"No kidding. ...... Brother will figure out a way, right?" Following the previous "Nine Rules", which was a "human weapon that has been raised", Liu Quan said in a rigid and calm voice.

"Whoever stands in my sister's way, get rid of it. Because my sister deserves the best things in the world. In my heart, I secretly considered another dead hole of the "Nine Rules" in the original work - the painting style of sister control, Liu Quan added.

However, this kind of acting skills can't paralyze the ghost animal who is full of Nissan.

Kujo Michikiyoshi continued to rest his chin on Yanagiquan...... No, on the shoulder of the "Kujo Noriko", he laughed softly.

"Do you know what I like most about you, Noriko?"

Without waiting for Liu Quan to react, he continued to talk to himself: "...... It's the kind of expression on your pretty face that is slightly distorted by embarrassment because of the insincere lies-"

He suddenly buried his whole face in Willow Spring's shoulder socket, and gently dropped a kiss there through his clothes.

“...... That kind of look really makes people want to tame you - how can you be a wild cat who can't be familiar with you, you're such a person, right?"

Willow Springs: !!

"How did my brother become so funny? She replied quietly, "Admittedly, the Kujo family may have only asked me to serve so far...... However, I also know that without the Kujo family name, I am nothing...... This time is turbulent enough, I don't want to be a nameless little person, who can be trampled under the feet of those who are high up and above?"

Kujo Michiqing paused slightly, and lifted his face from her shoulder socket.

"Oh~?!" he prolonged, uttering a syllable with interest.

"I haven't seen it for many years, but is the Shinsengumi a place where people can be tempered to express their ambitions directly......? ”

Liu Quan said lightly: "Isn't the entire Shinsengumi because of their frank ambitions, so that they can save zài until now." Where are other murder groups, including the Jianhui group, which was also rampant back then? ”

Kujo Michiyoshi chuckled softly.

"Being a little more candid, I appreciate it. ”

He straightened up, as if he was finally willing to let her go for the time being.

However, he walked over to the table and suddenly coughed heavily.

The young man who had led the way for Liu Quan opened the door and bowed slightly with a respectful face.

"What does Young Master Qing command?"

Kujo Michikiyo stood at the table, his index finger seemingly casually swiping over the cover of a text on the table.

He didn't look at Liu Quan, who was still sitting upright and improachable.

"Since Miss is back this time, don't let her go for the time being. He said in a very ordinary tone.

Liu Quan: ?!

The young man who was clearly his trusted confidant bowed down.

Kujo Michiyo laughed softly.

"Noriko...... It's painful to be detained by me, isn't it?"

Liu Quan tried to order himself to calm down and maintain his usual expression.

"I don't know what my brother means. For so many years, for the sake of what my brother wanted to do, I wronged myself to pretend to be a man and stay in that kind of murderous group formed by countrymen-"

Kujo Daoqing shook his head slightly.

“...... And then your heart is drawn to the countrymen, isn't it? His fingers across the table paused, and after a moment, the hand suddenly clenched into a fist, crumpling the portion of the text below.

"It's unbelievable...... Jin Zuojun came back and told me that you seemed to be inclined to those barbarians in the Shinsengumi, and when you pretended not to know him, I thought that guy was joking with me......"

Willow Springs: ...... He knew me before...... No, know the "Nine Rules"?!

If you think about it, it's not impossible. Kujo Michiyoshi seems to have chosen to cooperate with the Choshu Domain, which was still an "enemy of the DPRK" at the time, from a long time ago, and it is certainly possible to have a good relationship with Takasugi Shinsaku. And as a chess piece he buried in Kyoto, Kujo Noriko and Takasugi Shinsaku are at least acquaintances, which can be said to be reasonable......

Moreover, if the relationship between the two of them had been better, then the motive for the letter that Takasugito Kazama sent to Nishi Honganji Temple is even more plausible - it is certainly reasonable that he left a letter to his former personal friend before he died.

...... System bacteria: Your elaboration of the plot can save the inaction, which is simply killing the player, you know!?

However, the system bacteria forcibly let the player carry the pot, even if he cries, he has to carry it to the end.

Liu Quan couldn't say, "I didn't know that I knew Takasugi-kun before," so he had to stiffen his face and reply in a cold tone:

"He didn't take care of the radicals in their Changzhou at that time, and as a result, all the heroes died in vain in the Forbidden Gate Change! On the contrary, they still had the leisure to care about me, which is incredible! And at that time, I was in a difficult situation in the Shinsengumi, and I was suspected by Hijikata and Okita, so even if I saw my brother on the street, I had to pretend that I didn't know him, let alone him!"

Kujo Daoqing was silent for a moment.

“...... Isn't that Hijikata suspicious of you until now? Otherwise, he won't force you to come back...... He must think that you have a way to talk to Choshu or Satsuma, but since your public identity is only a captain of the Shinsengumi, how can you talk to Satsuma's side? ”

He said coldly in an analytical tone.

...... It's really a clever and quiet provocation. Liu Quan thought.

The image of the [sous chef] that he created was probably very successful, and now everyone knows that the acting leader of the Ichiban Group of the Shinsengumi is a complete sous sous chef, including this ghost beast Nissan.

Liu Quan sneered, deliberately carrying a hint of contempt in his tone.

"Tufang is a shrewd man. Otherwise, it would not have brought the Ronin group formed by the countrymen to the status of the shogunate today...... Although the title of shogunate is no longer valuable. But whether he suspected me or not, there was no evidence. In this regard, he asked me to come back, which was really a bad move. ”

Kujo Daoqing was slightly stunned and chuckled lowly.

"Noriko, are you telling the truth?" he suddenly turned back from the table, walked straight back to Liu Quan, leaned over and gently touched the heart on her chest with the tip of his index finger.

"Didn't you wishfully want to stay with this man when you knew he was using you and suspecting you?"

"My dear sister, I wonder what attracts you to him?"

"Did he ever shush you, hug you, save you from any dangerous situation, or did he do something more excessive—"

“...... No, nothing. ”

Liu Quan lowered his gaze slightly, glanced at Kujo Daoqing's index finger that was lightly on his chest, then raised his eyes, looked directly into his eyes up close, did not avoid his gaze at all, and interrupted him with a loud voice.

"I think he likes that female ghost. Therefore, what my brother just said is all conjecture, and it is not easier to win the trust of those rural ronins by pretending to revere him. She changed her strategy and said in a slightly complaining and coquettish tone.

"Compared with being suspicious by him, it is really uncomfortable to be suspected by my brother. She continued as if it were true and false, puffing out her mouth slightly, as if she was enduring annoyance and grievance.

Kujo Michiyoshi was silent for a moment, then suddenly straightened up, curled the corners of his lips on one side, and stared at her with a smile.

"I heard...... The best performance is the one that has deceived oneself. He said suddenly, his index finger running an ambiguous arc across her jaw.

"So, Noriko, I can't give you any chance. ”

He turned to the henchman who had taken the aura of [I don't exist here, so please feel free] to the limit.

"Go and arrange a good room for Miss, Toshio. He commanded.

......

So, the so-called "arranging a good room" is house arrest in disguise, isn't it.

From the outside, the Kujo family's mansion in Edo is not very impressive, it is only medium-sized, but from the inside, both the intricately designed courtyard, the flowers, and the layout of the rooms are very different from ordinary mansions, and it is clear that they have been carefully remodeled.

Of course, Liu Quan, as a system fungus, is still an excellent player who has opened a little plug-in and has an unsealed golden finger [Advanced Light Skill], and this kind of Cheng Dù's mansion can't really trap her. However, until the current situation of the director and the situation he is facing, she cannot act rashly.

Fortunately, such an opportunity soon came.

Late one night about a week later.

Isamu Kondo, the head of the Shinsengumi Bureau, who was firmly guarded and placed under house arrest in a family in Itabashi, spent another sleepless night.

Anyway, he also had the realization that he would soon be executed. By that time he had time to rest, so now he often spends a lot of time thinking and reminiscing about life.

He had already made up his mind that no matter what kind of death penalty those guys wanted to humiliate him, whether it was Satsuma, Choshu, or Tosa, he would deal with it calmly and righteously, without a trace of panic, and teach those guys to take a good look at what kind of noble samurai the director of the Shinsengumi was, and what kind of demeanor he had when he decided to die.

But...... To this day, he sometimes has a sense of unreality.

Is this going to end like this...... and his own life? In the end, did he, the owner of a poor dojo in the countryside from a peasant family, really become a samurai and come to an end, dignified and noble?

I don't know what Ah Sui is doing, do they know that this is his last days, I don't know how the wolf-like people of Satsuma and Tosa want him to die, whether it is to decapitate people with insults, or to allow him to have a dignified seppuku?

...... Countless questions poured out like water in an instant, flowing through his mind. He calmly combed through the questions, and finally closed his eyes, and the faces of the people in the Shinsengumi were as if they were in front of him.

Sui, Soji, Saito, Heisuke, Nagakura, Harada, Gen-san, Yamanan-kun, and Yamazaki......

Those people were all fresh in his mind, and there were smiles on their familiar faces.

Ah Sui...... Are you still worried about the Shinsengumi and his Kondo Isamu affairs...... among the people who often cause him trouble, including him Kondo Isamu ? and...... The only female team member of the new selection group, Kiyohara Yukiha-kun, she is also very troubled by Ah Sui, right......?

And the General Director...... The kid who came to the Guardian Pavilion at the age of nine to learn art...... In his eyes, he has always been a child, but now that he thinks about it calmly, he is twenty-four years old...... The Director-General's sword was always so sharp and sharp, as if it did not match his somewhat innocent and childish character, but the Director-General had always been so courageous, and always admired him with such enthusiasm...... What happened to that child now? Can he take care of his cough? Is Tsunade Michikun's daughter, Chizuru Yukimura, also by the side of the head secretary and taking good care of him?

......

He wanted to continue thinking, but the door was suddenly and gently opened, interrupting his thoughts.

He looked to the door. When I saw it, I couldn't help but be surprised!