me, but why did you run so slowly in the end?"

"Ah?" Qingdeng opened his eyes, and then his expression gradually became weird.

——Why did I run so slowly? Because at that time, I had not yet copied the talent of "leading the way"!

Qingden shouted the answer to this question in his heart.

However, it was impossible for him to tell Mai Kinoshita the true answer...

Therefore, Qingdeng could only hesitate for a moment, then nodded gently: "Well... yes, I did run a little slower on purpose."

"Because...I've told you before, I don't hate the cat monk who only attacks evil people."

"I didn't want to catch him, so I deliberately slowed down my pace."

Qingdeng told a lie that he made up on the spur of the moment...

In order to avoid exposing his secrets, Qingden turned his head away when he was talking about his made-up lies, so that Kinoshita Mai would not see his unnatural expression.

"Did you slow down on purpose... Haha, then I guessed it right."

Qingden heard the sound of Kinoshita Mai jumping for joy behind him.

"Thank you... for deliberately slowing down so that I could escape more easily."

"You're welcome, I just did what I wanted to do." Hearing Kinoshita Mai's words, Qingto breathed a sigh of relief.

I was secretly glad that the lie I just told was effective, and I successfully fooled Kinoshita Mai.

Qingdeng didn't know - his lies were more effective than anything else?

Behind him, Kinoshita Mai, who softly said "thank you" to Qingden, stretched out her hand to pull the scarf on her face higher and tighter.

The thick scarf well covered Kinoshita Mai's face, which was constantly snickering, with a cheerful smile on her cheeks.

She smiled so hard that her eyes turned into two crescents, as if what she just heard was an unparalleled happy event.

Huhu...

A sudden night breeze brought a slight chill.

At this time, Qingto, who was still secretly feeling lucky that he had successfully fooled Kinoshita Mai, suddenly noticed a strange black shadow moving at the north intersection of the intersection.

"Miss Kinoshita." Qingto looked serious. While calling Kinoshita Mai in a deep voice, he raised his hand and pointed towards the north intersection, "Look over there."

Kinoshita Mai quickly put away the smile on her face and looked in the direction pointed by Qingneng's finger. Then, like Qingneng, her expression quickly became serious.

Because today was a sunny day with the moon hanging high in the sky, under the illumination of the moonlight, Ayoto and Kinoshita Mai quickly saw clearly what the "squirming" black shadows at the north intersection were.

They are 8 samurai who all carry swords.

The figures of these eight warriors kept "squirming" in the shadow of the house at the north intersection.

After only a few moments, they could be seen slowly pulling out of the shadows, their bodies gradually condensing into concrete entities, and finally being completely exposed to the moonlight.

The two leaders are twins.

Of the twins, one had two sabers, one long and one short, hanging on his waist. The other had two sabers on his waist and an Odachi on his back.

The appearance of the two people is very similar, their eyes, noses, mouths... are almost exactly the same. There is only one significant difference between the twins - the one carrying the Odachi has a red birthmark on his left forehead. Another person also had a long birthmark, but his birthmark was on the corner of his right eye.

Looking at the twins with distinctive features, Qingden's pupils shrank slightly.

These twins... gave him a very strong sense of familiarity.

Mai Kinoshita on the side also had the same feeling as Qingnobo.

Like Qingto, Kinoshita Mai felt that the twins were extremely familiar. After blinking in confusion, she reached into her arms, took out the wanted poster she had always carried with her, and started flipping through it quickly.

"...?! Found it." Kinoshita Mai exclaimed in a low voice, then handed the two wanted posters she pulled out to Qingto's face, "These twins came from Kansai to Kanto. 'The Red-faced Brothers'."

Kinoshita Mai's words made Qingto immediately understand why he felt that the twins were familiar to him.

These twins... are the vicious wanted criminals currently being sought: the red-faced brothers!

The one with the Odachi on his back and the red birthmark on his left forehead is the elder brother of the twins - Yoshikawa Ichitaro.

The one who only wears a pair of swords on his waist and has a red birthmark on the corner of his right eye is the younger brother of the twins - Yoshikawa Kojiro.

Six months ago, the brothers committed numerous murders in Osaka, Kansai.

They led their younger brothers and frequently appeared at night, and together with their younger brothers, they killed every passerby on the street as they pleased.

When you kill, you neither rob others of their money nor have a specific killing target - you just kill for the sake of killing!

As many as 18 people were killed at their hands, all of them unarmed civilians.

In order to catch this pair of vicious perverted murderers, the Osaka Office mobilized a large amount of manpower and material resources, but unfortunately they finally escaped.

According to reliable intelligence, these brothers have fled to Kanto with a group of younger brothers.

Therefore, after confirming that this information was extremely credible, their wanted posters were immediately posted all over the streets of Edo.

Because both men had red birthmarks on their faces, the government gave them an easy-to-remember nickname: the red-faced brothers.

The "treatment" given by the government to these two brothers who committed extremely serious crimes and behaved extremely badly is not bad - the two brothers received a reward of 10 taels each! No matter life or death! As long as you encounter them on the street, you can let them go.

Hack them to death! Whether you capture them alive or just send them their heads, you can receive a reward of 10 taels!

Qingdeng looked at the portrait and description on the wanted poster, and the expression on his face gradually became extremely serious.

In the Huiduo settlement, 8 samurai with swords suddenly appeared, and the two leaders of these 8 samurai with swords are currently wanted perverted murderers who like to kill randomly...

What this means is self-evident.

At this time, the group headed by the red-faced brothers had completely walked out of the shadow of the house at the north intersection.

After looking around with vigilant eyes, they walked slowly towards the east intersection.

Qingden and Kinoshita Mai looked at each other, then nodded gently.

The two quietly jumped down from the tree and followed quietly behind this group of perverted murderers.

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Chapter completed!