Chapter 256 Self-Help

"I was a swordsman in ancient Japan ()"

Kazumi, who collapsed limply on the ground, did not die immediately.

After falling to the ground, he still tried to get up.

It's just—his injuries are too severe, and it's impossible for him to stand up.

The huge wound from the right abdomen to the left shoulder, plus the 2 penetrating wounds that Ogata had left on his chest before - such injuries, it is no longer possible to survive.

His lips moved as if he wanted to say something.

His mouth was full of blood foam, and the words he spit out were vague.

Ogata could barely hear what Kazumi said:

"I don't want to die...I don't want to die...I don't want to die..."

Yichun's face and eyes were full of fear.

He is dreading the coming of death.

Struggling to get up, Kazumi, who didn't want to die like this, writhed on the wooden floor - like a maggot.

As for Ogata—he silently watched Kazumi's struggle in fear of death.

Izumi didn't struggle for long.

After a while, his vitality finally dissipated slowly with the massive outflow of blood.

【Ding! Use Wugo Two Swords Raiqie to kill the enemy]

[Gain 750 personal experience points, 700 experience points for swordsmanship "Wuwu Two Swords Style"]

[Current personal level: LV24 (10303200)]

[Wuwu Two Swords Level: 8th Stage (1206500)]

【Ding! When the experience value is full, the Wuwu Dual Swordsmanship level will increase by 1 stage, and the skill point will be obtained by 2 points]

[Current remaining skill points: 2 points]

After the system notification sound in his mind fell, Ogata looked at the dead body of Kazumi at his feet, and said softly:

"It's ridiculous... People who take pleasure in taking people's lives, would they be so afraid after death..."

Flicking the two knives in his hand downwards vigorously, after shaking off all the blood attached to the blades, Ogata slowly put Da Shitian and Da Zizai into the sheath.

After putting the two knives into their sheaths, Ogata instantly felt exhaustion rushing towards him like a tide, wrapping his body layer by layer like a wet towel.

Tonight has been in a state of tension.

During the life-and-death duel with Izumi, every nerve in Ogata's body was tense to the extreme, and his attention and concentration were concentrated to the highest level.

His whole body was tense, and he put all his body and mind into the battle, and Ogata didn't feel too physically tired.

It wasn't until the muscles and nerves in his body relaxed that Ogata realized that he was already so tired.

I was so tired that it was quite difficult to even stand still.

After shaking his body a few times, Ogata's body fell limply to the ground...

However, before Ogata fell to the ground, a small hand suddenly stretched out from his side to support his body.

"Machi..."

Ogata raised his eyes and looked at the person who was supporting him.

For some reason, after seeing Ah-Machi's face, Ooman would feel a smile uncontrollably emerging from his face.

"Thank you for your hard work..." A-Ming said softly.

"Machi, you worked hard too..."

Ogata raised his hand and patted the two knives on his left waist, and said in a half-joking tone:

"If it wasn't for you sending these two knives in time, you might not have seen me anymore."

"In order to find Da Shitian and Da Zizai for you, I also spent a lot of effort..."

A-Machi smiled wryly.

"Konnosuke also put the two knives in his storage room."

"You know the storage room? It's the place with more than two hundred cabinets."

"I also had a sudden inspiration and discovered the rules of Konnosuke's storage of things, so I can send these two knives to you in such a timely manner..."

"Rule?" Ogata raised his eyebrows, "What rule?"

"Konnosuke put things according to their pronunciation." A-Machi sighed softly, "He put the items with the same initial sound in the same row."

"I also discovered this rule after seeing two things, nails and locks.

"

"Nail and lock have the same initial sound, so Konnosuke put them in the same row."

"The key and the mirror also have the same initial sound, so they are also placed in the same row."

"My luck was pretty good. After discovering this pattern, I immediately found items that had the same initial sound as the knife—lamp oil and rice paper."

"So I looked for the cabinet barrels in the same row as lamp oil and rice paper one by one, and soon found Da Shitian and Da Zizai stored in the cabinet barrels."

"I see..." After quietly listening to A-Machi's narration, Ogata couldn't help laughing bitterly, "Storing items according to the first sound... What a strange storage method..."

"That's right." A-Machi also agreed with a helpless expression, "I will definitely punish that Konnosuke in the future."

After all, A-Machi couldn't help but glanced at Kazumi's corpse at his feet.

Looking at Kazumi's corpse, A-Machi couldn't help but sigh with emotion:

"Ayi, thank you for being able to kill this monster..."

"You're wrong." As soon as A-Ming's voice fell, Ooja immediately corrected him, "It's a good thing we were able to kill this monster."

Ogata emphasized the word "we".

"Without your weakening of him before, and your timely delivery of the knife afterwards, I might not be able to defeat Yichun yet."

"Nice job, Machi."

Ogata said solemnly.

After hearing Ogata's words, A-Machi was slightly taken aback.

After a while, a faint smile appeared on her face.

"……thanks."

Ah-Ming said softly.

"It's been a long time since I've heard anyone praise me for my meritorious service... Let's go, Ogata, let's go downstairs. The battle on the first floor should be over. Do you need me to help you?"

Although A-Machi asked this question, she had silently hooked Ogata's left arm onto her shoulder.

"If you can, please help me... But are your feet okay?"

Ogata looked at Machi's left foot.

"It's okay." Ah-Ming turned her left ankle, "It's just a little sprained. After resting for a while, I feel much better now. There is no problem in helping you downstairs."

"Then... I'll leave it to you..."

After all, Ogata, whose left arm was hooked on the shoulder by A-Machi, put all the weight of his body on A-Machi's body.

A-Ming used her left arm to lift Ogata who was leaning on her shoulder, and supported Ogata to walk slowly towards the stairs.

"Don't take the opportunity to touch my body."

"Don't worry, I'm not interested in women with stained, sweaty bodies...wait! I'm kidding! Don't leave me behind!"

"Humph."

After supporting Ogata again, the two slowly walked down the stairs.

After entering the corridor of the stairs, A-Ming suddenly found that there was a wound on Ogata's left neck.

"Ayi!" Ah Ding exclaimed, "Why is your neck injured?"

"Huh?" Hearing what Ah-ding said, Ogata was taken aback, and raised his hand to touch his left neck.

As soon as his fingers touched his left neck, he immediately felt a large sticky bloodstain and a knife wound that was neither long nor short.

But the strange thing was - Ogata felt no pain at all.

—Adrenaline? . . .

Ogata thought to himself.

The reason why he doesn't feel pain is probably because of adrenaline.

The massive secretion of adrenaline can make people feel no pain for a while.

The pain doesn't come back until the adrenaline wears off.

Touching the wound on his left neck, Ogata gradually recalled how the wound came about.

"I was injured by Kazuchun's naginata when I used Dazizai to parry Kazuzu's downward chop just now."

Ogata explained to Ah-machi.

"Although I managed to use Da Zizai to block his attack before I was chopped off by Kazuchun's naginata, his knife still cut my neck."

Hearing Ogata's words, A-Machi recalled the scene just now - just now Ogata used his one-armed sword to hold Kazujun's naginata, but Kazuchun's naginata was already pressed down very low at that time, and it was all gone. The extent of sticking to Ogata's neck should be at this time, Ogata's neck was cut by Kazumi's knife.

"Don't worry, it's just a simple flesh injury."

While talking, Ogata withdrew his hand touching the wound.

"A little bandage will do."

Seeing that the wound on Ogata's neck did not seem to be a serious problem, A-Ming also looked away, and concentrated on helping Ogata go downstairs.

As for Ogata, after thinking for a while, he pulled out his personal system interface.

— Just in case...

While Ogata thought in his heart, he added the 2 skill points he just got to his "life force".

As the system sound fell, Ogata's vitality rose to 19 points, and his skill points also returned to 0 points.

In this era before penicillin came out, a small injury might cause infection and death.

Ogata didn't want to die of wound infection after finally defeating a strong enemy.

Therefore, just in case, Ogata decided to add the newly acquired 2 skill points to vitality. Anyway, "vitality" is also a very important attribute, and adding it to it is only beneficial and not harmful.

...

...

After going down to the second floor, Ogata and Atachi first informed the villagers hiding on the second floor that the "giant" upstairs was dead.

Bathed in the cheers of the villagers, Ogata and Machi went down to the first floor again.

The corridor facing the gate is now full of corpses.

The corpses of the Shogunate soldiers were piled up everywhere.

As for Jiangong and Mucun, they were sitting in a clean corner, silently recovering their strength.

It is not difficult to see from the battle situation at the scene-the shogunate army has been completely wiped out.

However, without Ogata as an important force, Mamiya and Mucun did not fight easily - this can be seen from their bloody appearance.

But even though it wasn't easy, it wasn't to the point where the two of them were too tired to move.

After seeing Ogata and Atachi walking towards them slowly, Mamiya said to them in a half-joking tone:

"You two look quite embarrassed, what happened upstairs?"

"The battlefield upstairs is much more intense than here." Ogata also responded to Gamiya in a half-joking tone.

Ogata used as short a sentence as possible to explain the series of events after he left the battlefield on the first floor, he fought Ao Taro first and then the demon monk.

"I see..." Mamiya said softly, "Ogata-kun, it's not easy for you..."

After Ogata finished talking about his battle situation and achievements, Mamiya began to describe his battle situation and achievements with Mucun.

He and Mucun blocked the front and retreat of the shogunate army one after the other.

The shogunate army, unable to move forward and unable to retreat, was determined to die because of this, and a stronger force broke out, which made the sweep of the palace and the pastoral village a lot of effort.

After killing the shogunate army to only a few people left, Mamiya deliberately left a few alive, and asked a lot of information from them.

For example—why did they suddenly land on the island and attack the islanders here, where did they land, how many companions did they have, did they carry iron cannons, etc...

After asking all the things worth asking, Mamiya wiped out these shogunate soldiers who had lost any value without hesitation.

"Did the superior order to kill all living people on the island..." Ogata muttered.

The few people who were interrogated by the palace only received the order to go to the island and wipe out all living people on the island, and they didn't know why such an order came—this is normal.

After all, they are just ordinary soldiers, they are tools for carrying out missions, how could they know the reason for launching this mission.

Although they don't know what the specific reason is, Ogata and the others can roughly guess the reason—probably some high-ranking official suddenly feared that the living people on the island would wait for the opportunity to leave Butterfly Island, which would lead to the danger of ogres landing on the Japanese main island. In order to cut off this risk, it was decided to wipe out all the living islanders on the island.

This is also a common thing in this era when human life is so light - after some uncontrollable plague broke out in a certain place, the place was directly blocked and all living people in the place were killed.

At this moment, Ogata suddenly heard noisy footsteps behind him.

Follow the reputation - I saw the villagers who were still alive walking towards them in twos and threes.

The leader of the group of villagers walking towards them was the one who was being supported by someone, and his face was as white as a piece of white paper.

Looking at Konnosuke who came back to life, A-Machi, who stood beside Ogata and supported Ogata, muttered with displeasure in a volume that only she could hear clearly:

"You didn't wake up when I needed you just now, but now you wake up after the battle..."

With the support of the villagers, they walked slowly to the front and back of Ogata and the others. The first words that Konnosuke said were——

"thank you all……"

Although he suffered a lot of injuries, Konnosuke still forced his body and bowed deeply to Ogata and others.

"Really... thank you so much for saving us..."

After Konnosuke bowed to Ogata and others, the rest of the villagers also bowed to Ogata and his party with expressions of gratitude.

For the gratitude from Konnosuke and others, Ogata just looked calm.

"Konnosuke, get up. We didn't make a fuss just to save you."

"We are just saving ourselves, and we are also saving you together."

"But—we can save you for a while, but we can't save you forever."

Speaking of this, Ogata's tone gradually became serious.

Ogata told Konnosuke and others the important information that the shogunate soldiers asked about—the shogunate planned to kill all the living people on this island.

After learning that the shogunate intends to kill them all, including Konnosuke and others, all of them looked desperate.

"Shogunate soldiers, as many as you want."

Ogata said softly.

"This time the attack failed, and they will be able to organize a larger attack soon."

"We have no obligation to protect you all the time."

"I don't have the ability to protect you all the time. No matter how we can fight, at most we can only fight against a hundred or a thousand people, and we can't deal with thousands of troops."

"So what to do next—you should think about it carefully."

"Go find a way to survive on your own."