[Comprehensive] The heroine brings disaster to the country and the people

"It seems that you have failed, Takasugi. Anyone is willing to show their blades to protect something. If you have no object to protect, you are nothing but a beast."

"It's not bad to be a wild beast. I don't have anything I want to protect and I don't need that." The moment he passed by, he raised his hat and looked at the blue sky in the distance. His eyes should be full of hope, but the words in his words The meaning made Katsura Kotaro shudder.

"What about Aji?" Katsura Kotaro asked behind Takasugi Shinsuke.

"For you who asked such a question, your competitiveness can only be described as a negative number." Shinsuke Takasugi said with his back turned to him, "She doesn't need anyone to guard her."

When I met Shinsuke Takasugi, I was on the flower street. I couldn't find him directly, so I went to the famous local flower street to sell himself. His stage name was Honghime. He wore a gorgeous kimono. He was extremely beautiful and good at dancing.Katsura Kotaro came three times, Sakata Gintoki once, Hijikata Toshiro twice. I kept counting the days, but Takasugi Shinsuke never came.

"Mr. Hijikata, you don't seem to be a frequent visitor to Hanakai." I said looking at Toshiro Hijikata who was sitting across from me.

"You don't look like a geisha either," he said.

"Oh?" A smile appeared from the corner of my mouth, and I served wine to him with the oldest etiquette. The long ink-splashed hair flowed on my wrist, and the slender eyelashes gently raised a charming arc like butterfly wings, "... It's not like that."

The deliberate obsequiousness made him look away, and he changed the subject abruptly, "What are you doing here, is it also to collect information?"

"No." I said, "I'm waiting for someone."

Hijikata Toshiro: "Takasugi Shinsuke?"

Me: "Well."

Hijikata Shishiro: "Then, as long as I stay in ambush by your side, I will be able to catch him sooner or later?"

"If Mr. Hijikata had been here all this time, I probably would never be able to wait for him." I lowered my eyes and said softly.

"I heard that prostitutes don't have much contact with you, but White Yasha..."

"You investigated us?"

"No need to investigate." Hijikata Shishiro didn't touch the wine I poured him, but said, "After all, your reputation back then was like thunder."

"And now thunder comes out?"

"It's so sad, to be reduced to such a situation of hiding." He snorted lightly.

"Are you sympathizing? Or are you mocking?" I asked.

"Neither." He changed the subject after he finished speaking, "Sougo said that you approached Shinsengumi for information, but I don't think so."

"You're not the type to act on your gut, Hijikata-san," I said.

"What do you consider an intuitive person to be?" he asked rhetorically.

"Probably like Director Orangutan?" I said.

"I always think that intuition is not nonsense, it is probably a moment of inspiration when all experiences and talents add up." He said.

"It's Mr. Hijikata who can say such powerful words as if nothing happened. But isn't it close to a beast?"

"After all, people have things to protect, and warriors also have reasons to fight with swords."

"Isn't it good if you just enjoy the battle?"

Toshiro Hijikata gave me an indifferent look and said, "A good woman shouldn't say such things."

"You think Hong Ji is a good woman?" I laughed out loud.

"You said that you are now Black Featherthorn." Hijikata Shishiro said.

"You are not suitable to take the healing route. Mr. Hijikata." I restrained the smile on my face, my eyes became cold and sad a little bit, and then I said slowly, "No one can get rid of the past. No one."

"Ah." Toshiro Hijikata responded, and then he drank the wine I poured for him for the first time.

Relatively silent.I got up to burn incense, and the incense box was carved with neatly arranged light purple daisies.The smell is very fresh, as if spring has arrived.

"Black Feather Thorn." Hijikata Shishiro called my name behind me, "What is the past that you can't get rid of, is it the war against barbarians, or Shiroyasha, or Takasugi Shinsuke?"

"Neither of them." I said with my back to him, "What I can't get rid of is myself, my name of Hongji."

"You...have been drugged..."

"Yes." I still turned my back to him, and said, "Two medicines are mixed together to be effective. One is put in the wine, and the other is put in the incense."

Then there was the sound of a heavy body falling to the ground.

oh.Hired.I thought to myself.I told you to keep running to my place, so Takasugi Shinsuke didn't show up.

It was midnight when Hijikata Toshiro woke up, and I was sitting by the window looking at the big moon outside, holding a shamisen in my arms and fiddling casually.

"you--"

"Excuse me, did I wake you up?" I asked.

Toshiro Hijikata checked his body and saber for the first time, and found that there was nothing unusual. In fact, I didn't do anything to him while he was in a coma.

"Are you—" After all, he was hit by a trick, so his face was very ugly at this time.

"I originally planned to do something bad, but suddenly I lost interest." I hooked my lips and said.

Toshiro Hijikata wanted to say something else, but I was already playing the shamisen.Of course my shamisen level is very high, so he calmed down and waited patiently to lead me through the piece.

The pale moon was reflected in the light gray night sky, and I sang an ancient song softly.At the end of the song, his expression softened a little, but he still had the aura that could scare a child to tears.

"Actually, I wanted to kidnap you or kill you. But after all, I have confessed my heart to you, so I don't want to see such a friend die again." I said softly.

"Friend. Ridiculous. Is this your new way of seducing people?"

"It's Mr. Hijikata's usual cold tone." I rolled my eyes with a smile, "That's great."

"Are you M?" He replied coldly.

"No. So I don't have any feelings for Okita-kun." I opened my eyes and said nonsense, "In fact, the only person I want to know in the Shinsengumi is Mr. Hijikata, whether as an opponent or as a friend, Hijikata Sir will be very qualified."

I said this with such sincerity that I almost believed it myself.

It must have moved him, the coldness and sarcasm on his face faded little by little.And I knew that the fact that he stunned him but didn't do anything against him was strong evidence. I knew he was shaken, so I added more fire.

"White Yasha, mad noble son, whore, Hongji, come from the same school." I said, "The textbook you saw was arranged for us by our teacher back then. Later..."

The sound of silk and bamboo can be faintly heard outside, but the house is completely silent, only my soft voice scattered the tranquility.

"In order to save the teacher, we set foot on the battlefield against barbarians..." The fingertips traced the shamisen, like the wind in the bamboo forest, "...then, the teacher died to save us, I hated everything at that time—"

The voice suddenly increased, and then the string broke, and the lingering sound echoed, and there were red marks on my fingers. I lowered my eyes, "After hearing all this, how do you feel?"

"It's all a thing of the past." Hijikata Toshiro said.

Yes, he got it right, it was all a thing of the past.In this era, in this shogunate, in this world, most people with lofty ideals have sighed.In fact, no one is destined to do something, everything happens for a reason.

Why did Hongji participate in the war against barbarians?He probably thought about this question before.

In this era, who doesn't have a story.

The sword in the hand of a person without a past is probably light even when swung.Only with the heavy past on his back can the sword weigh a thousand ounces and pierce the dark night and dawn.

Only such a person can sit down with the person whose status is opposite, and drink this wine quietly.

But I think I still left waves in his heart.

"As expected, you are indeed Mr. Hijikata." I sighed, "For you, no matter how much you praise, you can afford it."

If other people call him friends in such a capacity, they will probably be severely ridiculed, but I have been carefully planning since the first meeting.So even though he knew my restlessness, Hijikata Toshiro still had difficulty feeling disgusted with me.I know.

"I don't know what you're doing," he said.

"Probably because of... loneliness." I turned my gaze to the night sky outside the window and said, "It's been too long to be alone, and it's been too long to wander among the stars."

Toshiro Hijikata did not speak.

After a while.

"It's late at night. If you don't want to stay overnight, please go back." My voice became cold.

What I said was a bit rushing. He would probably get angry in normal times, but today we really talked too much.He didn't move, so I raised my eyes and sent a coquettish smile.

"Is Shishiro not going back because I want to fulfill my obligations as a geisha?"

The name is Exit, but I lowered my eyes sadly.

I think of Shishiro Ukitake.

In the world of "Death", I cheated openly and stepped on many boats, but I know that among those men, except for Ichimaru Gin, who can be regarded as a childhood sweetheart, the only one who really puts me in my heart is Jushiro Ukitake.But I didn't even see him for the last time. I don't know if my shadow flashed in my mind when he died generously.

Of course he noticed my sadness. He said with a cold face, "What are you doing?" and then walked out the door. Before closing the door, he said, "You can come back to the Zhensengumi later. The Zhensengumi lacks a cook." .”

"Okay." I restrained my excess emotions and said lightly.

He left Huajie, and I know he will never come here to find me again.

Unless I take the initiative to find him.

Ah, how far has the strategy progressed?Are you in the system?

【…】

Still no response.

Although I met Shinsuke Takasugi with Katsura Kotaro before, but he refused my request for a long time at that time. At that time, I thought he didn't want the three of us together, but he hasn't appeared in front of me for so long. I lost my confidence a little bit.

Could it be that in Takasugi Shinsuke's eyes, I'm not that important?With such a mood in mind, I spent day after day, and the progress of the strategy has not progressed for the time being. I was a little irritable at first, but gradually calmed down.

I don’t know if the system will disappear temporarily or permanently. Although I once hated the system, I can’t say that I have developed feelings for it with the company of each world. I can only say that I have become dependent on it and I am used to its existence. .Whenever I am alone, I will talk to the system. Through talking to it, I reconfirm over and over again that I am not from this world. I am always an outsider, and I will leave here after clearing the characters.

That's it.