"If Mr. Matsudaira knew about our movements from the very beginning, then it is true that reaping the benefits of the fisherman is a relatively conventional countermeasure.

That's a good way to say...Qing Ji has a special meaning to him? "

Speaking of Qing Ji, her job is not ordinary. She has been able to talk to snakes since she was a child, and even has the ability to control flames.

It is obviously different from Qing Ji who has turned into a dragon in Chaldea. Here Qing Ji is not a monster but a human being, but being able to fight snakes and her extraordinary fighting ability proves that she is not just an ordinary human being.

"Musashi, have you heard...the so-called dragon was originally a snake?"

"Ah, of course I've heard of this. The snake is the prototype of the image of the dragon. In some stories, the snake can eventually turn into a dragon."

"As far as I know, Qing Ji doesn't have the inherent ability to talk to animals. Being able to talk to snakes... can only mean that they are of the same kind to a certain extent."

In other words, Qing Ji is a dragon, and what flows in her body is the blood of the dragon.

"Let's split up, Musashi-san."

"Eh? Wait a minute, so we won't be defeated one by one, Tachika?"

"Even if two people are together, the nature of being surrounded is the same, and the situation where you can only fight back to back to survive must be avoided.

I will find a way to sneak into other cities in Xiazong Kingdom alone to find Qing Ji.

Dear Musashi, while I'm looking for Kiyohime, I hope you can find the sorcerer behind the Heroic Swordsman, that is, Amakusa Shiro Tokisada. "

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In the end, Lixiang and Musashi acted separately. It was inconvenient for two people to sneak in, and Musashi didn't like to be sneaky all the time, so once he appeared, he would always bring his own scene and look like a heroic spirit who wished everyone in the world knew that he was here. It is best for the swordsman to leave it to Musashi to clean up.

"That being said... there are cases like this."

If you want to say what kind of place is the most unsuitable to sneak into, don't say it is number one, but if you want to rank it, it must have the plain that has just finished the war.

The grass and trees were almost burned, and there was nothing hidden, so it was difficult to pretend to be a dead body immediately.

"These soldiers from the Xiazong Kingdom..."

On the battlefield, the corpses of soldiers from the Xiazong Kingdom were strewn all over the field, but there were very few enemy soldiers, and no enemy soldiers were seen invading other places, and a large part of them died of unnatural and extensive burns.

"You killed it, right? You've been waiting here for me?"

Standing at one end of the battlefield, Lixiang quickly found her, no matter how much she went around, she would definitely run into her, so it was really better to end it sooner.

"That's right...Though thinking about it now, I really made a childish promise with you, the feeling of loving someone deeply but not being able to be with you at the end...We are obviously the same."

The silver-white beauty turned her head back on the desolate battlefield, but her eyes no longer looked like a blood-filled devil, but turned back to the flower of the battlefield that people yearn for.

"Are you... back to normal?"

Ba Yuqian, Lixiang was convinced that the one standing in front of her now was the beautiful warrior who had fought side by side with her at the seventh singularity.

"Back to normal...indeed, Ba seemed to have had a very long nightmare. It looked like Pa had...committed an unforgivable sin here."

The cool and beautiful samurai drew her saber, she has been waiting here for a long time.

"Long time no see, Master Lixiang, Balai has come to the appointment."

"Anyway... in the end we are still enemies."

Chapter 21: Musashi's old friend

Things became more and more complicated. Originally, it was only necessary to knock down those heroic swordsmen who knew they were damned at a glance, as well as the masterminds behind the scenes who manipulated them.

"Sometimes... you can't even wield your blade briskly, but as a wandering swordsman, you have to see clearly for yourself."

Musashi remembered that a monk once told her something like this... "If you are attracted by the leaves, you will not notice the existence of the big tree. If you are attracted by the big tree, you will not notice the forest. The presence."

"As a swordsman who is always practicing and training himself...you can't leave your heart anywhere, and you can see everything without knowing it.

Really, the words of the monk Takuan can suddenly become clear when I think about it a little bit, but unfortunately I probably won’t be able to see him now.... "

As long as you let nature take its course and don't force yourself to accept anything, the answer you finally find, no matter how correct it is, at least you won't regret it, Musashi thinks that he should be like this now.

"Speaking of... I remember when monk Takuan said this to me... woo!"

Several familiar figures floated in Musashi's mind, but up to now, whether they were enemies with her or friends with her, they are all a passing memory to her now.

"There are some things I really can't forget. I compared that time... How far is it from the realm of 'empty'?"

According to the agreement with Lixiang, during the period when Lixiang was looking for Kiyohime, Musashi was responsible for the crusade against the heroic swordsman, but as far as the actual situation is concerned, no matter which side they don't know where they are.

"In contrast... I may be a little more relaxed here. After all, heroic swordsmen are all scourges that can do evil but never do anything. And their movements are generally much larger than bandits. Just ignore those smaller ones. Riots . . . seem unlikely."

Probably this is the so-called coincidence that always appears just right, which makes people feel that it is the arrangement of fate.

Musashi is not the kind of character who can ignore others being bullied. Even if he has figured out how to find the heroic swordsman in a more funny way, the actual actions will definitely not be as rigid and efficient as planned.

For example, in the current situation, I have encountered countless times in Musashi's travels, and I have never chosen to turn a blind eye or listen to it.

"Please, we really don't have any money here!"

"It's so noisy, you're going to die anyway, we'll talk about whether you have money or not after we open this place!"

Bandit, bandit group, even though Musashi has long felt that such things are tiresome, as long as he is still in this era, he will never lack this kind of dregs that are eager to trample on other people's lives just because they have an extra piece of iron in their hands.

Musashi knew that she would definitely not be able to kill this kind of person in this life, but it was never an option for her to save him.

"You really are a poor bandit, hey...!"

"Ok?"

With a few blunt knives that were obviously picked up from the battlefield, the robbers looked quite poor. They also robbed a small house that lived alone in the wild. A woman could be seen protecting her daughter. , it seems that no adult male or male corpse was seen.

"Cut... wandering wild samurai! Don't meddle in your own business!"

"It's disgusting...."

Musashi said a little unbearably, obviously these people are looking for robbers who have no way to settle in villages or cities, but only settle in the wild or homeless wanderers.

"Just one adult woman...and a family with a daughter?"

Seeing the two women looking at him asking for help, Musashi felt a tightness in his chest for a moment, not because he felt sympathy for women who had no safe place to live and no man could protect them, nor did he feel pressure.

"Ah...it's like this again, what happened to me from just now, I always think of some troublesome things in the past! This is all your fault, you guys' fault!"

"Woo...! What is this... woman?"

The robbers were frightened by Musashi's roar, as if they were forcing themselves not to be swallowed by something, roaring like wild beasts threatening the surroundings.

"If you look carefully, it sounds rough, but she is a nice woman. If you catch her, you can not only enjoy it, but also sell it to rich people at a high price afterwards!"

"It's ok, if you can do it, I won't die in the end no matter what happens to me, but..."

Musashi drew out Myojinkiri Muramasa, and it seemed a bit exaggerated to use Muramasa's demon sword to kill these miscellaneous fish, but Musashi now felt that he needed to vent.

Obviously, she thought she had found the right mentality just now, but she has never been someone who can hold back her emotions in front of scum who likes to bully others.

"I also hope that when you die, you will not show an expression as if you are innocent and it is not your fault...!"

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"Wow, it's exactly what the master said, that fellow Musashi... His eyes look like beasts at this moment!"

With one foot on Kira's fighter-type withering heart-piercing attack, seeing Musashi's current situation from the air, Jing Hu showed a slightly surprised expression.

Originally, Musashi gave her the impression of a female swordsman whose swordsmanship looks a little messy, but actually has a lot of subtleties, and has a cheerful, lively and lovable personality.

But at this time, she was very strange, her eyes were ruthless and cold, like a wild wolf staring at other people's flesh and blood.

Contrary to her, there is no doubt that Musashi has a strong humanity, but under that humanity, Jinghu feels something else.

"Under the strong human nature...could there be a more intense animal nature hidden? It's really enviable, but theoretically...it's just a few robbers who are doing evil, and it can make a person who has been outside for a long time experience Are you as excited as your swordsman?"

Jing Hu heard clearly just now, Musashi said that the current scene reminded her of some bad past events, but Jing Hu didn't quite understand why she should care about the past.

Just like she still remembers how her relatives rejected her who could not understand human feelings, but now that she thinks about it, she doesn't think there is anything special worth mentioning.

"Isn't it something that I, who fully understand human emotions... can't understand?"

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"Father, where did mother go?"

The young girl asked her father, but the middle-aged man who was the father did not hesitate to hit his daughter on the shoulder with a wooden knife.

"Weak brat, that woman is no longer your mother, she doesn't deserve to stay here!"

The man who abandoned his wife said so, but the man who looked mighty and powerful broke out in a cold sweat the next moment.

He felt terrified, not because of any accident, but because he was frightened by the daughter of the weak brat he said just now.

"You... what kind of eyes do you have!?"

The girl who was still young at the time didn't cry after feeling the sharp pain in her shoulders. When she raised her face, her eyes were like a beast that would dare to show its fangs to anyone, no matter if the other party was a relative, friend or noble. man of.

"In the end...it still showed such a disgusting expression."

Musashi didn't even have time to feel that he was starting to vent, and the four or five robbers had already died under her knife. For Musashi, this was not even a warm-up exercise.

It's just that these robbers, as she thought, still had an expression of "I curse you to die!" after death, which made Musashi regret why he didn't scrape off their faces along the way.

"That...that...!"

"Ah, sorry sorry, did I scare you?"

Awakened by the timid voice behind him, Musashi realized that he seemed to be a bit too bloody in front of people, so he had to use a smile to try to get away with it.

"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you... Well, it seems that I don't seem to be convincing when I say that..."

Musashi relied too much on instinct when swinging the sword this time. Although she was not an opponent who needed to use her brains to win, it also made her clothes stained with blood. As a swordsman who takes skill as his pride should not.

"Ugh...don't...!"

Seeing Musashi stretching out his hand that was already dyed bright red, she probably wanted to thank her, but in the end she was so frightened that she lost her mind and ran into the house with her young daughter in her arms. Musashi closed the door of the house.

boom--!

"Woo... I was really scared... Forget it, that's fine."

Thinking of the experience of encountering such a family where only mother and daughter depended on each other, Musashi only had bad memories, but her reason and emotion did not allow her to just watch the bandit's behavior.

"It's a little more comfortable, so let's go directly to the heroic swordsman! A! A! O!"

"After sending others to hell, you can still show such a bright and beautiful smile. It's you... Ezo."

"..."

It's not that Musashi didn't notice that someone was watching her fight, but he didn't expect that he would really approach her, because his aura didn't look like that of a heroic swordsman, and he didn't have such a powerful and terrifying murderous aura. After seeing Musashi being so strong to kill He should have fled immediately.

"Just now... what did you call me?"

Musashi didn't have ringing in her ears just now, she did indeed hear someone in a certain direction in the woods, on the other side of the tree, call something that was considered a "forbidden name" for her.

Eizang is only in her hometown, Miyamoto Village. When she was a bad girl who liked to fight and make trouble in the village before she went out to practice, the people in the village liked to call her that. At that time, Musashi, The name is not the current Musashi (busaxi).

"What are you calling? Are you going to get angry again after being called by the most suitable name, just like you vented your anger on those robbers just now, are you going to kill me brutally like that?"

"Stealing mysteries..."

Musashi felt a little disappointed when he saw the person coming out of the woods wearing a ghost mask like a clown.

"If it's not a heroic swordsman or a bandit who wants to make money and kill you, even if you deliberately provoke me, it's useless."

"Heh... You think my mask is trying to annoy you, don't you? It's still the same. I'm very angry now. I'll be so angry when I see your face! Musashi (takeizao)!"

"you......."

Musashi was still thinking about where the other party came from. If he only knew the nickname "Eizang", after carefully investigating Miyamoto Musashi's experience, it is still possible to know this name. After all, there should be another one in this world. A swordsman named Miyamoto Musashi.

But the pronounced name of Musashi (Takeizao) was the name she used before she decided to leave her hometown and embark on the journey of training as a swordsman, the Musashi before she became Shinmen Musashi.

"Who the hell are you? If you want to stir up some of my unbearable memories, I have to admit that you are quite good at talking. I am so angry that I want to swing a knife purely for the sake of momentary anger."

"Don't be stupid, you can't do that kind of thing at all, but you should do it, because you... are evil!"

"This is......!"

A blood-red moon suddenly hangs high in the sky. This is a sight that only happens when a heroic swordsman appears, but Musashi still doesn't understand why even such a swordsman is made into a heroic swordsman.

Boom-!

"As far as this three-legged cat's kung fu is concerned... I advise you to stay put. To be honest, even drawing a knife seems a bit redundant."

In the eyes of Musashi, the mysterious enemy's first knife is full of flaws. Even though he has a basic posture, there are too many redundant postures, and the shortcomings of forgetting practicality for the sake of momentum are very obvious.

Just with that knife just now, Musashi could find at least seven ways to kill this person.

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