novelraw Chapter 895 [Chapter 4] 312
Chapter 895 [Chapter 4] 312
Torrential downpour.
The raindrops slammed on the courtyard outside the corridor, as if it was a warning of danger, and gradually approached rhythmically; occasionally, there would be thunder and lightning flashing across the sky, and the dark and moonless night sky would be briefly swept away. illuminate.The wind became stronger, blowing directly into the hall through the open door, making the lights in the hall flicker.
Ashikaga Yoshiki sat there cross-legged, eyes slightly closed, with a calm attitude.Looking from a distance, the famous knives in his collection surrounded him like a forest glowing with cold light. On the table in front of him, the delicately cooked delicacies had long since cooled completely.
Liu Quan was carrying the big prajna long light body knife, and felt that standing by the door would be a risk of getting wet by the rain, so he walked back to the hall, found a low table at random, sat down beside it, and Resting his elbows on the table and his face with one hand, he stared at the courtyard outside the door in the rain.
Suddenly, she heard Ashikaga Yoshiki's voice behind her.
"You said, what do people think before they die?"
Although this topic is a little scary, but according to the distance of the voice, Ashikaga Yoshiki still sat there without moving; Liu Quan speculated that he probably just wanted to have a casual chat with her, to break the gradually disturbing situation in the house. A suffocating silence.
So Liu Quan still maintained the casual attitude before, and replied: "Maybe I think about...some people who are very important to me? For example... the ones that I will keep in my heart?"
Before she finished speaking, Ashikaga Yoshiki snorted.
"Are you trying to talk about your beloved?"
Before answering, Liu Quan paused slightly.
"Well...you seem to be right about what you said..."
Ashikaga Yoshiki interrupted her.
"You speak as if you have faced death before." There was a sharp sarcasm in his tone, but it sounded like a kind of self-mockery that was about to be tense to the extreme.
"I really want to know what will happen and what will be in my heart at that time."
Liu Quan turned his face away in surprise, still maintaining the previous posture with his chin propped, looking at Ashikaga Yoshiki.She thought for a while and said in a low voice: "...Maybe you are right. You will think of the one you love...the one who is the most important in your heart, that's it."
"Oh?" Ashikaga Yoshiki said, "Speaking of which, you seem to have faced this kind of predicament before—except today."
Liu Quan smiled bitterly.
...That's right, if you want to talk about near-death experience, I have had at least two times——but you can't say this kind of thing even if you are killed.
She had to put it another way.
"A few years ago, I accidentally fell into the water and almost drowned... At the moment when I lost consciousness, I thought of someone very important. But... I was lucky to be rescued later. Also Therefore, I have a little experience of boasting in front of the public." She tried to soften her voice as much as possible, and said.
Ashikaga Yoshiki raised his eyebrows.
"Oh~?" He didn't seem to believe what she said, but he didn't seem to intend to delve into it, so he smiled and continued this meaningless chat casually.
"... At that time, you must have thought of Matsudaira-kun, right?"
Liu Quan froze slightly.
Forget it, it doesn't matter if you tell the truth.Anyway, the person in front of him would not survive tonight——
"No." She replied, "At that time, I didn't know Mr. Changguang. What I thought of...Actually, it was the senior I should respect...or, maybe, someone like my elder brother."
"Senior? Brother?" Ashikaga Yoshiki seemed to be a little interested. He thought for a while, then suddenly smiled and shook his head.
"Well, I only have a younger brother... Now that I think about it, he is not very reliable behind me... I hope he can save his life and die well." He said in a careless tone.
Then, he seemed to think about it again.
"...It seems that we should also think about the imperial platform, right? I hope those guys won't embarrass the female relatives, and treat her kindly for Lord Guan Bai's sake..."
"Oh, and my mother. Master Keishuin, you should have heard of it."
Liu Quan actually had a question mark in her head and had never heard of his biological mother, but of course it is not appropriate to deny it now, so she nodded slightly and replied: "...Yes."
Ashikaga Yoshiki laughed.
"Well, she is a very strong woman. Sometimes even I admire her... I went to say goodbye to her in the afternoon, and she was still telling me 'do what you should do'."
Liu Quan was surprised for a moment.
"Oh... That's really..." She replied without words, but for a moment she didn't know how to comment.
Ashikaga Yoshiki suddenly laughed a few times.
"There could have been better words, but let's call it a day," he said.
Outside the door, mixed with the sound of rain, there began to be a burst of chaotic footsteps approaching from far away.
Ashikaga Yoshiki suddenly leaned up and pulled out the nearest knife from the tatami beside him.
"You still have one last bit of time to think about your loved one." He said in an unexpectedly blunt tone, "Then, let's fight."
Liu Quan was stunned for a moment, then stood up, clenched the "Great Prajna Everlasting Light" in his hand.
...The line of sight, however, involuntarily crossed the hall, and landed on the "Sankayue Zongjin" that was stuck on the tatami with the point of the knife at the moment.
The next moment, she was shocked to find that a burst of black air gathered into a wind and quickly rolled up in the hall!
The black air swept through the hall and entangled the famous swords inserted on the tatami; as the black mist became thicker, the entangled swords were almost completely submerged by the thick black mist.
Liu Quan:! ! !
Without thinking about why this kind of thing happened, she immediately threw the "Great Prajna Everlasting Light" in her right hand onto the table in front of her, reached into her waist lapel, and took out Yaoyan and Wuhu Tui's main body sword - this is what she had thought about when she retreated from Kiyomizu Temple, and asked Yaken and Wuhu Tui to give her the main body knife and bring them into Nijo Castle, so that she could bring them back whenever necessary. Summoned from the sword—infused with spiritual power, a white light flashed, and Yao Yan and Fu Sangshen of Wuhu Tui immediately appeared in front of her.
Liu Quan quickly returned the body knife to them, and hastily explained: "This may be the fault of the time retrograde army, and they must be dealt with!"
Although they looked like young boys, Yao Yan and Wu Hu Tui were after all Fu Sangshen who had undergone extreme cultivation. After a brief moment of astonishment, they immediately each clenched their own knives and were ready to attack.
Liu Quan didn't have time to tell them more, he bent down and picked up the "Great Prajna Changguang" body knife from the low table, holding the handle of the knife with his left hand in front of him, and keeping his middle fingers together with his right hand, he slid along the blade skimming -
A white light flashed, and the Great Prajna Long Light appeared in front of her without warning.
After he stood still, he blinked, as if he had suddenly returned from the bloody battle at the gate to the glorious hall that had not been broken by the thieves, and he couldn't recover for a while; but his sight was almost He met her immediately, and then quickly turned around to glance at the current situation in the hall, and immediately understood the purpose of being recalled by her.
Because in this short gap, the swords surrounded by the black mist had already made a chirping sound, and then——
The black mist curled away, and a huge and ominous shadow appeared on the spot.
Before Liu Quan could give the order to fight with the time-traveling army, he unexpectedly saw those strange and distorted black shadows striding forward, as if they hadn't noticed the existence of Sword Fusangshen in the hall at all. Yes, passed by them, and rushed to the corridor outside the hall——immediately, there was a scream, the sound of the wind when the sword was swung, and the dull sound of the blade entering the flesh; the next moment, Shua With a bang, blood splashed out, dyeing the shoji gate near the incident site bright red!
Liu Quan:? !
Yao Yan shouted involuntarily: "This...what's going on?!"
Daprajna Changguang let out a contemptuous laugh.
"Oh, so that's the case. Interesting—hmm, do you want to change history by killing all the members of Miyoshi's family in advance?"
Liu Quan:! ! !
At this time, Ashikaga Yoshiki, who was still standing in the hall, seemed to have finally woken up from the shock of the inhuman scene just now; The two young boys he didn't know turned their attention to Liu Quan who had called them out.Finally, his voice trembled, and he roared out his question.
"Axue?! Songping?! You... who the hell are you?! What are those black monsters?!"
Daprajna Nagamitsu sighed softly, and did not answer Ashikaga Yoshiki's question, but held his own body knife and walked to the door of the hall, as if to monitor the movements of those time-traveling troops.
Wu Hu Tui seemed startled by the roar, his body trembled, and a little panic appeared in his wide-open eyes.Good brother Yaoyan hurriedly walked to his side, put his hand on his shoulder, as if comforting him.
Liu Quan closed his eyes and exhaled a sigh, then opened his eyes again and looked directly at Ashikaga Yoshiki.The feeling of timidity and caution that she deliberately showed in order to pretend to be a fledgling new maid has completely disappeared, and she no longer respects her duty as a maid to show obedience and humbleness to the general in front of her; Now she looked back at him calmly and calmly, as if the two of them were completely equal individuals, and there was no difference in status.
"Those black monsters just now are a kind of monster." She said, "It was created by some monsters like them that quietly attached to your sword at some point. It's just that they chose to kill you at this time." show up..."
Although she didn't answer who she was, these words temporarily resolved Ashikaga Yoshiki's doubts.Ashikaga Yoshiki paused for a moment, then shouted and asked again: "So, what purpose do they have?! Also... are they planning to come and make trouble?!"
This time, Liu Quan didn't answer him.
... What should she answer?Answered "No, those monsters are here to save you, want to go against history, let you live for a long time instead of dying at this time"? !
Just when she didn't know what to say and fell into an embarrassing silence, Daprajna Changguang suddenly turned her head from the door.
The faint smile that was always on his handsome face has completely disappeared, and he said in a low voice: "The time-traveling army has succeeded."
Sure enough, the shouts of killing that were getting closer outside the corridor just now had almost completely silenced, only the blood-stained shoji door still reminded them of how rapid and one-sided killing there had been.
Da Prajna's face was dignified, the back of his right hand holding the body knife seemed to tighten, so tight that the knuckles of the phalanges protruded.
"All the tribes killed by Miyoshi's family have been wiped out." His voice sounded even deeper, "I'm afraid this is the plan of the Time Traveling Army."
Of course, Ashikaga Yoshiki didn't quite understand the full meaning of these words said by Dai Prajna Nagamitsu, but this did not prevent him from understanding the fact that "all the tribes of Miyoshi's family have been wiped out".His expression suddenly brightened.
"So, so to speak! Are those monsters here to help me!? Next—"
However, his joy of turning a corner was ruthlessly interrupted by the new young maid Axue.
Her thin shoulders seemed to be trembling slightly, as if they were about to be bent under some kind of heavy pressure.Then, without any warning, she resolutely pulled the thin belt around her waist, and the light sufang-colored sleeves she was wearing were opened to both sides.
Before Ashikaga Yoshiki had time to be surprised by her inexplicable behavior, he saw her slightly shaking her shoulders—the little sleeve slipped off, and she ruthlessly took it off and threw it aside.Under the light-colored sleeves, she was wearing a calamus-colored top and a purple hakama. The hem of the top was tucked into the hakama's waist. If it wasn't for the wrong color, she would have looked like a witch clothes the same.
Ashikaga Yoshiki seemed to suddenly understand something.
This is... an outfit that is easy to fight.
So...was that what she had in mind from the very beginning?Wearing battle attire under the sleeves, intending to assassinate the general at the right moment? !