"I'll just get to the point. ...... When you made a plan to plot against Mr. Kondo and Mr. Hijikata, didn't you think that one day you would encounter something like this?"

The young man, who was doing undercover work like a traitor to him, but whose eyes were as clear and bright as ever, spoke to him bluntly.

Ito Kokotaro was stunned.

"What do you mention Hijikata...... "His plan is just to assassinate Isamu Kondo, and it hasn't been involved in assassinating Hijikata Suizo together?

But the next moment he understood, and couldn't help but smack his tongue contemptuously.

"Tsk...... I thought that your admiration for Hijikata in the Shinsengumi was faked, because you didn't cause him much trouble, and you weren't a good subordinate...... But I didn't expect you to be like that, but it was real. ”

He saw Kiyohara in front of him slowly bend his eyebrows.

"yes. Without even the slightest hesitation or embarrassment, Kiyohara simply admitted it.

"Because of your presence, Mr. Hijikata is very troubled...... So, you're going to die, right?"

Hearing Kiyohara say such a thing, Ito Kokotaro was a little in a trance for a moment. It was as if this character of saying explosive speeches such as "go die" and "cut you" with a smile at every turn was slowly fitting with the head of the Ichiban group of the Shinsengumi, Soji Okita, to a certain extent, and he realized that Kiyohara was subordinate to the Ichibangumi under the command of Soji Okita before he left the Shinsengumi.

So...... Kiyohara has never betrayed the combination of rural farmers, petty traders, and orphans from the countryside in the Shinsengumi, has he?

When Qingyuan in front of him showed a slightly surprised look, and then a funny look appeared on the corner of his lips, he realized that he seemed to have asked the sentence he had just thought in his heart.

Actually, it's nothing to say, anyway, that's what he thinks about the people who come to the Trial.

He also thought that Kiyohara would defend the mud-legged people from the Guardian Pavilion with a strong voice or a serious and calm voice after a short period of stunnedness. But then he heard an even more incredible answer.

"Ah, maybe that's true. He actually laughed when he heard Kiyohara say this, as if he really thought the topic was so interesting.

"Because—I remember hearing a saying......"

Kiyohara happily dragged out the end note.

"'Three robbers are not as good as one selling medicine'—" His eyes flickered, and a look of pleasure and confidence flashed in his eyes.

Kotaro Ito: "......"

Ahh

The anger gauge was instantly brushed to the full value of Ito Kokotaro, who yelled and launched an attack on the betrayer in front of him.

Under the cover of night, the two men fought fiercely in the narrow streets, fighting more than a dozen back and forth, without winning or losing.

Liu Quan soon discovers that this real historical figure is also a real master of swordsmanship.

In the world I've experienced, maybe it's because the original is a game and animation.,Although the swordsmanship is also very good-looking.,But the moves are on the flowery side.,Of course, it's pleasing to the eye when you look at it through the screen.,But when it comes to practicality,It's not as good as here.。

Therefore, the skill of the [Advanced Swordsmanship] that she exchanged at that time was now a real master in history, and it immediately seemed to be insufficient.

When it sounded, even in the deep darkness of the night, the moment when the blades intersected, it still stirred up a little dazzling spark, flashing through the streets of the oil path.

Willow Quan took a leap back and re-mounted his sword, gasping violently from the physical exertion of this long-pending deathmatch.

Across from her, Kotaro Ito didn't look much better. However, after all, as a man in the prime of life, he actually had an advantage over her as a woman in terms of physical strength, so in the face of Liu Quan's retreat just now, he showed a smile that still had room to spare.

"It's not enough to just talk big. He gasped and chuckled.

"You guy, you haven't been exempted from any genre or dojo. ...... Hmph, just because you also want to crusade against me for that guy Hijikata Suizo? It's really strange for Hijikata Suizo to look at people. ”

Liu Quan gritted his teeth.

Just now, perhaps because of the wind of bushido, while she and Ito Koshitaro were engaged in a death match, Izumi Mamoru Kaneji did not take the opportunity to sneak attack Ito from behind, nor did he use the numerical advantage with her to besiege Ito.

Smiling Qingjiang had just been sent by her in the gap between the battle to see the situation on the Shinsengumi side - after all, the Shinsengumi couldn't stop showing up here at all. If they are all absent, how can she, a fake and stuntman, pave the famous oil path in history?!

So now, if Kane-san doesn't join the battle, just let her fight against Ito Koshitaro, I have to say a little reluctant-

With a snap, she and Ito staggered again, each returning to where they had been before the attack.

The difference was that the haori on her left arm had been cut open by a long tear, but fortunately it didn't hurt the flesh.

yes...... If she can be defeated with three or two blows, it won't be a figure who can make Kondo-san, who is a general, show respect and convincing, and quickly squeeze out Shannan-san, who is admired as the commander-in-chief.

With a subtle and strange sense of reassurance (?) that "it's good that this real Ito character hasn't collapsed", Yanagizumi took a deep breath, turned around and attacked again.

After three crisp sounds in a row, the two people separated by mistake and returned to their original positions.

This time, beads of sweat the size of beans kept dripping down the forehead of Liu Quan.

Although Ito Kokotaro didn't look much better than her, but when he saw that she had always been full of momentum and showed a slightly flawed side of her aura, she couldn't help but lift the corners of her lips and sneered.

"Ridiculous. Do you dare to assassinate me with such skills? It seems that there is no one to use at the end of the year-ah, by the way, Okita is very sick, right? He can't get up anymore, right? Besides, the two people Saito and Nagakura, can Hijikata dare to use them with confidence? Don't forget that those two people were the ones who came to my banquet in the first place...... A little further apost, in order to impeach Kondo, you handed over the Kenhaku Book to the Aizu Domain, right?"

Liu Quan: ?!

Perhaps it was because of Saito and Nagakura's signatures on that Kenhakuro that Ito Kokotaro planned to leave the team to establish the Imperial Tomb Guard, and he would think that the two of them were the main points that could be persuaded and broken in the Shinsengumi, right?

Ryuzumi's face changed color, and of course he couldn't hide that Ito had been staring at her eyes. He smirked.

"What? are you speechless?...... It seems that Hijikata doesn't dare to use those two people with peace of mind, so that's why he sent an unreliable guy like you to sneak up on me. ”

Liu Quan gritted his teeth and responded coldly: "'Villains always die from talking too much' - haven't you heard of this sentence, Ito-kun?"

Ito's facial features were distorted in that moment.

"You...... You despicable undercover agent, how dare you, dare to laugh at me—"

"Ha! Ridiculous, you are a traitor to split the Shinsengumi, what right do you have to accuse me of betrayal?" Liu Quan interrupted him sharply, "Are you ready to come to your senses?

She unconsciously borrowed the lines of Yamato Shou's stability, and as soon as the words came out, she felt - ah~ It's so enjoyable.

On the long street at nightfall, the fierce battle had been going on for more than a quarter of an hour.

It doesn't sound like a long time, but at a time when the winner should be decided in three or two moves, it is already a very special situation to fight for so long without being decided.

In other words, although Liu Quan didn't feel that she was a Mary Sue, being able to use the half-hung high-level swordsmanship that she had exchanged for the system fungus to fight with the real master of both swordsmanship schools in history for such a long time was indeed a kind of Su-to-explosion victory for her.

However, this is not enough. She wants real victory, not this kind of half-self-comfort.

If she can't kill this person here, it will be a failure for her.

"Drink!" Liu Quan shouted, rushed forward, and when he slashed a sword with Ito, he did not fight hard with his opponent as before, but took advantage of the momentum to turn half of his body, suddenly lowered his upper body, and flipped the blade in a posture that was almost bowed down, aiming it right between Ito Kokotaro's waist and ribs, sending the blade forward, and then pulling it sideways fiercely.

With a bang, the sound of the blade cutting flesh and blood finally sounded. But almost at the same time, Ito's swing of the knife also reached the top of her head, and the blade fell, bringing a chilling sound of wind-

When there was a sound, it was the sound of blades intersecting and iron colliding, and it sounded again.

No, of course it wasn't Yanagizumi who raised his hand in time to raise his knife and hold the knife that had fallen on top of her head. Between the lightning and the fire, she was not so quick that she reacted inhumanly.

It was Izumi Morikane, who had never made a move, and finally jumped out of his hiding place, and in time with his main sword, he blocked the blade of Ito Kokotaro who almost split his inquisitor in half from head to heel.

"Hey!!!" he shouted, not knowing who he was yelling at.

The next moment he gave the answer—he turned his face and glanced at the Witch Judge quickly, and his tone became worse.

“...... Don't do dangerous things!"

The phrase almost squeezed out between his teeth.

Because even though he came to the rescue in time, Ito's blade still touched the top of the female inquisitor's head a little - the ponytail that she had tied high above her head played an unexpected role in blocking the blow that had been exhausted for her, but the tip of Ito's knife still shaved off her ponytail's headband and shaved off some of the long hair on the ponytail.

Now, without the restraints of the headband, her long hair was loose, and the ends of her hair, which had been cut to a little jagged, fluttered in the night breeze.

Extremely close in front of her, Ito Kokotaro's pupils suddenly constricted!

"You...... You're —" he muttered.

The author has something to say: October 24:

I went to the dentist again today...... What a suffocating experience

So I think I'll just do it a little bit and send a boxed lunch or something [fog!]

Speaking of which, Kotaro Ito in the Taiga drama is super handsome, played by Shosuke Tanihara, and it was really the heyday of appearance at that time.

By the way, Kan-san didn't show up before because he was waiting for his sister's instructions, but the sister herself started a fight and didn't have time to give him an order hhh