Makimura took Shimada and Ogata to what he just said was the best hiding place in Kyoto - Shimabara.

"Cheer up." Makimura smiled meaningfully at Shimada and Ogata, "The place we are going to next is the dream place of almost all men in Kyoto."

"Makimura-senpai," Shimada said hesitantly, "I've been wanting to ask you just now - where is Shimabara?"

"Shimada, you are indeed a wealthy young man who doesn't care about the world." Makimura smiled helplessly and said, "Shimada, you were born in Edo, so you should know Yoshiwara, right?"

"Of course I know!" Shimada said without hesitation.

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When he said this, Shimada's cheeks turned slightly red.

"Shimabara is Kyoto's Yoshihara - you should understand what I said, right?"

Hearing Makimura's words, Shimada was stunned for a moment.

Then, his cheeks quickly turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye...

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Makimura led Ogata and Shimada forward cautiously on the street.

Once he found someone dressed as an official approaching, Makimura, who was familiar with the terrain, led Ogata and Shimada into a nearby alley, waiting for the official to leave before coming out, or walking directly through the alley to kill the official.

They were bypassed directly.

Turning to a new street, I raised my eyes and looked forward - there was no sign of any official.

Makimura, who was slightly relieved, said to Ogata and Shimada behind him:

"We're almost to Shimabara."

There was no official figure on the street ahead, but there were seven samurai with swords on their waists, walking in the opposite direction to the three Ogatas.

Samurai are everywhere in Kyoto. No matter where you go, you can see groups of samurai with swords on their waists.

Especially tonight - the "Yamaboko Parade" will start in the near future. Groups of people planning to go see Yamaboko together later can be seen everywhere in Kyoto.

Therefore, neither Makimura nor Ogata paid much attention to the samurai who happened to be walking towards them, and walked carelessly forward along the center of the street.

It wasn't until he got a little closer to the seven samurai that Ogata noticed something strange.

These seven warriors were constantly looking around, as if they were looking for something.

Not only Ogata discovered it, but Makimura also discovered something was wrong with the seven samurai in front of him.

"Ah! Found it!"

At this moment, one of the seven samurai suddenly screamed and raised his hand towards the three Ogata people... to be precise, he pointed at Ogata.

Ogata realized something and narrowed his eyes slightly.

It is already difficult to escape from this distance.

Ogata turned his head and winked at Makimura and Shimada.

Makimura immediately understood the meaning of Ogata's look: stand down and don't interfere.

Knowing that Ogata was doing this for the sake of the two of them, Makimura raised his hand and grabbed Shimada's arm, pulling Shimada aside, pretending not to recognize Ogata, who just happened to be walking behind them.

Miso, miso, miso...

These seven samurai all pulled out the swords from their waists with neat techniques, and then ran towards Ogata.

Ogata glanced around - the few passers-by around him had all been scared away by the seven samurai who suddenly drew their swords, and there were no innocent passers-by around anymore.

After confirming that there were no innocent passers-by around, Ogata stood straight on the spot without ducking or ducking, waiting for the seven samurai to come over.

These seven samurai rushed to Ogata and surrounded Ogata in a semicircle.

"Let me ask you, are you Ogata Ittousai?"

"If you are looking for the executioner Ittosai Ogata Issei who is wanted by the whole city - yes, that's me. Are you bounty hunters?"

"About half an hour ago we were just ordinary ronin."

The leader of these seven warriors was a bald man. The bald man said in a deep voice.

"But we are now."

"Ogata Ittosai, you may not know, right? The Kyoto Prefecture is offering a large bounty for your head."

"As long as I get your head, I can get another 100 taels on top of your original bounty of 300 taels."

"Sure enough, there must be a brave man under a heavy reward... 400 taels in total..." Ogata raised his hand and touched his neck, "I always feel that I have been underestimated... How can a mere 400 taels be enough to win over me?

Brain.”

After putting down the hand that was touching his neck, Ogata slowly pressed his left hand on the mouth of Da Shiten's sheath.

"You should also have heard of the name of my executioner Ittousai, right? Are you sure you want to fight against an enemy of ten thousand people with only seven people?"

"Of course we have heard of executioner Ittousai's deeds of killing more than a hundred samurai by himself." Baldhead responded in a deep voice, "Even if there are seven of us together, we may not be your match."

"But...Ogata Ittousai, we have had enough of this kind of life where we have one meal and no one."

"Compared with losing our lives, we are now more afraid of running out of money!"

When he said this, the bald man's eyes flashed with a bit of... ferocious color.

"Except for the swords in our hands, we have nothing to offer, and we have no other way out except fighting with our lives!"

After listening to the bald man's words quietly, Ogata's eyes narrowed slightly.

He raised his eyes and glanced at the knives of these seven people.

The blades of these 7 people's knives are all rusty - it is obvious at a glance that they have not been oiled and maintained for a long time.
Chapter completed!