Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

Saito's voice was steady, without any wavering.

"Don't worry. Even if I leave here, my heart will always be here and nothing will change."

When he said the last sentence, he emphasized his tone.You can feel his firm and solid belief like a mountain from it.

Tu Xiang nodded slightly to him, then turned to Liu Quan and lowered his voice.

"Ito is about to leave the team with the people he recruited in the Shinsengumi. I have assigned Saito to falsely agree to his recruitment and leave the Shinsengumi with him." He said succinctly, "However, as an internal agent, Saito The situation is very difficult. If there is any important information that needs to be sent back, considering that it is not convenient for him to enter and leave the gate of the Shinsengumi’s garrison at any time, or write a letter that is easy to fall into the hands of others, and let others be responsible for sending it back... "

Liu Quan had an epiphany in an instant.

"So, please entrust me with the task of communicating with Yijun and bringing the information he obtained back to the deputy chief in time." She said with a smile, "If you want to talk about makeup, who else in the Shinsengumi can surpass it?" What about my technique?"

Hijikata's eyes fell on the men's clothes she was wearing, and he clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction for some reason.

"...Exactly." He said in a blunt tone, "You can discuss with Saito separately how to send messages abroad in the future, which will be safer and more convenient. In short, the two of you must pay attention to your own safety, and don't reveal your true identity and identity. purpose, and bring danger to oneself.”

...Oh, when it comes to this kind of thing, you will give a lot of instructions, what a worrying deputy chief?

Liu Quan couldn't help but pursed his lips and smiled slightly.

Saito, who received the task, left the room quietly first, but in order to deceive others, Liu Quan had to stay with the deputy chief for a while longer.

However, it was very difficult to stay alone in the deputy chief's room after nightfall for the first time.

Ever since Saito left, Hijikata showed a look of unwillingness to talk to her, turned to the table aside with a stern face, turned on the oil lamp and continued to deal with official duties.

For a while, Liu Quan also felt a little speechless.She had no choice but to sit by the door with a slight embarrassment, staring at Hijikata's unexpectedly smooth and graceful back under the dim light.

For a while in the room, there were only the sound of the breathing of the two people and the occasional sound of the earthworker flipping documents and papers.

After sitting like this for a few minutes, Liu Quan suddenly stood up as if he had realized something——

Immediately there was another small scream, and the body staggered forward.

The moment he stood up, a tingling and tingling feeling like an electric shock ran through his legs quickly. Liu Quan's knees softened, and he almost couldn't stand still. After subconsciously blurting out an exclamation, She immediately reached out to support the partition beside her to maintain her balance.

Fortunately, Tu Fang, who was sitting in front of the table just a second ago and was concentrating on processing the documents without looking back, turned around quickly, grabbed her arm just before she fell down, and took advantage of the momentum to support her. He gave her a hand to stabilize her.

But the next moment the Shinsengumi's repertoire [Vice Chief's Roar] broke out.

"I said, what the hell are you doing!?"

Because he couldn't growl too loudly, the deputy chief had to lower his voice, which gave his voice a strange, low-pitched magnetism.

Liu Quan shivered, feeling that the embarrassment he felt when he was suddenly supported by the deputy chief just now was completely scared away.

"Um... because I've been sitting for too long, my legs are numb...?" She explained with a smile.

Earthwork: "..."

The deputy chief looked like he was about to go berserk.

"So what's the matter with standing up suddenly without saying hello?! Even if you want to leave, you should say something at least? You only remember haiku, don't you remember the etiquette you should have for others..."

Liu Quan was thrown into dismay for a while.

...Deputy Chief, if you want to say something like "You can stay here for a while" or "Why are you leaving now", you can just say it straight away. How can there be such an attitude of yelling, shouting and blowing hair? Like the male protagonist of an otome game, is this really a tape?She groaned angrily in her heart.

However, she is too embarrassed to argue loudly with the deputy chief who has fried hair here, so she smiled shyly and said, "I'm so sorry, deputy chief...I'm going to get something, and I'll be back soon!"

Then, before the deputy chief could react, she shook off the deputy chief's merciful and good deeds to support her (fog!), opened the door and ran away.

She came back quickly too.When she returned to the deputy chief's room with an oil lamp again, the sliding door was still open and was not closed by the deputy chief.

...Although she was confused by her sudden actions, the deputy chief of the fried hair still believed her words, and waited here obediently for her to come back?

Such a thought made her heart suddenly burst into a smile.That burst of laughter made her throat itch, and she had to cough twice hard to suppress the bad impulse that if she laughed, it would definitely make the deputy chief furious.

She stumbled into the deputy chief's room, went straight around the table, found a vacant corner on the desk full of documents, put the oil lamp on the table, and then Skillfully hands-on lighting.

In an instant, the room became brighter than before.Since she walked in again, she has been immersed in her official duties, and the busy vice-chief Oni, who didn't give her a look, had to raise her head and stare at her suspiciously.

"...What's going on?!" He asked sternly.

Liu Quan gestured towards the hill-like pile of documents on his desk.

"Deputy chief, if you stay up late to read documents, don't save lamp oil. If the light is too dark, your eyes will be damaged many years in advance. I don't want to see a deputy chief who is so old that he can't see clearly. ?” she replied half-jokingly.

Sure enough, the deputy chief exploded in a second.

"What are you talking about? Who is 'too old to see clearly at such a young age'!?...Also, the cost of lamp oil can't be spent unlimitedly. To maintain..."

His words were interrupted by her smiling.

"Yes, yes, I understand, deputy chief. So this lamp is in my room. I go to bed early and don't need oil lamps for lighting. Is it okay for the head office? The cost of lamp oil should be charged to me as usual. Anyway, I Nothing else to spend, right?" she said with a grin.

Hijikata was subtly choked by her words.

Ah, that's exactly what I think of it.Probably because of her good skills, even after going on missions with other team members and participating in street gang fights (fog!), her team uniform is always neater than others, at most it is splashed with blood, needs to After coming back, I washed it, but the number of times when I got a big hole and needed to spend money to mend it was rare.

And her strange sword is really durable.Other people's knives always need to be maintained, and sometimes they need to be sent to a knife maker for repairs. However, her knife is said to be "a failed product of a certain knife maker's imitation of Qing Dynasty swords", but she has never seen her maintain it, let alone heard of it. It needs to be repaired after returning from a mission, but it still works well.

As a woman, you may need some other gadgets.Even Chizuru would sometimes go to the street to buy some small things, but Kiyohara Yukiha seemed to have an extremely simple life, and she didn't see her buying anything.

Ah, I remember hearing that she likes to eat some snacks.However, I haven't seen her go out to buy those sweet snacks in the past few days.He asked her casually once, and the answer he got was "Last time, Yijun gave me sakura pancakes for ten people in one go, and I was so full every day that I even dreamed at night, "What if I can't eat it?" I'm so sorry for the kindness of Ichi-kun after it's broken,' and things like that, I don't want to touch any desserts for about three months."

All kinds of things, now that I think about her, they are all such inexplicable little things.

So sometimes even when the pay day comes, she often doesn't bother to come to him to get the salary. Sometimes he can't bear to ask a question, and she says with a nonchalant expression, "ah, the money will be spent quickly when it comes to my hands." , so please ask the deputy chief to save it for me, maybe I can save a lot in the future, and then I can become a rich man and return home, marry a handsome man, and reach the pinnacle of life." Besides, he never heard a better answer from her at all - so he didn't ask at all, and just kept her monthly accounts - no, this feeling is like [don't worry about everything and just make money Husband] and [wife who is in charge of the household budget and account management, so she has to strangle all expenses] What is the matter of sight and feeling! ?

... As a woman, it's really okay to live a simpler and rougher life than a man.

The worrying deputy head of the Shinsengumi added another deep worry and complaint (?).

He just felt very tired for a moment.So he silently waved at her to let her go quickly.

Who knew she still had something annoying to say.

"Deputy Chief, after I leave, don't stealthily blow out this lamp, okay? I wrote down the location of the lamp oil. If you secretly pour out the lamp oil just to perfuse me, you will be punished by God—"

He finally couldn't help it and broke out.

"...Who would do such a boring thing! Hurry up and go back to the house to sleep! What time is it and you are still hanging around here! Don't you have a patrol mission tomorrow!"

She stood in front of his desk with a smile, tilted her head slightly, and looked down at him.

"Isn't there? Tomorrow it's the turn of Yijun's No. [-] team to patrol the streets during the day, and Zuo Zhijun's No. [-] team at night~ It's about whether you can spend the day leisurely. I've already done the investigation, okay?"

The deputy chief was furious, "...Then you go to the streets with the third group to patrol the streets for me! This is a mission!!"

Liu Quan was taken aback, "Huh?!"

Looking at the deputy chief whose anger was still lingering, she rolled her eyes, and then continued with a smile: "Okay... I can take this opportunity to discuss with Yi Jun how to carry out the joint tasks in the future. Deputy chief, what do you say?" How about I pretend to be a playgirl? Isn’t it a legitimate reason for a man to go out to drink in Shimabara at night? And I’ve also played a playgirl before, so I’m sure—”

The deputy chief slapped the table so hard that the oil lamp on the table shook a few times.If Liu Quan hadn't reacted quickly enough and reached out to help in time, the lamp would have fallen directly onto the tatami and caused a fire.

"What kind of playgirl! Wasn't the incident in Shimabara not big enough last time! Not only did a lot of people hear about the new 'person as beautiful as an oiran' in the corner house in a short period of time, after the incident ended The rumors about him continued to circulate for a long time! And I still brazenly said something to those who didn't succeed...What about 'Danna' and 'Shuiyang' and other things! I don't care about my own position at all!!"

Regardless of the fact that he almost caused a fire just now, the enraged deputy chief almost screamed into the sky.

"Before the backup arrives, you fight against the opponent without authorization. You don't want to die like this, you know! Really, how many times have I said not to just learn some annoying things from that guy in the chief! Give me something to think about this time. Another way! If I find out that you went to Shimabara again without authorization and caused a commotion, you can go to harakiri, you know!!"

Although her previous speech was more or less intentionally provocative, but Liu Quan was directly shocked by the deputy chief's roar.

...Deputy Commander, although I'm pretty sure there isn't any legendary "Ito faction's eyeliner" lurking around here, aren't we discussing a secret mission now?Wouldn't your yelling make our plot known to everyone in the village?

After complaining, she calmed down, thought about it again, and suddenly realized something; so she opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't say anything, but the corners of her mouth slowly curled up, revealing a subtle smile.

"Oh, deputy chief, I'm angry." She said slowly.

Earthwork: "..."

This slow, factual statement of hers was driving him to death!Can't she tell whether he is angry or not? !Is it a good thing to do a task so that rumors are flying all over the sky and let yourself be maliciously discussed by others? !She clearly arranged a foolproof plan, but she had to take risks alone to deal with one-to-many, she was so foolhardy to the extreme, why didn't she see that she was actually such a desperado? !

As a result, the second sentence she uttered in the next moment really pissed him off immediately.

"...Then I'm relieved." She continued to speak slowly.

Hijikata: "...What the hell are you talking about, you—"

Before he finished speaking, he saw the girl in front of him suddenly smile at him.

The bright smile on that extremely young, beautiful and delicate face, under the warm light from the indoor oil lamp, was actually dazzlingly bright, and for a moment it made the Deputy Chief Oni of the Shinsengumi dumbfounded.

Although he realized almost immediately that this was just a new gimmick she used to get away with it, she had already wisely said "Then I'll take my leave" in just such a pause, and quickly took two steps back He stepped out of the door and disappeared from his sight as quickly as a swimming fish.

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