novelraw Chapter 1038 [Chapter 6] 52
Chapter 1038 [Chapter 6] 52
Liu Quan turned around and found that although he was not very familiar with her, he knew each other anyway.
Just like in history, it was Shinsuke Beppu who appeared in front of Takamori Saigo at this moment.
In history, Xixiang Takamori was the real intermediary when he died.
So Liu Quan didn't intend to be a hindrance, he got up and took two steps to the side, saying, "...the person you were waiting for has probably arrived."
When Xixiang heard this sentence, he tried his best to support his body and looked up; when he saw Shinsuke Beppu, he tried even harder to support his huge body, as if he wanted to follow him to the end. In front of his subordinates, maintain a little dignity as a general, at least sit up straight and calmly cut seppuku.
Liu Quan frowned slightly, hesitated for a moment, and stepped forward to give Xixiang's arm a hand, so that he could use his strength to sit up with difficulty when Shinsuke Beppu ran in front of him.
He managed to maintain a sitting posture, but the legs and waist that had been shot could no longer provide the strength to support his sitting posture; he sat unsteadily, as if he might lose his center of gravity and fall down at any time.
Liu Quan sighed and had to use a little strength to hold Xixiang's left arm again.Xixiang also propped his right hand on the ground, so that his body reached a dangerous balance reluctantly.
Shinsuke Beppu rushed in front of Xixiang, and after seeing Xixiang's current situation clearly, tears flowed down his face in an instant. Two traces.
"Sir! Why do you..."
Xixiang smiled wryly and interrupted Shinsuke Beppu's words.
"Don't talk about those unnecessary weak words... Didn't everyone have already made up their minds like this?" His voice was a little hoarse and deep due to the torture of blood loss and pain, but he was worthy of being a generation of heroes. At the moment, the attitude is still very calm and calm.
"At first, I wanted to find a better and more suitable place to do seppuku calmly... Then I thought about it, I have already returned to my hometown. There is no better and more suitable place than my hometown."
Although the surrounding guns were rumbling, shouts of killing shook the sky, and stray bullets whizzed around them, at the last moment, Saigo Takamori's demeanor became peaceful and quiet instead, no longer angry, confused, or angry. Try to continue to fight for something.
He barely supported his huge body, and with the help of Beppu Shinsuke who hurriedly stepped forward to help him, he leaned over and changed his posture with difficulty, from a sitting posture to a kneeling posture.Then, he raised his head to get his bearings.
"This is the east..." he said in a low voice, and then he bowed his head deeply in the direction he was facing, his forehead pressed against the ground, his lips moved several times, and he didn't know what he was saying silently.
Then, he slowly supported the ground with his palms, struggled to straighten his upper body again, and tugged in vain at the crumpled, blood-soaked, and dirty front of the kimono.
Facing the rising sun, a faint smile of relief appeared on his face.
"Let's go...here...it's...already..." he murmured.
It was as if all the strength in his body was drained in an instant after completing the movement of bowing to the east just now; although he still managed to maintain the posture of kneeling upright, his body was shaky, and it seemed that he might fall at any time. It collapsed like a mountain.
Then, he didn't even have the strength and mood to turn his head to take another look at Beppu Shinsuke, his confidant who followed him at the last moment—he focused on the east, and ordered intermittently: "It's now... Jinsuke, finish it!" ...your task."
Beppu Shinsuke's facial features were wrinkled together, his face was full of grief.When he rushed over, he was holding a knife that was about to be cut off. When he saw Xixiang who had been shot, he subconsciously let go of the knife and threw the knife on the ground; He grasped it twice in mid-air, then curled up, his lips pursed tightly, as if refusing to accept the fact.
Xixiang's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and the kimono fabric on his waist and abdomen had almost been stained dark red by the blood gushing from the wound of the gunshot wound.He didn't have the strength to open his eyes, and now his eyes were half closed, and his body shook violently twice, as if he might lose consciousness due to excessive blood loss at any time.
Beppu Shinsuke subconsciously stretched out his hand to help him, but just as his hand was raised and before it touched Saigo's body, someone suddenly handed him a tachi from the position beside him.
The knife was still inserted in the sheath, and the scabbard was so worn that the original patterns and patterns on it could hardly be seen clearly.The hand holding the scabbard had slender fingers, but it was covered with blood and dust, and there were still tiny bloodstains on the back of the hand.
Beppu Shinsuke slowly raised his head along the direction that the hand was extending, moved his eyes to look up, and his gaze finally fell on the face of the owner of that hand.
His gaze paused for a moment, then he suddenly laughed softly, and the smile on his face was also stiff and bleak.
"Miss Jiutiao..." He said this title, his eyes dimmed, and the end of his sight fell on the snow-white hair of the other party, as if he understood something, he moved his lips slowly, and spit out a few syllables: "... Rakshasa?"
As for Miss Jiutiao in his mouth, her eyes were calm and indifferent, and the arm that held the knife and stretched forward did not waver at all.She looked back at him and said, "I think you need this now. In order to fulfill Mr. Xixiang's wish... Please act decisively."
Beppu Shinsuke's face was distorted for a moment.
As if he had received some cruel death notice, the whites of his eyes were flushed, and his teeth were gritted.
Miss Kujo didn't seem to see his inner struggle and pain at all.Those still clear and bright eyes stared straight at him, as if they were going to pierce his heart.
"... Would you like to see Mr. Xixiang captured?" She asked lightly.
Shinsuke Beppu didn't answer, nor did he pick up the knife she handed over.
Miss Kutiao sighed, as if she admired his stubbornness.
"Then I'll just say it straight....If you do seppuku yourself now, there is still hope for your reputation to be reversed in the future—if you are captured by the army later, even if you get the grace of performing seppuku in prison, you will never be forgiven in the future." Sin and reputation have a chance to be affirmed again. Because at that time, those officials and lords who gave the order to cut seppuku will be different. Ah; can you understand?!"
Before Shinsuke Beppu could speak, Saigo's voice came over.
He was already extremely weak, his voice lacked support, his voice was very low, and he sounded a little out of breath, as if it was already very difficult to breathe.
"She...was right...Jin Jie, that is...now...to this point, it's...enough..."
The corners of Shinsuke Beppu's eyes were red, and tears gushed out of his eyes, washing away the dirt on his face and drawing two marks, which looked a little funny.
He gritted his teeth, snatched the knife from Miss Jiutiao's hand with a slightly rough movement, and pulled the knife out of the scabbard with a swipe.
The blade was covered with dried blood—but at any rate, it didn't have a curly blade, and if you were to make a mistake, it was of course a better choice than his own.
He gritted his teeth, his facial features twitched, slowly held the knife in both hands, and raised it to the back of Xixiang's neck.
Miss Kutiao was silent, she didn't back down, she stood where she was, without even looking away, she just stared at Shinsuke Beppu, gritted her teeth and shouted, "Sir, go ahead! I'll be there soon!", and then slammed , the arm swung down, the knife flashed——
At that moment, tears welled up in Beppu's eyes.Saigo's body hit the ground heavily and fell to the ground.Blood gushed out, and soon stained the ground beneath him red.
Miss Jiutiao said in a low voice: "Hurry up and receive the three-foot sword of lightning—"
Beppu held the knife in both hands, still maintaining the body posture when the tip of the knife was swung forward, the tip of the knife touched the ground, and the whole body trembled violently, tears gushed out of his eyes like eruptions, and instantly Weeping and crying.
"Sir—! Sir——!!"
Miss Jiutiao suddenly raised her head to the sky, and seemed to hold her breath for a moment.Then, she let out a long, heavy breath.
"Boss..." she said softly.
"Did you see all this, Mr. Kondo..."
"I, I have lived up to your kindness to leave me tolerantly—"
"As you said at the end—"
"...I never gave up on Mr. Hijikata."
"Now, I'm going to find him..."
"...Like, what I did ten years ago."
The author has something to say:
February 10:
I twisted my wrist...it hurts ==
So today the word count is a little less
In the next chapter, I will come up with a super-brained w
PS. In this chapter, the sister said "quickly receiving the lightning three-foot sword" comes from Kondo-san's death poem.
Next update: either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow w
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