[Hakuouki Doujin] The Tide of Fallen Leaves

"Hmm..." As soon as the devil spoke, everyone fell silent.

Seeing Yongcang's aggrieved face, Shannan smiled, put down the bowl and chopsticks, and said to ease the atmosphere: "But today I was going to stop it, but I didn't expect it to develop like this..."

"Yeah..." Kondo smiled dryly, "I didn't expect Nue Yeba to be such a, uh, direct person..."

"He was amazing." Okita fiddled with the fish on the plate. "When we went, he actually took out a wooden knife suitable for left-handed people for Kazu-kun, saying that he made it himself."

"And dragged back a corpse covered in blood that day..." Saito added without raising his head.

"... Corpse?" Kondo and Shannan were both surprised when they heard something they had never heard before. "Still covered in blood?"

"Ah..." Seeing that the two of them had said everything, Hijikata sighed, "Sorry, I still have a few more points... He did go out and came back with a corpse, but wait for us Passing through that dojo again, the corpse has already been disposed of, but he himself didn’t say anything more about the corpse, and we didn’t continue to ask.”

"...Is that so?" After thinking for a while, Kondo relaxed his body, "In that case, let's try to observe!"

"If it doesn't work...let's try again!" Sighed, Kondo himself knew that as long as Serizawa didn't change his style for a day, then this hidden danger of the Ronshi group had to be eliminated.

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Returning to Serizawa's room with the food tray, Nueno looked at the boy in the room who was sitting unhappily waiting for food, blinked, and asked Serizawa silently.

"Ah, this is my dog, Ryunosuke Ibuki." Serizawa understood, and introduced a few close friends who were often by his side, "This is Hirama Shigesuke and Shinmi Nishiki. Over there This is Nuenoba who just arrived today."

"Please teach me more." Several people greeted each other.

"Then let's eat first." After a few ups and downs, Nueno skillfully placed everyone's dinner on the table, and came to Serizawa before he started eating, "Master Serizawa, I have something to do .”

"What?" Picking up the bowl, Serizawa glanced casually.

"I will go out to do some things in the morning, and I may not be back until noon, please allow me to leave." Nueno looked at Serizawa, "If there is something that makes me come that day, please let me know in advance."

"Oh──? Where are you going?"

"The dojo where I lived temporarily, there are still things left over there that need to be taken care of. I'm afraid I can't finish it in a short time." Nueno said respectfully.

"If that's the case, take Ryunosuke there! I have something to come back in the future!" Swiping his chopsticks, Serizawa casually assigned a laborer, but Ryunosuke who was suddenly named was still at a loss.

"Thank you, sir." After speaking, Nueno retreated to the back of the room, picked up his own dinner and enjoyed it slowly, and the meal ended in such a dull atmosphere.

When he first came here, Nue Ye was not familiar with the place, so after thinking about it, he decided to take a walk after dinner to familiarize himself with the environment.

Scratching his head, he yawned a little tiredly. From the corner of his eyes, Nueno spotted the person sitting there, put his hands into his sleeves, and greeted in a friendly way: "Hello, Ibuki!"

The other party just glanced here expressively, but did not respond.

"Hehe." Not feeling neglected, Nueno walked aside, followed Ibuki's line of sight, and asked, "Do you like to stay here and look at the flowers? This plum blossom has almost withered. gone."

"It's so noisy." Without looking at it, Ibuki scolded.

"Really..." Approaching the plum tree, Nueno stretched out his hand to stroke the trunk, "Ah, so it is like this..." The corners of his eyes softened, he closed them slowly, and said in a low voice: " Thanks."

After a while, Nueno slowly opened his eyes, and said to Ibuki: "Sorry, it seems that I haven't been introduced formally yet, I am Nueno Ren, you can call me Nueno, or just call me Ren It doesn't matter, I just came here recently from a dojo in the outskirts of Kyoto."

"May I ask who you are?"

"It's so noisy!" Ibuki smacked his mouth impatiently, and Ibuki turned his head away, ignoring the guy in front of him.

"Speaking of... When I bumped into you at the door yesterday, you were holding Hisaya's snacks, right?" Nueno smiled kindly, "Could it be, don't you hate sweets?"

"In my impression, samurai are people who pretend to be calm about things they like." Nueno laughed a few times, and before he had time to see Mukaibuki's reaction, he was attracted by the voice on the other side force.

"Ne no blade──someone is looking for you!!"

"Sorry, I'll take my leave first." Hurried towards the door, Nue Ye rushed out of the corridor and saw a familiar figure.He let out a sigh of relief, showed a soft smile, and called out, "Miss Boss, Xiao Xia, Xiao Qiu."

"Neuno." Seeing the figure of the young man, Ayako showed a somewhat relieved smile, and the two children at her side ran towards Nueno's direction excitedly. After a while, he hugged both of them one by one.

"Brother Blade!"

"Idiot Nueno!"

Huo Di was picked up by the two children, giggling for a while, not afraid at all.

"Hey! You've grown up again!" Nue Ye smiled, hugged the two children, and weighed them, "It's getting heavier again! Xiaoxia, Xiaoqiu!"

"No way! It's the idiot Nueno, you're weaker again!" Xiaoxia immediately grabbed Nueno's hair, shaking her hair and cursing. "Be careful that no one will ask you next time!!"

"Xiao Xia!" Ayako stopped her, "Don't talk nonsense!"

"It's okay." Shaking his head at Ayako, Nueno walked a few steps and asked softly, "Why did you come here? Isn't the store open at this time?"

"It's not that these two brats are arguing to find you!" Ayako poked Xiaoxia's forehead angrily, and replied helplessly, "Although I know this is strange, let's do it for now! I will find a way to correct it later. They have a bad habit of insisting on your company, after all, this place is not as convenient as it used to be.”

"Hehe, it's quite strange." Feeling several curious eyes, Nueno smiled dryly. "So let's stay for the two of them today! It won't be a problem if it's quieter...I'll send them back early tomorrow morning, is that okay?"

"If you don't bother..." Ayako looked at Nueno with some embarrassment.

"It's okay, if you stay in the store and make them quarrel, it will be more troublesome, right? Let me tell them by the way, it shouldn't happen again in the future." With a reassuring smile, Nueno let the proprietress go first, "Hurry up Go back, there is no way the store can't be without the lady boss for so long!"

"That's what I said..." She pursed her lips, and before she left, the proprietress finally said, "I'll give you a discount next time you come! That's it!" Then she ran back in a panic.

The author has something to say:

I'm making a last ditch effort.

The remaining manuscripts are estimated to be gone after posting tomorrow.

I really don't have extra time to type, my eyes are sore. QDQ

Please forgive me!

*Correct typo, sorry.