"Ahhhhhhhhh!"

"Quick! Run away!"

"Don't crowd! Don't crowd! Everyone, please listen to my command! Please escape in this direction!"

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"Hey, hey, hey...what's going on?" Todo looked dumbfounded at the crowds of people running around.

Saito sniffed hard, then his face darkened, and his left hand subconsciously touched the saber on his right waist: "It smells of blood...!"

"Blood?" Harada was startled, "Are the anti-foreign patriots killing people indiscriminately again? Is there any mistake, killing people at the venue of a fireworks display?"

"Who knows...! Hey! Uncle!" Nagakura grabbed a middle-aged man who passed by him, "Did something happen in front?"

The middle-aged man looked unhappy when he was suddenly pulled over and his escape was blocked.

But after seeing Nagakura's strong body, ferocious face, the sword at his waist, and the large number of warriors beside Nagakura, the lines on the middle-aged man's face softened instantly.

"Master Samurai, don't go any further! There is a lunatic in front of you who is wearing armor and holding a big gun and killing people! Many people have died! Run away! In this situation... we can only wait for the fire to deal with the thieves.

The reformed troops are coming to suppress the formation!"

"A madman wearing armor and holding a big gun?" Nagakura opened his eyes.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! No, don't-!"

A girl's scream came from the front like a sharp arrow, piercing everyone's eardrums.

"It looks like we can't watch the fireworks show tonight..." Before Kondo muttered like this, his body had already started to move - he held on to the saber on his waist, lowered his body's center of gravity, and charged straight forward.

The others were stunned for a moment and then quickly caught up.

Passing by countless tourists and houses on both sides of the street, Kondo and others saw a hellish scene after turning a corner.

Corpses...lots of corpses.

At a rough count, there were more than twenty corpses scattered throughout the street in front of them.

These corpses include men and women, old and young, some are petty officials dressed as servants, and some are civilians wearing ordinary clothes...

Although the genders and identities of the victims were different, they had one thing in common: basically none of their bodies were intact.

Or the body has been poked with a hole as big as the mouth of a cup, or some part of the limb has been lost, or it has become torn apart, and the upper or lower body cannot be found...

The blood flowed into the pestle, and the corpses were measured by the water.

A ronin wearing an armor splattered with a large amount of blood and body fluids, holding a large gun with a rod that was dripping blood, strutted towards a delicate woman who was trembling with tears on her face.

The little girl's frail body was huddled in the corner of a deserted outdoor tea stall.

The scream that Kondo and the others just heard came from the mouth of this little girl.

"Rebel!" After walking to a position where the gun blade could hit the little girl, Ronin raised the big gun in his hand above his head, "Suffer death!"

"Ahhhhhhhh!" The girl closed her eyes tightly, raised her hands and covered her face with all her strength.

"Bastard! Stop!" Kondo roared, drew his sword in his hand, and rushed towards Ronin.

Although Kondo was the fastest to react and struck first, there was one person who arrived behind him. He passed by Kondo at a speed so fast that only a shadow of his body was left, and rushed to Ronin first.

Heisuke Toudo is the one who leads the way!

The talent of "taking the lead" makes Todo's running speed far beyond what other people can match.

There is absolutely no need to show mercy when faced with such a lunatic who cares so little about human life.

Toudo let out a "haaaaah" and used all his strength to strike down with the force of the saber held in front of him in a mid-body stance!

The place he aimed at was the Ronin's head.

However, Ronin was too tall... Ronin was 1.9 meters tall, which was astonishing in this era.

To ask Todo, who is only a little over 1.5 meters tall, to split the head of a tall man who is 1.9 meters tall... it is too strong and difficult to handle.

Therefore, Toudo had to lower his attack height and cut Ronin's right arm instead.

A bright white blade suddenly shot out, causing Ronin's pupils to shrink suddenly in shock.

The next moment, Ronin showed off a set of moves that showed the style of a martial arts master and a person who has experienced many battles.

He quickly released his right hand and actively used his armored right arm to face the white blade that had not yet accelerated to its maximum speed.

clang!

The white blade collided with the arm armor.

The white blade failed to break through the defense, leaving only a white mark on the armor.

At this time, Kondo and others arrived.

Kondo, Hijikata, Saito, and Nagakura, the four of them surrounded Ronin from four different directions.

4 shining blades illuminated the Ronin's face.

Ronin glanced sideways and scanned the positions of Kondo and others. He did not choose to fight forcefully, but used his right arm to push away Toudou's sword, and then relied on his superb footwork to take several steps back.

This person obviously has such a huge body and wears a set of heavy armor, but his steps and movement are surprisingly flexible and agile.

"Girl, let's go!" Inoue stood in front of the girl who was almost killed just now with a knife in his hand. While protecting the girl behind him, he did not yell at her.

At the same time, Harada urged and protected the people still staying nearby to evacuate quickly.

Although the girl survived the disaster, she was so frightened that two of her three souls were missing, and only one of her seven souls was left.

With a dull look on her face, she didn't even have time to say "thank you". She even forgot to retrieve the clogs she accidentally dropped just now, and hurriedly ran away into the distance while crawling and rolling.

"So many rebels are here again..."

Ronin glanced at Kondo and the others who were surrounding him in a fan-shaped formation, and grinned.

"Okay! Then I will kill them all today!"

Having said that, Ronin lowered his center of gravity, spread his legs with his left foot in front and his right foot behind him, and held the big gun in his hand in front of him with the tip of the gun pointing diagonally at the sky.

"I am one of the 'Twenty-Four Takeda Generals', a descendant of Mitsuru Tada: Tada Koemon! Rebels! I think you are quite capable! Tell me your name!"

"You are rebelling against the party...!" Hijikata said with a bad mouth, "It seems that you are really a delirious lunatic! A lunatic like you deserves to know our names..."

"No leakage, Saito Kazuo."

"Hey! Saito! Don't be so honest!" Hijikata said frantically.

Except for Saito Seiji, who honestly reported his family name, everyone else ignored Tada Koemon.

"Hmph! Don't you want to say your name...that's fine!"

Tada Koemon slightly narrowed his bloodshot eyes, opened his mouth and let out a breath of thick air.

"As samurai, you don't want to serve your country. Instead, you follow rebels like Oshio Heihachiro to start a rebellion! You incited the peasants to attack the shogunate and made Osaka the miserable state it is today. It is truly an unforgivable crime!"

After hearing these words from Tada Koemon... to be precise, after hearing the name "Oshio Heihachiro", the expressions of Kondo and the others changed.

Oshio Heihachiro... No one knows this name, no one knows it.

It is both a belief for some people... and a taboo for some people!

Just when everyone was shocked that Tada Koemon suddenly said the name of this great man, Tada Koemon suddenly shouted loudly.

"Drink! Rebel! Die!"

The long gun blade was like a poisonous snake coming out of its hole, biting Kondo who was standing directly in front of it.

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"Ahem...no, it's okay."

Souji cleared his throat vigorously and patted his chest.

"I just accidentally choked on the spit."

Hearing what the Director-General said, Qingto immediately looked relieved.

"It turns out I was just choking on the spit... Really, seeing you coughing so hard, I thought something was wrong with you."

"Hahaha, I'm sorry." Souji reached out and stroked the ponytail on the back of his head, "I made you worry."

The director-general's cough had the effect of "unintentionally inserting a willow tree into a tree".

She suddenly coughed violently, causing Kinoshita Mai and Sanako to cast worried glances at her. They did not bother to glare at Aomori with murderous intent, and the tense atmosphere was relieved again.

Now that there was nothing major going on with the General Director, Qingteng was relieved - he was able to refocus his mind on how to solve the crisis at hand.

Although Souji's help provided him with great help, it visibly improved the mood of the two girls...especially Kinoshita Mai, and saved Ban Qingden's image in the hearts of the two girls, but he still couldn't help it.

After all, the company's assistance only treats the symptoms rather than the root cause.

If he wants to survive the current crisis, he has to rely on himself.

His mind began to spin again, and he rethought how he should explain his "ambiguous behavior with two girls at the same time" to Mai Zuo.

However... the gears in Qingdeng's head began to move——
To be continued...