"34 people...enough."

Kiryu said in a decisive tone, word by word.

"Makimura, pass the order: Everyone is ready for battle. In half an hour, we will attack Qingshui Residence!"

Makimura nodded solemnly.

At this time, he seemed to have remembered something. After raising his eyebrows a few times, he asked Kiryu in front of him:

"Kiuro, how is it going, young master?"

"What else can I do?"

Kiryu smiled bitterly and put on a helpless tone.

"After my scolding, she finally agreed to stay and guard the Thousand Things House."

Makimura sighed after hearing this.

"Alas... Jiulang, this is not a long-term solution. The young master is already a big girl, and is no longer the ignorant child she used to be. We can fool her for a while, but we cannot fool her forever."

Huluwu is an old enemy of the Fa Zhu Party.

Therefore, Huluwu has already had a certain understanding of the phantom deposit created by the Fa Zhu Party.

Makimura went to Yokohama this time not to investigate Genfusyo, but because he learned that there were traces of the activities of the Judiciary Party in Yokohama, so he went to check it out.

It was a pure surprise to find out the location of Huanfudian's manufacturing plant and to discover the actual relationship between the Fazhu Party and the Qingshui clan.

Yokohama is a newly emerging port city in recent years. Since its rise, it has prospered rapidly with each passing day.

With the rapid development of Yokohama, many Edo merchants turned to Yokohama to carry out import and export trade - Phoenix House Yataro was one of them.

There is no large-scale cultivation of opium poppy in Japan today.

If you want to collect a large amount of poppies necessary to make the magic deposit, you can only buy them from overseas.

Phoenix House Yataro, who cooperates deeply with the Hoshino Party, uses Yokohama Port as a transit point for purchasing and transporting poppies.

Through this clue, Makimura followed the clues to find out the relationship between Phoenix House Yataro and the Hozushi Party, and then found out the location of the manufacturing factory of Genfusei, as well as the relationship between the Hozushi Party and the Shimizu clan.

The terrifying medicinal properties of Huanfu Lake certainly aroused the alarm of Huluwu, but they did not want to invest too many resources in this regard.

Their highest goal is to completely defeat the FaZun Party.

In this case, instead of competing with a broken medicine, it is better to eradicate the Qingshui clan directly! This will bring higher and greater damage to the Fa Punishment Party!

Ever since, after knowing that the Fa Zhu Party and the Qingshui clan were allies, Kiryu made an immediate decision: mobilize his troops! Destroy the Qingshui clan immediately!

Compared to the Qingshui Clan, which has no clue where its headquarters is and is also more powerful, it is undoubtedly much easier to deal with the Qingshui Clan, which is just a Yakuza organization.

Especially after knowing that Tachibana Aoden kicked the Shimizu clan 13 times in a row, and that the Shimizu clan also made bold promises to hunt with Aoden at the Shimizu mansion, Kiryu became more determined in the idea of ​​"seeking bad luck for the Shimizu clan."

Of course, Kiryu didn't know what Aonto's recent experience was.

But he knew: Qingdeng would never cause trouble for others without any reason.

In this way, for various reasons, Kiryu decided to go to Qingshui Residence tonight, catch a few wise people, and "question" them about Qingden.

This operation involves the prosecution of the Party, so naturally - Kinoshita Mai was excluded.

The Fuzhu Party is an extremely vicious and unscrupulous terrorist organization.

Therefore, the lord of Kiryu and Makimura...that is, Kinoshita Rin did not want the still young Kinoshita Mai to get involved in the dispute with the Hoshino Party.

When Kinoshita Mai was entrusted to Kiryu who was far away in Edo in order to train her, Kinoshita Lin specifically told Kiryu: Now is not the time for Mai to face the terror of the slaying party.

Kinoshita Mai started to engage in phantom thief activities as a "cat monk", Kinoshita Mai and Qingto fell in love... She could not interfere with these things, but there was no room for negotiation on this matter.

Therefore, neither Kiryu nor Makimura dared to let Kinoshita go through this muddy water without Kinoshita Rin's approval.

Seeing that Kiryu and Makimura were leaving her to do some mysterious things again, Kinoshita Mai immediately expressed her dissatisfaction.

She was in trouble for a long time.

Kiryu spent a lot of effort to finally calm her down.

At this moment, she is reluctantly "keeping the empty room alone" and guarding the Thousand Things House with the big orange cat Duoduo.

"Makimura, we'll talk about this later. Now let's focus on the next battle."

Makimura nodded slightly, then changed to a semi-joking tone:

"Kuroro, how about it? Can you still wield the knife?"

When Kiryu heard this, he smiled slightly.

"Who do you think you're talking to?"

"It's just a joke, but the question I just asked was also serious."

Speaking of this, Makimura grimaced slightly.

"Since several years ago, haven't you been complaining that your body is useless and getting worse every year?"

"...After all, I am getting old too."

Kiryu's face showed an elusive emotion

"Anyway, I am already 93 years old this year, and my strength is definitely not as good as before, but it is still not a problem to deal with the mere Qingshui clan."

"Since your health is getting worse and worse, it's about time you passed on your mantle...and passed on your Vairocana and the secrets of Liuguang to your precious disciple, right?"

After saying that, Makimura subconsciously glanced at the black-purple handle sheathed sword on Kiryu's waist.

"I will pass it on to Lord Tachibana, but not yet. I should have said it before, right? Only when he reaches the state of 'killing things that mortals cannot kill' can I safely kill Vairocana..."

Pass this demon sword to him."

"'Things that can be cut but cannot be cut'... This is too embarrassing,"

Makimura let out a sigh of relief.

"Looking at the whole world, how many people can reach this state?"

Kiryu raised the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing an intriguing smile.

"This is not easy to say, but it is not difficult to say it is difficult - all you need to do is 'have no worries'."

"...Kuroro, you are getting more and more arrogant when talking."

At this time, a figure that was neither fat nor thin hurriedly emerged from the shadow not far away and rushed to Kiryu and Makimura.

"Master Kiryu! Master Makimura! I have something urgent to report!"

Kiryu raised an eyebrow.

"explain."

"Yes! I have received reliable information that the Qingshui Residence was attacked by unknown persons! According to the available intelligence... the intruder is the 'Nioh' Tachibana Aoden!"

What a coincidence. The big figures from the two forces, Fa Zhu Dang and Hulu Wu, showed exactly the same reaction after hearing the news for the first time:

Kiryu, Makimura: "...what?"

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…

Edo, suburbs, somewhere——

"..."

Sanako's long eyelashes trembled slightly.

Under the caress of the moonlight, she woke up leisurely.

"..."

She slowly sat up and then looked around with a blank look.

Seeing this, Yae, who had been by his side since Qingto left, was immediately in a panic, speaking incoherently and fragmented words.

"Ah, uh... um... then, um! Miss Chiba, are you hungry? Do you want some dorayaki?"

"..."

Sanako ignored Yae and continued to scan the car.

As if confirming something.

As if looking for something.

Sanako said nothing.

Yae was speechless.

Shazhong was silent.

Although this heavy atmosphere in which no one spoke was suffocating, within a moment, both sisters heard Sanako's extremely calm voice:

"...Give me the reins."

"..."
To be continued...