My Gang of Swordsmen

Chapter 554: Chapter 182: Mukiwa Arrives! The Swordsman and the Female Ninja’s Coordination!

”What’s the panic?!”

Shinno shouted to his subordinates, whose fighting spirit and morale were clearly shaken.

”Look!”

”He’s already out of breath! He’s injured!”

”He’s like a tottering rotten tree! Just one more kick from us, and he’ll collapse!”

”Everyone, come with me!”

”Celestial Punishment to the traitor!”

Swish—Shinno drew his blade! Pushing aside the subordinates blocking his path, he charged towards Aoto!

When Elodie and her companions fled from Bright’s mansion, Shinno was the first to notice.

But now, Shinno no longer wanted to care about the lives of these barbarians.

—This damned traitor... tonight, I must kill him!

It has always been him...

Ever since the founding of the Anti-foreigner Group, it has always been this accursed Tachibana Aoto constantly disrupting their plans!

To boost the fame of the Anti-foreigner Group and clear the shame of ”only daring to kill Yamato people, not barbarians,” they chose to spend great effort; when they sent a large contingent to assassinate Elodie’s family, it was Tachibana Aoto who suddenly appeared and sabotaged their plan.

When they attacked the Foreign Language Research Institute, intending to destroy this place filled with the ”stench of outsiders,” and kill every traitor daring to learn barbarian knowledge, it was again Tachibana Aoto who appeared suddenly, causing their plan to ultimately fail.

And now, he’s here again...

Is this ever going to end?

Shinno felt a flame burning in his chest.

He had only one thought now—to kill Aoto, who repeatedly opposed the Anti-foreigner Group! Tonight!

For this reason, Shinno was willing to ignore the barbarians fleeing from Bright’s mansion... In short, to kill Aoto, Shinno was willing to abandon any other goals and plans tonight!

He originally thought that having his overwhelming number of subordinates deal with Aoto would be enough to ensure Aoto’s death.

But now it seems... he can no longer sit back and watch!

After rushing in front of Aoto, Shinno took a middle stance and swung his blade horizontally at Aoto!

...

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—Kamino Tatsugorou...

In his heart, Aoto silently recited the name of the samurai who was charging swiftly towards him, someone he had met and fought with once before.

In the previous ”Foreign Language Research Institute Battle,” Aoto had fought with Shinno, so Aoto was well aware of Shinno’s strength.

Not daring to take it lightly, Aoto stepped back two steps, retreating outside of Shinno’s attack range.

Shinno’s participation instantly boosted the morale of the remaining Anti-foreigner Group members.

Their leader and strongest member has entered the battle... nothing could be more inspiring!

The battlefield once again became noisy and filled with lethal intent!

Clang! Clang!

Aoto parried two successive strikes from Shinno and was just about to counterattack when he suddenly felt the presence of a blade approaching from his left side, forcing him to abandon his counterattack idea and instead step back.

And just as Aoto retreated, Shinno immediately stepped forward, positioning himself back in front of Aoto...

With Shinno’s involvement, Aoto suddenly felt like a ”huge rock” had been placed on his shoulders.

Shinno was very strong... having experienced his strength at the Foreign Language Research Institute before, Aoto had to use ”Lone Brave” to fight Shinno to a ”sixty-forty” split, where Shinno was the sixty.

For Aoto, who was no longer the ignorant person of the past, he wasn’t afraid of a duel with Shinno... but the problem was that Aoto was not in a duel, but rather in a group battle.

Shinno clung to Aoto like glue, launching ferocious attacks against him.

Shinno engaged Aoto head-on, while others took the opportunity to attack Aoto from all directions—this was the situation Aoto was now facing.

In the height of danger... concentrating on dealing with the Shinno in front of him, Aoto’s left shoulder was just grazed by someone’s blade tip, but thankfully, the wound was not deep.

Despite the increased pressure due to Shinno’s participation... Aoto did not feel any fear or panic because of this.

He silently steadied his grip on the Ghost-Slaying, preparing to face the enemy with all his strength.

”Waaahhhh!”

At this moment, a very peculiar Qi Union shout sounded from behind Aoto.

Just as Aoto was about to dodge—

Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap...!

From a farther direction behind Aoto, came the sound of wooden clogs rapidly striking the ground.

The instant this sound reached his ears, Aoto’s expression slightly changed from confused to a faint smile.

This was a sound of footsteps he had become accustomed to hearing.

The kind of footsteps that made his mood inexplicably good just by hearing them.

”Haa!”

An impassioned, brave shout.

A vivid splash of bright red entered everyone’s line of sight.

A young girl in a bright red kimono launched a flying kick at the samurai who was about to carry out a ”backstab” on Aoto.

The hard bottom of her wooden clogs landed squarely on the samurai’s back.

The sound of bones cracking and the screams of the samurai mixed together.

The samurai, who had intended to ambush Aoto but ended up being ambushed himself, was kicked away, crashing into someone standing two steps away on his ”flight path” before finally hitting the ground.

”Ugh...ugh...ugh...” He groaned, hands on the ground trying to get up, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t stand.

The sudden intrusion of a stranger caused the battlefield to plunge into temporary chaos.

”Who is that?!”

”A woman?”

”Who is this woman?!”