Before dawn, Souji Okita and Anno Samura set out on the road to leave.
Okita Souji looked a little frustrated and didn't speak during the whole journey.
Zuo Cun was sensible and didn't say anything. Although he left the front courtyard last night, he vaguely heard some quarrels and could roughly tell what was going on.
Both of them were children. They walked very slowly and did not walk very fast. Although they set off before dawn, they walked for a long time and the time was already up before they even reached the fork in the road that Zuocun encountered at that time.
noon.
"Is it already noon..." Souji Okita exhaled.
I have been thinking about problems while walking along the way. Have I walked for such a long time without realizing it?
"Mr. Zuomura, I plan to take a rest here. Do you want to move on or..."
"Well..." Zuomura Annuo thought for a while, "I'll go get some water from the river over there."
"Please." Okita nodded.
Zuo Cun took the water cup and walked towards the river.
Holding the rope and putting down the water cup, Zuo Cun hummed a song and filled the water. He looked up and saw a puff of smoke.
"Is that... a fire?" Zuo Cun narrowed his eyes.
From somewhere on the upper reaches of the river, there was smoke like fire.
"No, that direction seems to be..." Zuo Cun quickly picked up the water glass and hurriedly said to himself, "I have to tell Miss Okita quickly..."
When I was walking on the road, there were towering trees on both sides of the road, and I couldn't see clearly what Zuodaoli Village looked like - damn it!
That level of smoke is definitely not a small fire.
"Miss Okita...!" Because he ran too fast, Zuocun stumbled over a branch.
"Mr. Samura?" Chief Okita noticed the panicked Samura and stood up, "What happened?"
"There is thick smoke in the direction of the village!" Zuo Cun pointed in the direction he came from, a little anxiously, "That kind of thick smoke is very big, like a fire!"
"What?" Okita stood up suddenly and looked up at Zuo Cun.
"I just went to the river to fetch water and saw a thick smoke rising from the upstream direction of the river." Zuo Cun also calmed down a little, "Before we were on the road, there were woods beside us and we couldn't see it."
"Something happened to the village!" Okita muttered to himself.
After saying that, she picked up the knife next to her and ran towards the village.
"Miss Okita!" Zuomura quickly picked up Okita's other luggage and followed.
...
Okita Rintaro is wrestling with a thick man.
However, Rintaro has neglected to exercise for many years and lacks wrist strength. The opponent, a thick man, looks very powerful from the outside.
"I thought that the old man's son of the Shirakawa clan lord would be very powerful. I was frightened for a while before I came here. It turns out that he is just a third-rate guy like me."
At this time, in Zuodaoli Village, a group of bandits were burning, killing and looting.
Okita Rintaro stood guard at the door of Okita's house, holding a machete, and forced the bandit leader away with all his strength.
"Aren't you afraid of those who follow Baihe's orders when you do this?" Lin Tailang felt a little weak and asked harshly.
Different from the katana used by Rintaro, the leader of the bandits uses an Odachi sword.
The bandit leader smiled ferociously: "It is because they have been persecuting me because of my obedience that I have to come here. After the looting is over, I will go to other places as soon as possible."
"Don't blame me if I kill you today. If you want to blame, blame the incompetent shogunate!" After the bandit leader finished speaking, he raised his sword and struck it down.
"Damn it..." Lin Tailang took the knife and stabbed it back with his backhand, but the opponent dodged it.
He took a look inside the mansion.
Hikaru, Kutaro, you must hide...
...
Okita and Zuocun did not choose to go in directly from the main entrance of the village.
The situation is unclear now. Souji Okita has only one person no matter what, and she doesn't want to die.
Souji and Zuocun took a detour to the hillside on the side of the village and looked down.
"...Damn it, these are...bandits!" Souji Okita observed, his brows knitted together.
"Mr. Samura, you wait here now, I'm going into the village." Okita held the handle of the knife.
Don't tremble, Mr. Okita Fujiwara Fusara, think carefully about why you practice swordsmanship.
Before Zumura Annuo could reply, Souji Okita rushed down.
"Oh, Okita!" Zuo Cun said eagerly.
He glanced at the luggage he was holding in his arms and didn't know what to do for a moment.
Swallowing eagerly, he watched Okita Souji's short figure quickly rush towards Zuodori Village, feeling anxious.
Even if you are good at swordsmanship, Ms. Okita, there are already dozens of bandits seen from here, and you alone...
At this time, Zuocun saw a grave.
This is the cemetery in Zuodaoli Village, with many graves.
But there is one tomb that is a little different.
Above it stands a knife.
Zuo Cun looked at the knife with confused thoughts.
Finally, Zuocun gritted his teeth, threw his luggage on the ground, and walked to the grave.
He clasped his hands together: "No matter who is resting below, I will offend... This is a matter of life and death."
He stretched out his hand, pulled out the knife from the grave, and used his clothes to wipe the dirt off the scabbard.
Zheng——
This sword was slightly shorter than Okita's sword, but after taking it out of the sheath, Samura felt panicked when he looked at the reflective blade.
After sheathing the sword, Zuomura took a few deep breaths, bowed to the grave, turned around and left with the green wakizashi holding the sword in its sheath.
"I'm here to help you, Miss Okita!" He shouted, as if to boost his own morale, Zuocun also rushed towards Zuodaoli Village down the mountain.
...
Rintaro was in a tough fight.
His strength is incomparably average among swordsmen, and although his opponent does not understand sword skills, he relies on his brute strength and seemingly inexhaustible physical strength to suppress Rintaro to a disadvantage.
Moreover, Rintaro was wearing a kimono, and the bandit leader was wearing homemade leather armor.
Ping——
The iron weapons clashed, and Rintaro blocked the bandit leader's chop, but he didn't react and was directly hit to the side by his shoulder.
His back hit the stone wall directly, and Rintaro screamed.
"Returning the son of a feudal lord, but that's all. It seems that the previous head of the Okita family was just a hollow person." The bandit leader smiled disdainfully.
He was stabbed twice, but it was harmless. With his physical condition, he could recover in a short time.
On the other hand, the thin Rintaro was hit against the stone wall and almost fainted.
"I don't mind insulting this guy, but insulting my father--" At this moment, a childish-sounding female voice came from behind, and the bandit leader involuntarily felt a chill on his neck and squatted down subconsciously.
call out.
The bun was cut open, and the bandit leader's hair, which he didn't have much, became even less.
But it wasn't hurt.
Snap.
A little girl who was only over 1.3 meters tall stared at the bandit leader with cold eyes.