As the group walked through the deserted streets of Kyoto in winter, only one of them seemed to be a little eager to try, with a strong sense of excitement and a vague sense of anticipation on his face.

Among the people in this group, it can be seen that the leader is a young man who is almost feminine-looking. As he turned right on the street corner, he seemed to finally take the opportunity to turn around and glance at the long-haired young man in a red kimono and a light gray horse hakama.

"Kane-san, you haven't closed your mouth since you went out. ”

The young man's voice sounded clear, like drops of night dew dripping quietly from the corners of the eaves on an autumn night, and the young man immediately closed his mouth when he heard this.

But after a moment, he couldn't help grinning again, and hurried a few steps to the young man's side, and put a big arm on the young man's shoulder.

"Well, Aru......" he paused suddenly, and continued in a different tone, "That, snow...... Also, Jun. ”

The boy glanced sideways at him coldly.

"Kane-san, do you know a girl named Kagura?"

The handsome young man looked puzzled.

"Girl?!...... You're not the only girl I've known lately—"

The boy stomped the top of his feet.

"Whew!" the young man shouted, and immediately let go of the young man's shoulder, staring at the young man's face with an incredulous expression. After a moment, he lowered his head as if deflated, and said, "...... Okay, okay, I mean, it's not just you...... Uh, your sister. ”

The boy gave him a hard look.

"I really shouldn't have brought you!" he said, as he strode forward, as he strotted forward.

A young man with long black hair (?) smiled hehe, as if he didn't think it was at all, and caught up with the young man's swift footsteps in a few steps, continued to walk beside him, and lowered his voice with a happy face: "Well~ It looks like that is effective...... That's, '寝dangban'—"

The boy's face tightened even more, and he quickly crossed his arm and pressed his elbow against the young man's waist and ribs, making him grin with an exaggerated expression of pain. But before he could speak out to clear his exaggerated words, he was interrupted by the boy.

"We've just arrived here and haven't found a place to stay yet. Don't make me regret it before then, Kane-san. ”

When the young man known as "Kan Sang" was said this, he couldn't help but finally show a little sneer, laughed twice, and replied: "Ahaha, I'm just ...... It's rare to come to a familiar place, a little ...... It's just too excited—"

The boy tilted his head and glanced at him, and the two pills stared at him silently with eyes as clear as black crystal, almost bottomless. After a moment, the boy looked away.

"It's because it's an oil trail that I brought you here. He said without mercy.

"If the next assignment is Hakodate or Aizu, it won't be useful for you to come to bed a hundred times. ”

The young man was dumbfounded, as if for a moment he had misheard.

"Y-What are you talking about?......!"

Although he said terrible lines, the young man had a calm expression on his face. It's as if the problematic-sounding term "寝dangfan" is nothing to him, and it can't shake him.

“...... I said, when that happens, I won't let you get in my way. He replied without concessions.

The young man named "Kane-san" shouted.

"Why!!Am I not reliable enough?, Am I not handsome and powerful-"

The boy pursed his lips and smiled in time, interrupting his next words.

"Handsome and powerful, isn't it the deputy head of the ghost you reveal. He said this name casually, with a faint smile on his face, as if he was a little nostalgic and a little funny, and said jokingly.

"But, it's a shame that you probably won't meet him tonight...... Won't you be a little disappointed?"

Although he lowered his voice, the impact of the words did not diminish at all.

Fortunately, it was almost evening, and the trail they chose was a bit remote, not a big road like the three or four passes, so there were no pedestrians on the road except for their group, and there was no need to worry that such obvious words would be heard by people with bad intentions, and then cause irreparable consequences.

The young man he called "Kane-san" closed his eyes as if deflated, and immediately pulled himself back together.

"Ahh

This time, it was another young man in the group who wore a white cloth that looked like a cloak on his shoulder, and he smiled and patted the shoulder of the "Kane-san" in time, choking back his words.

"Well, this kind of declaration, let's talk about it after victory. ”

Speaking in such a relaxed tone, the young man looked at the winding alley in front of him that was gradually shrouded in twilight, and slowly narrowed his eyes.

"It's night. If you walk a lot at night, will you meet ghosts? ”

The young man who said this was the smiling Qingjiang.

And the one who pretended to be a teenager was the willow spring who reappeared on the streets of Kyoto at the end of the Edo period as a god judge.

This time, the candidate she chose was very simple and rude - although there was no map in the original work, but because she knew that the change of the oil path was also a battlefield for night battles, she simply went into battle directly with the coercion team - and because she was annoyed by Izumi Mamoru Kaneda, so today she was followed by Kazumi Mamoru Kaneda, Nagaso Yatora Toru , Daikuri Garo, as well as Wakicha Smiling Aoe, Bone Bone Fuji Shiro and Catio Fuji Shiro.

Although when she left Honmaru, Mikazuki Munejin also subtly reminded her, "If the target location is targeted by the time-retrospective march, perhaps due to their interference, the difficulty of the mission is different from what you experienced back then, so it is better to be cautious", but she was blocked by her simple sentence "Even so, the night combat ability of swords such as Taidao and Daitai is at an irreparable disadvantage".

So this send-off when he went out of the battle ended hastily in an unnatural atmosphere.

As if he didn't think all this was bothering enough, after nightfall, the team led by the God Inquisitor who was squatting near Honkoji Temple waited for Ito Koshitaro to come, but did not wait for the people who were scheduled to ambush nearby by the Shinsengumi.

When Yanagiquan, who was ambushed in the corner of the street near Honkoji Temple, received a report from the two people who were sent by her to keep an eye on the Shinsengumi's Fudodo Village Camp, and Cato, who was patrolling back and forth on the rooftops along the road to observe the movements of the Shinsengumi, saying that the Shinsengumi were blocked by a group of Satsuma feudal soldiers halfway through, and could not arrive at Honkoji Temple on time, and ambushed Ito Koshitaro as in history, it was almost an explosion.

At this time, the smiling face Qingjiang, who was staring at Ito Koshitaro's movements, also returned. He ran quickly across the walls and rooftops, and then took advantage of his natural advantage as a mourning god to land lightly in front of the female inquisitor crouching in the shadows in the corner of the alley.

"Over there, it's over. He reported succinctly.

When the female judge heard this, her face became even more ugly.

"Damn!" she couldn't help but swear.

"I originally thought it was a situation where the time-retrospective march army was attacking aggressively...... I didn't expect that this time it would be a direct intervention from the course of history......" She said as if talking to herself, and her face became more and more calm.

The change of the oil path was originally a new battlefield that did not appear in the original work. Of course, the information given by the government of the time will not be wrong, and this situation also shows that the time-retrospective march has begun to develop and attack a new node in history under the strict defense of the inquisitors under the command of the government of time.

Originally, the government assigned Liu Quan the task here, just to borrow her identity and experience as a former "member of the Shinsengumi", and thought that she was familiar with the situation here before sending her—but now, what she has to face is not at all the same as what she has experienced! Compared with history, it is even more 108,000 miles away!

Liu Quan looked up at the sky, gritted his teeth and stood up holding the handle of the knife on his waist.

"It can't be helped. She whispered angrily, then glanced back at the three knives that had been with her for a long time.

“...... Since the Shinsengumi can't get there in time, we'll have to do it. ”

Although the expressions of the three knives were different, they all looked stunned at first.

Ignoring the problems and obstacles that each of them still had to solve, Ryuzumi straightened off the small burden behind him, shook it off, and took out the light shallot-colored haori that she had worn on a mission at Ikedaya last time, posing as a member of the Shinsengumi team.

Then, with a slight flick of her wrist, she unfolded the light shallot-colored feather weave with a slug and put her hand on her shoulder.

"Aoe, go and see where Kotaro Ito has gone. Catio, you and Bone Woo go and see if the people in the Shinsengumi are now free from the entanglement of those Satsuma clan soldiers, and then one of you will come back to report on the movements of the Shinsengumi, and the other will be on the spot, and if there is time to trace the march to appear, we will quickly report back. ”

She calmly gave one command after another.

The night wind became slightly chilly, blowing on the face, making people's expressions a little stiffer.

"Kansang, Chang Zeng Mijun, Da Ju Lijun. ”

She finally looked around at the three Fu Fushen, who were completely adults, and squeezed out a sentence between her teeth.

“...... I need you, come with me to pretend to be a member of the Shinsengumi. ”

"If the time comes, Ito Koshitaro passes through here, and the scheduled ambush of the Shinsengumi still hasn't arrived—"

“...... Then it's up to us to end him. ”

Three Knives: !?

Dajurigara's face was always dark. Nagaso Yatoru's expression was also not good-looking. Izumi Mamoru Kaneji was stunned, as if he didn't expect that he had just come to beat the time-traced army today, but he actually had to make a cameo appearance in the famous person of the Shinsengumi to carry out such an important task as [causing the change of the oil path].

"This—this kind of thing——!" he barely managed to squeeze out a few syllables.

Since the smiling Qingjiang was ordered to leave quickly, the female inquisitor, who had been looking in a certain direction, suddenly turned around.

In the night, her eyes seemed to be terrifyingly bright, revealing a certain stubborn light.

"Don't you know, that man, wants Mr. Kondo's life. ”

She said word for word.

"And Mr. Hijikata will never sit idly by and watch this happen. No matter when it happens, it won't. ”

"Even if it's not purely for the sake of preserving history—"

"Can't you do this for the sake of Mr. Hijikata?!"

The author has something to say: October 21:

I'm sorry for the unbearable toothache in the last few days, and I didn't update it.

The current situation is that half of the posterior molars have been broken and the crown is about to be made, so I did root canal treatment two days ago, and the pain is so painful that I feel that I can't love it.

I feel better today, although I will continue to take medicine on Monday, but I will refuel and update in the next two days, and I will definitely update it every day~~

I've been having health problems lately, and I'm very embarrassed about that.

Thank you for your tolerance and concern for me