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"What the... is this place..."
As a sneak, Misty Hidden Talent has seen various castles, mansions and battlefields. And I'm also proud that I've tasted heaven and hell. That is, I intend to have seen far more places and occasions than ordinary people.
But now, the moment I saw the condition of the mansion, I fell into the feeling as if I had been flown into a different dimension.
If you look next to him, even Tsuchizo, who rarely puts his expression on his face, has his eyes rounded and his mouth half-opened, pushing his consternation forward.
That should be it, too.
This mansion is certainly where people live. But there isn't...
Everything a person needs to live as a person...
It is essential to continue a humane life, whether it be a kitchen, a water field or a place to start a fire.
But they don't have any.
There is... just a 'place'. Only an inorganic room separated by a cubicle.
And speaking of the only thing that existed, it was just a trace of blood that just spilled a little bit.
He came after Kotaro, the wind demon, and Shizukuzo, but it was not until two days later that we reached this mansion. Kotaro, who bore the deep hand, how dare he hide all sorts of messes on the escape route.
By the time I saw them through one by one, Kotaro had completely disappeared, and all I had was traces of blood.
Following the trace of his blood, he finally reached the mansion, which is seen as his lair.
It was supposed to be a mansion that was never wide, but the moment he stepped foot in, he was afraid, frozen his spine, to the sensation that his front, back, left and right would become unconscious. But it would still have been a gift to be able to smile invincibly at his mouth, where he had been living and dying for many years.
And the trace of blood that led to the back of the mansion led them to their destination without misleading them.
Talent and Tenzo disappear footsteps and signs and proceed carefully through the hallway.
I know there are no signs of people in the mansion except the only one, and I don't have to worry about being suddenly attacked behind my back. Still, they were carefully on their feet step by step, sweating all over their bodies.
And...
At last, the trace of blood invited them into a room.
"Here..."
Talent speaks to Tenzo in a small voice, indistinguishable from his voice.
Then Shizukuzo nodded one silently.
Look at that, the talent of putting your hands on the pod.
My hands tremble faintly.
He gently swallowed his spit, put his strength into his belly, and stretched his nerves all over his body.
- I'm fine. There's no sign of it before...
He was so sure that he began to softly open it.
Then...
The moment I saw that sight...
"Ugh!!
And Tenzo behind him accidentally put his hand on his mouth and did a nauseating trick.
Though talent and nausea were the only ones that didn't make me feel better, I tied my mouth tight and stared at the sight.
But what we had in common was that we couldn't move a step away from the room at all.
What is that sight...
The boy called Kotaro the Wind Demon also looks miserable...
His face was crushed and his whole body chopped with a sharp blade.
And the slashed arms fell sloppily, sitting still so that they could be brought to the pillars, not moving ticklishly. From a distance, it didn't seem like my heart was moving.
And the boy, who was "white" monochromatic, is stained with "black" monochromatic whether the blood has changed color.
"You don't have to do this far..."
The boy in front of him had turned into "Nani", who had not retained the prototype, so much so that Tenzo accidentally put it into words.
"It will be to not know who it is. He must have been slashed after he took his breath away."
"There are no signs of resistance... from? Besides, amateurs from slashing mouths..."
"Oh, it's usually the work of those who don't wave their swords at work."
"But..."
Tenzo shows some confusion.
Talent understood the reason correctly.
Because he was confused, too.
To what I feel from the slaughter mouth that seems to be countless...
That's...
It was "Love."
You see a slight hesitation. And the unproductive cuts, I guess, slashed with my eyes closed.
I'm sure it must have been painful to chop his body up.
You must have mourned the loss of your life.
I don't know who that is.
It was nevertheless painfully conveyed from the wounds engraved on him that Kotaro the Wind Demon was irreplaceable to him.
"Who the hell..."
"He who manipulated Kotaro in the back... I mean someone who tried to harm Hideyoshi"
Talent and Tenzo looked inside the room. But the room was no exception to the others, and there was nothing left.
"No clue... or..."
Yes, that was when Tenzo snapped.
- Gathari!
And what was the noise at the front door?
At that moment, Talent and Tenzo had erased their shadows as well.
And the voice of a man, who seemed to make a sound, sounded.
"Ouch! I brought you some food! I'll leave you here today!
And the man put the vegetables, the rice, at the front door, the moment he tried to walk away...
- Gassi!
And, his neck was tightened with his arms by Talent Zao from behind.
"Whew! So, who is it... let go..."
"Grow up and I'll save your life."
"Wow, okay... so let me go!
"Who asked you? Who ordered you to carry the food here?
"And I don't know... yummy is the peasant body of a nearby village. I can't tell the difference between the samurai's face."
"Then listen. A samurai would have had a family crest on his sleeve. What was that family crest?
"Wow, I don't know! That's what they asked me!
"Whatever! Remember, answer!!
The power of the talented arm becomes stronger.
The man strangled was trying hard to remember something, even as he whitened his face.
And...
"That's right! Wood...! It was a tattoo of three branches split in a tree!
"The tree... was divided into three parts..."
Gradually, shapes emerge in the heads of the talented.
And that was when it clearly appeared on my head.
"Urgh!!
And he heard from behind him a cry that he did not think was of the world.
Talent turns himself into the sky.
Then I saw clearly under my eyes...
Black Kotaro......
How dare you pinch a sharp blade between your toes and your fingers and stick it out of your feet.
- Dossssssssss...!
The dull sound echoes from around the belly of a man who had been grabbed by the talent collection until earlier.
"Ghaaaa!!
The man fell screaming.
One of the talents stands behind Kotaro as he spins in the air. From the front there was also the figure of Tenzo.
And...
- Zuba! Zuba!
and a sword released simultaneously from both of them severed Kotaro's neck and torso, and also deeply wounded his belly.
- Dosa...
Kotaro rolled to the ground, as if a black mass were falling.
Confirming that, the two talents, Tozo and Shizukuzo, were on a windward run far from the mansion in the next moment.
"A family crest with three branches split between the trees...... and a house hostile to Hideyoshi. There's only one thing in my memory."
Talent was already convinced. Something about the family crest...
"Shizukuzo, what I saw today is useless, except for Master Yukimura."
"Talented... about the family crest, but no way..."
Apparently, Tozaku also knows something about the owner of the family crest.
One nod of talent answered the continuation of his words in a low voice.
"Standing sunflower family crest... there is only one main house"
And among the main households, someone who is oblivious to the sword, places himself in Kyo, and may be hostile to Hideyoshi...
There was no longer anything else than Honta Genuine.
If the world truly finds out that Genuine Honda was hiring Kotaro to harm Master Hideyoshi, that's what could go wrong between Tokugawa and Toyotomi.
The two ideas of Talent and Tenzo were in agreement.
And they both took a firm oath that they would never be able to speak out, and left the scene behind.
… but……
One Shinobi followed them, but he was unaware of the talent and the Shinobi.
That was after they left.
The sneak stood before a peasant man who bore a deep hand in his belly.
"Now we're good. Luckily you weren't poisoned. You saved my life."
"Oh, thank you. But why did you help me with strange delicacies?
"Hehe, that's because you have an important role to play."
"Important role......? What the fuck? What's that?"
"It's..."
- Gatsch!
Without finishing his words, Shinobu instantly fainted when he took a blow to the back of his head.
And Shinobu carried the man so lightly that he didn't think of him as a young woman, he left the scene behind.
"I'm sure Zongyong will be delighted"
There is a glossy smile on the woman's mouth.
And she disappeared into the school with the man she bore.
The woman's name...
Hatsumomo...
It is the use of Shinobu Ishida, and I am so relieved that I would spare my life for him.
And she was sure.
If Hideyoshi Toyotomi is to be assassinated, Soyo Ishida will become Shura and invite his opponent to the bottom of hell.
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And that was ten days after Hideyoshi Toyotomi blew liquid from Kotaro's mouth.
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi falls ill!!
and not just Kyo and Osaka, but the reward ran far to Edo.
And the name of the disease...
It was a 'blister' feared to be dead and ill...