novelraw Chapter 536 [Chapter Guizhang Saito Line] 21
Chapter 536 [Chapter Guizhang Saito Line] 21
That moonlight night chasing the serial killer in the middle of the night, the scene of the young man standing flutteringly on the long street, saying "the moonlight is so beautiful tonight", for some reason suddenly made him feel stuck in his throat.
...So, Mr. Xueye, what is the truth that you are hiding?If you really don't want me to know, why did you deliberately say that sentence, throw away that knife, and even show your flaws repeatedly, leading me to investigate some directions that I would not have noticed before?
What you have worked so hard to hide from me, besides these truths, is there... anything else.
Fujita Goro was silent for a long time.
In the end, he opened his mouth, but said a sentence that was not expected by the two of them at all.
"On the way here... I passed by Tama."
He saw that the smile on her face flickered slightly after hearing this sentence, and then gradually disappeared.
"So?" He heard her voice that had cooled down, like water drops quietly falling into a gurgling stream in the mountains, quiet and cold, making a crisp and falling sound.
"...Should I go and see it?" She continued to ask.
Fujita Goro was a little tongue-tied for a moment.
In fact, he has always been speechless and extremely inarticulate.Speaking this sentence was probably due to the excitement surging in his heart when he stood under the cherry blossom tree of Nishi Honganji Temple again, which made him a little lacking in consideration.However, when passing through Tama, the hidden worries hidden in my heart because of being reminded by this place name will not disappear because of this.He was silent for a long time before he said slowly:
"...I have been there too, but people in my hometown don't know the whereabouts of the deputy chief. Everyone... thinks he is no longer alive."
He saw her raise her eyes in surprise, and extremely complicated emotions flashed in her eyes for a moment.Although he couldn't understand such a difficult emotion, that expression disappeared from her eyes in a flash.Her expression went blank again.
Then, she replied simply and directly: "What a pity."
She didn't point out what she was sorry for in the phrase "it's a pity", but simply turned around and turned her back to him.
"Suddenly I have no idea of enjoying the scenery. Then, like last time, let's part here temporarily, Yijun." She said coldly.
"Speaking of which, I should also go to Erjo City to contact the other party first to see how to welcome that famous sword..." she said.
Fujita Goro:! !
He suddenly became a little overwhelmed.
In fact, even he didn't know what he wanted to say to her.Do you want to ask her, who still seems to be so omniscient and omniscient, if she knows the whereabouts of the deputy chief?I still want to ask her why she entered the Jiutiao family to become an adopted daughter, and why she wronged herself to stay in such a cold and twisted environment?Or, he just wanted to ask——
Under this cherry blossom tree, she once mentioned the cherry cake he gave her for ten people.However, are those cherry cakes that you can't finish eating really more important than anything else in her mind?
Only the answer to this question, he wants to know more than anything else.
But... this kind of thing should not be said directly like that, right?
However, during the short moment when he hesitated and didn't know what to say, she had already turned around and strode towards the main hall of Nishi Honganji Temple.
Maybe he wanted to go to incense first, then leave him here, and go to work by himself.Just like what she just said.
Standing under the withered cherry blossoms, Goro Fujita watched Kiyohara Yukiha's back, and did not catch up immediately, but gave a silent wry smile.
angry...
Speaking of which, it's always been like this from the beginning.
Although she didn't seem so elusive before, but, think about it, he has been following her pace.Whether it's in combat, or when connecting in secret latent missions...she always has her own set of scripts, and she won't tell him in advance, every time he slows down by several beats before slowing down. Respond, and then adjust your pace to keep up with her plot——
However, it wasn't she who mentioned the deputy chief first today.The haiku written by the deputy chief, no matter how long it has passed, is still at your fingertips, and you can recite it in one mouth——
He watched her back turn the corner, and the wry smile on his face became more obvious.
He raised his head slightly, looking at the empty cherry tree that had faded.
"Times have changed, everything is impermanent..." he whispered.
The wind blew over the eaves of the main hall of Nishi Honganji Temple, and the branches and leaves of the cherry blossom trees shook for a while, making a soft rattling sound.
Time will change, thoughts will change, and greed will arise from the temptation in my chest, wanting to surpass people I have never dared to stand shoulder to shoulder with before, and get things that I have never dared to hope for before...
But beliefs will not change, and feelings will not change... Just like those good times, they may pass away one day, but they will never really be annihilated.It must be so.
……
Then, until the evening, Fujita Goro never saw Kiyohara Yukiha again... No, Kujo Noriko.
After asking the young follower Matsumoto who became a little familiar because he shared a room along the way, he learned that Miss Noriko "came back late because Master Daozhi was obsessed with studying plants, and missed the appointment with her." When it was time to visit Nijo Castle, I had to go to the appointment on my own instead of my brother."
Fujita Goro: "..."
And almost at the same time, Kiyohara Yukiha, who entered Nijo Castle for the first time as "Noriko Kujo", was sitting in front of several big figures sent by the Tokugawa family to handle the matter.
Those big men tried their best to suppress the expression and tone of "What?! Those victorious shamans actually sent a woman to welcome the treasure that my family has passed down for hundreds of years. Is there anything more contemptuous and insulting than this?" Bluntly expressed a moderate welcome to her arrival, and appropriately expressed a little bit of regret and dissatisfaction with her brother, who was welcoming the treasure of the Tokugawa family, Kujo Michiji "suddenly fell ill and was unable to come" .
Of course, Liu Quan is quite used to this "Jiu Tiao Zi Zi" status.These corresponding etiquettes have also been carefully studied, so it doesn't take much effort to deal with them-as long as you can hold back your dissatisfaction with these proud old gentlemen, there will be no problem.
Today, as the younger sister of Jiutiao Daozhi, she came to Ertiao City alone to meet these people. Of course, because Jiutiao Daozhi was too busy studying and spent more time on the mountains outside the city, it was too late to rush back to the city, so she had to go alone to pay homage. ; But she finally made such a choice after some consideration.
Of course Kujo would be unhappy with her choice.Needless to say, she was annoyed at her failure to make sure her son was in time for such an important meeting.However, if you think carefully about the direction of the wind in the court, you will feel that this kind of moderate contempt for the Tokugawa family, which is full of flaws and impolite excuses, is probably something that those big men like to see-they have always been generous. Yu beat the dog in the water, and how much they suffered under the Tokugawa shogunate, now they want the Tokugawa family to pay many times the price in return.
Thinking of this, she smiled even more dignifiedly.
I just like the way you can't understand me, and you have to build a socialist with me... No, you have to obey me [Dark Fog!
After both parties insincerely and pretentiously uttered a cliché to praise how wise and mighty His Majesty is, and only such a master of ZTE can be worthy of the Five Swords of the World, Miss Jiutiao expressed that she would go to visit the enshrinement instead of her brother. The room of "Mikazuki Sokami".
In other words, this is equivalent to inspection.Of course the other party also understands very well.
However, Ms. Kujo is a girl. It was considered contemptuous for a woman to come to the meeting as a welcoming envoy, but now she has to inspect the goods alone, which is like slapping the Tokugawa family in the face——
Of course, all of this must be based on the premise that "this 'Sankai Yuezongjin' in Nijo Castle is genuine".
Now—as Liu Quan guessed, the other party seemed to have a ghost in his heart.
Therefore, when faced with Miss Kutiao's exaggerated request, they hesitated for a moment before readily agreeing.
Probably because she thinks that Miss Jiutiao is an arrogant and willful young lady. Have she ever seen such things as swords in her life, let alone distinguishing between real and fake?
Master Jiutiao is still a man after all, so he should have some innate sensitivity to swords; however, the level of shrewdness shown by Miss Jiutiao tonight is nothing more than some petty troubles that the young lady takes for granted, and those who are entangled are all insignificant people. The details; it is of course much better for such a person to test "Sankai Yuezongjin" than to wait for Master Jiutiao to come in person—perhaps with some powerful followers with vicious vision and unique insights.
Once Ms. Kujo makes a judgment on the authenticity of "Sankayue Zongjin" in Nijo Castle, then once it is exposed that this knife suddenly becomes a fake, how many waves will be caused and who will be affected, and it will not be them Tokugawa The family can control it.
As a result, the two sides reached a strange tacit understanding (?) with their own ghosts (?).
A former retainer of the Tokugawa family led the eldest lady to a remote room deep in Nijo Castle.
In front of the door, Miss Kutiao stopped briefly again.
In order to avoid suspicion—in fact, probably to clear himself of suspicion when the incident of "this knife has become a fake" happens in the future—the middle-aged man stopped in his tracks seemingly humbly, and turned to beckon Ms. Kutiao can enter and inspect alone.
"We have great trust in the envoy sent by His Majesty," the retainer said meaningfully.
Then he added another sentence inexplicably.
"...Even if the person who came to meet us turned out to be the younger sister of the envoy."
Miss Kutiao's hand was already reaching for the sliding door of that room, but after hearing this sentence, she stopped her movement again, paused slightly, and looked back at the seemingly obedient, but in fact, there was a trace of dissatisfaction in her eyes. young man.
"...Is that so?" She smiled slightly.
"Then, please give my regards to Mr. Sheng Haizhou."
The middle-aged man was surprised for a moment, and slowly raised his eyes, as if he was looking at the eldest lady of the Xinhua family for the first time tonight.
"...Yes?" He slowly replied, and after deliberating for a moment, he tried again cautiously.
"Miss Kujo, do you also know Mr. Katsu Kaishu?"
Then he saw that the young lady frowned and seemed to be smiling very kindly.
"It can't be regarded as acquaintance, right? After all, I have never met Katsu Kaishu-sama before. I just heard his name—"
...Sheng Haizhou's greatest reputation in the near future lies in the opening of the city without blood in Edo, right?
The loyal retainer of the Tokugawa family was also speechless for a while.He paused for a moment before replying: "Master Sheng is now serving as the imperial coordinator in the Tokyo government, and Ms. Kutiao must have a lot more chances to see him than I do now..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard Miss Jiutiao humming.
"No," she said, "normally, we don't dare to get close to Mr. Sheng—after all, I heard that he is a hard-hearted person who can send loyal and reliable subordinates to death for the sake of the overall situation. Such a method, we It's incomparable."
After finishing speaking, she didn't wait for the other party's reply, and opened the door directly.
This room is a bit bigger as a special room for worship, and it is the same style as the entire Nijo Castle. The floor is covered with tatami mats, and a beautiful lacquered wooden table leans against the side facing the door. On the wall, there is a knife rest in the middle of the case - one of the legendary "Five Swords of the World", Sanri Yue Zongjin, is placed on the knife rest.
Apparently, this room is carefully cleaned by servants every day. There is no trace of dust anywhere. There are tall lamps with lampshades that look neat and bright in the four corners of the room. Although it is already night outside, the indoor light is not bad— —enough for her to see the knife clearly.
Liu Quan walked slowly to the table and stared at the sheathed knife on the knife holder for a long time.In the end, she slowly stretched out her hand towards the knife rest, and slowly closed the five fingers of her right hand, grasping the scabbard that wrapped the body of "Sankai Yue Zongjin".
It seems to be slightly different from the famous name of "Three Riyue Zongjin" that has been resounded all over the world. Its scabbard is actually dark and dark, and the thread wrapped around it is also dark and dark, very low-key.
She slowly grasped the scabbard tightly, picked up the scabbard together with the scabbard, brought it in front of her eyes, and looked carefully at the candlelight in the room.
At this time, the indoor lighting only depends on oil lamps and candles, no matter how good it is, it can't be called very bright.Under such light, even though her eyesight was very good, she could barely make out the chrysanthemum pattern on the scabbard.
She suddenly bent down and knelt down, using the posture of sitting upright, holding the unsheathed "Five Swords of the World" with both hands, gently rubbing the dark scabbard with her right hand, feeling Shimo's knot slipping through her palm The roughness that is brought about by time.
She didn't know how long she had been sitting there, but she moved suddenly, and changed her left hand to hold the scabbard, and her right hand to hold the handle instead.The same dark handle curled up in her palm and rubbed against it because of this movement, giving it a strange tactile sensation.She paused, and slowly pulled out the "Sanri Yue Zongjin" from the sheath.
Because of her movement, the knife produced a low buzzing sound, and the gleaming blade revealed inch by inch from the dark scabbard until it was completely pulled out.
Liu Quan put the scabbard carefully on his knee, and held the unsheathed "San Ri Yue Zong Jin" with his right hand to his eyes.
That's right, the famous crescent moon-shaped knockout pattern on the blade, as well as the blade wound, all confirmed its identity.
Exactly... how to tell the truth from the fake? In fact, Liu Quan didn't know either.
But even if she knew, she couldn't expose it publicly here.
Now is not the time to do superfluous things.
She crossed the blade in a trance, staring at the lines on the blade that shone faintly under the candlelight, and said softly:
"Mr. Three Moons..."
"I don't know how you and Jiansang are doing now."
"Does it still exist in this world..."
"Or, I don't want to respond to anyone's call anymore, and abandon this world..."
She sighed softly.
"But anyway, at Hakodate... I'm sorry."
On that young and beautiful face that had barely changed from before, there was a trace of sadness.
"As you can see..."
"I'm not your god judge, I'm just a monster."
"However, I also have goals that I must achieve—no, I want to achieve."
"For this goal, I had to abandon many companions, including you... I am sorry."
A deep sigh seemed to linger in the empty room.
However, in the next second, her eyes flickered, as if some huge blue shadow flashed; the next moment she felt her shoulders being grabbed by someone, and she pushed back hard!
Liu Quan was caught off guard, and with that force, he fell heavily onto the tatami on his back!
Even after experiencing countless battles, this unexpected surprise attack still made her stunned for two seconds.
However, for some people, two seconds is more than enough.
Now, she is lying face up on the tatami mat, still holding the "Sankayue Zongjin" in her right hand-thanks to the conditioned reflexes cultivated by the battles she has experienced before, she will not let go of the knife even if she is attacked by surprise !
Moreover, before she had time to think, her body subconsciously responded to the battle——
He raised his right hand high, and slashed at the figure who attacked him!
However, at the next moment that person—to be exact, the young man who was pressing on her, holding her body and limbs almost immobile—raised his left hand like lightning, barely blocking the "Crescent Moon" Zong Jin", the coldly glowing blade slashed on the long leather glove on the man's left hand with a "dang" sound!
Immediately, a chuckle that she was very familiar with sounded just a few feet above her face.
"Ha ha ha ha ha……"
"You're still so energetic, Lord Hall."
Liu Quan:? !
The wide sleeves and hem of the blue safari worn by the person on top of her were spread out on the tatami beside them and on the tatami mat beside them.
That person's voice was pleasant and magnetic, and his tone was soft, but what he said made his heart beat inexplicably.
"Do you remember? ... I said that when we parted last time."
"Next time I meet you again, I won't be merciful..."
In the next second, warm lips covered it.As if the other party didn't care that she still held such a sharp and famous sword as one of the "Five Swords of the World", he swallowed what she wanted to say wantonly.And, between kisses, said with a smile on her lips:
"...But for now, let us 'get along', as you said when we parted last."
The author has something to say:
February 3:
I did my best today! 【collapsed
So the next update will be around this time the afternoon of the day after tomorrow. . .
Also, what do you think about Grandpa's appearance?
It's really bad that the author's fungus can't control the prehistoric power in his body [No
This chapter continues with some soundtrack fungus. Like the previous chapter, it is the ED of the second season of Hakuouki's TV version of "Blue Blood Record", "Akane Kongに惠ふ".
Here is the audition link: