[Gintama] The Way of Slaying Ghosts

After finding a relatively safe place, Jiu Tsujisan supported his tired body to hide himself among the stone forests, then tore off his thin and soft inner garment, and leaned against the jagged stones to silently treat the wounds on his body.

After barely bandaging up those fragmentary wounds, Jiu Tsujisan silently looked at the blood moon in the sky while holding the knife.I don't know how long it took before I moved my body a little. After making sure that there was no danger around me, I closed my eyes and prepared to sleep for a while. The previous battle was really exhausting, but she didn't dare to relax completely. After all, this is a ghost land, she can Don't want to be eaten in your sleep.

It didn't take long for Jiu Tsuji-san to feel that Renmi had returned to her side, but he didn't appear in front of her in a physical form.

"I used up too much energy before, and I need to go to sleep. I guess I won't be able to wake up for a long time." Rensi left her such a sentence and then fell silent.

Jiu Tsujisan stared blankly at the strange pattern on his forearm, which was exactly the same as the one on Rensi's forehead.

Exhaling a breath, after resting, Jiu Tsujisan began to look for the intersecting point of space. Unlike other hidden spaces, the ghost domain cannot directly open the passage, otherwise it is very likely to enter the turbulent flow of time and space and be strangled. It is necessary to find the intersection with other spaces point, thus tearing open the channel.

There is no sunrise or sunset in this place, nor can you feel the passage of time, and as far as Jiu Tsuji-san knows, the passage of time in the ghost domain is completely independent. It's time, what you thought was a few months, may have been years or even decades outside.

Jiu Tsujisan searched for a long time at the place where he first woke up, but he still couldn't find Jiu Chu.Maybe she was involved in other places, she could only think like this, and then decided to leave this place to find the intersecting point of space.

There is no eye-catching scenery in the ghost domain, except for the jagged rocks and barren trees, the most common ones are the skeletons everywhere, and even the ground is hard black soil without greenness, and the only food that can barely be eaten is that kind of food. Dry and bitter fruit.

That's what hell is all about.

Jiu Tsujisan gave a wry smile, she had been here for a long time, but she didn't find anything, almost as a matter of course, her heart was filled with despair and sorrow uncontrollably.

After all, no matter how similar the trial land and Huangquan are, they have experienced it before.

"You... have a familiar smell." A soft and soothing female voice suddenly sounded.

Unaware of the presence of a ghost at all, when he suddenly heard a strange voice, Jiu Tsuji-san tensed up and drew his sword to fight, but when he saw the woman, he froze in astonishment.

She was the woman I had seen in the memory fragment before.

And that woman didn't take the opportunity to attack, she just tilted her head slightly to look at Jiu Tsuji-san, her almost empty blue eyes quietly watched her, as if she was looking for some shadow from her.

"...Who are you?" Pursing his lips, Jiu Tsuji-san asked vigilantly.

The woman was stunned for a few seconds, she didn't seem to be able to react, and after thinking for a long time, she slowly said: "Fei." As she spoke, she murmured unconsciously, "That man... called me that."

"That person?" Jiu Tsuji-san asked hesitantly.

"Well... a very important person." Fei stared at Jiu Tsuji-san, "You... are a bit like him."

Jiu Tsujisan's expression froze, he hesitated for a while and asked: "That person...what's his name?"

"Ze Ye." Fei replied without a pause.

Jiu Tsujisan fell silent, she even had to think about her own name for a while, but she didn't hesitate at all when saying that person's name.But his father's name is not Ze Ye, he is Jiu Chu of that generation, but it may be a pseudonym.

"What about you? Who are you?" Fei showed a slightly confused look, "Why is your aura so familiar, it's really... very similar."

In this case, the Ze she was talking about was probably her father, Jiu Tsujisan was a little helpless, and then carefully chose his words to reply: "If I guessed correctly, I am afraid that the person named Ze Ye you mentioned is my father."

Fei trembled all over, and opened her eyes slightly. After a short period of daze and helplessness, those beautiful blue pupils were filled with sadness that seemed to drown people, but even the overflowing silent sorrow almost made people feel sad. She was out of breath, and she didn't cry, she just drooped her trembling eyelashes, casting a small shell shadow in her eyes, and looked at Jiu Tsuji-san intently with her lowered eyes, and described her appearance in detail.

"Is... is he doing well?" Fei finally spoke again, looking a little dazed.

"My father died when I was a child." Jiu Tsuji-san looked at Fei who didn't do anything to her, and calmed down from the initial nervousness, "I don't have any impression of him."

Fei turned pale in an instant, her eyes were empty and blank: "Dead...?"

"Yes." Jiu Tsujisan thought of Jiu Chu who was looking for his father's memory fragments again, and couldn't help asking tentatively, "Do you know my father?"

But this time Fei didn't answer, just stood like a puppet, Jiu Tsujisan also became a little uneasy, at this moment she felt an evil spirit coming towards this side quickly, and it was not a low level evil spirit.

After Jiu Tsuji-san judged it, he immediately drew his sword, and at this time the ghost also came to this place, staring greedily at Jiu Tsuji-san: "Ghost Slayer? What a delicious gas!"

Before he finished speaking, the ghost's body was mercilessly pierced by countless blood blades.Jiu Tsujisan turned his eyes to Fei who was full of tyranny and murderous intent, and secretly became vigilant again.

However, to her surprise, after the ghost dissipated, Fei returned to her gentle and harmless look, her blue eyes quietly staring at the guarded Jiu Tsuji for a while, then she suddenly said, "Let's go." , I will take you to the space intersection point."

Fei didn't get close to Jiu Tsuji-san, but just stood not far from her, which happened to be a distance that could make her feel at ease.

Jiu Tsujisan was taken aback, and asked in surprise, "Why?"

"You are his child." Fei replied softly, "You are his favorite child, an important child."

No matter how many questions there were, but seeing Fei's dazed look, Jiu Tsujisan didn't want to ask any more, and just followed her to the intersecting point of space.

Under Fei's leadership, Jiu Tsuji-san soon felt a subtle spatial fluctuation in one place, and the two knives in his hands were also trembling slightly, and then naturally and clearly outlined the passage to another space.

After staying in Huangquan for so long, Jiu Tsujisan almost couldn't wait to cut open the space crack with his two knives, but when he stepped in, he still couldn't help looking at Fei who was watching from a distance: "What happened back then?" What?"

Fei remained silent, Jiu Tsujisan sighed, and left the place before the crack closed again.

"Ze Ye..." Fei looked at the blood moon in the black sky and murmured in a low voice. After a long time, she left this place.

At the other end of the passage is a hidden room that has never been before, Jiu Tsujisan did not stay long, and immediately opened the passage to Jiuguimen again.Although I don't know how long I disappeared here, but no matter what, I should go back and report.

Looking at the familiar never-setting dusk and the sun and moon hanging relatively at the extreme edge at the same time, Jiu Tsuji-san exhaled and finally came back.

Immediately headed to the deacon's hall without stopping, the road was deserted as always, the first thing Jiu Tsuji-san saw was a familiar figure of a girl.

A slightly younger girl walked quietly on the road with a book in her arms. Her long black hair was tied into two loose strands, hanging softly on her chest. There was no focus in her pair of dark eyes, and she was surrounded by tranquility. soft feel.

Although she couldn't see her, but at the same time Jiu Tsuji-san saw her, the girl obviously felt the other's presence.

"Tsuji-san?" There was a trace of surprise in the clear and ethereal voice, and the girl turned exactly in the direction of Tsuji-san.

"Well, I'm back, secretary." Jiu Tsuji-san hesitated for a moment before asking, "How long has it been since I left?"

The Secretary's body has long stopped growing, and her appearance will always be such a young one, so Jiu Tsuji-san is completely unable to estimate the approximate time from her body.

The Secretary was silent for a moment, then spoke slowly, his slender voice that almost melted into the wind, "It's been... almost seven years."

Even though he was mentally prepared, when he suddenly heard that it had been seven years, Jiu Tsujisan's face was still pale, and he parted his lips in panic, but finally fell silent.

"Is there any news about Jiu Chu?" Jiu Tsuji-san asked with some embarrassment.

"No, not at all." The Secretary replied calmly.

Jiu Tsujisan was a little depressed: "Yes, I see, thank you."

After reporting what happened to him according to the procedures with ease, Jiu Tsuji-san was allowed to rest for a period of time.After leaving the dim and depressing deacon's hall, the unchanging and familiar scenery outside brought her a sincere sense of peace of mind, Jiu Tsujisan suddenly felt tired all of a sudden, returned to the residence and fell into a sleepy sleep for a long time.

Waking up again, Jiu Tsuji-san silently used his own blood to feed Rensi who was still asleep as usual, and then suddenly found that he didn't know what to do.

After thinking about it, Jiu Tsujisan decided to go to see how Sakata Gintoki is doing first, and then go to find Jiu Chu.

Thinking of this, Jiu Tsujisan immediately got up and prepared to go to the secretary, her intelligence gathering ability is beyond doubt.

And indeed it didn't take long for Jiu Tsujisan to get the result he wanted, without hesitation he opened the passage to this place and stepped in.

Edo - Kabukicho.

The author has something to say: It’s the age of the master house, and Yinsang is starting to die in front of Tsujisan