Although he was wearing such a bright smile, what he said was completely incompatible with Genichi's current expression...

"...Genichi-san, are you serious...?"

"Of course I'm serious." Genichi shook the Tengu mask in his hand, "In order to prevent irrelevant passers-by from seeing my face, I asked Shimada to buy me this Tengu mask."

"...No wonder you suddenly asked Shimada to buy so many toys for you. Did you want to use other toys as a cover to buy this mask..."

Speaking of this, Ogata sighed lightly.

"Lord Gendai, you probably didn't get Miss Kinoshita's consent for your idea of ​​hunting down your enemies, right?"

"If I had obtained Xiaolin's consent, I wouldn't have had to secretly plan to break through the window in the middle of the night." Yuan Yi said confidently, "Xiaolin is quite verbose sometimes. If Xiaolin knew

I actually plan to take the initiative to fight against those people who beat me, and it will definitely take me a long time to teach them."

"Genichi-san, my thoughts are the same as Miss Kinoshita's." Ogata scratched his neck, "I think it's better for you to continue to be patient."

"Our primary goal now is to defeat Shiranui."

"So it is better to do less than to do more..."

Ogata wanted to continue talking, but Genichi raised his right index finger and shook it left and right.

"Ogata-kun, don't you understand this?"

"You should also know, right? Shiranui and I have a bloody feud."

Yuan Yi raised his left hand and scratched his left eye vertically.

"When I was young, I had a deadly fight with the current 17th generation Balrog and blinded his left eye. This was a personal grudge."

"Ten years ago, Fuma no Sato and Shiranui had a falling out. When Fuma was about to be surrounded and killed by Enma and the others, I personally stepped in to mediate."

"As a result, Shiranui missed the opportunity to kill the Fuuma who attacked their base alone and brought shame and humiliation to them. This is public revenge."

"The two hatreds combined have long made that Balrog guy hate me to the core."

Ogata listened carefully and nodded from time to time.

Ogata has heard of the two great hatreds between Genichi and Shiranui.

The former was learned from the secret book "Muga Two Sword Style", and the latter was learned from Fuma's mouth when he was recuperating at Fuma's home after the "Battle of Nijo Castle".

"It's unclear whether Enma knows that many of my enemies are in Edo."

"Let's just assume that Enma knows that there are many of my enemies in Edo."

"Ogata-kun, think about it."

"If you are Enma who hates Kinoshita Genichi to the core, and you learn that there are many people in Edo who also hate Kinoshita Genichi to the core, what will you do?"

Hearing this, Ogata raised his eyebrows slightly.

Although Genichi had not finished speaking at this time, Ogata had already understood what Genichi meant.

"Would you consider cooperating with these guys who also hate Kinoshita Genichi to the core?" Genichi grinned, "As you just said, our primary goal now is to defeat Shiranui.

"

"For us, whose ultimate goal is to defeat Shiranui, these enemies of mine who may fight alongside Shiranui are potential enemies."

"So before we launch a general attack on Shiranui, don't you think it is a wise move to kill our previous enemies?"

After silently listening to Genichi's words, Ogata fell silent.

Ogata had to admit that what Genichi said made sense.

His heart, which was originally dissatisfied with the idea that nothing would happen once the source of origin was gone, was obviously shaken.

While Ogata was still deep in thought, Genichi put the Tengu mask back on his face.

"By the way, Ogata-kun, you might as well follow me to fight against my enemies."

"Ah?" Shock appeared on Ogata's face.

Genichi's invitation came so unexpectedly that Ogata was stunned.

"If I'm the only one fighting against many, I might let some people escape."

"It would be much easier if you were in charge."

"How about it? Do you want to come with me?"

Ogata was stunned for a while at this sudden invitation from Genichi.

The already shaken heart became even more shaken.

Accompanying Yuan Yi will definitely earn you a lot of experience points.

The concept of experience points has always been very attractive to Ogata.

But Yuan Yi's talk has not stopped.

"If you come with me, I can also teach you some sword-wielding skills."

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…

"Huh... the wind is so strong..."

As Ogata said this, he tightened his upper body haori.

The night wind blowing towards Ogata like a sharp blade reminds Ogata all the time that we are in a season where the temperature difference between day and night is huge.

In order to fight against the gusts of night wind, Ogata was also fully armed: hakama, kimono, haori, and cloth socks were all neatly worn.

Just now, Genichi and Ogata jumped out of the window of their room one after another.

At this moment, the two of them were standing on a street with no one else around.

Now converted into earth time units, it is probably close to 24:00 in the evening.

At this time, except for a few areas such as Yoshiwara, the rest of Edo was dark, and no one was wandering around in the streets.

"Let's go, Ogata-kun."

Because he was wearing a tengu mask that just covered his entire face, with only a pair of eyes exposed, Genichi's voice was a little dull.

"Let's buy you a mask that can cover your whole face first. If you let passers-by see your face while cleaning up those 'rats', it will be troublesome."

Compared to Ogata, Genichi's dress is quite cool.

She was still wearing only the thin white yukata, with neither shoes nor socks on her feet.

Looking at Genichi's cool outfit, Ogata couldn't help but say:

"Master Genda, does it really matter if you are dressed like this? Be careful of catching a cold. At least put on a pair of shoes."

"Hahahaha. No, no need." Yuan Yi waved his hand boldly, "This little wind is just enough to sober me up."

"The calluses on the soles of my feet are very thick, so it doesn't matter if I wear shoes or not."

That's true...

Ogata said this in his heart and nodded.

As Yuan Yi said just now, the calluses on the soles of his feet are very thick.

It was so thick that it reminded Ogata of the soles of boots found in Western countries.

It's so thick that when two soles of the feet are slapped together, they can make a "bang bang bang" sound...

Seeing that Genichi really didn't seem to be afraid of the cold and didn't want to wear shoes, Ozu stopped talking nonsense and brought the topic back to business.

"Genichi-san, how do you plan to find those 'rats' in Edo, which has a population of more than one million?"

It's always a bit inconvenient to call him "Mr. Genichi's enemy" or "my enemy" all the time.

In order to make it easier to call them, Ogata and the two gave the group of enemies of Genichi a nickname: rats.

"Since I have decided to deal with these 'rats' one by one, I must know where to go to meet them most easily."

Yuan Yi grinned.

"Let's go to Yoshiwara."

"Yoshihara?" Because he was too surprised, Ogata's tone couldn't help but lose control.

"Ogata-kun, have you forgotten? There are many 'rats' coming in and out of Yoshiwara, trying to find me in Yoshiwara or collecting information about me."

“So it’s right for us to go to Yoshiwara!”

After hearing this reminder from Genichi, Ogata thought about it and it seemed that such a thing was indeed the case.

At that time, Genichi learned from his old acquaintance Shirobei that there were many "rats" coming in and out of Yoshiwara with the purpose of looking for Kinoshita Genichi, and from this he learned that many of his enemies gathered in Edo.

"I just came back from Yoshihara, and I have to go back to Yoshihara again..." Ogata couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Let's go, Ogata-kun."

I don't know if it was because he breathed the outside air that he hadn't seen for a long time, but Yuan Yi seemed to be quite excited.

"I don't know where the nearest shop that sells masks is... If I had known, when I asked Shimada to buy this Tengu mask for me, I would have asked Shimada where he could buy masks."
To be continued...