novelraw Chapter 262
Chapter 262
This reality brought a huge shock to everyone present in an instant.
Chizuru let out a cry as if crying, and tightly covered her mouth.Okita stood beside her, pressing the handle of the knife at his waist without saying a word, so hard that his hand was about to convulse.
He twisted his lips, staring at the Shinsengumi's companions and friends who fell on the ground, and seemed to want to rush over for a moment, but Chizuru subconsciously stretched out the other hand to grab him in extreme panic and worry. arm, which seemed to prevent him from doing so.
Hijikata didn't have any concerns about this, so he rushed over in the next moment, held each of Shannan Heisuke's hands, and knelt down beside them, his handsome face splattered with blood from the battle just now, His facial features were twisted in pain, his teeth were clenched, and he said nothing.
A few steps behind him, Liu Quan was still standing where he was, with his mouth slightly opened due to extreme shock, his eyes widened, and his whole body seemed to be stiff, unable to speak or move.
The first person to break the palpitating silence in the room was Shannan.
"...Although I have done things against Hijikata-kun, I am still proud of being a member of the Shinsengumi." He said clearly in a weak but firm tone.
The earthwork finally spoke out.
"You think I don't know?" he replied with a touch of rudeness, as if it could hide how angry and painful he was.
"It's easy to understand how important the Shinsengumi matter is, just look at Sannan-kun." He lowered his voice a little, and continued as if nothing had happened.
He pretended to be very strong, he must not want to make Shannan Hepingsuke worry... But in fact, his heart is more painful than anyone else, when will this helpless parting continue until when will it stop...!
Such sad, indignant and helpless thoughts floated into Liu Quan's mind in a daze.
Hirasuke's voice, still full of vitality, sounded.
"Let's take a step ahead...Mr. Hijikata must live well."
His voice was gentle and hearty, he sounded like the same Hirasuke from before, even though he was in great pain, even if he was going to be wiped out, he still hadn't changed at all.
Hijikata responded with a nod.
Hirasuke cheerfully said in a joking tone: "I can't believe you. Hijikata-san is a quick temper..."
Tu Fang lowered his voice, and deliberately said in a tone of impatience: "It's quite arrogant. I'm not down to the point where you need to worry about it."
Hearing the same angry reprimand as before, Hirasuke narrowed his eyes reassuringly.
What a clumsy child... At this moment, he is still thinking about others, and he doesn't want others to feel sad for himself, so he uses this stupid method to cheer everyone up...
It's still the same Fujido Heisuke from before.It has never changed.Gentle and clumsy, caring about others in his own way...
Hirasuke-kun is like a younger brother.To die at such a young age, to be wiped out...
In the end, whether she, Xiaoyi, or the deputy chief, or even Shinpachi and Harada who were sent to Yukoji at that time... tried every means and tried their best, but they failed to save the young life of Hirasuke. First it becomes a Rakshasa, and then it runs out of strength and is about to disappear——
Liu Quan bit her lips tightly, otherwise, she was afraid that the sobs would rush out of her throat in the next second, exposing her undisguised fragility to others.
Shannan's words stopped her violent mood swings from spreading in time.
"The road you want to advance is in the north." He said calmly to Hijikata, his eyes seemed to drift towards the direction of Okita in the distance, but Okita and Chizuru stood a little far away from them, and he couldn't see them.So, he gestured to the earthwork with his eyes, probably hoping that the earthwork could tell this matter to Okita.
"Kundao-kun also confirmed to me that in order to weaken the effect of turning into water, he used water from the northeast region..."
The clue to rescue Rakshasa's body is there.If this is the case, maybe it can extend the life of Rakshasa a little bit.This should be Shannan's idea, but unfortunately, he no longer has time to realize it.
"Northeast region...?" Okita said hesitantly.
"Isn't Chizuru's hometown also in the Tohoku region...?!"
A gleam of hope suddenly flashed across Chizuru's face.
"Well, so...! Can Souji-kun get that kind of water in my hometown?"
Hearing their short conversation, Shannan smiled slightly.
Hirasuke's voice suddenly cut in again.
"Mr. Hijikata, don't lose your way... Being too anxious is not a good thing..."
His voice was already hoarse, and he sounded weak; he seemed to be shouting with all his strength, but he could no longer make the vigorous and hearty voice he used to.
Hijikata silently held Yamanan Heisuke's hand tightly.
Shannan said to himself, "Is it time..."
No one responded to this incredibly difficult and unanswered question.
Shannan didn't seem to be looking for an answer either.His gaze suddenly passed over Tufang's shoulder lightly, and looked at Liu Quan who had been standing silently a few steps behind Tufang.
"... Snow Leaf."
For the first time in his life, he suddenly gave up the honorific title, and he called out her name gently and calmly.
"Could you please come here for a while?... I can't go to you anymore."
Liu Quan's body trembled suddenly, as if his two plain words had dealt her a heavy blow. The calm and sad expression on her face, which was as rigid as a mask, collapsed in an instant. solved.She rushed to Shannan's side almost immediately, and knelt down beside him with a plop.
Shannan's left hand was held by Tu Fang, and at this time he slowly raised his right hand across his chest with difficulty, with his five fingers spread out, as if he was about to reach in the direction of Liu Quan.
Liu Quan immediately stretched out his hands and held his hand tightly without hesitation.She could still feel the warmth of his palm through the glove, but her hands trembled uncontrollably.
Their hands and fingers intertwined, and they were placed on Shannan's chest.Through Shannan's clothes, Liu Quan could still feel Shannan's chest rise and fall with every light breath he took through the back of his hand.
Shannan's eyes drifted to her injured left arm.
"Really..."
After seeing that the wound had stopped bleeding, he laughed slowly.
"Are you really... not careful at all? If you want me, Okita-kun and Todo-kun, the three Rakshasa to stand in front of you, behind you is the sweet blood that attracts Rakshasa... You really are..."
He paused for a moment, as if trying to find an exact adjective in his mind.But he soon seemed to give up this effort, showing a surprisingly frank shallow smile.
"It's really... really stupid, Xue Ye."
After saying this, Shannan suddenly coughed hard, but the smile on his face still did not disappear.His gaze seemed to jump from Liu Quan for an instant to Hijikata, the former deputy chief of the Shinsengumi, who was kneeling beside her and holding his hand tightly.
The earthworker was also watching him.In an instant, the gazes of the two men who had been working together since the days of the test center in the Tama countryside and who were the two pillars of the Shinsengumi's chief and deputy chief met silently in mid-air.
Shannan had just told him everything he thought he should explain.So now, Shannan is completely just planning to leave his last words to the last person he saw in this world-such an idea flashed into Hijikata's mind.
He decided not to think too much about it for now.
He and she... They had both risked their lives to fight for someone else.They never mentioned to each other how they felt at the time.But today, when the person they desperately defended is still in front of them, standing side by side, running in the same direction along the way, and will continue to walk like this until the end of their lives Those who went down turned into the two of them.
For a moment, he seemed to understand a little bit——
In fact, for a long time, I have always followed him unrelentingly, and I have always moved forward firmly in the same direction with him. Even if I risk my life, even if I lose my companion, even if there are disagreements and misunderstandings, and no matter how much pain I have to endure, I still trust deeply. unwaveringly—
Just her.
It's always been her.
This has never changed.
His eyes couldn't help drifting to her who was kneeling beside her, stretching out her hands to tightly hold Shannan's right hand across her chest.
Even if he just looked at her from the side like this, he could still see the deep pain in her expression.The deep pain even made her face look pale and weak, just like an extremely ordinary girl.
At that moment, she was no longer a backbone soldier who could act as the leader of the Shinsengumi Ichiban as a woman; she was just an ordinary girl—one, who was about to face the one in her mind. The important person and her eternal farewell, and the girl who desperately struggled with all her grief, fragility, unwillingness and anger.
And that person—the one who was about to be wiped out—was their companion.
Liu Quan didn't notice this strange thought in Tufang's heart.In fact, all her attention is now on Shannan.
"...Yes." Following Shannan's line of sight, she saw her cut sleeve and the wound on her left arm, blinked her eyes, and tried to show him a nonchalant smile.
"Didn't Mr. Shannan once say... I've always been so stupid, doing unlovable things all day long..."
Her pretentiously brisk voice was suddenly interrupted in mid-air.She swallowed hard twice, as if something was suddenly blocked in her throat, making her unable to make a sound.
The author has something to say:
February 5:
so. . .Everyone understands 【.
The soundtrack of this chapter: Actually, it is the ED of "Hakuoki Snow Flower Record", the ED of the chief division chapter, "Dream-atruelovetale-".However, because both the lyrics and the melody are fried chicken, so it is used here. . .
Since JJ doesn't let you post the link now, if you try to listen online, you can only trouble everyone to search by yourself, sorry for the inconvenience~~