"Not? What will it be? Can you finish your sentence before you die?!" Ember saw the Shogunate soldier fall straight down and immediately ran over, grabbing his shoulder and shaking him.
Blood continued to gush from the soldier's wounds. In just this short time, Ember had already acquired a new skin.
"Stop shaking him. Wounds of this severity are likely beyond medical help."
Washizu shook his head and sighed, seeing the ghastly wounds on the Shogunate soldier's body.
"I hate people who speak in half-sentences more than anything. If you're going to die, at least finish what you're saying first." A glowing, gold-inlaid glass flask appeared in Ember's hand, and he directly forced the large mouth of the flask into the soldier's mouth.
The Red Flask's drops poured into the soldier's mouth. The grace of the Golden Tree transformed into pure life force, mending his broken body and strengthening his fading vitality.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
"Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!"
The Shogunate soldier, who had just been on the verge of death, opened his eyes, and then he saw heaven again.
He grunted, unable to speak, his hands covering the holy grail bottle in his mouth, unable to pull it out no matter how hard he tried.
If nothing unexpected happened, he would probably die of suffocation very soon. And the cause of suffocation would be swallowing the holy grail bottle.
"Pop!"
Ember pulled the holy grail bottle from the soldier's mouth. He disdainfully wiped the mouth of the flask on Washizu's lapel.
Before Washizu could erupt in anger, he switched his wiping tool to a nearby leaf.
"Boom!"
Surging flames enveloped the Red Flask. After physical wiping and high-temperature sterilization, Ember finally put the holy grail bottle away with peace of mind.
"Tha... thank you both for saving me." The soldier tried to stand up from the ground to express his gratitude, but he stumbled and almost fell.
"Be careful. You've just recovered from a serious injury; you should prioritize rest." Washizu stepped forward and helped him up.
"Kid, do you know that speaking in half-sentences is very annoying?" Ember saw the soldier gradually standing up and spoke in an unfriendly tone.
Speaking in half-sentences, to Ember, was only slightly better than the treatment of a riddle-solver. For the former, Ember would punch them to death for a quick end. For the latter, it would be two punches to death, with the extra punch's time given for the riddle-solver to reflect on themselves.
"Ha... haha. You're right, you're right." The soldier awkwardly scratched his head. He didn't want it to be like this either; who knew his death would come so quickly? So quickly that he didn't even have time to finish his sentence.
"Your item should be very important. Keep it safe." Washizu returned the blood-stained note.
Since the person was alive again, they probably wouldn't need them to complete such an important task.
"Tha... cough... cough, cough!!!"
The Shogunate soldier was about to take the note Washizu handed him when he suddenly started coughing.
"Hoo..." He felt the burning pain in his chest, looked up at the gloomy Sky, and gained a new understanding of the horror of the tatarigami in his heart.
"It seems I still can't get out of here." After thinking about his current location, the Shogunate soldier sighed, his face ashen.
He felt that he might die of tatarigami disease before even reaching the Grand Narukami Shrine.
"In that case, please deliver this note to the Miko of the Grand Narukami Shrine. The Shogunate will surely reward you handsomely!"
Learning from his previous lesson, the soldier quickly spoke out everything he had wanted to say before.
"Let me see what it is... hmm... the resistance destroyed the tatarigami seal... the tatarigami sealing altar on Yashiori Island is likely 80-90% destroyed..."
Ember snatched the note, reading it aloud as he did so.
"What? The tatarigami leak was caused by those resistance guys!"
Washizu's reaction was much greater than Ember's. He snatched the note back from Ember's hand and read it word by word, afraid of missing anything.
After a long time, he finally closed the note.
Washizu took a few deep breaths, then asked the Shogunate soldier in front of him with a solemn expression: "Is everything written on this true?"
At this point, Washizu's gasping was truly as loud as a pack animal's.
"Absolutely true! I, Dan Oni Roku, guarantee it with my honor as a warrior!"
"Furthermore, I am a member of the tatarigami guard on Yashiori Island. I saw it with my own eyes; it cannot be false!"
Dan Oni Roku, supporting his weakened body, stood his spear upright and said firmly.
"Beasts!" Washizu clenched his fists, making them crack. He now wished he could charge directly to the resistance's base camp and personally kill those worse-than-beasts.
Ultimately, reason triumphed over impulse, and Washizu's tightly clenched fists relaxed.
The gap in strength between him and the resistance was too great; there was no possibility of victory.
"Right! A bunch of beasts!" Dan Oni Roku also spat and cursed along.
"What are you looking at?! Your Shogunate is the same!" Apparently stimulated by the resistance releasing the tatarigami, Washizu changed his previously gentle personality and pointed at Dan Oni Roku's nose, starting to curse the Shogunate Army.
Oh, no, it wasn't cursing the Shogunate Army; it was cursing both the resistance and the Shogunate Army.
"Eh?" Dan Oni Roku's agitated eyes suddenly became confused. Wasn't he cursing the resistance? How did it suddenly turn to the Shogunate?
"Eh what, eh? Your Shogunate Army isn't much better!"
"When tatarigami disease patients appeared on Yashiori Island, your Shogunate didn't think about treating them, but instead tried to lure them onto ships and then sink them into the sea!"
"Is this something a human would do?"
"I originally thought the resistance would stick to the rules, but I didn't expect them to also be a bunch of beasts in human skin!"
"Ah ah ah! How did Inazuma become like this! I want rivers of blood!!!"
Washizu wildly waved his hands, his mental state very unsettling.
However, there was an even more unsettling phenomenon here than Washizu's darkening.
Ember squatted on the ground, a small notebook appearing in his hand. Every time Washizu and Dan Oni Roku spoke, he would write a few strokes in it, looking very strange.
Seeing this, Washizu stopped his actions. His outburst was because the pressure in his heart was too great and needed release.
But this guy's outburst was genuinely an outburst.
"What are you doing?" Washizu leaned next to Ember, wanting to see what was written in his notebook.
"Nothing much, just inspired and recording." Ember closed the small notebook in his hand.
Thanks to Washizu and Dan Oni Roku, the scores of the Shogunate Army and the resistance were about to plummet to rock bottom.
However, Ember still planned to observe a bit longer, because who knew if there might be bonus points for either the Shogunate Army or the resistance?
"I'm just venting the pressure in my heart; I'm absolutely not like that." Washizu said earnestly, clutching Ember's shoulder, afraid he wouldn't believe him.
"I believe you." Ember nodded heavily. He was afraid of discouraging Washizu by saying it, but even if he went dark, Ember felt he couldn't cause any trouble.
"But if you keep getting in the way like this, that person is going to ascend to Sky."
Ember pointed to Dan Oni Roku behind Washizu and said.
"So that's how it is... so that's how it is..."
"No wonder the Captain and the others have been gone for so long with no one coming to help..."
"This battle... eternity... dream... freedom..."
As Dan Oni Roku spoke, he closed his eyes. He drew the wakizashi from his waist and slowly raised it above his head.
"None of that... this battle is the greatest sin!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Dan Oni Roku fiercely plunged the wakizashi from above his head, with the force to kill in one blow!
"How are you even more extreme than me?!"
Washizu delivered another powerful kick, sending Dan Oni Roku sprawling face-first into the mud.
"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!"
"Don't stop me! The Shogunate Army is so evil, and I am a Sergeant of such an evil army. Now, I can only atone with death!"
Dan Oni Roku crawled, trying to pick up the wakizashi from the muddy ground, but Ember kicked it away.
"Fly for me!"
With Ember's kick, the wakizashi on the ground transformed into a shooting star in the distance.
Seeing Dan Oni Roku still flailing on the ground, Ember directly pinned him down.
"What's the point of suicide? Behave yourself!"
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