Yakuken Fujishiro said in a somewhat awkward tone like a young man.

"Since it took so much effort for Nissan to bring us all together...... We will not easily break this happy status quo. He said.

"For me...... You are not a mediocre and incompetent ruler, you will take the responsibility of becoming a ruler, and you should easily not fail, let alone set fire to destroy all the swords you have when you fail, and that is enough. ”

Liu Quan: "......"

She watched the back of the young man disappear behind the shoji door, suddenly hooked the corners of her lips slightly, lowered her gaze with a smile and shook her head.

The person who can easily fail, and after failure, set fire to and destroy the sword he holds, is Toyotomi Hideyori?

Therefore, what Yaoyan cares about now is whether the lord is responsible, whether he is brave, whether the brothers will separate, whether the brothers have been unfavorable, and even the good brother he loves and relies on...... It wasn't the former Inquisitor who had himself smashed to defend the other party, was it?

Liu Quan lowered her gaze to the document that Yaoyan had left on her desk—the report that Yizhen had written for her—rubbed the cover of the document with her right hand, and slowly pursed her lips.

“…… I'm sorry. She finally whispered to herself.

Are you sorry that you are obsessed with wanting to maintain the integrity of this Honmaru as much as possible, so you didn't give more swords to Hitomi Gojo, who left this Honmaru gloomily? Or are you sorry that you have to choose the five swords of the world that have been entangled with your fate in the long-term flow of time and space, so you can't repay the good brother who wants to maintain it with the same kindness?...... She didn't say it.

Then, she pushed back her chair and stood up, walked around the table, walked out the door, and stood under the porch, looking out over the courtyard.

Honmaru has now become a spring scene again, so the Manyo cherry tree is still in full bloom. The temperature is just right, and the breeze blowing on the face has a little warmth, and the air is filled with the faint scent of flowers and plants.

Leaning against a pillar and clasping his hands around his chest, Liu Quan looked at the spring garden for a long time.

The location of the Inquisitor's office is actually a bit remote in Honmaru, probably for the sake of quiet office - and everyone knows that the Inquisitor is working, and they all obediently restrain themselves not to come and disturb if they have nothing important, so at this time, in the corner of the courtyard she is facing and in this section of the corridor, there is no second person except her.

Liu Quan stared at the flowers and trees in the courtyard with great interest, and slowly recited:

"If you don't live here......"

Heisuke said: No matter how much you want to go back to the way things were...... It's not possible. Because people change.

"How can you enjoy the flowers near ......?"

Before leaving Goryokaku in Hakodate and heading to Bentendaiba, where the Shinsengumi was guarded by the Shinsengumi, he said to her, "That guy Saito must have thought that your stubborn wishful thinking would be quite admirable."

"See you today—"

As she recited the familiar haiku, she slowly curled the corners of her lips and closed her eyes, feeling the warm spring breeze blowing across her face.

…… That's the breath of life.

It is a kind of gratitude and wonderful warmth that will make people feel like "it's good to live in this beautiful world".

So, she can move forward.

To solve the problems that are still in front of you, to collect the good things of the past in your memory, and then to live every day of your future to shine -

Liu Quan still closed his eyes, and slowly exhaled from between his lips and teeth the trace of depression that seemed to have been contained in his chest for a long time, but could not find an outlet.

That's all for the past.

In the future, as long as she is still the judge of this Honmaru for one day, this Honmaru will insist on the spring scenery for 10,000 years.

…… Then, she felt an itch on the tip of her nose. She had to open her eyes, raise her right hand and rub her nose vigorously.

…… It's still a cycle of spring, summer and autumn. Otherwise, her pollen allergies might have flare-ups one day, just like now.

She pulled out the terminal in her pocket and looked at it.

It was a dedicated terminal that had been assigned to each Inquisitor after the new Authority took office. It looks like the latest mobile phone, but it is equipped with much more powerful functions than mobile phones - not only can you look up pre-downloaded maps of various eras when you go on a mission in the past era, but it also has a built-in purchasing service that allows them to buy all the goods of the present world for those of them who live in the Japanese-style Honmaru, as long as they have the money to pay the bills.

Ryuzumi fumbled open the purchasing page, wondering if he should place an order for a batch of Western medicines, including allergy treatments—but fearing that such a move would make the drug ken think she intended to quietly weaken his responsibilities in Honmaru, especially after their sparkling conversation just now—

So she closed the daigou page again. Just as I was about to press the terminal screen, a new message suddenly popped up on the screen.

Liu Quan stared at the new message prompt for a long time, and finally pressed off the terminal screen, and then stuffed the terminal back into his pants pocket, sighing.

At night, Liu Quan finally decided to knock on the door of the Taidaobu house next door.

After Tsurumaru Kuninaga left this Honmaru, Shoji Fujisawa had already approved the body knife that would be allocated to Yanagizumi to revitalize "Tsurumaru Kuninaga", and then she would inject spiritual power and summon a new Fu Fu God to arrive, but the cumbersome process and procedures had not been completed in just a few days, so the Taidao Department House next to the Divine Judge's bedroom was currently only the most beautiful of the five swords in the world, and Tsuru lived alone.

The faint light of the house was visible from the shoji door, but Liu Quan knocked on the door for a long time, and no one responded behind the door. She plucked up her courage and said "rude" and pushed open the shoji door, and found that-

There wasn't actually anyone in the house.

And, further, when she returned from her office in the afternoon, the note she had slipped into the room through the crack in the door—a short sentence that read, "Can I have a good talk with you, if I could?" — was still lying on the tatami mat by the door.

It seems that the Three Days Moon Sect has not picked it up at all.

I don't know where he'd been all day, or if he'd ever been back to his room—but now it seemed that even if he did, he didn't mean to pick up the note and put it on the table.

Through the light in the room, Liu Quan finally saw clearly-

The paper used for the note wasn't very hard, and she had chosen a thinner piece of paper to slip it in through the crack in the shoji door—so now that she looked at it from her point of view, it was still lying in place, but there was clearly a dent left by a footprint on the paper.

Liu Quan: "......"

Well, she could now be sure that Mikazuki had indeed gone back to her room, noticed the note, and, instead of picking it up and putting it on the table, she stepped on it mercilessly.

He must be more than a thousand years old, right? Not three years old, right? Throw the piece of paper she left a message on the ground and ignore it, and step on it, what kind of operation is this?

Such a naïve and straightforward way to get angry!

For a moment, Liu Quan felt a little crying and laughing.

It looks like it's not going to work out today.

She sighed, and instead of picking up the paper, she exited the Taitobu House and closed the shoji door with her hand.

Her footsteps gently tread through the Honmaru's corridor, making a clanging sound. In the dead of night, almost everyone in Honmaru was already resting, and nothing could be heard except for the sound of the night and her footsteps across the wooden floor.

She walked around Honmaru on the corridor for a week, but she didn't find any trace of the Mikazuki Sect.

Excluding other strange places—such as stables, fields, dojos, halls, warehouses, knife forging rooms, and the Inquisitor's office—the only possible place for the Three Days Moon Sect to go is—

Willow Springs: Climb onto the roof.

Unlike in the past, when she was able to easily climb to the roof with "phantom shifting", now she really had to use a little prop to climb the roof.

She stepped on the high bamboo ladder, climbed up to the roof of Honmaru in a little embarrassment, and then—suddenly spotted the figure sitting on the house.

Although when she climbed the bamboo ladder, the bamboo ladder creaked and it was impossible for the other party not to hear it, but when she stepped on the tiles of the house with great difficulty, one foot high and one foot low, he kept the posture of looking at the night sky with his hands on his lap and facing the direction of the moon, and did not even cast a single glance.

Liu Quan came to the side of the most beautiful of the five swords in the world, Fu Fushen, and did not immediately sit down with a big grin, but maintained the posture of standing sideways—his feet on either side of the ridge to maintain balance—and turned his face slightly, and looked at the bright moon in the night sky in the same posture as he did.

The two of them silently gazed at the moon in the night sky for a while. In the end, it was the Three Days Moon Sect that spoke closely.

"What? What are you doing here at such a moment? Isn't there that kind of leisure and moon appreciation? Hahaha. ”

Liu Quan was silent for a moment, and finally decided that when she didn't know what to do, she would play straight as before—so she replied, "I'm here for you." ”

The Three Days Moon Sect paused slightly, and soon laughed casually again.

"Aha, what do you want from me?" he asked leisurely, still tilting his head slightly and looking at the moon.

The bright moonlight poured down from the sky, dyeing his handsome side face with a dreamy and hazy halo. Even if he just stood here and watched him, and understood that he was still angry with himself, Liu Quan had to admit that that face was really handsome to the point of blameless—no wonder he was deeply admired and loved by so many people from before to now?

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February 3:

Okay, okay, I'll code it early!

And then the next update I think it will be two or three days apart? After all, there are a lot of other things to do during the New Year...... It's still the same, if I code it in advance, I'll change it in advance.

PS. Today, I would like to warmly thank the little cutie Meow, wllll, and Guiheshen for feeding ~~(づ ̄3 ̄)づ╭~