Chapter 4: The Raid
Deep in the middle of the night, when everyone is sleeping soundly. The evil and devilish rebels snooped across the heavily guarded border.
"Hahahaha! This is sure easy, they are sure stupid.' The leader of the troop one boast.
"Leader! Careful, we still do not know if this is a trap."
"Tsk...Small fries, don't you dare to command me." He warned the troops behind him.
A leader who is always bragging will lead their own man to graves,be it lucky or if one can escape from this terrible ordeal. As they continued their way through the village, their motive is to release the prisoners of the kingdom. The alliance together with the prisoners will not do good to any of the people in the kingdom. Since they are already locked down there in the dungeon.
Splitting their troop into five groups of ten, they proceed to release the prisoners. Into the dark and scary underground prison, the rebels were shocked that there wasn't any guards at the entrance. They suspect they were already caught, plucking the SOS firework at the bag and shoot it up into the air. To their horror, they did not receive any help after a long wait for backups. Suddenly, there is a rustling sound behind them. The men were so frightened that they lifted up the guns, on the verge of firing.
The Scouting Troops Have been Wiped out!
"Wait, it's me! I am the leader! Don't kill me!" The man covered in blood from the head to the toe, scramble over to the men in front of him, begging for the first aid.
The soldier equipped with the medical equipment quickly help stop the bleeding. Just when the soldier opened the box, he quickly took the needle,covering the soldier's mouth and silenced him.
"Hey,hey! How's he doing?" The man guarding the hiding area was getting impatience and he himself went in to check. With quick reflex, the man covered in others fake blood slashed the one guarding the door in the neck.
Picking up the clothes and changed over. Holding on the weapons left behind and walked towards the remaining rebels guarding and scouting the area around them. "Hey, they went to take a nap. I will take over now, you guys can take a rest. The wound is not that serious anymore." After hearing the two men yawning and turning around and head towards the temporary huts. He immediately threw the two armed knives at their necks with great force.
"Urgh! Who! Who is that?!" The men shouted.
"Me? I am Hyakkimaru, the king." Who knows when the king planned all this. Dr. Kureha was laughing behind the tree monitoring the King's acting, clapping with great satisfaction.
"Let's go. We will need to go back to the palace with Dororo, she just healed."
"Haha,sure. Who knows the king is not even rusty, no an ounce. Haha!"
The Leader got careless:
Back in their hideout, he hit the armchair with his fists furiously. "Dang that Hyakkimaru, didn't know that he will do this!"
"General, what should we do? Postpone the final raid? Half of the city is left unknown,many of our scouting team are gone. Our specialized spy team is also wiped out."
"No choice,this will be the final,I guess. Last chance to put up a fight against them. We have suffered a huge loss,the time is also not with us. He is doing all he can to bring us down as fast as possible to limit our dawn, we shall march forward to tear down the kingdom,pass the message!"
"Yes,general!" Retreating from the general's tent quickly. Outside the tent veils,he smirked.
He got caught on his tail:
"Hey, Dr. Kureha. He is so hilarious,the way he got himself so impatient and angry. Now I know why my father did not see him any good but nevertheless, I shall praise him for being so stupid. Following my father foolish without realising he was being used." Hyakkimaru chuckled.
Dr. Kureha shook her head helplessly, she did not know that this king is so risky. She sighed as couldn't believed that the Tokugawa Endo was such a blind man. Nevertheless, she can only now focused on healing the queen, aiding her through her upcoming pregnancy period after the clash with the Tokugawa Endo.
As the night starts to fall deeper, Tokugawa Endo's armies are getting ready to set off to the kingdom. "Hurry! Hurry! We cannot afford to miss the timing to start the attack!" The troop leader yelled.
In the meantime, Hyakkimaru was preparing his armies to surround the Endo's armies from afar, sealing all their escape route. For every number of men killed must be reported to the king,for he who give so much time and effort and determination to hunt down that fellow who have caused him the treasure that he cannot afford to lose.
He doesn't want to surrender:
As the armies arrived to the destination, Endo initiated the final call. "For he our own leader died for what he does not deserve, we shall avenge him! Bring him the head of his son who has slayed him many years ago. We shall dethrone Hyakkimaru!" Endo bellowed.
"CHARGE! Slay the king!"
Suddenly, Endo's side suffered a huge number of casualties,many of his men went collapsing onto the ground,as blood wash across the vast grassland. Hyakkimaru have his men surrounding him firing artillery towards the centre. Whereas Endo furiously picked up a corpse, using it as a meat shield, opening a route to Hyakkimaru who stood in front of the kingdom gateway.
"Get him down!" Hyakkimaru bellowed.
Endo charged forward on his horse to Hyakkirmaru with the spear in his hand, clenching the spear hard and threw the spear towards him. He sends the spear flying towards the king's head. Hyakkimaru takes stand, draw his katana, putting all his faith in his katana.
The next moment, all the men present during the fight were all stunned and rooted to the ground when Hyakkimaru sheathes his katana. Endo's armies were so stunned that they tried to escape scurriedly. "Clear the remaining men!"
Dororo ran out of her safe place and hug Hyakkimaru who is leaning against the wall trying to catch his breath back."Honey, thank god. You are safe,you gave me a fright just now."
"Doctor Kureha,why is she here? Shouldn't she be resting inside?"
"Sorry, I couldn't stop her. So I have under my watch in the safe zone behind the front line just now."
"I see. I am glad to have you with me." Hyakkimaru couldn't help but tear a little embracing her tightly smiling at the two ladies.
The Blessing Rain:
After the fight, the kingdom held a festival. To mark the end of a threat posed to the the afternoon during the whole festive, the king announced that he is forming the new squad called the Royal Knights. The royale knights will be the high level knights to guard the kingdom thus the selection process is highly restricted throughout the palace. Not only there will be a change in the military. The queen has also came up with many good ideas.
Rainbow emerged after the heavy downpour during the night, there are many new born babies starts to emerge from the city for these few upcoming months...but still no one knew anything about the love inside the palace….
