"An abandoned tea house, yet so many samurai are guarding it... I highly suspect this tea house is a base for some anti-foreigner faction."
"...Hmm." Aoto, who had been listening intently to Mukiwa's account, lightly nodded at this moment, "This tea house… it's indeed very suspicious..."
"So, Mr. Tachibana, I want to invite you to investigate that tea house with me," Mukiwa said seriously, "Last night, I was trapped on the third floor and couldn't even get close to the stairs leading to the second because there were too many guards in the tea house. Even if I wanted to knock them all out, I was too weak to fight all those samurai alone."
"But with your help, the situation would be different."
"With your help, the two of us together could try to take down all those guards!"
"Once those obstructive guards are gone, we can easily sneak into the second and first floors of the tea house to see what exactly is going on!"
