He looked at Ogata, and then at the weapons grabbed by the "monks" on the ground next to him.

His expression gradually became weird.

He had just come to confront Ogata with a filled with anger and passion, holding the Buddha statue in his arms.

Because he was in a hurry to confront Ogata and was so overwhelmed with anger, he completely failed to notice that his "companions" who were killed by Ogata all had weapons that a monk could not possibly possess...

After being questioned by Ogata in a very calm tone, the "old monk with goatee" gradually regained his composure and thinking.

"It's okay if you don't believe what I say. It doesn't matter what you think of me." Ogata then continued, "Anyway, you should leave here quickly. It's quite unsafe here now."

"In a little while, there should be a large group of people coming to kill... huh?"

Ogata's brows suddenly frowned, and then he sniffed hard.

At this time, the "old monk with the goatee" also made a very synchronous action with Ogata: frowning and sniffing.

At first, Ogata thought it was his own illusion.

But after sniffing hard and sniffing the smell wafting in the air, Ogata was convinced that he had smelled it right.

There is indeed an increasingly intense burnt smell in the air...

A strong foreboding feeling immediately emerged in Ogata's heart, and he quickly ran to the window not far away in three steps at a time.

At this time, the "old monk with a goatee" made a move that was extremely synchronized with Ogata's, and followed Ogata towards the window.

Arriving at the window and looking out at the scenery, the expressions of Ogata and the "old monk with goatee" beside him changed.

fire.

They saw the fire.

A large number of flames ignited from the woods behind Xianyuan Temple.

The flames were like torrents, rushing through the woods, devouring everything they touched.

A certain big tree was submerged by the pillar of fire in just the blink of an eye. The sound of cracking wood was heard, as if it was moaning in pain. The big tree only held on for a long time before falling in the flames. The big tree fell.

A large number of sparks were stirred up and scattered in the air.

"It's on fire..." the "old monk with a goatee", whose face was completely drained of blood, muttered with a dull expression.

Ogata immediately regained his composure after a brief moment of shock.

"...Tsk." Ogata gritted his teeth after thinking for a moment, "Do you want to do this...!"

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Mount Koya, where Hasegawa and others were imprisoned

Hasegawa, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground with his eyes closed and gently rubbing the wrist of his left hand with his right thumb, suddenly heard the sound of extremely dense footsteps outside the cell.

Opening his eyes, he looked outside the prison and saw more than a dozen Toyotomi clan members with anxious expressions and flintlock guns in their hands appearing from the end of the corridor outside the prison.

"Quick! Take them all away quickly!"

A young man with slender eyes and a pair of swords and wakizashi on his waist shouted loudly to the people around him, while untying a large bunch of keys from his waist, and then quickly

Walking to Hasegawa's cell door, he took out one of the keys and unlocked the iron lock on Hasegawa's cell door.

As soon as the lock was unlocked and the door opened, four members of the Toyotomi clan filed in immediately.

Three of them restrained Hasegawa, and the other one pulled Hasegawa's hands behind his back, and then tied Hasegawa's hands tightly with a hemp rope.

"What are you doing?" Hasegawa did not resist, but frowned and asked, "Are you taking me somewhere?"

"Don't worry about this kind of thing." The slender-eyed young man responded impatiently.

When his subordinates went to tie up Hasegawa, the slender-eyed young man used the key to open the lock of the cell door of Isshiki's family, and then the Toyotomi clan members who also filed in like Hasegawa were Isshiki's family.

, tying their hands tightly behind their backs.

"Quick! Take them away!"

The slender-eyed young man waved his hand.

"Get them all to the coast quickly!"

The Toyotomi clan's subordinates pushed Hasegawa, Isshiki Naoshu and others out of the cell. They were forced to line up in a column, while the slender-eyed young man held the knife on his waist like a mother.

Like a duck leading a duckling, he led Hasegawa and others outside the prison in a swaggering manner.

"What do you mean by 'coast' just now?" Hasegawa lowered his head slightly and asked the slender-eyed young man in front of him, "Are you taking us to which coast to take a boat?"

"I just said it." The slender-eyed young man suppressed his impatience and growled in a deep voice, "Don't worry about this kind of thing! Just follow us obediently and that's it!"

"...Where are my subordinates?" Hasegawa then asked, "Will my subordinates be taken to a new place like me?"

"I don't know!" the slender-eyed young man responded rudely, "Those subordinates of yours are not under my control!"

"That's it...Okay then, I'd better go find my subordinates myself."

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

The sharp screams, like sharp arrows, pierced the eardrums of the slender-eyed young man.

The slender-eyed young man's pupils shrank suddenly, and then he turned his head and looked back like a conditioned reflex.

The first thing that caught the eye of the young man with slender eyes was one of his subordinates who was kneeling on the ground and screaming in agony while covering his forehead that was constantly spurting blood. The flintlock gun that was supposed to be in his hand was gone.

The scream just now was caused by this person.

The person who caught his eye immediately after was Hasegawa.

To be more precise, it was Hasegawa holding a flintlock gun in his right hand.

Hasegawa held the barrel of the flintlock gun tightly, raised the gun high above his head, aimed it at the head of the slender-eyed young man, and swung the gun down hard.

Getting closer and closer, the butt of the gun getting bigger and bigger. This was the last scene the young man with thin eyes saw in his life.

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The author is suicidal... I got gastroenteritis caused by bacterial infection a few days ago. After taking the medicine prescribed by the doctor twice, I thought I was better and stopped taking it...

As a result, today, it seemed that something had relapsed. I had diarrhea all night last night. I was so frightened that I quickly took out the medicine the doctor gave me and continued to take it. Fortunately, this medicine really worked. After taking it twice, I felt better again.

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Chapter completed!