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Edo, within an inconspicuous house—
"Fujimura, so what you're saying is—only Miyabe was captured by that Tachibana Aoto?" Sitting straight behind a desk, intently examining a piece of paper crowded with characters as small as tadpoles, Shinno asked a young man with only a right arm behind him.
"Yes." The one-armed youth...who was called "Fujimura" by Shinno, gently nodded, "Except for Miyabe, everyone else escaped successfully."
"...How useless." Shinno suddenly clenched the brush in his hand, the wooden handle making a creaking sound under the pressure, "They can't even set a fire properly..."
"Oh well, after all, Miyabe is just an insignificant pawn and doesn't know any important information about our Anti-foreigner Group. If he's caught, he's caught."
"Was Tachibana Aoto's house successfully burned down?"
"Tachibana Aoto's house has now perfectly turned into a heap of charred ruins," Fujimura grinned, "It's just a pity—that Aoto couldn't be burned to death."
