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What Saito didn't know was that after leaving Aizu Castle, the young girl with the pseudonym Shinoda Kazuo had to face a battle that was no easier than the death battle between the old shogunate army and the new government army, although there were no sword soldiers.

After being teleported back to Honmaru, he entrusted the five swords that had returned to his main form to Hasebe and the others, who came to greet him but were shocked by the bad image of the female inquisitor, and Yanagizumi went straight to the government of time with Kitsunosuke, who was already waiting for Honmaru.

This time, she went to the small parlor where she met with the representative of the government of the time, the big man, at the beginning of her tenure, and she still saw the big man. The difference was that his expression was a little ugly.

Of course, when he saw Liu Quan and the Three Days Moon Sect following her approaching, his eyebrows moved slightly—as if he was also surprised by the terrible appearance of the two of them.

However, the solemnity on his face did not diminish at all.

"Let's talk about it. What happened?Why didn't Kannaru come back?What about her swords?" he asked coldly, his tone sounding a little aggressive.

Liu Quan sat down on the sofa opposite him, straightened his back as much as he could, raised his chin, and showed a posture that was neither humble nor arrogant.

"For personal reasons, Kanno Rinne wants to be unfavorable to me as a companion. If you are controlled by the will of your own inquisitor and want to attack another inquisitor, you will also fall as a sword. Her voice was so calm and self-contained that it sounded like a drop of icy water falling into a deep pool in winter.

The big man sighed, his gaze still firmly locked on her face.

"What personal reasons?" he asked.

Liu Quan replied calmly, "Jealous." ”

"Oh~?!" The big man leaned forward slightly as if interested, staring at her. "Tell me, why is Kanno Rinne jealous of you?"

Liu Quan bent his eyebrows, as if he thought the question was funny.

"Well, she didn't tell me why I should die before she did it to me. ...... Still, let me guess - because I think I'm younger than her, better than her swordsmanship, better than her, more useful than her?......" She suggested several possibilities as if understated, and her face was full of incredulity as to why someone who barely could be considered an ordinary friend suddenly wanted to finish me off.

The big man snorted, leaned back into the couch, and asked quietly, "So, that's what you think?"

Liu Quan muttered slightly and nodded.

"People who are afraid of being replaced, people who are afraid of being stolen by others...... That's how scared you are. She looked at the other party calmly, "thinking that with the little power she has now, she can unknowingly clear the people who stand in her way......"

She also leaned forward slightly, looking directly into the big man's eyes, with a subtle smile on her lips.

“...... It's unfortunate that even a fool like me isn't that easy to clean up. ”

Standing behind her, the three days and moons of the squire, who had maintained the humility and deference that a qualified servant should have from beginning to end, lowered his gaze slightly, and appropriately diluted his sense of presence - however, when he heard this, there seemed to be a light in his eyes, and it flashed quickly and innorantly.

The big man groaned for a moment.

"Then, when you go back, write a detailed report of what happened and give it to Kitsunosuke, so that it can be brought back to me. He commanded.

Liu Quan answered, stood up and politely said goodbye. But until she walked out of the room, she still felt the gaze of the person behind her cast a nail on her back, almost like a man's back.

After stepping into the teleportation array and returning to Honmaru, there was no one in the courtyard - but the sound of laughter from other parts of Honmaru was faintly wafting in.

Although it took a death fight for their Inquisitor to complete the mission and return safely, and five of the six Fu Death Gods who accompanied them eventually changed back to the appearance of the Avatar Sword due to the limitations of the Inquisitor's spiritual power, these heavy facts only shocked the entire Honmaru for a limited period of time.

After all, the actual founder of this Honmaru is also a young girl who often has problems with his spiritual power. Everyone has long been accustomed to a colleague who is also a sword Fu Fu God who has turned back into his original body in the blink of an eye, and then after a while, he has been summoned from the sword by Lord God of Death who has regained his spiritual power in some wonderful and unspeakable way.

Therefore, it has been more than half a year since the arrival of this new God Inquisitor Lord, and it is the first time that the mistake of failing to continue his spiritual power has been clearly revealed, or is it the problem that arose in the middle of the almost cruel task that had to be completed by two God Inquisitors, which was already a very good performance for everyone in this Honmaru - as for the five Fu Fu Gods who temporarily returned to the sleeping body of the body? Then the Lord God Inquisitor and some Fu Mourning Gods with higher status and more important positions to worry about, right?

Therefore, when Liu Quan stepped into the courtyard from the teleportation array, the courtyard was empty.

Scattered laughter drifted from the end of a long corridor, and in the middle of the courtyard, which was set as a summer scene, the lotus leaves in the pond were swaying in the wind.

Hasebe and the others probably got the news that the teleportation array was activated, and are running here. What would they say when they saw her?

Ah, by the way, in the procession that hurried to the courtyard to welcome them back from the Lord of the God Inquisitor, the candlestick Cutting Light Zhong will not be there, nor will the first one strike.

...... Because they have all been drained of spiritual power and returned to their original body.

Now is not the time to be sad. Because we have to think about where to squeeze out the excess spiritual power quickly, and let the mourning gods of the five swords reappear as soon as possible-

Suddenly, a hand reached out from behind her, covering her eyes.

Liu Quan: "...... Hey!!Three days and moons, this is not the time for jokes—"

"Ahahahaha. Three days Moon Sect's usual calm laughter rose behind her.

Liu Quan became a little anxious.

"Hey...... Let me go, in case everybody sees—"

Before she finished speaking, she felt that the Three Days Moon Sect was slightly hanging from her palm, and her fingertips touched her frowning brows, and then gently stroked it back and forth with her fingertips.

Liu Quan: ?!

The Three Sun Moon Sect responded gently: "Okay~ I'll let go of my hand in time - but, before that, relax, Xue Ye-kun?"

Willow Springs: !!

She spun away!

The movement caused her entire face to slide over his palm for a split second. Although he had just come down from the brutal battlefield like her, there was no choking smell of gunpowder smoke and dust in his palm, but a faint smell of tea, which passed from his fingers to the tip of her nose, and then lingered in front of her, which made her even more surprised, and she couldn't help but widen her eyes slightly, and reached out to grab the male hand that almost covered her eyes and forehead, and pulled it down from her eyes.

As that hand fell, what slowly appeared in her field of vision was the smiling eyes of the Three Days Moon Sect. Those eyes had the color of the sky and the shape of a crescent moon, and the eyes that stared at her were very deep and soft.

He looked her straight in the eye and repeated what he had just said.

"You're home, Yukiba. - So, relax a little, right?"

For some reason, the moment she heard his voice, the tip of her nose suddenly sore, and hot tears quickly welled up in her eyes.

"'Home'......" she repeated the noun in a low voice, lowering her gaze and shaking her head slightly.

“...... I don't have a home. ”

Hearing the negative words, the smile on the face of the Three Days Moon Sect did not change at all.

He just watched tolerantly as she held his hand, as if restrained from making any embarrassing moves at will, but with a sobbing and childlike expression, he reached out his left hand, which was not held by her, and gently rubbed her hair.

"When you want to go back, you have a place to go back, and when you know that you can go back there, you can sleep peacefully without worrying about anything else - that can be called 'home'. He said with a smile.

Liu Quan: "......"

For a while, she couldn't even say anything.

Is that so......?

Perhaps, not so. Because, for a long, long time, she had never met the kind of place described in his words, as if there had never been a place like that in this world. Therefore, she didn't know if what he said was right—after all, he was not a mortal, just a sword, just a god incarnated in a sword, and neither a god nor a sword would understand the definition of such a mortal.

However, for some reason, she didn't point this out to him, instead staring blankly at his slightly curved eyebrows.

His appearance was almost as embarrassed as hers, and the black suit he had borrowed from the Candlestick Cutter before he went out was already in tatters, and it looked like he was going to pay for a new set of Candlestick Cutlight Truda - but he still bent his eyebrows faintly, and with such a calm courage that made people involuntarily want to succumb to it, he quietly said these things to her, and stroked her hair—

"Three days and moon," she heard her own voice, and had done her best to bring an understatement to her tone—but her voice was still a little shaky, as if it was about to leak something in the next second—

"Huh?" replied softly as the Three Moons approached her head.

Liu Quan was silent for a moment.

"Why are you so gentle all of a sudden......" she whispered, her lips pursed slowly, tightening into a straight line, as if she was trying to endure something.

“...... It's hard to get used to-"

"Aha. The Three Days Moon Sect laughed.

"I don't know if I'm gentle," his voice was unusually calm and soft.

"But I think that the so-called gentleness is to pay attention to the other person - and to pay attention to the other person is to show that the person is strong. ”

His left hand gently ran over the top of her hair, rubbing over her long, tousled hair that had become messy and knotted from the battle.

"Xue Ye-kun, he is a powerful person. So, it's worth my attention. He said.

"I've seen a lot of people so far, so I think so. ”

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