"Sooner or later we will kill national traitors like Katsurin Taro, but not now."

"Things have to come one by one and be done one by one."

Kamino drank the remaining tea in the teacup in one gulp, and then placed the teacup heavily on the table.

"Pay the bill and go back."

"It's almost time...it's time to go back to the base and see how everyone is prepared for tonight's operation."

A cold glow flashed in Shen Ye's eyes at this moment.

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…

In the Edo period, sushi was not a very popular food.

The average price of ordinary nigiri sushi is 8 cents each, while a bowl of hot soba noodles usually only costs 16 cents.

But who said Qingdeng has enough money now?

After receiving his salary for this quarter, Qingdeng's current savings have successfully exceeded 300 taels.

If it's just a meal of sushi, Qingto can still afford it.

After arriving at the sushi restaurant that Harada highly recommended, Aomori asked them to order whatever they wanted and be more relaxed.

Although it seemed a bit unseemly to drink alcohol at noon, Ayoto still ordered two warm sakes to cheer him up.

Dining together is one of the easiest ways to build friendships with each other.

After the five flavors of food and three rounds of wine had passed, Qingdeng gained a better understanding of his three new subordinates by observing their words and deeds.

Nagakura Shinpachi has a bold personality.

Sanosuke Harada has a simple and honest personality.

Toudo Heisuke has an upright character.

Everything Nagakura says and does is filled with a straightforward and heroic spirit.

Harada always has a silly smile on his face, although it's a bit rude to say so... But the way he always smiles silly gives people the feeling that "this guy doesn't look very smart"...

Fujido's conversation is extraordinary, and it can be seen that he has received a very good education.

I don't know if it was influenced by his own education, but Todo's behavior was very polite, so polite that it seemed a bit too formal.

Regardless of Aoto, Saito, Nagakura, or Harada, Todo always used honorifics no matter who he spoke to.

While eating sushi, the informal Nagakura once mentioned to Toudo that there was no need to use honorifics to him, but his proposal was rejected by Toudo.

"Among all the people here, I am the youngest. Mr. Saito, who is the same age as me, has been following Mr. Tachibana for a long time, so you are all my seniors. How can I talk to my seniors in the tone of an ordinary person?"

——Toudo responded to Nagakura.

Seeing that Toudou insisted on using honorifics, Nagakura did not force him to change his habit and allowed Toudou to continue using honorifics in conversations with them.

Both Nagakura and Harada have a good capacity for drinking. They drank several glasses of sake without even blushing.

Todo doesn’t have such a good drinking capacity.

He only drank a small glass of wine and his face was as red as a monkey's butt.

Perhaps due to the influence of alcohol, Todo, who had always been a bit reserved, relaxed a little.

His words and deeds began to become a little unruly.

"Mr. Orange, I am so happy to be able to work under your command."

Todo, who was sitting on the right side of Qingteng, said to Qingteng excitedly after belching.

"After hearing that you defeated a group of lunatics who didn't understand what it means to truly 'reject the foreigners', I have always wanted to see you."

"I really admire you! You are able to win a battle with such a disparity in numbers!"

"I have a lot to learn from you! I hope you will give me your advice in the future!"

The look Toudo cast on Qingden was full of admiration and admiration.

His look reminded Qingto of Okita - Okita often looked at him with this look.

Whenever Okita looked at him with such a look, for some reason, Aoto couldn't help but make up an image in Okita's mind of a dog's tail growing out of his back and wagging from side to side.

Maybe it's because the way Okita looked at Aoto with admiration looked too much like a little dog that raised its front paws at its owner, stuck out its tongue, and begged its owner to play with it - and it was...

That kind of Shiba Inu that looks a little silly.

Aizou remembered that Kiryu had mentioned to him that Todou admired him very much. After learning that the person who recruited Okabiki was Tachibana Aoto, he immediately expressed his willingness to join Aoto's command.

Recalling what Kiryu had said to him, and facing Toudou's gaze towards him, Aoto took a sip of his drink and smiled at Toudou:

"Todo-kun, you don't need to treat me as some great hero. Just treat me with a normal heart and treat me like an ordinary person."

"That's not okay." Todo shook his head like a rattle, "That would be too rude to you."

Seeing that Toudou's attitude was quite firm, Qingto could only smile helplessly.

Both Nagakura and Harada have big appetites, and they can eat more than twenty of such a large piece of sushi.

Everyone has almost eaten the sushi, and everyone has now entered the stage of drinking and chatting.

After drinking some more wine, the conversation unknowingly turned to talking about the reasons why they wanted to work under Qingdeng.

"I don't have any special reason, I just want to give it a try because I think it's a lot of money."

Harada let out a big belch, then raised his hand and patted his belly.

"I was born in the Iyo Matsuyama Domain in Shikoku Island. A few years ago, I had to leave the domain and become a ronin because I had to commit seppuku. I lived here in Edo and made a living by relying on my hohoin-style spear skills."

"Because when I work under Mr. Tachibana, I can receive 2 taels of gold per month, which is higher than any other job I've ever received. In addition, I heard that Okabiki doesn't need to do any mental work.

, so I decided to be Mr. Tachibana’s Okahiki.”

"Have you committed seppuku?" Todo's eyes widened.

Harada chuckled, then raised his hands and pulled open the plackets on both sides of his kimono, revealing the very conspicuous one-line scar on his abdomen.

"Did you see it? This is the scar left by my seppuku!"

Nagakura, who was sitting next to Harada, glanced at the wound on Harada's stomach in surprise and asked, "Can I touch it?"

"Of course! Touch whatever you want!"

Nagakura stretched out his fingers and pinched the wound on Harada's stomach.

"You didn't die even after committing seppuku... You are really lucky..." Qingto smacked his tongue. After meeting Harada for the first time at Senshiya, and seeing the wound on Harada's stomach, Qingto felt that this wound was like an incision of seppuku.

, to his surprise, he guessed it correctly, "Why did you commit seppuku? Did you commit something in the feudal country?"

"I didn't do anything wrong." Harada stretched out his fingers to pick his nostrils. "It was just that when I was arguing with a certain samurai over a trivial matter, I was ridiculed by the samurai as a 'little official who doesn't even know the etiquette of seppuku'. I was angry for a moment.

However, I pulled out the wakizashi from my waist and committed seppuku on the spot to show him."

"I just stuck the knife into my stomach. Who can't? Even an eight-year-old child knows how to commit seppuku."

Qingdeng: "..."

Saito: "..."

Nagakura: "..."

Fujido: "..."

Everyone stared at the wound on Harada's stomach in silence.

The reason for seppuku was so speechless! Even when I looked at the wound on Harada’s stomach, I couldn’t help but find it funny!

"My reasons are similar to Harada's." After dismissing the topic of Harada's seppuku, Nagakura took over the topic of why he wanted to join Aoshito's command, "I am currently traveling around the world to train as a warrior."

"And if you want to practice as a warrior, travel expenses are indispensable."

"So I want to work as high-paying as possible, and try to save enough money as soon as possible to support my warrior training for at least several months."

"I just want to broaden my knowledge." Toudo answered, "Teacher Ito told me: It won't work if I keep practicing swordsmanship in the sword hall. While practicing swordsmanship hard, I also have to try my best to broaden my knowledge. Don't do this.

I am a very closed-minded person, so I want to try to do something that I have never done before.”

"I'm a little interested in Okabiki's work, and I admire Mr. Tachibana, so I decided to try to be a concentric Okabiki."

"Hiccup...!" After pouring another large sip of wine into his mouth and letting out a huge burp, Harada grinned and asked Ayoto, "Mr. Tachibana, when can we accomplish some big tasks?"

?”

"I can't wait now. I want to do some big and interesting tasks as soon as possible, such as preventing radical 'anti-barbarian' thugs from attacking somewhere."

"There are so many big tasks that can be done." Qingdeng shrugged, "You will officially start working tomorrow."

"I'll teach you how to patrol first."

"It is your most important task to help me patrol the streets."

"Big missions and so on, these are rare and hard to come by. It's not that easy for us to encounter..."

"Orange, orange, orange, orange, orange, green, sir!"
To be continued...