Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

"Speaking of it..." When Liu Quan felt embarrassed and was wondering if she spoke in a too relaxed and natural tone just now, which made the deputy chief feel that her authority was being challenged by another soldier, she suddenly Hearing that Tu Fang spoke, he threw a big gun at her head.

"Since the general manager is bedridden and unable to perform team duties, no matter how you say it, the team can't always rely on Shinpachi's occasional care, so let's go on like this... Shinpachi still has his second team. I'm worried..." He muttered, as if he had finally made up his mind, and cast his eyes on her who was wearing a women's bathrobe in front of him.

"...Therefore, it is necessary to appoint a person to manage the responsibilities of a team. Anyway, when there is a task, you can't always rely on other cadres to convey and organize it..." He said so , I don't know why, but it seems to sigh lightly.

"...You, come to be the corporal leader of the first team. You will take up the post tomorrow. During the period when the chief executive is convalescing, he will act as his work in the first team." He watched her with firm eyes, and stared directly at her with burning eyes. On her face, she said every word.

Liu Quan felt as if there was a thunderbolt on the top of his head, and there was a buzzing sound in his head, and he was completely stunned.

"me?!"

She pointed at her nose in disbelief, "Mr. Hijikata means... let me replace Souji-kun and perform his duties?!"

"...Ah." Hijikata replied casually.After making such a shocking decision, he seemed to have calmed down again, turned his face away from her, and stared at the crowd on the street.

"...Of course, there is no one who is more qualified than you to take over. However, considering that I have to help me with some team affairs and clerical matters... Those big bosses probably have no one who is more suitable than you to take care of these two things. Work on it."

He lightly explained the reasons for his decision.

"Besides, if you were asked to come, the director-general wouldn't be too careful. If I hadn't had to appoint someone to replace him to complete team affairs... I wouldn't have made such a decision. That guy...but A man with a very high self-esteem."

Looking at the profile of Tufang, Liu Quan seemed to understand something for a moment.

His inner worries, conflicts and struggles, the dwindling situation faced by the shogunate, the situation that although he is expected to become a shogunate, he is still faintly despised by others because of his rural background, and the old friendship of Okita, brought about by the departure of his former companions. Pain and troubles, more and more troubles in team affairs, the crisis of lax morale and lax discipline in a group due to the lack of a leader...all the difficulties and problems are piled up like big rocks It was extremely heavy on the shoulders of the deputy head of the Shinsengumi.If left alone, one day, these things will overwhelm the Shinsengumi—even if he has the determination to turn the tide, he can't do everything.

Even in such a heavy and difficult situation, and because she was unhappy because she was hiding something from him... Did he still choose to trust her and let her take care of an important team? !

...This is, how can it be impossible to imagine, super Su, super whimsical, super incredible, and super touching plot, right? !

Liu Quan smiled slowly.

"Yes! Deputy Chief!" She replied crisply.

"I will live up to the entrustment, and take up the responsibility of the first group. ...Also, I will let the chief executive not think about it too much?"

What she added caught his attention.

"...Why do I always feel that what you do will cause me more trouble..." He murmured complainingly, probably because he remembered something from the past, his face turned cloudy and sunny, and finally sighed heavily With a sound, it seems to give up and worry about this matter now.

"Anyway, it's really inappropriate to say so many things like losing your temper at the festival.... You came to see the sacred fire, right? It's a rare opportunity, so let's go to a better place to watch it."

He abruptly changed the subject to another direction, then turned his face away, and walked forward with an unnatural expression.

This time, he walked much slower than before, as if deliberately controlling his pace to match her who was not proficient in clogs.

When they came to the river, across the calm Kamo River, they looked at the dark mountain peak on the other side in the night. A raging flame had already been lit on the mountainside, forming a huge "big" character.Bright flames soared into the sky, illuminating most of the mountain peaks and the night sky.

They found a suitable place on the river bank, and stood there side by side, looking at the black and silent mountains on the opposite bank, and the blazing fire of sending gods on the mountainside.

"Speaking of... why did you make such burning characters on the mountain on the night of the Obon Festival...?" Liu Quan murmured to himself.

Tu Fang standing beside her was silent for a moment.

"It is said that sending the divine fire is lit to comfort the souls of the dead who have returned to the kingdom of the dead. Those souls who have returned to the human world will return to the underworld after seeing the sending of the divine fire..." He seemed to be talking to himself Said.

"Now, among the souls of the undead who are watching this magnificent flame with us, there must be some newly selected team members, and some undead who were beheaded by us...Those soldiers who died because of my orders are also there. Do you see this sending fire? Those who died in the battle, those who were ordered to cut seppuku, and those who became Rakshasa and died in the end, all died because of me. They will resent me, right?"

There was an unusual sigh in his tone.This surprised Liu Quan suddenly.

"That's, that's not the case..." She subconsciously wanted to refute his ominous speculation.But before she could say the following words, she was interrupted by him.

He smiled bitterly, "It's ok, I'm still very clear about what I've done. I neither wanted to die on the tatami, nor thought about how I would die."

For some reason, the last words he said suddenly brought a deep pain in her heart.She turned her head abruptly, staring at his still handsome profile in the night.

"Although there may be some of those guys who really left with a little reluctance..." She said eagerly, "But they will always understand the feelings of the deputy chief in the end... because... because the deputy chief is actually He is a very gentle person, so the pain of giving orders should be more profound. Didn’t Mr. Hijikata tell me last time in Shimabara that you were not born to be the vice-president of ghosts, and you like to clean up with staring eyes. Bad soldier's..."

Tufang seemed slightly taken aback, as if he hadn't expected her to say such a thing.After a while, his eyes seemed to flicker violently, and the lines of his side face seemed to be inexplicably softened a lot.

"Huh...?! You always say unexpected things. That kind of thing... how do you still remember it?"

Liu Quan choked.

...Impossible not to remember.Thinking about it now, it was a rare good time in this turbulent era, right?And you, deputy chief, are also an important part of that beautiful memory?

However, such words are impossible to say in any case.In the end, she could only smile a little embarrassedly, and responded to his question with silence.

Fortunately, Hijikata didn't really intend to get any answer from her.He smiled lightly and continued in a calm tone: "I'm just thinking this way: It doesn't matter what your status is before joining the team, and it doesn't matter if you have to face seppuku in the end. At the moment when you enter the Shinsengumi, those team members are Samurai. Even if everyone else forgets, I—even if I am alone, will always remember them.”

For a moment, something seemed to choke Liu Quan's throat.

She looked at his calm side face, which was illuminated by the fire on the other side of the mountain, and she was silent for a long time before she replied softly: "Tonight's gift of fire will definitely bring Mr. Those Shinsengumi companions who have passed away. Because in the minds of Mr. Hijikata and everyone in the Shinsengumi, they are finally as a samurai, facing their final outcome with dignity... Even if the body has disappeared, Their spirit is still samurai, carrying such honor to the end..."

After her final sound fell gently, Hijikata didn't speak for a long time.

For a while, on the noisy river bank, there was a kind of tranquility that enveloped the two of them.They stood side by side like that, looking at the big monogram burnt on the mountain on the other side.The night wind blew, and the flames sprang up, and the huge "big" character on the mountainside was as bright and dazzling as a flame that was about to fly into the air.

Silence fell between the two of them for a long time, with only the sound of each other's breathing clearly audible.Strangely, Liu Quan didn't find this situation tense or embarrassing at all.

This flaming flame-like text...is probably meant to mourn the dead.

Maybe one day more people will join in and join the mourning of those who are alive...even they will one day.However, she always hoped that that moment would come later, later, and it would be better to lie on the tatami when he was very old, as he said just now, because of aging and not because of other things. Why did you leave...

The flame dwindled, and finally, finally, slowly died out.

At night, the Kamogawa River flows slowly, and the wind carries cool water vapor, blowing towards the face.After the sacred fire on the mountain was extinguished, Tufang stood quietly for a while, then turned to Liuquan beside him.

"Let's go back."

After walking for a while, the Deputy Oni seemed to remember something, and suddenly said: "Speaking of which, the place you jumped in to save Chizuru...was Kamogawa."

Liu Quan was taken aback. "Huh...?! Ah, yes."

Hijikata asked such a strange question abruptly, but a faint smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

"...Your false Adam's apple must still be somewhere in Kamogawa."

Liu Quan felt that a thunderbolt was struck on the top of his head, and his whole body became stiff.

The plot written by the author of this fanfic is really full of loopholes? ——Let "Qiyohara Yukiha" deliberately expose her identity as a woman at a certain moment in order to break the current dilemma of not being able to attack the male lead, so she deliberately jumped into the river to save people when Qianhe fell into the water, and used the The false Adam's apple made by the flawed makeup technique took the opportunity to tear off and throw it in the Kamogawa River, so the good-sighted Okita discovered this flaw, and then deduced that she was a woman disguised as a man... This series of stories cannot be changed. Oh no!

What's worse, as the player who takes over the role of Su Shuang's female supporting role, she still has to follow this poor script!

"Uh...deputy, deputy chief?!" She really found it difficult to explain, and stammered out a few words, "That, that is... er... I, I'm sorry!..."

Tufang suddenly turned to look at her.At this time, she saw clearly that there was no sullen expression on his face, but a faint smile similar to a prank, as if he finally forced her to be speechless with a fluffy sentence and made him feel very happy .

"It turns out... there are times when you really can't say anything?" He said with a smile, "I thought that no matter what others said to you, you would always be able to answer with an eloquent and grand truth."

Liu Quan's face flushed red.

"Mr. Hijikata...! I... I didn't... I... I just..."

"Huh? Just what?" Hijikata asked with a smile.

Liu Quan: ...For a moment, I felt that the deputy chief was a bit of a ghost. This must be my illusion, right? !Must be, right? !

She lowered her head in embarrassment, feeling that it was a bit bad to be finally killed by the deputy chief.

"I'm just frankly saying what I think in my heart." She said in a low voice, and after she finished speaking, as if she had gained some courage from this simple sentence, she raised her head and looked back at the vice president unyieldingly. long.

"Ah, I know." Tu Fang was taken aback for a moment, then responded casually with a smile.Then, the smile slowly disappeared from his face.

"I didn't mean to blame you. Perhaps, I said this because I didn't expect that I would say those things to you just now."

Liu Quan was stunned, unable to understand what he was referring to.

Tufang was still thinking about it, "...Obviously, I didn't say anything to other team members or cadres..."

ah.Liu Quan thought, she probably understood.

The deputy chief was probably referring to what he said just now when he was watching the fire on the river bank.

Once she knew what he meant, all the sudden nervousness she had just now disappeared.She looked at him seriously, and said solemnly: "Please don't mind. If this can also help Mr. Hijikata, I am willing. After asking you to talk about this, if Mr. Hijikata feels a little more relaxed, then I will also help you." Will be very happy."

Hijikata smiled lightly with an unsurprised expression on his face.

"That's it....Speaking of it, I knew you would say that. Maybe it's because of this that I can say those words with confidence...?!"

Liu Quan: ...! ?