"If I were an enemy, I would have reunited you and your family in the cell a long time ago instead of taking so much trouble to bring you here to protect you."

"I don't want to see too many innocent people being harmed by that lunatic Toyotomi Nobuhide, so I do my best to protect you and try to protect Ogata Ittosai who has been targeted."

"No matter how strong that Ogata Ittousai is, facing Toyotomi Nobuhide's targeted attack, even if he doesn't die, he will definitely be tortured in unspeakable agony."

"If you want to see Ogata Ittousai's corpse lying on the streets, just continue to remain silent."

Hatsumi's words succeeded in making Isshikika's expression waver.

She lowered her head and looked at the tatami between her and Hatsumi.

"I also... don't know where Mr. Ittosai lives in Osaka... and I don't know where Mr. Ittosai is."

After waiting for a long time, Chu Guang heard Isekihua say this.

Chu Guang stared at Issekika's face for a while: "...it seems you didn't lie. Alas...now we're in trouble..."

Chu Guang sighed heavily, and then took out a Western pocket watch from his arms.

After looking at the time on her watch, she muttered: "There isn't much time left... I should go."

After saying that, Chu Guang stuffed the pocket watch back into his arms, then picked up the strip of cloth that had just been taken off to seal Isshikika's mouth, and tied it up at Isshikika's mouth at a very fast speed.

Chu Guang's hand speed is extremely fast.

Just as Isshikika's consciousness came to her senses, Chuguang had already tied her mouth tightly again.

"I don't have much time left to move around freely. It's time for me to go."

Chu Guang said sternly to Isshikika whose mouth was sealed again.

"My colleagues are still looking for you, so I can't let you go yet. You can live here temporarily for a while."

"The old lady who lives in this house is my friend and she is an absolutely trustworthy person. I will let her take good care of you."

"If you need anything, just ask my mother-in-law."

"Whenever I can set you free, I will let you go."

"Although I don't think you are the kind of person who would act rashly to save your family, but in order to avoid accidents, I have to tie you up like this until I let you go free. Please forgive me."

"I will do my best to make your family comfortable and keep your family safe."

"That's it. I'll see you again when I have time."

Isshikika struggled hard and screamed "Uuuuuuuuuuuuu".

Chu Guang ignored him and walked out of the room.

As soon as she left the room, she saw her mother-in-law walking towards her.

"Are you done talking?" asked my mother-in-law.

"Yes." Chu Guang smiled bitterly, "Mother-in-law, I'll trouble you to take care of her from now on."

"Hehehe, it's just a trivial matter."

"Mother-in-law, is there any tea? I would like to drink a cup of hot tea before leaving."

"Yes, I'll bring it to you. You can sit in the hall for a while."

"I'll just stand here. I'll leave after drinking. I'll stay soon."

"Okay, then you wait here for a while."

The mother-in-law walked quickly towards the kitchen at the back of the house with small steps.

As soon as her mother-in-law left, Chu Guang heard the sound of the door being pulled open not far away.

Looking around, he saw that the door had been opened with a small crack just big enough for one person to pass through, and then a strong man ducked into the room along the small crack.

"Miss Chuguang."

"It's Shibata."

The person who entered the door was none other than Hatsuko's bodyguard Shibata.

"Miss Hatsumi, how are you?" Shibata walked quickly to Hatsumi, "Does that Isshikika know something?"

Chu Guang shook his head: "She doesn't know anything."

"Is that so..." Shibata looked regretful, "During the 'Grand Trial Match', I saw her talking and laughing with Ogata Ittousai, and she seemed to have a good relationship with Ogata Ittousai, so I thought she must know

There is a lot of information about Ogata Ittousai..."

"Now we can only try our luck and see if we can find Ogata Ittousai's residence based on the currently known clues." Hatsumi said, "If Ogata Ittousai is not found until the end...then we can only ask

He's asking for a lot of blessings."

"The workload is really despairing," Shibata said with a wry smile.

"I don't want to see any innocent people being harmed by that lunatic Toyotomi Nobuhide." Hatsumi said one word at a time, "No matter how heavy the workload is, we still have to do it."

Shibata scratched his hair, and the bitter smile on his face turned into a smile: "Then I can only risk my life to accompany you. Who knows that I have already sworn a poisonous oath to work with you to bring down the Toyotomi Group internally."

Listening to Shibata's words, a charming smile appeared on Hatsumi's face.

"By the way, Miss Hatsumi." Shibata suddenly said seriously, "I have something important to tell you. The people above seem to be determined to make some big moves recently."

"Big move?" Shibata's words made the smile on Hatsuguang's face disappear and return to a serious look.

"I don't know the specifics." Shibata sighed lightly, "Neither you nor I are high-level personnel, and we are not qualified to know many things."

"I just heard some rumors. It seems that Toyotomi Nobuhide is going to make some 'big moves' next to prepare for the overthrow of the war and the revival of Toyotomi."

Chu Guang's expression changed.

"'The Falling War'..." Hatsumi's face changed, "That Toyotomi Nobuhide is really crazy...Does he really think he has the strength to bring down the curtain..."

"...Ms. Hatsumi." Shibata said in a deep voice, "I think...it is not unimaginable that Toyotomi Nobhide would launch a 'war to overthrow' now..."

"I hate Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but even though I hate him extremely, I have to admit that he is an incredible hero."

"He made one strange person after another willingly work for him."

"Miss Hatsumi, you should also know how powerful Toyotomi Nobuhide is at gathering people's hearts, right?"

In response to Shibata's question, Hatsumi pursed her lips and remained silent.

Shibata then continued:

"Toyotomi Nobuhide has many talents under his command, and he has also accumulated huge wealth through smuggling trade."

"The Edo shogunate is now in a state of decay. Not long ago, the 10,000-strong army of the shogunate was defeated by Ogata Ittousai. It is no longer the Edo shogunate that no princes in the world dared to compete with 200 years ago."

"After several years of dormancy, preparation, and...control of that kind of magic, I think Toyotomi Nobhide may really have the ability to defeat the Edo shogunate now."

"In short, we should both be more careful in the future, collect intelligence, and investigate to see what the 'big move' Toyotomi Nobuhide is going to do next."

"...Tsk." Hatsuguang's lips drooped, "The end of the war... the revival of Toyotomi... is really crazy..."

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2 days later

Osaka, inside the hotel where the Huluya group lives

"Ogata-kun."

Genichi, who was drinking "tons and tons" of wine from a bottle of wine in his hand, asked Ogata, who was standing at the door of the room, in a tone that was somewhat vague due to drinking.

"What is the surprise you mentioned for me?"

The room used as a temporary base by the Calabash House group is now unprecedentedly deserted. There are only four people in the room: Yuan Yi, Lin, Makimura, and Shimada.

Lin was currently sitting next to Yuan Yi, blowing on the steaming hot tea in her hand.

Makimura was sitting in the corner of the room, looking through the Analects of Confucius in his hands boredly. Shimada was sitting next to Makimura, sharpening his knife with a small whetstone.

Ogata, who just shouted "Excuse me" and opened the door to the room, and Mr. and Mrs. Atachi stood at the door of the room with strange smiles on their faces, not coming in for a long time.

Mr. Genichi, I have a surprise for you. This is what Ogata said to Genichi just now after greeting Lin and others in the room.

This is also the reason why Genichi asked Ogata "What is the surprise?" just now.

When Genichi asked him what the surprise was, the smile on Ogata's face became even weirder.

Ogata, who had a weird smile on his face, took a step back and then waved to his side.

At Ogata's wave, a bald man slowly walked out from behind the door, invisible to Genichi and others, and stood where Ogata had been standing just now.

Looking at the sudden appearance of the bald head, Yuan Yi was stunned, and the hand that poured the wine into his mouth paused.

"Master Gendai." Ogata said with a smile, "This surprise..."

Bang!

Before Ogata could finish speaking, a loud bang interrupted his words.

This was the sound of Yuan Yi stepping on the tatami mat.

This explosion was followed closely by the harsh sound of metal collision.
To be continued...