At that moment, the idea that "the Yamada Senemon clan lives up to its name" deeply penetrated into Ayoto's heart.

It is worth mentioning that after Yoshida Shoin, the mentor of the "Three Heroes of Choshu" and the spiritual mentor of the Zunbo sect, was arrested by the shogunate in the sixth year of Ansei (1859), his head was cut off by Yamada Asemon Yoshiki.

Qingden originally thought that after leaving Beifansuo, he would never have any contact with this gloomy family.

He never expected...that he would be related to the children of this family in such a way!

Whatever.

No matter what, there is only one thing to do now - find Boss Kiryu and confront him face to face!

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The first year of Yuanzhi (1864), July 25——

Osaka, the headquarters of Huluya——

"Mr. Tachibana, please go this way."

Qingdeng, led by others, strode towards the depths of the house.

After a while, a beautiful courtyard came into Qingden's sight.

"Mr. Ju, you're fine."

In the center of the courtyard, Boss Kiryu held a bowl of bait in his hand and leisurely threw the bait into the pool at his feet to feed the koi in the pool.

Seeing Qing Deng coming, he immediately put on a soft smile.

"I've heard about the 'Battle of Ikedaya' a while ago."

"Congratulations, you have made another great contribution."

Speaking of this, Boss Kiryu changed the subject and put on a confused tone:

"At this critical moment just after the war, you should have a lot of things to do, so why are you suddenly looking for me?"

Qingdeng ignored his questions, strode towards him, and said bluntly:

"Yamada Asaemon Katsumi."

As soon as this name came out, Boss Kiryu felt as if he was struck by lightning. His whole body froze, and complex and unspeakable emotions burst out in his eyes.

Qingdeng moved to his side and stared directly into his eyes.

"Boss Kiryu, who is Asaemon Yamada Katsumi?"

Boss Kiryu was silent for a moment, then turned his head and looked at each other with a serious expression.

"...Tachibana-kun, where did you hear this name?"

Qingden told the other party in detail how the Souji and others encountered Prajna.

After hearing this, Boss Kiryu pursed his lips - countless emotions surged in his cheeks.

Qingdeng said nothing and waited quietly.

After a while, the old man sighed silently.

"That's it...you met him..."

He smiled bitterly as he spoke, and after pouring the remaining bait into the pool, he turned around and walked to the verandah.

After sitting down on the corridor, he reached out and patted the empty space beside him.

"Jijun, come here and sit over here."

Qingdeng obeyed the instructions and sat down next to the other party.

"To be honest, if possible, I don't want to tell you about this..."

After feeling this way, Boss Kiryu turned his head to the sky, with a look of reminiscence on his face.

"Where should I... start?"

Silence fell between the two of them.

About 10 seconds later, Boss Kiryu produced the next sentence:

"Anyway...I'd better tell you my real name first."

"Tachibana-kun, I told you a long time ago: My true identity is the once famous 'Ryuuang Hachiman' Kuro Mamiya."

"Although this is true, in fact, 'Kuro Mamiya' is also my pseudonym."

"My real name is actually 'Yamada Senemon Yoshitsune'."

Hearing this, Qingdeng uncontrollably widened his eyes and cast a horrified look at the old man.

Boss Kiryu smiled slightly and continued:

"I am not only a descendant of the Yamada Asaemon clan, but also a direct descendant of the family."

Qingdeng: "..."

At this moment, Qingden seemed to be down, his eyes were straight and he was silent for a long time - in fact, his brain did temporarily stop functioning due to the excessive amount of information.

Kuro Mamiya is not the real name of Kiryu's boss - Aoto is not surprised by this.

Because Boss Kiryu is so mysterious and he doesn't often talk about his past, Aoto has long suspected that "Kuro Mamiya" is not his real name.

Qingto had many speculations about the true identity of Kiryu's boss.

He never expected...the truth would explode like this!

A direct descendant of the Yamada Asaemon clan!

At this moment, Aoden realized that his relationship with the Yamada Asaemon clan seemed to be deeper than he had expected!

Seeing that Qingden had regained his composure, Boss Kiryu continued the conversation calmly:

"I am the eldest son of the Seventh Generation Yamada Asemon Fumaki."

"As the eldest son of the family, I should have inherited this huge family business."

"However... something happened later, which caused some unpleasantness between me and my father, so that in the end I resolutely gave up my family name and left the family."

"Tachibana-kun, you should also know that in addition to testing swords and killing people, Yamada Asaemon also has a side job of refining medicine."

Qingden nodded slightly, his expression slightly changed.

Talking about the Yamada Asaemon clan, there is another thing that is widely known and terrifying.

While the Yamada Asaemon clan was responsible for executions, they were also responsible for disposing of corpses.

Typically, these corpses are kept for future knife testing.

However, these corpses had another purpose before being taken to test the knife.

And this is the famous side job of the Yamada Asaemon clan: using people’s internal organs to make medicine!

In ancient Japan, it was believed that human liver, brain, gallbladder, and bile were all good things, and that human internal organs could be used as medicine.

In this way, the Yamada Asaemon clan made full use of the power they received from the shogunate to dispose of corpses, and used the liver, gallbladder, brain, etc. in the corpses as raw materials to make drugs such as "Human Liver Pills" and "Asama Pills"

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The most famous pill among them is undoubtedly "Rendan Pill".

It is said that the medicine made from human bile is specially designed to treat lung diseases, and it has a miraculous effect on blood cough...that is, tuberculosis.

Therefore, high-quality "rendan pills" have always been expensive but not marketable.

Testing knives with one hand and selling medicine with the other, the Yamada Asaemon family made a lot of money and became extremely wealthy.

In terms of financial resources alone, the Yamada Asaemon family can even be compared with the daimyo who has a salary of 34,000 to 40,000 koku.

Not only does he test knives and behead people, but he also uses people's internal organs to make medicine... All these things make the general public's impression of the Yamada Asaemon family basically dark.

There are many urban legends related to the Yamada Asemon clan circulating in the market.

Why did you collect a large number of corpses and conduct dark experiments secretly?

Why are you secretly arresting people to make medicine under the orders of the shogunate in order to treat big shots?

Too many to mention.

When he got to the part about "having trouble with his father", Boss Kiryu lowered his eyelids and his expression became a bit sad.

"Under the orders of the shogunate, my father secretly kidnapped a large number of innocent people and took their fresh internal organs to make medicine."

"I really cannot agree with this kind of crazy behavior."

"In this way, I broke with my father and gave up the name of 'Yamada Senemon'. From then on, I became a ronin."

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