Saito felt as if his consciousness was floating in the air.

For a while, it seemed that he was trying to get together with the head secretary in the dojo of the tun, and the head secretary used his "flat blue eyes", if he hadn't been prepared, maybe the victory or defeat would have been decided in an instant, and the next moment it was Mr. Shannan, With a special look on his face, his hands in his sleeves, He walked out of the camp slowly, looked up at the wooden sign hanging at the door, and read "Matsudaira Higo Shou Imperial Pre-Selection, Shinsenkumiju"; In the corridor of the cantonment, he stepped angrily, stomping the wooden floor into a series of thumping sounds, shouting that who is not enlightened and must be seppuku......

Eventually, his body seemed to be moving on its own, which surprised him for a moment, before realizing that he was fighting in the streets with a young man with a blurred face.

Behind the boy, several panicked ronins pushed a cart and carried something out of a shop. Just as he was about to see what the ronins had moved, the boy suddenly stopped fighting with him, opened his eyes wide, stared at his back, and shouted as if in disbelief, "Be careful!"

...... Ahh

“...... Hey, what's wrong with you!Wake up, Ichi-kun!!!"

...... Wrong. It seems like someone is really calling him.

One gentleman, one gentleman, who is so reckless and rude. Now he is Jiro Yamaguchi, and the name "Saito Ichi", like the victory of the Shinsengumi at Ikedaya, bursts into history for a moment, and then falls into silence like fireworks.

Gotta stop this gibberish. No, you have to interrogate it fiercely. There aren't many people who can call him that, and in today's Aizu, there shouldn't be anyone.

Saito's eyes snapped open as he struggled from the chaos that was entangling him and trying to pull him down forever!

When he regained his senses, the first thought that came to his mind was that there seemed to be a lot of rubble around his body, which pierced his whole body.

Then, his mind cleared up a little. This time, in addition to the pain in his body, other sensory skills also slowly returned. And the first thing I feel is-

It was as if he had something underneath his head. He turned slightly to the side, trying to get a feel for what it was, and there was an explosion of pain in his head.

He stopped, exhausted, closed his eyes, and did not dare to move any more.

At this time, he heard someone calling him.

“...... Yamaguchi-kun: How are you feeling, Yamaguchi-kun?"

Saito: ?!

He immediately snapped his eyes open again.

This time, he finally saw the person in front of him clearly.

It's Kazuo Shinoda.

She also looked a little embarrassed. Her hair was a little messy, the ends were tangled, her clothes were dirtier, and there was a very small scratch on the left corner of her forehead that looked like she had been scratched by a flying stone, but other than that, she didn't look badly injured.

For some reason, he closed his eyes again and let out a long breath.

As a result, the next moment he heard her voice an octave higher.

"Yamaguchi-kun!Hey, don't close your eyes!Open your eyes and look at me!!"

He felt a buzzing sensation in his head, and struggled to lift his heavy eyelids.

"Too ...... It's too noisy. He whispered.

Although it was similar to complaining, as soon as he made a sound, for some reason she seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and her tense body collapsed suddenly, and she fell beside him with a pop, and her voice trembled when she spoke again.

"Great...... You're still alive......"

Saito: "......"

He didn't know what to answer, so he fell silent. But he didn't dare to close his eyes any more, lest the sound of magic penetrate his brain, so he stared at her blankly.

Then he noticed that one of her hands seemed to be under his head. Add to that the fact that she pressed her other hand tightly on the right side of his forehead, and now it looked like the shadow cast by her body was almost completely enveloping him—in other words, the two of them were now lying flat on the ground, and she was sitting sideways next to him, with her arms half-propped up above him, very ...... It makes my head hurt even more.

"How...... What's going on?" he asked, feeling his whole head dull.

Then, the light on Shinoda Kazuo's face suddenly dimmed.

"It was a cannonball from the Sa Changjun that exploded near the trench. ”

For some reason, he always felt that her tone seemed rigid.

“...... You saved me in time, it's amazing...... Thank you so much. ”

Although she was rescued, she didn't seem happy at all. There was no sense of happiness for the rest of her life—no, she pursed her lips and glared at him, as if she was about to get angry or cry.

After seeing her expression clearly, Saito suddenly felt his scalp tingle, and his intuition felt that something was wrong.

He subconsciously wanted to struggle to sit up immediately. But the action tugged at his head, and he felt a piercing pain almost immediately, as if someone had been pricking his fragile brain with an awl. This caused him to let out a painful moan.

"Ugh!"

...... Instead, this reckless act seemed to break the delicate atmosphere, and almost immediately, she leaned down and called his name very nervously.

"Yamaguchi-kun?Yamaguchi-kun?!How do you feel?!"

Saito wanted to answer her, not good, terrible.

His forehead was still tingling, from the spot where she had pressed her hand - he could now guess that it must have been an injury, and the curtain of blood he had seen before his consciousness went blank, and the blood that had erupted from there presumably covered his eyes.

The bones of his limbs were screaming in pain, creaking and rattling at the slightest movement, as if they were about to be reassembled. It was as if a corner of the trench had been blown up, and when he turned his face a little, he could see the moon hanging in the sky from the collapsed slope.

However, he still reluctantly said, "...... No...... It's not the time to lie down. You have to be ready right away...... See us here...... If there is no movement...... Those Sachang people ......"

He spoke in staccato pieces, almost using all his strength as he spoke, and he paused to hear her snort at the corners of her lips.

"That's right. ...... Those chiefs will smell blood like hyenas, and pounce on us fiercely to gnaw us to the bone. ”

Saito: "......"

Before he could answer, he heard another voice from her side.

“...... Don't do anything stupid. ”

The man's voice was a little unfamiliar, very brief, and his tone was very condensed, full of warning.

Saito was alert for a moment, struggling to turn over and sit up against the side wall of the trench, despite his clamor of his brain that was about to explode.

Then he saw the handsome young man standing behind Kazuo Shinoda.

It was one of the people she had brought with her, and it was strange that after the violent explosion just now, although the black dress he was wearing was also covered in dust, he looked much neater than Saito or Shinoda Kazuo - maybe it was because he was on the side at the time of the explosion, and he didn't get so much impact?

Now, he met Saito's gaze and slowly repeated what he had just said.

"Don't do anything stupid...... Shinoda-kun. ”

For some reason, Saito always felt that he didn't call out Shinoda's surname so smoothly, maybe because they weren't that familiar with her before, so he wasn't used to calling her by this surname, right?

"You know, there are some things you can't interfere with—" the young man's handsome face showed a grim look on his face, and he added as if warning.

Saito: ?

I always felt the meaning of what this young man said...... It's subtle?!

However, before he had time to think about it, as he leaned his head against the wall of the trench and raised it slightly towards the oblique upwards, he broke into an even more astonishing scene!

In the sky, the huge orange-red black hole he had just seen reappeared. This time, the black hole seemed to crack even more. Blood-red and glowing light shot straight down from those orange-red black holes, making a frightening crackling sound like lightning.

Saito also knew that when that light fell to the ground, it would condense into a huge, never-before-seen, hideously twisted black monster.

And those monsters, he can't kill, or even damage them-

He subconsciously looked at the person who was able to kill those monsters for some reason, and his brain, which was caused by the severe injury caused by the violent explosion just now, was running slowly, trying to figure out what characteristics of her body made her endowed with this special ability-

However, he was surprised to see that she had reacted quickly.

She first turned around and looked up along his line of sight, and after seeing the orange-red black hole in the sky appear, she gritted her teeth and cursed in a low voice: "Damn!", and then without the slightest hesitation, she turned around and grabbed her own knife that had been thrown aside, and hurriedly left him only one sentence:

"I'll be back later!"

Before Saito could speak, he saw her rush to the other side of the half-blown trench, and with one hand on the collapsed slope, she jumped up and rushed directly below the orange-red and black holes that cracked in the sky!

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