Edo, the place where the Huluya group hides

"Where did Mamiya go..." Makimura muttered, lying on his side on the tatami.

"Who knows." Asai, who was sitting next to him and oiling his sword, responded.

Yesterday morning, when they woke up, they found that Mamiya had gone out at some unknown time.

When asked where Lin Mamiya had gone, Lin only said, "He went to do something." Other than that, she did not reveal anything about Mamiya's movements.

As of now, Mamiya has been missing for almost a day.

They were not too worried about Mamiya's personal safety. After all, it was difficult for them to imagine that anyone else in this Edo city could threaten Mamiya's life.

The biggest impression Mamiya gave them was that he was reliable. No matter what he was asked to do, he could basically complete it with ease. When asked how he completed the task so easily, he said lightly, "I used to work in

I have studied ××”.

Makimura and others are now more curious about what Mamiya was doing when he "disappeared" so quietly.

"...Mamiya, he must be looking for his sweetheart who was secretly hidden in Edo, right?" Makimura said in a joking tone.

"This is even more impossible." Asai responded without hesitation, "Do you think Mamiya is the kind of person who can approach women?"

"That's true." Makimura nodded, "But there are no absolutes in the world, and people always change. Maybe after coming to the colorful world of Edo, Mamiya's originally dull heart began to move, and then he secretly went behind our backs.

I found a sweetheart in Edo."

"Then one day, he came back with a girl and said to us: Everyone, let me introduce to you, this is my wife."

"Makimura. It's a pity that you don't want to be a kabuki playwright." Asai complained to Makimura very skillfully, "Mamiya suddenly brought a woman back? How is this possible?"

After saying that, Asai shrugged and let out a sneer.

"You are very confident in Mamiya's character." Makimura raised his eyes and looked at Asai.

"Of course." Asai nodded, "Usually, Mamiya and I collaborate the most. I don't know how unfeminine Mamiya is?"

Makimura: "It seems that you are really confident in Mamiya's character."

"That's it." Asai, who was usually expressionless, had a rare confident smile on his face, "I'll tell you this."

Having said this, Asai seriously picked up the knife oil next to him.

"I am so confident in Mamiya's character that I can pat my chest and tell you: If Mamiya comes back with a woman one day, I will drink the oil on the spot."

Boom, boom, boom!

As soon as Asai finished speaking, the sound of "dong dong dong" footsteps suddenly sounded in the corridor outside the room.

"Makimura-senpai! Asai-senpai!"

The sliding paper door was suddenly opened by Shimada.

"Shimada, why are you in such a hurry?" Asai cast a puzzled look at Shimada.

"Mamiya-senpai is back!" Shimada shouted with astonishment, "You may not believe it, Mamiya-senpai, that he brought a young girl back!"

Shimada originally thought that after he told such explosive news, both Makimura and Asai would be so shocked that they stood up immediately.

However... when the scene actually appeared in front of Shimada, the two of them looked at him in shock.

Then they all silently turned their attention to the bottle of knife oil in Asai's hand...

…

…

Mamiya came back with A'zhu and Vairochana who were successfully rescued.

Including Genichi, who was still drinking quietly until Mamiya came back, everyone in Calabash House gathered together to listen to Mamiya's explanation of what he had done yesterday and what happened to the girl Atake.

Since we have to explain what happened to the girl A-Zhu, naturally we cannot avoid explaining her own life experience.

At this moment, Mamiya confessed his life experience to the rest of the friends of the Calabash House except Lin for the first time: Yamada Asaemon Yoshitsune, the eldest son of the seventh generation of the Yamada Asaemon family.

The person who was supposed to inherit the position of head of the family and become the eighth generation head of the Yamada Asaemon family.

"Mamiya-senpai, you turn out to be... a member of the Yamada Asaemon family..."

Among the people present, except for Genichi who was relatively calm and seemed to have already known where Mamiya was from, the rest of the people had uncontrollable shock on their faces.

"I'm sorry for keeping it secret from you for so long." Mamiya smiled at Shimada, "After all, for me, the past things, although there are good parts, there are also many places that are not worth remembering."

Shimada and others were only shocked for a moment by Mamiya's true identity.

After all, there is an even more concerning A-Zhu beside Time Palace.

"...Your name is Atake, right?" Lin, who was sitting directly in front of Mamiya, turned her gaze to look at the 15-year-old girl sitting behind Mamiya.

After noticing Lin's gaze, A-Zhu subconsciously hid behind the person next to him who desperately saved her last night, his eyes full of fear.

She was now wearing the new clothes that Yoshitomo had prepared for him, which made her look a little better, but the panic in her eyes, which she had just escaped from hell, was still not easy to remove.

Looking at the horrified A-Zhu, Lin pursed her lips. After thinking for a moment, she shouted to the people around her:

"You all should go out first. It will scare her if so many people gather here. Ah, Mamiya can stay."

Lin deliberately kept Mamiya, whom Atake trusted the most, so that she could have a sufficient sense of security.

Everyone, knowing Lin's intentions, filed out, leaving only Lin, Mamiya, and Atake in the room.

"Senior Asai, what's wrong with you?" As soon as he left the room, Shimada asked Asai beside him with a puzzled look on his face, "Why does your face always look so solemn? Is there something wrong with your body?"

Shimada noticed from the beginning that Asai's face looked very bad, as if he felt uncomfortable somewhere in his body.

"...Shimada."

Asai asked in a deep voice.

"If you drink a bottle of knife oil, will you die?"

Shimada:???

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…

After Genichi, Makimura and others left, Lin turned her attention back to Atake.

"Okay, there's no one else here now. It's just the three of us."

Lin was not an expressive person, and 90% of her expressions throughout the day were expressionless. But at this moment, she tried her best to raise the corners of her mouth, trying her best to show what she thought was a friendly smile.

"You don't need to be afraid. We are not bad people and we will never do anything to you."

"I promise you: we will definitely escort you all the way home."

"But before that, could you please tell me what you have experienced before, and how did your body become so resilient?"

Perhaps it was because Lin and she were both women and relatively petite, so Lin gave A-Zhu a sense of intimacy and security, and the uneasiness and fear in her eyes dissipated a little.

She raised her gaze and glanced at Mamiya, who rescued her from hell last night, and the panic in her eyes dissipated slightly again.

"I, my name is Atake...from Osaka..."

When Atake speaks, he speaks standard Kansai dialect.

With a slightly trembling voice, she slowly explained her past.

Her past was not complicated, but it made Lin frown slowly.

According to Atake, she is the daughter of an ordinary craftsman in Osaka.

When returning home one evening, she suddenly heard rapid footsteps behind her. Before she could turn her head to see what was going on, she felt a heavy blow on the back of her neck, and then fainted.

.

When he opened his eyes again, he found that he was locked alone in a dark, prison-like place.

Not long after she woke up, two people entered the prison and force-fed her a piece of meat that was only as big as a fingernail. Because A-Zhu never eats meat, she couldn't tell what kind of animal it was.

of meat.

After force-feeding her this piece of meat, he also forced a pill with a strong medicinal smell into her mouth, forcing her to swallow it.

After being fed this piece of meat and that pill, Ah Zhu felt that his body was very hot, so hot that it felt like his whole body was being burned on a ball of fire.

After the heat in his body subsided, A-Zhu was surprised to find that his body had an astonishing ability to recover.

No matter what kind of injury occurs on the body, the injury will recover very quickly. When the injury recovers, the wound will not feel anything, it is painless and itchy, and the injury will recover silently.

Since taking the weird meat slices and pills, she has not been fed anything strange or done anything.

She was kept in prison like this. Occasionally, a few people would come and cut wounds on her body with knives, as if to observe the recovery condition and speed of her wounds.

It was dark in the prison, and she couldn't tell whether it was day or night, or what time it was. Even though she cried and howled, begging to be let go home, no one paid any attention to her. If she made too much noise, she would even be beaten.

Fan, was warned not to make any more noise.

I don’t know how long I have been detained, I don’t know how my body became like this, and I don’t know how long I will be detained for.

The only thing she knew was that those in prison called her "Ding Ling Er San".

Until one day, A Zhu smelled the smell and smell of thick smoke.
To be continued...