[Comprehensive] Xifang Qi Tan

076

the other side.

...Nagi Kanbara disappeared.

Takasugi Shinsuke clutched the letter she sent him tightly. The half-year agreement has passed, and she has not returned.

And after that, no matter if he specially arranged an undercover agent to investigate, she no longer existed in the shogunate's priest department.

They all say that the employee is dead, having traveled to space alone and never returned.

Shinsuke Takasugi didn't know that the news he got was only fake news released by the Heavenly Taoists, but he just felt that Nagi Kanbara's existence was really wiped out by an unknown force, and he couldn't find her.

He was hysterical with anger. Although he didn't believe that she was dead, he was also so angry that he was about to go crazy when he saw her missing.

What exactly is the "important event" she said "must be investigated"?

He didn't believe that the girl had disappeared like this, but he didn't believe in her death either.

Shinsuke Takasugi sat on the window sill, biting his pipe, watching the bustling night in Kabukicho, remembering that she used to sit in the same position watching the scenery outside, and he still remembered...the feeling of holding her in his arms.

Thinking of her smiling in his arms, remembering that she had waited quietly behind him countless times, thinking of her every glance... Takasugi Shinsuke's brows furrowed even deeper.

Her disappearance made him lose the idea of ​​continuing to act.

"Master Jinzhu, there has been a reply from Chunyu, and they said that they will cooperate with your request to find the whereabouts of Master Nagi." Heshang Wanqi bowed and said respectfully, while Jinsuke just sat on the window sill and looked out. Scenery, he pondered for a moment, then nodded slightly: "Yeah."

"Master Jinzhu, let's talk about the reorganization of the shogunate's internal structure..."

"Wan Qi, you talk to Wu Shi about that matter first, I'm tired, don't bother me during this time."

He interrupted Wanqi on the river, then got down from the window sill again, took off his bong and exhaled a long string of white puffs.

And Wan Qi understood that he was in a bad mood recently, so he retreated cleverly.

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077

"Senior Wushi, is Master Jinzhu still worried about that woman?"

"Yes, Youzi, don't bother Mr. Jinzhu during this time."

"Tsk," Laishima Matako kicked the chair next to her feeling bored, and wiped her weapon with a straight face: "I really don't know what's so good about that kind of woman. It's not good to die?"

"Youzi!" Senior Wushi frowned and reprimanded her, but Zizi felt uneasy, and then said, "Isn't that right! Even though she didn't do anything, but she can win the favor of Mr. Jin Zhu, I really hope that she Is it really where in the universe..."

- Whoo!

Just before Youzi could finish her sentence, a long knife suddenly passed through her and Wushi Bianpingta, and then directly stuck it on the ground.Youzi was so frightened that he immediately shut his mouth, and looked in the direction of the door—only to realize that it was Jinsuke passing by.

"Jin...Master Jinzhu!" She was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she didn't expect that her words of anger would be heard by him.

"Master Jinzhu! Youzi is only joking." Seeing Jinsuke's frightening expression, Wushi immediately reached out to block Youzi to save her.

"...Even if it's just a joke, I don't want to hear it again, understand?" He stood outside the door and never entered the room.His dark green right eye looked at her with stern and murderous eyes, and made her eye sockets wet with fright: "I...I understand, Master Jinzhu."

The latter didn't respond, but walked towards his bedroom with a gloomy face.

Wan Qi, who was following behind, shook his head, signaled Youzi not to talk nonsense, and closed the living room door after Jinzhu left before explaining.

"...Matako, I really can't say that I hope Nagi-sama is dead."

He said earnestly: "That lord has been fighting with lord Jinzhu since before the era of banishing barbarians, his childhood sweetheart. Although she was working as an undercover agent in the shogunate when we came in, it's not 'doing nothing' at all." oh."

He bit down on the word "lover", and then he was startled, then lowered his eyes with some understanding.

"...I see, senior."

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078

After scolding his subordinates, Jinsuke went back to his room.

He was lying on the bed feeling upset, and he thought about what he heard from Wanqi on the river about a month ago.

He said, "He heard the music of Nagi-sama crying inside."

So he didn't discover her heresy?When did the divergence start?

He remembered the place where he met her for the first time. It was an unusually beautiful dusk. The orange lights dyed the riverside of their hometown in warm colors, and she suddenly appeared by the riverside. The expression on her back was so beautiful that it surprised him. .

It was clear that she provoked him first, but after that, it seemed that he couldn't do without her.

He recalled the days when he and she ate bento together on the lawn behind the private school. At that time, he used to separate from Nagi because he couldn't get rid of the ridicule of those open-mouthed guys in the class. In the end, it was because of himself Unable to bear it, he returned to her side.

He recalled that the birthday gift he once gave her was a hairpin that he found a craftsman in the village to teach him to polish.But because he was never good at manual work, the hairpin that was finally delivered to her was not even better than the cheap ones on the street.It's just that she stays by her side very preciously. Except for wearing it on her birthday, she carefully hides it in the inner pocket of the kimono on other days.

He also recalled many nights when he was beaten by his father because he went to a private school, and then he didn't even go home to sleep, and went to her shop every three to five nights, and the first time he saw her turn her back to make dinner for him At that time, he was still happy and silly.

After that, he remembered that he had kissed her under the tree without knowing it on that late autumn afternoon—that was the first time he saw the flustered expression on her face, even, he was still there that day I told her that I wanted to marry her when I grew up.

But after that, what did they experience?

The war against barbarians, the shogunate's entangled pursuit.

She once turned into a monster and killed the people in a whole hotel because of him, and also entered the shogunate as an undercover priest for him. I don't know when it started, and the relationship between the two of them has nothing to do with happiness.

The happiness he swore to give her is far away... Not only that, he also made her cry before.

Is she really happy following her?he does not know.

He only knew that if she hadn't obtained happiness at this moment, her future happiness must also be given by him.

and so……

"Nagi, I will definitely find you."

After all, she is the only person he loves from the beginning to the end.

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