"Mr. Orange, tonight... thank you so much."

Katsurin Taro sincerely bowed almost 90 degrees to Aoto.

"Mr. Katsu, there is no need to be polite." Qingteng raised his hand to help Katsu Rintaro up and said modestly, "I just had good luck for a while and did what I should do as a 'Sankai' samurai."

After learning that Katsurintaro wanted to see him, Aoto guessed that Katsurintaro probably wanted to thank him in person.

Anyway, he happened to be free now, so Qingden took the initiative to greet Katsurin Taro.

As Ayoto expected - after seeing him coming, Katsurin Taro immediately saluted him respectfully and solemnly thanked him.

Katsu Rintaro is older than him, and judging from his official position, Katsu Rintaro is older than him by an unknown number of levels. Therefore, even though he has a life-saving grace for Katsu Rintaro, Ayoto does not treat him with any casual or disrespectful attitude.

I always use honorifics when speaking to Katsu Rintaro and Katsu Rintaro.

After thanking Aoto several times in one breath, Katsurin Taro straightened up and showed an expression of mixed emotions to Aoto.

"Mr. Orange, I have heard your name before."

"He is truly worthy of his reputation... He is indeed a young hero who has become famous recently."

"Um?"

At this moment, Katsurin Taro suddenly opened his eyes even wider and carefully looked at Qingden from head to toe.

"Mr. Orange...have we met recently? Why do I always feel that you look familiar?"

Qingdeng raised his eyebrows and laughed and said: "When I went out to eat at noon today, I passed by the gate of the martial arts institute. At that time, I passed by Mr. Sheng who came out of the martial arts institute. It was probably at this time that you saw

You know me, so you have an impression on me."

Katsurin Taro showed a look of sudden realization: "Yes, yes, I remembered, you are one of the tall guys I saw outside the martial arts school at noon today."

"Haha, it seems that the two of us have a strange fate."

After expressing a small sigh in a half-joking tone, Katsurin Taro turned his head and looked at the Tibetan Bookstore next to him with a somewhat sad look, which had been partially burned down.

"Mr. Ju, you not only saved us tonight, but you also saved this Tibetan Bookstore."

"Without your timely arrival, this academic center, which was built with countless people's efforts, would have been completely destroyed by those lunatics..."

"You have been very kind to me and to us, Fanshu Diao."

Katsurin Taro turned his gaze from the Fan Shu Tiao Institute back to Qing Teng's face, revealing a smile full of gratitude.

"Mr. Orange, if you encounter anything that needs help in the future, just come to us. Wherever we can help, we will try our best to help!"

"Will you try your best to help me..." Qingden smiled, "... By coincidence, Mr. Sheng, I happen to have something that I need your help with right now."

Sheng Rintaro was startled for a moment, then said quickly: "What's the matter? Please tell me."

"Actually, it's nothing, I just have a question to ask you."

Qingdeng raised his hand and made a gesture of pulling the trigger.

"Mr. Katsu, how did you get that revolver?"

While fighting fiercely with the "surrounding team" of the "anti-barbarian group" outside the transfer station, Qingdeng kept hearing vague gunshots coming from inside the transfer station.

After the war, he inquired with someone and found out that these gunshots came from a revolver owned by Katsurin Taro.

"Huh? Mr. Tachibana, why do you ask this?"

"I'm just a little curious," Qingdeng said casually.

"Oh..." Katsurin Taro nodded slightly, and then without doubting his presence, he reached out and took out a black revolver from his arms, "This gun was from when I went to the United States two months ago.

I received it from an American friend of mine."

"Although it is very powerful, loading and aiming are very troublesome. If you don't train hard, whether you can hit a target in the distance depends entirely on luck."

"That's it..." Qingdeng murmured, "It's a gun given by a friend..."

——It turns out I didn’t buy it myself...

Qingdeng couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

He originally wanted to find out how to buy a gun from Katsu Rintaro...

For Qingdeng, whose soul comes from the 21st century, he has long been salivating over firearms.

If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't find a way to buy a gun, he would have stopped practicing swordsmanship and went to buy a pistol!

Although Aoto was regretful that he could not ask Katsurintaro what he wanted, he was not too anxious.

——Forget it...weapons like pistols...just let it happen...

Qingdeng comforted himself in his heart.

…

…

Tonight is a sleepless night for many people in Edo.

Not to mention the "Three Chapters" from the execution center who have been working hard since daytime to hunt down the barbarian group.

In order to escape the fire scene, people dragged their families and families to flee to a safe place.

In order to prevent the fire from spreading, the local fire department officers all had their faces blackened by the fire.

After nearly an hour of fighting, the fires in various parts of Edo were finally extinguished.

Being able to put out the fire so quickly was all thanks to two things.

1: God’s cooperation.

Although there was a slight night wind tonight, the wind was not strong overall. Without the help of the wind, the spread of the flames was greatly slowed down, leaving enough time for the town fire department to remove the fire belt.

Two: The shogun...that is, the mobilization of Tokugawa Iemo.

Tonight is a "sleepless night" not only for the residents of the town, but also for the officials at the execution office and the town fire department.

The Supreme Being who lives in Edo Castle has not slept until now...

…

Edo, Edo Castle, Fujimi oar——

"Sir General, the fire in Edo City has been basically extinguished." A man named Tokugawa Iemo knelt on one knee behind him and reported respectfully to Tokugawa Iemo who was now standing by the window.

At this moment, Tokugawa Iemo, who was standing by the window, was holding the window edge with both hands, pressing his lips tightly, and looking at the world outside the window solemnly.

And beside him, stood the "empress dowager of the day": Tianzouin - she stood side by side with Tokugawa Iemo, and looked out the window with Tokugawa Iemo.

Outside the window, in the towns and cities of Edo, the thick smoke that was still very strong just now has basically dissipated.

The firelight that originally illuminated half of the sky almost disappeared at this time.

Under the cover of night, the towns and cities of Edo were once again plunged into darkness.

Looking at the town where there was finally no more firelight, and listening to the report just made by the young man behind him, Tokugawa Iemo's face, which had been tense, finally gradually relaxed.

"It's finally extinguished... Let the town fire department calculate the damage as soon as possible. How many people died and how many houses were burned down? You have to give me an accurate figure."

"yes!"

"Okay, please step back first."

The young man lowered his head, said "Yes" loudly, and then exited the room with a quick but polite pace.

As soon as this young man left, he saw Tianzhangin, who had been standing next to Tokugawa Iemo, smile slightly.

"...Sir General." Tianzhangyuan asked in her wonderful and ethereal voice, "That's great, the fire in the town has finally been put out."

Tokugawa Iemo showed a tired smile: "It's been such a long night..."

As the shogun's residence, Edo Castle is located in the center of Edo. If anything big happened in the castle towns of Edo, it would not escape the eyes of Edo Castle.

When the flames started to appear in Edo's cities and towns, such as Kawan-machi, Edo Castle immediately detected the change.

Although there is a wide moat around Edo Castle, we should not be careless in the face of fire.

Thinking back two hundred years ago, the "Meiretsu Fire" that burned two-thirds of Edo to rubble spread to Edo Castle and burned down the Edo Castle Castle Tower, which was the tallest in the country at the time.

Already.

Although there was no wind tonight, as long as we acted quickly, there was a great hope of preventing the fire from getting out of control. However, the fires broke out in so many places at the same time, and the noise was still a bit scary. For the sake of caution, the officials responsible for serving Tokugawa Iemo in Edo Castle finally

Still decided to escort Tokugawa Iemo to a safe place.

At that time, Tokugawa Iemo had already fallen asleep. His attendants woke him up urgently and wanted to take Tokugawa Iemo to temporarily escape from Edo Castle through a tunnel.

After waking up in a daze and figuring out what had happened, Tokugawa Iemo had a serious face.

"It's ridiculous! As a general who conquered the barbarians, wouldn't it make people laugh if I ran away before the fire in the castle town was completely out of control?" - With these words, he severely reprimanded and advised him to leave Edo Castle temporarily.

After a meal with those people, Tokugawa Iemo insisted on staying.

Also requesting to stay in Edo Castle was Tenjoin: "With such a fire, it is far from the point where we need to leave through the tunnel."

Tokugawa Iemo got dressed, and together with Tenjoin boarded the Fujimi Tower, the tallest building in Edo Castle, where you can overlook Mount Fuji in the distance and have a panoramic view of the entire Edo city when the weather is good.

While monitoring the fire-fighting situation in real time in the tallest building in Edo Castle, he also personally issued a mobilization order: recruiting fire-fighting bandit Kai and other troops to participate in the fire-fighting.
To be continued...