Slightly pursed red lips, along with beautiful eyes holding strange emotions... together, they sketched out a demeanor quite full of charm.
"...So popular..."
"Hmm? Sazanoko." Chiba Shigetarou asked, "Are you speaking?"
"No." Sazanoko withdrew her gaze from the female apprentices, "I didn't say anything."
"Eh? But I clearly heard you say something..."
"I didn't say anything."
Sazanoko, while reiterating what she just said, elegantly raised her swan-like neck.
A cold and proud expression of "I didn't lie."
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"Ha... ha... ha... ha... ha..."
Aoto greedily inhaled every wisp of air near his mouth and nose.
Though not one of them was as powerful as Aoto, these challengers were all apprentices of the Little Chiba Sword Dojo.
In terms of overall strength, they far surpassed the Anti-foreigner Group, composed entirely of lower-rank samurai from society's base tier.
