"Shunroku..." Looking at Junroku, who had been away for two years, Makimura's eyes showed extremely complicated emotions, "What have you been doing in the past two years...?"

Two years ago, after the two were released from prison, Shun Liu suddenly disappeared.

Without even saying hello to Makimura, he just disappeared suddenly.

The two met again two years later.

Shunroku, whose pseudonym was Ryuunosuke, did not answer Makimura's question, but chuckled a few times:

"Ah Ha, you really made it easy for me to wait. I have been waiting for you to come here on this 'white land' for nearly half an hour. I even started to wonder if you didn't recognize 'Ryuunosuke' just now.

It's just me, or I forgot about this 'white land'."

"The moment I found 'Wakasa incense' next to the bodies of the innocent people you killed, I thought of you." Makimura said solemnly, "Because... your former wife Ado liked to use Wakasa the most.

In the whole of Kyoto, Adyo is the only one who frequently goes to Iguchiya to buy and use Wakasa incense.”

"I even helped Adyo go to Iguchiya to buy Wakasa incense."

"After the explosive bomb was found in the building on Third Prince Street, I was sure that you were the mastermind behind it."

"Then... when you opened the window and threw a bomb at me and my companions, I saw your face..."

"Haha..." Shunliu touched his face, "You did see my face at that time... It's no wonder, I could see your face at that time, there is no reason why you can't see mine.

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"When that guy Ichisaburo told me that there was a 7-foot-tall strong man chasing him, I was thinking - Hachi, have you returned to Kyoto?"

"It wasn't until I opened the window, ready to throw a bomb in, and saw your face, that I was finally convinced - Haha, you have really returned to Kyoto."

"It scares me to think about it now. After I heard Ichizaburo's voice downstairs, I wanted to use explosive bombs to kill all those who dared to attack my stronghold."

"I didn't see your face until after all the bombs were thrown."

"After seeing your face, my soul was almost scared out of my mind."

"Fortunately, you threw the bomb back and didn't kill you."

"If my only remaining family member in the world is blown up, I will be uneasy for the rest of my life."

"Junroku..." Makimura gritted his teeth, "Where have you been in the past two years?"

"I have been recruiting troops and purchasing weapons for the past two years, always preparing to destroy Kyoto."

"Junroku!" Makimura could no longer control his emotions and shouted at Junroku, "Do you know what you are doing? Do you know how many innocent civilians will die if your crazy plan succeeds?

?!"

"I know." Shunliu said to Makimura in a calm tone, "My purpose is to destroy Kyoto and humiliate the shogunate. Of course I know that after my plan succeeds, many people will die."

"Kyoto was one of the three capitals of the Edo shogunate. Kyoto was destroyed by a group of people - for the shogunate, there is nothing more humiliating than this, right?"

"Junroku...you...are you going to overthrow the shogunate...?!"

"That's right!" A bit of madness appeared on Junliu's face at this time, "I want to overthrow the shogunate! I want to overthrow the shogunate! Destroying Kyoto and slapping the shogunate twice loudly in the face is my first step.

!”

"Junroku..." The face of the young man in front of him is so familiar, but now Makimura only feels that it is quite strange, "Are you... crazy...?!"

"I'm not crazy, I'm calm."

"Ah Ba, do you know what I was thinking when I held the body of Adian who was trampled to death after the fire ended at dawn?"

“I was thinking—the shogunate really sucks.”

"The world built by the Tokugawa family is a world of 'you oppress me, and I oppress you.'"

"Shogun, powerful people like the daimyo oppress the samurai."

"The samurai oppressed the common people."

"No matter how oppressive the common people are, they will be more obscene."

"The two warriors we have always admired before are just the hawks and dogs of the powerful, the objects of oppression by the powerful!"

"We must do whatever these powerful people ask us to do. We have no right to resist."

"What bullshit Bushido! It's just a set of tools to restrain the samurai and require them to serve as hawks and dogs for the powerful!"

"In this world built by the shogunate, the faces of the powerful are more important than the lives of samurai and common people!"

"In order to protect their own face, the lives of ordinary civilians are gone as far as the shogunate is concerned!"

"The Tianming Fire that occurred two years ago was a tragedy that gods and Buddhas did not open their eyes to. It was unavoidable."

"But such heavy casualties are a man-made tragedy!"

"In the Tenmei Fire two years ago, if it weren't for the ridiculous order to protect Nijo Castle, I don't know how many people would have survived because of the orderly evacuation of the officials!"

"After the disaster, the shogunate even boasted that the number of casualties was only 150?"

"Stop joking! Do you think everyone is a fool? There are hundreds of thousands of people in Kyoto. How can a fire that burned down more than 80% of the buildings in Kyoto only kill 150 people!"

"The corpses that were cleaned up were all measured in thousands, and in order to protect their own face, the shogunate openly lied about the total number of casualties!"

"While holding my wife's body, I swore to my heart that I would uproot this rotten shogunate!"

"...So..." Makimura said solemnly, "Two years ago, when you told me in prison, 'You are going to blow up Kyoto,' wasn't it a joke?"

"That's right! I was thinking about how to end the curtain at that time!"

"After I came out of prison and parted ways with you, I ran around making preparations for the fall and accumulating the strength to do so!"

"I didn't realize it before. It wasn't until I decided to overthrow the shogunate and traveled around the world that I realized that there were so many people who hated the shogunate!"

"There are ronin who were framed by Shangguan and had to leave the feudal clan."

"There is a samurai whose salary has not been improved and his family is on the verge of starvation."

“There are farmers who cannot bear the high taxes.”

"There are a lot of people who hate the shogunate! So I can easily recruit a large number of fighting forces!"

"After discovering that there are so many people who hate the shogunate, I am even more convinced that the Edo shogunate of the Tokugawa family is rotten to the core!"

"I gathered all those who hated the shogunate and named our overthrown force 'Gravediggers'."

"We will be the gravediggers of the Edo shogunate!"

Speaking of this, Shunliu raised his head and roared to the sky:

"I want the dignitaries of the Edo shogunate to experience the power of these people they usually look down on!"

"I want to show these powerful people how weak their Edo shogunate is! A small group of samurai, ronin, and peasants can destroy Kyoto!"

"When Kyoto is destroyed, my next target will be Edo!"

"Then why did you let your subordinates join the Six Great Sword Halls, pretend to be disciples of the Six Great Sword Halls, set fires everywhere, and blame the Six Great Sword Halls?" Makimura asked.

"Makimura, have you forgotten? When we were 14 years old, we planned to join the Qing Gakukan to learn swordsmanship."

"But because we had no money, we were turned away."

Shun Liu sneered.

"It wasn't until I became self-taught that I discovered that the masters of the six major sword halls were just like that!"

"You dare to teach people how to practice swordsmanship at this level! And they charge such high tuition fees. What's the use of keeping this kind of rotten swordsmanship hall?"

"So...you came up with this plan that will never make the Six Great Sword Halls recover?" Makimura said solemnly.

"That's right! It's a pity that because of that old guy He Xian, my plan became a mess, but it doesn't matter anymore!"

After roaring, Shunliu took several breaths in succession to adjust his breathing.

After his breathing stabilized again, Shunlioku said to Makimura with a smile:

"Ah Ba, come here and fight side by side with me."

"Just like we used to work together on Sanjizi Street to survive, and we worked hard to serve the public together at the monastery."

"You are also very disappointed with the samurai and the shogunate, aren't you?"

"I still remember what you said to Shenshan in prison two years ago."

"You said you were completely disappointed with the samurai."

"Just because I still remember your words, I have been waiting for you in this 'white land', hoping to recruit you, brother, into my group."

"Hachi, you must not have forgotten how disgusting the Edo shogunate was, right?"

"In the five years when I was in power, we saw too many disgusting activities of the Edo shogunate."

"Haha, why do you need to support and protect this disgusting shogunate?"

"So - brother! Come and help me!"

"We brothers will destroy this rotten shogunate together!"

After saying that, Shunliu extended his right hand towards Makimura.

Makimura had been quietly listening to Shunliu's roars one after another since just now.
To be continued...