"You know where I am...why don't you come to see me..."

Above her head, where she couldn't see, Hijikata smiled wryly.

"Is this... There are such and other reasons... Cough, even if it's me, it's not like I can go to see you just because I see you..." He replied in a low voice.

Her voice sounded more aggrieved.

"...Liar!—Mr. Hijikata is an idiot." She even sniffed, sounding like she was about to cry in a second.

"If you want to meet... there is always a way... and even if it's a hint, can't you let me know... know——"

know what?He smiled wryly again.

"It's impossible to do that, right?...Those people, they have so many rules..." He said slowly, his voice was low, and it was as magnetic and shocking as a subwoofer to her ears.

"...And, haven't I already left you a hint?" He sighed and added another sentence.

Liu Quan was taken aback.

"Is that the document that signed your real name?!" She suddenly raised her face and asked back in disbelief, "Is that what you... left there on purpose?"

The earthworker coughed and was noncommittal.

Liu Quan was silent for a moment, then burst out laughing suddenly.Although there was still a vibrato in the laughter, the laughter sounded very real.

"Really...just say Mr. Hijikata is an idiot..." She said with a smile, "That kind of...what kind of hint..."

Tufang coughed again, and his voice sounded deeper, as if he was becoming angry from embarrassment.

"Hey!...Is that how you talk to your commander-in-chief! Shidou doesn't realize..."

Liu Quan's crisp laughter rang out, interrupting the second half of his sentence just in time.

"That's right, that's it." She raised her face to look at him with a provocative tone of half-truth and half-fake, and said, "...How about it? Come and bite me?"

Earthwork: "..."

A miasma-like expression flashed across his face in an instant.The next moment, his brows were pressed down, his eyes sank, and with an indescribable meaning, he reached out and lifted her chin, and stretched his fingers to stay on the beautifully curved neck.

Then, his face was lowered, and his lips approached hers inch by inch—the smile on the corner of Liu Quan's lips was still frozen there, but his eyes were first widened in surprise, and then suddenly closed in panic.

Their breaths are gradually getting close enough to be mixed together, the warm breath lingers around the two, and the air that suddenly becomes ambiguous seems to gradually increase the heat that cannot be ignored, making people panic, nostalgic, and at a loss— —

The moment before Hijikata's lips were about to fall on hers, Liu Quan, who had his eyes closed, suddenly uttered a very unpleasant question from between his lips.

"...Mr. Hijikata, why are you here?"

Tu Fang was slightly taken aback.His movement of lowering his face stopped, and his lips hovered a few inches above hers.When he spoke, the warm breath from his lips blew on her face.

"……what?"

Liu Quan slowly opened his eyes, staring at his face that was close at hand.

"Why did Mr. Hijikata come here, accepting such a strange responsibility that you have never heard of?"

Tufang suffocated, then coughed twice in embarrassment.

"I... of course it's because... you... er, yes, I want to see what the era you said when the spirit of the Shinsengumi was recognized and respected is what it looks like!"

Liu Quan smiled.

"Is there no other reason?"

Earthwork: "...When, of course not—"

Liu Quan stared at his slightly uncomfortable face, and suddenly smiled slyly.

"If you tell a lie, you need a thousand needles in your tongue, Mr. Hijikata?" She said narrowly.

Tufang: "Nah, long-winded!"

...Ah, it's been a long time since the deputy chief uttered the word "Ulusay" in a rough voice to cover up his wavering performance--it's really damn it, it makes people miss it deeply? !

Liu Quan slowly tightened his fingers holding the fabric of his jacket at the back of his waist.

"Although it may be a bit... too self-aware to say this, but...you don't have to do this step, Hijikata-san?"

The earthworker suffocated.

"Hey, long-winded! I think it should be! How can there be so many opinions! Do you have any opinions on me!"

...Ah, she really still misses this scene so much, and misses the deputy chief yelling at her in a rough voice to cover up her shaken scene——

Is that because he is about to be captured by her?Is it because he has been captured by her?right? !

In order to hide the laughter that was about to overflow from his throat, Liu Quan cleared his throat and changed the subject abruptly.

"So back then at the Three Bridges..."

"Ah, it's me too." Hijikata replied straightforwardly.

Changing the topic of safety, he also seemed more natural.After a pause, he seemed to have thought of something, and his face darkened.

"Looking at you pretending to be nonchalant, but your words are full of flaws, it's a headache! Fortunately, you met me, if it was someone else—"

However, his lecture was interrupted by her smiling.

"If it was someone else, Hijikata-san would come to save me, right?"

The earthworker suffocated.

"Well..." he replied ambiguously.

Liu Quan chuckled.

"So later, at Ikeda House, at Youxiaolu...Every time I met, it was you, wasn't it?"

Tu Fang: "...Ah."

He responded gruffly again, still a vague particle, but the smile on her face became bigger.

"Why—" she slowly dragged out her voice.

Tufang was slightly taken aback, as if he didn't understand why she asked this question.

"...What?" He asked subconsciously.

However, when he lowered his gaze, the face he saw still had crooked eyebrows and the most vivid smile.

"...No, it's nothing." She seemed to have changed her mind suddenly, shook her head lightly, and asked in a somewhat uneasy tone: "Then wait a minute... what is Mr. Hijikata going to do?"

Both of them knew what moment she was referring to.

...It was the moment in history when Hijikata was supposed to leave Goryokaku and go to Bentendaiba to support his most loyal subordinate, the Shinsengumi he created, but was unfortunately assassinated by a stray bullet near Ipponki Kanmon.

At that time, what will he do.

Hijikata was silent for a moment, then turned his eyes away from her face with a stiff face, stared at a certain point behind her, and replied in an extremely unnatural tone: "...ah. Can do that."

Liu Quan shouted: "...Mr. Tukata!!"

Hijikata's previous expression was a bit heavy, but after hearing her blurted out call full of concern and tension, the expression on his face softened a little, and he lowered his eyes to look at her face again, the corners of his lips seemed to be slightly curled up After a while, he quickly recovered that serious and abnormal expression, and said with a straight face: "...don't be nervous. I won't mess around."

Liu Quan's voice sounded a little trembling.

"Wh, what is recklessness...?! To be able to say such a thing, it is considered a kind of recklessness——!"

Hearing this inexplicable theory, Hijikata couldn't help but laugh.

He looked down at her face, paused, and stroked the hair on the back of her head.

"So, what do you want to do?" He actually asked in a tone that tried to sound like he was joking.

"Are you trying to stop me?... That's just messing around." He looked at her burning eyes that were staring at him closely, and for a moment seemed to feel that her gaze was about to burn on his face; he He couldn't help but smiled bitterly, paused for a moment, and his tone suddenly became a little complicated and inexplicable.

"If you want to stop me, then you can try it. ... Anyway, if I don't say so, you will do something terrible. I have learned it before..."

He shook his head and smiled wryly, as if there was nothing he could do about this subordinate who had never been very obedient.

But she didn't respond immediately, but just stared at him for a long time, as if she was going to make two holes in his face with her eyes only; finally, she moved her lips, Squeeze out a sentence.

"...Maybe, that's really the case."

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