My eyes open up slowly seeing the brown floor, a mix of dirt and grime rats in the corner of my eyes. I lean forward looking down and I spent onto the floor blood is mixed in with my saliva. Leaning back down looking up sighing a bit rubbing my face and head, before cracking my neck slightly. "So your finally awake, we thought you would be dead for sure. You've been unconscious for about half a day the guards thought you were gonna rot." A voice that belongs to a woman calls out, however it is more hoarse sounding. I hear the sounds of footsteps while looking down and the woman enters my view crouching down looking up at me into my eyes. "The Red Eyed Demon of Owari. So that's who you are. We've heard the story of your battle in Miwa from a week ago. If your so terrifying why do you look like a beaten puppy." The woman says chuckling a bit before bringing what I can assume is a smuggled pipe into her mouth inhaling whatever is inside. "The name's Onnajo, no surname I have no clan. Just this band of dipshits in these cells I call my crew. If your ever in need of our services we're for hire hahaha!!" She begins to laugh but then chokes on what she's smoking on. I inhale some air feeling the pain in my chest and my ribs, I continuously inhale getting myself use to the pain before standing up and she follows suit. "I appreciate the introduction, and yeah I could use your services I need to get out of here I have things that need to be done one way or another." I look her in her light brown eyes before extending my hand for a shake. She grabs my hand before pulling me into a hug, she's the overly friendly type it would seem. Her muscle toned breasts push against my chest feeling more like pecs, she may be even more built than the average man. I step back a bit after the hug and nod my head. "As for breaking you out, well I haven't even found a way to get out I've been smoking on this same rusted pipe for months. We've been left to rot and honestly whatever they have planned for you I'd hate to see, the guards have come two different times to get you but you've been basically dead." She says as she looks at me with a concerned look and I shrug a bit before replying. "Yeah they might have a torture device or three waiting for me." I answer her and the moment she hears it her face becomes puzzled.
I keep inhaling deeply, before reaching for my gourd which is still there, it would seem like they didn't confiscate it. I uncork it and chug half the gourd practically drowning myself in booze. Everything slows down and the pain starts to fade away and I grip the bars of the cell before straining, increasing my grip the veins bulge out of my lean muscles the metal bars slowly bend to my will. "W-What are you doing!!? The man asked in the corner of my eye he almost gave off any presence until he said something. "Looks like he's breaking us out Kyokuna. This is my little brother I've been protecting him for as long as I could remember." She says as she looks over at Kyokuna and ruffles his long silver hair. "Does this mean we have to fight Onnajo? I don't want to see more of our friends get hurt." He asks as he looks up at his older sister and she sighs a bit. "Just stay behind everyone and pace yourself because we may have to if we want to be free." She says to him trying to calm him down and moves him behind herself. I finish flexing pulling the two bars completely apart, and I slide through into the hallway and the two guards patrolling move forward with us behind them, my adrenaline pumps as I suspect them to turn their head but they don't I quickly move to pull on another cell's bars. Getting rougher every time I pull them apart, I finally do it feeling my arms burn a little bit. I decide to kick the bars open the criminals move to the side as the bars blast open from my kick. The guards instantly turn around as they hear the "Clank" of the bars. They ready their katanas as the rush at me, one of them slashes vertically and I spin to the side tapping him with four of my knuckles knocking his Adams apple into his throat making him choke in reaction he drops his katana. I swiftly pick it up and duck underneath a horizontal swing swiftly shifting my momentum to a swirl cleaving his head clean off from behind the blood spraying all over the criminals covering the hallway.
All the way in the back I hear voices coming from the criminals, Onnajo and Kyokuna. "D-Did he just kill them both?" Kyokuna asks with a slight stutter before looking up at his sister. She slowly nods and scratches the back of her head before taking another long rip of her pipe. "I didn't expect the rumor's to be true, he moves like a literal demon. He handled those two guards with ease." She says observing and then she looks around and rally's her men to take formation. she moves her hand up in the air and begins to shout "Men Rally behind that man and pick up whatever weapons you can. We're breaking out of here and its all thanks to him." I look back at them as she starts to rally them. "My name is Ishi, Ishi Junichiro of the Oda clan! We have more than these petty guards to fight I recommend you find your gear and prepare to fight to the death this wont be easy, This daimyo is my sworn enemy and I wont leave until I have his head!" I shout as loud as I can welcoming more enemies as I sprint my way to the stairway, going upwards to another floor where there are about seven guards waiting instantly I move in front of one before he can even draw his blade I slash through his sword arm making it rain red in the room. I grab his shoulder turning him around and then grabbing his collar slamming him into another person into a wall like a chain reaction and I stab my katana through both of them pulling my blade out with them crumbling to the floor. One of them gasping for air and I turn around and two blades meet me and I bring my katana up pushing them back cutting their blades in half sending it flying through the air with sheer might, and I bring my katana and I swing horizontal cleaving their heads off too, before catching one mid air with all the blood and throw it at one of his allies. While they are blinded I quickly dash and pierce both of their skulls with one stab leaving them stabbed together in a wall, I pick up another katana. The two remaining guards fall to their knees, looking up at me covered in blood, I fling the blood on my katana at them. The quiver at the sight of my stare and I slowly insert my katana into one of their bodies slowly watching the light fade from his eyes. I slowly dragged it out and looked at the last guard, drawing the tip of my blade to their throat doing a soft and quick swipe watching the blood leak from his neck as he chokes on his own blood.
"Come on up this room is clear come pick up their weapons we still have more rooms to clear, I'll slaughter every single one of these soldiers for the future I crave." My body starts to wince in pain as I take a chug of this gourd, instantly relieving the pain throughout my body allowing me to continue up the stairs into another room this time the room is empty and from the looks of it, this is the last room before entering the main hall. I inhale and look around for something useful, all I could find was some healing slave, I swipe some of it and put it on my bruised ribs and the back of my head. "Things will be rough from this point on, I need everyone to have a weapon." I turn my head over to the stairway I just came in from. Onnajo and Kyokuna walk their way up with their men and about 8 of them are equipped and Onnajo seems equipped enough. She's wearing leather armor, not the usual armor for a samurai her gear makes it seem like she's more adapt at sea. A unique tool I remember from the future is hanging at her hip, its a lot like the rifles we used but different much smaller. She notices me glaring at her hip and she smirks almost busting out into a laugh. "I didn't think I was that attractive Lord Ishi" She says teasingly and she bursts out into a uncontrollable laughter. "Hahaha of course I'm not that attractive, you're more interested in this little contraption, I picked it off a foreign sailor." She says as she takes a couple of little black beads almost tossing them into the air catching them. "These are the ammo for it, when I pull this trigger it shoots them out into a spread causing multiple holes in the body, and almost no armor in this land can defend against it, the main problem is reloading takes a while. That is exactly why I rely on the people with swords, I'm sort of the last resort." She explains and I find myself completely fascinated I nod my head and turn my way to the stairs leading to the next room. I make my way up to the next room.
Upon entering the room I recognize the design and fancy color scheme of this place, we're in the first floor of the pagoda. This place has at least four different floors we need to climb, I look around scanning the room and the first set of defense is about fifteen spearmen awaiting us as our nine soldiers along with me and Onnajo, we are out numbered. They are all in formation, getting closer to us with each step I look over at Onnajo and I yell. "Onnajo hand me a couple of those little balls if they can combust inside that contraption I have a Idea!!" I say but I don't really know the science behind it I look at her while she tosses me a few of the beads. I catch them mid-air and I smirk a little bit. It should be the same science as a smokescreen but a little more aggressive because of the liquor. I unhook my gourd and drop the beads inside of it as I throw my gourd into the soldiers, I signal Onnajo to shoot it. She takes aim as it flies through the air one of the guards catch it and looks at it like what was that supposed to do. As soon as he caught the gourd, Onnajo shot it and it immediately began to combust and the flames spread across their formation burning the bottom floor and the smoke and flames rising up. I was prepared to run into the flames gunning for the daimyo and a forceful hand on my shoulder stopped me pulling me back, it was Onnajo. "I know what your planning but all you will do is waste lives on a uneccesary task. The smoke and flames will devour him or they will get him towards the entrance we just wait for that time to strike." She says and I heed her words, I turn around and walk out letting the rest of her men finish off the burning soldiers. As we all leave the burning castle, we see some of the wood collapsing as we await for the daimyo on the outside. If they do clear this fire and smoke, that will lead to siege and we'll have to wait for reinforcements, which would be the worst case scenario.