"mercy?"

Issun looked scornful.

"It's so boring."

"It seems that you and I are really not the same person."

"What a shame."

"After I saw that you and I were both executioners who killed countless people, I thought that I might be able to become friends with you."

"It seems unlikely."

After saying that, Issun slowly lowered his body's center of gravity and re-arranged his fighting posture.

"You no longer have a knife. How long can you hold on with only one knife left?!"

Although I was not able to kill the little girl just now to vent my anger, Ichun felt a little regretful.

But the excitement of successfully destroying Ogata's sword made up for this regret.

Destroying one of Ogata's swords is equivalent to breaking one of Ogata's arms. It's hard not to feel excited about this.

Although there was only one sword left in his hand, Ogata looked calm from beginning to end, as if he was not worried about the impact that missing a sword would have on his strength.

Before Yichun could launch an attack, he clenched the only sword left in his palm with both hands and took the initiative to kill Yichun.

…

…

Kinnosuke's mansion, 2nd floor, storage room.

At this time, the storage room had been turned into a mess by Atachi and others.

The tatami is dotted with a large number of cabinets and barrels pulled out of the lockers, and the cabinets and barrels contain all kinds of strange things.

"Hey!" Amachi couldn't help shouting to the maid next to him who had worked at Kinnosuke's house for many years, "Do you really not know how Kinnosuke puts things in this storage room?"

This is the question Amachi asked the maid countless times.

And the maid responded to Atachi with the same answer for countless times.

"I really don't know." The maid grimaced and shook her head, "I'm just a maid who specializes in doing various chores and hard work. How could I possibly know that Konnosuke-sama puts things in this storage room?

What are the rules!”

"Tsk..." A-Machi punched the locker in front of him with an annoyed look on his face.

Both A-Machi and the maid whom A-Machi brought to help worked very hard to rummage through every cabinet and bucket in the storage room one by one.

But - there are too many cabinets and barrels in this storage room.

There are 3 large lockers close to the wall, and the total number of bins in the 3 lockers is more than 200.

Such a huge amount makes one’s scalp numb just by looking at it.

Although Atachi and others have been rummaging tirelessly, so far, they have only pulled out less than half of the number of cabinets - and there are no knives in any of these cabinets.

When rummaging through the pile of cabinets and barrels to find the locations of Mahashiten and Mahavatar, various disgusting situations frequently appeared.

For example - just now, a male villager who was asked to help by Atachi found a long strip-shaped object wrapped in layers of white cloth from a cabinet bucket - it looked very much like a sword.

After excitedly taking it apart, I discovered that it was just a bamboo pole similar in length to a knife.

A-Machi took two steps back and looked around anxiously at the three large lockers where more than half of the cabinets had not been pulled out.

Pulling out the lockers one by one like this, by the time Daeshukten and Dazizai were found, Ogata might have been hacked to death by Ishun.

Snapped!

Ating raised his left hand and slapped his left cheek hard.

Atachi didn't show any mercy to herself. After receiving the slap from her, her left cheek immediately turned red and she felt a stinging sensation.

But thanks to the tingling sensation, Atachi felt a little more awake.

My brain, which was originally a little confused due to anxiety, became a little clearer.

After forcing himself to stay calm through the pain, Atachi closed his eyes tightly.

Recalling all the information he knew about this storage room.

The first thing that came to A-Machi's mind was what the maid told her - everything in this storage room was placed in various cabinets and buckets by Konnosuke according to certain rules.

After recalling what the maid said to her, Amachi recalled the scene tonight when Konnosuke brought her and Ogata here to see Kazuyo and the prescription that Kazuo wrote for Konnosuke.

At that time, Kinnosuke, who led her and Ogata into the storage room, without any hesitation immediately found the cabinets where the two prescriptions were located among the more than 200 cabinets and buckets——

This is enough to prove that what the maid said is true.

Everything in this storage room is really arranged according to a certain pattern. Only in this way can Konnosuke find the two prescriptions that have been stored for many years so quickly.

Finally, Amachi recalled what Sokai once told them about Konnosuke's evaluation - "Kinnosuke is good at everything, but unfortunately he has a small problem, that is, he likes to be neat and tidy.

When it comes to things, I like to place them according to specific rules."

Atachi raised his hand and grabbed his hair with an annoyed look on his face.

All the information known so far points to the same fact - as long as we find the pattern of Konnosuke's placement of things, we can quickly find the locations of Daishiten and Daizuzai.

However - this is also the biggest difficulty.

Who knows what Konosuke’s rules are for putting things away?

The only one who knows this pattern is Konnosuke himself, who is still in a coma...

Opening his eyes, Atachi punched the locker in front of him again with an annoyed look on his face.

At this moment - just as Atachi punched the locker in front of her hard, she suddenly noticed two things at her feet.

It's a few locks and a few boxes of nails.

Looking at the locks and boxes of nails at his feet, A-Machi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

Amachi is very impressed with these two things.

Because this is what she just pulled out from two adjacent cabinets and barrels.

After seeing the locks and nails inside the two cabinets, A-Machi poured the two items out and threw the two cabinets aside.

Looking at the locks and boxes of nails at his feet, A-Machi couldn't help but complain in his heart:

——These cabinets really have everything in them...

——Does that Konnosuke have a hobby of collecting sundries... You can see all kinds of sundries in these cabinets and bins...

——And how on earth does this Kinnosuke arrange things...

——Why are locks and nails, such unrelated things, placed in adjacent cabinets and buckets... huh?

As soon as this complaint settled in A-Ding's heart, her pupils shrank slightly uncontrollably.

Because she just suddenly noticed that there is a special connection between locks and nails.

--Could it be that……?!

Holding on to the hypothesis that suddenly emerged from his mind, Atachi quickly opened another cabinet bucket adjacent to the one with the lock and the nails.

Inside this cabinet bucket is a necklace made of animal teeth.

After A-Machi took out this necklace, the maid on the side quickly introduced it to A-Machi:

"This is the Ezo necklace that Konnosuke-sama bought a few years ago."

Atachi ignored the maid's introduction and muttered softly:

"necklace……"

After throwing aside the necklace in his hand, Atachi opened the cabinet on the upper floor of the cabinet where the necklace was placed.

There are several sets of keys placed in the cabinet on the upper floor.

"key……"

As Machi muttered softly, he opened the cabinet bucket next to him.

There is a mirror in the cabinet next to it.

"Mirror……"

Open the cabinet bucket above the mirror - there are several small jars inside.

I unscrewed the jars and smelled them - it was lamp oil.

"kerosene……!"

A hint of excitement slowly appeared in his eyes, and he quickly opened the cabinet next to the lamp oil.

In the cabinet next to the lamp oil, there are several stacks of rice paper.

Looking at the rice paper contained in the newly opened cabinet, several dazzling rays of light burst out from A-Machi's eyes.

"found it!"
To be continued...