[Gintama] Redemption

Xu never thought that this situation would happen.

He thought that he would be silently obliterated by his opponent like many personalities before him, and would never appear again.

He has been searching for death for so many years, but it always ends in vain.However, when the dream of extravagance suddenly came in front of him, the excitement and excitement that should have gushed out suddenly condensed at this moment.

Xu was unwilling to die in the hands of another personality.

This personality has the attributes he hates the most, silently reminding him again and again that he still has a conscience deep in his heart.These things are often associated with weakness and incompetence, so it is absolutely impossible to exist in immortal monsters.

It is even more impossible to kill him.

In the following days, Xu seldom spoke.

Whether it was because he deliberately lowered his sense of presence, or the other party tried to ignore his own existence, in short, the two of them lived in peace for quite a while.

Another personality named himself "Yoshida Shoyo".He traveled and taught all the way, and he would stop at places where there were groups of children, and occasionally set up village schools.

I imagined that Songyang might be trying to make up for the regret of not being able to continue teaching Oboro, or it might be that he was called "teacher" by that child too many times, so he thought he should have the identity of a teacher.

In short, he couldn't figure out the real reason.

Songyang retrieved a child from the battlefield.

The same silver-white hair, the same age, and the same persistent eyes——he saw a hazy shadow on this child.

Xu felt that Songyang must have thought of the dead student at the same moment, because he saw a smile on the other's face that he hadn't seen for a long time.He had only seen this kind of smile once before, and that was when he made an agreement with Oboro not to kill anyone in the future.

But the kid seemed extremely wary.

He rudely slapped off the opponent's hand on his head, and even pointed the knife at the person who came.And Songyang just smiled tepidly, showing no sign of anger at all.

Xu finds that another personality is always very compatible with children. This feeling is probably like a water source for a hungry person, full of hope and temptation.

The silver-haired kid froze for a while, then lowered his head and followed.

He must have eaten the last meal without stopping, his bones could hardly support the weight of his body, and his walking was bumpy.Songyang also walked very slowly, as if waiting patiently.In the end, I still felt distressed, turned around, picked up the thin child, and carried it on my body.

The other party seemed to want to struggle, but soon calmed down.

This kind of warm and soft touch spread from the back, and gradually extended to the body, truly touching Xu's heart.

He didn't recite anyone, and he didn't know if he had been recited like this when he was a child, maybe he had, or he might not.

He can't recall much about the past.

Parents' identities, looks, growing environment, villagers, growing experience, taste... All these things are intertwined. After thousands of years of weaving, what remains in my mind now is only a dense network. You can't see through it and you can't get it out.

——He is a person with no past and no future.

Songyang took Yinshi in and took him to continue their journey.

Time suddenly began to overlap at this moment, repeating what happened in the past—they stayed in a certain village, set up a village school, and more and more students came to study, most of them were children, and occasionally there were adults.

The children love this gentle teacher.

The journey to school is always long, Songyang walked in front, and they followed behind, twittering and arguing over who the teacher dotes on more.Occasionally quarreling and fighting because of this, but they are often suppressed strongly at the first moment, crying and going home to complain.

This scene has been seen too many times.

So much so that at that moment who was standing where, whether the weather was cloudy or sunny, which direction the wind was blowing, and whether the weeds on the side of the road fell to the left or the right, he all remembered clearly.

Sometimes in a trance, Xu would wonder whether he had experienced the same thing when he was young.

A couple was walking on the ridge with farm tools, and the child next to them was naughty and beat the older child.The two of them were just having fun, and they scuffled together after arguing.The man rushed over and gave a fist to each of them, while the woman pulled away the emotional father and son, and began to persuade them with nice words.

It's a pity that from the beginning to the end, he was the one standing by and watching silently.

Xu Zai seldom opened his mouth after a long period of silence, "Do you think you can protect them well in this troubled world?"

At that time, heaven and man had already broken open the gate of this planet and colluded with the shogunate.The warriors with a little ambition rose up one round after another, but they were all suppressed by their own government.But this personality is not afraid at all, hiding in a remote village somewhere, speaking bold and presumptuous remarks.

"Aren't you afraid of being discovered by the Taoists and the shogunate? This is a felony."

Songyang seemed to sigh slightly, but it was so soft that it was almost inaudible, "I know very well that I can only protect for a while, but not forever."

"Then what's the point of doing these things?"

Another personality looked into the distance, as if he could get the answer to this question from there. "I just want them to understand that people can only be truly redeemed if they are willing to save themselves."

help yourself?Xu didn't know that the bag Songyang mentioned didn't include himself.But after thinking about it, he felt that it was impossible. Firstly, the two were not in a close symbiotic relationship; secondly, he could not find any other way to redeem himself except death.

His tone of speech became sarcastic again, "You think you can save yourself?"

The other party was silent for a long while, but when he spoke again, he said loudly, "At least for now."

Xu shut his mouth, because he felt that discussing these issues with Songyang was a waste of energy.

But he had to admit that that time was indeed the most peaceful time he had ever spent.Far away from swords and swords and fighting and killing, the blood and hostility around him dissipated a lot, and even the capricious emotions gradually stabilized.

It's just that because he has lived for too long, his original feelings have been wiped out and cannot be revived.It is probably because he has lived for too long that he understands that the human heart is not so easy to accept and forgive.