[Gintama] The Way of Slaying Ghosts

His body was heavy, as if he had fallen into a quagmire, and there were irritating small voices coming from his ears. The boy moved his fingers, and vaguely heard a few familiar voices, which were the neighbors around him.

"Why did this child go out? Isn't he courting death?"

"Well, but his father is dead, and only his grandma is left in the family. Now she is also dead. I don't know how to live in the future."

"It's all those hateful celestial beings."

The boy listened quietly in the dark, and suddenly remembered the sad face of his grandmother when he was hugging him that day, "We can't do anything..."

Because he is weak, he can only be bullied or even killed. He can't even protect his own life, or even the desire to resist has been wiped out.

The boy clearly felt that he hated himself who silently watched the man being beaten to death like all the townspeople that day, hated this weak town, hated heaven and man, hated the war that took his father's life, and even ...resenting.

Longing for peace, wanting the town to be like the past, wanting father and grandma back, wanting to go back to the past, back to the past when nothing happened.

The boy on the bed suddenly opened his eyes, his lifeless eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of gray. Under the astonished eyes of everyone in the room, he staggered up and walked outside barefoot.

Light and floating as if walking in the air, like a feather, I can no longer feel the heaviness that seems to be crushing my body. The heart that was originally in pain is beating slowly at this moment, and all perceptions are moving away from me.

When he came to the bridge, instead of looking at the people on the street and the neighbors who were chasing him, the boy leaned against the railing, turned his back, raised his head and opened his arms, and then fell straight down.

There is no pain, no fear, the outside world seems to be isolated, and all the panic and noisy sounds disappeared when I entered the water. The warm water wrapped me, and I listened quietly to the clear heartbeat after another. It keeps getting slower and weaker, and finally it is breathless.

Since this disgusting world cannot be changed, let me create my own ideal country.

The world is being formed, which is a world that belongs to oneself in the gap between dreams and fantasies.

Silently watching the boy fall into the river, the surrounding people tried to rescue him in a panic, but they couldn't find his body, Jiu Tsujisan calmly clenched his two knives, and then jumped without hesitation. Down, from memory into vision.

"Be careful all the way, father!" The boy looked up at the father he admired, and after rubbing his head with his broad palm, he showed a bright smile, "You will continue to teach me how to practice swords when you come back."

"Shenglang, remember to come back early." The old man smiled and waved.

"I'm just going to buy some groceries, don't treat me like a child going out to play." The man showed a helpless smile.

The townspeople passing by on the street showed gentle smiles when they saw it, and the grandfather next door who was holding a pipe smiled and put in the tobacco: "No matter how old you are, you are just a child in the eyes of your parents."

"Does this make you feel happy?" Jiu Tsuji-san asked looking at the young figure watching the man leave.

Hearing that the boy's body froze, he immediately relaxed, but he didn't turn around: "I'm very happy."

The boy's grandma had already entered the house to cook, and the old man next door smoked with his eyes squinted. People came and went on the street, but no one noticed Jiu Tsujisan's appearance or the boy's words.

Jiu Tsuji-san drew his knife slowly: "It's just a deception."

The boy looked straight at the end of the street where the man went away as if he didn't notice: "I know."

"Would you rather sink into the illusion of deceiving yourself than face the reality?" Jiu Tsuji-san sneered, then changed the subject, "You live by sucking the illusions in human hearts, right?"

"Yeah, but it's really troublesome not being able to leave the water. Even if I moved away in order not to scare the people in the town, I created an illusion that I could go back, but they don't want to get close to the bridge, so I can only release it." The bait is looking for you outsiders, those two people, but they don't have much strength, and they can't even maintain their figure if they are far away, my ability is not enough to support them." The boy admitted it straightforwardly, and then looked at Jiu Tsuji-san Tilting his head, "You also have the world you want in your heart, I can give it to you, let's stay together."

"I refuse." The corners of Jiu Tsujisan's mouth curled into a sarcasm, "The fake is the fake, I never need that kind of fake to satisfy myself."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiu Tsuji-san slashed at him with his knife, turned around without hesitation after being dodged, and cut off the rays of light that wanted to entangle him.

Seeing those endless rays of light trying to envelop herself, Jiu Tsuji-san glanced around indifferently, no matter what illusion there is, there will be a support point, and now she needs to find that place.

The town was not disturbed by her fight at all, and there was a lively scene everywhere, Jiu Tsujisan pursed his lips and kept moving to search, but whether it was the boy who smiled and looked at him, his relatives, or the residents of the town No, and not that bridge.

"You can't escape." The boy smiled cutely and innocently, "Why do you want to escape? I just want to give you happiness, no matter what you can get in your own world, isn't it great?"

"Are you kidding?" Jiu Tsujisan panted, trying to calm down, "How can a person's life go well, it's too fake, and no matter how annoying the reality is, it's my true memory."

Looking at the slightly embarrassed girl noncommittally, the boy stretched out his hand to direct the light to surround the girl, grasped the void, and prepared to absorb her memory to create a fantasy world, but at this moment, the town suddenly began to collapse.

"How could it be?" The boy panicked, then looked at Jiu Tsuji-san fiercely, "What did you do!?"

Jiu Tsujisan was also taken aback looking at the constantly broken world, and raised his lips after hearing his question: "Who knows, but what I know is...it's over."

"It's finally out." When consciousness returned, a deep voice sounded from the side.

Sakata Gintoki held Jiu Tsujisan in one arm, heaved a sigh of relief when she finally opened her eyes, and said casually, "Ah Yin thought you were immersed in the fantasy world like them."

"How is it possible." Jiu Tsujisan stood up straight, and fixed his gaze after seeing the corpse under the knife with his right hand.

Sakata Gintoki withdrew his knife and said casually: "Not long after you lost consciousness, those rays of light suddenly gathered in this direction, which made me discover this body that is not human at first glance. Thinking about it, it probably is The culprit was then chopped off."

Was the ghost's body hacked to death while its consciousness was immersed in the fantasy world?

Jiu Tsujisan twitched the corners of her mouth, but although she said it so simply, she also knew that while protecting her unconscious body, it would not be easy to break through the light to find the ghost's body, but when she saw the ghost next to her, I'm amazing with only natural curls, but I can't cover my face. I love the expression of adoring me. Jiu Tsujisan said that he didn't want to say anything.

The darkness receded like a tide, replaced by normal river water, Gintoki Sakata who was about to speak next to him decisively choked on his saliva, then closed his mouth tightly, Jiu Tsuji-san finally took a look at the rotting corpse, and Sakata Gintoki glanced at each other before heading upstream.

After they finally swam out of the river and took a breath of fresh air, they couldn't help being amazed at the sight on the shore.

Dense town residents surrounded the bank, all looking into the river, and as people emerged from the river one by one, the people on the bank began to rescue them.

When they took Katsura Kotaro and Hisaka Xuanrui's hands to land, Sakata Gintoki asked in surprise, "What's going on? And why are you in such a mess?"

Hisaka Xuanrui smiled wryly: "Many people fell into the river on this bridge before. Although they came back two days after falling, they were no longer themselves."

"After you fell into the water, several townspeople who fell into the water surrounded us and wanted to push us into the water. At that time, they didn't know that it would be better to cut them directly. That's why we look like this now." Gui Xiaotaro added, "Fortunately, other people from the town also came and tied them up, but just now they all disappeared."

"That ghost died, so those phantoms disappeared. Speaking of which, quite a few people disappeared in the town." Gulu lay on Gui Xiaotaro's shoulder, and glanced lazily at the river.

"Put this dress on first." Hisaka Xuanrui took off the coat on his body and put it on Jiu Tsujisan, "Be careful of catching a cold."

Sakata Gintoki at the side glanced at the wet Jiu Tsuji-san and muttered, "Ah Yin is also soaked through, why no one gave me a coat."

"Shall I give it to you?" Jiu Tsuji-san glanced at the silent Sakata Gintoki.

At this time, a middle-aged man came over and said gratefully: "Thank you so much this time, if it weren't for you, those townspeople who were trapped at the bottom of the river might be here forever."

"Anyway, our main purpose is to save..." Sakata Gintoki raised his eyelids, and then suddenly thought, "By the way, what about Ono and the others?"

"Captain, we are here." A few people who were also drenched helplessly reminded behind him.

"No matter what, thank you all." The middle-aged man bowed deeply.

"You...have known for a long time that the people who fell into the water and came back are not themselves?" Jiusaka Xuanrui asked suddenly.

That’s why it is said that none of the people who were taken away could come back, and in order to keep the town going, they decorated the outsiders with God as a lie. When they saw those people trying to push them into the river, they were not too surprised, but Quickly organize people to restrain them and tie them up.

The middle-aged man fell silent, and then said in a low voice: "At least... there will be no heavenly beings here, anyway, as long as you don't get close to that bridge."

They didn't say anything more, and then Gui Xiaotaro said calmly: "Let's go, we should be able to catch up with the big troops now."

After turning around and walking a few steps, Jiu Tsujisan paused: "There's a corpse at the bottom of the river." Whether it's because he hates the heavenly beings or because he doesn't want the town to be destroyed and hinder his own existence, this place can The illusion that there is no heaven and man to maintain peace is because of his protection.

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