The end of the curtain

?The dim candle light flickered on and off, emitting a hazy to unreal light through the rough paste paper.

I silently sorted out the materials on the case table, always feeling uneasy.With a pen and a brush, I habitually write the date on the copywriting day after day-June [-]th.

Xiaoxue, where are you now...

In this world, more than half a year has passed in a blink of an eye. For such a long time, a lot of medical records have been accumulated. The thin paper, accumulated, is as high as two books stacked.

Measles, wind-heat cold, whooping cough, lung, tuberculosis... tuberculosis, it has been two months, he probably didn't take medicine properly, tuberculosis is not so easy to cure, overwork, it will only get worse day by day...

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God Realm, Yata Shrine under Gao Tianyuan's command——

This is a palace whose layout is mainly light green. It is not as gorgeous and luxurious as other temples, but it is always surrounded by light blue light like a soft moonlight. It is quiet and faint, but dreamlike. .

The elegant girl in a light green Japanese-style kimono squinted her blue-purple eyes halfway.Erlang raised his legs lazily, half-hanging between the branches of the double cherry tree that blooms all year round.Looking at that wobbly posture, it seemed as if he was about to fall at any moment, but in fact it was very stable.

There was another girl standing under the tree who looked very similar to it, she looked terrified but felt extremely helpless about it.Hey, there is no other way, in the entire Gaotianyuan, Miss Ayin is the most misbehaving.Poor her Eri, what a poor shikigami.

"Hey, brat, have you seen enough?" A Yin's face faded from laziness, and she raised her head slightly sullenly and stared at the tree not far away.

Eri followed the prestige, and saw not far from the cherry blossom tree, a young man in brocade clothes appeared at some point.Eri nodded respectfully and saluted the young man, and said softly, "Master Akong."

The young man looked young, with neat dark blue short and medium hair, a pair of dark purple eyes like Ayin's, and a faintly handsome look on his delicate face.

Seeing this, Ayin couldn't help complaining in her heart - if the young man didn't let you eat and drink a few times for the sake of your resemblance to Soujiro, the employer would have kicked you out.

Shikigami Eri had already resigned with great interest.

"Get down to business, A Yin, don't always act like a man." The young man's name is A Kong, and today he has changed his attitude of bickering when he was young. What are you doing? You ran over to tell others to persevere, and then told others to wait and see what happened, didn't you mean to make her dizzy?"

Ayin, you have no brains. If you say you are stupid, you are very clear. I really don’t understand what you are thinking.

——That child is very smart, she has her own choices and knows what to do.

On the contrary, A Yin blinked her eyes pretending to be innocent, and then stroked her messy dark purple long hair, looking heartless: "No, at the same time, how could I would hurt her."

However, fate is hard to do, a different time and space will originally reject an outsider who does not belong there.If it wasn't for me to handle it, fate would have arranged for her to suffer even greater and more bitterly.If that's the case, why don't you let me do it, at least you can release the water, I really don't want her to end up like my sister, she will be wiped out forever...

For a moment, Ah Yin's eyes were slightly sad, but they disappeared in just a second, but A Kong saw all this completely.

Ayin smiled lightly, and raised her eyes to look further away: "I like that girl quite a lot, just leave it to me, if everything can be persisted, then there will be no problem."

Classmates, you must work hard, and don't disappoint my expectations of you.

Na na, I wish you happiness...

Akong suddenly felt that Ayin was the most unfathomable and unpredictable, almost no less than Abe Seimei back then...

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I always feel like I forgot something important, but I just can't remember it.This strange feeling became more and more intense, which made me unable to calm down at all.

Then, a samurai sword suddenly passed across my eyes calmly, and it was so straight and concentrated in front of my eyes.I froze for a moment, the one holding the samurai sword was a white and beautiful hand.

"Miss Sakurai." The girl's clear and beautiful voice came softly, clear, but blurred and dreamy.

Such a familiar voice...

"Eri..." I turned my head away, and saw a beautiful girl with a soft smile on her face, who was kneeling at the side at some point, holding that samurai sword in her hand.

"It's me, Ms. Sakurai." There was still a faint smile. Although she was slightly startled when I called her name, she just smiled.It makes people feel that the wind is light and the clouds are calm, and they look down on the world.

This is somewhat similar to that person...

Delicate oval face, dark purple long hair and eyes... Although I haven't seen Miss Ayin many times, I suddenly realized that Eri and Miss Ayin really look alike...

Onmyoji is really powerful, even coming in is silent...

"Ms. Sakurai, do you always feel as if you have forgotten something?" The corners of her lips curled up gracefully into a profound smile, as if blurred by morning dew.

"Ah...it seems to be...but, I can't remember again, this..." I turned my gaze to the samurai sword in Eri's hand, feeling a little puzzled in my heart.

The dim candlelight shone on the finely crafted knife, winding out a streak of cold innocence concentrated at the sharp edge.The brown-black hilt is carved with exquisite dragon totem, which is lifelike.And on the blade, there are seven silver-white lightly outlined stars——

Looking at this samurai sword, I felt an indescribably familiar feeling in my heart, and I quickly pronounced its name.

——The Big Dipper!

"Yes, the Big Dipper, it was originally yours." Eri smiled softly, with a gentle tone, "So, I will return it to you today, what should I do, I should use it well."

"...Ah, ah?" I hastily took the Big Dipper that Eri insisted on, and I couldn't react.

"Ah, what! Get up, let's go, go find Soujiro, no... Okita Souji!" Eri was really weird today, she just dragged me up without any explanation, and then walked out the door.

Okita, the general manager?

Why are you looking for him?

"Why—" Eri rubbed her delicate nostrils carelessly, and continued to pull my sleeves to walk out, "History—[-], June [-]th, known in history—Ikeda House event!"

The Ikedaya Incident——

I suddenly realized that the incident at the Ikeda house, Mr. Okita, his condition worsened, hemoptysis!Not long after, tuberculosis really began to torment his body until he died!

"Girl, if you like Mr. Zousi, hurry up and chase after him! Girls of our new era, remember not to take the initiative, take the initiative, hey!" Eri directly amplified her voice and blurted out without hesitation.There is also a little bit in the tone, which means "hate iron but not steel", and it is more helpless to support the forehead.

"..." I like... Okita Souji...

"If you don't like him, why would you miss him all the time?" Eri burst out such a sentence, I looked at her suspiciously, but she continued to mutter to herself, "That's just you It’s just that I don’t know, good boy, the authorities are obsessed, but the bystanders are clear! Outsiders can see this at a glance! If you really feel that you care about him a little bit in your heart, then go after him with courage. Don’t be too late , If you regret it, it will be too late. Is it like that, you can experiment and seek for yourself, and you will be able to know! If you understand, you don’t need me to tell you what to do now, right?”

Take a gamble and see your own true heart.

When the flower needs to be folded, it must be folded. Don't wait for the flower to fall and break the branch.

If it's you you don't need me to tell you what to do...

—Yes, I know what to do...

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Kyoto at night, although not as bustling as it is during the day, but the noise of the night market is indispensable.Kondo and Hijikata led the team to hide in the back door of the hostel, quietly looking at the bustling market outside the alley.

"Why hasn't Aizubo's support come yet? Mr. Kondo, if we don't rush in, they're going to run away!" Everyone said be safe and don't be impatient, but there are always people who can't hold back for this, and Nagakura Shinpachi is of course the number one a speaker.

"..." Kondo looked at the people coming and going in and out of the Ikeda House, feeling a little anxious in his heart. In the end, he nodded and ordered——

Kondo led the team to kick open the vacant door of the Ikeda house, and shouted loudly: "The Shinsengumi is doing routine business, and it is suspected that the Changzhou rebels are hiding here. Search now! Anyone who resists will be shot!"

As soon as the words fell, dozens of wanderers with knives rushed out of the back room. Although they were inevitably frightened, they rushed forward with the courage of their knives.

Okita Souji and Nagakura Shinpachi on both sides of Isamu Kondo rushed forward quickly and swung their swords without hesitation.

The hand raised the knife and fell, scorching blood spattered.

Nagakura Shinpachi raised his blood-splattered face: "It's Kondo-san's style to let the enemy know in advance!"

Okita swung his saber fiercely, Yun Danfeng smiled softly, and said in a light tone, "Then Mr. Shinpachi, I'll take a step first." After finishing speaking, Okita swung his saber, and the last ronin stuck in the corridor He fell down directly, but after a long time, the director had already disappeared.

"The chief is so cunning!" Nagakura Shinpachi shouted, and at some point Todo Heisuke also rushed up.

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Relatively speaking, at this time, the Shikokuya led by Hijikata Toshizo was much deserted, or in other words, there was no sign at all.

Because, the real location——

"Handling!" Xuecun Qianhe's crisp female voice came, which was very clear in the silent night sky.Everyone looked back one after another, only to see Yukimura Chizuru running over panting, and shouted loudly: "The order—the real location is—Ikeda House!"

"What?!" Although Hijikata Toshisan was a little surprised, he quickly calmed down in a second.The delicate brows were raised and furrowed, and the deep purple eyes gradually cast a layer of haze, "Hurry up to support Mr. Kondo at the Ikeda House!"?