Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

Fujita Goro returned to the Metropolitan Police Department with the Taidao that had been identified as a high-level imitation of "Ichiki Yishin".

As soon as he entered the door, he heard the roar of the Nishino Police Department.

"Fujita! That kid Fujita hasn't come back yet!! What a trouble! Does anyone of you know where he went?!"

Fujita Goro was slightly taken aback, and took two quick steps to come to the Nishino Police Department, bowed slightly and saluted, and said, "I'm sorry. I just went out to find someone to appraise this..."

He originally wanted to say "this Taidao left by the suspicious person at the scene", but he swallowed it for some reason, and changed it to a simple explanation "The sword maker and origin of this Taidao".

The Nishino Police Department obviously received a report from Kobayakawa to ask for leave on his behalf after he left the house. Hearing this, he nodded in frustration, his whole face tensed, and said to Goro Fujita, "Come to my office. New mission", he stomped heavily, stomping on the wooden floor of the Metropolitan Police Department as if venting his anger, and walked all the way back to his small private office.

Fujita Goro had to follow behind him.

The Nishino Police Department opened the door and entered the office, and then began to open the cabinet with a bang, rummaging for something.

There was a hint of doubt in Fujita Goro's eyes, but he still stood upright, waiting for the Nishino Police Department to speak first.

The Nishino Police Department groaned and stayed in place for a long time before uttering a few words reluctantly.

"Tonight, there is a temporary assignment from the top."

He finally pulled out a crumpled Western-style jacket from the cabinet, shook it a few times, and saw that the wrinkles had not disappeared, and the expression on his face became even uglier.

"They said they wanted me to take two people to the engagement banquet of the young master of the Chinese family, but in fact, it was because that family offended some lunatic, and the other party threatened to treat the only heir of his family—that rich young master who was going to be engaged— Unfavorable. Originally, since this company did not report the crime, this matter is not under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police Department; but this company climbed up... Uh, I heard that it is a big man from Satsuma, so a certain adult personally ordered me to be a guest Bringing a few people to the engagement banquet, well... it's not an official task of guarding, but you have to help keep an eye on the venue, lest there be any bloody incidents at the engagement banquet, and it will end up being difficult to deal with..."

oh.Fujita Goro thought to himself.

So keep on guard.

Unlike the Nishino Police Department, who felt a little ashamed because he was going to be a security guard, Fujita Goro didn't think there was any shame in this kind of thing because he hadn't taken on the task of guarding once or twice during the Shinsengumi period.

He waited in silence for a while, feeling that the Nishino Police Department would not vent any more anger, and then quietly asked: "In that case, what should I pay attention to tonight?"

The Nishino Police Department choked, looked Fujita Goro up and down, and showed a smoky expression on his face again.

"You? You can't go in police uniform! Hey, let me ask you, do you have any suitable clothes?"

Fujita Goro thought for a moment in embarrassment.

As a member of the Shinsengumi before, he didn't need to dress brightly to attend any banquets—in his experience, most of the banquets that he was asked to attend also left with heavy responsibilities, not for any reason. Simple guest.But of course the world is different now, and you have to observe a lot of completely unfamiliar etiquette and things like that you learned from the West.So, it sounds like a good dress that is formal without being rude is a must.Unfortunately, he had no idea where to find such a dress.

When the Nishino Police Department saw his perplexed face, there was nothing else he couldn't guess.His face twisted violently, and he went to the door and pulled the door hard, shouting to the outside: "Hey! Zhongjin! Zhongjin! Take this guy to buy a suit, and tell him the task for the night one time!!"

The smiling little policeman appeared out of nowhere and dragged Fujita Goro away.

Nakatsu Police Department's action was not slow. In the evening, he had brought Fujita Goro to the door of a mansion that looked old, and was quickly welcomed in.

The Nakatsu Police Department found Nishino Police Department in the hall wearing a crooked Western-style tie and an uncomfortable expression. After talking to him for a few words, he turned around and said to Goro Fujita: "You are in the hall and courtyard tonight. Let's go shopping around. Just be careful not to be rude to the master."

Then she winked at him.

Fujita Goro was dumbfounded for a moment, then nodded silently, and walked away.

Due to the promulgation of the "Order to Distribute Knife Removal", ordinary people can no longer walk outside with a knife.However, Fujita Goro couldn't be allowed to wander in the hall with a baton around his waist.The Nishino Police Department and the Nakatsu Police Department have guns, but Fujita Goro does not, so he has to find a reason to legally wear a sword.

So after leaving the Metropolitan Police Department, the Nakatsu Police Department went to a friend of his - and soon got Goro Fujita a military uniform.

This military uniform is worn by military school students, and it looks suitable with Fujita Goro's handsome face with a calm but ageless face.

The jacket of this kind of military uniform is navy blue, which just matches Fujita Goro's hair color and color, making him look less ostentatious, but with a sense of solemnity and handsomeness.After he finished changing his costume, even Zhongjin Police Department couldn't help but look at him a few more times.

"Speaking of which, are you really not thinking about Ms. Miwako anymore, Fujita?" He laughed and patted Fujita Goro on the shoulder.

"You look really good dressed like this.... When you get to the dinner party, if someone asks you, just say that you have studied well in the military academy, and you can leave everything else to me and the Nishino Police Department to answer... Be careful not to call out our police ranks, maybe one of the people you are talking to is the enemy of the owner of this family, and they want to take this opportunity to sneak into the venue and cause trouble."

Fujita Goro was silent for a moment, and nodded to show that he understood what Nakatsu Police Department said later - as for the previous sentence that he still wanted to ask him to go on a blind date, he selectively skipped it.

Nakatsu Police Department Bu also did not explain the background of tonight's mission in too much detail, but simply instructed Fujita Goro to pay attention to whether there are suspicious people in the venue, so as not to be seen as a policeman by others.

"Because this family has accepted the kindness of the big man above and assigned us to guard his house, but in the end it is still a joyful engagement banquet tonight. I don't want to expose the secret that the scene is still guarded by the police and cause tension. This feeling is not incomprehensible," Nakatsu said.

"I really don't know what kind of trouble the owner of this family has gotten into... Didn't he say that he has climbed up with a big shot from Satsuma? His family is also a model for the transformation of the old Chinese. The attitude of the old family is much better than that of those old-fashioned people... Well, maybe it is because of this, maybe they are resented by those old-fashioned people?" Nakatsu continued to analyze as if talking to himself.However, in the blink of an eye, he saw his reliable subordinate standing quietly with lowered brows and eyes in silence, and the slightly gossip thinking expression on his face was swept away.

"Well, it's useless to tell you these things. Hahaha... We don't care about what to do so much, and it's enough to finish the things that the adults above have told us. There is a more difficult case of the night murderer tomorrow. Cracked it." He laughed, and patted Goro Fujita on the shoulder again like mud.

From the beginning to the end, he quietly watched Fujita Goro talking to himself alone: ​​"..."

In short, now he is dressed up as a young soldier, standing in a corner of the hall, quietly watching all kinds of people coming and going in the hall.

This family looks like a declining old Chinese family - at least judging from this old mansion with a bit of history, a large area but a little lack of repair.

Before choosing this corner that is convenient for viewing the audience and settling down, Fujita Goro has already quietly inspected the lobby, courtyard and other places that are accessible to guests but not suspicious.

According to his observation, the hall of this mansion was originally Japanese style, but it has obviously undergone a hasty renovation, and now it has become a Western-style decoration, which is considered to be the newest place in this mansion; The Japanese-style courtyard feels a little lack of maintenance, and some plants grow a bit messy due to lack of maintenance, and lose the shape that is well trimmed to suit the aesthetics of the courtyard.

In general, the owner of this mansion obviously wants to cater to the new government's policy of total westernization, and is eager to add an aura of "obedience to orders and loyalty to the king" to his old Chinese identity, so as not to It was quickly cleaned up; however, due to the long-term decline of his family and his lack of money, he only had money to renovate the hall-this is the speculation made by Goro Fujita.

Moreover, his speculation is indeed very close to the truth.

Among the guests he saw at this moment, some people were still wearing kimonos, but more people put on western clothes.The women wore colorful western-style long skirts, and the tight design outlined the beautiful body curves.

Fujita Goro just glanced across the crowd, then indifferently turned his gaze to another direction.

Now that the new government is vigorously introducing and promoting a Western-style lifestyle, everyone is wearing western clothes, taking off their sabers, and drinking red wine, and women are also wearing tight-fitting long skirts—even if this kind of skirt is to look good. Fortunately, they are taller, but most of the women in our country are short, which is not really suitable for this design.

Although he was always vigilant and observing the crowd in the venue, Goro Fujita, who was hiding in the corner, suddenly thought of another scene inappropriately.

Shimabara, who is also brightly lit and noisy with people, sits quietly alone in a dark empty room, and his favorite knife "Ikeda Kijinmaru Kunisho" is quietly placed on the tatami on his right.The next room was brightly lit, and the laughter of geishas and guests came from there.

He knew she was there.It was in the next room just a partition away from him.Wearing a geisha's costume, combing her hair gorgeously, and wearing gorgeous headgear such as hairpins and tortoise shells on her head, she looks uncharacteristically gorgeous and compelling. "The new girl Axue will definitely become a husband in the future", those guests praised her so fascinatedly.

Finally, after they together defeated all the rogue ronin plotting against the Shinsengumi, she reappeared in her full attire and before him.

He still remembers that she wore a hairstyle called "Date Hyogo" at that time. On the cloud temples of the big bun, there were six pine and zither-shaped hairpins, two large coral jade hairpins, and three tortoise shell combs. An extremely gorgeous Furisode kimono, that kimono is based on red and gradually transitions to black with a gradient background, with gorgeous flowers embroidered on it and black borders, which set off her slender figure, so beautiful that it is dazzling— —

At that time, what did he want to say to her?

He wanted to say, "You look so beautiful like this", didn't he?

...I want to say that such beauty is simply shocking, isn't it?

Although these words could not be uttered at that time because she prevented her, the memory of the moment when he stood in the middle of the room that had just experienced a fierce battle and turned around to see her was forever in his mind Stay, just like yesterday.

Just as he was fighting alone on the streets of Youxiaolu, against an enemy dozens of times larger than his own, and when his sword and clothes were stained with blood, he heard a shout from behind him, "I'll be your opponent!", and then Turning around and seeing the other end of the long street, the moment she dressed as a man and swung a knife all the way towards her, she felt as shocked as she was shaken.

On that blood-stained long street, Ito fell, Hirasuke fell... former companions and current enemies, no matter who they were, all fell one after another; in the end, only he and she remained Staying there, standing back to back in the very center of the encirclement of a large group of Satsuma soldiers, holding a knife that was also stained with blood but still sharp, entrusted each other with their backs trustingly, and then moved forward without hesitation. The enemy swings his trusted sword—

Also, in Momoyama on the outskirts of Fushimi, and in Katsunuma Kannonzaka near Kofu, she risked her life to appear in front of him again and again, because she said, "No matter how many times I will rush to support Kazu-kun, because a You are an important companion."

Even, in-

In Tsuru Castle in Aizu, is it her? !

Fujita Goro's dark blue eyes suddenly narrowed.

Almost immediately, he noticed a sudden commotion in the hall.

At the very center of the commotion of the crowd was a young man in a neat formal suit who had just entered the hall through a side door, and a young man in a gorgeous long skirt who was also walking beside him holding his arm. female.

The young man looked a little thin and gloomy, but the gloominess seemed to only stay between his brows and eyes, and did not spread to his entire face, so not only was it not annoying, but it added a kind of similarity to him. The slenderness and sensitivity of literary youths—if Fujita Goro is sophisticated enough to understand the psychology of women, he will quickly realize that the feminine and slender beauty similar to that young man is exactly the slightly older women nowadays The favorite type, because such a thin and sensitive young man is easy to be loved-but Fujita Goro has no idea of ​​the mystery, so he just frowned slightly.

However, the young woman holding the young man's arm and standing beside him looked completely different from the young man's impression.

She is tall and slender - almost as tall as a short man - so she is very suitable for a dress like a long dress. When standing there, her back is straight, her figure is slender and graceful, and she is not foreign at all. The dislocation and feeling of being out of place caused by wearing western clothes.

Due to the far distance, Fujita Goro couldn't see her face clearly, but a woman with that kind of temperament could not have a mediocre appearance - he noticed that she had been calm and comfortable since she accompanied the young man into the hall. He has been chatting with the guests who gathered around him, and he naturally took all the questions to himself to answer, as if he was quietly protecting the young man from these boring social etiquettes, and would not It's like being rude on such an important occasion by not responding properly.

...Are those two people the protagonists of the engagement banquet tonight?

Such speculations came to the mind of Goro Fujita.

Suddenly, he noticed that the young girl in a long skirt surrounded by the crowd was chatting and laughing with the guests around her as usual, but at the same time raised her eyes slightly, looking past the place that happened to be half in front of him. The shoulders of several guests passed through the entire hall, and their eyes fell directly on themselves standing in the corner!

Fujita Goro:? !

The author has something to say:

February 2:

This time it is a bit thick and long [not

The girl is playing a big chess game hhh

Everyone can guess, who is the old Chinese family who is going to get engaged.

In addition, Xiaoyi's military uniform should be the style of the early Meiji years, probably the one worn by Cruise in the movie "The Last Samurai".

[Next update]: It is expected to be before noon the day after tomorrow (Thursday).Maybe it will be released early like the previous few times.