I almost forgot to tell you that the author has slightly revised Chapter 534, "The Storm is Rising, the War Is Imminent", and Chapter 535, "The Fear of the Thread Is Like a Tiger".

The plot was not changed, just a little more content was added to make the plot fuller, resulting in both chapters adding hundreds of words.

You can go back and read these 2 chapters that have been refined.

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Before Chanup had even started his speech.

"Otunpui! You are here! I finally found you!"

Aisuma rushed to a small open space in front of her with anxiety and joy on her face.

In this small clearing, a figure that Aisuma was very familiar with was squatting there. This figure was none other than Otunpuyi.

Previously, when Aisuma was patrolling around to maintain order in various places, she saw her brother sitting in an inconspicuous corner with a dull expression.

At that time, Aisuma, who was busy, asked her brother to go home quickly and personally watched Otunpuyi leave. However, after Aisuma returned home, she could not see her brother.

It was almost dark, and Aisuma, who was worried about Otunpui's delay in returning, left home and looked for her brother everywhere.

Aisuma ran around everywhere where her brother often went, and finally found her brother in the small open space in front of her.

This inconspicuous little open space can be regarded as a place full of memories for the two siblings Aisuma and Otunpuyi.

When they were very young, they often played in this small open space.

"Sister..." Otunpuyi, who was squatting on the ground, turned to look at his sister behind him.

"What are you doing here?" Aisuma scolded her brother with an angry face, "Why don't you just listen to me and go home?"

"I'm sorry..." Otonpuyi apologized in a low voice, "I just wanted to find a quiet place to think about the problem in peace..."

"Thinking about something?" Aisuma frowned, "What are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking about what we should do in the face of the Japanese army outside the city." Otonpuyi said word by word with an extremely serious expression.

Hearing her brother's answer, Aisuma's face flashed with surprise.

"...This kind of thing is not something a child like you should think about." Aisuma said sternly, "Fathers will consider this kind of thing, so you don't have to think so much."

"Okay, get up and come with me quickly. Father has summoned all of us in Heye Zhe, and it seems he wants to say something to everyone."

"Have you gathered everyone?" Otongpuyi looked surprised, "What does father want to tell everyone?"

"I don't know. So get up quickly." Aisuma stretched out her hand towards her brother, "Let's go together and listen to what father wants to say to everyone."

Otunpuyi grabbed Aisuma's outstretched hand, stood up with Aisuma's help, and then followed Aisuma to the "old place".

The two siblings arrived just in time.

When the two of them arrived at the "old place", Chanup happened to be standing on the high platform.

After their father started his speech, the two siblings showed the same expression in perfect agreement. The two siblings maintained their shocked expressions until Chanup's speech ended.

At first, I was shocked by the first story Chanup told, which was that he had visited the "Land of Peace" when he was young.

Their father had actually visited the "Heren Land" when he was young. As Chanup's children, they had never heard of it. Their father had never told them about it.

Then they were shocked by how powerful their father's speech was.

Looking around at the roaring tribesmen responding to her father, Aisuma wondered for a moment whether she was dreaming.

Compared to her sister's excited look, her brother's reaction next to Aisuma was relatively dull.

Otunpuyi stared blankly at the tribesmen around him who were responding to his father.

Looks complicated.

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After coming down from the high platform of the "old place", although there were a mountain of things waiting for Chanup to deal with after successfully stimulating everyone's fighting spirit, Chanup still went straight home first.

Because he had made an agreement with Ogata before that after he finished talking to everyone in Heye Zhe, he would go back to his home and wait for Ogata to hear what Ogata had to say to him.

As soon as he returned home, Chanup saw Tang Shen still sitting cross-legged in his old position, glaring at him with sharp eyes.

Chanup ignored Tang Shen's gaze, looked around, and asked:

"Did Aisuma and Otunpui come back?"

"No." Tang Shen replied.

"Has Mr. Majima been here?" Chanup asked next.

"nor."

"That's it..." Chanupu responded softly, taking off the bow from his back and sitting opposite Yugami, "Then let's wait here for a while, Mr. Majima."

"...Chanup." Tang Shen suddenly asked, "Do you know why I still stayed here after I informed you of the 'Shogunate Army's attack'?"

"I don't know." Chanup replied honestly, "You haven't explained it to me, have you?"

"The reason why I have stayed here is for you, for your old friend." Tang Shen said solemnly, "I don't want you to die. So I choose to stay here until I confirm with my own eyes that you have chosen a way to survive.

As far as the road.”

Chanup made several self-deprecating laughs: "I see... No wonder you have been urging me to run away these days. You never persuaded me to fight with the people outside the city. I advised you to leave quickly, but you didn't leave either.

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"In this case, I feel a little guilty... Because of me, you have missed the best opportunity to escape..."

"Put it aside in advance, I have my own plans." After saying that, Tang Shen sighed heavily, "Why do you have to choose this path of nine deaths... no, almost ten deaths and no life?"

Before Chanup formally conveyed his belief in "defending his homeland to the death" to the people in Heyezhe, Chanup informed Tang Shen of his determination in advance.

After learning what Chanup was planning to do, Tang Shen without hesitation advised Chanup not to do anything stupid.

Of course, faced with Tang Shen's persuasion, Chanup naturally remained unmoved until the end.

"...Tang Shen. You have not experienced our southward migration 10 years ago." Chanup said softly, "You cannot understand our feelings for the land beneath our feet."

"Alas..." Tang Shen was silent for a while and then let out a sigh of relief.

As he let out this long sigh, Tang Shen's face became haggard.

"Forget it... the matter is at this point, no matter what I say, it will be useless."

"...Tang Shen. What will you do next?" Chanup asked, "Thousands of troops outside the city have blocked the entrance and exit of our Heye Zhe. How do you plan to leave here?"

"You don't need to worry about my affairs." Tang Shen responded in a somewhat impatient tone, "I will find a way to save my life."

Chanup: “…”

"What?" Tang Shen glared at Chanup, "Why are you looking at me like this?"

"...Tang Shen." Chanupu said as he slowly sat upright, "After seeing you again after a long separation, there is something I have always wanted to say to you."

"Words? What words?"

Chanup slowly lowered his gaze to the thick and long crutch placed on the right side of Tang Shen's body.

"I didn't expect that so many years have passed." Chanup said softly, "You still carry your crutch that I made for you with you."

Tang Shen's pupils shrank slightly.

"Soup God."

While Chanup whispered Tang Shen's name, he reached out and picked up the crutch beside Tang Shen.

Tang Shen did not do anything to stop Chanup from reaching for his crutches.

"Tang Shen, don't leave here. Can you... help me like you did before?"

Click.

With a "click" sound, the head of Tang Shen's crutch was twisted open.

After removing the unscrewed cane head, the inside of the crutch is completely exposed. The inside of the crutch is hollowed out.

Inside the crutch, there is a knife.

When Chanup took off the head of the crutch, the handle of the knife was just exposed.

Chanup grabbed the handle of the knife and slowly pulled the knife, sheath and sheath, out of the cane.

This is a snow-white knife.

The handle, tandem, and scabbard are all beautiful snow white.

The firelight from the oil lamp reflected on the scabbard reflected a dazzling white light.

This is also a strange-looking knife.

Its blade is the blade of the knife.

Its handle is not the handle of a samurai sword that is covered with fish skin and wrapped with anti-slip handles.

The style of the hilt is more like a Tang sword from the Tang Dynasty. The bottom of the hilt is also tied with a slender snow-white sword spike.

Chanup held the scabbard of the knife and pointed the handle at Tangshen, who was looking at the knife in Chanup's hand with complicated eyes.

"Stay and help me."

"With your help, I will have the power of a thousand people!"

Chanup's tone rose.

"Just like you helped me avenge my father's murder."

"Just use your Japanese sword!"

"Your skills must not have been abandoned. Am I right? Tang Shen..."

Just as Chanup was about to say the name "Soup God", he suddenly paused.
To be continued...