The proprietress seemed to choke briefly, and her voice became a little embarrassing.

"Yes, that's right! But, but, Mrs. Zun has passed away for almost ten years, you should also consider—"

The man looked up at her again.In this glance, he did not hide the coldness in his eyes at all.From this point of view, his slightly wrinkled brows have already had a little mark of time, as if he has often done this, so he has left a little line between his brows.

"It's impossible for me to betray her, right?" However, completely different from the cold look in his eyes, there was even a hint of a helpless and natural smile in his tone.

The proprietress was taken aback.But her long-term habit of being a matchmaker reappeared again, and her enthusiasm made her see that this kind of young man who should have a good marriage lived alone with no one to take care of; so she swallowed her saliva and continued. Perseveringly persuaded him:

"However, you have been living alone for almost ten years. How can you be worthy of the love that the late Mrs. Madam once showed to you... Do you want to go on like this for the rest of your life, with no one to take care of your life? Maybe wait for you In a few years, when we get older, we will understand why we worry about you. Life is not easy. Husband and wife just support each other to make a living, do housework, and raise children. What kind of relationship is there? It’s just a companion ..."

The handsome man she called "Mr. Naito" paid the money, picked up the basket of wine bottles, and seemed to be walking away.

"I didn't persist until today because of her affection for me." He suddenly turned around and said lightly.

"It's just...after seeing a woman like that in a lifetime, it's natural to never see anyone else—that's all."

Liu Quan stood blankly in front of the main console, staring at the picture presented on the light screen on the entire wall in front of him.

She also seemed to have forgotten to complain about the bacteria in the system, and her eyes fell directly on the face of the person in the light screen, her eye sockets slowly turning red.

"Mr. Hijikata..." she murmured softly.

Ah, so, after she left, is the real future like this?

The five fingers of her right hand slowly curled up and clenched into a fist.Eye sockets are moist.

"Mr. Hijikata..." She called the name again.

"But... in order to get back to you—or someone else—, you have to take such a hasty risk, sacrifice the people here, the sword here...you will not be forgiven Bar?"

She spoke as if she was talking to herself, slowly raised the corners of her mouth with tears in her eyes, and even smiled.

"If I made this choice hastily, then what would you or Ichikun, who have always cherished the sword and believed in the sword in your hand, think? At that time, I will be considered... to embarrass you, right?"

she said softly.

Also because of this thought, she almost missed the next plot in the light screen - the screen switched, and she returned to the hut where the two of them once lived.

In the room, Tufang was sitting at the table.There was a pen in his hand, and the piece of paper spread out in front of him was not a haiku, but a Chinese poem.

"You buried the mud in the spring to sell the bones, and I sent the snow to the world."

Is this poem referring to Kondo, who has passed away for ten years, or someone else? ……unknown.

Hijikata stared at the paper in rapt attention.Suddenly, the door was knocked loudly.Then came another loud voice.

"Soil...Mr. Naito! Is Mr. Naito there! I am Ryunosuke!!"

Tufang seemed to be taken aback for a moment, and quickly got up and walked towards the door, glanced through the crack of the door, and then opened the door.

A young man strode in from outside the door, grabbed Hijikata's arm, and shouted excitedly: "It's really you! I finally found you, Do...no, Mr. Naito!!"

Hijikata opened his eyes wide in surprise.

"...Ibuki?! Is it really you?! Why did you come here again?!"

The young man with disheveled hair looked excited and shouted in a mess:

"I'm here to look for you and report to you! Those Satsuma people started fighting among themselves, and that Xixiang ran back to Satsuma with people, planning to rebel! They really couldn't hold back, and showed their true colors as rebels! "

As expected, Tufang suddenly showed a look of astonishment.

"You said... what?!" These words seemed to be squeezed out of his teeth little by little.

But the disheveled young man—combining what Hijikata called him and his previous self-proclaimed name, his name should be "Ibuki Ryunosuke"—didn't seem to notice the change in Hijikata's expression, and continued to shout in a mess: "So I came to you! His Majesty organized an army and recruited a group of people like us to fight against those Samos! I'm here to ask you if you want to fight those hateful Samos together?"

Tu Fang was taken aback.

Ibuki, however, seemed to be too blunt in his words and actions. Before Hijikata could say a standard line like "Let me think about it", he added a sentence with a bright face.

"That's right! Now in His Majesty's army, there is a special team, which is composed of the old Aizu feudal vassals and the original Xinxuan group! It's called the 'Xinxuan Brigade'!"

Tufang was really stunned for a moment - just like Liu Quan's reaction off the screen - he repeated in a muttering voice: "Xinxuan, Brigade...?!"

But before he could say his answer, the light screen suddenly went black!

Liu Quan blurted out: "What's going on?!"

The system bacteria hummed triumphantly.

[It seems that using emotion alone cannot completely move you. 】He said lightly in a mocking tone.

[Then let me show you the truest reality. 】

Liu Quan: "...Hi!!"

But she only had time to utter this roar.Because the light screen on the entire wall in front of her suddenly burst into light again!

The strong light dissipated, and the light screen went dark again, and what appeared was——

A dark blue night sky, and a magnificent tower under the sky!

The tall tower did not look like a traditional ancient tower, nor did it look like the Tokyo Tower or Sky Tree she was familiar with; it looked like a towering skyscraper full of modern designs.

Liu Quan couldn't help muttering in a low voice: "What the hell is this place...?!"

Who knew that System Bacteria had its own background commentary function, and answered her.

[Royal Pillar Pagoda. 】

Liu Quan: "?...I always feel like I've heard this term before...?"

The system bacteria snorted.

【Oh yes, of course you have heard~】

Its words were followed by suspicious little wavy lines, and Liu Quan's scalp suddenly exploded in an instant, with an ominous premonition!

In the next second, she was horrified to see that in the sky directly above the Imperial Pillar Tower, there appeared——

The Sword of Damocles! !

And it's two handles!

A red handle and a green handle just floated in the night sky.

Liu Quan's eyes widened in shock.When she recognized the color of the two swords of Damocles, she exhaled subtly for some reason.

But the poisonous tongue of the system bacteria is back.

【how?Feeling a little happy to see that the person forced to use his powers isn't your ex-boyfriend? 】

Liu Quan: "..."

She was choked by the system bacteria, and after a moment of silence, she replied: "...But, seeing the sword of Damocles of the Scarlet King, it is really hard to be happy."

Indeed, the red sword of Damocles hanging high in the night sky looks a bit miserable—small fragments are constantly falling from the hilt, and cracks run through the body of the sword.

Objectively speaking, it is of course much better than the red sword in the projection clip she saw in the "Endless Palace", at least it is not in the bad situation where it will fall immediately; but this situation is also Liu Quan couldn't help but frowned tightly, heralding the ominous omen that Chi Wang's ability was unstable and he was about to go berserk.

"May I ask, is the current Scarlet King still Senior Zhou Fang?" She asked with a deep frown.

The system bacteria probably didn't expect that as soon as this scene was played, she didn't have any mental fluctuations due to excessive shock, and then impulsively pressed the Enter key on the main console, but began to think based on what she saw; but it It seemed to be very confident in the "future projection" it had chosen, so it answered her question seriously.

【Yes.But Zhou Fangzun's ability is about to get out of control, and if this continues, it's only a matter of time before his Weissman deviation value reaches the limit and he loses his sword. 】

After a pause, it added another crit.

[In fact, with the current situation of Zhou Fangzun's ability, he has been able to suppress the sword until now. In addition to his own efforts, Munakata Reisi must have also played a big role in it. 】

Liu Quan:? !

She finally changed color in horror.

"What... what does this have to do with Munakata-senpai?!"

The system bacteria snorted and laughed.

Seeing that it didn't intend to answer this question, Liu Quan immediately turned to another question.

"That green sword of Damocles...does it mean that there is a green king here?"

In the original K world, she had only met four "kings"—the blue king Munakata Reishi, the red king Zhou Fangzun, the silver king Izanasha, and the one who almost killed her and had no entity. The colorless king who invaded Xiaobai's body and committed evil.

But now there's a new "King of Thrones" here, the Green King.

Liu Quan suddenly felt bad.

With the painting style of System Bacteria just now, the selected pictures about the "future" are all able to poke people's lungs in ordinary places.Not to mention that Reiji Munakata was the one who had just been scanned from her mind by some mysterious device set up by the Government of Time in this main control room, and then used phantoms to try to shake her will.To say that the system bacteria will not take advantage of this in turn is that the pattern Tucson is broken, and sometimes the clothes are taken!

Liu Quan revealed a look of vigilance.

And the system bacteria seemed to have sensed her inner defense (?), and suddenly coughed forcefully.

[Let's just let you get to the point. ] It said this in a vague way.

In the next second, on the light screen in front of Liu Quan's eyes, the screen suddenly switched again!

What unfolded in front of her was still the Imperial Pillar Tower and the night above it.

The difference this time is that in the night sky, the swords of Damocles hanging high are not the two swords just now, but five!

The author has something to say:

February 9:

Am I very hardworking!Hurry up and touch me! 【.

Sure enough, as soon as I write about the deputy chief and the room chief, I will be inspired!

Next update: every other day, how about midnight on Saturday? :)

A little note:

1. The poem quoted in this chapter, "You buried the mud in the spring to sell your bones, and I send the world a snow-covered head", comes from "Meng Wei Zhi" written by Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty. Gray hair.Well, in the era of the end of the Tokugawa era, basically the educated people at Nihong had read a lot of Chinese poetry, and they could also write it themselves.

2. The young man who appears in this part of Hijikata is Ryunosuke Ibuki, the protagonist of "Hakuoki Dawn Record", the surname of Serizawa Kamo.After Serizawa was killed, he left the Shinsengumi, but he still has a high affection for the members of the Shinsengumi.He also appeared in the lost episode before. After the Boshin War, in order to prove everyone's life and death, he searched all the way and found the place where Hijikata lived in seclusion, so he knew this place.

3. What Ibuki mentioned in the Hijikata chapter is the Southwest War that broke out ten years after the end of the Boshin War. In the end, Satsuma was defeated and Saigo Takamori died in battle.During the Southwest War, many former Aizu feudal vassals and members of the Shinsengumi joined the government army to fight against the Satsuma army.Xiaoyi had changed his name to Fujita Goro at that time, had been a policeman for many years, and also participated in the war.

PS. Today, I would like to thank the little cute Miaomiao and Gui Heshen for feeding me~~ I will give you a heartfelt comparison! (づ ̄3 ̄)づ╭~

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