dream lantern

The brown-haired young man sat on the bed with his upper body supported by his hands. His dull eyes stared blankly at the bright spring scenery outside the window. His sickly white skin was almost translucent. To others, he seemed to be To turn into a puddle of snow water and melt in this warm sun.

Even though he has already expressed his wish to Xu, judging from his current physical condition, that is completely a fantasy.Although he was lucky not to be turned into ashes after the battle with Ronin, his body was still deteriorating.

Xu, on the other hand, never tires of making medicine for him every day, and even took out a prescription that he did not know where he found it.He also said: "Thanks to you, the chief, I found that I might still have the talent to be a doctor."

While the moon-gray-haired youth was smiling, there was a hint of sadness in his gentle expression as always.

The director was helpless: "Aren't you afraid of contracting my disease?"

The other party tilted his head and pretended to be innocent, and didn't answer anything.

During the period of recuperating from his illness, he tried every means to get some words from Oboro, and learned that the current time and place, as well as the current situation in this country, did not match his previous cognition at all.

For example, although the current general is there, his name has changed subtly from the original one.

(Does the general have another name?)

Besides, the most important thing is time, he was not born at this time, but now he...

(What exactly is this...)

"Cough...cough...cough..."

"Have you coughed up blood again, Mr. Okita?"

The boy's crisp voice sounded at the door, and the chief executive knew who was coming without even looking.

"Yeah, brother, I'm getting old, and I really envy you boys, who are strong and strong." He squeezed his hands invisibly, and the coughing up blood in his palm was like a flower vying to bloom.

Oboro mercilessly threw the towel on the other person's face, "The teacher said, you should talk less."

The chief manager pulled the towel off his face with a smile on his face, and slowly wiped his hands and the corners of his mouth, "Mr. Xu will be angry if he knows that you abuse patients like this."

"Okay, okay, I know I can't control your mouth." Obsessively put down the tray, sat down cross-legged, passed the soup on the tray to the other party, took the blood-stained towel, and ordered in a deep voice , "drink."

The boss knew that the boy was not easy to mess with, so he obediently picked up the bowl, stirred it gently with a spoon while blowing, then pecked lightly, smacked his lips, with a bitter expression on his face.

"By the way, where is Mr. Xu?" The chief quickly brought up the topic, trying to divert the other party's attention.

"Teacher, he is out on a mission."

"Oh?"

Seeing the other party's confused face, Oboro put on a subtle expression, "You don't know? Teacher, he is the leader of the assassination force directly under Tiandaozhong——Amaterasu-in Naraku."

Facing children, the chief executive always has an inexhaustible good temper, "Then, what are the Heavenly Daoists?"

"It's the murderous corps of the shogunate." Oboro introduced dryly.Obviously, he was not very interested in this, and quickly returned to the topic, "Drink the medicine quickly."

"Okay, okay~" Knowing that he couldn't escape, the chief executive kept chanting the good medicine in his heart, then raised his head and drank it all in one gulp, "—Wow, it really is really bitter."

Seeing the wrinkled expression on the other party's face, Lu couldn't bear to hand over a cup of tea, and the chief executive took it without hesitation and drank it down without hesitation.

After drinking tea, his mind cleared up, and he suddenly thought that during the time he followed Mr. Kondo to work for the shogunate, he had never heard of the murderous organization Tendōjo.

"Could it be that I went to another world like the playbook said..."

"What?" He looked dazed.

"There's nothing there," said the general manager with a hippie smile.

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In the evening, when Oboro brought the soup and medicine and dinner to the general manager, Xu still didn't come back.

Oboro wasn't worried at all after the Chief Secretary raised a question.

"For missions, it's not uncommon to not come back for three or four days."

"Assassination?"

"...Mmm." As if thinking of something, Oboro's voice suddenly weakened.

——No, that's not the case.

A voice from the bottom of my heart told the chief.

[Once I violate the principle, I will definitely die. 】

When the other party said this, the serious expression seemed to be swearing to himself.What's more, a person like Xu would never easily go against what he said.

The chief executive thought so, when he looked up, he saw Oboro looking at him.

The boy's thin body was covered in loose clothes, and his kneeling posture was too standard.Rather, he is forcing himself to show his best side.

"The teacher said," the boy choked up, his trembling pupils and clenched fists showed the master's inner turmoil at this time, "...he wants to wash off the blood on his hands."

The chief took it subconsciously: "So, why would he go to kill again?"

After speaking, both of them fell silent.

What broke the silence was a stranger who suddenly appeared at the door.

"All members of Amaterasu-in Naraku gather urgently!"

The person who came was wearing the same clothes as Xu Helong, a white kimono and a black coat, and his eyes under the shadow of the bamboo hat gave off a fierce and fierce light.

"You two, especially the one on the bed, quickly change your clothes and gather at the headquarters! It is strictly forbidden to leave the table! Even if you are crawling, you have to go there!"

Seeing that the other party disappeared in the same place in a blink of an eye, the director was in a daze for a moment. "...Me?" He turned to Oboro for help, "Why did I become a member of your organization?"

"Otherwise, what kind of identity do you think you have stayed with the leader of Tianzhaoyuan Naraku for so long?" He gave him a blank look, and then said seriously, "In short, we are urgently gathering now, maybe the teacher has something to announce, go and see Just know."

The boss didn't make a sound.

Oboro reacted in an instant, and immediately frowned: "Your body..."

The chief executive pursed his lips, looking pained.No one knew how much he hated himself at this moment.Once again, yes, again, this damn body is dragging me down again. After Mr. Kondo, is it Mr. Xu who saved me this time?

But this time, he won't give in again.

The director smiled wryly: "It's okay, this body still has a little bit of strength that can be used."

"But your illness is already... okay." Obscure was finally defeated by the other party's resolute gaze, and he dug out a dress of the same style as the one he was wearing from the closet and changed it for the other party.

After changing his clothes, the chief executive took out a Taidao from under the bed on the right hand side, and then used the Taidao to support his body on the ground to stand up, but just this one action already made cold sweat flow down his forehead.

Lu hurriedly supported him, and said distressedly: "It's really strange, obviously the teacher has rescued you, why didn't he give you his blood?"

"What blood?" The chief asked weakly, "Is this related to his immortality?"

"It seems that the teacher told you a little bit." Long glanced at him, "I was rescued by the teacher's blood when I was dying. The teacher is immortal, and his blood is the blood of immortality."

The director felt that this setting was a bit like the ghosts in his world and the diluted blood of ghosts—that is, the later change into water.But if Xu gave him his blood, the tuberculosis probably wouldn't be healed... Maybe not?That is pure undead blood...

(But, do I really want to be immortal?)

Compared with eternal life, perhaps what he wants more is to turn into a short-lived fireworks in the night sky.

The wish he once said to Xu may no longer be fulfilled, but at least at the moment, he hopes that the people he values ​​can live happily.

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"The leader is missing!"

"Abandoning the assassination mission and guiding the target to escape, many doubts emerged, but he disappeared on the eve of the investigation meeting."

"As we all know, defectors must be dealt with by the imperial court!"

"Keep this in mind, and search with your heart!"

"Yes!"

After finishing speaking, everyone got up and left aggressively, leaving only Oboro and Chief Director in place.

"Mr. Xu is really powerful." The chief executive said with a smile, then bent down to cover his mouth, and coughed desperately.

Oblivious to seeing the handkerchief in the other party's hand was stained red with blood, he suddenly panicked, "Mr. Okita..."

In the gloomy room, the candle flame flickered weakly, and the tall but fragile figure cast on the wall, once the wind blows into the room, the shadow immediately distorted in pain.

The chief executive immediately raised his head, his face flickering bright and dark with an undeniable expression, "Let's go to Mr. Xu together."

"Okay," Oboro grasped the other's arm tightly, "Let's go together."

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Obscure supported the chief, although he was in a hurry, he couldn't move forward quickly, and the chief was gasping for breath, coughing up blood from time to time, and his face became even paler.

Suddenly, the chief executive stopped still.

"What's wrong? Do you need to rest?" Oboro asked the other party, "Well, let's rest for a while."

The director stopped the other party's hand who was about to unload the package, "No, I remembered that I forgot to take something important, so you go first, I will catch up soon."

The boy frowned, "But if you go back now..."

"Don't worry!" The director general smiled calmly, "Anyway, I am now a member of Amaterasu Institute Naraku, as long as I don't show the desire to defect, they won't do anything to me."

It seemed that what the other party said made sense, so he nodded, "Well, I'm going south now, and you can find me in this direction later."

"it is good."

Lu re-tied the package on his body, walked forward a few steps, couldn't help turning his head, raised his bamboo hat, and saw the young man looking at him with a smile, those beautiful emerald green eyes seemed to be the ones he had seen in his whole life , The most beautiful eyes.

For some reason, Oboro often feels that he and he are not from the same world.

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After Wang Hao walked away, the chief executive heard a rustling sound behind him.

"Hey, I remember you are the newcomer brought back by the leader, what are you doing here, we don't need a patient to perform the task."

"Eh-? That's hurtful to say so, seniors."

The wind started to get stronger for no reason, and there seemed to be ominous whistling sounds in the woods.

While the director was speaking, his hair gradually turned white from the roots, and the moment he raised his eyes, the bloodthirsty red light in his eyes shocked everyone present!

His lips parted slightly, "Kill you guys."

"what……?!"

"What kind of monster is this guy?!"

He slowly pulled out the knife that had been with him for a long time, and then tied the handle and the handle of the knife firmly with a bandage.

(That said, the scene is a bit familiar.)

Thinking of this, the chief executive suddenly felt it was amused and let out a soft laugh, but then, his eyes froze, as sharp as a sword just out of its scabbard.

Sliding steps, raised his arms, and suppressed the bloody smell that was about to gushes from his throat.

yell,

"Captain of the first team of the Shinsengumi, Souji Okita, join us!"

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