[Gintama] The Story of Me and Curly Yaksha

My Story with Curly Yaksha 10

The longer you get along with Hayasaka Ori, the more you will understand that this person is like a child, and the easier it is to worry about her.But Hayasaka Ori didn't know that he had evoked a certain old lady's attributes in Takasugi Shinsuke.

The battle has been pretty good recently. The Celestials have retreated day by day, and the battle line has retreated a lot. Due to personal reasons, Hayasaka Ori does not often go to the front line. He usually does financial logistics and other miscellaneous tasks in the rear. From the perspective of making things useful, It's better for a guy like her with an active mind but crippled limbs to stay behind obediently.

Her hair grows very fast, reaching the length of her ears in less than a month. Although such a length is not considered long for a boy, Hayasaka Ori still dislikes it.She herself hates washing her hair, because it is easy to wash the shampoo into her eyes, and it is very convenient to have a bald head, but when she wanted to shave again, Sakata Gintoki and the entire team tried their best to stop her because it was too hot for her eyes.

On this day, Hayasaka Ori handed in the paperwork and came to the training ground with a wooden sword, but found that there were very few people in the training ground.

"Where did everyone go?" Hayasaka Ori asked suspiciously.

"There is a festival in town today. Some people went to the festival. Well, although I think more people secretly went to Hana Street under the banner of going to the festival." Sakata Gintoki said leisurely while picking his nose.

Hayasaka Ori's eyes lit up as soon as he hit the ground, and he stammered a bit: "That's it! There's a lot of food! There's a lot of things to play! The one with fireworks! Is it a legendary festival?!"

Like a child, Sakata Gintoki thought. "Why are you so excited? Haven't you been there?"

"Never been."

She is really a young master who has never seen the world. Looking at her curious bright eyes, Sakata Gintoki thought it was cute, and blurted out, "Are you going?"

Hayasaka Ori was stunned for a second, his eyes were shining, and he nodded like a pounding garlic.

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"Ah, why did Ah Yin bring a man to the festival..." On the way to the festival, Sakata Yin rubbed his curly hair impatiently, "Originally, Ah Yin should go to Huajie, and after having a good time, bring him The young lady from Huajie came..." By the time he realized it, he had already spoken out, and he couldn't take it back even if he wanted to.

Hayasaka Ori was so excited that he couldn't hear anything else at all, he looked left and right, he had to go to every stall, and he bought a lot of things after walking for a while.

"Don't buy so much at once! You can't finish it! Are you a child!" Following Takasugi Shinsuke, Sakata Gintoki became the second person whose motherhood exploded under the guidance of Hayasaka Ori.

"Here." Ori Hayasaka handed him an apple candy, with uncontrollable joy in his eyes, "Do you like sweets? Do you like apple candy?"

This smile is too bright and good-looking, so good to see that it makes people's sexual orientation confusing.Sakata Yinshi was silent for two seconds, took the apple candy, forget it, this is not bad.

After walking around for a long time, Hayasaka Ori has more and more things in her hands. She can’t finish the food. Her appetite is still the same as when she was a nobleman in the past. Even now, she has to undergo high-energy training every day. The appetite did not increase much.No way, a person's habits are difficult to change all at once.

So most of it went into Sakata Gintoki's stomach, and Sakata Gintoki said, "I'm reluctantly helping you out because I see you can't finish it."While sitting on the bench, he picked his teeth contentedly.

Hayasaka Ori squatted on the goldfish fishing booth, looking at the colorful goldfish in the small pond, but failed to catch it several times.Yinshi walked over and patted her on the head, "It's so stupid. That's how it was fished." Then he picked up a few of them.

"It's amazing..." Hayasaka Ori's admiring eyes made Sakata Gintoki a little embarrassed, "It's okay, Ayin, I was called the little prince of the festival before."

The stall owner was an old man with white hair. He smiled and asked, "Brother, do you want to take these back?"

Hayasaka Ori was holding a small basin, looking at the little goldfish, his joyful expression slowly fell silent, "Forget it, even if I take it back, I don't know where to keep it."

Indeed, they were still on the march, and it was really impossible to feed them with these little lives.

She returned the goldfish, then gave Wang Zhi the money, stood up, her eyes were still on the goldfish pond, as if she was a little bit reluctant.

Sakata Gintoki felt uncomfortable looking at her, so he pulled her wrist. "Let's go, there are other things to play."

"……it is good."

Afterwards, we went to other stalls to play a lot of games, shooting and so on.Hayasaka Ori basically didn't play very well, but even so she looked very happy.

After going around, the two found a suitable location for watching fireworks.Hayasaka Ori was very interested, holding his chin in anticipation, with an expectant smile on his face, and swayed his feet.It may be that happy emotions are contagious, and Sakata Gintoki, who has visited many festivals, is also faintly looking forward to this kind of knitting.

"I've always been looking forward to going to a festival. Before I joined your anti-barbarian army, I never went out of my house, and where I live, I can't see fireworks at all. I can only hear the sound of booming every time." Hayasaka Ori said to Sakata Gintoki with a smile.

"Squatting at home without leaving the house once will be a loss for you to survive in this troubled world." Sakata Gintoki couldn't help complaining. He had already seen that Hayasaka Ori was very lacking in common sense, but he never left once. Home is too strange.

"But didn't I meet you?" Hayasaka Ori said, recalling the situation at that time, she still had some lingering fears, "But at the time, I really thought that I was killed by you as spies. After all, I would rather kill a spy by mistake. One hundred, don't let one go."

"If you're so scared, just leave me alone at the time." Sakata Gintoki listened to her words with his chin in his hands, stuck a takoyaki into his mouth with a toothpick, and said casually.

"Of course I know, but I can't help it."

Hayasaka Ori was still looking at the sky expectantly, probably because he didn’t want to miss the launch of the fireworks, his eyes were full of anticipation, but his voice was ethereal with nostalgia, “Seeing your figure, I couldn’t help shouting out I really don't want to see you die."

Sakata Gintoki's eyes widened. These words pierced through his heart invisibly, and he couldn't recover for a long time, causing his heart to throb indescribably.

At this moment, an orange-yellow firework exploded in the dark sky, and the stream of light flashed across the faces of the two of them, but Sakata Gintoki had no time to take care of the beautiful firework, and his gaze fell on the eyes of the people beside him and he couldn't move away.

When seeing the fireworks, Hayasaka Ori's eyes were shining brightly, and she smiled unconsciously. She seemed to have been waiting for this moment for a long time, and it seemed that a person who hadn't seen the sun for a long time finally got the light.I saw Hayasaka Ori watching the fireworks quietly with a smile, and the water vapor gradually appeared in his eyes, which made people feel distressed.

Watching the fireworks, Hayasaka Ori felt a wonderful feeling. She felt a sense of freedom and being alive.

She thought she would get a new life after escaping, but in fact, since she left home until now, she can still hear strange voices in her ears.

Since she was a child, she has been unable to leave like a bird. Since her mother fell out of favor, her spirit has become strange, and she will take it out on herself in the middle of the night, saying things like "If it wasn't for you! If it wasn't for you, he wouldn't have become This way! He used to love me very much!"

That's why the maids and servants didn't dare to approach her, and she would still hear the servants whispering, "Ah, this is the little princess born to the crazy concubine, she looks so beautiful."

"It's better not to provoke her, maybe she will suddenly go crazy."

There were very few people coming and going in the house, and no one would talk to her. All she could do was look around in the room.Mother has to drink medicine every day, otherwise the disease will become more and more serious.Hayasaka Ori didn't care much about her mother's beatings and scolding. When her mother was sick, she was very sad and uncomfortable. It didn't matter if it made her feel better. Anyway, she had to bear it and it would pass.

Gradually, she felt less pain, and became indifferent to other people's opinions, learning to read day by day.However, such days were interrupted, and the mother died.The mother is a concubine with a high family background, and according to the rules, there will be a large-scale funeral. At the funeral, she met the feudal lord's father whom she had not seen for a long time.

"Ah, you are Zhiyi, you have grown so big in a blink of an eye." The feudal lord looked her up and down in amazement, and was not too sad about the death of his concubine. The first thing he said to his daughter who had not seen him for a long time was, "You look slim and beautiful." , so beautiful, I will find a good husband for you in two years, and marry us in the Duanzhou domain. In the past few years, learn how to be an excellent wife."

After that, I began to receive education from various noble families, various meetings and greetings between noble children, and my life was just goods, which were exchanged for the interests and power of the vassal.

In the past, I waited for when my mother's illness would recover, but now that my mother is gone, her life is only boring and endlessly lonely.

Gradually, she came up with a plan to escape. It was very difficult to escape from the feudal lord's mansion, but there was a slight possibility of escaping while the war was in chaos.She has never been out, and it is reasonable to be afraid of the outside world, but she still chooses to move forward.

During this period of time, she has also been afraid, hoping that she can become stronger, not to be a burden to others, and to integrate into everyone's camp.The voice that made her lonely and tormented in the past still lingers in her ears,

And now, with the fireworks in front of her in full bloom in the sky, and the boom banishing the noise from her ears, she finally had a real sense of freedom.

Yes, I have escaped, and I am already free.Although she is still very weak, maybe she will die in the chaos of war tomorrow, but at least, she is no longer a commodity at the mercy of others.Even if it is still inconspicuous and useless, at least I have a companion.

Thinking of this, tears flowed from his eyes.

Her life is wandering in fear, loneliness, and confusion about the future. In the past, she lived a rich life, but she was extremely lonely. Now she is displaced by the army. She doesn't know that she will be alive tomorrow, but at this moment she feels a little bit of happiness.

The fear of death and the joy of freedom linger in my heart.

Man, what an insatiable creature.

Sakata Gintoki kept looking into her eyes, but she didn't expect her to burst into tears while looking at the fireworks. She didn't understand what he was touched at all, "Why are you crying, don't cry." Then he frantically looked for something to wipe his face .

Hayasaka Ori wiped her face and realized that she was crying. She rubbed her eyes with her sleeve, "It's okay, there is sand in my eyes."

Her eyes were still red, and she looked at the sky. Now that the fireworks have been watched, the sky has returned to calm, with only a little green smoke left.

"Ayin, today is the happiest day I have lived in the past 16 years." Hayasaka Ori's tone was full of loneliness and emotion, and his eyes were still looking at the sky, unwilling to leave.

"Although it may be rude to say this, the time in your army is the happiest I have spent in a long time. Although it is sometimes hard and loses companions every day, the memory of being with you will never die. I will never forget." She sat on the bench with her knees hugged, her face resting on her own knees, she slowly closed her eyes, and said softly as if whispering.

"Unfortunately, fireworks are really too short." Human life is really too short and fragile, and you don't know when it will be lost.

Sakata Gintoki looked at her, feeling a strong distress in his heart.What has a person experienced before will feel that this war-torn life in a troubled world is the happiest.

Recalling Zhiyi's lonely expression that she couldn't help crying when she watched the fireworks just now, it was so beautiful that it made people's hearts throb and distressed. When the fireworks flashed across her cheeks, Sakata Gintoki's heart beat violently. When he looked at himself with teary eyes, he had the idea that he must protect this person,

When he realized it, he had already grabbed the opponent's wrist. This wrist was as thin as a willow branch, as if it would hurt if it was too hard.

"When I was a wanderer when I was a child, I felt that the best thing in life was to have enough food every day, until I met Mr. Songyang. Later, I met Takasugi and the others. I often went to festivals with them. How many times have I been there? There are all kinds of interesting things and interesting places, and this kind of thing can only be interesting if you go with friends."

Hayasaka Ori looked at him with surprise in his eyes, which made his ears feel hot, and he, who was always quick-spoken, was a little speechless at this moment.

At that time, although Sakata Gintoki was the leader of the anti-barbarian troops, he was still a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old. The feelings of his youth were uncontrollable. Even in such a war-torn period, he did not know whether the future would be life or death. .But at this moment, Sakata Gintoki no longer cared about the principle that a samurai can't promise what he can't do, with the stubbornness and green feelings unique to a teenager, his face was still a little flushed, and his hand holding the weaving clothes slightly tightened.

"...I mean, if you can't find a friend who can accompany you to the festival, I can accompany you."