A samurai who doesn't want to be a daimyo is not a good onmyoji

Chapter 38 Target: Thirteen Sakura Village

"Oh, really? Thank you very much."

Asai Nagamasa casually handed down double the tea price to the teahouse owner, and the extra money was considered as information fee.

Saito Douzan has indeed passed on the position of family governor to his son, and he himself has lived in seclusion in a small city-Lushan Castle.

But he is Meinong's Viper after all. After being the head of the family for so many years, even if he is now living in seclusion, he still has a lot of power in his hands.

As for Asai Nagamasa's current destination, Jusanzakura Village, as Chiko Muramasa said, it has been very strange recently.

According to the teahouse owner, no matter whether they are nearby villagers, passing businessmen, or wandering travelers, they have never been able to come out after entering it in the past few days.

As a teahouse owner, of course he didn't know what exactly happened, but it couldn't be a good thing no matter what he thought, so no one dared to go there for several days.

It is said that this matter has been reported to the local lord, but because the Saito family has just changed to a new daimyo, most of the lords from all over the country gathered at Inabayama Castle to celebrate Saito Yoshiryu, so they are temporarily concerned about this place. Naturally No warriors came to check.

"I don't dare, I don't dare, thank you, Lord Warrior."

After seeing the amount of money in his hand, the teahouse owner was stunned for a moment, then he quickly nodded and bowed, thanked Asai Nagamasa, and even shed tears of gratitude.

In fact, although the business of people like him who open a teahouse at the intersection is pretty good, they may not really make much money.

Most farmers are reluctant to spend money to drink tea with him, and his guests are basically traveling merchants, samurai, and ronin.

The first two are okay, the merchants are not short of this little money, and the samurai generally cannot deliberately take advantage of this because of their status, but if it is those ronin, it is fine not to pay him, or even to blackmail him in turn. Impossible.

As for people like Asai Nagamasa who get extra rewards after paying, this is the first time he has seen it.

After Asai Nagamasa left, the teahouse owner sighed and cleared the table. In the darkness in the corner next to him, there was a pale, handsome man dressed as a civilian. No, more accurately, it was a young man. If there was He looked thoughtfully at the figure that was quickly retreating away.

"Teacher, which samurai do you think he is from? He doesn't look like a native of Mino."

The boy tilted his head and asked to his right side, but there was only a piece of air there.

But after a few breaths, he seemed to get the answer: "Indeed, I also think so. Although he didn't show it deliberately, the confidence from the inside out and the demeanor he showed are really not like ordinary people." On the contrary, he is more like a real nobleman."

"Hehe, no no, teacher, I'm not talking about those guys in Kyoto who don't have enough to eat and don't even have their own land."

While speaking, the young man couldn't help but have a hint of sarcasm on his face.

As the strength and status of the warrior class increases day by day, the nobility and even the royal family, who have status but no power, only have their status. And the war-torn Nibon, especially the current Nibon, their The meaning has become less and less, strength is what really matters.

The teahouse owner and other guests who turned their heads because of his soliloquy turned their heads quickly after hearing this, not daring to say anything.

Not only because this young guest seemed a little crazy, talking to the air alone, but more importantly, for them with low status, hearing this was not a good thing.

Whether they are warriors or nobles, commoners like them cannot afford to offend them.

But the young man didn't take it seriously. He just continued to listen with his head tilted, as if there was really a teacher next to him.Then his eyes suddenly widened: "What? A special aura? Maybe someone of your kind?"

After a few more breaths, he nodded heavily: "Yes, you are right. Since we are all curious about it, let's go and see it for ourselves, and also take a closer look at this mysterious warrior. !”

Asai Nagamasa didn't know what was happening behind him. In fact, he didn't notice the other party at all. He just followed the teahouse owner's further instructions and hurried to Jusanzakura Village.

As soon as he stepped into the village, he immediately felt something was wrong. Not only was there a large amount of coagulated blood on the ground a few meters from the door, but more importantly, the entire village was filled with an aura of decay and decay. This was definitely It is not the atmosphere that a normal village should have.

Perhaps, the entire village has long been devoid of any living life.

He randomly found a room and got in, and he felt something was wrong even more, because there was a corpse on the ground that had rotted and even exposed white bones. The spoiled food on the wooden table told him that this was about five years ago. Made seven days ago.

Either the owner of this room was originally a lunatic and he deliberately left the body in the room for a long time, or the body quickly became like this under special circumstances.

"Huh, it looks like the rumors are true, and it's the work of monsters again."

Asai Nagamasa caressed the long knife with one hand, coating it with a layer of khaki-yellow light. Soil blade technique is his most proficient spell now.

In fact, he not only wanted to increase the power of the long sword, but also to protect the long sword itself. Otherwise, he might not be able to kill many monsters and his long sword would be damaged.

In today's Nippon, most ordinary samurai swords are sharp and hard, because they are professional killing weapons and are convenient for cutting people.

But sometimes being too sharp is not entirely a benefit. It is easy to be damaged when it collides with other hard objects, especially when it cuts bones or collides with other weapons. It is the most likely to damage the weapon.

A precious sword worth hundreds of taels may have been completely turned into irreparable waste after colliding with other weapons several times in the last battlefield.

As for the situation in the anime where swords clash and sparks fly, it is absolutely impossible to happen in the current Nibon.

However, for the monsters he has seen so far, whether they are pig monsters or ghouls, their bones are very hard. If they really have to fight head-on, a long knife will be scrapped after a few cuts.

At the moment, Asai Nagamasa does not have the ability or time to make high-level magic weapons, so he can only cherish the katana in his hand.

As soon as he finished casting the spell, Asai Nagamasa heard the sound of bones rubbing together, and then he watched helplessly as the corpse on the ground got up. A faint green light also lit up in the eye sockets, and then a faint ghostly aura began to appear in the house. diffuse.

He immediately narrowed his eyes and looked at the clothes on the corpse. It should be a local resident of Jusanying Village, but the faint aura coming from the other party was very similar to the ghoul awakened by the ghost girl Hongye.

However, after easily disposing of the corpse with a casual knife, he shook his head again. This was probably not the work of the ghost girl Hongye, at least it was not awakened by her herself.

In addition to the fact that he didn't notice her unique smell of blood, it was also because it was too weak. After giving up fear, even an ordinary farmer holding a pitchfork could handle it. It didn't look like it was specially transformed to kill people. monster.

But Asai Nagamasa did not relax at all because of this. It was not the ghost girl Momiji, but a completely unknown monster. He didn't know if the other party had any other abilities besides being able to wake up this kind of ghoul. Of course, he had to be more careful.

After leaving the house and continuing along the path in the village, Asai Nagamasa soon saw more blood and death in addition to the scattered cherry blossoms.

This time he could finally confirm that apart from himself, he was probably the only living person in this large village with a population of thousands.

(End of this chapter)