Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

However, in the end, the situation that he had intentionally or unintentionally planned to achieve during this period of time was suddenly achieved in a way that had the best of both worlds.

Well, maybe this situation isn't the best of both worlds.However, Sannan-kun survived in the end and was willing to take responsibility, so that he could clean up the chaotic internal discipline of the Shinsengumi; to achieve a certain goal smoothly without the death of any past comrades-this kind of thing has not happened for a long time pass.

Think about it, since the Shinsengumi entered Kyoto, from the former director Serizawa's group, to Katsuyama who was just ordered to be seppuku by him, the fragile internal organizational structure of the Shinsengumi has been gradually closed by him with various means. Both soft and hard, moderate and high-handed methods have made the Shinsengumi itself more and more active as an increasingly united organization.

For this achievement, he is actually very proud of himself, and secretly determined to maintain this hard-won situation; anyone who may cause the Shinsengumi to split, must not be easily let go!No matter how important, smart, and indispensable a person is——

However, something that everyone didn't want to see happened after all.In the torrent of the times, the former companions are drifting away, but those who believe in the other party still stubbornly trust that man, not the Shinsengumi general Kondo-kun; this is something that Hijikata does not want to see, and it must not be allowed it happens.

Now, he is surprised by Yu Shannan's voluntary concession and sacrifice.Of course, he was also very surprised that the mysterious wandering girl Axue was able to do such a thing that even he couldn't solve it in such a satisfactory way.

Perhaps, this is why he is still willing to stand here and listen to what this "Axue" will say to him.

In the end, she said such strange things to him.

Every word is as inexplicable as the feeling of her person!It's also irritating!

Tufang controlled his emotions and sneered.

"What... I thought you were going to say something to me, but I didn't expect it to be such a big talk." He smiled and tried his best to show indifference.

But Ah Xue still had a calm expression on her face, as if she wasn't shaken by his bad attitude at all.

"Mr. Hijikata," she called him again, with a hint of solemnity in her voice.

For some reason, Tufang suddenly realized that she was probably planning to give him a farewell message—although he didn't think there was anything worthy of a solemn message as the two of them were almost strangers, he still took it. With a little precious patience, I listened.

She said: "In the future... no matter whether you make the right decision or not, please stick to the path chosen by your heart."

Earthwork: "...!!!"

Strangely, the first thing that came to his mind at this moment was a sentence that had nothing to do with her or this situation.

【Actually, you may just want to hear others say to you "It's okay, what you did is the right thing". 】

...Ah, that's what Shimabara's wandering girl Hanaba once said to him.

Speaking of it, he seemed to have not seen Huaye for a long time.He didn't think that an ordinary wandering girl could have any skills that people have been concerned about.But at this moment, inexplicably, he recalled Huaye's face again.

That face is not very similar to the wandering girl Axue in front of her at the moment.But it seems that there is a strange sense of familiarity between the two of them, so that he can think of the words Huaye said, the smile she showed, and the attitude that is fun, easy-going and nonchalant from Ah Xue. ——

Ah, yes, this is it.

It was the attitude that was different from that of ordinary women in the flower street that left a deep impression on him.

This feeling made him crook his lips for a moment.But he didn't know how to respond.

Huaye said to him, "I won't tell you 'it doesn't matter, what you do is the right thing'".

Ashe said to him, "Even if what you make may not be the right decision, please stick to the path you choose in your heart."

These two sentences seem to be subtly different, but also subtly similar.

He realized that it was not a good time to think about this kind of thing at this moment, but if he didn't think about it, maybe some of the mysteries in it would be missed forever——his intuition seemed to be clamoring like this.

However, Shannan's voice pulled his consciousness back in an instant.

He heard Shannan suddenly ask: "February 23rd—Master Hijikata, do you still remember what day it is?"

Tufang rolled his eyes angrily.

"...you didn't choose for yourself—"

The terrible words "death date" or "death date" swirled around on the tip of his tongue, but he finally swallowed them back.

However, Shannan seemed to be able to guess what Hijikata didn't say.He smiled and shook his head.

"Not that one," he said.

After a short pause, he stopped being a joke, and frankly stated the correct answer.

"Two years ago, we arrived in Kyoto on this day."

Earthwork: "! Oh..."

He should have remembered the day.However, for some reason, perhaps because there have been too many complicated and heavy things that took his heart and brain to deal with recently, he actually forgot about this day.

There seemed to be a gap in the dark clouds in the sky.The sunlight stubbornly drilled out from the gap and sprinkled on the earth.The bell of Todaiji Temple in the distance seems to be ringing in the distance, solemn, heavy, and solemn—just like the feeling of parting right in front of you.

"So? What do you want to say?" Hijikata asked gruffly.

He felt that he was not very good at this kind of situation—expressing subtle emotions, using words to manipulate changes in details—but Shannan was very good at this kind of thing.Therefore, at this time, it might as well hand over the scene to Shannan for the last time.

Shannan seems to have anticipated such a development.He pursed his lips tightly, and his Adam's apple slid up and down, as if he was trying to suppress some emotion; then, he smiled at Hijikata with the corners of his lips curled up.

"...Please tell Kondo-kun that I don't regret knocking on the door of the test hall that day." He said quietly.

Earthwork: "..."

For a moment he felt that he could not speak a word.

Shannan didn't seem to be waiting for his reply either.He turned around and seemed to whisper something like "Okay, let's go" to Asher, and then the two of them walked towards the front of the long street calmly and calmly, walking side by side on the ground. On the somewhat messy street that had not been cleaned up after the movement, he quickly turned the corner and disappeared from the earthwork's field of vision.

Hijikata clenched his fists, and was slapped in the palm of his hand by Shannan's saber and Wakizawa's sword, and then he seemed to wake up, looking at the street where the two figures had disappeared, slowly He hooked the corner of his lips, and said in a low voice: "...forget it, that's it."

Perhaps, the two of them have similar perceptions of each other.In the end, you can't really like each other.However, this does not affect their appreciation for each other, thinking that the other party will be a hero who can make a career in this turbulent era.

He didn't know what kind of career Shannan would do in the future, but he knew that his career was still here and not over yet.

"...Don't lose!" He said to himself in a rough voice, not sure if he was talking to himself or Shannan Jingsuke who had gone away.

What did Shannan just say? …Ah, he reminded himself, February 23 was the day the Shinsengumi arrived in Kyoto two years ago.

Think about it, since that day, only two years have passed, but it seems so long that half a lifetime has passed.

Thinking back to stepping on the streets of Kyoto and imagining the future, I probably never imagined that I would part ways with one of the most important figures in the Shinsengumi—the head of the Shinsengumi—two years later, right?

He felt that this ending was neither good nor bad.From the very beginning, he had a vague intuition, as if Shannan and he were not in the same group, even if they worked together for a short time for a lofty and lofty goal, there would always be disagreements.It's just that at that time he never thought that one day this kind of difference would gradually become a gap and become irreconcilable, even to the point of a life-and-death fight——

So, from this point of view, maybe this ending is not bad.

No one died, Hijikata achieved what he wanted to see, and Shannan also had another path to take to realize his ideals—Hijikata and Kondo-kun, a general who could follow, and Shinsengumi needed support; and Shannan, He didn't leave alone. On the brand new path he embarked on, someone walked hand in hand with him; it seemed that they had a tacit understanding, and there was a kind of aura between them that no one else could penetrate, which seemed to be a memory , life and death, time, laughter and pain, meeting and parting, right and wrong, good and evil, darkness and sunrise, and a series of factors are intertwined to form a unique aura that is difficult to replicate.

Tufang clicked his tongue, finally turned around, held Shannan's knife, and walked towards the village.

Almost at the same time, next to the earthwork table in the room in the village, a stack of white papers that had been shaken onto the tatami by the earthquake just now, scattered all over the floor, was blown into the room through the open shoji door The cool breeze stirred and made a rattling sound.

Finally, when the wind died down, a piece of paper just slipped out of the messy pile of papers and spread out obliquely on the tatami mat beside it.There are several lines of characters written in flamboyant cursive on the paper.

If you read it carefully, you will know that what is written on that piece of paper is not any important documents or information or notes, but——

haiku.

【水の北山の南や春の月】.

The author has something to say:

February 8:

good!I successfully added the role to the deputy chief! 【Hello!

After thinking about it, I decided not to let the deputy chief really know who Huaye is.

In the next chapter, we are going back to the sword man's home field

I have an old brain hole that must be written!Let’s tolerate my dog ​​blood [You are enough]

Next update: It is tentatively scheduled to be every other day, but the manuscript will be submitted in the next two days, so it is not sure whether it will be the day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and it will not be later than the day after tomorrow (27th).

感谢在2020-08-2304:35:53~2020-08-2420:51:59期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: 1 zero;

Thanks to the little angel of irrigation nutrient solution: 10 bottles of Xiaoxiao;