[Comprehensive] The gap in history

Chapter 38: Hakuouki (10)

Year, month, day, the battle of Katsunuma in Koshu, the Shinsengumi was defeated. In the future, Nagakura Shinpachi and Harada Sanosuke left the Shinsengumi and formed Yasubei

Zuo Nosuke put a small bag of Konpei candy in front of Okita: "I heard from Chizuru that you wanted this, so I specially asked someone to bring it here from [Lujuan Shimizu] in Kyoto. How is it, are you moved?"

Okita lowered his eyes and sat on the couch, looking at the tiny candies that looked like stars: "That's right, that store is still open."

[Green Juan Shimizu] was founded in Kyoto in [-], and it was the only one in Japan at that time. Since it settled in Kyoto, this store has become Okita's favorite place to go.

"Of course, I can only get so much now. When you recover from illness and return to Kyoto, you can eat as much as you want." Zuo Zhisuke said this, but he also knew that Kyoto is already under the rule of the new government. , want to go back, easier said than done?

Okita twirled a piece of sugar and stuffed it into his mouth, the sweetness melted in his mouth, and those wonderful times in Kyoto seemed to appear in front of his eyes: "When are you leaving?"

Zuo Zhisuke scratched his head: "Why do you know everything? After Shinpachi and Heisuke say goodbye, we will leave."

Okita didn't ask such meaningless questions as "why did you leave?"Mr. Kondo insists on seeking support from the shogunate, while Shinpachi and Zuanosuke are unwilling to continue to work for the corrupt shogunate, it's that simple

"Take care." Okita looked at Zuo Nosuke deeply, as if he wanted to imprint his appearance in his mind forever, because this was probably the last time they met.

"Don't look at me like that, it's not like you won't see me again. Speaking of which, when we were drinking together, we said that after the next year, after the next year, we will still get together. Now it seems that we want to It's a little bit of a struggle to realize it!" Zuo Nosuke smiled desperately, as if he wanted to express his indifference to the parting, but the sadness between his eyebrows and eyes couldn't be concealed no matter what.

Maybe it's because Okita's body needs to rest, no matter how fierce the battle is outside, the courtyard of Okita is always peaceful, like a peach blossom garden isolated from the world, with the sun shining brightly and the birds chirping.

But the silence at this moment is like a cemetery, filled with the sorrow of separation between man and nature

The year, month and day is another day when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom. The petals of the cherry blossoms are constantly flying in the air, like snow and blood.

"Mr. Kondo, are you there?"

On this night full of chilling spirit, Okita knocked on the door of Isamu Kondo's room. Tomorrow is the day when Kondo leads the Shinsengumi to the battlefield again. Members broke off and surrendered to the new government in place.

"It's the chief!" Isamu Kondo opened the door with his messy hair, looking like he was going to sleep, "Who are you?"

Under the shining starlight, Okita outside the door was hugging a quilt, carrying a knife, smiling a little shyly: "Today, ahem, can I sleep with Mr. Kondo?"

"Eh?" Isamu Kondo's eyes widened in surprise, "Why does the chief suddenly want to sleep with me?"

"Can't you?" Okita pretended to be very disappointed.

"Of course not! It's just a bit of an accident, come in quickly, General Manager." Kondo stepped aside and let Okita enter the room.

Okita placed the knife in his hand next to Nagso Yatora Toru, smiled and nodded at Nagso Ya, and then spread the quilt beside Kondo Isamu's couch.

Isamu Kondo looked at Okita making the bed with a smile, and suddenly felt a sense of time passing by: "In a blink of an eye, the general manager is so big! I really didn't expect that the stubborn and incompetent boy before would have such a gentle boy now." one side."

Okita closed his eyes, and the memory of more than ten years ago emerged in his mind, and the corners of his lips curled up: "This is all thanks to Mr. Kondo. Without Mr. Kondo, I don't know what I would be today!"

An Ding looked at Qing Guang curiously: "Qing Guang, what was your lord like before?"

Qingguang also fell into the memory: "When I followed the lord, the lord just came of age, and the lord at that time was quite sharp! If the current lord is a precious sword that has been sheathed after a long battle, then the original lord is A sharp blade that has just been unsheathed and is eager to drink blood! As for the protagonist when I was a child, I don’t know.”

"It's so strange to say that!" Isamu Kondo rubbed Okita's head, "Speaking of which, the first time I saw you, I was very impressed with the chief..."

Okita was sent to the testing hall by his sister Aguang.

At that time, the owner of the dojo was Shusuke Kondo, the adoptive father of Isamu Kondo.Because of poverty, the family was unable to raise the first child to grow up, so Okita was fostered in the test guard, or it would be more appropriate to say that he was abandoned. At that time, Okita's name was not Souji, but Sojiro.

After his sister left that day, Okita stood at the entrance of the test hall for three days and three nights.When Isamu Kondo hugged Okita's fallen body, Okita looked at the sunset in the sky, and said this sentence in a flat tone: "My sister doesn't want me anymore." After that, he fell into a coma.Okita has never mentioned his family since then

The test hall, which has cultivated many masters of the Xinxuan group, is naturally not a good place. The test hall follows the law of the jungle-the strong go up and the weak go down.

Before entering the test hall, Okita had almost never touched kendo, coupled with long-term malnutrition, his body was very thin, so Okita naturally became the target of everyone's bullying.

"Clang clang!"

A disciple knocked Okita's food on the ground, showing a provocative smile: "Oh, my hand slipped a bit. What can I do, Soujiro? If you don't have extra food, you can just eat it like this. By the way, you can clean the floor. Lick it clean, everyone said, right?"

There were laughter from other disciples around

Okita didn't speak, just stared at these disciples expressionlessly, his cold eyes were like a wounded lone wolf, forbearing, guarded, and ruthless.

The disciple felt chills on his back when he was stared at by Okita, he couldn't help but took a step back, and then felt ashamed of his timidity, and took revenge on Okita even more.

The disciple kicked Okita over, and put his foot on Okita's head: "Why, resist! Aren't the eyes just now very fierce? Why is it like a dog now?"

The messy hair covered Okita's face, making it difficult to see Okita's expression clearly.

Because Okita didn't respond to being insulted like this, the disciple let out a dull "Bah" and turned to leave.

After everyone left, Okita silently got up and began to clean up the dishes.

In the test hall, Okita learned a truth: the weak have no dignity, if you want to live like a person instead of a dog, you must become strong enough.When he becomes stronger than anyone else, he can kill those who insulted him one by one!

Without Isamu Kondo, the future Okita might embark on such a cold-blooded and ruthless Shura path.

Good thing...

"Sojiro? What's the matter with these rice?" Isamu Kondo, who was about to go out to do errands, saw Okita grabbing rice grains on the ground and putting them into a bowl.

Okita continued to do his own thing as if he didn't hear it.

"Oh, there is no way to eat this!" Isamu Kondo squatted beside Okita and patted Okita's head, "But what a coincidence! I took an extra rice ball in the kitchen before, and I can give it to you now! Hahaha! This is really God's arrangement!"

As he spoke, Isamu Kondo took out the rice ball that was still warm from his arms, and stuffed it into Okita's hand.

Holding the snow-white rice ball in his hand, Okita looked at Isamu Kondo's hearty smile without any haze on his face, turned his back and said, "Mind your own business."

Isamu Kondo touched his head in embarrassment, and left the room amid the urging of his companions who were going out together, and there was a vague conversation outside the door.

"Kondo, you gave your lunch to that kid, what will you eat then?"

"Haha! It's okay, I won't die from starvation if I skip a meal, but Soujiro is still growing!"

Okita took a bite of the rice ball, chewing carefully.He didn't understand why there were people like Isamu Kondo in the test hall that followed the law of the jungle?Self-sacrifice for others is like an idiot.

In order to become stronger, Okita spends almost all his time practicing swords. Only swords can change his fate, and there is only swords in his life.

Because of his obsession with the sword, Okita's sword skills have improved by leaps and bounds.In the battle, from being beaten at the beginning, it gradually became able to contend.

"Koyama Taro and Okita Soujiro, the competition begins!"

Okita held the bamboo knife in his hand, staring at his opponent with cold eyes.Koyama Taro, the one who knocked over his food many times, is also the one who bullies him the most.

Okita raised the bamboo knife in his hand shoulder-to-shoulder, pointing down, slightly to the right, and made a thrusting motion.This move that will make countless people become souls under the sword in the future is still very immature, so that Koyama Taro, who has the advantage in strength, easily blocked it.

"Is this all you can do? You are just a guy no one wants. What right do you have to look at me like this! A weak person should act like a weak person!" Looking at him with Okita's eyes, he just As if being stared at by a wolf, Koyama Taro attacked frantically in order to vent his inner fear.

Okita could only continue to fight in embarrassment, and finally, his bamboo knife was knocked away by a huge force.But Koyama Taro did not stop, but hit Okita on the forehead with a knife, and the blood stained the floor of the training ground

"Enough!" Isamu Kondo couldn't stand it any longer, and ran down to help Okita up, wanting to come forward and end the exchange.

"Don't get in the way, I can still...continue to fight!" Okita waved Kondo's hand away, picked up the bamboo knife on the ground, and stood up staggeringly. In his eyes, he only had his opponent, the one who had to be defeated.

The weak do not have the right to survive, and it is only natural to be bullied and insulted.

Therefore, he must become stronger, and become stronger at all costs, so that he can gain the right to live.Does it mean that as long as he is strong enough, he can get food and not be abandoned by his family?

Okita's consciousness is gradually blurred, but his knife is faster and more ruthless!There is a voice in his head, that is to defeat Koyama Taro, and then... kill him!

"Snapped!"

Koyama Taro's bamboo knife was blown away, and he sat on the ground in embarrassment, looking at the bloody light in Okita's eyes in fear: "I, I surrender! Stop, stop quickly, I surrender!"

Okita was indifferent to Koyama Taro's entreaties, and looked indifferently at the guy who had stepped on his head and kept insulting him, gradually raised the bamboo knife in his hand, and then slashed down hard!

There was a muffled sound.

Isamu Kondo grabbed Okita's bamboo knife with his hand. Although the bamboo knife would not cut off his palm, Kondo's palm became a bit bloody.

Kondo didn't care about his wounds, but gently hugged Okita in his arms: "It's okay, Soujiro, it's already done! Look, you've already won!"

Everything around him reappeared in Okita's eyes, and countless pairs of eyes were looking at him

There are eyes of fear, eyes of shock, eyes of disgust, and eyes of appreciation, but the previous look of disdain has indeed disappeared.

yes he won

In the end, under the gaze of Kondo's kind and caring eyes, Okita just passed out like this.

After that battle, Okita became an inner disciple of the test guard hall, officially began to learn the profound meaning of the natural flow of mind, and the treatment was very different from before

Because of Okita's wolf-like personality, few people dare to approach him, except Isamu Kondo.

"Sojiro, do you have any dreams?" Kondo asked Okita one night while looking at the stars together.

dream?From the moment his family abandoned him, he had no such thing, except...

"Get stronger, become stronger than anyone else."

"Then what do you want to do after becoming the strongest?"

Okita was silent, because he didn't know what else he could do besides swinging the knife.

Isamu Kondo looked at the somewhat confused Okita, and couldn't help but patted his head: "Then let's talk about my dream! I want to become a general in the future and own a city of my own! Then..."

Isamu Kondo looked at the night sky, his eyes were as bright as stars: "Let every one of my people have a full stomach and live and work in peace and contentment. In this way, there will probably be no more children like Soujiro who have to leave their families in order to survive." Come on!"

At that moment, Okita thought, he probably found the meaning of living and his dream.

"In that case, let me be Kondo-san's sword."

"Hahaha! What nonsense? I have always regarded Soujiro as my younger brother! Are you willing to accompany me to realize my dream?" Isamu Kondo's hearty laughter echoed in the night sky

"Of course, until the moment I die."

Since that night, Isamu Kondo has become the person Okita respects and yearns for the most

Okita began to learn Isamu Kondo's dressing, began to learn Isamu Kondo's character and qualities, Okita hoped that he could get closer to Isamu Kondo in this way, and get closer

In this way, Okita, who used to be like a lone wolf, learned to laugh again, learned how to get along with others kindly, learned to have a broad mind, and learned to be tolerant like the sea...

"Mr. Kondo, please stop talking about my childhood!" It would be fine if there were only the two of them, but in places where Kondo could not see, Kiyomitsu, Anding, and Nagaso Miko Toru were listening with gusto, Rao Okita , I also feel a little ashamed at this time.

"Hahaha! That's right, it's already so late before I know it, it's time to rest! I might snore at night, so you don't mind if you don't mind." Yong is still so optimistic.

"Of course I don't mind." How could you mind?If possible, Okita hopes to fall asleep listening to Isamu Kondo's snoring forever, however, tonight is the first and last time.

Kondo rubbed Okita's head, got into bed and said, "Good night, General Manager."

"Good night……"

The lamp was blown out, and the room was plunged into darkness. Okita was lying on the couch, staring blankly at the beams, and Kondo's even breathing and slight snoring came from beside him.

Okita, who originally thought it was impossible to fall asleep no matter what, fell asleep easily in this room filled with Kondo's breath everywhere.

There was no cough, no awakening in the middle of the night, only beautiful dreams—this was the most solid sleep Okita had had in a year.

Year, month and day, Kondo Isao assembled a newly selected team of scholars and rushed to Liushan. In the future, Kondo Isao was captured.

Year, month, year, Kondo Yong was beheaded in Banqiao, at the age of [-].

The author has something to say: The copy of "Hakuoki" should have two more chapters, one chapter of the main text and one chapter of the story.

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