A Pair of Eclipse Swords
Chapter : 186 – To Ronin
"Master Kushinage, General Suga called and asked the master to face immediately."
The man who was about forty-five years old, with his shoulder-length hair tucked upwards turned his head for a moment. After stopping his drinking for a while, he ignored the news anchor and continued drinking. Similarly, two other people who accompanied him, even since then did not turn their heads to the complainant.
"Tell General Suga, I'll be here soon" said the man called Kushinage. Then he poured his wine again and drank it. This time, he continued chatting with two of his friends.
The face of the samurai who carried the news reddened. A moment later his eyes piqued sharply with deeply furrowed brows. His hands were already clenched on both sides of his body and his breathing began to hunt.
"Sorry sir, I already know who the swordsman Kushinage Tenko is. A ronin with a sword intelligence that is hard to find his appeal. But that does not mean with your big name, you can easily underestimate the words of the general" said the samurai held his anger. The sound of that voice trembled slightly, restraining the arrogance of the heart.
The three men sounded chuckling. Even more and more there are laughing out loud while slapping their own thighs.
"Huahahaha.you were ridiculed.." said the laughing man and patted Tenko on the shoulder.
That Kushinage Tenko simply chuckled while shaking her head. He put down the cup before turning to the samurai.
"You said you knew me, you know who I am, right?" tanyanya smooth.
"You're a ronin, a no-man's samurai."
"Well, you know that!" said another person who was chuckling. "You know what that last word means?"
The samurai frowned, "My mouth is right! No, sir Kushinage should ignore the general's orders even if he already has a big name."
The two Tenko friends laughed out loud. But the face of this forties man turned cold.
"I'm a ronin, is there still an obligation for a free swordsman like me to do what a dog should do to a samurai?" tenko said coldly and her eyes flashed sharply, "Just tell her what I said earlier."
The samurai trembled his body. He took one step back and recognized the danger. Reflex his hand to feel the handle of the katana. Then he immediately left there without saying goodbye.
"Maybe he's new" said the person who laughed the loudest at the beginning.
Kushinage ignored that and went back to drinking casually. "Only a ronin like us, doesn't mean that samurai can look one eye. If we don't show the ability, the ronin will be put on the front line and told to die first."
Meanwhile, the samurai had been stirred up to General Suga and told him everything. Strangely enough, the man who was short enough for the samurai just smiled.
"You're new, you don't know yet" said General Suga, "I'm not pressing either. But the point is he's not lying at all. Come soon."
The samurai was embarrassed to insult Tenko earlier. But when he lifted his head, there was a shadow of the person next to him. He did not even look when he heard a voice.
"I've come" said Tenko who was already wearing her caping hat. If so, it meant that he was ready to draw the sword to visit his enemies. "Don't wonder. My hunch says tonight I was sent for some business off the coast."
The samurai was shocked to the point of falling. But general Suga seems to be common and he just smiles.
"Take some of your ronin friends. Go to Golden Goa and investigate the situation there" said general Suga.
Kushinage Tenko snorted, "That's nothing like you. Tell me the truth, my sword is ready!"
General Suga laughed until he looked up. But he kept smiling, even smiling wider, like a sneer.
"Bring their chief!"
Tenko smiled, "Heh!"
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Together with seven of his confidants, Kushinage Tenko went east to the Golden Goa that had been seen from the beach earlier. But he found out how the uphill road was blocked by large black stones and everything was pointed. Of course this made it difficult for those who had to carry a sword at the waist.
But because on average they already have high intelligence, then still the difficult journey even though it takes quite a long time, they finally arrived also under the camp of the opposing group.
Tenko raised her hand to signal a stop to friends. They all complied and stopped around Tenko.
"Dissociate, find the leader!" tenko's orders in a toxic voice.
But when the eight men were about to split into planned places, suddenly one of them fell backwards as his legs moved backwards.
"Ouch!"
"Don't be noisy! What's up?!" whispered Tenko who was worried that the voice of her friend could be heard up to the camp. Because their current distance was already quite close.
Tenko along with seven others only saw that there was a long black box that looked solidly strong. One of them tried to get closer and fumbled here and there.
"Hard.." said the man, "I think it's some kind of chest."
"Try to open." Tenko ordered.
This person then looked around for a fitting gap to open the chest. But it turned out that this chest was so delicate and there was no place to open it unless pushed from the inside.
"Cannot be opened. There's nowhere to pull it." the guy's still looking around. Until when one of his friends wanted to help, he smiled cheerfully, "Ahh. It turns out that this chest is not closed properly, there is a gap here." This guy then opened the lid of the chest that somehow became a little open it.
He opened it very carefully, especially when there was an unpleasant sound from the friction of the rusty hinge. When it opened, almost all of them screamed as the moonlight hit the contents of the coffin.
"This..this...a corpse?" Tenko spoke stammeringly and her legs trembled slightly. He is a tough man who has never trembled to face an enemy that is how strong. But this time another.
"How can there be a coffin here? When we came there was nothing?" said another person who almost peed in his pants. It is only because of his pride and shame that he is able to endure it.
"Quick close it back, don't disturb the body!" tenko's orders that feel bad for the corpse.
The person who opened the coffin closed it.
When they were about to move to spread elsewhere as planned, a strange thing happened again.
The moonlight shone brightly without being covered in clouds, making the circumstances around it look quite clear. There should be eight of them who come to this place, why then if it is calculated, if there are not eleven shadows?
Tenko frowned, she had unintentionally calculated her own shadow. And he found out if his calculations reached the number ten plus one.
He tried to count again and stay the same, then tried again and again, the results remained unchanged.
"Sir, what's wrong?" ask his friend who was confused by the behavior of the leader.
"Eleventh? The shadow was eleven." said Tenko looking at his friends, "When we are eight!"
The people were shocked and started counting. They seemed surprised by what they saw, it turned out that Tenko's speech was true! And this makes their bristles bristle. Lest the ghost of the corpse had come out and disturbed them.
"What shadow?" chirp someone whose nape is already goosebumps.
"Where there are demons. It's my shadow." said a young man who was already squatting there while pointing at his own shadow.
"And this is my shadow. Don't be surprised because my left arm is no longer there, so it looks like a flag is fluttering. Then it was not his shadow" said another young man in white clothes, who was sitting on a rock. Then he pointed to another shadow where there was a grandfather lying on top of a rock.
"Well.I guess what that was. Apparently you're. Who and where did it come from?" Tenko asked after sighing in relief followed by her seven companions. But immediately they broke out in cold sweat with wide eyes.
"Sing-sing-sing!"
The katana sword had already drawn out and emitted a silver ray once it was struck by the sunlight. Their eyes poked out like a tiger finding prey.
"Who are you?!!" this time Kushinage Tenko snapped. His face was a little pale from not realizing the presence of the three people.
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