"...Well, I also want to talk to you about this." Zuomura smiled, his attitude was very casual, "Serizawa, Niimi, I want to understand your position first."
"What is your opinion on Samu and Kaomu?"
The atmosphere suddenly became serious, completely different from the laughter and curses before.
"What's our position?" Serizawa's smile disappeared.
"I'm on Tosa's side, we're still waiting and watching." Zuomura added.
"We... Zuocun, you should know about Anzheng Prison in the past two years."
"Have you heard about the vicious persecution? What's going on?"
"Due to the Ansei Prison two years ago, we were arrested in Mito Domain and imprisoned. We were not released until recently." Serizawa shook his head in despair, "Because of this incident, Mito Domain and now The shogun and the others are making a big fuss, Hitotsubashi Keiki was released a while ago, and now he is causing trouble in the shogunate."
"Now...I don't know what I want to do."
Despite saying this, Serizawa and Niimi had already made plans for their future.
They couldn't tell anyone about this plan.
Samura said that he was on Tosa's side.
In other words, Zuo Cun has a position.
People with a stand cannot be trusted in any communication involving zz, even if they are friends.
"Is that so?" Zuo Cun believed it and smiled, "Then, can I invite you to join me and fight against this troubled world together?"
He knew that Serizawa and Niimi definitely had their own biases, so he did not say whether he was a supporter or a faller, but said "to fight this troubled world together."
Serizawa thought for a while. Among the two of them, he was the one who made the decision. In the end, he declined with a smile: "It's not necessary after all. Instead of walking on your own path, it's better for the two of us to find our own path."
Zuo Cun didn't force it: "Okay."
At this time, there was a noise outside the temple.
"It seems that those children are here again." A trace of nostalgia flashed in Zuo Cun's eyes.
"Oh! Jin, go get my drawing board!"
...
After calling Souna out, the three adults played with a group of children for a while, and then Zuomura took Souna and continued on the road.
He has often been active in Kyoto, and he still knows where there is a suitable place to be a base. And if the Qinwang Party can really gain a certain status in Kyoto, maybe the main members will enter Kyoto and work with the imperial court and the shogunate. Say hello.
Zuocun found a small abandoned village. It seemed that it had been robbed by bandits, and the houses had burnt marks.
Zuo Cun frowned. He passed by here when he left Kyoto. At that time, the village was still in good condition.
"This is really..."
Bandits.
Although there are such a group of people in every era, in this hell-like era, they are particularly numerous.
"Isn't it safe around Kyoto?" Zuo Cun touched the charred wall and frowned, "What are those people in the shogunate doing?"
"Even if we are in the ambiguous period of the union between the public family and the samurai family, we should not underestimate the security issues in Kyoto and surrounding areas to this extent!" Zuocun sighed.
Ezuna stood beside Zuo Cun, her eyes a little hazy and her body trembling.
"What's wrong? Souna." Zuo Cun knelt down and looked at Souna's face.
He didn't dare to look directly into Souna's eyes, so he could only look at Souna's nose.
"I remember... our home was like this after they were attacked." She looked like she was about to cry.
Zuocun was silent.
Enchanna was moved by the scene, remembering the day that made her collapse.
After gently stroking Souna's hair, Zuomura sighed: "Let's choose another place. This place is no longer suitable as a base for operations."
Zuocun also knew that there were other villages in the surrounding area.
Ezuna nodded and followed Zuo Cun quietly.
After walking for a while, the two people walked halfway up a hill.
Zuocun heard something.
Several people came out around.
It was obviously winter, but these people were wearing short clothes that were easy to move around but couldn't keep them warm.
Zuocun's eyes turned cold.
Bandits.
Moreover, these bandits all carry knives on their waists.
"You are obviously a samurai, but you choose to be a bandit." Zuo Cun said sarcastically, "Don't you know that the sword in your waist is crying?"
"Mr. Sumita, he seems to be a samurai too. Should we still take action?" A bandit nervously held the katana at his waist and looked at Zuomura who stood there like a sword.
"Definitely..."
Before the bandit leader finished speaking, he saw that Zuo Cun had drawn out a knife. It was not a knife, but a wakizashi pheasant.
"In front of children, too much blood may scare them." Zuo Cun stood up his pheasant feathers, reflecting the faint cold light, "So please, please stand quietly."
After saying that, Zuo Cun disappeared from the spot.
"What!"
"Where!"
The bandits immediately broke into commotion.
Zuo Cun stood still in the air, observing the location of the bandits.
He wanted to clean up the bandits before they came into contact with Sumina.
"Souna! Close your eyes!" Zuo Cun shouted in the air.
Shivering with fright, Souna closed her eyes for an instant, and the bandits also discovered Samura following the direction of the sound.
But it was no use.
"New Yulun—Part Two of Wings!"
Zuomura spun around.
"Pheasant!"
The green child is swept by the mountain wind, and the dust is not stained with blood.
The bandits looked at Zuo Cun, who was bombarded from the sky like a hurricane, and wanted to flee in all directions.
"It's too late!"
boom----
About half of the bandits were killed without even uttering a scream.
Their bodies were chopped into several pieces by Pheasant Feather, and their internal organs fell to the ground.
Zuomura didn't stop. In addition to jumping, he was also good at thrusting, but it was not as terrifying as Okita Souji's ignorant three-stage thrust.
In less than five minutes, more than a dozen bandits were dead.
Exhaling a breath of turbid air, Zuo Cun shook the pheasant feathers that were not stained with blood and gently sheathed them.
"Let's go, Souna, don't open your eyes." Zuo Cun's tone was very gentle.
"...Hmm." Souna's voice sounded like a mosquito.
Holding Souna's hand, Zuo Cun quickly left the mountain road filled with corpses of bandits.
Feeling the little hand that was still trembling slightly in his own palm, Zuocun said nothing.
Ezuna didn't open her eyes.
She knows what's going on.
Zuo Cun is a very powerful wild warrior. Although he has no formal identity, everyone who knows Zuo Cun respects him.
Souna knows exactly what will happen when a powerful samurai encounters a bandit.
Smelling the faint smell of blood wafting in the air, Souna held back tears.
