Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

Chapter 162

The handsome Fu Sangshen also let out a surprised "Eh?!", turned his head slightly along Saito's line of sight, and indeed saw the body of the "Izumi Mori Kanesada" tatami that was accidentally thrown on the tatami by Yanagi Izumi just now. .

"Ten, I'm very sorry!!" Liu Quan immediately apologized loudly with guilt and pain on his face, selectively ignoring Saito's first interrogative sentence of "who are you talking to?" In the past, I carefully picked up the "Izumi Shou Kanesada" with both hands, and slowly put it back on the knife holder respectfully. When I turned my head again, the expression on my face seemed to be that I had done something heinous. Same.

"It's...it's rare for me to be able to see the deputy chief's favorite knife with my own eyes, so I just want to take it over and have a good look at it..." She was thinking hard about how to make Saito believe in her words as she quickly conceived in her mind What reason should be used to convincingly explain his behavior of throwing the deputy chief's favorite knife on the ground.

In the end, she had a sudden change of heart and decided to simply take out the attitude of the ultimate ultimate move [Deputy Chief の Idiot].

"...But because I was too excited! My palms were sweating for a while, and I didn't hold it steady, so I accidentally dropped it on the tatami!" She said loudly, leaning forward, clapping her hands on the tatami, as if falling In a second, he was about to apologize with his head grabbing the ground, with a face of [As a deputy chef, you must be able to understand my excited and nervous mood, right? ! ] with a natural expression, staring eagerly at Saito in front of him, wishing to burn a hole in his face.

...The burning eyes played a role.

When Liu Quan was staring at him with this attitude of [the Shiba Inu who looks like there is something delicious in front of him and his eyes are warm and ready to go], Saito could still maintain that calm expression at first, and even A natural expression of "what are you talking about?", looking back at her suspiciously and puzzled.

However, after the two sides exchanged eye contact for 1 minute, Saito coughed suddenly, and his eyes shifted for a moment, turning to the [Mass-produced Longquan] that was carefully maintained by Liu Quan just now and has not yet been sheathed. Sword】Enter.

"...Speaking of which, why did Mr. Qingyuan suddenly change to the Taidao? I remember that it wasn't the one you used before."

Liu Quan: ...What does it mean to change the subject suddenly?Regardless of that, you must quickly find a reason for your behavior!

Liu Quan: "...Yes, it's because I hurt my wrist during the trial with Okita-kun last time, and it hasn't fully healed yet. I found it difficult to pick up the old sword, so I had to replace it with a lighter one. Don’t worry, I also took good care of that knife, so…”

Saito's gaze immediately turned to her right hand.

There were indeed circles of white cloth wrapped around Liu Quan's right wrist.But in fact, she did this only to use it as a wrist guard when practicing swordsmanship-the deputy commander has not paid herself a salary, and as an ordinary poor soldier, Liu Quan has no money to buy herself a pair of wrist guards like those in Touken Ranbu. The leather gloves worn by the Fusangshen are so handsome that they burst into pieces, which is really a cup.

However, now it just happens to perfectly interpret the image created by Liu Quan [an excellent team player who persists in attendance with a wrist injury and is brave and desperate].

Saito frowned, and the excellent quality of "seriously worrying about his companion and planning to solve the problem for him" flashed again.

He suddenly stretched out his hand to hold Liu Quan's right hand, fixed her wrist with his left hand, and began to remove the circles of white cloth with his right hand.

Liu Quan was taken aback, but soon realized that Saito was just going to check on her so-called "wrist injury", so he stretched out his hand very cooperatively and gracefully, and pressed on the places where Saito pressed her wrist. When the location is specified, different expressions are made, ranging from [pain] to [as if nothing happened], etc. to distinguish them.

Saito frowned even tighter.

"Is it hurting here..." His fingertips rested in a certain place, and he said in a deep voice, "From the outside, there is nothing unusual... Maybe something is twisted inside?"

The place he pressed happened to be on the inside of the wrist, and while he was speaking, he turned Liu Quan's wrist over and stared at it carefully.

"There are no bruises either..." He said casually while thinking, and suddenly exerted a little strength on his fingertips, and began to rub the place where Liu Quan was in great pain.

"Let's see if it will loosen the internal congestion...Have you used the Ishida Powder handed down by the deputy chief's family?"

Liu Quan: ...appeared, Deputy Chief Chu Xiaoyi's [Ishida Sanyao Brain Residual MLM] attribute...

"No, not at all." She bluntly blocked Saito's next advertisement with a rather unimaginable reason, "I heard that Ishida powder medicine should be taken with alcohol? But... I am allergic to alcohol , although I can barely drink a little, but after that, my whole body will be covered with red rashes, which will not go away for several days."

It was probably the first time Saito heard such a horrifying reason. He opened his eyes slightly in surprise, and even fell silent for a moment.

"Yes, is it..." He paused, and began to think about other treatment methods with a distressed face, "Maybe I should find a doctor to see? Mr. Matsumoto will visit the village soon, should we wait until then to see him?" To deal with...?"

Mr. Matsumoto?Who is that?Sounds like a very crooked doctor.Liu Quan thought.

...But Xiaoyi, you are too natural, you have already held a girl's wrist and squeezed and pressed it for more than 5 minutes! !If this is placed in the contemporary dynasty/day/chapo, I think I can only marry you-no, it must be that the system bacteria secretly stuffed junk files into my brain.

Resisting the urge to remind the natural Yijun, "I'm sorry, I'm a girl anyway, so can you be gentler?" Liu Quan, who was kneeling, turned his body slightly, trying to discuss his injury in a serious manner. He said in a calm tone: "If you wrap it tightly with a white cloth, it shouldn't be a big problem, but it will be a little inconvenient when you swing a heavier knife..."

She paused, and calmly brought up the topic of swords that Saito would be very interested in.

"...So I bought this kind of cheap knife at random in a knife store." She conveniently exchanged the [Mass-produced Longquan Sword] for herself and explained the origin reasonably, "It is said that it was copied from the Qing Dynasty. It’s a failure in the style of a sword, it’s a bit light in weight, but fortunately it’s still very durable, after trying it out, I didn’t feel that it’s out of hand, and the point is that the price is very low, so I bought it like this.”

With her free left hand, she pointed to the [Mass-produced Longquan Sword] that had been well put aside, and said with a very natural attitude: "Speaking of which, Saito-kun has a lot of research on weapons like swords, right?"

This topic clearly hits the nail on the head.It felt like Saito was equipped with the title of [Weapon Research Master] in an instant, and he started talking like an expert.

...and during the process, he still grabbed her wrist and forgot to let go.

"Speaking of which, didn't Shinpachi say that everyone would pool money to buy a wakizai for you?" He actually started with this incident, making Liu who had almost forgotten about it. Quan was slightly taken aback.

"Recently, I saw a very good wakizashi in a knife store. The owner claimed that it was the genuine product of 'Bizen Osafune Kanemitsu'. Of course, the asking price is not cheap..."

Liu Quan immediately thought of the Wakizashi that Okita mentioned needed 50 taels of silver—what a joke!The director’s counterfeit “Nagasomi Kotoru” which survived the Ikedaya battle and was still in good condition, only cost 50 taels when I bought it!That one is still too dao!If she was so high-profile and calmly accepted the super-expensive wakizashi that all the cadres of the Shinsengumi raised funds to donate, how could the idea of ​​making her be a low-key person be fulfilled well!

"Uh...please forget about that!" She said immediately, "However, if Saito-kun is also impressed, it must be a good knife..."

Saito looked very happy.

"Ah." He said, "Although it is very likely that it is just an imitation of later generations, it still seems to have the characteristics of the Bizen Osafune school. It may be the practice of someone in the Osafune school with many excellent swordsmiths. I don't know... There is such a saying, "When it comes to swords, it should be Bizen swords, and if it comes to Bizen swords, it should be Osafune." However, when it comes to excellent swordsmiths, it has the evaluation of "better than Bizen". There are also Awataguchi and Lai factions..."

Saito just said it in one breath, and Liu Quan's eyes were about to turn into mosquito coils when he heard it.After finally hearing a familiar word from his book-like [Introduction to Swordsmiths], she immediately interjected excitedly: "Ah, come to think of it! Many of the Awataguchi factions are made of short knives, right?!"

...Thanks to the sword man who was very popular in the world of this life!Liu Quanke was very impressed by the long row of little angels with short swords named various Toshiro from the Awataguchi school!Of course, I am equally impressed with the only Taidao of the Awataguchi faction!But of course this kind of thing can't be said now——

Saito seemed to be very surprised by Liu Quan's interruption—he was stunned for a moment, and almost immediately there was a sense of pleasure on his face, "Ahhh, I've met a friend." He was so excited that he seemed to forget that he was still pinching Holding Liu Quan's wrist, his whole face emitted a radiance called love.

"Yes, I didn't expect you to do a lot of research on this... Awataguchi Yoshimitsu was a famous swordsmith in the Kamakura period and a famous short sword maker. 'Ichiki Yishin' was the only Taidao inscribed in his life, so the name of the sword It's called 'Yiqi Yizhen', which is the only treasure in my life... However, it is a pity that this knife was burned in the summer battle in Osaka. Although it has been re-sharpened, it has no actual combat value—"

Liu Quan: ...Ahaha Yijun, you have so many lines related to the sword man, it's so watery, the readers will collectively complain.

She couldn't help feeling a little dark, and moved her held right hand a little, but unexpectedly found that she couldn't pull it out.

So the black line on her forehead seemed a little more obvious.

"Well, Saito-kun, it seems that it's almost time to make dinner—" She found a legitimate reason, and turned her wrist again with a look of embarrassment.

... It's her turn to cook today. If she doesn't go, what if someone finds out what's going on here and gets misunderstood!Even in the situation where she has to clear the mission, she doesn't like this kind of subtle or ambiguous methods without authorization - if you want to increase the favorability, there are some positive ways!

Saito's eloquent speech was suddenly interrupted by her somewhat unnatural behavior, he froze for a moment, and cast his eyes on her face, as if he wanted to see the reason why she interrupted him from her expression; But after looking at each other briefly, his confused expression suddenly disintegrated.

"That...it's my turn to cook tonight, so..." Liu Quan explained a little bit hesitantly.

Saito froze for two seconds, then suddenly let go of her hand, stood up abruptly, and said, "Ah... ah, since your hand is injured, you can find someone to replace this kind of chores on duty first." ? I...I'm fine tonight, I can cook for you!"

Liu Quan: "Eh, is that so? That's more—"

Before the word "thank you" could be uttered, Saito walked away like a gust of wind without looking back, and didn't even check whether Liu Quan had maintained his [Mass-produced Longquan Sword] well.

Looking at his back, Liu Quan couldn't help exhaling a long breath, and sat back on the tatami without any image.

"Fortunately, fortunately, it's over this time..." She caressed her heart thankfully, and said to herself.

Suddenly the voices of Fusangshin and Izumimori Kanesada came from behind.

"You managed to frighten away a seemingly extraordinary swordsman. I'm impressed with your ability, general."

Liu Quan rolled his eyes angrily.

"Please don't call me that." She paused and announced the name of her new vest in this world. "My name is Qingyuan Xueye, you can call me whatever you want."

The tall and handsome Fu Sangshen said unceremoniously in the tone of a fan group member casually calling out: "Then, Mr. Xueye, congratulations that you have never made a move, and that person is also one of the best in terms of breath alone." The excellent swordsman has been scared away."

Liu Quan: "...Hey, although I approve that you can call me whatever you want, it's not good to judge me casually, right?! You should have a little more respect for one of your former master's most trusted subordinates. Love?!"

Izumi Mori Kanesada didn't answer immediately, but just tugged at the light onion-colored Shinsengumi haori that he was wearing, stood up and walked to Liu Quan's side, leaned over and picked up the [Mass-produced Longquan Sword] that was discarded aside for her He got up and put the knife back into its sheath, and put it in her hand.

Then, his gaze drifted to the direction of the courtyard, although there was no one there now.

"Mr. Hijikata... someone you trust."

Liu Quan nodded, "Saito Kazu, the leader of the third group of the new selection group, you should have heard of it, right? He is a character with outstanding swordsmanship and loyalty to Mr. Hijikata."

Hearing Saito's name, Fu Sangshen's face showed a complicated expression for a moment.

"Saitoichi... the lucky one who survived to the end..." he whispered to himself.

Although he knew that Fu Sangshen's existence and words and deeds would not be noticed by anyone other than her, Liu Quan's vigilant antenna was erected in an instant and made a beeping sound.

"Jian Sang, are you lamenting something?" There was a ghostly smile in her voice.

"If you want to stay here, you have to be mentally prepared. Every day, you have to watch the good original owner active in this era, and unknowingly go to the fate of the tragic ending? You can bear this situation well Is it?" She smiled and picked up the sword that Fu Sangshen helped her organize, leaned slightly and stood up, and inserted the sword obliquely into her belt.

"Although it's rare to find a frail Jiansang, I really prefer to see a lively Jiansang who exudes charm?"

Fu Sangshen's figure seemed to shake slightly, and then he tightened the light green haori on his shoulders, and turned to her with a self-deprecating smile.

"Did you summon me to test how strong my willpower really is. Are you really a different God judge?"

Liu Quan didn't intend to expose that she was not a god judge—after all, it would be beneficial to let the other party mistakenly think that she was the god judge he should serve, at least it would be easier to control him—she smiled and looked up slightly. Looking up, he looked at Fu Sangshen who was a full head and a half taller than him.

"I heard that the Honmaru of other people's houses regard you as an idol, because you are the kind of sword with a handsome appearance and ability." She said, the special self of [Show a handsome line] There is a skill activated again.

"However, I prefer your hidden strengths. To be able to accompany Mr. Hijikata to the end, you should be the kind of good sword that can burst out with strong will and rationality. Because this is also the characteristic of Mr. Hijikata." she said with a smile.

Izumi Mori Kanesada looked like he was taken aback.

Not caring about his reaction any more, after she finished speaking, she stepped out the door and walked to the corridor.

The wooden clogs were placed on the porch, and when she seemed to be going to put on the shoes on one foot, her center of gravity suddenly became unstable and her body swayed.

However, he was immediately supported.Liu Quan raised his head and saw Izumi Mori Kanesada following her to the porch, standing beside her with a delicate expression, stretched out a hand to support her shoulder, and easily fixed her body on the got there.

Liu Quan smiled at him.

"Jian Sang," she finally called him, with a smile of unknown meaning on her face.

"With your strong willpower, be a good boy until the end. This is what I expect from you."

Saying this in a vague way, she put on her clogs and stepped down the steps, not minding that Fu Sangshen was still staying in the corridor outside Saito's room.

The unfinished lines floated up in her mind, but were suppressed and hidden again.

...Don't come to hinder me till the end, Kanesan.

Because, I have important tasks that must be completed here.

The author has something to say:

February 2:

Well, since the long holiday has passed, the blood tank of the author's bacteria is almost empty. . .Starting tomorrow, can we change it to [-] words per day? =￣ω￣=