novelraw Chapter 840 [Chapter 4] 260
Chapter 840 [Chapter 4] 260
In the evening, as expected, sumptuous dishes were placed in the hall.
Although he said "I will cook some special dishes to entertain everyone", but in the end, there is only one kind of food made by the female judge.
rice balls.
She has made a variety of fillings, all of which taste and look good, and she looks like she is showing off her skills—but why choose rice balls, which are so simple and extremely simple, to show off her skills, everyone It seems that no one can figure it out.
Still, the dinner went off very well—at least on the surface.
Honmaru's current judge Kiyohara Yukiha is still sitting on the highest seat.And Hitomi Gojo, the founder of this Honmaru, set up a special seat for her next to Shimotsurumaru Kuninaga's seat.
At first, the atmosphere during the dinner was a little stiff.But as the banquet progressed, the wine began to drink more, and seeing the current judge looking at everyone with a relaxed expression and a smile, everyone gradually let go.
Some were talking and laughing, some were punching, some were playing small games, and some—to be precise, Jiro Tachi, who had drunk too much—actually tapped a chopstick on the wine glass and hummed a song.
"Today I have thousands of thoughts, dancing like butterflies in autumn."
It turned out to be a capital city.
The eyes of Qingyuan Xueye who was sitting on the main seat flickered slightly.
Speaking of Duyi, of course she would reflexively think of that night when jackdaws flew around, the shadow of the eaves of the main hall of Nishi Honganji Temple cast on the ground under the dim moonlight; After wantonly showing off his inhuman strength, he handed her a letter, saying that it was a gift from one of his friends.
When she unfolded the piece of paper, she saw only one line of scribbled writing.From the feeble strokes of the pen, she could almost see how bad the writer's health was when Du Duyi wrote this line.
"Three thousand crows are killed in the world, and I will sleep with you until dawn."
That world is now far away from her.
Where should the three thousand worlds go?
Her gaze involuntarily deepened, and she slanted thoughtfully on the ground in front of her eyes.
At this time, she heard Jiro change another song and continue humming in a drawn-out tune:
"There is a tacit understanding, and the return is as close as the sky."
She couldn't help but twitched the corner of her lips slightly.
Fortunately, fortunately, Jiro hasn't sung the Capital Duyi that Takasugi sang upstairs in the dead end of Kyoto that year.That would be pretty unsightly, and it doesn't sound like a very good omen.
[Meet and go, go and meet, crying, laughing and laughing without a trace.In the end, the wild wind and the autumn wind are parting for a while. 】
Just as she was thinking of the words "one period and one meeting", a Foxnosuke suddenly ran in from outside the door.
It should be the one who came to interrogate in the afternoon, because it ran straight in front of Liu Quan, raised its head, and said in that admiring tone: "My lord, good night!"
Liu Quan: "..."
She had no choice but to immediately put on a business (heavy fog!) smile on her face, and said with a smile: "Thanks for your hard work. You are visiting here for the second time today. What is the purpose of this time?"
Foxnosuke said solemnly: "By the order of Master Fujisawa, please report to the headquarters building of the newly established 'Non-Real World Administration' at [-]:[-] tomorrow morning, conduct a report on your work at this stage, and discuss future plans. The teleportation coordinates of the new building will be set for you directly on the teleportation array later. Please make sure to attend on time!"
As soon as its voice fell, the air in the hall stagnated.
Most of the Tokenfusangshen who appeared in the form of adults stopped what they were doing in their hands—those who were eating put down their chopsticks, those who were talking stopped talking, and those who were drinking put down their glasses—all turned their eyes to the Lord. Kiyohara Snow Leaf on the seat.
Most of the little knives were playing around, and they stopped their movements almost immediately when they were overwhelmed by this weird (?) atmosphere.
In this almost oppressive atmosphere that almost made everyone hold their breath and became thick like substance, Qingyuan Xueye suddenly raised the corners of her lips.
However, there was no smile in the depths of her eyes.
She tilted her head, supported one cheek with her right hand, and slowly replied: "...Really."
Foxnosuke was a little confused, and also noticed that the atmosphere in this hall was not right; he tilted his head, and his voice was no longer so sure.
"...Master God Judge?"
Its call seemed to suddenly release some suffocating magic, Qingyuan Xueye suddenly bent his eyebrows and smiled.
"Ah, I see." She sat up straight and waved her right hand casually towards it.
"I will go," she said, "Just tell Fujisawa-kun so."
Foxnosuke responded, as if he felt full of questions, but he couldn't continue to ask, he hesitated for a while, feeling that he had already received the reply from the god judge, and the instinct (?) that he should go back to his life immediately prevailed, It said goodbye to the Goddess, turned around and ran away quickly.
This little episode (?) seems to completely make Honmaru's current judge lose interest for a while.She didn't stay for long, and she left early on the grounds that "it's too annoying to go out early tomorrow morning, so I'd better go to rest now in order not to be late".
However, she didn't go to rest right away, but got into the special bath for the god judge, and took a quick bath.Even in the bath, she whistled a ditty, which sounded very pleasant.
No one knew that that song was a song she learned from the projections she had seen during the short vacation of a few days when she returned to "Endless Palace".
...It is a song written for Hijikata by the people of this world.
【Last page
If I can continue writing with you
gentle light
can make me shine too
Love is overflowing at the beginning of life
Brilliance keeps you and me together
Singing happily, our stories will be passed on to the world
survived the battle
Keep looking for your own light]
Coming out of the bath, because Honmaru is still in summer and the temperature is very suitable, Liu Quan just casually wore a T-shirt and shorts, stepped on a pair of flip-flops, and her long half-wet hair was scattered behind her head; He walked to his room, wiping his hair with a towel.
... She walked briskly, and actually continued humming the unfinished part of the song.
【Looking up at the stars emerging in the bright night sky
recalling the good times
that tiny stardust
is the other side of my memory
When can I have more]
Perhaps because she soaked for too long, Honmaru has calmed down at this moment.
In fact, when she was taking a bath, she also heard everyone coming out of the public bath not far away, and the sound of chaotic footsteps on the promenade outside; but she didn't want to go out and face them at that time.
However, some careful swordsmen will be worried if she has been alone in the bathroom for the inquisitors for a long time without making a sound. ——It was precisely because of such an idea that she deliberately chose to start humming at that time.
After the sound of footsteps outside completely disappeared for a while, she felt that this should mean that everyone went back to their rooms to rest after taking a shower, and then Shi Shi ran out of her bathroom.
However, just as she hummed the next sentence, "Time is ruthlessly altering tomorrow/everything will be taken away", she turned a corner and suddenly found that Yiqi Yizhen was wearing a bathrobe, with his hands in his sleeves, and Leaning against a colonnade on the promenade, just stand there!
Liu Quan stopped in astonishment.
"Phase [-]?! What are you doing standing here?" she asked.
In fact, this is knowingly asking.Yiqi Yizhen didn't have the habit of going out at night, standing here at this moment, he was clearly waiting for her.
Sure enough, seeing her appearing at the corner, he stopped and stopped going forward. He paused for a moment, stood up straight, walked towards her, and stopped in front of her.
Liu Quan blinked his eyes.
"...Are you here to express your comfort to me? Ah, Mr. Yiqi is really reliable~" She laughed.
However, Yiqi Yizhen did not laugh.
"I didn't come to comfort you." His clear voice sounded in the quiet night, "Because you are the leader of this Honmaru."
Liu Quan froze for a moment, the smile on his face turned into a wry smile.
"Is it okay to say that?...Don't forget, whether Ichiki-kun or most of the swords in Honmaru, they were all summoned to the present world by Ms. Hitomi?"
Yiqi Yizheng's eyes flickered slightly, with a puzzled look on his face.
"That's right... However, the owner here is you?" he said.
"Even if everyone is more excited than usual... that's just because we reunited with Ms. Tong after a long absence. After all, Ms. Tong, whom everyone thought would never come back, is no longer alive..."
Liu Quan nodded.
"But now she's back." She sighed silently, looking away from Yiqi Yizhen's face and down to the floor of the corridor.
"You have fought for so long to get her back... and even drove away several successors... Even when I came here, it was because the Government of Time had no suitable candidate to take over other than me. It's gone." She smiled wryly, then nodded slightly thoughtfully.
"Although I'm somewhat confident in my own charm...but I don't dare to compare myself with the founder of this Honmaru~" She resumed her usual half-joking relaxed attitude and said.
"After all, Bai Yueguang and Bai Mi, I'm still very self-aware~"
In a certain world a long time ago, that cat girl named NEKO once said it.
Said she was like onigiri made of delicious rice.
However, no matter how delicious it is, rice can only be rice. It can be made into rice balls, but it is impossible to become a moon.
One issue and one shock: "... what?"
He obviously didn't get the meme.But Liu Quan didn't seem to mean to explain to him, but nodded slightly towards him, and planned to leave here and go back to the room.
She walked around him and took a few steps forward—something that would hardly have happened before.
Suddenly, Yiqi turned around abruptly.
"Mr. Xueye!" he shouted.
Liu Quan's footsteps stopped again.She turned her head in surprise, and looked at the eldest son of the Awataguchi family who was always so gentle and firm, like a real prince.
He paused for a while, as if hesitating whether to say the next thing or not.But soon, he made a decision.
"Please...please stay!" he yelled.
Liu Quan:? !
She couldn't help but widen her eyes.
This sentence blurted out, but it seemed as if the last bit of restraint in Yiqi Yizhen's heart had been broken; he watched her face with a sincere expression and clear eyes.
"Please stay here. This is your Honmaru..." he said sincerely.
Liu Quan didn't answer, but just turned half sideways, staring back at him for a long time.
The warm moonlight of the summer night entered the courtyard, passed through the corridor, and cast obliquely on the handsome and gentle young man, adding a layer of silver to his handsome silhouette.
It's a pity that he is a good brother who is too gentle. ——Even though he himself didn't have any excessive expectations for Gojo Hitomi, but his younger brother, Yaken, was smashed by the time government in order to protect Gojo Hitomi?Isn't that enough to express that deep admiration and love?
Finally, she finally slowly hooked the corners of her lips and said, "...Yes."
yes.For the time being, she is still the master here in name.However, this trivial technical problem can be resolved soon——
At that time, they shouldn't have any complaints, right?Wouldn't he be desperately trying to get her back like he was desperately trying to get Huitong back then?Because this place was originally established by Tong, it is only natural for her to want to return to this place, and it also has a rightful name, there is nothing to argue about...
A long, long time ago, in a dead-end street in Kyoto, the window on the second floor opened above her head, and the lyrics of the capital capital Yi that Gao Sugi leaned against the window and sang suddenly appeared in her mind.
Perhaps it was because the name "one issue, one shock" aroused her reasonable association.
"...In the end, the wild wind and the autumn wind are parting for a while—" she said vaguely, as if talking to herself.
In the first episode, he froze.
"What did you... say?!" He asked back in a strange tone that was so shocked that his voice was almost broken.
Liu Quan blinked and smiled.
"...It's nothing. It's just that when I met Takasugi-kun for the last time, he sang the capital Duyi."
One issue, one shock: "...The 'Gaosugi-kun' you mentioned, could it be—"
Liu Quan smiled and nodded.
"Eh~ yes. It's the friend of Mutsu Shukun's former master, the governor of the Raiders, 'that' Takasugi-kun." She said.
"Now, you should believe it? I'm not from here. Even if I won't go back to that era, I don't belong to this era—" Her eyes lowered along with her voice, and she glanced at each other. Zhen's handsome face fell into the moonlit courtyard outside the corridor.
In her mind, the next lyrics of the song she hummed vaguely appeared.
【the last page
Just decorate with your name
This is indeed evidence of having lived in this world
The pain of not being able to find an exit
While carrying the burden on his back, he continued to move forward with his own feet
that's for us
the only remaining
reality】
The author has something to say:
February 11:
I just broke my RP [Hey!
In fact, I really like Yiqi Ni!Look at my hand speed today! [you are enough
Who do you want to see tomorrow?Is it Kanesan?Brother cut?Or just let grandpa go?
Even if they are all on the girl's side, the attitude of the swordsmen will actually be subtly different according to each person's personality, so I think if I write too much, I will confuse w
The soundtrack of this chapter: "Mami-Thelightlasting-", is the theme song of Hakuouki Yukakaro's Hijikata chapter.
Because external links are not allowed now, so please work hard for Du Niang to audition online by yourself.
PS. Thank you to my little cute Miaomiao and Mo Lengxi for continuing to feed me~~(づ￣3￣)づ╭～