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"Arimura-kun." Kurosawa Chuzaburo let out a breath of white mist, "Are you nervous...?"

"It's a bit embarrassing to say." Arimura Jizaemon smiled bitterly and showed his right hand to Kurosawa Chuzaburo, "I'm so nervous... Look, my hand keeps shaking."

Arimurajizaemon's right hand was shaking violently, as if it was spasming.

He raised his left hand and grasped his right hand hard, trying to stop his right hand from shaking.

But because his left hand was also shaking, after his left hand grasped his right wrist, the two palms pulled each other, and both palms shook even more.

"I see... I'm very nervous too." Kurosawa Chuzaburo also showed his two palms to Arimura Jizaemon - his hands were also shaking.

Although their hands and feet were shaking violently due to nervousness and fear, the firmness and determination in their eyes did not fade at all.

call!

The wind and snow are blowing harder.

The Ii family's queue has already moved quickly to their scheduled battle location.

Kurosawa Chuzaburo, who was responsible for serving as their left wing vanguard, let out a breath of white mist again, reached his right hand into his arms, and pulled out a revolver with a shiny barrel...

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"Sanjuro Okabe is responsible for staying behind. He must witness the successful execution of Naomi Ii, so he will not participate in the assassination."

"After the assassination was successful, Superintendent Saito submitted the "Book of Killing the Traitor" to Mr. Lao Naka, so he stayed behind with Sanjuro Okabe and did not participate in the assassination."

After saying that, Seki Tetsunosuke opened a brocade box beside him.

Inside the brocade box, five brand-new revolvers lay quietly.

"These five short muskets were given to me by Lord Jinzi."

"I'm responsible for holding one, and the other four——"

Seki Tetsunosuke took out a pistol from the brocade box.

"Saito Supervisor."

"Yes!" Supervisor Saito respectfully took the pistol from Seki Tetsunosuke's hand with both hands.

"Inada Juzo." Seki Tetsunosuke took out another pistol from the brocade box.

"Yes!" Inada Juzo imitated Saito's actions just now and took the gun from Seki Tetsunosuke's hand with both hands.

"Gorokuro Mori."

"yes!"

"Kurosawa Chuzaburo."

"yes!"

After distributing the four pistols one by one to the four people headed by Saito Kanmono, Seki Tetsunosuke returned to his serious sitting posture.

"After Mori-kun killed the leading members of Jingyi's formation, he took advantage of the weak defense around the sedan..."

Seki Tetsunosuke turned his attention to Kurosawa Chuzaburo.

"Kurosawa-kun, you are responsible for shooting at the sedan with a short gun."

"Are you shooting at Naomi Ii's sedan?"

"Yes." Seki Tetsunosuke nodded solemnly, "It would be best if we could just shoot him to death on the spot with a pistol."

"If we can't kill him directly, we must at least injure him."

"Naomi Ii is an Iaido master who created the 'Shinshin Shinryu'."

"In terms of personal strength, he might be stronger than most of his bodyguards."

"If we can injure him before the battle officially begins, it will undoubtedly greatly increase our chances of winning."

"...I understand!" Kurosawa Chuzaburo nodded his head vigorously and tightened his grip on the short gun he was holding in his hand, "Leave it to me!"

Seki Tetsunosuke moved his eyes and scanned the comrades around him.

"Everyone, the day we have been waiting for has finally arrived!"

"The numerous crimes committed by Naoki Ii are too numerous to describe."

"He disrespected His Majesty the Emperor. Without waiting for His Majesty the Emperor's consent, he arbitrarily signed unequal treaties with the United States, France and other five countries that were humiliating and humiliating."

"He brought disaster to the country and its people. He knelt down to the outside world in an attempt to completely open up the country, abandoned the 'lockdown order' that had been implemented for two hundred years, and signed one unequal treaty after another with the Western barbarians; he brutally persecuted the country at home and had the ambition to resist the barbarians.

A patriotic man, countless people with lofty ideals were harmed by him."

"He insulted our lord. My lord devoted himself to serving the country and the people, and devoted himself to the great cause of fighting the barbarians, but he was treated unfairly by Ii Naomi."

"If such national thieves are allowed to continue to do evil, the country will not be a country!"

Seki Tetsunosuke stood up with a "hoo", and while standing up, he grabbed the saber placed on his right side.

"The day after tomorrow, using the sound of gunfire as a signal, after hearing Kurosawa-kun's gunshot, both wings rushed out together and took off Ii Naoki's head!"

Seki Tetsunosuke held his sword horizontally in front of him.

"Use our swords to kill the rebellious officials and traitors!"

"Just use our swords to create a new era!"

"Heaven punishes the national thief!"

Everyone who was affected by Seki Tetsunosuke's words grabbed their swords and stood up with excitement on their faces.

"The thief of the country will be punished——! The thief of the country will be punished——! The thief of the country will be punished——!"

They held their knives high and kept shouting in unison.

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"Tenchu... national thief... Tenchu... national thief...!" Arimura Jizaemon kept repeating this sentence, trying to draw strength from these simple words.

Gorokuro Mori, who was in charge of killing the vanguard of Ii's formation, stood on the street.

Dressed as a ronin, he kept tapping the "complaint of grievance" he was putting in his arms, which he was going to use later to pretend to be a grievance.

Inada Juzo and others, who were responsible for launching the attack on the right wing, were sitting around a tea stall.

They pretended to be a group of country samurai who came to Edo for sightseeing. While drinking hot tea bought from the tea shop, they pretended to discuss in a low voice the Ii queue that had appeared outside the Sakurada Gate.

"The sedan has an orange pattern carved on it... This should be the queue of the Ii family, right?"

"Yeah, that's right. The orange pattern is the crest of the Ii family."

"When it comes to family patterns, I still think platycodon patterns and gentian leaf patterns are the most beautiful."

When these big men came to the city, it was very common for the country warriors to come over to see the world and see what the queues of these famous families were like. No one would be suspicious if they saw them.

In order to act more naturally and make people less suspicious, someone even used humorous words to chat up the young girl working in the tea stall, which made the girl laugh frequently.

Seki Tetsunosuke, who served as the commander-in-chief, and Okabe Sanjuro, who was responsible for witnessing the death of Ii Naomi, and Saito, the supervisor who was responsible for delivering the "Book of Beheading the Traitor" to Lord Lao Naka after the war, held up oil-paper umbrellas and wore cloaks, pretending to be

Passers-by followed Jingyi's queue at a distance.

The wind blew stronger.

More and more cold silver millet rolled down.

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In the sedan chair, Ii Naobi breathed hot air into his cold hands.

At this time, a gust of wind followed the window of the sedan and sent a crystal snowflake into the sedan.

Looking at the snowflake flying in front of his eyes like a firefly, Ii Naobi suddenly recalled what he had promised Ajiu just now - that he would draw inspiration from today's rare heavy snow and write the song based on snow as soon as possible.

A Japanese song with a theme.

"The unseasonable heavy snow..." Ii Naobi tilted his head and looked at the cloud-filled sky outside the window, "Ah... it's quite artistic..."

Naoki Ii looked at the snowy scene outside the window attentively.

Thinking about the content of the waka.

From time to time, he would sing a satisfying song in a low voice.

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"Arimura-kun, haven't you adjusted your condition yet?" Kurosawa Chuzaburo glanced at Arimura Jizaemon's hands that were still trembling.

Arimura Jizaemon smiled awkwardly: "Sorry..."

"...Don't think too much." Kurosawa Chuzaburo comforted softly, "When the war begins, all you have to do is move forward."
To be continued...