[Sword Three] How to break the lady who is a technical emperor

Chapter 22

Facts have proved that never underestimate the power of the government.

Kubo Heiyuki reacted quickly to this matter. He first agreed to the shogunate's request to revoke Qingluo's arrest warrant, and then issued another arrest warrant and a curfew order using Ah Ding's image, that is, Said that anyone who walks on the street after [-]:[-] pm will be eradicated by the mecha, except for the imperial city. At the same time, the defense of the imperial city will be more stringent, making it easy to get out but difficult to get in.Regarding the foreigners, Kubo proposed to add two foreign trading ports to win over the foreign officials.

He finally realizes that it is useless to hunt Qingluo alone. Ah Ding and Satosuke are Qingluo's right and left hands. If he wants to catch Qingluo, he can only subdue her hands first.

But when he realized this, it was already too late.

Because at this time, the policy of increasing the number of treaty ports proposed to foreigners is equivalent to the relationship between the emperor and the shogunate, which is completely broken.

"Tsk tsk." In the quiet room, Ruan Qingluo, who hadn't appeared for a long time, made a move on the chessboard and said, "It's too hasty."

Kubao Heizhi was really in a hurry, he never thought that his strategy would fail one day, and now he was severely slapped in the face by Qingluo, he was working hard outside, but Qingluo had nothing Do it, let yourself be hit like this!

It's abominable...

Ping Yi slapped the table, making the maid who poured the wine for him tremble in fright, the clear wine scattered in all directions, and the rich aroma immediately filled the whole room.

"Oh?" A female voice came from the window, and A Ding, dressed in the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers, stood at the window with a glass of wine and said leisurely, "It seems that brother has been doing well recently~"

"Ah Ding..." Ping Zhi'e looked at her fiercely, several veins burst out in his hands. "You traitor!"

"Treason?" Ah Ding tilted his head, and asked in a puzzled manner, "Why did I treason? Or... the country that brother calls is you, right?"

"...!" Kubo Heiyuki was stunned for a while, then choked.

"You colluded with foreigners to put pressure on the emperor and let them see you," Ading said leisurely, "at the same time, you took control of the political power and flattered foreigners. Brother, I don't know where your country is? It's in your hands Is it a toy for you to play with?"

"What do you know?!" Pingzhi said.

"Brother's spirit of loyalty to the country is really just in a small way." A Ding sneered, "I just don't know, how many people can understand?"

"What do you want to do?" Pingzhi calmed down and said.

"Who knows?" Ah Ding narrowed his eyes and smiled. "you guess?"

"Even if you bring me down, what good is there?" Pingzhi began to persuade, "I didn't add you and my junior to the wanted list before, precisely because you and I are the same Yamato people! We are originally Isn’t it on one side?! We have the same blood on our bodies!”

"That's right," A Ding sneered, "You can say these words and have the current status, and who gave it to you? You can make these mechas, and you can use them to dominate the upper class... .. Who gave you all this? You say you are loyal to the emperor, but you monopolize power under the emperor. You say you are patriotic, but you give up two treaty ports to foreigners... Kubo Pingzhi, no, Matsuyama Pingzi." A Ding said sarcastically, "Our master has taught us many principles, but the truths of betraying our master, being ungrateful, and saying things differently, you can teach yourself really well."

"Sigh." Pingzhi sighed, "Junior Sister, must this be the case between us? Or, do you think you want to leave after you come in?"

"Guess~" Ah Ding smiled, and suddenly flew backwards.

"Kubo Heiyuki," Ah Ding said with a smile, "You have to know... the praying mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole follows."

"What..." Pingzhi turned pale with shock, an ominous premonition welled up in his heart.

"Master Da Nayan!" The confidant rushed in and said, "The room where the holy object is located has been broken into!"

"What——" Pingzhi suddenly stood up and said, "Take me to see!"

Underneath the Dainagon mansion in the imperial city, there is an extremely secret and unknown place, where Kubao Dainagon's last trump card is hidden, and it is also his last means of saving his life.It was a gigantic monster made of cold iron that Qingluo gave him—in Qingluo's world, it was generally called the God of Thunder.

When Da Nayan's mansion fell into chaos, a young man in black was walking unhurriedly on the street, flipping a small screw up and down in his hand.

This is what Satosuke was ordered by Ao Luo to fetch while Ah Ding was holding Kubo Heiyuki.

"One of Tiangong, the most important thing is precision." Qingluo said, she slowly placed a white piece on the chessboard, "He is restless now, and this is something he often ignores, so even if If it’s missing, he won’t find out.”

"Master," A Ding asked, "you do this..."

"That Tiangong blueprint is just a test. I didn't want it to appear." Qing Luo said solemnly. "And..." She frowned, and said with a bit of disgust, "It's just a mecha purely for killing, and it has no value at all."

"Besides, if left alone, this kind of thing will only harm innocent people." Somehow, Qing Luo narrowed her eyes, and a murderous look flashed around her.

Ah Ding has never seen Qingluo like this before, she is lonely and indifferent, her eyes reminded her of a wounded beast, her unwillingness and anger concealed her deep sadness.

I don't know what happened to Master's past.Ah Ding thought.Qing Luo's eyes were exactly the same as the eyes she saw her younger brother when she just lost her family.

Maybe that's how people look when they lose a loved one.Or maybe it's just some people who try to cover up their sadness with other emotions and pretend to be strong.

"Ah Ding." Qing Luo asked, the eyes just now disappeared without a trace, as if it never existed. "Any plans for the future?"

"Me?" A Ding was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "I want to go outside and have a look."

"Really..." Qingluo pondered for a while, "It is true, then go."

"Master," Ah Ding said after considering his words, "Does Master know how I felt when I just lost my family?"

"I don't know." Qingluo said, she paused, and said, "I don't have parents. After I was born, I was abandoned by my parents."

"..." Ah Ding was stunned when she heard this information for the first time, "Why..."

"That's right." Qingluo smiled slightly, "You think it's impossible, right? Even though I lost my parents, I still live a better life than anyone else... This is because, after I was abandoned, I was also Master picked it up, my master."

"Master's master?" A Ding said in surprise, "Master?"

"En." After thinking about it for a while, Qingluo said, "My masters are all people who have cultivated one skill to the strongest level. People like me, although they are all masters of all seven skills, are far behind them. Superb, broad but not refined, this is inevitable.”

"When my master picked me up, it was not long after they opened Ten Thousand Flowers Valley and decided to accept disciples to promote the sect. There were no women in the valley for a while, so I became the only... baby girl there. "

"Pfft," Ah Ding couldn't help chuckling, "Master must have worked very hard when he was young, and was taken by a group of men."

"Isn't it?" Finally someone who can complain, Qing Luo said with a blank face but fast speaking, "every time I change the diaper, it's almost as if I haven't changed it, and the shift system still makes me have a meal. I even almost starved to death several times, and because I didn’t know what the baby should eat, some people even fed me melon seeds, which are melon seeds, you know? Throw me at the place of the other two old seniors, come to see me every day when I think about it, make sure I am still alive, and after I can understand the lesson, they can't wait to arrest me and take me to the top of the tank. Its use has wood."

-L-Master, how did you survive in such a cruel environment?Ah Ding couldn't help covering her face and sighing, she felt that she was so happy to have parents.

"But no matter what, they are family to me." Qingluo said. "I can't let go of it, I can't bear it, and I always put it first in my heart." She looked at Ah Ding.

"..." Ah Ding was speechless.

"I thought you would be like this." Qing Luo said, "It's a pity... the current situation is still too chaotic after all."

"Will Master still accept disciples after this?" Ah Ding couldn't help asking.

"This..." Before he finished speaking, it was at this moment.

"Master, the things are here." Satosuke came in and said.

"En." Qingluo blinked her eyes, but did not continue the interrupted topic. "Then just wait." She said unhurriedly, "What should come will always come."

There was the sound of rain hitting the window outside the window. After Satosuke entered the house, the rain began to fall.

"It's started again..." Qing Luo sighed, and poured herself a cup of tea, the fragrance of the tea gradually permeated the small room.

Satosuke and Ah Ding sat alone, drinking tea calmly.

The wind and rain are still outside, and Japan is crumbling under the contest of the three forces. In this precarious country, no one knows what direction the future will lead, even Qing Luo, who is drinking tea calmly, does not know.

In late August 1862, the conflict between the royalists and the shogunate officially began.

The samurai in Kyoto were divided into two factions to kill each other. Although the number of samurai who supported the royalist party was small, the royalist party took the limelight for a while because of the existence of mechas. Gradually changed his position.

Kyoto was stained red with blood.

In this bright red, a name became more and more resounding.

That was the team led by Isamu Kondo and Toshizo Hijikata, [Mibu Roshi Group].

Along with this name, there is another name that is widely known.

That name is [Children of Demons].

For the righteousness that he wanted to protect, the boy did not hesitate to dye his hands red with blood.

"Hey, Mr. Shannan," on the silent battlefield, the young man waved the blood off the knife indifferently, and smiled at Shannan, "When will this kind of battle...will end?"

Shannan looked at the young man quietly, the summer has gradually come to an end, but the heat has not diminished because of this, the so-called autumn tiger is nothing more than that.But looking at the young man covered in the blood of the enemy, Shannan once again felt a chill.

"Well, suddenly I don't care anymore." The boy who didn't wait for an answer turned his head and said, "I just need to make a knife."

"And a knife doesn't need one's own will." The boy said, brushing past Shannan.

"You..." Shannan said, but fell silent again.

"Every time I swing the knife, there will always be blood overflowing..." The young man said with a smile, "At that moment... it's like she is by my side. Mr. Shannan should also I know, she is different to me. If you have to make an analogy, Mr. Shannan, I am the sword, and she is the soul of the sword."

"You have changed." Shannan said.

"Yeah, it's changed." Okita smiled, "Didn't Mr. Shannan change too?"

"..."

"Then, I'm leaving." Okita said, leaving the battlefield.Leaving behind the piles of corpses.

Such scenes can be seen everywhere in Kyoto today, and the tragic degree of the struggle can be seen. The foreigners watched them kill each other, quietly waiting for the opportunity to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

How long will this senseless killing continue?Shannan Keisuke couldn't help but have deep doubts in his heart.

Are the choices I've made so far really the right ones?

Amid the strong smell of blood that cannot be resolved, Shannan fell into deep thought.

Qingluo hasn't shown up since she contacted them last time, as if she has seen their every move.

The reason it all came to this point goes back a few days.

After that departure, Isamu Kondo and Toshizo Hijikata made a decision.It is precisely because of this decision that Shannan almost broke with the two. Although he is still in the Shinsengumi now, he has gradually been excluded from the core.

This decision was to wait for Wang Ya's daughter to finish off the mecha, and then deal with her to win Kubao Heizhi.

At the same time as this decision was made, there was news that Kubo Dai Nayan became furious for some reason and vowed to fight the shogunate to the death.

Hit them directly by surprise.

Facing the sudden offensive, the shogunate regained its composure after a short period of panic. Although they lost a bit in the mecha, the shogunate started with war and turned the royalists around tactically. Hand, the strong attack also saved a lot of situations.In addition to these two, it is the quality of the warriors on both sides.

The samurai who had been doing nothing in Kyoto for several months finally ushered in the moment to shine their swords.

It is like this continuous and intermittent rain.