Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

Kondo nodded in satisfaction as if relieved, but Hijikata frowned slightly, and the seriousness on his face did not lighten at all.

In fact, they can't stay here for too long at Youxiaolu.Whether it is Ito, Hirasuke, or the remains of the other imperial tomb guards, they are still displayed in disorder on the street; if Kondo and Hijikata walk a little slower, what if the remnants of the imperial tomb guards who fled the scene escaped and moved somewhere? Unexpected reinforcements will make the situation even more difficult to deal with.

In other words, the director of the Xinsengumi must not be besieged and killed here today by the remnants of the imperial mausoleum guards who went back and forth and moved in to rescue the soldiers, right?

So it was decided that Yongcang and Harada would escort Kondo back to the settlement first, while Hijikata would stay to deal with the aftermath.

No matter how sad, Hirasuke is now nominally the enemy and betrayer of the Shinsengumi; after Kondo, Nagakura and Harada left the scene, the remaining Hijikata crouched next to Hirasuke’s body, staring at Hirasuke sadly face.Then, without looking back, he said to Liu Quan who was standing silently behind him:

"What happened to prevent you from saving him? ——With the skills of you, Yongcang and Harada, if there is no accident, you should be able to save him."

Liu Quan: "..."

She felt speechless for a moment.

The deputy chief didn't seem to mean to question her, but was simply investigating the situation when the incident happened.However, it was still difficult for her to answer this simple question.

What to say?Saying "Hirasuke was concentrating on fighting me, so he didn't notice when Miura sneaked up behind him"?Or "I had the opportunity to preemptively warn him, but I didn't"?

Said "I had a chance to save him, but in order to maintain the truth of history, I chose to stand by and live up to your trust and sacrifice him"? !

After Tufang asked the question, he didn't get her reply for a long time, so he couldn't help turning his head and looking at her with a strange expression on his face.

"What's the matter? Is it so hard to say? Are you still afraid that I will order you to have seppuku after I go back?" He added a few words lightly, his tone could not tell whether he was joking or not.

Liu Quan opened his mouth, and finally said in a dry tone: "When Heisuke-kun was concentrating on fighting me, Miura suddenly appeared from behind him... I didn't notice where he came from before. , but when I found him, it was already..."

She originally wanted to say "it's too late" to clear herself of the responsibility she might have to bear; but those words stuck in her throat, making her speechless.

However, what she said corresponds to what Yongcang and Harada said before, and it has also been confirmed; the deputy chief nodded, and did not have any doubts about her suspicious pause, but responded with a sigh: "Ah, is it..."

After answering such meaningless words, the deputy chief stopped again, as if something had been stuck in his mind.He was silent for a long time, his eyes fell on the long street in front of him that was pale and desolate illuminated by the moonlight, and he slowly swept across the bloodstains, human stumps, severed fingers, and a man lying on the ground. The motionless remains——

"Hirasuke, did he say something in the end?" Finally, the deputy chief asked in a low sighing voice.

Liu Quan: "..."

Ah, another difficult question to answer.

Swish, slur, slur--

The night wind that suddenly picked up violently blew across the roofs on both sides, and Liu Quan knew it without raising his head. Since the change of Youxiaolu had ended just like in history, and the result had not changed, it meant that she and the Fusangshen had passed this time. Mission accomplished.

Those fusangshen must be rushing to Youxiaolu now.Because their judges are still here.

That's right, she is no longer a team member of the Shinsengumi, nor will she be the acting team leader of the first team of the Shinsengumi, and it is even more impossible for her to have a deeper bond with the person in front of her than the relationship between a boss and a subordinate.

They, let's stop here...?

Liu Quan took a deep breath in order to suppress the soreness in his heart.

"Heisuke-kun... said that he wanted to go back to the past." She said calmly, "I said that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't go back to that time..."

"...Because people change."

Her final voice lowered, and her expression became gloomy.

The earth side was silent for a long time.

"...Really." He uttered these two syllables slowly, with a hint of emotion.

Then, he exhaled, and did not turn his head to look at her expression, but slowly raised his head, looking at the moon in the sky that seemed to be covered by dark clouds.

"...Only these words?" He didn't comment on the words of Heisuke she just relayed, but simply asked again.

Liu Quan was silent for a moment.

"...No." She also replied in a simple and flat tone.

"Hirasuke... probably wants to sing a death poem. But at that time he has no energy..."

"So, he asked me if I could recite a... haiku by Hichikata-san."

Earthwork: "...what?!"

Instead, it was Hirasuke's request that made him look shocked, and suddenly turned his head to look at Liu Quan.

Liu Quan also turned to look at him sideways.

On the blood-soaked long street, the dead bodies of comrades, friends and enemies lay at their feet.Only the two of them stood side by side, looking at each other, the moon not covered by the dark clouds was still shining tenaciously, and the silvery white moonlight sprinkled on their faces and shoulders.

Liu Quan slowly bent the corners of his lips.

"I say--"

"If you don't live here... How can you enjoy the flowers near you?"

"...I will meet you today."

Earthwork:! ! !

The deputy chief's face showed a look of extreme astonishment for a moment.

Listening to Liu Quan recite his haiku sentence by sentence, the expression on his face, for a moment, besides shock, there is something else, deeper and more complicated.But that expression only paused for a moment on his face and then disappeared. Oni's deputy commander of the Shinsengumi gave a low cough, and straightened his face again, as if those wavering emotions were just someone else's illusion.

"Can't you... make people feel more at ease, this idiot..."

The deputy chief said in a tone similar to anger, if he didn't know the cause and effect, he would mistakenly think that he was just scolding his subordinates who did something wrong.

However, Liu Quan heard a different kind of meaning in that reprimand-like sentence, which was similar to deep pain.She couldn't help but gasped, and just about to open her mouth to say something, the deputy chief blinked slowly, turned his face away again, and stopped looking at her.

"...We can't just take him back for burial." He said in a rough voice, "Although we are very unwilling, we have to keep him here and wait for the guards of the Royal Tomb to come back..."

Liu Quan showed a questioning look.

As if aware of it, the deputy chief showed a wry smile, looked at the sky, and said, "...Since that guy Hirasuke chose to stay in the Royal Tomb Guard until the end, then, so be it."

"Who can say for sure what will happen in the future. Maybe decades or hundreds of years later, everyone will say that it was wrong for Shinsengumi to ambush Ito and the imperial guards today..."

Liu Quan:? !

The deputy chief's side face gradually tightened, revealing firm lines.

"I don't care about those words. I just know that this is what I have to do today. If I don't take some action, I will be ashamed of my conscience—Hirasuke must have come here with such a mood." .”

Liu Quan:! ! !

The deputy chief slowly raised the corners of his lips.Then, without warning, he pressed the handle of the knife at his waist and turned around in the direction of the village.

"...Then I will respect his feelings."

"Although he is a silly boy...but no one can decide for him which is the most important thing for him now, and the thing worth risking his life to do..."

"Since I still want to do this after thinking about it seriously, then I won't overturn his decision for him."

"Hirasuke, after recognizing you, Nagakura, and Harada, he still drew his sword and wanted to fight you."

"Then it means that at that moment, he wanted to fight to the end as a guard of the Royal Tomb—not as a member of the newly selected team."

"Then, as a guard of the Royal Tomb, let's leave in a dignified way."

Liu Quan:! ! !

Some details that I have never thought about, following the words of the deputy chief, slowly surfaced in my mind at this moment.

Indeed... Although Hirasuke said "I want to go back to the past", when he couldn't think of a death sentence, he wanted to use the vice-manager's haiku instead, but he did not say it from the beginning to the end, he wanted to go back to the past. To the Shinsengumi, I want to die as a Shinsengumi member.

Hirasuke has been contradicting left and right.Maybe until death.But at the moment of death, he did not express his desire to return to the Shinsengumi.Therefore, we can only regard him as a worthy opponent and enemy, and just watch him go away—?

The deputy chief took steps in the direction of the station.

Strangely, he didn't seem to have any intention of asking her if she wanted to go back together.It was as if he was sure that she would follow him and also return to the Shinsengumi's settlement.

However, the deputy chief had already gone a long way, but Liu Quan still seemed to have his feet nailed to the ground, and he didn't rush to catch up with him like countless moments in the past—memory.

After several consecutive footsteps leaping from the roof to the ground came from behind, Liu Quan opened his mouth.Without looking back, she said, "Let's go."

A golden light flashed, and finally, there were no traces of living people on the streets of Youxiaolu.Only the blood-stained streets, and those who had lost their lives in the famous battle to the death.

History was restored.There is only the wind blowing over the corner of the eaves, like a deep sigh that no one knows.Continue through the years, for a long time without stopping.

The author has something to say:

February 11:

The severe cold is still attacking the author's bacteria.

However, there are still word count requirements for the list this week, so I will update it every day. The time is a little hard to say now, so let’s tentatively set it at zero, if not, it will be in the afternoon.

This one is for today, and there should be another one around [-]:[-] pm tomorrow.

Recently, everyone doesn't pay much attention to the author's bacteria, the author's bacteria is very sad [to finger

In the next chapter, a newcomer (knife?) debuts!