"Huh?" Tachibana looked at the money bag that Matsudaira Sadanobu threw at him, with a look of shock on his face, "Lao Naka-sama! Do you want to take a boat to dock..."

"That's a long time!" Matsudaira Sadanobu interrupted Tachibana impatiently, "Whatever I ask you to do, just do it obediently!"

Tachibana, who heard the hint of impatience in Matsudaira Sadanobu's words, did not dare to say anything anymore. After shouting "yes", he quickly took some guards and rode back to the small fishing village they just passed by.

Matsudaira Sadanobu's plan was very simple - wasn't it just that the distance was too far and he couldn't see clearly? That was easy to do! Wouldn't it be possible to see clearly just by taking a boat and approaching it?

After Tachibana and the others returned to Matsudaira Sadanobu with the three borrowed boats, Matsudaira Sadanobu immediately asked without explanation to "bring 20 guards and follow me across the sea."

Faced with Matsudaira Sadanobu's order, Tachibana naturally had thousands of objections.

Tachibana cited various reasons to oppose Matsudaira Sadanobu's dangerous move.

And the opposition from him, who was just a person with a minor surname... was of course useless.

Ignoring Tachibana's objections, Matsudaira Sadanobu simply sat down on the boat, while Tachibana could only bite the bullet and go with Matsudaira Sadanobu.

Qingyan also asked to go with him, but Matsudaira Sadanobu originally wanted to refuse. After all, if something happened to Qingyan while crossing the sea, it would be difficult to explain to Mount Koya.

But Qingyan's attitude was very firm - no matter how much Matsudaira Tadanobu refused, he would not give in.

In desperation, Matsudaira Sadanobu could only agree to Qingyan's request.

Matsudaira Sadanobu, Aoyan, Tachibana, and nearly 20 guardsmen took the boat and headed straight towards the direction of the fire!

At this time, the wind and rain had subsided a lot, and the waves were not as violent as before. The whole process of crossing the sea was much easier than Matsudaira Sadanobu and others expected.

Matsudaira Sadanobu and his party arrived under the firelight without any danger.

The broken hull, countless floating wreckage of severed limbs, the flames that never go out even under such heavy rain...

The scenes under the firelight... made everyone on the boat look increasingly ugly.

A few people who had never seen this kind of scene, such as Qingyan, couldn't help but bend down and retched at the sea outside the boat.

However - what makes Qingyan look ugly is not only because of the bloody scenes, but also because what he saw before him is consistent with what Ogata and others told him before about the "thieves lurking in Mount Koya"

The information is completely consistent...

——There really is... a ship here...

Qingyan, who slowly stopped retching, hung his head with an expression that made it difficult to see through his emotions.

Matsudaira Sadanobu, who was accustomed to all kinds of storms, turned a blind eye to the bloody scenes around him.

Since just now, Matsudaira Sadanobu has been constantly turning his eyes and scanning around, as if... looking for someone or something.

Dang...dang...dang...dang...

At this moment - Matsudaira Sadanobu suddenly heard a faint sound of the collision of gold and iron.

Matsudaira Sadanobu, who raised his eyebrows slightly, quickly instructed everyone to follow the "clang, clang, clang" sound.

As the distance got closer and closer, the sound gradually became clearer, and the "clang-dang-dang" sound of gold and iron colliding slowly turned into the muffled sound of skin and flesh being cut open one after another.

After bypassing a huge piece of hull debris floating on the sea and blocking the view, a scene that gradually made Matsudaira Sadanobu's expression become complicated slowly unfolded before everyone's eyes.

On a shipwreck that was about to sink to the bottom of the sea, two figures, barely able to stand still, faced each other at a distance.

One of them, Matsudaira Sadanobu, was unknown to him.

And the other person... Matsudaira Sadanobu felt both familiar... and strange at the same time... and the appearance of this person was the "culprit" that caused Matsudaira Sadanobu's complicated expression.

While Matsudaira Sadanobu was still casting complex glances at the man, very suddenly - the man suddenly turned around and ran towards the main mast not far away pointing diagonally towards the sky.

——What is he going to do?

As soon as Matsudaira Sadanobu asked this question in his mind, the man had already climbed to the top of the main mast, and then...

Rumble, rumble, rumble——!!

The burst of lightning illuminated the faces of Matsudaira Sadanobu, Aoyan and everyone else.

"This... this is..." When he was lost in thought, Matsudaira Sadanobu vaguely heard Qingyan beside him murmuring in astonishment, "Has the Buddha spirit... appeared...?"

How long had he been absentminded? Matsudaira Sadanobu didn't know.

All he knew was that when he finally came to his senses, he saw a guy he didn't recognize suddenly appear and fight with that person.

After using up the last bit of energy to end the short duel, the man finally collapsed on the deck that was already flooded with sea water due to the loss of energy in his body.

"...Stay close to that warrior!"

"Ah?" Tachibana looked at Matsudaira Sadanobu in astonishment.

"I say—get close to that warrior!"

"Yes Yes!"

When Matsudaira Sadanobu approached the man in a small boat, the unconscious man was gradually enveloped and swallowed by the sea water.

And just when that person was about to be swallowed by the bottomless sea——

Snapped……

It sounded like a handshake.

Matsudaira Sadanobu arrived at the man's side at the critical moment and took the man's hand...

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"...Did Matsudaira Sadanobu...save me..." After listening to Qingyan summarizing how he was rescued in simple sentences, a strange expression slowly spread on Ogata's face.

Qingyan naturally didn't know why Ogata showed such an expression.

He only thought that as the most wanted criminal of the shogunate, Ogata was worried that he would be escorted to prison by Matsudaira Sadanobu.

Aoyan didn't know what to say to Ogata, who was "worried about being imprisoned by Matsudaira Sadanobu."

Just when Qingyan was struggling with that and Ogata still had that weird expression on his face——

Click, click, click...

Outside the tent, the sound of striding footsteps was suddenly heard.

Wow.

The curtain of the tent was gently lifted.

The person who lifted the curtain... was a middle-aged man with a straight waist.

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment when he opened the curtain and saw Ogata, who had opened his eyes and woke up on the bed.

Then——

"...Master, can you please leave here temporarily?"

Qingyan frowned. He looked at the middle-aged man, then at Ogata on the bed next to him, and finally let out a gentle sigh, stood up and left the tent.

After Qingyan left, the middle-aged man slowly stood where Qingyan was standing just now.

"...Long time no see."

The middle-aged man...or rather - Matsudaira Sadanobu, greeted Ogata with a tone that contained no emotion.

"Am I...should I call you Ogata Issei? Or should I call you Majima Goro?"

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This "Swordsman" no longer needs recommendation votes, but the new book does, so don't vote for this book if you vote for it, vote for the new book instead qaq

Some people seem to be worried about whether the double release will cause both books to collapse or something. You are completely over-worrying. First of all, everyone should be able to see that all the pitfalls, foreshadowings, and foreshadowings of "The Sword Master" have been filled in.

, revealed that the story of Ogata Ittousai has basically been told, and there is only a little finishing work left.

I have a manuscript for "The Swordsman Group" and I have been publishing it in the past few days. Therefore, until I finished typing the last punctuation mark of "The Swordsman", I concentrated on writing "The Swordsman" and wrote it.
Chapter completed!