What Ogata used was the water fall of Sakakihara's Ittoryu.

Then the gravitational potential energy of the body's fall directly killed this guy.

After the battle with the bandits, the feel of the blade cutting through flesh was transmitted along the handle to the palm of my hand after being away for more than a month.

The familiar system prompt for gaining experience points sounded.

According to Ogata's actual experience of this man's skill and the system's prompt tone, the man who was killed by Ogata's sword was not very strong. Ogata's personal level and the experience bar of Sakakibara's Itto style only gained 75 experience points respectively.

Just value.

Before the lifeless guy could fall to the ground, the other two companions standing on his left and right had faces full of horror.

"ah……"

Just as the two men had time to utter the first syllable of their screams, they saw the light of two swords rising from the sky.

As soon as Ogata's feet touched the ground, he quickly switched the Daizhi in his hands to the lower stance, and slashed from the bottom up to the chin of one of the remaining two people to the Tianling Gai.

As soon as Da Zi Zai's blade was cut out from the man's Tianling Gai, Ouriang turned the blade again, got into a stabbing stance, aimed the tip of the blade at the last man's chest, and then pierced his chest with one blow.

When pulling Dai Zizai out of the man's chest, Ogata grabbed the wide sleeve of the man's kimono and stood between him and the man so that when he pulled out the sword, the blood spurting from the wound would not splash on him.

On the body.

"Ding……"

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"Ding……"

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The system tone rang 2 more times.

It only took a few breaths of effort to kill the three guys who had been trying to kill them with bows and arrows just now. Together, the three of them only added less than 200 experience points to Ogata's personal level experience bar.

value.

When Ogata took out the pocket paper he carried with him and wiped off the blood and grease attached to the sword, Amachi trotted to Ogata's side.

"The bandits in Ezo Land are so simple and straightforward..." Amachi murmured, "Without saying anything, they just planned to kill us and steal our money..."

After murmuring, Ating squatted down, raised his hands, and quickly rummaged through the three people's bodies to find the loot.

The identities of these three guys are not difficult to guess.

In all likelihood, they are the thieves who plan to steal Ogata and Atachi's money.

Ogata and the others saw a lot of this kind of people in Tohoku some time ago.

It's just that the people I met before will also say a few words. For example: "Hand over the money obediently!"

Some people who are greedy for Ating's beauty will say a few more words, such as: "Keep the woman next to you obediently."

But this was the first time they had seen these three people who didn't say anything, just drew their bows, fired, and started killing people.

Soon, Amachi touched the corpses of the three robbers all over. All three of them were quite shabby.

They only carried a small amount of copper coins with them. A rough count showed that they only amounted to a little over a hundred coins.

Their bows and arrows must not be taken away.

Neither Ogata nor Omachi can use a bow.

If you want to sell it for money, there is no way to resell the stolen goods.

"Omachi, let's go." Ogata said, "Maybe someone will come here sometime. If people see us standing next to three corpses, it will be inconvenient to explain."

"Yes." A-Machi nodded, put away the hundred cents he had just looted from the three corpses, and then followed Ogata quickly out of the alley.

After returning to the bustling street, Amachi looked back at the alley that had disappeared behind them.

"They look really weird..." Amachi muttered.

"They should be Ezo." Ogata answered.

A bit of surprise flashed in A-Machi's eyes:

"Is that Ezo?"

Atachi has never seen Ezo with his own eyes.

Ogata: "I guessed it. But I can't guess wrong."

Ogata had never seen Ezo with his own eyes.

But during his previous trip to the sea, he heard Soichiro Nishino introduce the appearance of Ezo.

The appearance is obviously different from that of Kazuto. The facial features are deeper, three-dimensional, and the hair is thicker, which is completely consistent with the appearance characteristics of the three robbers just now.

"Ezo... are wearing our Kazuto clothes..." Amachi turned his head and looked back again, "Could they be naturalized Ezo?"

"Probably." Ogata nodded, "Since they can walk around in Kazuto's castle wearing kimonos, they must be naturalized Ezo."

The feud between Kazuto and Ezo has a long history, dating back thousands of years.

As early as thousands of years ago, Kazuto and Ezo had a protracted war.

The de facto highest authority in Japan, the ruler of the shogunate, the shogun, whose full name is the Shogun.

Thousands of years ago, General Zhengyi was just an ordinary military attaché.

The "barbarian" in "Shogun" means "Ezo". "Shogun" is an official title specially created to fight against Ezo.

Until later, the power of the emperor was taken away by a samurai named Yoritomo Minamoto. After removing the power of the emperor, Yoritomo Minamoto established a new government in the Kamakura area, which was the first shogunate in Japanese history: the Kamakura shogunate.

When the first shogunate in Japanese history was established, Minamoto Yoritomo's official position was "General of the Conquest of Barbarians".

Since then, the title "General of the Conquering Barbarians" has been inherited. The Muromachi shogunate after the Kamakura shogunate and the current Edo shogunate have all inherited this title.

"Shogun" just changed from an ordinary official title to the official title of the supreme ruler of the shogunate for hundreds of years.

Thousands of years ago, Ezo's sphere of influence was extremely wide. Ou, Hokuriku, Kanto and other regions on Japan's Honshu Island were all Ezo's territory.

However, because Ezo has always been in a primitive tribal civilization, it is no match for Kazuto's soldiers.

So Ezo was driven all the way north, completely driven out of Honshu Island, and driven all the way to the current Ezo land.

Over the past thousand years, there have always been some Ezo who either actively or passively transformed into Japanese people.

The appearance of the three people just now wearing kimonos made Amachi naturally think that they might be naturalized Ezo.

"If those three people just now were naturalized Ezo...then the bows they used just now should be Ezo bows..." Amachi muttered, "What a dangerous group of bandits... they even have bows and arrows...

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Ogata nodded with deep understanding, expressing his agreement with what Amachi just said.

Although Ogata had easily killed the three bandits just now, this was only because Ogata was too strong.

If it were not Ogata and the others who were robbed today, but someone else with ordinary skills was robbed, then the person who was robbed might have died.

Before firearms appeared, bows and crossbows were the undoubted king-level weapons.

Because this is a peaceful era, Ogata has rarely seen bows and arrows before.

Ordinary samurai families and civilian families did not have bows and arrows at home, and no one would carry them with them.

Unexpectedly, as soon as we landed in Ezo, we were attacked with bows and arrows for the first time in a long time.

While Ogata and Atachi were still discussing in low voices the three gangsters they had just encountered, they suddenly saw six people dressed as government officials walking towards them in front of them.

These six officers are in very standard "official dress" with ten arms, thorns and other fishing equipment.

This group of officers held their heads high and walked striding in the middle of the street.

Passers-by on the street stepped aside to allow the officers to pass by.

Ogata and Atachi were not walking on the path that this group of officials must pass, so there was no need to worry.

When he passed by this group of officials, Ogata turned his head and looked towards the group of officials.

When looking at this group of officials, Ogata's brows were furrowed.

"...A-Machi." Ogata whispered softly to A-Machi next to him, "Don't you think there seem to be too many official duties here?"

Ogata also just discovered it.

From the time he left the port and entered the city until now, Ogata has seen many waves of officials standing guard or patrolling.

Such a number of official errands seems to be too much.

Ogata had never seen such a high density of official deployment in Edo before.

Hearing Ogata's words, A-Machi recalled the scenes since landing: "It seems so... there seem to be too many official duties here... Did something happen?"

"...Forget it. Don't worry about it for now." Ogata said softly, "Let's go."

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Ogata had just killed the three guys who planned to kill them with bows and arrows, and not long after he quickly left the alley, a town resident who had lived here for a long time passed through this alley in order to take a shortcut home.
To be continued...