Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

Hijikata sighed helplessly, sat back on his original seat, and tried his best to put on an expression that, as the deputy commander of the ghost, he planned to exert his field control power.

"You did a good job in Osaka..." he said to Liu Quan comfortingly, "You didn't do anything wrong... Sannan-kun didn't mean to blame you... He, he also knew that as Shinsengumi Captain, you did a great job..."

Liu Quan thought, however... Maybe it was because she, a girl, performed so well in Osaka and defended him desperately that he felt more pain.

"Maybe it's because I was the one who was by his side at that time that he is in so much pain now." She said in a stiff voice, "Because he said just now that he doesn't want to rely on the protection of girls in the future to survive... "

Everyone in the hall let out a sigh.No one could say anything to comfort her.

Then, the earthwork said decisively: "It's very late, you go back to the house to rest first. The affairs here are left to the cadres to deal with. Even if you insist on staying here, it won't be of much help, right? ... It will only make the Everyone still has to worry about you. Now, go back."

Liu Quan hesitated for a moment, slowly propped up the tatami, and slowly stood up from the kneeling posture.

However, she was not used to kneeling and sitting in this posture for a little longer, and now when she stood up suddenly, she suddenly felt a tingling pain in her legs, and they shook bloodily.

... Then, Saito, who happened to be sitting next to her, quickly helped her up in time.

Liu Quan took advantage of the situation to stand firm, and said "thank you" to Saito in a low voice.

Saito did not answer her polite words, but directly cast his eyes on her neck where the choke mark still remained, looked at it seriously for a few seconds, and suddenly asked: "...the bruise on the neck, are you okay? "

Liu Quan was stunned for a moment before he realized what he was asking, and stretched out his hand unnaturally to touch it subconsciously, and then thought of Xi Yang who was almost strangled to death by the colorless king before, and immediately had to face Reisi Munakata after waking up. The sad memory of the sword stabbing down made his complexion even worse.

"Probably...it's all right." She replied in a low voice, her brows and eyes were all drawn down, and she looked gloomy.

Saito's usual calm expression moved a little with that expression of "even if something happens, I won't say it".

"If you are really injured, you should treat it in time. It's not in your own interest to hide your illness from the doctor." He said to her seriously.

Liu Quan: ... Mr. Yi, can you change this sentence to preach to Mr. Zongsi?He's the one who needs to follow through on that advice, right? !

However, she could only swallow this complaint now, and silently pushed Shannan's wakizashi, which had been re-sheathed, on the tatami with both hands in front of Hijikata.

"This is... Mr. Shannan's Wakizashi." She said solemnly.

"Please pass it on to Mr. Shannan, the deputy chief."

Hijikata seemed a little surprised by her attitude and wording—it was a kind of words that seemed to be a solemn entrustment, but also seemed to be sure that Shannan would overcome the difficulties and return to everyone, which made people feel at ease. and attitude.

He couldn't help staring at her deeply for a moment, as if he wanted to see something special from her face that was safely under the stern scrutiny of the Deputy Chief of Ghosts.

After a short silence, he nodded, and responded in the same calm and casual tone as usual: "... Ah. Leave it to me."

Then, he saw her slightly raised her chin in front of her, showing a smile that was sure that his promise would be fulfilled.Although the smile was short and fleeting, it seemed to illuminate the dimly lit hall.

"Please, then. Thank you, Deputy Chief."

She said so, then stood up, walked steadily, and left the hall where too many things had happened tonight.

……

After that night, Shinsengumi Chief Yamanan Keisuke disappeared from the Shinsengumi.

The rhetoric to the outside world—even to Ito Kokotaro and his supporters—is consistent: "Because the former chief of the Shinsengumi Keisuke Yamanan left the Shinsengumi without authorization, he was ordered by the director and the deputy director to recover and follow The law in the game has been cut through the stomach."

However, only the cadres who came to the hall that night, and one of the parties involved when the incident happened, Kiyohara Yukiha, a team member, knew the truth of the matter.

The next day, Shannan survived the initial ordeal of suffering, pain, seizures, and coma after drinking the Ruosi water, and woke up.

Now, he is already a Rakshasa through and through.Being active during the day, or even just being exposed to sunlight, made his movements difficult and excruciatingly painful, although he would not be wiped out.

Therefore, on the grounds of "running away without authorization and being ordered to cut seppuku", Shannan Keisuke has since disappeared from the eyes of others.

As the leader of the "Shinsengumi" that gathered all the Rakshasa created by the Shinsengumi, he can only be dispatched at night to lead and monitor the fellow Rakshasa soldiers; during the day, he can only hide in the village In a secret place in the village, he quietly assisted the earthwork in handling some documents and desk work.

The small Mibu station no longer meets the needs of the growing Shinsengumi.Hijikata, who is known as the "deputy chief of the demon", carried out his strict and firm attitude of going forward, not even caring about other people's eyes, and soon forcibly moved the camp to Nishi Honganji Temple - where it was originally One of the strongholds that sympathized with the Choshu Domain and even assisted the Choshu Langshi.

In this turbulent atmosphere, the second year of Genji was changed to the first year of Keio by order of the emperor.Then, in the leap month of this year, news came from various sources that the current general Tokugawa Iemo was about to go to Los Angeles.

The name Tokugawa Iemo was still a little unfamiliar to Liu Quan, but he also knew that this was an extremely young general, and it seemed that his health was not in good condition, and he passed away at a very young age.

However, he seems to be doing well now. It is said that this visit to the Emperor in Luo was also to obtain the formal permission to conquest of Changzhou. He also set fire to and burned most of the capital, and he couldn't bear to swallow this tone anyway, otherwise, what face would there be as a shogunate?

Of course, Kondo, the director of the Shinsengumi, is happy and nervous about the general going to Luo.When the request that "the Shinsengumi will serve as a guard before entering Nijo Castle when the general goes to Luo" was conveyed, the entire Shinsengumi, including Kondo, Hijikata and others, seemed very excited.

...No, there seems to be exceptions.

The boy Pingzhu seemed to be not in good spirits. When discussing the personnel arrangement, he offered to ask for leave because of illness and not to participate in the escort work of the general Shangluo.

Of course, there is also Okita whose cough seems to have gotten worse recently.Although he seemed eager to go, he was stopped by the earthwork.

Hijikata seems to still think that Okita is just a cold that cannot be cured, but there is still a little doubt—he said to Okita who laughed and teased him for being overprotective, "Nah! You have a strange cough."

During this process, Liu Quan, who maintained the image of an excellent team player from beginning to end, decided to look for an opportunity to add fuel to Tu Fang's suspicion.

Okita's cough—that is, tuberculosis—now looked irreversible.But if you stop team work earlier and take good care of yourself, there may be hope of prolonging your life and even getting better or recovering.But all of this can only be achieved by relying on Oni's deputy leader to come forward-Kondo is unexpectedly careless in this regard. Although Okita obviously listens to him more, he can't be expected to understand Liuquan's hints or take the initiative to find out that something is wrong with Okita.

But no matter what, the task to be completed now is to protect General Shangluo.

Since the leader of the first team, Okita, was unable to go out because he was stopped by the earthwork and was forced to stay in the village to recuperate. He came here and said, "Girl liar, take out all your dark skills and play for a team."

Liu Quan: ...Although Okita Souji's shaking S is already a symbolic feature in countless works of later generations, but Souji-kun, you seem to be a bit second-rate when you come to talk like this every time?

In short, the team leader Kiyohara Yukiha, who had been tempered by his team leader's smacking gun and became extremely strong in face and psychology, followed the whole team to the outside of Erjo City calmly and without any psychological burden.

Speaking of which, Nijo Castle had already become the residence of the shogun Shangluo in the early Tokugawa period.

The current shogun, young Iemo Tokugawa has arrived at Nijo Castle without incident.

The Shinsengumi not only guarded all the way, but after Jiamao entered Nijo Castle, everyone quickly dispersed according to the prior arrangement, and continued to guard around the city.

Liu Quan, of course, still dressed as a man, and followed everyone in the first team.

Qianhe also came along, and was in charge of the work of heralding orders, and had been running back and forth for more than a quarter of an hour.When Liu Quan, who was on patrol, saw her just now, she was already panting from exhaustion.

She came here to send an order to the first team to temporarily hand over the shift and take a quarter of an hour's rest before proceeding with the security patrol work.

Although the first team could rest, Liu Quan always felt a little inexplicably uneasy.

Sure enough, it was because before departure, he was ordered by Hijikata to say, "If you have time, please keep an eye on Qianzuru. After all, as a woman, your status may be more convenient."

Of course, it was impossible for Hijikata to assign Liu Quan alone to Qianzuru as a bodyguard or monitor, that would be too conspicuous and unnecessary.The highlight of the night is the security work of General Shangluo, and everything is for this purpose, so there is no reason to assign a team member with outstanding skills to Qianhe's side alone.

So Liu Quan had to take care of both work tonight.

This kind of thing is not uncommon for the cadres of the Shinsengumi. For example, Saito often holds multiple jobs at the same time, almost as busy as his revered deputy chief.However, as a team member, this is still a rare assignment. If it weren't for Liu Quan's identity as a woman, the earthwork probably would not have issued such an order...

Liu Quan stood up from the team members sitting on the ground.

She said it was convenient to find a place, but she coped with the ridicule and jokes of the soldiers, and finally escaped.

The next step is to find Qianhe's current location.

... The job was surprisingly easy to do because Chizuru was cornered by three men somewhere outside Nijo Castle.

"...No need to say much, these are enough evidences. The surname that shows the identity of the oni and the katana of the ghost of the east."

Liu Quan almost immediately recognized the deep and magnetic voice of the extremely arrogant man with a sense of superiority.

She rushed over in a few steps, and suddenly dodged in front of Qianhe.

"You guys come here late at night, do you have any advice?" She asked calmly.

Both sides of the confrontation were shocked by her sudden appearance.A moment later, the handsome blond ghost in front of him who couldn't tell his real age let out a contemptuous laugh.

"Hey?"

He stared disdainfully at Liu Quan's face, and soon recognized her.

"It's the girl who dared to provoke the ghost clan in the small town at the foot of Tianwang Mountain that day." He said in an extremely indifferent tone.

"Just you, do you want to challenge the knife in my hand?" He glanced at her like a sneer, and immediately turned his gaze to Qianhe who was blocked by Liu Quan intentionally or unintentionally.

Liu Quan smiled helplessly.

"Are you really...you are always doing such disturbing things as embarrassing women whenever you encounter them?"

She used Hijikata's sarcastic words to him the last time they met, and poked the arrogant blond ghost again.

"……rude!"

The blond ghost named Kazama Chikage really got angry and yelled at her loudly.

"I am the leader of the West Ghost! And the girl standing behind you is the direct bloodline of the East Ghost!... In other words, as a ghost clan, I don't need your consent to take that girl away! "

Liu Quan couldn't help but rolled his eyes lightly.

"I said... General of the West Ghost, since you are rich and powerful, you only serve as a follower to the chief sa, how wronged you are?" She deliberately belittled him, "Did you have to rely on force to find a bride now? !"

"...Tch!" Kazama looked even angrier.In the dark night, his bright red eyes shone with frightening anger.

"Female ghosts are very precious. How could a lowly human being like you know this—!" He roared, as if he couldn't bear Liu Quan's insult very much.

He looked as if he was going to ignore Liu Quan, the "lowly human woman", and was going to pull Qianhe to his side directly, his hand stretched out from the shadows——

Of course Liu Quan was on guard, and the saber slid out of the scabbard with a clang.

However, at that moment, the darkness was suddenly torn apart by the silver blade.

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