Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

Tufang gritted his teeth, so hard that the side of his face was stretched like a blue vein.He looked very painful, as if the person who was seriously injured was not Liu Quan, but him.

In the end, as if he had finally made up his mind, he freed his right hand and reached into his pocket, groped for a bit, and took out a small bottle.

"...Please drink it." He said rudely to Liu Quan with a desperate expression.

Then he loosened his palm slightly, leaving only the tip of the three fingers on his right hand holding the upper end of the small bottle, and lifting it above Liu Quan's face, so that she who was lying on the ground could clearly see the small bottle and What's in it.

...It contained a blood-red liquid, which was gently shaking in the bottle with his slightly trembling fingertips.

Liu Quan's eyes widened for a moment.

"This...this is...!!"

Hijikata showed a wry smile similar to giving up on himself.

"That's right, it just changes like water."

His voice was so low that it was barely audible.

"I found it when sorting out Shannan-kun's relics...Shannan-kun left a note, indicating that this bottle of Bian Ruo Shui was the latest achievement Tsunandao finally developed to allow Rakshasa to carry out activities in broad daylight... He was probably also attracted by the powerful effect of this bottle of water from the beginning..."

"I should have destroyed it, but I don't know why I didn't. Is it because my heart has also been shaken, or is it because I am not reconciled to the day when I have to risk my life to protect the Shinsengumi? That's it. Simply die...?"

He paused for a moment, looking past his hand holding the vial, looking down sadly at her almost snow-white face from above.

"...It was you who died instead of me...I must not allow this kind of thing to happen..."

Liu Quan's eyes wandered back and forth between the bottle of water and Hijikata's face several times.

"I didn't... mean... I just... bad luck..." She managed to squeeze out a few words.

"...What nonsense are you talking about!"

He yelled as if he couldn't take it anymore, his beautiful eyes were fixed on her, and there was an undisguised expression of anger and pain on his face.

"You secretly cut your hair to the same length as mine, and you're still wearing my coat... Where is your gun?! Why didn't you bring it, but brought your knife and the wakizasa Sannan-kun left for you ?!" His questions became more and more aggressive.

"When we parted at Goryokaku, you obviously didn't look like this!... Didn't you know how to use a foreign gun? And didn't you already use it in previous battles? Then why didn't you take that gun out in the end? , but with a knife like me?! Are you lying? What do you know that I don’t know?! Why didn’t you let me go to Bentendaiba, but pretended to be me riding a horse?!… ..."

Liu Quan couldn't say a word.

"...Anyway, drink this." Tu Fang suddenly stopped denouncing her presumptuous assertion, and ordered her in a stiff and unwavering tone.

Liu Quan stared at his face and shook his head slowly.

"...No, no..." She replied in a low voice.

"I... I haven't... died so easily... It should be a bullet... pierced through, and didn't... stay in the body... As long as... as long as I can survive... the high fever after that, I can... "She subconsciously wanted to refuse the proposal to drink the water that changed, and made up reasons intermittently.

"...Think of Yamazaki!!" Hijikata yelled, his face full of pain that he didn't want to recall the past, but had to mention it.

Liu Quan choked.

Yamazaki... On the Mount Fuji pill, he struggled painfully with the high fever caused by repeated wound infections, but finally stopped breathing... Such a reassuring and trustworthy, silent and reliable person, always hidden in the shadows, doing his best Is it Yamazaki who does a great job but no one knows about it...

But, to turn her into a Rakshasa, the most painful person is actually not herself, but him, right? !

Didn't he, like her, have witnessed how Shannan went crazy, how bloodthirsty, how out of control, how extreme, and how he became another person they didn't know?Didn't they once knelt beside Shannan together and could only watch him disappear? !

Didn't he think about it, if she also had that day... At that time, what would he do?

"Drink it....I beg you..." Hijikata's voice dropped, the tone was pained and weak, it didn't seem like his own at all.

"I...I can't just watch you die like this...Even if I want to use it to prolong your life, even if it can only be extended for a limited time...Even if it's just a little bit of hope, I don't want to give up..."

The sound of artillery in the distance seemed to gradually decrease.Liu Quan lay on the clearing in the forest, looking up at Tufang's face and the clear sky behind him.

Suddenly, Munakata Reji's voice came to her mind without warning.

【Xinya, thank you. 】

【Thank you for trying to survive when everyone is desperate. 】

[This is your shining virtue, please continue to work hard like this in the future. 】

……yes.

I almost forgot - we made an appointment to try to stay alive.

Although the journey was full of indescribable and unimaginable ups and downs, it was so difficult that she almost planned to put all her eggs in one basket, even betting her own life like playing with fire, and almost forgot the words of farewell Munakata Reisi left in her ear Fortunately, at the end of the day, she finally remembered again.

Moreover, for some reason, she also thought of the embrace that Reji Munakata gave her after she broke free from the illusion of the Colorless King.

Now, are you living well in that world that is already safe and secure, and there is no longer any fear of collapse, Munakata-senpai?

sorry.I won't forget your words again, and I won't rush here to die again without authorization.Because I now understand that my life is valued and cherished more than myself by someone.

Although I know that the system bacteria's guarantee of avoiding death should be reliable, but now that I think about it, no matter how huge the predicament and how unpredictable the enemy is, we always have a better solution than simply sending us to death, right? ?

And... here, it can be regarded as one of the development of the plot... the key choice, right? !

Wanting to continue life...wanting to exit in a reasonable way...all the clues all point to the change in this vial—this is an extremely important plot item in the original game!It turns out that in her story, does she also play an ultimate and decisive role? !

Shinsengumi, Deputy Chief, Chang Ruo Shui, Rakshasa——

It seems that all the key clues that appeared in the original work have been connected so far, perfectly forming a whole reincarnation.

At that moment, she seemed to have a subtle illusion—this was no longer just a game world that she had to perform missions to save.

This is the real world she has to face now.

This is the direction of fate.

"……Understood."

Liu Quan replied in a low voice, and then tried his best to raise his right hand, tremblingly held the lower end of the vial in Tu Fang's hand, and slowly clenched it.

"...please let me... do it myself."

The earthwork did not let go immediately.He probably already saw that she probably didn't have the strength to successfully complete a series of actions such as removing the bottle cap and drinking water, so in order to ensure that this could continue her life that was about to end, he planned to complete the drinking for her. A series of preparatory work before turning into water.

Liu Quan said it again with difficulty.

"Everything... please let me do it myself."

There is no need for him to come and help again.If this moment is still not the end of her mission, then she will definitely have to spend more time with him in the future; but if she doesn't immediately dispel his guilt now, then when she faces him in the future, as long as she behaves Unless he is affected by the power of Rakshasa, it will be difficult for him to face himself—he will not be able to face the ugly and twisted her who has become Rakshasa, and will remember that the reason why she became like this is to replace him to go to the Going to die in Benten Odaiba—the sense of guilt and the sense of shame brought about by being sheltered by a woman again will always come up at some unexpected moment, right?

Moreover, it doesn't matter even if the body turns into water after drinking it and is transformed into a Rakshasa.Because this was not her own body in the first place.Moreover, she will leave here sooner or later, no matter whether the task is successful or failed, it is impossible to stay in this game world forever.

Liu Quan placed the small bottle on his chest, firmly grasped the body of the bottle with his left hand, groped with his right hand, and took several times of effort to pull out the bottle cap.

"I actually have a deep fear of death... so when I was on the verge of despair... Mr. Hijikata gave me another kind of hope, so that I could refuse the coming of death... In my heart, I'm so happy..."

Her voice was hoarse, but she smiled lightly.

"...Probably, it seems that Mr. Shannan can understand the choice of Mr. Heping Zhujun at that time."

"Because you can't live without it."

"And to live well... What a luxury it is... For this matter, it is worth abandoning everything and taking risks..."

"It doesn't matter if I'm called cowardly...it doesn't matter if I'm feared and hated...because I want to live...it's my own will, it has nothing to do with others..."

Hijikata's mouth opened slightly in shock.

"If one day Mr. Hijikata finds it impossible to face me because he sees me turning into a Rakshasa..."

"No! No!!" Tufang immediately interrupted her loudly.

Liu Quan continued talking on his own, as if he didn't hear his rebuttal.

"...Then I won't belittle... the life Hijikata-san has continued for me. I can leave... I can live seriously wherever I go. But...staying with Hijikata-san is of course the best thing choice..."

Hijikata was stunned, with a look of astonishment on his face.

Then, he suddenly burst out laughing, the expression on his face softened for the first time since he found her injured in this forest.

"Really... I thought you were going to say something..."

Liu Quan looked at him with a smile, the pain in the wound seemed to go away from her.The body became light and ethereal, as if it was about to float up, into the air, and above the clouds.

However, there is no sense of pain that is dying.Maybe the system is not deceiving me, and really brought her back from the brink of death...?

"So...you think I'm going to say, if Hijikata-san... hates me, it's not too late for me to end this life?...I'm not that stupid." She said weakly in a joking tone .

"Mr. Hijikata hated me before, and I survived... Now it's even more impossible for me to die..." She blinked, gathered the last bit of strength in her body, and raised the vial in her right hand.

In the next second, all the blood-red liquid in the bottle was poured into her mouth.

The author has something to say:

February 6:

hhh the author Jun who likes old stalks will never forget the most important clue of the original work, Bian Ruoshui! 【.

The head of the office also brushed up the sense of presence again, and set up a flag for himself by the way [not