novelraw Chapter 687 [Chapter 4] 110
Chapter 687 [Chapter 4] 110
A group of people walked on the streets of Kyoto, which was a little deserted in winter, and only one of them seemed to be eager to try, with a suppressed excitement and a vague sense of anticipation in his expression.
Among this group of people, it can be seen that the leader is a young man with a handsome appearance that is almost feminine.When turning right at the street corner, he finally couldn't help but take the opportunity to turn his head and glance at the long-haired young man in a red kimono and a light gray hakama.
"Jian-sang, you haven't closed your mouth ever since you left the house."
The young man's voice sounded clear, like drops of night dew quietly dripping from the corner of the eaves in autumn night; the young man immediately shut his mouth tightly when he heard this.
But after a while, he couldn't help but grinned again, and hurried a few steps to the boy's side as if jumping happily, and stretched out an arm carelessly to put on the boy's shoulder.
"Well, Alu..." He stopped suddenly, and continued in a different tone: "Well, Xue...Yejun."
The young man gave him a sideways glance.
"Kane-san, do you know a girl named Kagura?"
The handsome young man showed a puzzled look.
"Girls?!... You're not the only girl I've met recently—"
The boy stomped hard on his foot.
"Aw!" the young man shouted, immediately let go of the young man's shoulders, and stared at the young man's face with an incredulous expression.After a while, he lowered his head as if discouraged, and said as if to mend a past situation: "...Okay, okay, I want to say, it's not just you...uh, your sister."
The boy gave him a hard look.
"I really shouldn't have brought you here!" He said resentfully, striding forward.
The young man with black long straight hair (?) smiled hehe, as if he didn't think he was disobedient at all, he caught up with the young man's sprinting footsteps in a few steps, continued to walk beside him, and said in a low voice with joy, "Well~ it seems That's effective... that, 'Sleeping Fan'—"
The boy's face became even more tense, he quickly crossed his arms, and pressed his elbow hard against the young man's waist, causing him to grin his teeth and show an exaggerated expression of pain.But before he could utter a word to justify his exaggerated words, he was interrupted by the boy.
"We've only just come here, and we haven't found a place to stay yet. Don't make me regret it before then, Kane-san."
The black, long, straight young man called "Jian Sang" couldn't help showing a bit of embarrassment when he was said so, he laughed twice, and replied: "Ahaha, I just... It's rare to come to a place I'm familiar with. place, a little... overexcited—"
The boy turned his head and gave him a sideways glance, and his eyes, which were as clear as black crystals and almost bottomless, stared at him quietly.After a moment, the boy looked away.
"It is precisely because this is Youxiaolu that I brought you here." He said mercilessly.
"If the next task you receive is Hakodate or Aizu, it's useless even if you come to sleep a hundred times."
The young man was dumbfounded, as if he thought he had heard wrong for a moment.
"You, what did you say...?!"
Although he uttered an incredible line, the boy had a calm expression on his face.It's as if a term like "Zi Dang Fan" that sounds very problematic is nothing to him and can't shake him.
"...I said, at that time, I won't let you hinder me." He replied without giving in.
The young man named "Jian Sang" cried out.
"Hey! Why!! Am I not reliable enough! Aren't I handsome and powerful—"
The boy pursed his lips in time and interrupted his following words.
"He's handsome and powerful, isn't he the vice-chief of ghosts you admire?" He said the name nonchalantly, with a faint smile on his face, as if he was nostalgic and had a bad taste , said jokingly.
"But, what a pity, maybe you won't see him tonight... Wouldn't you be a little disappointed?"
Although he lowered his voice, the impact of these words did not lessen at all when he said them.
Fortunately, it was almost evening at this time, and the path they chose was a bit remote, not a big road like Santiaotong and Sitiaotong, so there were no pedestrians on the road except their group, so there was no need to worry about this obvious meaning. The words will be heard by people with bad intentions, which will cause irreversible consequences.
The young man he called "Jian Sang" closed his eyes as if discouraged, and immediately regained his strength.
"Ah, what are you afraid of! As long as we win! Whether it's us or Shinchou—"
This time it was another young man in their group who was strangely wearing a white cloth like a cloak on his shoulders. He smiled and patted that "Jian Sang" on the shoulder in time, choking back his next words.
"Well, this kind of declaration, let's talk about it after the victory."
Saying this in a relaxed tone, the young man slowly narrowed his eyes as he looked at the winding alley that was gradually shrouded in twilight.
"It's night. If you walk a lot at night, will you encounter ghosts?"
The young man who said so was the smiling Qing Jiang.
And the one who pretended to be a boy was Liu Quan who reappeared on the streets of Kyoto at the end of the Bakumura as a god judge.
This time, she chose a very simple and rude candidate—although there was no such map in the original work, but because she knew that the change of Aurokōji was also a battlefield for night battles, she simply and neatly entered the battle as a threat team—and because she was Izumi Mori Kanesada made it very annoying, so today following her are Hitou Izumi Mori Kanesada, Nagaso Yatora Toru, Okurigara, Wakizasa Smiling Aoe, Bone Kushi Toshiro and Ayumi Suto Shiro.
Although when leaving Honmaru, Mikazuki Sokami also subtly reminded her, "If the target location is targeted by the time retrograde army, perhaps due to their interference, the difficulty of the task is different from what you have experienced back then, so it is better to be cautious." "I want" and other things, but she was blocked by her straightforward sentence "Even so, the night combat ability of swords such as Taidao and Odachi is at an irreadjustable disadvantage".
So this time when they went out to see off, it ended hastily in an unnatural atmosphere.
As if all this was not enough to worry about, after nightfall, the team led by the God Judge who was squatting near the Honko-ji Temple waited for Kokotaro Ito, but did not wait for the Shinsengumi's planned ambush nearby.
When Liu Quan, who was ambushing in the corner of the street near the Hongko Temple, received the bone scorpion sent by her to keep an eye on the Shinsengumi Fudodo village village, and the two cattails who patrolled back and forth on the roof along the road to observe the movement of the Shinsengumi The report said that the Shinsengumi encountered a group of Satsuma soldiers blocking the way halfway, and could not reach Hongkoji Temple on time. When they ambushed Ito Kokotaro as in history, they almost exploded.
At this time, the smiling face Qing Jiang, who was staring at Kokotaro Ito's movements, also came back.He ran quickly on the walls and roofs, and then took advantage of his natural advantage as Fu Sangshen to land lightly, and came to the female Goddess squatting in the shadows at the corner of the alley.
"Over there, it's over." He reported concisely.
When the female judge heard this, her complexion became even uglier.
"Damn it!" She couldn't help swearing.
"At first, I thought it was a situation where the time-traveling army was aggressively attacking... I didn't expect that this time they would directly intervene from the process of history..." She said something as if she was talking to herself, and her face became more and more serious.
The change of Yukoji was originally a new battlefield that did not appear in the original work.Of course, the information given by the Government of Time is not wrong. This situation also shows that the time-traveling army has begun to develop and strike at a new node in history under the strict guard of the god-inspectors commanded by the Government of Time. trend.
Originally, when the Government of Time assigned the task here to Liu Quan, it was to take advantage of her identity and experience as a former "Shinsengumi member" and send her here because she thought she was familiar with the situation here—but now, she has to face That's right, it's not at all the same as what she's experienced before!Compared with history, it is even farther away!
Liu Quan looked up at the sky, gritted his teeth and pressed the handle of the knife at his waist to stand up.
"I can't help it." She whispered angrily, and then looked back at the three swords who had been standing by for a long time with her.
"...Since the Shinsengumi can't arrive in time, then we have to do it."
Although the three Da Dao had different expressions, they all looked stunned at first.
Liu Quan didn't care about their respective psychological problems and obstacles that needed to be resolved, so he straightly untied the small burden on his back, shook it off, and took out the one she wore for a mission at Ikedaya last time, pretending to be Shinsengumi. Soldier's light onion feathers.
Then, with a slight flick of her wrist, she unfolded the light green feathered weaving with a swish, and draped it over her shoulders again.
"Qingjiang, go and see where Ito Kokotaro has gone. Nayuo, go and see if those people from the Shinsengumi have escaped from the entanglement of those Satsuma soldiers; then you two go together Come back to report the movement of the Shinsengumi, and the other will monitor the scene, and if there is time for the retrograde army to appear, they will report back quickly."
She calmly gave instructions one after another.
The night wind became a little chilly, and it blew on the face, making people's expressions a little stiff.
"Jian Sang, Chang Zeng Mi-kun, Da Juli-kun."
Finally, she looked around at the three Fu Sangshen who were completely adults, and squeezed out a word between her teeth.
"...I need you all to pretend to be members of the newly selected team with me."
"If the time is up and Ito Kokotaro passes by here, but the ambush personnel scheduled by the Shinsengumi still fail to arrive—"
"...Then it's up to us to finish him off."
Three swordsmen:! ?
Okurigara always had a dark complexion.Chang Zeng Mi HuToru's expression was not good-looking either.Izumi Mamoru Kanesada was stunned, as if he hadn't thought that he was only here to beat up the time-traveling army today, but in the end he would also be a guest star in Shinsengumi's famous Renzai, and carry out such an important task as "triggering the change of Yukoji" like.
"This, this kind of thing—!" He managed to squeeze out a few syllables.
Ever since Smiling Qingjiang took the order to leave quickly, the female examiner who had been looking up and down in a certain direction suddenly turned her head.
In the night, her eyes seemed to be terribly bright, revealing some kind of stubborn light.
"Don't you know, that person wants Mr. Kondo's life."
She said every word.
"And Mr. Hijikata will never sit back and watch this kind of thing happen. No matter when or what happens, it will not."
"Even if it's not purely about preserving history—"
"For Hijikata-san, can't you do that at all?!"
The author has something to say:
February 10:
I have been suffering from toothache for the past few days, so I am really sorry for not updating.
The current situation is that half of the back molars have collapsed, and a crown needs to be done, so I had root canal treatment two days ago, and the pain was so painful that I felt unloved.
I feel better today, although I will continue to take the medicine on Monday, but I will work hard to update it in these two days, and I will definitely update it every day~~
I've been having problems with my health lately, and I'm very sorry about that.
Thank you for your tolerance and concern for me [Doshita seat]