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Should I say it was good luck? After agreeing to help Kinoshita Mai investigate the "Tsuji Zhan Incident", Aoto was already prepared for a protracted war.

After all, there are only two of them, and they have no more manpower and resources to mobilize. They just rely on the "wait and wait" method to wait for the suspect to show up. They don't know how long it will take until the year of the monkey and the horse.

But who would have expected - on the first night when he agreed to help Mai Kinoshita, he met a highly suspicious suspect...

Qingdeng sometimes feels that his luck is really mysterious.

Things of very low probability often happen to him suddenly.

Just over a month ago, after learning that the red-faced brothers had fled from Kansai to Kanto, the Edo Executive Office held a meeting to remind the officers of the "Three Times" to pay attention to the red-faced brothers when patrolling the streets in the future.

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At this meeting, the official who presided over the meeting from the Osaka Administrative Office in Kansai specifically mentioned some important information about the red-faced brothers.

While Aoto and Mai Kinoshita silently followed the red-faced brothers and their younger brothers, they silently recalled what they had heard and heard at that meeting.

The brothers belong to that most difficult type of criminals: random murderers.

After analyzing the actions of the two brothers so far, it is not difficult to deduce that the reason why these two brothers are killing people everywhere is simply because they want to kill people.

It's not for money or sex, and it doesn't matter the gender or age of the person you kill, as long as it's a human being.

The elder brother, Yoshikawa Ichitaro, is a reckless man who is good at wielding the Odachi. He has only brute strength and little ingenuity.

The younger brother Yoshikawa Kojiro is the opposite of his elder brother. His personal strength is quite average, but his mind is quite good.

It is said that his younger brother Yoshikawa Kojiro is a very clever and cunning person.

He can tell lies that are completely contrary to reality so truthfully that it is difficult to find any flaws.

A large part of the reason why the two brothers have not been arrested and brought to justice is because their younger brother Kojiro is there to "make suggestions". On the way from Kansai to Kanto, he came up with various harmful tricks to avoid danger many times.

For peace.

For example: when being chased by officials with no way to escape, they would use extremely sincere and emotional lies to deceive kind-hearted civilians into lending them shelter or food.

In a word - they are a group of extremely vicious thugs.

In line with his current extremely light footsteps, Qingdeng also slowed down his breathing a lot.

There are no brick roads in the Huiduo settlement, and there is only a pile of mud on the ground, which absorbs the footsteps of Qingdeng and others very well.

Ayoto and Mai Kinoshita were like dancing on a grid, constantly flashing in the shadows of various houses, always maintaining a distance of about 7 or 8 meters from the red-faced brothers.

For a long time, he didn't notice that he was being followed by the red-faced brother and the others, as if they were looking for something, they crept forward deeper into the Huiduo settlement, looking left and right.

What are they looking for? As soon as this question popped up in Qingdeng's mind, he suddenly stopped when he saw the red-faced brothers and others in front of him.

The red-faced brothers stopped, and Qingtou and Kinoshita Mai had to stop themselves and retracted into the back of a thatched hut, only sticking out half of their faces to observe the situation.

I saw the red-faced brother and his younger brothers, all focusing their attention on somewhere in front of them.

Looking from the hiding place of Qingnobo and Kinoshita Mai, we could just see what the red-faced brothers were looking at - they were all looking at a little girl who was curled up on the side of the street.

This little girl is about 14 years old, very thin, and the bones in her limbs seem to be screwed on with screws, and they are not screwed very tightly, as if her hands and feet will be detached from the torso at any time.

The clothes on her body were torn and old, stained with disgusting filth. Because the girl was too thin, the clothes that were no different from rags on the girl were like hanging on a dead branch.

The clothes hangers are generally made.

The girl hugged her legs tightly with her arms and was sleeping soundly on the dirty street.

Except for this girl, there was no one else waiting on the street.

After the red-faced brothers and others took a closer look at the little girl, you looked at me and I looked at you.

Immediately afterwards... Qingdeng saw them all showing evil smiles that made people feel uncomfortable just looking at them.

The light of the knife flashed.

The eight samurai, headed by the red-faced brother, drew their swords with silent "gentle" movements, and then walked towards the girl with the same "gentle" steps, twirling their feet and hands.

The girl who slept too sweetly... her little chest was still rising and falling rhythmically.

No sign of danger approaching!

Whether it was Qingto or Kinoshita Mai, their expressions suddenly changed at this time.

No matter who you are, you can now see what the red-faced brothers want to do!

The moment his pupils shrank slightly, Qingden reacted quickly - his expression condensed, and while he put his right hand towards the orange juice on his left waist, he put his left foot out behind the house where he was hiding.

Next to him, Mai Kinoshita moved a little faster than him.

"That's it!" Kinoshita danced flexibly and jumped to the center of the street facing the red-faced brothers and others.

Kinoshita Mai's shouting broke the silence around her like breaking a mirror.

The red-faced brothers and their younger brothers were startled, and then quickly followed the sound and looked towards Kinoshita Mai who was standing behind them.

The girl who was awakened by Kinoshita Mai's yell opened her eyes blankly.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw the red-faced brother and others standing not far in front of her, holding bright swords.

The little blood on his face was so frightened that it all faded away. He screamed in terror and ran away from the red-faced brother and the others.

Kinoshita Mai's shouts and the girl's screams completely disrupted the silence around her.

Those who lived in the houses on both sides of the street, who were already sleeping soundly, were awakened by the sudden noise. They put their heads to the window or door in confusion to see what happened.

After catching a glimpse of Qingdeng, the red-faced brothers and others confronting each other, and seeing the knives in their hands and waists, their expressions changed drastically, and then they retracted their heads into the house.

The houses on both sides that had become noisier just now became extremely quiet again.

No one dared to watch, and no one dared to come out.

Huiduo, who have been discriminated against and treated completely like livestock, basically suffer from extremely severe "anthropophobia".

After ordinary civilians saw a scene like "two groups of warriors confronting each other", those who were bolder might dare to go and watch the excitement.

But few people dare to do such a thing.

A life that is not valued by the world... is so humble.

Regarding Kinoshita Mai's move of jumping out from the back of the house to stop the red-faced brothers and others, Qingto didn't say anything - if Kinoshita Mai hadn't moved a little faster than him, she would have stopped the gang.

He is the madman who wants to commit murder.

Aoto, who was moving a little slower than Kinoshita Mai, was now standing next to Kinoshita Mai while maintaining the movement of pressing his right hand on the handle of the tangerine water sword.

The red-faced brothers and others no longer cared about the escaped girl. They all frowned and looked at Qingto and Kinoshita Mai with vigilant eyes.

"Who?!" His elder brother, Ichitaro, asked Ayoto and Kinoshita Mai loudly with a hoarse voice like rust being rubbed.

You don't need to know - Qingden originally wanted to answer this in a false voice.

However... when he just opened his mouth, Kinoshita Mai beside him had already responded one step ahead of him——

Kinoshita Mai flattens her palms into a palm shape, raises her arms above her head, palms facing up, and bends her right leg high.

"That's right, Cat Monk!"

Qingdeng: "..."

The group of red-faced brothers: "..."

Both the people around Kinoshita Mai and the people standing opposite her were silent and staring at Kinoshita Mai, who was standing firmly on one foot.

Kinoshita Mai's behavior, which was almost like performance art, made the red-faced brothers and the others look confused, shocked, confused, and at a loss.

But the younger brother, Kojiro, reacted quickly.

He quickly regained his composure, and then frowned: "Cat Monk... Oh, you are the recently famous Phantom Thief..."

Kojiro pursed his lips thoughtfully.

He did not ask who Qingteng, who was standing next to Kinoshita Mai and wearing a black fox mask, was.

After he looked at Qingdeng for a few times, he smiled in a friendly and harmless way.

"Master Cat Monk, I have long admired your name!"

"I have heard about your deeds for a long time and have admired you for a long time."

After simply complimenting Kinoshita Mai with a sincere tone that left no room for fault, Kojiro suddenly changed his tone.

"I wonder why you show up here?"

"In a place like this, there should be no evil people who are full of evil and worthy of letting you steal their property."

Kinoshita Mai ignored the question posed by Kojiro.

She silently lowered her raised arms and right leg, and stared at everyone standing opposite her with eyes that did not hide her disgust at all.

I have to say - the black scarf on Mai Kinoshita's face is really useful.

After using it to cover most of her face, Kinoshita Mai no longer looked like her usual introvert and fearful self.

With the infinite sense of security provided by this scarf, Kinoshita Mai asked Kojiro and others righteously:

"Recently, there have been frequent sightings of poor people who were brutally beheaded by Tsuji... Were those people killed by you?"
To be continued...