What made you have the illusion that I am the protagonist! ?

After everyone in the Shinsengumi went back, they started dating Tofu one after another.

There is a saying that "a man is a child who will never grow up". In the eyes of Yukimura Chizuru who heard the ins and outs afterwards, this sentence is obviously very reliable.

Even Director Kondo, who was not with him, and Saito, Yamazaki and others who had other jobs that day, couldn't help but gesture at the tofu with their knives.

Others can do it, but I can’t do it myself——the reluctance of the members of the Shinsengumi is manifested in this matter, that is, the business of the nearby tofu shops is booming for a while, and the person in charge of cooking has to make a pile of tofu every day. so as not to waste food.

Of course, they are not blindly serious about boring things. The reason why they are so serious is that they can all feel that the practice of "cutting tofu" is really helpful to the improvement of swordsmanship.

The person who is most enthusiastic about this new exercise is undoubtedly Okita.

The natural Lixin style he learned before, Fujido's Beichen Yidao style and other schools, what he taught was to overwhelm the enemy with strength, speed, and even fierce momentum, which belonged to the "free" field of swordsmanship.

Okita's practice in this area has reached a very high level, it's not that there is no possibility to go further, it just needs to spend more energy.

The control power required for the practice of cutting tofu belongs to the field of "receiving" in swordsmanship.

Before seeing Toya Ishitani's swordsmanship practice, Okita had never been in touch with this part, and it must be the same for others. It is not an exaggeration to say that this opened the door to a new world for them, and because they are still in this field. For the sake of beginners, it is much easier to make progress than to continue to study in the "released" field.

It's as if it takes more effort to go from 99 to 100 than it takes to go from 0 to 99, but the result is overwhelmingly superior to the latter.

For a while, they will not be able to cut tofu without breaking it. It is precisely because they are still in the state of "can be released but not collected". If they want to reach the state of "freely retractable" like Ishitani Toyomi, they still have a lot to do. Way to go.

Of course, realm doesn't represent everything.The realm with strong combat power is not necessarily high, and the realm with high realm may not be able to defeat the former.

However, it is much better to have a way to go than to have no way to go before and can only continue to study in the field of "letting go".

……

On the other side, Hijikata Toshizo, who was still distracted by Yuya Kiemon, finally couldn't hold back anymore.

He originally hoped not to startle the enemy, and try his best to find out more rogues of the Fallen Sect through Yuya Kiemon, but the actions of the other party forced him to give up his original plan.

"...fire oil, gunpowder, pine branches, straw...what do they want?"

This is Kiemon Yuya's recent purchase list. Reading the items on the list, Hijikata frowned again, with a serious expression on his face.

There are a lot of secretly purchased parts. If it is normal, it will not be so conspicuous, but for the Shinsengumi who is staring at him and has an outstanding talent like Yamazaki, it can be said to be caught.

Even though this question was asked, the earth side obviously didn't really know what the other party wanted to do-it was also clear from the purchase list, arson.

We can no longer let the other party continue, otherwise the consequences may be disastrous. After making this judgment, Hijikata immediately ordered: "Yamazaki, ask Saito to lead someone to arrest Yuya Kiemon for interrogation!"

The Shinsengumi running at full capacity is very efficient, and the information obtained from the interrogation of Yuya Kiemon—no, this is just his pseudonym, and his real identity is the fallen rogue named Kotaka Shuntaro—is also inconsistent with Hijikata’s investigation. The things they saw coincided with each other: the vassals of the Changzhou clan conspired to set fire to Kyoto to cause chaos, assassinated Prince Nakagawa and Matsudaira Yoho in the chaos, and finally took the emperor to Changzhou.

——In order to stop the excessive wavers of the Choshu Domain, the Shinsengumi dispatched all of them, and finally found these people in Ikedaya and carried out an attack.

……

Toya didn't know all this until after the incident happened.

Because it can be regarded as a related organization that provided information to some extent, the information provided by Shinsengumi is fairly detailed.

"Isn't this the Ikedaya incident..."

"What did you say, Father?" Liang Xia who didn't hear Dongmi's murmur asked.

"It's nothing...it's not important." Fuyumi scratched his cheek and said.

The Ikedaya incident was very famous in the history of the end of the Tokugawa period. It can be said that it was a landmark event that promoted the reputation of the Shinsengumi from Kyoto and Osaka to all parts of the country.

However, Fuyuya only memorized the names of the basic events, and the results he learned now are not different from those in history. Even because Hijikata has been monitoring the opponent, he is more prepared, and the final results are more abundant. In addition to the people captured by Ikeda House, they also wiped out all the rogues who had been in contact with Shuntaro Kotaka before, but Katsura Kogoro escaped luckily as scheduled.

However, not to mention that Zhizhixiong's real assassination made him very upset, and he had no contact with Gui and Feicun after that.

Even if he had thought of this in advance, it was impossible for Toya to remind them.

No matter what the reason is, the fact that the Changzhou Domain planned to set fire to Kyoto made Fuyuya deeply feel the meaning of "differences in Taoism do not conspire with each other".

In contrast, using assassination as a means is just a small matter; you must know that most of the houses in this era are made of wood. If you set a fire in Kyoto, thousands of houses will be burned down, and even people will be burned to death. More innocent people.

——All this is for the so-called "righteousness"?

It can only be said that Fuyuya cannot understand such "righteousness".

Thinking of the fire, Fuyuya remembered that not long after the Ikedaya incident, in order to regain the initiative, the Changzhou domain marched into Kyoto to launch the Forbidden Gate Change. Although they were repulsed later, they still set fire to it before leaving , The fire burned for three days and two nights, destroying more than half of Kyoto.

Thinking of this, Fuyuya immediately straightened his body and asked, "Kagemaru, how is the fire prevention level in Kyoto?"

"? Fire prevention...? General, this is the responsibility of the Kyoto Command..." Although he didn't understand why Fuyuya asked this question, Kagemaru Kehei still answered responsibly.

"No, I mean, have the people organized their own fire brigades, or prepared water tanks and the like... Okay."

Looking at Kagemaru's bewildered expression, Fuyuya knew the result, and counted on those second-generation fire extinguishers, if they were useful, it wouldn't develop into a big fire in Kyoto.

He thought for a while, and ordered: "Give fire-fighting training to all the subordinates of Anpingwu, and prepare water tanks and water bags at the patrol point, and then ask them to contact the surrounding businesses. Every household prepares a water tank for extinguishing the fire."

"Yes, General."