"That's fine."

"This look is more suitable for the image of a 'harlequin'."

Shintaro Tojo has finished speaking.

Qingdeng remained silent.

An audible silence fell between the two of them.

To be honest, Qingden really doesn't know what to say now.

There is no doubt that Tojo Shintaro's past is a tragedy.

The pressure of reality and the flaws of human nature have turned the once brilliant and talented gunman into the depraved appearance he has now.

Before Qingto could open his mouth to break the silence, Tojo Shintaro spoke again on his own:

"Your Highness, if there is nothing else to do, I would like to excuse you."

Qingdeng was stunned for a moment, then nodded mechanically:

"Um."

Shintaro Tojo turned back and walked towards the door.

When he reached out and was about to open the door, he seemed to remember something, paused, and said seriously:

"Your Highness, please don't call me 'Feng Jian Yima' again in the future."

"Don't ever mention the title of 'The Kirin'er of Langhua' again."

"'Wind Seeing a Horse' is dead."

"The person standing here now is 'Tojo Shintaro'."

"How can a beast like me be called a prodigal?"

After saying that, Shintaro Tojo didn't stay any longer, opened the door with a bang and left.

Listening to the footsteps gradually fading away, Qingdeng sighed silently.

After listening to Tojo Shintaro's story, he felt nothing but a heavy heart.

In this world full of injustice, it is really difficult for ordinary people to live with dignity...

——Let’s go for a walk outside.

Just as he was thinking this, new footsteps came from outside the door - very familiar footprints.

Aoto knew as soon as he heard it: Yataro Iwasaki is here.

Sure enough, within a moment, Yataro Iwasaki's voice came from outside the door:

"Lord, it's me!"

"Come in."

Yataro Iwasaki opened the door and entered.

"Yataro, is something wrong?"

Qingden asked bluntly.

As Aoto's die-hard supporter and core confidant, Yataro Iwasaki does not deliberately follow red tape when he and Aoto are alone, and is more natural and casual.

Facing Qingdeng's inquiry, he looked bitter and said bluntly:

"Lord, it's a pity that I still haven't been able to find 'Wan Liangang'..."

After Qingdeng heard this, he raised his eyebrows, a look of helplessness appeared on his cheeks.

"That's it..."

As he spoke, he walked towards the sword stand not far away, picked up Vairocana, and pulled out the sword with a bang.

A dazzling purple sword light wandered in the air.

I saw that the previously smooth and new blade was covered with dense gaps! As straight as a saw!

It's dense enough to make trypophobia patients get goosebumps!

The unprecedented decisive battle between Qingden and Keji caused Vairocana to suffer extremely serious injuries.

There were 16 major injuries and 81 minor injuries...thanks to Vairocana's rare sword.

An ordinary sword would have been broken long ago after suffering such heavy damage.

In fact, this also proves the superior quality of Vairochana. He and Soni Kotetsu, the "Supreme Great Property", fought against each other but did not fall behind at all.

After careful inspection by the knifesmiths, they finally made a unanimous judgment: this knife cannot be repaired! Either the blade must be recast, or the knife must be replaced!

Changing the tool is impossible.

Vairocana is the sword that Kiryu's boss solemnly entrusted to Qingto. It is of great significance. Qingto will never replace Vairocana.

In this case, the only option available is to recast the blade.

It is a pity that Vairocana was seriously damaged.

But if you think about it from another angle, this may not be a valuable opportunity!

If you want to recast the blade, you need to find the right steel.

Recasting Vairocana's blade with ordinary steel will definitely lower its quality.

On the other hand, if Vairocana's blade is recast with top-notch steel, it can be brought back to its original level, and perhaps its quality can even be raised to a higher level!

Speaking of top-notch steel, a name immediately jumped into Qingdeng’s mind: Wan Liangang!

According to Kiryu's boss, Wanliang Steel is a top-notch steel material that can only be found and is rare enough to be called a "legend".

The blade of a sword made of "Ten Thousand Refined Steel" will appear jet black, and its sharpness and toughness are both extraordinary and unmatched by ordinary swords.

There is no doubt that if tens of thousands of steel are used to recast Vairocana's sword, it will be reborn from the ashes and its quality will be greatly improved!

As a result, Aoto entrusted Rin Kinoshita to ask for her help in finding "Wanren Steel", and at the same time issued an order to Yataro Iwasaki, asking him to use his maximum strength to collect information about "Wanren Steel".

Although Qingden had long expected that the legendary steel would not be so easy to find, the results before his eyes still made him feel discouraged.

Neither Rin Kinoshita nor Yataro Iwasaki worked hard but to no avail.

In fact, Kinoshita Rin had been trying to find this legendary steel a long time ago.

However, over the years, not even the slightest bit of news or intelligence has been received, let alone finding "Wan Liangang".

This made Qingdeng wonder: Could it be that "Wan Lian Steel" is just a product of people's imagination?

All in all, although he didn’t want to give up so soon, he still couldn’t find the current situation of “Wan Steelmaking”, so Qingdeng had to start thinking about alternative plans:

——We might as well settle for the next best thing and recast Vairochana with the best steel available on the market...

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Tosa Domain, Kochi Castle (the feudal hall of Tosa Domain), prison——

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh-!"

In the past, Okada Izo, who was known as "People Killed Izo", looked up to the sky and screamed in agony.

Okada Izo, who was subjected to the "stone hug" punishment, had two large stones pressed on his legs.

Under the pressure of the heavy stone, he felt that the muscles in his legs were about to tear and the leg bones were about to break.

It's hard to describe the severe pain.

Okada Izo shouted until his voice became hoarse, and his vocal cords seemed to be torn at any moment.

After the volume gradually died down, the executioner on the side immediately asked in a ferocious tone:

"Speak quickly! Did Takeichi Hanheita instruct the assassin to kill Yoshida Toyo?!"

Yoshida Toyo—the elder of the Tosa Domain and a very famous capable minister.

The grievances between Yoshida Toyo and the Tosa Kinnobu clan have been going on for a long time.

To put it simply, Yoshida Toyo believed that "respecting the foreigners and opposing the foreigners" was really absurd and unsettling and not worth refuting, so he disliked the Tosa Kinnobu Party very much.

Due to his extraordinary talents, Toyo Yoshida was deeply trusted by the former Tosa domain lord, Yamauchi Toyonori, the current lord of the Tosa domain, Yamauchi Toyohori.

With the strong support of the two feudal lords, Yoshida Toyo took control of the Tosa Domain and launched a series of drastic reforms, which greatly increased Tosa's national power and suppressed the Tosa Kinnoi Party.

On April 8, the second year of Bunkyu (1862), Yoshida Toyo was brutally assassinated on his way home, and even his head was chopped off.

The power vacuum created after Toyo Yoshida's death was quickly filled by the Tosa Kinnoir Party, and the leader of the Tosa Kinnoble Party, Takeichi Hanheita, took advantage of the situation and came to power.

In this way, anyone would think that Takeichi Hanheita was the culprit behind the murder of Yoshida Toyo.

However, due to lack of evidence, Wushi Banpingtai could only be allowed to go free.

It was not until the "August 18th Coup" a year ago that the anti-rebellion movement suffered a severe blow that things finally turned around.

Since the death of Toyo Yoshida, the Tosa Kinou Party, which was at the height of its power in Tosa, lost power almost overnight.
To be continued...