Chapter 4: Chapter 4: The Rumbling of Change

The sun sank low into the sky painting it various shades of orange and yellow that quickly faded to purple. The small smoke stacks from the cottages that dotted the village rose into the darkening sky and in the distance on a hill were roughly one hundred riders who were swiftly making their way toward the small village of Naebashi. These riders wore the traditional armor of Satoian standard military tunics which bore a two headed phoenix.

 

Captain Takeda Tatsui led the company towards the small village. From the looks of it this village had not been regularly checked on by the empire in quite a long time and would reap great benefits from this stop unlike many of the other villages and towns they had made their way through closer to the major cities of the empire.

 

Rize had left to go back to her home leaving Mr. Itakura alone to watch the last sliver of the sun fall below the horizon leaving only the last vestiges of twilight in the evening sky. In the distance he could feel the reverberations of hooves, the all too familiar feeling of a company of Satoian cavalrymen. Itakura’s frown deepened and he was just made a liar to the young Miss Rize who may come to resent what was to come from this night.

 

Turning towards the eastern gate of the village the company of one hundred men approached dismounting just outside. As their leader entered, Itakura saw that his helm was adorned with metal silver wings that wrapped around the helmet signifying his rank as a captain.

 

The Captain looked around and spotted Itakura “You! Merchant come here” he pointed demandingly at the ground. Itakura smiled innocently, pointing at himself as if he had no idea who he was talking to. Rolling his eyes the captain said something inaudible before repeating himself “yes you come over here now merchant I don't’ have time for games.”

 

As Itakura approached the captain wasted no time and started speaking “tell me merchant this town doesn’t appear on any of the empire's official census reports, why would that be?” he asked obviously already knowing the answer, but wanted confirmation with someone more familiar with the village.

 

“Well, Captain from my understanding it is due to it starting out as a small hunting outpost and just naturally grew into a village and the nearest Lord who claims this territory never visits or bothers enforcing any sort of law here it just was overlooked.” Itakura said plainly since lying wouldn’t be worthwhile he had a feeling the Captain already knew the answer.

 

Captain Takeda grinned it was exactly as the reports had said a town filled with hunters and frontiersmen was ripe for the harvest. “Good thank you. You are free to go now. Men follow me to the town center and start gathering the townsfolk for the announcement. Go now!” Captain Takeda strutted away as he headed towards the town center taking in the quaint village

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