Since everyone just entered the main hall of the Houshan Shrine, they didn't expect to face a teleportation array that had already been activated, so they didn't enter the main hall in strict accordance with the predetermined order to check - so when Liu Quan didn't pay attention, The Three Days Moon Sect had already squeezed out the original position of the knee pill with an extremely natural demeanor, and also turned around and told the knee pill "You enter later, remember to protect the master" - but the knee pill had not seen the power of the shrine's teleportation array, The moment the teleportation array suddenly glowed with golden light, he couldn't react in time, but Liu Quan immediately made a judgment like a reflex, and bounced up in time to rush into the main hall, leaving the knee pill behind him.

Therefore, the current team lineup under Liu Quan has become the following configuration:

Izumi Mamoru Kaneda, Nagaso Mi Hu Toru, Smiling Faces Qingjiang, Polarized Plain, One Phase One Vibration, and Three Days Moon Sect Near.

Although the Hakodate map is not difficult in the original game, it will not even appear if it is not violated, and it is a great scene for all the inquisitors to brush the flowers, but here, who knows what will happen.

Not to mention that she didn't notice it for a while, and brought Kanesang over with her. Now this perfect landing place, if it is equipped with the best combination of Kansang, it is simply a proposition of a female inquisitor.

However, at this point, we had to bite the bullet and finish the map.

Yanagizumi took a deep breath and calmed down, and immediately began to assign tasks - sending different Fu Fujin in various directions to monitor the movements of different armies, casting her eyes on Hakodate Bay, Bentendaiba, Hakodate Mountain, Otobe and Eza, the planned landing sites of the new government army.

So in the end, the person who came to spy on Golengkaku became herself.

…… and Izumi Shouji.

Because she really didn't worry about Kane-san going alone, would she do something stupid because of the excitement (?), so after sending everyone out separately, she decided to take Kane-san with her and monitor the nearest (fog!).

So far, there has been no sign of a move.

The high mobility of the young boy Hirano was exerted to the limit, and he didn't know how many times he ran to deliver messages back and forth, and the news that came back from everywhere was all the smooth progress of the situation as in history, without the slightest change.

Seeing that the sky was already dawning, Liu Quan let out a long breath and stood up and stretched, moving his limbs, which were already extremely stiff due to nervousness and some more complex emotional interaction.

“…… It's already May 11 of the second year of Meiji. ”

Izumi Shoukane's voice came from behind her, and there seemed to be a little bit of depression in his voice, which seemed a little hoarse and low.

Liu Quan did not look back, but calmly lowered his hands and looked at the Wuleng Guo under the mountain.

When you stand on a high vantage point like this and look down on Goryokaku, you will be even more amazed by its design and shape. It is like an impregnable fortress that towers over the open fields of Hakodate, surrounded by green forest belts and clear moats, like a star falling on the ground, but such a beautiful and strong castle will not last long for the life and hope of the people who live in it, and it will fall after today.

She looked at the beautiful lines of Wulengguo gradually becoming clear in the morning light, and responded, "...... Oh, yes. ”

This bland response didn't seem to satisfy Izumi Morikanese—it ignited his anxiety even more, and there was a hint of impatience in his tone.

"So......! What are you going to do?!"

Liu Quan still looked in the direction of Wulengguo and did not look back.

"Me?" she chuckled softly, "...... Of course, it's to wait and see what the time-traveling march will do, and then improvise. ”

Izumi Mamoru was choked up by this perfectly correct sentence.

"But, but......," he argued unconsciously raising his voice, "you can't forget what is going to happen today, do you?!"

Liu Quan was silent for a long time. Then, she turned around slowly, and stared at Izumi Shoukaneji for a while with a very strange look.

Izumi Shoukanji: "......"

When he was almost angry with her, she slightly hooked the corner of one side of her lips, revealing a hint of ...... A smile that makes him feel underwhelmed!

“…… If you're worried that I'm going to fall today, you don't have to. Her voice was light, fluttering in the cool morning breeze, and there was a feeling of coldness.

"After all, history is history...... And what I stand now, I know very well. She lowered her gaze slightly, and sighed imperceptibly.

"I no longer have a position to stand with Mr. Hijikata...... So what are you worried about, Kane-san?"

This sentence, which was half provocative and half self-deprecating, made Izumi Shoukan Ding's hair explode almost instantly.

"I—I'm worried!" he yelled in a gruff voice, "As a God Inquisitor, you have what you have to do, and if you've done it pretty well before, there's no reason why you're going crazy today...... I—I'm kind enough to remind you! Whether you like it or not, history is history!!"

After hearing his roar, the inquisitor was silent for a moment.

Then she sighed and laughed.

"Got it, got it. She replied perfunctorily, with a bit of a joking demeanor. "It's really a worry-loving Kane-san~"

Izumi Shoukanji: "......"

Ah, I'm so angry.

If she likes to joke, it means that she is in good condition today?!Wait a minute, if she sees Mr. Hijikata riding away from Goryokaku, she won't cry and chase after her, just like she used to do in the woods outside Sendai Castle?

As a result, the next moment she threw out a tricky question that was difficult to answer.

"Kan-san...... I've been here before. ”

The female inquisitor kept looking at Wulengguo from afar, and asked without looking back.

Izumi Shoukaneji didn't expect to receive such a question, so he was stunned for a moment.

“…… What?"

Although the Divine Inquisitor didn't look back, her voice was soft and calm, and she seemed to have a slight smile of unknown meaning.

"Kane-san, how did you spend the time when you had to come to Hakodate to carry out a mission? She said.

Without waiting for Izumi to answer, she continued, sounding like her words were full of speculation.

“…… I must have controlled my emotions well and fulfilled my mission. ”

Izumi Shoukanji: "...... What do you ask for? ”

He asked rhetorically with a wooden face, and before he could think of what expression to scare her off, he saw her turn around.

The Goddess was standing under a large tree, but now the rising morning sun cast a shadow on her fair and radiant face through the dense canopy.

Izumi Mamoru saw that the corners of her lips curled slightly.

“…… It's remarkable. She said.

Izumi Shoukan: "He......y, hey, are you playing tricks on me!!"

Listening to Kane-san's familiar, earth-shattering roar, the smile on the female presiding priest's lips deepened.

"How could it be. She said with a smile, then added just before Izumi Mamoru exploded.

"I'm sighing. ”

"Kane-san, it's so reliable. ”

Izumi Shoukanji: "...... What the hell is the nonsense you are talking about!

The Divine Inquisitor ignored his roar and turned her face back, as if preoccupied with observing the movements of the five ridges.

…… That's fine.

Let's take it easy. Definitely, there is no problem.

The sun gradually rose overhead from the eastern sky.

In the meantime, Hirano went back and forth several times to report on the current situation in various places. Since Hakodate is a very simple map, everyone has already run it countless times, and they know the historical process they want to maintain. Therefore, Hirano did not need to ask the female judge any details every time, and he was able to make a report such as "everything is business as usual everywhere, and history is not distorted".

Hirano is also a good boy who is attentive. Although Fu Fushen theoretically eats or does not eat, the female judge is always a mortal body, and there is a possibility of starvation, so when it was almost noon, Hirano made a special trip to bring rice balls for the female judge of the gods.

But at this time, between the two people on the hillside, there was an atmosphere of mysterious tension.

Maybe it's because Hijikata is getting closer and closer to the moment of his fateful death, and the female inquisitor is fine, but Izumi Mamoru Kaneji can't hide his irritability at all.

When Hirano arrived, the female judge was sitting under the tree, still looking in the direction of the five ridges, her face calm.

However, the attentive Hirano noticed that her right hand landed on the scabbard of the "one vibration and one vibration" placed beside her, and her five fingers were slightly bent, as if holding the scabbard loosely, but her index finger was rubbing the scabbard back and forth as if unconsciously—only this small movement fully showed that her heart was not as calm as it seemed.

Not to mention Izumi Shoukane. When Hirano arrived, he was going back and forth on the hillside, his face irritated, and his steps were heavy on the lawn. Hirano noticed that some of the lawns on the lawn where Izumi Morikaneji walked back and forth had been worn bald, revealing the loess beneath them. The surface of Izumi Morikane's black boots was also stained with a layer of floating dirt.

Although Hirano has the appearance of a young man, his personality is very stable and reliable. He quietly glanced at Izumi Mamoru Kane, walked over to the female inquisitor sitting under the tree, and half-crouched down to hand over the oil-paper bag in his hand.

"Master, please eat something first. If you have the strength, you can continue to fight. He said.

However, the female judge stared intently at the Wuleng Guo under the mountain, her brows furrowed tightly.

Hirano saw the rare grim expression of the female judge from the side, and the serious look on the young man's face slowly faded, followed by a look of mixed worry and vigilance. He whispered again, "...... What is the host?...... Isn't that right?"

The female inquisitor did not answer his words immediately, but slowly straightened her back, staring intently in the direction of the gate of Wulengguo, and after a while, she suddenly stood up with one hand in her left hand, and took the handle of "one stage and one vibration" in her right hand.

Then, without looking back, she called, "Kane-san?"

Izumi Mamoru Kaneji's footsteps were suddenly stunned when he was going around in circles. He looked up at the back of the female inquisitor in surprise, as if he didn't understand what was going on for a moment.

The next moment he heard a truly explosive line.

The Goddess Inquisitor asked, "We've been waiting here for so long, have you ever seen Mr. Hijikata come out of the gate of Goryokaku?"

Izumi was stunned.

"W-What do you mean......?" he muttered rhetorically, but quickly understood, and his face turned white involuntarily.

"You ......!...... you mean!?"

The female inquisitor finally turned around slowly, her voice still clear, but her face was slowly clouded.

"As far as I can remember, it's past the time when he should leave here and head to Bentendaiba. She said slowly, word by word.

“…… However, I did not see Mr. Hijikata leave Goryokaku. Not all the time. ”

Fujishiro Hirano: !?

Izumi Morikaneji: !!

Izumi Shoukane's handsome and chic face looked a little distracted for a moment. He looked stunned and incredulous, and muttered in a hoarse voice, "...... You say, "What ——?!?"

However, the inquisitor did not look at him anymore.

She decisively turned to the young boy in the plains to the side.

"I have to go to Goryokaku now to see what is going on. "The march back in time has never appeared anywhere else, nor has it changed what happened elsewhere...... If that's what they want to do, then it makes perfect sense to deliberately point the teleportation array here at the Houshan Shrine......"

The incident happened suddenly, and the situation was still in this unprecedented form—the time-traveling march did not show up to fight them, but changed history by making the whereabouts of important historical figures unknown—Hirano was a little confused for a moment.

However, he was stunned for a moment under the shock and surprise, then quickly picked himself up, nodded in response, and stood up straight, waiting for his next order from the Inquisitor.

Then the next moment, he saw his Lord Inquisitor neatly insert the "One Strike" backhand back into his belt, holding the handle of the knife with his left hand.

"I'm going to Golengaku now to check the severity of the situation. Hirano, you go back and inform the others, and keep a close eye on the various important locations. In addition, on the side of Obu and Echa, since the new government army has almost completed the landing, you can let Mikazuki withdraw to the side of Goryokaku. In case the situation changes, I need someone here to cooperate with me. The Female Inquisitor commanded smoothly in one breath, and finally, she turned her gaze to Izumi Morikane, who was a little farther away.

"Kane-san, you stay here and continue to monitor the movements of the armies on both sides around Goryokaku. Her voice seemed a little cold for a moment.

"Before I return, if there is time to march back, the battle will be up to you. ”

Hirano simply replied, "Yes, please rest assured!", and turned around and ran away without wasting any time.

And Izumi Mamoru Kanetachi, after hearing her series of words from inference to analysis to command, kept a shocked and stunned expression for a few seconds, and then suddenly reacted, strode in front of her, and grabbed her right hand without warning.

“…… No way. He said in a rough and deep voice, his expression more grim than ever, and his face was almost iron-blue.

"What do you want to do, Yukiba-kun?!"

Ah, it seemed like for the first time in a long time, and instead of calling her by onomatopoeia, mood particles, or pronouns like "hey", "ah", "you", he just called out the name they had known so long ago.

As if a little surprised, the Witch lowered her gaze to look at her right wrist, which was clenched by Izumi Morikane, and then raised her eyes again, calmly looking him straight into the eyes.

It was as if it was only at this moment that he realized that the color of Izumi Morikane's eyes was blue, and the female judge looked deeply into the depths of his eyes.

Then, she sighed slightly.

"Kane-san, you know I have to go. She said calmly, and shook her right hand that was being held by Izumi Mori Kaneji slightly, as if it was a comfort.

However, Izumi Mamoru Kaneji didn't seem to be comforted at all.

He lowered his head to look at the thin wrist he was holding, and then his eyebrows furrowed, and instead of letting go of her, he added a little strength to his five fingers and held it tighter.

"If Mr. Hijikata's whereabouts are really unknown as you deduced, what happened to the time-traveling army......" he said a little hard, "So, what are you going to do next?!"

Hearing such a question, the female judge was silent for a moment. Then, she blinked her eyes and smiled at Fu Fushen, who had an ugly expression.

"What else can I do?" her voice sounded light.

"Yes, of course...... Maintain history and follow the course of history. ”

Although her answer was very correct this time, and she didn't sound worried about falling into the dark at all, Izumi Mamoru's face didn't improve at all.

"Don't ...... Don't do anything stupid!" He held his breath, his face seemed to turn red, and finally he roared out loud. He leaned towards her slightly, as if he wanted to crush her with the height difference, so that she could feel a little pressure and easily accept his idea.

"The course of history...... It was Mr. Hijikata on his way to Bentendaiba...... After passing through a wooden door—"

In a short sentence, he paused three times. At this point he stopped, and a clear expression of pain appeared on his handsome face, but he did not say any more, but leaned slightly closer to her face. Their exhaled breath swirled between the two men.

“…… All this, if none of Mr. Hijikata had experienced it, then—"

The last sentence, Izumi Shoukan was simply gritted his teeth and squeezed out word by word.

"You're going to have to talk to ...... again Same as last time, in place of him...... To get it all done?!"

Under his palm, he felt the thin wrist tremble slightly.

However, in his field of vision, her face remained extraordinarily calm. The long, beautiful eyelashes twitched slightly, and they lifted up, and the two pills' eyes as clear as black crystals stared directly at his face, distorted by extreme anger and sadness.

"Kane-san, are you going to stop me again? There was a hint of a smile in her voice, which made him froze slightly.

"But...... Am I going with history this time?" she smiled and sighed, as if helpless, and shook the hand he was holding again.

"So this time...... Can you be on my side? ”

Izumi Morikaneji: !!

The handsome Fu Fushen was truly stunned.

He just stared at her with his mouth stammered, torn between how to respond. Knowing that she was going to do the same crazy thing this time, in order to be on his side and preserve history, he could not let go of his hand easily, and as he had done last time, he watched as she cut off her long hair, put on Mr. Hijikata's coat, and rode on her horse, galloping in the direction of a wooden gate—

"You...... It's to die!" He finally squeezed a word out between his teeth. The choked words poured out very smoothly as if the stopper had been suddenly unplugged.

"Do you want to be here in Hakodate...... The second time I watched - are you going to die for Mr. Hijikata!"

Looking at the familiar, young and beautiful face that had barely changed from before to now, a look of astonishment appeared on it, and Izumi Mamoru Kaneji felt that the unpleasant words in his heart that had been accumulating from many years ago to the present suddenly came flooding up.

"Didn't you think that if Mr. Hijikata knew all this, he wouldn't be happy!"

"Mr. Hijikata, I don't want to see ...... The important person in his heart is going to die for him!"

"What kind of mission should you have as a man...... If you hide behind a woman and wait for her to maintain it to survive the difficulties, no matter what kind of man you are, you won't be happy!"

Even after saying all that, he still felt that he was at a loss for words. As if he had to hide behind the name Mr. Hijikata to gain the power to stop her, he felt discouraged and annoyed by this behavior, and finally he simply yelled.

"Yes, I'll admit, you're strong...... You're probably the most incredible woman I've ever seen......"

Speaking of this, he suddenly stumbled for no reason. Then, he felt even more annoyed with himself like this.

"But, but, no matter how strong the sword is, if you barely get out of battle, there is a possibility that the knife will be broken...... You are the same, mortals, sometimes you may be more fragile than the sword......"

Ahh Izumi Mamoru Kaneji almost wanted to pull his hair.

…… Forget it! Don't think about it if you can't think about it, just go straight and say what you want to say the most!

So, Izumi Shoukan and calmly shouted at the female inquisitor:

"Cause...... I don't want to have a new owner!!"

As if she didn't expect him to say such a thing at all, the female judge seemed to be slightly stunned, and blurted out: "Eh?!"

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