Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

On this day, the earth side rarely ended the meeting early.However, when he came out of the room, he found that Kiyohara Yukiha was not in Goryokaku.

Although he felt that it was impossible for her to get lost or ran away in Hakodate, let alone being plotted against by someone, but she left her post early in the afternoon—as a small surname, she should have been waiting outside for the Hijikata to come out of the meeting— It's kind of weird anyway.

The earthwork asked many people, and finally found a person who happened to meet her on the way.The young man said that he saw her heading towards the training ground.

……Training Course? !

While walking in that direction, Hijikata was filled with doubts.

She doesn't participate in military training, what does she go to the training ground for? !

But when he stood in an unobtrusive corner on the sidelines and saw her figure, he instantly felt his surprise increase tenfold.

Because she was talking with others in the field, and then she actually went to the wooden frame on the side and picked up a rifle/gun from above.

Tufang stared at her in surprise, watching her walk back to the shooting position on the training ground, put the end of the butt of the gun against the shoulder blade, and raise the gun to aim at the target on the other side of the field.

With a bang, the first bullet hit the target.But poor grades, deviated from the target.

The next moment he saw her eyebrows and nose were all wrinkled together, her expression was full of dissatisfaction with her performance, and then she raised her gun to aim again.

After the second shot, there was a black bullet hole around the eighth to ninth ring.

"It seems... Kiyohara-kun has put in a lot of effort in order to come to your side and continue to support you?"

Otori Keisuke suddenly commented behind Hijikata.

Although the sigh of "Why is this guy everywhere" appeared in his heart for a moment, Hijikata didn't look back, but just sighed softly.

"No.... As early as Edo, I knew she could use a gun."

Big Bird looked a little surprised.

"Eh?! That... when?"

The earth side did not answer him.

However, how could it be possible to forget that scene?

On the hillside of Ryuyama in the setting sun, Kondo-kun was left alone in the mansion behind them to face the enemy soldiers... With deep-seated hatred and self-loathing for his own powerlessness and abandonment of the general, He drew his sword and rushed into the enemy's formation, ignoring the enemy soldiers with guns, and desperately beheaded those enemies on the hillside, regardless of whether the opponent raised his gun or whether he would be hit in the next moment and simply Lost life--

Then, he heard a crisp gunshot behind him.An enemy soldier not far in front of him who was aiming at him with a gun fell to the ground.Then came the second and third enemy soldiers...

In the interval between slashing and killing, he also briefly thought, ah, it turned out to be her.

In this moment of bitter or deadly battle, surrounded by densely packed enemies, except for swordsmanship, courage, faith and determination, there is no way to defeat enemies that are several times or even dozens of times larger than oneself; Now, the one standing beside him and fighting with him is always her.Always her.

Speaking of it, her spirit is even more tenacious than some men, always gritted her teeth to face all difficulties, no matter what kind of problem, she would not hesitate.Looking back now, what he remembers the most is her expression when she stubbornly pursed her lips and confronted her opponent with sharp eyes.Although her smile is as bright as spring cherry blossoms, she rarely shows a soft posture, except when getting along with the companions of the Shinsengumi.

More often, she looks straight at the hell in front of her without fear, rushes all the way through without fear, and embarks on the unknown road ahead without fear.

When he thinks about it now, he also has to admit that that kind of eyes that look straight at everything in front of him without fear is his own greatest pain.He's not at all good at dealing with this.

In his impression, she was more like a blood-red night cherry blossom that was covered with blood, so it bloomed more vividly.She lives in the dark, and all her beauty and grace are covered by the dark night, but she stretches out her branches unyieldingly towards the light and ideal, and blooms brilliant flowers.

...What kind of woman can follow her to the last moment of Shinsengumi?This question had once surfaced in his mind, and he had been shaken and confused for a while, not knowing the answer.

But now he finally understood.The answer lies ahead.

The Taifu who has been pretending to be a man for a long time, passed the exam and entered the Shinsengumi, can patrol the streets of Kyoto or fight with rogues in light green haori, and can also dress up as a gorgeous and elegant Taifu appeared in Shimabara Kadoya, and now he is wearing a male A woman in a Western-style dress practicing Western rifle/gun shooting.

The woman who didn't move even after killing dozens of ronji who were enemies of the Shinsengumi, but who once cried because she had to part with the Shinsengumi's companions.

For a moment, he seemed to see her heart, see her fragility and bravery through the appearance of "even if she competes with men".

She's not that powerful.She also has her weaknesses.Fear of being left behind, of disappointing the people she values, of losing what she holds dear...

At that moment, inappropriately, he suddenly remembered the mission where she and Chizuru infiltrated Shimabara in disguise.

That night, he took Qianhe away, but left her alone in the corner house with perhaps as many as a dozen vagrants.He never thought about it, although she had a geisha makeup at the time, but if someone discovered her true identity as a member of the Shinsengumi, she was unarmed and wearing a furisode kimono that was completely inconvenient to move, what would happen? Facing more than a dozen rons who came from the samurai.

Later, he heard that she had done a good job.Before the first echelons like Okita and Saito arrived, she had already beheaded a Ronji.

It is said that when the rogue discovered his whereabouts and planned to call those rogues to rush downstairs to harm him, she used her ingenious means to lead him to an empty room alone, and then immediately killed him with the sword she had hidden in the room beforehand. His killing method was clean and neat, and did not even disturb other ronin.

Thinking about it now, he suddenly understood how dangerous the situation she was facing at that time.

Qianhe is gentle and weak, and must be protected by him.What about Snow Leaf?Xue Ye is brave and tenacious, so she can be left alone among the enemies to survive alone?

Reason told him that his decision at the time was not wrong.She is a member of the Shinsengumi team and has beautiful skills. Even if she doesn't fight with others, she is wearing a geisha's makeup, and it is not difficult to complete the task of lurking to monitor the enemy.

But the feelings are clamoring, trying to drive out his guilt and self-blame.

...How did she find out that Ronji had discovered his identity as the deputy head of the Shinsengumi?

...Is it because she was somewhere in that corner house at the time, and heard his self-declaration at the gate of Shimabara?

...At that time, what kind of mood did she listen to those words?

...And what kind of consciousness did he have to kill that Langshi when his teammates' support did not arrive?

...And, after that, with what kind of mood did she continue to follow him without hesitation until today.

Looking at Qingyuan Xueye who completed a round of shooting not far away, obviously satisfied with his subsequent results, so Qingyuan Xueye squinted his eyes and smiled complacently, his heart suddenly twitched slightly.

He heard the big bird next to him saying to himself: "What a wonderful woman... Hey, she seems to have finished her practice? If so, I can go over and say hello to her... "

Having said that, Big Bird really set off and trotted all the way to Liu Quan who was carrying the rifle/gun, intending to put it back on the gun rack, while running, he waved at her and shouted: "Yo~~! Snow Leaf Jun~! "

Liu Quan finished a round of shooting practice and felt that the last few shots had finally returned to his usual level. He was gently rubbing his right shoulder blade, which was hit by the recoil of the gun butt, with his left hand, when he suddenly heard a big gun behind him. birdsong.

She smiled and rubbed her shoulders while turning her head away.

"Good day, Otori-kun." She casually held the rifle/gun with the muzzle down, and said with a smile, "I haven't practiced for a while, and my grades have really gotten worse. Please allow me to do so in the future." Come here often to practice shooting."

Big Bird ran up to her, panting and stood still, the doll's face was full of smiles.

"Ah, of course there is no problem with that—but, speaking of it, aren't you Hijikata-kun's surname now? Is it really okay to just run out and practice shooting by yourself?"

Liu Quan slightly raised his eyebrows, clenched his left hand into a fist, and punched the position of his right shoulder blade a few times.

"...It doesn't matter. He is not someone who needs to be served by his surname all the time. I still have a lot of free time to spend on my own. I don't have much experience in shooting, so I can't work hard if I don't practice—"

Big Bird smiled and shook his head.

"Oh, oh? I don't know who it is, but I was a little curious to ask me a few days ago, 'Speaking of which, what should I do as a small surname? How to make tea for Mr. Dojikata obediently, or how to make delicious dishes' ?”

Liu Quan's face turned dark red, he coughed and replied, "...I'm just curious."

While talking and continuing to move his right shoulder, Liu Quan complained silently in his heart, "According to some research, I found out that a small surname is actually an orderly... I am a dignified acting team leader to serve as an orderly , this really can be regarded as something that only good players can do.”

"Besides, how to be an excellent surname is also the direction of my efforts, but when I go to the battlefield, the opponent won't just stand there waiting for me to aim because the miso soup I made is better." She joked Said, when talking about life and death, the tone is as normal as saying "today's weather is really good".

"Again, Mr. Big Bird, can you find a way to tie ropes to the tree trunks on both sides next time?" Liu Quan's left hand finally left his right shoulder, pointing to Big Bird, who are lined up on both sides of the shooting range. side tree.

"Have two people pull the rope on each side, and tie the target to the rope - you can't just stand there and practice shooting a fixed target. On the battlefield, it is more likely to shoot a moving opponent. I don't want to let it go More than a dozen shots, and finally only hit irrelevant things."

Big Bird showed a surprised and thoughtful expression on his face, rubbed his chin, and began to carefully look at the trees on both sides pointed out by Liu Quan, as if he was thinking about how to implement the proposal about setting up moving targets, and finally nodded with a wry smile. Nodding, he murmured in a low voice as if sighing: "...whose surname is full of guns and shooting... Is this really something that only the acting group leader of the Shinsengumi can do... ..."

Liu Quan was startled, and suddenly laughed.

"...No, it should be said, whose surname would put 'how to kill the enemy as much as possible' before 'how to make delicious food'. With such a surname, I really don't know if it is that Human misfortune?"

"...Who said this is my misfortune?!"

A deep voice suddenly sounded behind Liu Quan.

The author has something to say:

February 6:

I unfortunately caught a cold. . .dizzy. . . T_T

Well, it is expected that there will be a kiss scene that everyone is looking forward to tomorrow.