infodatos Chapter 197 Brother Oda
Chapter 197 Brother Oda
After his mother left, only Oda Taro and his younger brother Oda Jiro were left to depend on each other.
The lives of the two are still miserable, and Oda Jiro's hatred of people with supernatural powers is increasing.
On the land of Japan, there are two sects attacking each other.
One party believes in the Nine-tailed Fairy Fox, and the other party believes in the Yamata no Okami.
Conflicts in beliefs between the two sides often turn into fights, and the consequences of such fights seem to have little to do with them, the fishermen.
But in fact, both sides will raise taxes on surrounding areas under clever pretexts.
Usually the Nine-Tailed Fairy Fox's supernatural being comes to collect the fee today, and the followers of Yamata no Okami will come back the next day.
Even though they had just collected the taxes not long ago.
Although Oda Jiro dislikes the superpowers of both sects, subconsciously he still looks better to Yamata no Okami.
Because when those people with super powers took away their family’s money, they said:
When they go out to sea in a boat, Yamata no Okami will protect them from being attacked by sea beasts.
That certainly seems to be the case, as the offshore waters are calm and the brothers are barely able to make ends meet after all these years.
It's just my brother's fishing boat, but I don't have the chance to replace it with a bigger one.
But this peace of mind was broken today.
The two brothers agreed that Taro Oda would return home before the sun went down.
But today, he didn't.
Oda Jiro waits at the beach every evening, but today, until late at night, he did not wait for his brother's fishing boat.
This gave Oda Jiro a very bad premonition:
Because the last time my father chose to go to sea late at night, it was also because of an unexpected tax increase.
But this time, I heard that the war in northern Japan was tense and reinforcements were needed.
Taro Oda talked hard and persuaded the other party not to let Jiro Oda go to the battlefield, but the prerequisite was that a high enough fee had to be paid.
What is a high enough fee?
For Taro Oda, it can only be a catch from the deep sea.
Before he left, he told his brother that he might come back later.
But today, it seems that I came back a little too late.
Oda Jiro didn't eat dinner either. He was very hungry and his stomach was already protesting.
But he was waiting, waiting for his brother to come back.
He couldn't imagine what he would do if his brother left him too.
In this world, he will be alone and helpless.
Vaguely, he felt a heat in his body, as if something was flowing from his heart to his limbs.
However, he didn't have time to think about it this time. He kept staring at the sea, letting the sea breeze make him feel cold all over.
Late at night, his figure looked extremely lonely under the starry sky.
He thought again and again of what his brother said:
"Jiro, live well!"
After his mother passed away, Oda Jiro once again proposed to accompany his brother to sea.
But Taro Oda refused. He didn't want his brother to see him on the ocean.
He is like an ant in front of the sea, and the fishing boat that may leak at any time cannot bear the risk of the Oda family being destroyed.
And where is Taro Oda at this moment?
Three or four fist-sized pearls had appeared in his boat.
This was the condition he negotiated with the tax collector.
This time, he dived into the sea more than sixty meters deep and found several pearls on the seabed.
Two pearls can offset his brother Oda Jiro from going to the battlefield.
Two more can prevent another sect from collecting taxes next.
Originally, he should have returned at eight o'clock.
But Taro Oda, who was very lucky today, hesitated and plunged into the sea again.
He also wants to find two more pearls. When the time comes, he can change his fishing boat to a larger one. If his younger brother wants to follow him, he can come and have a look.
After all, his small fishing boat was no longer the one that might be easily pushed around by the waves.
No one knows how many times Oda Taro vomited when he first got on the boat.
However, what he didn't know was that at the moment he jumped into the sea for the last time, there was already a ripple on the sea that was different from usual!
On the bottom of the shallow sea, there seemed to be sea beasts that had sensed the changes in the ocean. Their crazy swimming gave Oda Taro an illusion:
All the creatures in the ocean are afraid of him!