818 The disappearance of Momonosuke (middle) (5800 words)(1/2)
Jiuli, west of the depths of Tou Mountain.
The fat Asura boy scooped up a ladle of sewage from the river, his face as gloomy as the water. He was a samurai, and drinking such poisonous water would only cause abdominal pain at most, but ordinary civilians in Wano would be poisoned and even endanger themselves.
Life. And this is just the daily life of people all over Wano Country in these years...
"Speaking of which, this year should be..." Asura said to himself expressionlessly. Suddenly, a subordinate in tattered clothes rushed over excitedly holding a piece of paper, "Boss Shutenmaru! Look at this!"
"The person you are chasing is here?" Asura Boy, whose alias was Shutenmaru, frowned. After taking the note, his expression quickly changed. In the disbelief, there was also a trace of uncontrollable excitement and a little sadness.
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It’s been nineteen years, Kinemon, have you really come here after a leap of nineteen years?
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"As an actor without an audience, is there any need to act?"
In a deserted village away from the abandoned Oden Castle, Kanjuro casually drew an ink bed with his ability and lay down on it leisurely.
Let him inquire about news in the area north of Jiuli and Ximei, but it would take so much effort to do it alone.
Kanjuro showed an indifferent smile. Anyway, even if he wanted to go out to explore, he would have to pretend to hide his whereabouts. In this case, it would be better to hide it more thoroughly. Wouldn't it be perfect if he didn't go out at all? Hahaha... He raised his eyebrows
Lying with his legs on the ink bed, he continued to focus on the clone of Mo Fu Lu Shou that he had released before, and rushed to the Flower Capital to visit Lord Orochi with a secret letter containing Momonosuke's whereabouts.
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Nozomi, Bai Ye, and a group of extremely lonely ronin, thieves, and samurai gathered together, with a hint of excitement on their skinny faces.
Nineteen years have passed, and my heart, which I thought had long been reduced to ashes, has once again simmered with sparks.
This is a note found in a village on the outskirts of the Flower City. This note is still very new... The mark drawn on it... is definitely them, the five people who disappeared from the world nineteen years ago! It belongs to Master Shi.
Prophecy... In addition, there is also a very convincing evidence: this kind of code pattern, which requires a certain amount of cultural knowledge and insight to be written down, can only be drawn by those samurai under Kozuki Oden's sect!
The common people in the countryside, a bunch of illiterate people who cannot read Chinese characters, are not in a good mood to make such a bad joke.
"The time...the place...should be right there!"
The fat, bald man who looked like a large Maitreya Buddha narrowed his eyes and asked his companions who were in extreme distress, "Do you want to go together?"
"Is there anything else we can do?"
The wanderers laughed one after another, "It's been such a long time. I always feel like this heart hasn't beat for a long time."
They looked at each other and laughed loudly.
"Keep your voice down! If exposed, let Orochi's people know..."
"Don't worry, the big snake lives in the General's Mansion in the Capital of Flowers, how could he pay attention to such a trivial matter in the gutter..."
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"There has been no news about Jiro, Kawamatsu and Asura. It is not an option to continue like this."
In a remote village on the border between the Flower City and Kuri, Kinemon hunted an animal and roasted it using the fox fire style swordsmanship. He tried it himself and found that the poison was not serious, so he gave it to Momonosuke for consumption.
Momonosuke was very hungry and wolfed down the food.
The marks were scattered for several days, but Kinemon was still worried. He held the mark paper in his hand and muttered: "Kawamatsu is a fish man. He might be hiding at the bottom of the river. I have no way to find him. Asura originally
He is just a mountain bandit. Once he hides in the mountains, he can hide in seclusion for three to five years without coming out... Denjiro is very clever. His hiding place may be in the busiest flower city, right under the nose of the big snake...
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Kin'emon's eyes became firm, even if he had to take some risks, he would not care about it in order to contact Denjiro.
If Denjiro has a safe hidden identity, he might be able to entrust His Highness Momonosuke to him for the time being... huh?
"Your Highness?!"
Kin'emon looked up, but Momonosuke was nowhere to be found. Kin'emon was anxious and rushed out of the door, almost blacking out on the spot. In the middle of the road in a small village that was supposed to be deserted, a burly strong man and a man with an expression on his face were seen.
The old-fashioned ronin was talking to His Highness Momonosuke.
"Kin'emon, look at this!" Momonosuke turned around and pointed at the two men. In their hands was the note that Kin'emon had scattered.
Senor met a child and just asked a few questions casually. He didn't know what was going on here, but at this moment he was secretly alert, but his face remained calm, and he raised his chin towards Kinemon through his sunglasses.
He said calmly as if he knew everything well: "Want to help?"
Even if you don't know the specific details, you can't go wrong by saying this.
These words sounded like fairy music to Kinemon's ears, almost making him cry. Nineteen years later, I didn't expect that there were still samurai loyal to the Kozuki family in Wano Country!
"Okay, okay!" Kin'emon touched Senior's shoulder and said with emotion, "Well done to you! Of course we have to help, the more people the better! But you've also seen it, and we haven't arrived yet.
The gathering time agreed on the code..."
"Huh?" Buffalo was confused. What did this man suddenly say? What did he mean?
Password? Assemble? Senior held the note and nodded slightly, "There is always something to do."
"Of course!" Kinemon said, "I'm about to take Momo and Inuko to the Flower City to distribute the notes and gather more colleagues with lofty ideals for joint righteousness in the future."
Inuko?! Kin'emon, you are so brave! I... Momonosuke took a deep breath, but he also knew that these times were different from the past, so he could only lower his head and acquiesced to Kin'emon's statement.
Oh...are these people trying to make enemies of Kaido? Senor guessed that although he felt that the local samurai were overestimating their abilities, he personally would just take this bite.
He is a tough guy. So if such a tough guy is sent to Kaido in exchange for information on Lynch's whereabouts, it shouldn't be too much, right?
"In that case, let's go without further ado." Senior nodded lightly. Originally, he and the buffalo had been waiting for several days on the coast closest to the entrance of the waterfall to the south of Jiuli, but there was no trace of the Straw Hats and his party.
I had already planned to go to the Capital of Flowers to find Sister Sugar to discuss countermeasures, and now I happened to be on my way.
His behavior unknowingly deepened Kinemon's trust. He couldn't help but feel ashamed that he had concealed His Highness Momonosuke's identity just now. He quickly said: "You're right, let's get started without further delay."
So the two people in a group turned into a group of four and rushed towards the Flower Capital.
On the way, Kinemon asked the two Seniors about the changes in Wano Country over the years, especially where the samurai were and why it was so difficult to find their whereabouts.
How could Senior know, but they had been in Wano Country for a while, and they knew who Shogun Orochi had been hunting for, and the recent hunt had been particularly intensive.
"The search has been intensified recently?" Kin'emon was surprised, why? It's impossible for Orochi to already know the whereabouts of himself and others, right?
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Fu Lu Shou, who was shaped by the Ink Ink Fruit, entered the Flower City. Kanjuro naturally recognized the location of the Shogun's Mansion, and after entering the city, he went straight there quietly.
When we arrived at the General's Mansion, with Fu Lu Shou's face, he could naturally alert Lord Orochi. Even if it didn't work, he could also attract Fu Lu Shou himself. Anyway, he would definitely be able to pick up the head. If he handed over the secret letter, he would be able to remove Mo's clone.
, continue to hide his identity and play his own "Koyuki Retainer" and "Red Scabbard Samurai"...
Mo's clone, Fu Lu Shou, has gone away. On the streets of the Flower City, Sugar is teaching her sister Monet a lesson.
She picked up five grapes on her sugary fingers like a little girl, ate them one bite at a time, and licked her white and tender fingertips after eating.
She held Monet's collar with her other hand, glanced at the dazzling white, and scolded angrily: "Why are you dressed so coquettishly? Don't you know we can't attract attention?"
Monet squatted down, grabbed his sister's little hand, and said with a wry smile: "You have to ask for information, sister. Compared with the trouble that can easily be caused by taking action, wearing something cooler is actually a trivial matter."
"Show it, don't show it in front of my eyes." Sugar chewed the grapes expressionlessly.
Monet smiled, hugged Sugar, and said softly: "If my sister hadn't eaten this fruit, she would definitely be older than me..."
"Huh!" He stuffed his mouth full of grapes with sugar, his cheeks bulging, his expression disdainful, but his eyes said "What else?"
Monet held his sister's little hand and said to himself: "In Wano Country, if you dress too seriously, it will be difficult to act. If you say a few words, you will be misunderstood that you are interested in them, and even more exaggeratedly, you will ask questions on the spot.
My address, it looks like you are asking for a wedding and giving gifts..." She couldn't help but shake her head.
The two walked around twice more, and suddenly saw a familiar figure from the corner of their eyes. They looked for it quietly and came to a room in the corner of the alley. The owner of the house had been knocked unconscious and was leaning against the corridor outside.
"who are they?"
Sugar spit out the grape skins and looked at Kinemon and Momonosuke with a frown.
Senior just said: "Samurai."
Before he finished speaking, Kinwei stared at Monet with a red face and lowered his voice: "It's too, too slutty! As a woman, how can you dress like this?!"
"Shut up!" Sugar's eyes turned cold, "What she wears is her business. Who do you think you are?"
Kinemon was startled at first when he was scolded like this, and suddenly he had a creepy feeling, no, these people... are not from Wano?!
Senior took his hands out of his kimono arms, ready to take action at any time.
However, just when Kinemon commented on Monet's cool dress and Satou scolded him, everyone soon heard Momonosuke's laughter...
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"You, who exactly are you?!"
At the Orochi General's Mansion, Fu Lu Shou, the leader of the Imperial Court Fans, stared at the identical "himself" in front of him.
But this "self" smiled strangely, took out a letter from his arms and stuffed it into him, saying only: "If you don't want Lord Orochi to execute you, just give this to him intact." Then.
Then the whole person turned into a ball of ink out of thin air, and black ink splashed all over the ground.
"What kind of ninjutsu is this..."
Fu Lu Shou held the secret letter in his hands and was stunned for a long time. Finally, he was startled, stuffed the secret letter into his wide sleeves, and hurriedly entered the house to find General Orochi.
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To be continued...