novelraw Chapter 996 [Chapter 6] 10
Chapter 996 [Chapter 6] 10
"There is a woman waiting for you at home," he said firmly to Ibuki, "don't let her down... Go back and find her alive. Let me finish the task of defeating those Satsuma."
Ibuki seemed to want to say something more, but Hijikata had already lost his temper.
"Treasure that woman who is waiting for you at home! You don't need to go to the battlefield to die to prove your heroism! Besides, those Satsuma people can't even cheat the title of righteousness this time, and they won't be proud for long... ...What? Do you want to challenge the deputy chief's order? Are my words useless now?! Even you don't want to listen?!"
After being scolded by him, Jingbuki walked away in a desperate manner.
Then, no one in this team now knows that he is the deputy leader of the Shinsengumi who was famous in Kyoto many years ago, Toshizo Hijikata.
Although there are Aizu people in the same robe, not everyone in Aizu knows the appearance of the deputy leader of the Shinsengumi.He also heard other people talking about the past in his spare time, but those people were just talking about the rumors about the Shinsengumi back then, including "I heard that Hijikata of the Shinsengumi is a very good-looking man, I don't know What a character."
Whenever he heard this kind of rumor being brought up again, he could only smile wryly.
Whenever such moments, he would think of Qingyuan Xueye's smiling face and her brisk voice.
[The money will be spent quickly in my hands, so please ask the deputy chief to save it for me.Maybe I can save a lot in the future, and then I can become a rich man and return home, marry a handsome man, and reach the pinnacle of life—]
ah ah.Since then, she has had that kind of wild... delusions about the future? !
Hijikata would always think of the way she looked at him with bright eyebrows and a smile on her lips after she said these words, and how embarrassing and irritable he was at that time, yelling at her to cover up his discomfort; At that time, he couldn't help laughing silently, because of the existence of this kind of memory, he felt a mixture of warmth and loss, but he didn't want to forget it—because only in his memory, she The talent still exists vividly and brightly, smiling at him, making his dead gray world brighten up again when those memories are restarted.
But now, he is still living in this world, a little older than before, and his skills are not as invincible as a storm; struggling in the rainstorm and mud, he wants to defeat the old man who used cunning means to take away the new man. The great righteousness of the selected group, now showing their true colors, became the Satsuma people who turned out to be rebels after all.But she who lives in memory forever, is just as young, as clever, as cunning, and as full of courage——
If she was here, what would happen if she saw him fighting these Samos awkwardly in the mud?
Will you laugh and say, "Has it taken so long to solve the opponent? Mr. Hichikata is too stupid"?Or "You don't need Mr. Hijikata to knock down such an opponent. Just let me do it"?
Tufang was in a daze for a moment.The first sentence always sounded a bit like the style of the boy in charge of the general manager, and the second sentence seemed to be provocatively said to the Aizu soldiers who were eager to win merits in the street outside the Ikeda House?
That kind of memory suddenly gave him a burst of new strength in his already exhausted body after fighting in a difficult environment for a long time.That kind of power wasn't very strong, but it was enough to make him shout, leap forward and slash down with the knife, pressing the blade tightly against the knife in the hand of the kid opposite, pouring all the strength of his body into his arms and the blade Up, lean your upper body forward, slowly lower——
The boy who covered half of his face with the scarf seemed to be unable to support his strength anymore. As he strengthened his hands, the boy's upper body slowly leaned back, and the arms holding the sword trembled , was pressed down until it was pressed close to his body, and the arms seemed to completely lose the angle of exertion in the next moment——
And at such a close distance, even if the rain was still heavy, Tufang was still enough to see the upper half of the boy's exposed face clearly.
The tip of the nose is covered by the scarf, but the bridge of the nose is still quite straight; there are small smile lines at the corners of the eyes, which shows that this kid should be a guy with a good personality; and those eyebrows that are a little more delicate for a man——
Hijikata's pupils shrank suddenly!
Almost at the same time, very close to his eyes, the eyes under those delicate eyebrows suddenly narrowed.
The next moment, Tufang felt a blur in front of his eyes, a small black shadow cut through the air, and suddenly rushed towards his eyes!
He had to immediately straighten his upper body and lean back, and at the same time forcibly turned his wrist, changing the direction where the blade fell, to block the attack of the black shadow—and immediately turned his face to avoid the attack in case he failed to block it with the knife. If you touch a black shadow, your face will be injured.
In the next moment, there was a crisp sound from his blade!The blade was shaken slightly by the black shadow that collided with it.
That's...a rock!
Tufang quickly recalled the scene in his field of vision just now, and was surprised to find that the boy surnamed "Jiu Tiao" reacted much faster than ordinary people.At the moment when Earthwork's blade completely overwhelmed him, he seemed to know his own disadvantage and didn't even want to accumulate strength to fight recklessly. Instead, he took half a step back and flew up suddenly by taking off his center of gravity to cause his body to shake. One kick—kicked a rock under his feet into the air, and went straight to his face.
This tactic is simply a variant of the tactic that the earthworker used to "sweep the earth and blind the eyes".
The earthworker almost laughed out of anger.
Use the tricks he is used to to deal with him? !
Perhaps the other party didn't know that this was also a trick he was used to, but doing so undoubtedly made him feel a long-lost provocation—it's impossible to just let it go!
...Besides, the strange discovery, or coincidence, that caused his move to be delayed for a moment just now can't be easily dismissed, right? !
However, the boy named "Jiu Tiao" didn't seem to show any abnormalities at all.He was still engrossed in the fight with the earthworker, and when he saw that earthworker's offensive showed signs of slacking off, he immediately picked up his momentum and stabbed several times in one breath. It was as if a real and dangerous opponent died on the spot.
Earthwork: "..."
Ah, maybe that moment just now was really just my own illusion.
But the situation did not allow him to continue thinking.There were chaotic footsteps and chaotic human voices on the mountain road behind, as if reinforcements had arrived.
It didn't take long for him to realize that luck was not on his side this time.
A rough voice suddenly came from a few trees away:
"Hey! Saburo?! What's going on with you? Are you entangled and can't get away?!"
Earthwork: "..."
The name called out by the other party in that familiar tone was "Saburo".And his pseudonym is of course not this.So that means-
It was reinforcements from the Samo side.
He secretly sighed in his heart.
It seems that today it is impossible to expand the results of his victory.
The next moment he heard the guy in front of him called "Sanlang" reply.
"Ah. You came just in time. There seems to be a guy here who is still breathing. Hurry up and drag him back. Leave the rest to me!"
Of course, the earth party knew that after the fierce battle just now, there was a distance between them and the Satsuma soldier who he cut down to the ground before; It's a bit too natural, as if he really has the skill to take care of the former deputy head of the Shinsengumi.
This made Tufang suddenly feel a little bit of competition in his heart.
That feeling is very strange, and it hasn’t happened again for a long time—thinking about it carefully, the last time I had this naive feeling of being as naive as a teenager and wanting to compete with someone was in the Shinsengumi retreat. When in Sendai.
To be honest, he had been keenly aware of the subtle atmosphere floating between Kiyohara Yukiha and Shannan Keisuke before that.In other words, he started out as a pure observer and bystander to observe the change of Shannan's attitude towards Qingyuan Xueye, the only person present that night after he became a Rakshasa.
At that time, in his opinion, Shannan had become increasingly elusive.Except for the official duties of the Shinsengumi—and the "Shinsengumi" that developed the Rakshasa—there are very limited factors that can affect Shannan's mood a little; and fortunately—or should I say, unfortunately—that he It was found that Kiyohara Yukiha was one of those factors.
He has captured Shannan watching Qingyuan Xueye from an unknown corner several times.Although at that time he himself had never imagined that after arriving in the capital, he could be regarded as successful and famous, so he could develop a relationship between a man and a woman, but Shannan looked at Qingyuan Xueye in the eyes, and he would not admit his mistake.
That look was weird.Although it contained nostalgia, envy, contradiction and a touch of resentment, there was no doubt that it was the way a man looks at a woman.Those eyes were complex and profound, even though Hijikata was just a bystander, after seeing it, he still felt uncomfortable.
It took him a while to understand that the discomfort came from what was hidden behind those eyes—the so-called memories and bonds that only existed between Kiyohara Yukiha and Shannan Keisuke, more clearly To put it bluntly, it is a certain connection that has been extended from the moment Shannan's favorite sword "Chishin Chongguang" was broken in Wu Fuya in Osaka.Even if he was there at the time, it was as if he was absent; it was a connection he could not break, let alone ignore.
The author has something to say:
February 8:
For some reason, when I was writing Primary One, I could concentrate on writing only Primary One, but when I wrote about Deputy Chief, I couldn’t help mentioning many other people
Such as the general manager, such as Xiaoyi, and such as Shannan-san.
So now that Shannan-san has been written, let’s write a little bit about how the deputy chief thought of Shannan-san and his sister.
In addition, this chapter has a very important foreshadowing, it is a very small detail, I guess everyone has not noticed hhhhhh
Next update: tomorrow at midnight.
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